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See Sean Young’s Polaroids From The ‘Blade Runner’ Set By Angie Han/May 31, 2011 5:00 pm EST In the nearly three decades since its release, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner has become one of those cinema classics revered, revisited, researched, analyzed, and discussed by film geeks everywhere. Entire books and movies have been devoted to picking apart the film, its making of, and its legacy. Now, a recently rediscovered series of photographs reveals… well, nothing new whatsoever....

Strange ‘I Killed Adolf Hitler’ Graphic Novel Optioned For Feature Film By Russ Fischer/Feb. 15, 2012 4:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Norwegian cartoonist who goes by the name Jason toyed with that joke by writing and drawing I Killed Adolf Hitler, a graphic novel in which an assassin is sent back in time to destroy the Fuhrer, but things go very, very wrong as Hitler manages to come forward in time, leaving the assassin to deal with his predicament....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Cop Out, The Losers, The Runaways, And More By Adam Quigley/July 20, 2010 4:07 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. At a certain point, after watching so many movies for so long, you sometimes forget that films can still surprise you. I had no idea what to expect when Mother started, and every time I thought I was starting to figure it out, the film took me to new and disturbing places I could have never anticipated....

VIDEO: Ron Burgundy Announces ‘Anchorman 2’ On ‘Conan’ By Germain Lussier/March 28, 2012 6:21 pm EST After seemingly years of studio opposition, Anchorman 2 is finally becoming a reality. So said San Diego’s #1 news anchor, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), when he stopped by Conan Wednesday night to play some jazz flute and make the official announcement. Watch the video after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader Dan T for the heads up....

VOTD: The Cameo-Crazy Return Of ‘Tenacious D’ By Russ Fischer/March 26, 2012 3:00 pm EST Jack Black and Kyle Gass’ comedy sketch duo / band / meta-project Tenacious D has been quiet since around 2008, after the relative failure of their film Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. For the past couple years both guys have said that a new record would be forthcoming, and now Rize of the Fenix is on the way....

VOTD: The Muppets Invade The Lost Production Offices By Peter Sciretta/May 5, 2010 10:20 pm EST The Muppets invade the LOST production offices with a group of Lost fans to try to uncover the secrets of the series. Will Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse reveal everything, or find a way to make them leave? Watch the video after the jump. VOTD: The Muppets Invade The Lost Production Offices By Peter Sciretta/May 5, 2010 10:20 pm EST...

‘Let Me In’ Director Matt Reeves Will Direct ‘The Twilight Zone’ For Warner Bros. By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2011 1:09 pm EST Warner Bros. has settled on a director to helm the studio’s new feature based on Rod Serling’s ground-breaking TV series The Twilight Zone. Matt Reeves, director of Cloverfield and Let Me In, will make the movie for the studio based on a script by Jason Rothenberg. What happened to those talks with directors like Christopher Nolan, Michael Bay, Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men), Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) and David Yates (Harry Potter films)?...

‘Life In A Day,’ The Ridley Scott-Produced YouTube Movie, Is In Post-Production With 80,000 Submitted Clips By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2010 4:25 pm EST Remember the news about Life in a Day, the YouTube movie that Ridley Scott is producing with director Kevin Macdonald? (Not to be confused with Bruce McDonald, who also crowd-sourced footage for his Broken Social Scene project This Film is Broken.) Well, the movie is already into post-production, but that’s just because all the normal production work was done by people who submitted clips from footage shot on July 24, the day the film is designed to encapsulate....

‘Oranges And Sunshine’ Trailer, Starring Emily Watson And Hugo Weaving By Germain Lussier/Feb. 8, 2011 5:00 pm EST While it has yet to be picked up for U.S. distribution, Oranges and Sunshine is opening in the United Kingdom in April and has already played a few festivals to generally positive reviews. It stars Emily Watson in the true story of a social worker who discovers that tens of thousands of children in the United Kingdom were forced to migrate away from their families and then struggles trying to reunite the broken families....

Batman: Year One Getting Animated Film Adaptation? By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2010 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Batman: Year One was partly used for inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s Batman reboot Batman Begins. The comic turned graphic novel is considered one of the best Batman stories ever printed. Here is the official description from DC Comics: A young Bruce Wayne has spent his adolescence and early adulthood, traveling the world so he could hone his body and mind into the perfect fighting and investigative machine....

Carey Mulligan Offered Role In Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo? Nope, Says Scott Rudin By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2010 7:16 pm EST There’s been some talk aready this week about how Carey Mulligan (An Education) may end up playing the central character Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s new version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. But despite one report that claims she’s a lock, other sources, including the film’s producer, Scott Rudin, say otherwise....

Casting Bits: Julianne Moore In ‘Suck City;’ Catherine Zeta Jones In ‘Lay The Favorite;’ Sienna Miller In ‘Just Like A Woman’ By Russ Fischer/March 4, 2011 2:00 pm EST Paul Weitz is scripting and directing an adaptation of the Nick Flynn memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and he has a hell of a cast assembled: Paul Dano plays Nick Flynn, who runs into his down and out father (Robert De Niro) while working at a Boston homeless shelter....

Cool Stuff: Brad McGinty’s ‘An Anatomical Guide To The Xenomorph’ Shirt By Russ Fischer/May 7, 2012 1:00 pm EST With Prometheus on the way it’s a good time to celebrate all things Alien, and Atlanta-based artist Brad McGinty is getting into the action with a t-shirt version of his ‘Anatomy of the Xenomorph’ print. Based on an old set of Kaiju illustrations, the shirt looks a bit like the classic Alien creature design filtered through the wacky sensibility of the Japanese haunted house film Hausu....

Cool Stuff: Chewie And Han T-Shirt [Calvin And Hobbes Parody] By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2010 6:00 am EST Chris Wahl has created a Calvin and Hobbs/Star Wars mash-up t-shirt titled “Chewie and Han”. Available in a variety of colors for $21.73 on Red Bubble. See the full design after the jump. via: shirtoid Cool Stuff: Chewie And Han T-Shirt [Calvin And Hobbes Parody] By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2010 6:00 am EST...

Cool Stuff: Images From Quentin Vs. Coens Round Three By Germain Lussier/Oct. 1, 2011 9:00 am EST No matter what the judge’s score cards say about who won Quentin vs. Coens Rounds One and Two, the real winners are us. We, once again, get to enjoy awesome art based on the films of Quentin Tarantino and The Coen Brothers. After two successful shows in New York and San Francisco, Spoke Art is pitting the Quentin against Coens one more time in Los Angeles this weekend....

Delaware Supreme Court Overturns $80,000 Fine For Theater After Employee Instructs Black Audience To Behave During A Tyler Perry Movie [Updated] By Adam Quigley/March 4, 2011 4:00 pm EST Update: It has been pointed out that this article contains factual inaccuracies. In fact, it was originally the Delaware Human Relations Commission that ruled that the theater should be fined a total of $80,000. That ruling has since been overturned by the Delaware Supreme Court....

FilmDistrict Signs Deal To Give Films To Netflix Rather Than Pay Cable Channels By Russ Fischer/Dec. 1, 2010 12:53 pm EST Netflix is taking another small step towards replacing — or at least competing directly with — traditional pay cable services like HBO and Showtime. The company has signed a deal with new distributor FilmDistrict to stream movies in the post-DVD release window traditionally reserved for subscription cable channels. It’s a deal similar to the one signed between Netflix and Relativity Media earlier this year....

First Image Of Angelina Jolie As ‘Maleficent’ By Russ Fischer/June 19, 2012 7:00 am EST Disney’s live-action exploration of the hidden life of Sleeping Beauty villain Maleficent has been on the docket for some time, but it seemed like a film that might never get made. That changed when Angelina Jolie’s schedule opened up and she committed to the role in a serious way. (Thank her kids for that commitment, or don’t, depending on how you feel about the film....

Geek Deal: Brotherhood Seasons 1-3 For $44 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 16, 2010 12:15 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The price is only good for today and today only. The price will disappear at midnight tonight… so act now. A working-class Irish family is torn between right and wrong when two brothers live out their destinies on opposite sides of the law. While Tommy pursues ambitions as a rising star in politics, Michael seeks power the only way he knows how – amidst the gritty underworld of violence and crime....

Hero Complex Film Festival 2012 Recap Featuring Behind The Scenes Stories From A Clockwork Orange, Serenity, Wall-E, Shaun Of The Dead And More By Germain Lussier/May 22, 2012 12:00 pm EST It was a great weekend to be a fan of movies in Los Angeles and, after the jump, you can read dozens and dozens of behind the scenes facts from all those movies as well as Zack Snyder’s update on Man of Steel, Simon Pegg talking The World’s End and Star Trek 2, Peter Weller’s feelings on a RoboCop remake, Malcom McDowell’s thoughts on The Avengers, James Gunn’s thoughs on the similarites between Super, Kick Ass and God Bless America, Andrew Stanton’s statement on possible Pixar sequels and Nathan Fillion’s casting choices for Uncharted....