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New Images And A Positive Review Of The Canned ‘Wonder Woman’ Pilot By Russ Fischer/May 31, 2011 3:45 pm EST We may never see a broadcast of the canned NBC pilot for David E. Kelley’s Wonder Woman relaunch, starring Adrianne Palicki as Wonder Woman. But copies are floating around, and the show is sure to end up as a fully circulated bootleg. Until it hits YouTube, those curious about the show that will never be will have to rely on info drops like this one....

Now Huck Finn And Tom Sawyer Are Being Rebooted… With Supernatural Elements By Russ Fischer/March 21, 2012 2:00 pm EST Briefly: Given the sort of scripts studios have been buying recently, I can’t really fault a screenwriter for figuring that the couple months it takes to write a spec script “updating” classic characters and adding unrelated wild elements might be time well spent. Because while crazy stuff has been selling, from our perspective what are the chances that a studio is really going to buy Huck and Tom, a script in which Mark Twain’s characters Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are adults in a “re-imagining of the classic duo in the vein of Snow White and the Huntsman,” with “supernatural elements....

Patrick Dempsey And Jamie Kennedy Cast In Transformers 3? By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2010 2:00 pm EST Patrick Dempsey was recently interviewed by the Brazilian website BOH, and according to the google translation, the actor claims he has been cast in Transformers 3: Also, tfw2005 caught Jamie Kennedy’s (Scream, Malibu’s Most Wanted, Ghost Whisperer) interview on 8KUPD Arizona, where the actor claimed that he “had an interesting interview with the people behind the new Transformers movie and I may have a role in the movie....

Post 3D Conversion Backlash? Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch Might Not Get 3D Release By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2010 12:34 pm EST In April, Warner Bros announced that most of their tentpole films would be released in 3D (even if they weren’t shot using native 3D cameras). The first films to be announced for a post conversion 3D process were The Green Hornet and Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch. Since this year began, we’ve seen the release of three movies which utilized a post production 3D conversion, including Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (which planned for the process from day one), Clash of the Titans (which was rushed through the process and outsourced in a matter of weeks) and The Last Airbender (which everyone involved claimed they had enough time to “do it right”)....

Steven Spielberg Regrets Altering ‘E.T.;’ Will Release ‘E.T.’ And ‘Raiders’ On Blu-Ray In Original Forms By Russ Fischer/Sept. 14, 2011 3:35 pm EST On Tuesday, Steven Spielberg appeared in LA after a screening of a new digital print of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The print was created from the same new master files that will ultimately be used to create a Blu-ray release. And in a move that will likely delight fans, he expressed regret over alterations made to E....

Tom Hanks To Play Walt Disney In ‘Mary Poppins’ Making-Of Drama ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ By Angie Han/April 10, 2012 9:00 am EST The way Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks is shaping up, we might as well pencil it in now for the 2014 Oscar race. Based on true events, Kelly Marcel’s 2011 Black List script centers around company founder’s Walt Disney’s 14-year effort to convince Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers to turn over the rights to her book....

VOTD: Star Wars Uncut By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2010 10:00 am EST You may recall that we’ve previously written about an interactive art project 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. Some filmmakers submitted their own Be King Rewind-style Sweded video reproductions, while others recreated scenes using various forms of animation and photography....

Warner Bros Rebooting ‘Fletch’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2011 6:20 pm EST Warner Bros have pre-emptively picked up the movie rights to Gregory McDonald’s 11-book Fletch mystery novel series. Chevy Chase originally played Irwin “Fletch” Fletcher in Michael Ritchie’s 1985 film Fletch, and the 1989 sequel Fletch Lives. Heatvision is reporting that no writer or director has been attached but the studio is “aiming for a reimagining, not a remake, and hope to make an smart action comedy that plays out on a bigger canvas than the previous movies....

‘30 Minutes Or Less’ Teaser Posters By Germain Lussier/April 22, 2011 4:00 pm EST The first footage for this summer’s action comedy 30 Minutes Or Less came online Thursday and we’re already seeing more and more from the film. Of course the red band trailer gave us a glimpse of the story, characters and humor while some newly released stills showed us the look of the film. Director Ruben Fleischer then tweeted to alert us to the first two teaser posters for the movie....

‘A Little Bit Of Heaven’ Trailer: Forget The Dramedy Sap And Feast Your Eyes On Peter Dinklage By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2012 1:00 pm EST A PR email alerted me to the existence of this new trailer for the romantic dramedy A Little Bit of Heaven, which follows the life and loves of a young, pretty ad exec (Kate Hudson), who gets some pretty bad news at a visit to her doctor (Gael Garcia Bernal)....

‘Elite Squad’ Director Jose Padilha In Talks To Helm ‘Robocop’ Reboot By Germain Lussier/March 1, 2011 2:25 pm EST One of the unsung films that played at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Elite Squad 2, the most successful Brazilian film in history, directed by Jose Padilha. In Peter’s review he called the film “a cross between The Departed, The Wire and The Godfather” and I can’t disagree. It’s a taut, gripping look at organized crime with a distinct action slant and Padilha balances it all beautifully....

‘Inglourious Basterds’ Sniper Daniel Brühl In Taks For Ron Howard’s ‘Rush’ By Russ Fischer/July 15, 2011 5:00 pm EST Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds featured three breakout performances by actors who were previously little-known to US audiences. Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender have gone on to very high-profile studio work, but Daniel Brühl, who played the Nazi sniper hero Frederick Zoller, has taken his time choosing Hollywood roles. (He has continued to work, doing so mostly in Europe....

‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’ Trailer - Before Josh Hutcherson Was Peeta Mellark, He Was Explorer Sean Anderson By Angie Han/Jan. 26, 2012 3:30 pm EST With all the fuss about this spring’s The Hunger Games, I’d almost forgotten all about Josh Hutcherson’s other blockbuster franchise, which began in 2008 with Journey to the Center of the Earth. But Hutcherson hasn’t, of course, and he’ll be reprising his role next month in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island....

‘The Do-Deca Pentathlon:’ Brotherly Olympics The Duplass Way [SXSW 2012 Review] By Germain Lussier/March 13, 2012 6:00 am EST The plot of the Duplass Brothers’ latest film, The Do-Deca Pentathlon, more or less sells itself. In 1990, two brothers competed in a series of 25 events to decide who was better and fractured their relationship in the process. The film picks up over twenty years later when circumstances have pushed them back together to finally settle the score....

‘True Blood’ Creator Alan Ball To Direct Dark Comedy For Paramount By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2010 3:15 pm EST (And calling Alan Ball the creator of True Blood may rile fans of the novels, but from the perspective of television credits, he’s the show’s creator. That’s all we’re getting at there.)

Andrew Dominik’s ‘Killing Them Softly’ Pushed Back To Late November By Russ Fischer/Sept. 12, 2012 11:01 am EST Briefly: With Lawless not likely to do much for The Weinstein Company in the Oscar race, the company is relying upon Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master and Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly to do much of the heavy listing when it comes to earning awards and accolades. And while The Master starts to hit theaters this weekend, Dominik’s movie was set for a late October debut....

Bryan Cranston, Anna Kendrick, And Miles Teller To Star In Comedy ‘Get A Job’ By Russ Fischer/March 7, 2012 4:00 pm EST CBS Films has just announced the cast for a generational comedy tentatively called Get a Job, from director Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger, Children’s Hospital) and the company has roped in quite a few great names. Bryan Cranston (who is familiar with characters who know a thing or two about making money in a difficult economy), Anna Kendrick, and Miles Teller (Footloose, Project X) are the top cast....

Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous BootlegCut Blu-Ray Will Be Sold Exclusively At Best Buy By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 14, 2011 2:30 pm EST One of my favorite movies of all time is finally coming to Blu-ray, but you might have to search to find it — it will only be available in Best Buy stores. Paramount Home Entertainment is finally releasing Cameron Crowe’s acclaimed drama Almost Famous (The Bootleg Edition) on Blu-ray on January 30th 2011....

Cool Stuff: New Mondo Posters For ‘Vigilante,’ ‘Maniac’ And ‘Maniac Cop 2’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 8, 2011 9:00 am EST Mondo has been on a roll lately, and today they tossed images of three upcoming poster images out to three different sites. But while the company has been doing a lot of high-profile films of late (Star Wars, Hellboy, etc) these films get back closer to the origins of Mondo....

Could New Indie Financier Megan Ellison End Up With ‘Terminator’ Rights? By Russ Fischer/May 11, 2011 3:24 pm EST And, just like that, I’m interested in a Terminator movie once more. An auction is going on now in which the rights to produce a new Terminator film are changing hands (yes, again) and LionsGate was emerging as the presumptive winner. But now Annapurna Pictures, the production company run by Megan Ellison, is trying to outbid the little lion....