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Jeremy Renner And Jennifer Lopez Join ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’ Cast Tinseltown/Shutterstock As if Jeremy Renner doesn’t have enough stuff to do. But hell, the big steaming pile of sequels to the Ice Age films should help someone, so why not a handful of actors? (And animators and loads of technicians, which is also a good thing.) DreamWorks is setting the voice cast for the fourth Ice Age movie, aka Ice Age: Continental Drift (not an educational film, so don’t worry, kids) and Jeremy Renner is among the new additions....

Julia Ormond In Talks For ‘The Man Of Steel’ By Russ Fischer/June 23, 2011 12:59 pm EST Briefly: Zack Snyder has already got his cast to play Clark Kent’s adoptive Earthly parents in his new Superman tale, The Man of Steel. Kevin Costner and Diane Lane will be Ma and Pa Kent to Henry Cavill’s Clark. But in his prior life on Krypton, Clark — aka Kal-el — has a set of ‘real’ parents....

By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2010 9:30 pm EST UPDATE: Thanks to a couple comments and emails, we now know that the first reports about alterations to the film were exaggerated: I Saw the Devil has been trimmed via seven cuts, not minutes. So things aren’t as severe as first reported, which is excellent. Original article follows. A few weeks ago I showed you the trailer for I Saw the Devil, a crime thriller from The Good, the Bad, the Weird director Kim Ji-Woon....

Larry David’s Mystery Movie Is Heading To HBO By Germain Lussier/July 27, 2012 4:00 pm EST Now, however, it seems David’s film might not make it to the big screen after all. HBO has apparently swooped in, offered the star of the show Curb Your Enthusiasm a higher budget, and might end up premiering the film on their network. The plot of the film is still under wraps but is believed to feature David, Michael Keaton and Jon Hamm among others....

LOL: A Real ‘Tramp’ Stamp By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2010 11:00 am EST We’ve all seen women (and even some men) with tramp stamps, tattoos on the lower back. But what about a real Tramp Stamp? Find out after the jump. Someone decided to go literal with the tattoo and got the image of Disney’s Lady and the Tramp 44 cent US stamp on their lower back. via: Flickr LOL: A Real ‘Tramp’ Stamp...

LOL: Inappropriate ‘Harry Potter’ Funhouse By Germain Lussier/Dec. 22, 2010 7:00 am EST When purchasing an inflatable fun house for your child’s birthday party, please be thorough and make sure that Harry Potter isn’t grabbing his broomstick on the front of it. See the full photo after the jump. Thanks to Buzzfeed. LOL: Inappropriate ‘Harry Potter’ Funhouse By Germain Lussier/Dec. 22, 2010 7:00 am EST When purchasing an inflatable fun house for your child’s birthday party, please be thorough and make sure that Harry Potter isn’t grabbing his broomstick on the front of it....

Natalie Portman And Steve Carell Join Jason Reitman’s (Staged Reading Of) ‘The Apartment’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 17, 2011 2:00 pm EST Natalie Portman won an Oscar for Black Swan and then disappeared, primarily because she was pregnant and had her first child. Mama is making her first major public appearance since then tonight at the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, for Jason Reitman’s staged reading of Billy Wilder’s 1960 masterpiece, The Apartment....

New Photos: Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 16, 2010 10:00 am EST Focus Features has released a bunch of new photos for Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. Hit the jump to see them now. Click on any of the below images to enlarge: Sofia Coppola’s (Lost in Translation) new film Somewhere tells the story of Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), “a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through a life of excess while living at Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont Hotel....

Nicolas Winding Refn To Direct Ryan Gosling In ‘Logan’s Run’ Remake By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2011 1:10 pm EST Just yesterday producer Joel Silver told MTV that the remake of Logan’s Run, which has cycled through a couple directors in the past two years (like Bryan Singer and Carl Erik Rinsch), was still alive and could happen ‘soon.’ We sat on that quote because, well, “it is still happening” just isn’t a huge update....

Sequel Bits: ‘Star Trek 2’ Set Video, Mike Tyson Confirmed For ‘Hangover 3’ Plus ‘21 Jump Street 2’,’ ‘Hellboy 3’ And ‘Green Lantern 2’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 29, 2012 7:00 am EST One sequel that’s currently filming, two that are almost certain to happen and two that may never happen are all part of today’s Sequel Bits. After the jump, check out: A spy video from the set of Star Trek 2....

Sequel Bits: ‘The Expendables 2’, ‘Beetlejuice 2’, ‘The Hobbit’, And More By Angie Han/June 20, 2012 6:00 am EST We’ve got handful of sequel-related quick hits for you. After the jump: Tim Burton “would love to revisit” Beetlejuice sometime Want to be an extra on Iron Man 2, Machete Kills, etc.? A blazing-hot new Expendables 2 poster hits the web When will the second trailer for The Hobbit debut? Seth is writing something, so we’ll see....

Stephen Sommers Won’t Direct ‘GI Joe’ Sequel By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 5, 2011 2:30 pm EST GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra earned over $302 million worldwide despite mostly negative buzz and reviews (34% on Rotten Tomatoes). The film surpassed studio expectations domestically, which was enough to greenlight a sequel. Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were hired to pen the screenplay. While the main cast are contractually obligated to do the sequel, director Stephen Sommers did not have that clause in his contact....

Steven Spielberg Casting Eddie Redmayne As The Lead In War Horse? By Russ Fischer/June 10, 2010 6:17 am EST The next film Steven Spielberg will direct is War Horse, an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel about Albert and his horse Joey, which is sold to the army and sent to the Western Front, leading Albert to embark upon a journey to save the animal. Now Spielberg has reportedly found his leading man: the relatively underexposed British actor Eddie Redmayne....

Universal Gives The Thing Prequel A Release Date By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2010 2:00 pm EST When will we be able to see The Thing prequel on the big screen? Universal Pictures announced today that the movie will hit theaters on April 29th 2011, two weeks after Wes Craven’s Scream 4, one week following Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood, and a week before Marvel’s Thor. John Carpenter’s 1982 original was released in Summer (June 25th)....

VOTD: Running On Empty - LA Without Cars By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2010 12:00 am EST Anyone who has been to Los Angeles knows that we have traffic problems. There are lots and lots of cars driving around this big city. San Diego State University’s film graduate Ross Ching decided to make a short film showing Los Angeles minus the cars. I live in Los Angeles. I drive in Los Angeles....

Watch An Hour And A Half Conversation Between JJ Abrams And Michael Giacchino By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2011 9:00 am EST In June 2011, I attended a discussion between filmmaker JJ Abrams (Lost, Alias, Super 8, Star Trek, MI3) and composer Michael Giacchino (Lost, Up, The Incredibles, Star Trek, Let Me In) at the Hammer Museum. The event was actually pretty cool, part of the museum’s “Hammer Conversation” series which pairs two artists together to talk to each other about their careers and art without a moderator....

‘Bunraku’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2011 10:00 am EST UDPATE: Because this isn’t an official trailer, the producers of the film have been trying to get it removed from YouTube. At their request, we’ve pulled it and will re-post something when an official version is available.Bunraku looks like one hell of a weird beast. The film stars Josh Hartnett, Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore, Gackt, Ron Perlman, Kevin McKidd and more in something that looks like the love child of Takashi Miike and Frank Miller, if the two hooked up while watching the films of Seijun Suzuki....

‘Justice League’ Definitely Planned For 2013; WB Plans To Reinvent Batman After ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Russ Fischer/March 29, 2011 9:47 am EST Last night there was a minor furor when an LA Times profile of new Warner Bros. motion picture group president Jeff Robinov mentioned plans to release a Justice League film in 2013. There was little more than the title and the year — no other details. Now we’ve got just a bit more information, not least being a confirmation that, yes, a Justice League script is in development....

‘No Easy Day,’ About The Killing Of Osama Bin Laden, Subject Of DreamWorks Talks; Steven Spielberg Involved [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Aug. 27, 2012 2:05 pm EST And now a first-hand account from one member of the Navy SEAL Team Six, Matt Bissonette, is the subject of an evolving conversation with DreamWorks. Steven Spielberg has reportedly been involved in the talks meant to bring his eyewitness account of the event to the screen....

‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Comic Con Video Blog Reaction By Peter Sciretta/July 22, 2011 8:46 pm EST The buzz on this week’s teaser trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man was largely mixed, leaving most fans either wondering why they bothered to reboot the character at all (many of the scene snippets looked similar to the Sam Raimi trilogy) or bothered by the computer generated-looking nature of the POV sequence at the end....