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Bryan Cranston Cast As ‘Total Recall’ Villain; Basic Plot Revealed By Russ Fischer/March 30, 2011 12:55 pm EST What will it take to make the Total Recall remake look like a good idea? Casting Colin Farrell in the lead is a good move, while hiring Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard) to direct doesn’t inspire quite the same good will. We’ve known little else about the film, but now Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Drive) is in negotiations to play the film’s bad guy....

Casting Bits: Brendan Fraser In ‘Whole Lotta Sole;’ Clifton Collins, Jr. In ‘Hellbenders;’ Hayley Atwell In ‘I, Anna’ By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2011 4:00 am EST Terry George, who wrote and directed Hotel Rwanda and Reservation Road and wrote In the Name of the Father, has roped in Brendan Fraser to star in the comedy heist film Whole Lotta Sole. The film is written by Mr. George and Thomas Gallagher, and follows “a young man robbing a fish shop in order to pay off a gambling debt; the heist goes terribly — and humorously — awry when it turns into a hostage situation....

Casting Notes: Justin Timberlake In ‘I’m.mortal’;Steve Coogan In ‘My Idiot Brother’; Cillian Murphy In ‘The Retreat’ By Russ Fischer/July 29, 2010 8:27 am EST Andrew Niccol is prepping I’m.mortal, a sort of sci-fi film with shades of Logan’s Run that already has offered the female lead to Amanda Seyfried. Now Deadline says the male lead has been offered to Justin Timberlake. The film is an explicitly 20-something skewed idea, in which people have to buy time if they want to age past 25....

Cool Stuff: Bill Murray Playing Every Role In Wes Anderson’s Films By Germain Lussier/Oct. 28, 2010 5:00 pm EST We’ve already given you two previews of the awesome Bad Dads show opening this weekend at the LoPo Gallery in San Fransisco featuring art based on the films of Wes Anderson. You can look at those posts here and here and while there’s some gorgeous stuff in there, the art from this show that’s getting the most chatter online are these paintings by Casey Weldon....

Early Spoiler-Free Reaction: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Prologue By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 8, 2011 11:10 pm EST You can watch a video blog I recorded with Frosty from Collider and Alex from FirstShowing embedded below or read my thoughts underneath that: ] Like The Dark Knight prologue which screened before I Am Legend, this is the opening sequence from the movie — six minutes with an added minute-or-so teaser-style flash of imagery from the film....

Gary Ross Won’t Direct ‘The Hunger Games’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/April 6, 2012 8:25 am EST This is why we can never make any assumptions about how a deal is going to go down before the ink is set and dried. Even before the massive success of The Hunger Games, most assumed that Gary Ross would return to direct the sequel, Catching Fire. Simon Beaufoy was hired to script the sequel, and said to be working under the supervision of Ross....

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Hugh Jackman Returning To Broadway In Aaron Sorkin-Penned Musical ‘Houdini’ By Angie Han/Jan. 4, 2012 1:30 pm EST That Hugh Jackman loves musicals and the theater isn’t a secret, so it’s not surprising that he’s set to make his return to Broadway in the 2013-2014 season. What makes this particular appearance extra special, however, is that he’ll be hitting the stage as the lead of Houdini, the librettist debut of Aaron Sorkin....

Kim Ji-Woon Talks English Language Debut ‘The Last Stand,’ Liam Neeson Out By Germain Lussier/Feb. 28, 2011 10:30 am EST March 4th finally sees the limited release of director Kim Ji-Woon’s revenge film I Saw the Devil, which Peter loved at Fantastic Fest and I loved at Sundance. With that and Ji-Woon’s other awesome South Korean cross-over, the western The Good, The Bad and The Weird, his stock just continues to rise....

Kurt Russell, Sharon Stone And Adrien Brody Star To Recreate 1993 Siege On David Koresh’s Waco Compound By Russ Fischer/April 20, 2010 10:52 pm EST If we hadn’t just had word of the possible Benicio Del Toro / Cameron Diaz romantic comedy pairing, the cast currently attached to star in Rupert Wainwright’s film Waco might seem like one of the strangest casting collections of the day: Kurt Russell, Adrien Brody and Sharon Stone are potentially teaming to recreate the ATF raid on the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco that was led by David Koresh....

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige Talks Sequel Plans, Says There Are Two Movies To Be Announced By Russ Fischer/May 14, 2012 9:30 am EST This update is mostly for the new followers. In a video interview with Bloomberg, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige talks about the studio’s future plans. Feige speaks with some specificity about the plans to shoot new films over the course of the next year: first Iron Man 3, then Thor 2 and Captain America 2....

Michael Bay Confirms ‘Ninja Turtles’ Title, Says Paramount Marketing Made The Change By Russ Fischer/March 27, 2012 9:30 am EST You can almost hear Michael Bay getting irritated as he types this — the producer/director has weighed in once more about the various controversies (I use that term lightly) over the new live-action version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Yesterday we heard the title might be simply Ninja Turtles, and now Bay has confirmed that title via his own forums....

Page 2: E.T., Ghostbusters, Bourne Legacy, Rocky, Lion King, Tron, Guillermo Del Toro, Futurama, Hunger Games, Breaking Bad, The Hobbit By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 1, 2012 8:00 am EST New Bourne Legacy poster features extended armery Ranking the Greats 5: The Films of Danny BoylePhoto: Adam Levine Stands Before a Bloody Face on the Set of American Horror Story Season 2 Kids See the Darndest Things: 10 Paranormally Perceptive Children in Horror Films...

Page 2: Evil Dead, The Thing, Harrison Ford, Star Wars, The Simpsons, Steve Jobs, Donkey Kong, Tron, The Jetsons, Dirty Dancing, Harry Potter, John Carter, Breaking Bad, Real Steel, Battlestar Galactica By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 10, 2011 2:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Header Photo: AT-AT dog costume. Movies.com lists Movies’ Scariest Aliens. The Movies by Flixster iphone/ipad app has received an update whidh allows UltraViolet digital movie streaming over wifi....

Producers Want Amy Adams For Guillermo Del Toro-Produced Horror Remake ‘The Orphanage’ By Angie Han/Aug. 31, 2011 10:30 am EST An English-language remake of Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Orphanage has been in the works for a few years now, but it hit a rough patch in 2009 when would-be director Larry Fessenden exited the project after dealing with casting issues. Happily, it seems his successor Mark Pellington may be having somewhat better luck on that front....

Rolling Roadshow’s Jackie Brown Screening Moves To LAX By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2010 11:00 am EST A couple weeks back, we posted the schedule for the Alamo Drafthouse’s 2010 Rolling Road Show. The traveling movie screening series just one of the many reasons the Alamo Drafthouse is the greatest movie theater on the planet. For those who don’t know, the Drafthouse travels around the United States to present one-time-only screenings of classic films using a portable movie theater which they set-up in famous locations from the films....

See The Lizard From ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Incarnated As A Pez Dispenser By Russ Fischer/Nov. 29, 2011 5:00 am EST Here we go again: so often, studios rigorously try to protect the images of characters from upcoming tentpole films, only to have the effort undermined by a toy. Sony and Columbia don’t wait until a few weeks before a film is in theaters to get licensed products rolling, and so there are already little plastic doo-dads in production to help sell The Amazing Spider-Man....

Sequel Bits: James Wan And Leigh Whannell Back For ‘Insidious 2’, ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’ On Track To Shoot This Year By Angie Han/Feb. 3, 2012 11:30 am EST An Insidious sequel has been all but inevitable ever since the film grossed $97 million worldwide on a $1.5 million budget, putting cartoon dollar signs in studio execs’ eyes. We got our first sign that the wheels were in motion when Sony locked down related domain names like insidious2movie....

Special Features Announced And Cover Art Revealed For ‘Star Wars: The Complete Saga’ On Blu-Ray [Updated] By Germain Lussier/May 4, 2011 12:15 pm EST Lucasfilm’s impressive streak of disappointment continues today as they’ve officially announced the special features for the September 12 Blu-ray release of Star Wars: The Complete Saga. The nine-disc set, which features all six movies in the series, actually has a number of reportedly brand new features including individual archive discs dedicated to each trilogy and several new feature length documentaries....

By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2010 4:52 pm EST Hopefully you’ve seen the lovely Spike Jonze ‘robot romance’ short I’m Here. It’s a very strange but effective and touching story of love and dedication featuring a pair of robots in some alternate Los Angeles. The film is still ‘playing’ online, but now it will finally be coming to DVD in a serious package from McSweeney’s. There Are Many of Us is a book/DVD/CD package that contains the film, soundtrack and photography and behind the scenes info....