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Alice Eve Joining X-Men: First Class As Emma Frost; Tommy Lee Jones Double-Confirmed For Captain America By Russ Fischer/June 28, 2010 10:21 am EST If this deal is finalized, Eve will join James McAvoy as Professor X, Michael Fassbender as Magneto and Benjamin Walker as Beast. Amber Heard is rumored to play Mystique. This isn’t Eve’s first flirtation with the Marvel Universe. Earlier this year she was rumored to be the studio’s pick to play Peggy Carter in Captain America, though that role ended up going to Hayley Atwell....

Bradley Cooper Developing Biopic ‘American Sniper’ By Germain Lussier/May 24, 2012 3:30 pm EST The Hangover star Bradley Cooper is developing a movie that sounds like something Chuck Norris might have done in the eighties. It’s a true story called American Sniper, based on the best-selling book by Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the man with the most recorded sniper kills in American history. The project is set up at Warner Bros....

Comic-Con 2011: Join Us For The Third Annual /Film Meet-Up Tonight By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2011 1:40 am EST Please Note: This post will be Sticky’d to the top of /Film until Thursday night. /Film will be invading San Diego for the 2011 Comic-Con International. /Film team members Peter Sciretta, Devindra Hardawar, Russ Fischer, Angie Han and Germain Lussier will be covering the entire con, Wednesday through Sunday (unfortunately, David Chen and Adam Quigley couldn’t make it this year)....

By Germain Lussier/Sept. 17, 2010 9:49 am EST Fans of the 1982 Ridley Scott classic Blade Runner have some money to spend. The Astor Theater in Australia, which recently put out some awesome posters for Die Hard and Predator, is screening the film from September 30-October 3 and their partner site Tommy Good had artists Tim Doyle and Godmachine create really sick poster prints for the occasion. Doyle’s is a 12x25 with “transparent glossy rain effect over the whole thing” and Godmachine’s is a 18x24....

Costumed Characters Protest Los Angeles City Hall By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2010 5:00 pm EST In June, Los Angeles police launched an effort to clear Hollywood Boulevard of unlicensed Hollywood character impersonators, making dozens of arrests. These costumed superheroes were one of my favorite parts of the touristy part of Hollywood Boulevard. I loved watching the ridiculous costumed superheroes pose for photos with tourists near the Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Jimmy Kimmel regularly featured these performers on his show, and a documentary was even made about the characters called Confessions of a Superhero (watch it on Hulu for free)....

Edgar Wright Explains Why He’s Shooting Three More Days Of Scott Pilgrim By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2010 10:30 pm EST You may have read somewhere on the interwebs that Edgar Wright “is planning to return to Toronto for 3 additional days of photography” on Scott Pilgrim vs The World. But don’t freak out — aside from the fact that we’ve been bombarded by nothing but overwhelmingly insanely positive reviews from the early test screenings, you should know that three days of additional photography is nothing for a Hollywood production....

Exclusive: RED Prequel Comic Covers Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2010 9:00 am EST WildStorm/DC Comics has given us an exclusive look at the cover art to the four prequel comics for the upcoming big screen adaptation of RED. The art for all of the covers is done by RED co-creator Cully Hamner. All four hit comic shops on September 15th. Images and synopses for each one-shot comic can be found after the jump....

Gore Verbinski Talks ‘The Lone Ranger’ And ‘Bioshock’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 14, 2011 6:30 am EST Last we heard about Gore Verbinski’s fifth team up with Johnny Depp, The Lone Ranger, Depp said the film was a “very difference approach” to the traditional Lone Ranger/Tonto relationship. Now Verbinski, who’ll direct the Disney film, has come out and shed a little light on that statement and also commented on why he couldn’t get a film version of the video game Bioshock made....

Mark And Jay Duplass Looking To Finance ‘Pitchfork’ By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2011 8:54 pm EST Mark and Jay Duplass have steadily moved forward from their early ‘mumblecore’ movies to slightly more mainstream fare, culminating with last year’s film Cyrus and the upcoming Jeff Who Lives at Home, starring Jason Segel and Ed Helms. Now they’ve got a new film percolating, as a script has been making the studio rounds this week....

Media Rights Capital Is Ready To Finance Ron Howard’s ‘The Dark Tower’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 21, 2012 8:23 am EST Media Rights Capital has turned into a financing powerhouse — the company has a deal with David Fincher, and is making the new version of the series House of Cards that he is producing and partially directing. The company also financed some of Cloud Atlas; Neill Blomkamp’s second film, Elysium; and this summer’s hit Ted....

MGM Unhappy About ‘Raging Bull II,’ Sues Producers By Russ Fischer/July 5, 2012 7:30 am EST You might have wondered how Jake LaMotta and producers have the right to make a film named Raging Bull II, when no participant in the original film, save LaMotta, is involved. MGM started wondering the same thing, then checked back over the old contracts LaMotta signed with United Artists (now owned by MGM) when the first film was being produced....

New ‘Red Tails’ Trailer And Poster Promise High-Flying, Emotional Action By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2011 11:00 am EST I really love the action we’ve seen in the first two trailers for the George Lucas-produced, Anthony Hemingway-directed WWII film Red Tails. In both the first trailer and this new one, we see some spectacular dogfighting action. It’s the sort of stuff that any student of Lucas knows has been the filmmaker’s major preoccupation for decades....

New Images: ‘Community’ Goes ‘Pulp Fiction’ By Russ Fischer/March 24, 2011 4:30 pm EST After edging around the show for a long time I’ve finally come on board as a Community fan in a big way. The show’s two seasons have had very few whiffs (last week’s episode being a sad exception) and the cast of misfits stuck in community college (‘stuck’ in an increasingly willful fashion) has turned into a great comic ensemble....

Olivia Wilde Joins Bradley Cooper In ‘The Words;’ Ben Barnes And J.K. Simmons Also Added By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2011 6:00 pm EST Briefly: Given that The Words is the directorial debut of Tron Legacy screenwriters Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, we probably shouldn’t be surprised that the latest addition to the film’s cast is Olivia Wilde, who was one of the only highlights of Tron. The script, which hit the Black List, is about “a successful writer who discovers he has to pay a price for stealing another man’s work....

Peter Pan Is The New Snow White: Five Projects In Development By Russ Fischer/March 18, 2011 5:30 pm EST Hollywood has never been a town that likes original ideas. It likes safe and established and easy. But sometimes the attraction to stories with those qualities veers into bizarre obsession. So it has been lately with anything that looks like a fairy tale or romantic fantasy story. We’ve got multiple Snow White movies in development with two racing towards production, several possible Wizard of Oz offshoots, and similar projects like Red Riding Hood, Jack the Giant Killer and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters....

Pixar Movies Return To Theaters Memorial Day Weekend, ‘Brave’ To Premiere At Hollywood’s New Dolby Theatre By Angie Han/May 18, 2012 5:00 pm EST Even as we dive into the heart of the summer movie season, some of the most promising imminent releases could be titles that aren’t new at all. Pixar is re-releasing four of its recent hits — Toy Story 3, Ratatouille, Up, and Wall-E — into AMC theaters for four days over Memorial Day weekend, from May 25 through May 28....

Plastic Surgeon Hank Chien Beats Steve Wiebe’s Donkey Kong Record By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 11, 2011 5:00 am EST Many of you probably have seen the 2007 documentary The King of Kong (and if you haven’t, Netflix it now!). The movie follows the battle between Steve Wiebe and noted Donkey Kong/vintage video game champion Billy Mitchell, over the world record for Donkey Kong. Since the release of the film, it has been fun tracking the back and fourth battle between Wiebe and Mitchell for the world record (we’ve even covered it on the site in the past)....

Ruben Fleischer Negotiating To Direct ‘Tales From The Gangster Squad’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 1, 2010 2:30 pm EST Deadline reports that the director is now negotiating with the studio to direct the film, which is based on a series of LA Times articles by Paul Lieberman. The current script is by Will Beall, author of the novel L.A. Rex; no word on whether he’ll stay on to do script revisions or if someone else will be sought to rewrite....

Steven Spielberg’s Terra Nova Delayed Until 2011 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2010 12:00 pm EST Brannon Braga, a former producer and writer of various Star Trek tv shows from 1990-2005 including The Next Generation, Voyager and Enterprise, in addition to Flash Forward and the last couple seasons of 24, is on board as the showrunner. The series has been given a 13-episode order. The network is skipping the traditional pilot because breaking down the pilot’s sets only to rebuild them again would add too much to the already high price tag....

Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree Of Life’ To Open July 8 In The UK By Russ Fischer/June 7, 2011 1:58 pm EST We don’t have any word on the planned Australian or New Zealand release for the film, however. (Icon also had rights for those countries.) But this is a good step. [Deadline]