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Casting Bits: Kyle Chandler In ‘Argo;’ Rob Corddry In ‘Warm Bodies;’ Michael Nyqvist & Alexander Skarsgård In ‘Disconnect’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 25, 2011 10:30 am EST It’s not a stretch, I think, to call this the ‘fan-favorite actors’ edition of casting bits. Kyle Chandler, Alexander Skarsgård and Rob Corddry all fall into that catergory, I’d say. So after the break, you’ll find: Kyle Chandler joins Ben Affleck’s Argo, Rob Corddry looks set for zombification in Warm Bodies, and Michael Nyqvist & Alexander Skarsgård are among the crew joining the ‘modern communication’ indie story Disconnect....

Cool Stuff: Dave Perillo’s ‘Expendable’ Star Trek Art/T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2010 7:00 am EST One of my favorite pop culture artists in a cartoonist named Dave Perillo. You’ve seen his work featured in many past editions of Cool Stuff and all those Crazy4Cult art show pieces. I just love his retro style, and have at least ten of his prints hanging on the walls of /Film HQ (well, actually, I havent hung most of them, but when I start hanging my framed prints, this will be literally true)....

Critical Brickbats May Have Killed ‘Atlas Shrugged’ Sequels By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2011 1:30 pm EST Next time someone talks about how critics don’t matter (it’s bound to happen with the summer movie wave encroaching) just point to Atlas Shrugged: Part I. The miserable-looking partial adaptation of Ayn Rand’s massive novel has taken in a paltry few million in the past two weeks, with a near-50% drop-off between weekends. Now producer John Aglialoro, who spent years trying to make the film, says he might abandon his plans to continue the adaption with two more movies....

David E. Kelley’s New ‘Wonder Woman’ TV Show Stalls Out By Russ Fischer/Jan. 7, 2011 8:11 pm EST The script isn’t necessarily dead, as it could be shopped around again in the future. And there is still a new feature in development at Warner Bros., so this doesn’t mean that we won’t see the character on any screen in the future. But this is one more defeat for the character, after a ’90s TV show failed to hit screens as well, and many years of development on the feature side have yielded zip....

Derek Luke’s ‘Captain America’ Role Revealed By Angie Han/March 14, 2011 9:00 am EST It’s been known for a while that Derek Luke had been cast in Captain America: The First Avenger, but it was unclear what role he’d be playing — until now. It’s recently been revealed that Luke will be playing the part of Gabe Jones, part of the elite WWII Howling Commandos squadron. Read more after the jump....

Dwayne Johnson Is Roadblock In ‘G.I. Joe 2’ [Updated] By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2011 1:05 pm EST UPDATE: Dwayne Johnson fully confirmed this casting today via Twitter, saying “It’s official: Call the Pentagon, get me my big ass gun – Rocks a JOE!.” The original article from June 6 follows (with edits removing the then rumored title of “Cobra Strikes.”) Next summer’s sequel to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra now has a major star....

Fede Alvarez’s ‘Evil Dead’ Remake Adds Jessica Lucas And Elizabeth Blackmore By Angie Han/March 7, 2012 3:00 pm EST After an early snag that saw Lily Collins landing the lead and then dropping out three weeks later due to scheduling issues, casting on Fede Alvarez’s The Evil Dead is now rolling along smoothly. Shiloh Fernandez (Red Riding Hood) and Lou Taylor Pucci (Beginners) boarded the project last month, as Jane Levy (Suburgatory) stepped up to replace Collins....

First Look: Ashton Kutcher As Steve Jobs By Angie Han/May 14, 2012 9:00 am EST The news that Ashton Kutcher had been cast as late tech guru Steve Jobs for the indie biopic Jobs: Get Inspired raised a few eyebrows when it was first announced, in part because it broke on April Fool’s Day. But the producers weren’t joking around, and we now have our first look at the Two and a Half Men star clad in a familiar-looking black turtleneck and 501s....

Gabourey Sidibe And Michael Pena Join Brett Ratner’s ‘Tower Heist’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 19, 2010 2:49 pm EST Is Tower Heist going to be the movie that helps turn around some of the prevailingly bad opinion on Brett Ratner? The guy was doing OK before taking over the X-Men franchise from Bryan Singer, at which point his approval rating went right in the toilet. But the cast for Tower Heist is pretty solid (Ben Stiller, Alan Alda and Eddie Murphy) and has just added Gabourey Sidibe and Michael Pena....

By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2010 9:00 am EST Very Small Array have created an infographic showing the top 100 highest-grossing films of all time (adjusted for inflation) and AFI’s “100 Years, 100 Movies”, plotted by location over the last 90-or-so years. Hit the jump to see the full graph. Click on the image below to enlarge: via: TDW Click on the image below to enlarge: via: TDW

Jake Gyllenhaal Replaces Dominic Cooper In ‘Motor City’ [Updated] By Russ Fischer/March 8, 2012 9:30 am EST Briefly: The script for Motor City, written by Chad St. John, sounds pretty rote: a former Army Ranger is framed for a crime, and when released from prison he goes after the guy who did the framing, and who stole his girl to boot. But the script has almost no dialogue — a few lines, maybe — and that makes it sound like an interesting exercise, at least....

Jamie Kennedy Will NOT Return In Scream 4 By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2010 9:24 pm EST Last week, Devin Faraci reported that producers were in talks with Jamie Kennedy to reprise his role as the love-able horror film-geek Randy in Scream 4. At the time, we wondered how that would be possible. For those of you who don’t remember, Kennedy played Randy in the first two films in the series, a character who explains horror movie conventions to the other characters....

Man’s Stereoblindness Cured After Watching ‘Hugo’ In 3D By Angie Han/July 25, 2012 5:00 pm EST When Hugo opened late last year, critics and audiences were bowled over by its masterful use of 3D. But it’s doubtful even the most diehard Martin Scorsese fan was as impressed as neuroscientist Bruce Bridgeman, who quite literally saw the world differently after watching the movie. The 67-year-old man had lived his entire life “stereoblind,” or unable to perceive depth correctly....

Page 2: The Muppets, E.T., Banksy, Star Trek, World War Z, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Tron, The Simpsons, Jurassic Park, Community, Back To The Future, Say Anything, Star Wars, By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 23, 2011 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Header Photo: Dobler. Jen Hall created an R2-D2 scooter helmet. Moviemaker Magazine has an interview with Derrick Comedy’s Dan Eckman on making Mystery Team and Directing on a Dime....

By Angie Han/Oct. 25, 2011 2:30 pm EST Since directing last year’s Salt, Phillip Noyce has been considering a number of different projects for his next move. There was the submarine drama Hunter Killer, which eventually went to Antoine Fuqua; the conservationist biopic Our Wild Life; the remake of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Bloodsport; and the sci-fi romance Timeless, which just cast Liam Hemsworth in the lead. Now he’s attached to one more....

Rian Johnson’s Looper Plot Synopsis By Peter Sciretta/May 5, 2010 3:30 pm EST A couple days ago, the trades announced that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in talks to possibly reunite with Brick director Rian Johnson in his sci-fi thriller titled Looper. It seems like the trades jumped the gun on the announcement as nothing is final, and they even botched the logline for the film. As it turns out, the plot was almost completely the opposite of what was reported....

Warner Bros. Movies To Show Up On Netflix 56 Days Late By Germain Lussier/Jan. 11, 2012 7:00 am EST Netflix is becoming the new kid in school everyone bullies. As the video rental company keeps expanding and developing into a potential entertainment juggernaut, other companies seem to treat them worse and worse. For example, a few months ago Netflix beat out a bunch of other suitors to acquire original content like Kevin Spacey and David Fincher’s House of Cards as well as a fourth season of Arrested Development....

What Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Learned From Watching ‘The Social Network’ By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 15, 2010 12:00 pm EST Whenever a great movie comes out portraying real-life events, I’m always left wondering what the real people who inspired the movie might have thought or taken away from the film. And David Fincher’s The Social Network is a good example of this type of film. We’ve already heard Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s dismissive response: “We build products that 500 million people see… If 5 million people see a movie, it doesn’t really matter that much....

‘Bunraku’ Trailer – Josh Hartnett, Woody Harrelson And Gackt Face Off Against Ron Perlman In Genre-Bending Action Flick By Angie Han/July 27, 2011 6:00 am EST Earlier this year, we posted a trailer for Guy Moshe’s Bunraku, only to be asked by the producers to take it down when it turned out that the video we’d shown was not the official trailer. We promised then that we’d re-post when the producer-approved version surfaced, and now here it is....

‘The Master’ Teaser Poster - Paul Thomas Anderson’s Latest Gets Wet By Germain Lussier/July 18, 2012 7:16 pm EST The teaser clips for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master were real head scratchers. Compelling? Interesting? Of course. But I’ll be dammed if anyone could figure out exactly what was going on in them. Now the same can be said for the movie poster, which looks like a wine label only with the liquid on the outside....