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Movie Playlist: Damon Lindelof By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 10, 2010 9:00 am EST We love learning which films our favorite filmmakers, screenwriters and actors hold in high reguard, and from time to time we’ve posted some of their lists in our movie playlist category. This week, Lost co-creator/writer/executive producer, Star Trek producer and Cowboys & Aliens writer/producer Damon Lindelof shared his favorite movies with I Am Rogue. Hit the jump to watch a video of Lindelof sharing his six favorite films, and explaining why he feels they are important....

Nicolas Cage Declares ‘I Am Wrath’; William Friedkin Could Direct By Angie Han/Sept. 12, 2012 7:00 am EST Just days after he boarded the David Gordon Green drama Joe, the very busy Nicolas Cage has signed on for yet another new project. And unlike Green’s gritty literary drama, this one puts Cage back in the thriller genre where he’s apparently most comfortable. Emmett/Furla Films, which was also behind Cage’s recently wrapped The Frozen Ground, is re-teaming with the actor for I Am Wrath, a crime thriller scripted by Paul Sloan....

Page 2: Star Wars, Futurama, The Master, The Game, Breaking Bad, Home Alone, Halloween, Finding Nemo, Phil Tippett, Transformers, Joe Dante, Prometheus, Scott Pilgrim By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: Futurama/Star Wars cosplay mash-up. Looper director Rian Johnson will be doing a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) on September 24th 2012. What’s in a name? Re-defining “Chick Flick” ‘The Master’ Exclusive San Francisco Screening Poster 11 New Sundance Supported Films Now Streaming...

Photos: New ‘Kung Fu Panda 2’ Characters Revealed By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2011 1:00 pm EST DreamWorks Animation has revealed a couple of the new characters we’ll see in Kung Fu Panda 2 on the film’s Facebook page. Hit the jump to check them out. Here are some of the new characters: Here is information on the new characters: The Wolf Boss and his pack were once guards in Gongmen City’s royal palace....

POTD: Director Rian Johnson And His Time Machine From ‘Looper’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 2, 2012 5:30 pm EST It didn’t take much deliberation at all for me to crown Rian Johnson’s third film Looper as my most anticipated movie of 2012. After making Brick and The Brothers Bloom, Johnson has penned and directed a sci-fi thriller in which time travel is used as an assassination tool in the not-too-distant future....

Russell Brand To Play Dead In ‘Rentaghost’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 8, 2010 5:27 pm EST Call it Beetlejuice with a British twist. Warner Brothers has just acquired the rights to a late 1970s/early 1980s British television comedy called Rentaghost that they’re developing as a vehicle for blossoming movie star Russell Brand. The movie is about a slacker named Fred Mumford who decides he wants to be more productive as a ghost than he was a person....

Skype Founders Working On Netflix Rival: VDIO By Germain Lussier/Oct. 18, 2011 12:30 pm EST News of the service was first broke by Gigaom.com, which then confirmed several facts about it. It’s a service that “lets you instantly watch the best in TV and movies” but is somehow different from LoveFilm and Netflix. VDIO will be subscriber based, is currently in closed beta and will first launch in the U.K. Those are the facts....

So That’s What Mike Myers Has Been Doing: Writing An Austin Powers Stage Musical By Angie Han/Dec. 13, 2011 10:00 am EST There haven’t been any real updates on that fourth Austin Powers film since we heard over the summer that Mike Myers and New Line were still ironing out the details, but it seems you’ll be seeing more of the International Man of Mystery in one form or another. Myers is now set to write the story for a stage musical based on the character, with Tony Award-winning The Book of Mormon co-director Casey Nicholaw in talks to direct....

The United States Of Movies Map By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2010 11:00 am EST Subtonix decided to create a map of the United States by pinpointing the movies which best represent each of the 50 states. For example, New Jersey is Clerks and Kansas is The Wizard of Oz. There will likely be some debate over some of these choices (is Fast Times at Ridgemont High the ultimate representation of California?...

VOTD: Star Wars Uncut - “The Escape” By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2010 12:00 am EST We have yet to really cover this project, so now is probably the time. Last year an interactive art project was launched called Star Wars Unut. The idea was to recreate Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope using 472 15 second fan recreated scenes. Fans that participated recreated a 15 second segment of the film any way they wanted to....

Warner Bros. Balks At Releasing Sylvester Stallone Action Film ‘Bullet To The Head’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 24, 2012 7:30 am EST Briefly: Uh-oh. Despite the fact that Joel Silver and his Dark Castle shingle, which has a home and frequent partner in Warner Bros., are behind the Sylvester Stallone graphic novel adaptation Bullet to the Head, the film needs a new distributor. Originally set to be directed by Wayne Kramer, then eventually helmed by action godfather Walter Hill, the movie features Stallone and Christian Slater teaming up to take down the guy (Jason Momoa) who killed both of their partners....

What Does The Short ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Synopsis Tell Us About The Movie? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2012 9:30 am EST Details on Marvel’s next giant movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, have been pretty thin so far. We’ve got some info on the core characters that make up the team, but we’ve had no idea about the story. Now a purportedly accurate log line gives us a bit of detail about what kicks the story into motion....

‘Avatar 4’ Will Be A Prequel, ‘Battle Angel’ “Hopefully” Shooting In Four Or Five Years By Angie Han/Sept. 10, 2012 9:17 am EST Producer Jon Landau clarified last week that there were no plans to shoot Avatar 4 just yet, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be one coming down the line eventually. Filmmaker James Cameron has said previously that he’s considering the possibility of a fourth Avatar, and he already has a few ideas for the possible film....

‘Ghostbusters 3’ Still A Thing Hollywood Is Trying To Make Happen, Etan Cohen Hired To Write Script By Angie Han/July 10, 2012 1:30 pm EST Ghostbusters 3’s ability to roar back from all-but-certain death is getting to be downright supernatural. After years of on-again, off-again development, Dan Aykroyd finally acknowledged back in February that the film was in “suspended animation.” But Bill Murray (who, it should be noted, has previously been the holdout) set the rumor mill churning again by refusing to rule out the possibility and saying “we’ll try again” to bring the project to life....

‘Melancholia’ UK Trailer: Life On Earth Doesn’t Last Long By Russ Fischer/Aug. 29, 2011 5:45 pm EST It’s been a big, loud year for Lars von Trier, thanks in part to his new film Melancholia, and more so to the Cannes press conference comments that saw the director banned from the festival. But getting beyond that controversy, there’s the fact that Melancholia is one of the best-reviewed films of the director’s career, and remains one of my most-anticipated films of the fall....

‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ - What Did You Think? By Russ Fischer/July 3, 2012 3:30 pm EST It has only been ten years since Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man swung into theaters, and Sony and Columbia have already gone in for the remake. Today Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man opens with Andrew Garfield in the title role, and Emma Stone and Rhys Ifansas the primary additional cast. The film takes the time to tell Spidey’s origin — yes, again — and spends as much time on the character interaction between Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy (Stone) as it does the superhero action....

‘TRON Legacy’ Sequel Re-Enters The Grid With New Writer By Germain Lussier/June 7, 2011 6:47 pm EST We’d all surmised that TRON 3, a sequel to 2010’s TRON: Legacy, was likely to happen. But with director Joseph Kosinski busy with one thing and writers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis back working on TV, the project seemed frozen. That’s not the case anymore. Disney has just hired David DiGilio, whose only previous feature film credit was writing the Paul Walker dog movie Eight Below, to write the next chapter in the saga....

‘Wonder Woman’ May Come Back To TV In ‘Smallville’ Inspired Drama By Germain Lussier/Sept. 6, 2012 2:03 pm EST Vulture broke the news of the proposed show and point out that despite a campy Seventies TV show, Wonder Woman has been met with more rejection in live action than most comic characters. There was Whedon’s movie, which never quite made it beyond the script stage (I bet Warners regrets that now, especially after The Avengers) and David E....

Arnold Schwarzenegger Considering 15 Films Including Comic Book Character, ‘Predator’ And ‘Running Man’ Remakes By Germain Lussier/March 7, 2011 7:00 am EST After spending some time running California, Arnold Schwarzenegger recently made a proclamation that he’s ready to get back into acting. That was about a month ago. Since then, it’s been all quiet on the Arnold front until this weekend. At the Arnold Classic, a bodybuilding competition that takes places at the Arnold Sports Festival in Ohio, the website TheArnoldFans got a chance to ask the man who starred in The Terminator, Total Recall, Predator, Commando and The Running Man to elaborate on recent rumors of movies he’s considering....

Brief First Video Look At Sam Raimi’s ‘Oz: The Great And Powerful’ By Russ Fischer/July 11, 2012 10:30 am EST After checking out the new Spider-Man film I went back to Sam Raimi’s take on the character, and the enjoyment I got out of Raimi’s Spider-Man once more also upped my interest in his new film Oz: The Great and Powerful. We’ve seen very little from the movie so far — just one not-so-good shot of James Franco as the title character, and a pretty poster that doesn’t show much at all....