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New Legendary Website Reveals ‘Seventh Son’ Concept Art By Germain Lussier/March 28, 2012 7:00 am EST Jeff Bridges trains an apprentice in the ways of dark magic to fight an evil witch played by Julianne Moore…and I’m sold. That’s the plot to Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ Seventh Son, directed by Sergei Bodrov (Mongol) and written by Matt Greenberg, Charles Leavitt and Steve Knight from the book The Spook’s Apprentice by Joseph Delaney....

Page 2: Game Of Thrones, Hunger Games, Obama, Star Trek, Morgan Freeman, Doctor Who, Titanic, Muppets, Doctor Who, Close Encounters, Dr. Strangelove, Star Wars, Terminator 2, Shaq By Peter Sciretta/April 4, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: Game Of Thrones House Sigils Pizzas From Hammer to Nail: What We Lose When We Lose Video StoresThe Hunger Games parody trailer: The Hipster Games.Why TV Isn’t Free (And Never Really Will Be)President Obama & Star Trek’s Lt....

Piracy More Than Doubles As A Result Of Fox’s Decision To Delay First Run Show Availability On Hulu By Angie Han/Aug. 23, 2011 4:00 pm EST However, as you might guess, there was at least one unintended consequence of Fox’s new plan: a big jump in piracy. TorrentFreak tracked two shows, Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen and MasterChef, on BitTorrent to see whether Fox’s move would affect piracy. They found that illegal downloads of both shows more than doubled....

Pre-Registration Required To Attend San Diego Comic-Con 2012 By Germain Lussier/Jan. 10, 2012 4:00 pm EST Basically, they’re forcing you to register for their site to buy a badge and you must do so early. All the links and instructions are below. They’ve also created a video to help you through this process. Comic-Con isn’t coming out and saying this but doing this serves one major purpose. It should, in theory, cut down on the huge amount of traffic once online badge sales begin....

Rob Zombie’s ‘The Lords Of Salem’ To Shoot This Spring By Russ Fischer/Feb. 3, 2011 1:30 pm EST In the wake of Halloween II, it seemed as if Rob Zombie might finally direct his film Tyrannosaurus Rex, or possibly tackle a remake of The Blob. (The latter seeming like a doomed prospect, especially since the 1988 Chuck Russell remake of The Blob is still pretty damn good.) But then it was announced that he would write and direct The Lords of Salem, with script work to take place last fall and the film hopefully going before cameras this year....

Robert De Niro Confirms Al Pacino And Joe Pesci For Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2010 9:00 am EST Here’s good news and bad news. The good news is that, yes, confirming recent reports, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci are still planning to be part of Martin Scorsese’s film The Irishman, which is planned to star Robert De Niro as Mafia hitman Frank ‘The Irishman’ Sheeran. The bad news is that in talking about the future of the film, Robert De Niro cast doubt on the idea that it will be paired with a much more ambitious second film that has been described in terms related to Fellini’s 8 1/2....

Roland Emmerich’s Shakespeare Film Sounds Appropriately Insane By Russ Fischer/May 5, 2010 3:54 pm EST Before he gets around to making Foundation, and consequently cutting out the hearts of Isaac Asimov fans with a rusty butter knife, Roland Emmerich is crafting a film called Anonymous. The idea behind the project is the oft-scorned theory that the works of William Shakespeare were actually written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford....

The /Filmcast Interview: Chris Morris, Director Of Four Lions By David Chen/Nov. 5, 2010 7:15 pm EST One of the most audacious films to come out of Sundance this year was Chris Morris’ Four Lions. A comedic genius who hails from the UK, Morris has previously skewered the nightly newscast and the investigative documentary in the TV series The Day Today and Brass Eye, respectively. In Four Lions, Morris turns his satirical eye towards a group of would-be terrorists from Sheffield, England....

Titanic 2 Is Coming Soon By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2010 12:58 pm EST Titanic 2 is one of those jokes that everyone has made at sometime over the past decade. It’s the one sequel no one expects will ever be made. There was even a great mock trailer produced four or five years ago. Guess what.. someone has just completed principal photography on Titanic 2, and it isn’t James Cameron....

Universal Fast-Tracking David Koepp-Scripted ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Sequel? By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2012 11:30 am EST Snow White and the Huntsman was a slightly rushed production, and a (more than) slightly frustrating viewing experience, but it might be performing well enough that Universal is really going forward with a sequel. The studio started talking to David Koepp about scripting a sequel in the last couple months, and Koepp is now scripting a Hunstman sequel that Universal is looking to fast-track....

VFX Oscar Shortlist Down To Ten Films, Including ‘Harry Potter,’ ‘Hugo’ And ‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 5, 2012 6:00 am EST The process of doling out Oscars is a lot more transparent in some than in others. While the core categories like Best Picture, and writing, directing and acting are all the subject of great speculation for months before the nominations are even announced, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is much more open about what specific films are in contention for some technical awards....

VOTD: Diablo Cody’s Red Band Trailer Episode 104 - Megan Fox By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 31, 2010 12:00 am EST

Weinsteins Aiming For PG-13 ‘Hellraiser’ Remake For Teens? Christian E. Christiansen Directing, With Amber Heard Starring? By Adam Quigley/Oct. 18, 2010 5:04 pm EST When Clive Barker had the extradimensional Pinhead strike terror into the hearts of his victims with the now iconic line “We have such sights to show you,” I doubt a PG-13 rating is what he had in mind. But that appears to the direction that the Weinsteins are headed with their remake of Barker’s classic horror tale, as indicated by a recent report claiming they’re “looking for someone to make the franchise fitted for ’teens’”....

What Pixar’s ‘Newt’ Would’ve Looked Like By Adam Quigley/Sept. 3, 2010 1:44 pm EST I wasn’t too broken up about what happened to Newt, Pixar’s now defunct tale about two newts who can’t stand each other and then (presumably) fall in love. The premise just sounded too bluntly familiar, and not up to caliber we’ve come to expect from the studio that brought us Wall-E and Up. When they canceled the project, I took that as confirmation that my initial response was more than me just being overly cynical....

William Shatner Returns For Free Enterprise 2; Eliza Dushku, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart, JJ Abrams And The Old Spice Guy Also Involved? By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2010 4:00 pm EST I’ve been hearing about a possible sequel to Free Enterprise for over ten years now. I really thought it was a pipe dream that would never happen. But apparently the sequel is actually happening, likely thanks to the recent jump in Trek popularity thanks to the JJ Abrams’ Star Trek-reboot....

WTF: Will Mickey Rourke Remove Front Teeth To Play Rugby Player Gareth Thomas? By Russ Fischer/Jan. 5, 2011 5:30 pm EST Mickey Rourke wants to play Welsh rugby player Gareth Thomas, noted not only for being a badass on the pitch, but for being the first openly gay male player in a major team sport. OK, so far so good. We heard from the actor not long ago on his approach to the film — he says he’ll learn Welsh for the role — though he didn’t engage the question of how he’ll accurately portray a guy who is twenty years his junior....

By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2011 6:31 pm EST The first real trailer has dropped for the remake of Footloose, from Hustle & Flow director Craig Brewer, and starring Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough. Given the importance of this particlar piece of footage, we’ll cut right to the chase and you can find the trailer after the break. So you’re telling me that, in pretty consistent post-2000 fashion, there has to be a traumatically explicit reason that kids in this town can’t dance....

‘Lost’ Writer Brian K. Vaughan Tapped To Adapt Stephen King’s ‘Under The Dome’ For Showtime By Angie Han/Nov. 8, 2011 10:00 am EST Late this summer, it was announced that Stephen King’s 2009 supernatural thriller Under the Dome would be hitting Showtime as a drama series, with a search for a writer already underway. Now, months later, former Lost scribe and acclaimed comic book writer Brian K. Vaughan has been tapped to pen the show, about a town in Maine that suddenly finds itself sealed off from the rest of the world via a mysterious force field....

‘The Avengers’ To Shoot In Los Angeles, Not New York By Germain Lussier/Nov. 17, 2010 7:00 am EST Any comic book fan knows that The Avengers are based in New York. So one would assume that Joss Whedon’s The Avengers would take place the Big Apple too. But even if the film takes place there, that’s not reportedly where most of it will be shooting. When production starts on The Avengers in February, most of it will reportedly be shot on sound stages in Los Angeles with New York only used for exteriors, according to Bleeding Cool....

‘The Good Doctor’ Trailer - Orlando Bloom Is Anything But By Angie Han/May 15, 2012 5:00 pm EST Orlando Bloom’s most memorable roles tend to be dashing fantasy hero types, a la Lord of the Rings’ Legolas or Pirates of the Caribbean’s Will Turner, but Lance Daly’s indie thriller The Good Doctor will see him heading toward the dark side, and in realistic, contemporary garb, no less. Bloom plays Martin Blake, a bright, ambitious young doctor whose just can’t seem to get over a deep-seated sense of insecurity....