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Star Tours 2: New Pilot Revealed; 54 Possible Different Experiences By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 26, 2010 3:00 pm EST Disney is planning to relaunch the Star Wars ride Star Tours with a new 3D version officially titled Star Tours: The Adventures Continue on May 10th 2011 in Disneyland in Anaheim and May 17th 2011 in Walt Disney World in Orlando. Not much is known about the new ride other than it will include locations and characters from both the original trilogy (Chewbacca, c-3PO, R2-D2, Aqualish....

VOTD: Adam Green’s Halloween Short Film: ‘Just Take One’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 21, 2010 5:00 am EST Celebrate the wonders of Sesame Street, Troll 2, America, child molestation, and trick or treating in your thirties with director Adam Green’s short film made specially for Halloween called Just Take One. The director behind Hatchet, Frozen and the now infamous Hatchet 2 has been making Halloween short films for his fans for 12 years over at his official site, Ariescope....

Warren Beatty’s Howard Hughes Film Hits Financial Roadblock By Russ Fischer/Nov. 16, 2011 6:30 am EST You may still get to see someone beat Warren Beatty to the punch making another film about Howard Hughes. (Don’t get your hopes up that it will be Christopher Nolan, however, even though Nolan has talked about wanting to make a Hughes movie.) While Beatty announced his return to writing and directing earlier this year, with Paramount partially backing a film about Hughes, we’ve now seen two major backers pull away....

Willem Dafoe And Sam Neill Starring In Australian Thriller ‘The Hunter’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 28, 2010 6:30 am EST As I understand it, Julia Leigh’s novel The Hunter is doing quite well in Australia. Ostensibly about a search for the last Tasmanian tiger, the thriller has a bit more going on than that. A film has gone into production this week under the direction of Daniel Nettheim, and it has a great cast, including Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill and Frances O’Connor....

Woody Harrelson Joins Louis Leterrier’s Magician Heist Film ‘Now You See Me’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 29, 2011 7:23 pm EST Louis Leterrier’s heist film Now You See Me is one that I think has been flying under the radar for a lot of people so far, but it is shaping up to be a really promising picture. The basics are that Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Morgan Freeman, Isla Fisher and Melanie Laurent make up the bulk of the cast....

WTF: Red Bull Producing Parkour-Flavored 3D ‘Oliver Twist’ Adaptation By Russ Fischer/May 16, 2012 2:30 pm EST It seems like years ago that parkour was the next big thing — hell, Bond movies often lag a couple years behind trends in action, and it was Casino Royale in 2006 that brought the free-running urban sport to that franchise. But we just heard about Tracers, a bike messenger/parkour project selling at Cannes with Taylor Lautner in the lead....

‘Dodgeball’ Director Rawson Thurber To Rewrite ‘The Umbrella Academy’ By Angie Han/July 26, 2011 11:00 am EST Back in 2009, we reported that screenwriter Mark Bomback (Race to Witch Mountain) was working on a screenplay adapted from Dark Horse Comics’ The Umbrella Academy series. Now, after a couple of years of not much activity, the project is getting a whole new draft. Universal Pictures recently hired Rawson Thurber, best known as the writer/director of Dodgeball, to rewrite the script....

‘Something Borrowed’ Trailer – A Kate Hudson Movie Like All The Other Kate Hudson Movies By Angie Han/Feb. 18, 2011 6:00 am EST A new trailer for the Kate Hudson-Ginnifer Goodwin romcom Something Borrowed has just hit, and it’s exactly what you’d expect. The film, based on Emily Giffin’s bestselling novel of the same title, revolves around good girl Rachel (Goodwin) as she struggles with the impending marriage of the man she loves (Colin Egglesfield) to her best friend (Hudson)....

‘Take Shelter’ Trailer: Michael Shannon Prepares For The End Of His World By Russ Fischer/May 23, 2011 1:00 pm EST I’m going to avoid really embracing any obvious gags like ‘Take Shelter really took Sundance by storm,’ but the fact remains that Jeff Nichols’ film about a man’s deteriorating mental state really made an impression on viewers both at Sundance and at Cannes. The film stars Michael Shannon as a man who dreams of an apocalyptic oncoming storm, and features Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Life) and Shea Whigham....

‘The Hangover’ Director Todd Phillips Moving Into Drama With ‘The Gambler’ By Angie Han/Aug. 20, 2012 4:52 pm EST Over the past decade, Todd Phillips has built himself a comfortable niche as the director of lucrative R-rated comedies. While he came out of the gate with confrontational documentary Hated, his first non-documentary feature was Road Trip, followed by Old School, Starsky & Hutch, School for Scoundrels, Due Date, and the two Hangover films — three if you count next year’s installment....

Aaron Sorkin & Danny Elfman Writing ‘Houdini’ Musical For Hugh Jackman By Germain Lussier/Nov. 2, 2010 3:30 pm EST Though he probably won’t be cloning and killing himself every single night, Hugh Jackman could soon be portraying another type of risky entertainer. He’s set to star in a Broadway musical based on the life of Houdini written by Aaron Sorkin with music by Danny Elfman, lyrics by Glenn Slater and direction by Jack O’Brien....

Andrew Stanton And Producers Deny ‘John Carter’ Budget Reports By Germain Lussier/Feb. 20, 2012 7:00 am EST No one ever thought Disney’s John Carter was going to be a cheap movie. To create a world worthy not only of author Edgar Rice Burroughs but director Andrew Stanton and the studio behind the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, lots and lots of money was going to have to be spent on the effects, the sets and much more....

Another Toy Story Film In June 2011? By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2010 6:00 am EST Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich revealed on MSN (and later confirmed on Twitter) that Toy Story 3 is not the last time we’ll see Buzz and Woody — and he’s not talking about the costumed characters at the Disney theme parks. Don’t worry Pixar fans, Disney is not pushing out another sequel — Toy Story 3 ends with a perfect conclusion to the trilogy, and I don’t expect to see another feature film any time soon (I’d say “ever,” but this is Disney…)....

Brian De Palma To Direct Thriller ‘The Key Man’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 18, 2011 2:00 pm EST The last decade hasn’t been the most popular one for Brian De Palma, at least in a commerical sense. I do love his 2003 movie Femme Fatale a whole hell of a lot, but can’t really get behind the James Ellroy adaptation The Black Dahlia, and feel like the minor Iraq War film Redacted might be worth a second look at some point in the future, if only because it was a relatively early effort to embrace the always-on nature of modern video....

Bryan Cranston In Talks For ‘World War Z’ By Angie Han/Aug. 8, 2011 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Subtitled An Oral History of the Zombie War, the book takes place in an apocalyptic future in which mankind is fighting back against the zombie threat. The film will star Mireille Enos and James Badge Dale, along with Brad Pitt as United Nations employee Gerry Lane....

Casting Notes: Zooey Deschanel In Enchantress Of Numbers; Noah Ringer In Cowboys & Aliens; Jonathan Lloyd Walker In The Thing By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2010 9:01 pm EST Update: I have been contacted by Zooey Deschanel’s publicist who claims “Zooey is not connected to the project”. You can read the original story below.Ada Lovelace, a nineteenth-century writer and daughter of Lord Byron, was a wildly interesting woman. She worked on Charles Babbage’s early Analytical Engine, and she is considered a forerunner in the development of machines designed to do more than simple mathematical computations....

First Look: Paul Rudd In ‘My Idiot Brother’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 27, 2010 11:30 am EST One of the more eye-catching comedies playing at Sundance is My Idiot Brother, which stars Paul Rudd (and his beard) as Ned, a guy who is passed around between his three sisters (Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer) after he tries to get back on his feet in the wake of a string of foolish failures....

First Poster For Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ Is Stark And Pensive By Russ Fischer/Aug. 22, 2012 7:58 am EST See the full image below. 

Get Wrapped Up In An Exclusive, Alternative Poster For ‘V/H/S’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 14, 2012 6:00 am EST Hopefully if you’re a fan of the horror genre, you’ve turned off the lights, picked up the remote and ordered V/H/S on demand. Or maybe you’re waiting for it to hit the big screen on October 5. Either way, the found footage horror anthology film is a must see for anyone looking to be grossed out, scared and surprised....

Introducing The Ones Who Knock - A Breaking Bad Podcast By David Chen/July 12, 2012 10:35 pm EST Download or Play Now in Browser: Your browser does not support the audio element. Subscribe to The Ones Who Knock: