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Casting Notes: Paul Rudd In My Idiot Brother; Jason Patric In Tilda; Katia Winter In Deathgames; Kiefer Sutherland In Growl? By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2010 5:19 am EST Paul Rudd will star in My Idiot Brother, an indie comedy that will have the actor as “an idealist, dealing with his overbearing mother, who crashes into the homes of his three ambitious sisters and, in succession, brings truth, happiness and a sunny disposition into their lives while also wreaking havoc....

Casting Notes: Robert De Niro And Monica Bellucci In ‘Manual Of Love 3’; Thomas Haden Church In ‘The Reasonable Bunch’; Charisma Carpenter In ‘Crash Site’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 2, 2010 10:00 pm EST Why should Robert De Niro be this lucky? He’s signed on to be in Manual of Love 3, the third chapter in an Italian romantic drama/comedy series. That’s odd enough, but he’ll be playing an American professor who is the love interest of Monica Bellucci....

Crazy 4 Cult New York Preview #3: ‘Army Of Darkness,’ ‘Edward Scissorhands,’ ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ ‘Rushmore’ And More By Germain Lussier/Aug. 8, 2012 7:00 am EST Check out the first two previews for this show, featuring forty different images, here and here. For the past five years, Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles has hosted what’s become a signature event: Crazy 4 Cult. Initially created with the help of Kevin Smith, the art show has grown by leaps and bounds each year featuring art from almost every single cult movie imaginable....

Dario Argento To Direct Dracula 3D; Asia Argento To Direct A Hunting Gun By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2010 3:09 pm EST The Argento family is having a busy week. From the Cannes marketplace, there is news that Dario Argento will make a new, ‘faithful’ take on Dracula, in 3D. And then his daughter Asia Argento, who had sworn off screenwriting after The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, is back with a new film called A Hunting Gun, which she is writing with husband Michele Civetta and Japanese author Yasushi Inoue....

Disney Is Testing A Top Secret Flying Dragon; Is It For ‘Avatar’ Land? By Germain Lussier/June 25, 2012 12:00 pm EST Residents of Bakersfield, CA might have felt like they were either in a future season of Game of Thrones or transported to Pandora recently as a huge, flying dragon was spotted in the skies at a local air field. The dragon is a prototype owned and designed by Disney and is something the Imagineers have reportedly been working on for years....

First Look: Josh Brolin And Sean Penn In ‘Gangster Squad’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 9, 2011 4:30 pm EST After quite a few set pictures showed up from the LA shoot of Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad, we’ve now got the first official promo photo for the film, showing Josh Brolin as an LA cop staring down Sean Penn as famed LA gangster Mickey Cohen. There’s not a lot to the pic — it’s two actors in era-appropriate suits with a lot of color correction — but their specific poses and positioning does tell us something about the characters, and the image looks good in general....

Freida Pinto Cast In Michael Winterbottom’s ‘Trishna’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 16, 2011 3:30 pm EST Michael Winterbottom sure does love author Thomas Hardy. He has made two adaptations of the author’s work — Jude and The Claim, neither sadly among the director’s best work — and now is at it again. He’s doing a version of Tess of the d’Urbervilles with the action transplanted to Rajasthan and Mumbai, and has cast Freida Pinto in the lead role....

Geek Deals: Toy Story Ultimate Toy Box Collection For $50, WALL-E Blu-ray/DVD For $19 And 62% Off Select Complete TV Series DVDs By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 5, 2011 10:01 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Guy Ritchie May Be The New ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ Director By Russ Fischer/Dec. 8, 2011 3:00 pm EST Briefly: There’s not much info right now, but it is sounding like Guy Ritchie is going to continue his partnership with Warner Bros. after making the two action-oriented Sherlock Holmes films. He and Holmes producer Lionel Wigram are forming a new company, and the two have just made a deal with Warner Bros....

Helena Bonham Carter And Gary Oldman Could Be In ‘Akira’ By Angie Han/Oct. 24, 2011 9:00 am EST The live-action, English-language remake of the Japanese animation classic Akira has suffered so many stops and starts over the years that I was beginning to think (/hope) it’d never happen. But now that Warner Bros. has officially greenlit the movie, it seems director Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan) isn’t wasting any time getting things together....

Infographic: Bad Science In Movies Chart By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 27, 2010 4:00 pm EST IO9 has created a handy chart which shows which space movies feature the most common scientific mistakes. It might come as a surprise that Michael Bay’s Armageddon actually fares better than the Star Wars of Alien films. And it comes as no surprise that Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff have been graded a clean bill of accuracy....

Is ‘Monsters, Inc. 2’ A Prequel? By Russ Fischer/Jan. 3, 2011 11:16 am EST Have you wondered how Pixar would structure the promised sequel to Monsters, Inc? If current rumor is to be believed, it will actually be a prequel — possibly a very smart move — rather than a sequel. Though there’s not a lot of info, we’ve stuck it after the break in case you want to avoid knowing anything more....

Jason Reitman Rewriting Steve Carell Comedy ‘Burt Wonderstone’ By Russ Fischer/June 17, 2011 9:48 am EST Briefly: One of the great Hollywood means to Making an Extra Buck is working as a script doctor or uncredited rewrite artist. Many a now-famous writer/director has done such work either early in their career (Quentin Tarantino on Crimson Tides) or throughout it (John Sayles on more movies than I have space to list here)....

Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, And Edgar Ramirez Circling Kathryn Bigelow’s Bin Laden Thriller; Chris Pratt Confirmed By Angie Han/Jan. 6, 2012 9:00 am EST Though we’ve been hearing rumors and reports for months about who might star in Kathryn Bigelow’s untitled Osama bin Laden thriller for months, Joel Edgerton was only the film’s second confirmed star when his casting was announced hours ago. (The first, Jason Clarke, signed on back in November....

Marvel’s ‘Runaways’ Slowing Down En Route To The Silver Screen By Russ Fischer/Oct. 22, 2010 2:15 pm EST You can probably disregard any casting rumors (like these) that have cropped up about the Marvel Studios big-screen adaptation of Runaways. Deadline reports that, while director Peter Sollett is still on board, Marvel has “invited [him] to take another film first,” as the studio “has too much going on” and will take a little more time to develop Runaways as it moves full speed ahead on The Avengers and Iron Man 3....

McG Options Teen Novel The DUFF, Will Produce By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2010 5:12 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She’s also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her “Duffy,” she throws her Coke in his face....

Michael Gracey Attached To Direct Hugh Jackman As P.T. Barnum In ‘The Greatest Showman On Earth’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2011 2:00 pm EST Now a director has been hired: effects and commercial veteran Michael Gracey, who was recently set to direct Disney’s Snow White film The Order of the Seven. Variety says that even with this hire, we probably won’t see a lot of forward movement on the film for some time as it has to queue behind The Wolverine and Les Miserables....

Morgan Spurlock Explores Back Shaving And Competitive Beard Growing In In ‘Mansome’ [Tribeca Review] By Angie Han/April 23, 2012 3:00 pm EST Having tackled the fast-food industry, the war on terror, and product placement with his last several works, Morgan Spurlock takes on the less overtly political topic of male grooming in Mansome. Featuring interviews with experts, ordinary joes, oddities, and celebrities (Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Paul Rudd, Judd Apatow, John Waters, etc....

NBC Grabs J.J. Abrams’ Show With Michael Emerson And Terry O’Quinn By Russ Fischer/Sept. 22, 2010 9:53 pm EST Earlier this week the rather promising story cropped up that J.J. Abrams and collaborators Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec were pitching networks on a new show with comedy elements that would star Michael Emerson and Terry O’Quinn from Lost? Well, NBC has gone for the show. There’s no season order yet (way too early for that) but this is a step closer to the project hitting the air....

New ‘Thor’ Photo By Russ Fischer/Jan. 14, 2011 10:30 am EST Can’t let Cap and Spidey have all the fun, right? Hot on the heels of yesterday’s first looks a the full costumes of two of Marvel’s most major characters in their new movies comes…well, another photo of Thor. This isn’t going to change anyone’s mind, but if you’re looking for more of the Asgardian madness that is Thor, here it is....