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Neill Blomkamp’s Mysterious ‘AGM Heartland’ Teaser Trailer In WiReD Magazine By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 23, 2010 3:44 am EST Thanks to a tip from /Film reader Vradst, we have discovered a weird unexplained video credited to District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp included in the latest iPad digtial version of WiReD Magazine (issue number 18.12). The video appears on the splash page before the big Tron: Legacy cover story, and is credited simply as “Video By: Neill Blomkamp”....

New ‘The Hobbit’ Video Production Diary Explores Remote New Zealand By Russ Fischer/March 1, 2012 12:30 pm EST The last time we got a look at the set of Peter Jackson’s two films based on The Hobbit, the focus of the video diary series had turned to the logistics of location shooting. Jackson has just released the first Hobbit video diary of 2012, and while he opens it with a tease of things we’re not allowed to see until 2013 — sets for Lake-town, perhaps?...

New Photos: ‘The Hunger Games’ And ‘Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 8, 2011 10:25 am EST Today in Unremarkable Photos: here are two new shots from the Gary Ross-directed adaptation of The Hunger Games, featuring Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss and Josh Hutcherson as Peeta. There is also a new shot of Tom Cruise in Brad Bird’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, in which Ethan Hunt looks as if he’s been listening to a whole lot of Eminiem, circa 8 Mile....

Release Dates: New Slot For Tom McCarthy’s ‘Win Win,’ Plus Dates For Lone Scherfig’s ‘One Day’ And Tarsem’s ‘Immortals’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 11, 2011 3:30 pm EST Good news for fans of director Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent, The Visitor, Game of Thrones), as his new film Win Win will open on March 18 instead of March 25. The film stars Paul Giamatti as “Mike Flaherty, a senior-care attorney and high-school wrestling coach in small-town New Jersey, he compromises his ethics to better support his family — with consequences, of course....

Screenwriting Bits: ‘Hangover’ Writers Do ‘21 And Over;’ Scribes Hired For ‘Yogi Bear 2’ By Germain Lussier/May 27, 2011 3:30 pm EST One’s a sequel in plot only, the other’s a sequel to a movie with no plot. And while those are obviously jokes, when the writers of the original Hangover make a movie about an evening spiraling out of control and Yogi Bear gets a follow-up, well, we’d be remiss not to kid about it a little....

Seth Rogen’s Untitled Cancer Comedy Retitled ‘Live With It’ By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2010 5:00 pm EST For the last two years or so, we’ve been reporting on Summit Entertainment’s Untitled Cancer Comedy, which was formerly titled I’m With Cancer. The movie finally has an official title: Live With It, clever eh? The film is an autobiographical story based on the real experiences of screenwriter Will Reiser, a producer on HBO’s Da Ali G Show and VH1’s Best Week Ever, who was diagnosed with cancer in his mid-20s and successfully battled the disease over several years....

Simon Pegg Returns For Mission: Impossible 4 By Peter Sciretta/July 18, 2010 7:37 pm EST Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Star Trek) has signed on to reprise his role as the comic relief lab geek Benji Dunn for Mission: Impossible 4. THR reports that while the project has yet to be officially greenlit, director Brad Bird has been reading actors this week and production is tracking to begin in early September 2010....

Slight Details Revealed About The Spierig Brothers’ Power Of The Dark Crystal By Russ Fischer/June 24, 2010 12:40 pm EST Development on a sequel to The Dark Crystal has been crawling along for several years. In May things kicked into gear, however, when The Henson Company announced that Undead and Daybreakers co-directors Peter and Michael Spierig would direct The Power of the Dark Crystal from a script by Craig Pearce (Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet)....

Sony Moves Battle: Los Angeles Into The Coveted “300” Slot By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2010 10:30 am EST I’ve been hearing great things about Jonathan Liebesman’s Battle: Los Angeles for a while now, and apparently Sony Pictures also think they might have a winner on their hands. They have moved the sci-fi war movie from it’s original February release (one of the worst months to release a big action movie) to the coveted “300” slot on March 11th 2011....

Tom Hardy Replaces Sam Worthington In McG’s This Means War By Russ Fischer/July 27, 2010 9:30 am EST Briefly: Crap, now I have to be early in line to see McG’s next film. The director has been prepping This Means War, a significantly rewritten version of a script that has been floating around Hollywood for years. The lead role was recently offered to Sam Worthington, but the actor has officially bowed out and a deal has reportedly been signed for Tom Hardy (Inception, Bronson) to step in....

Tommy Lee Jones Confirmed For Captain America By Russ Fischer/May 27, 2010 7:52 am EST There was a rumor a couple of weeks back that Tommy Lee Jones would have at least a small part in Captain America: The First Avenger. Now an interview with actress Hayley Atwell, who plays Peggy Carter in the film, has confirmed Jones’ appearance. Atwell spoke on camera to press at the BAFTA television awards, saying,...

VOTD: Adam Berg’s Dulex “Walls” Commercial By Peter Sciretta/July 13, 2010 6:00 am EST On /Film, we like to profile commercial filmmakers who might have a future on the big screen. You might remember Adam Berg, as he was the filmmaker behing Philips’ 2 minute short film Carousel (the Dark Knight inspired clown robbery shown over one single frozen moment of time). The 139-second advertisement won the prestigious Film Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival....

VOTD: Breaking Bad: Requiem For A Dream By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2012 10:30 am EST Season 5 of Breaking Bad will begin on July 15th 2012. Right now would be a good time to revisit the story thus far. Jswinney1 has created a 9 minute video titled Breaking Bad: Requiem for a Dream which recaps seasons 1-4 chronologically, set to Clint Mansell’s brilliant (yet overused) score from Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream....

Will Jesus Orellana’s Short Film ‘Rosa’ Make Him A Big Name In Hollywood? By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2011 5:00 pm EST There is a new name that, for better or worse, you’re going to be hearing often over the next year: Jesús Orellana. The Spanish comic artist spent a year and a hundred bucks making the all-CGI short film Rosa, which did well at festivals and is now making waves in Hollywood....

Wonder Woman Becomes Lady Jaye: Adrianne Palicki Joins G.I. Joe Sequel By Russ Fischer/July 1, 2011 1:17 pm EST Jon M. Chu and the producers of G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes keep expanding the cast of the Joe sequel. They’ve retained a few actors from the first film: Channing Tatum, Ray Park and Byung Hun-lee, and have roped in a couple of significant new cast members, notably Dwayne Johnson as Roadblock. RZA is on board, too, and now Adrianne Palicki from Friday Night Lights, who got some good notes for her work in the Wonder Woman pilot that NBC decided to can, will play the female lead: Lady Jaye....

‘Cars 2’ Viral Trail Leads To New Clip By Russ Fischer/April 4, 2011 8:02 am EST Outside the con, Disney parked a car emblazoned with the Twitter username ChromeLeaks, and checking out that would send viewers to a URL featuring a great fake used car ad. That, in turn, led to a new clip for Cars 2. You can follow the trail of links above to find the clip yourself, or just hit the jump for the embed....

‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Theatrical Trailer By Germain Lussier/April 24, 2012 12:05 am EST The theatrical trailer for Jon Chu’s G.I. Joe Retaliation is now online. Opening June 29, 2012, it stars Dwayne Johnson, Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis, Adrianne Palicki, D.J. Cotrona, Byung-hun Lee, Ray Park, RZA, Joseph Mazzello, Elodie Yung, and Walton Goggins. Check it out the action-packed, brand new trailer after the jump. Thanks to Machinma.com for the trailer....

‘Shrek Forever After’ Director Mike Mitchell To Helm Next ‘Alvin And The Chipmunks’; May Not Be In 3D By Adam Quigley/Oct. 27, 2010 6:01 am EST *My guess? The project wasn’t as creatively challenging as I Spy. Mitchell’s career has been an odd one, with a trajectory that lead with perverse comedies before transitioning to kiddy fare. He first directed Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and Surviving Christmas, and then bafflingly followed those up with the seriously underrated campy teen superhero flick Sky High....

‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ International Poster By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2011 7:54 am EST Now we’ve got what appears to be a Canadian teaser poster (in French) for the film. It’s a new shot of Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara in character. Check out the full image after the break. It is fairly ’edgy,’ but not quite NSFW. I wonder if we’ll see this same image used in the US....

‘The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)’ Trailer By Angie Han/Sept. 26, 2011 5:15 pm EST Man, I wish I hadn’t grabbed a snack right before I sat down to start working this story. Very poor planning on my part. The full-length theatrical trailer for Tom Six’ The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) has dropped, and, well, if you’ve so much as heard of The Human Centipede (First Sequence), you know what to expect....