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Breach Director Billy Ray To Direct Remake Of Oscar-Winning The Secret In Their Eyes By Adam Quigley/Oct. 6, 2010 11:00 pm EST The Secret in Their Eyes was the surprise winner for Best Foreign Language Film during last year’s Academy Awards, beating out the expected contenders A Prophet and The White Ribbon. Many were peeved, but the picture hadn’t even been released in theaters yet, so most were unaware of what an affecting, engrossing film it actually is....

Cool Stuff: Why So Serious T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2010 7:00 am EST TeeFury’s t-shirt of the day is a parody the Joker from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. Titled “Why So Serious”, the design features a Panda eating a watermellon. The t-shirt is only $9 (plus $2 shipping in the US) but it is only available TODAY and TODAY ONLY. So buy it by midnight tonight (Friday, June 25th 2010) or miss out....

Fantastic Fest Announces ‘Let Me In’ As Opening Night Movie; New Image Available By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2010 9:20 am EST Briefly: Let Me In, the Matt Reeves-directed remake/alternate take on Let the Right One In, will be the opening night film at this year’s Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX. The film will premiere at a red carpet event on Thursday, Sept 23 at the Paramount Theatre in Austin. The film stars Chloe Moretz (Kick Ass), Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road), Elias Koteas (Shutter Island) and Richard Jenkins (The Visitor), at least some of whom will be in attendance, along with Matt Reeves....

By Russ Fischer/May 24, 2010 8:49 am EST In addition to commercials for Sony, Renault, Samsung and other clients, Benmayor has directed Paintball and just finished Bruc, a film about “a 19th Century Catalan drummer boy who helps gives Napoleon’s army its first taste of defeat.” That’s at least something in a broader scope than just making mid-budget action films — could he bring good stuff to the table for this sequel?...

Infographic: AT-AT Deconstructed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2011 6:00 am EST Have you ever wanted to see what happens inside an AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport) from the Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back? Hit the jump to see a deconstructed illustration explaining the function of each little piece of one of these transport vehicles. via: ilovecharts Infographic: AT-AT Deconstructed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2011 6:00 am EST Have you ever wanted to see what happens inside an AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport) from the Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back?...

John Waters’ Top 10 Films Of 2011 Include ‘The Skin I Live In’, ‘Mildred Pierce’, And ‘Justin Bieber: Never Say Never’ By Angie Han/Dec. 9, 2011 5:00 pm EST Year-end top 10 lists can get pretty mind-numbing, as you see the same titles crop up again and again and again… and again, but filmmaker John Waters has set himself apart by both by posting his a bit early and by, oh yeah, being John Waters....

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Wants YOU To Participate In Roko Belic’s Inception-Inspired Dreams Documentary By Peter Sciretta/May 5, 2010 5:00 pm EST Joseph Gordon-Levitt is launching an interesting project on hitRecord.org in conjunction with Christopher Nolan’s Inception. I just recieved an e-mail asking /Film readers to be a part of it. You can read more about the project, direct for Joe, after the jump.From Joe:INCEPTION is coming out soon, and in conjunction with its release, they’re making a documentary on dreams....

Josh Brolin To Star In Sean Penn-Helmed Survival Drama ‘Crazy For The Storm’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 21, 2012 7:09 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When Ollestad was 11-years-old, he was in a plane crash that killed three people, including his father, and left him stranded on a snowy mountaintop. Using the skills his father taught him, he was able to survive and escape. Brolin would play the father....

LOL: Quentin Tarantino’s Trunk Shot By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2010 8:00 am EST If you’ve seen more than one movie by Quentin Tarantino, then you’ve surely noticed his signature POV trunk shot. The shot even has its own wikipedia page (take that Scorsese Squeeze!). Here is the background from wiki: The Trunk shot is a camera angle used in cinema when one or more characters need to retrieve something or someone from the trunk of a car....

By Germain Lussier/March 1, 2012 2:30 pm EST As if movies like The Cabin in the Woods, 21 Jump Street, Rec 3: Genesis and The Raid weren’t good enough reasons to be excited for South by Southwest 2012, Mondo has just announced they’ll be opening a permanent gallery at the festival. Finally a place in Austin, Texas for people to go and check out Mondo’s own brand of bad ass, movie themed art at any time....

By Germain Lussier/Dec. 15, 2010 6:00 am EST Everyone know the jolt of fear that runs through your body when you think you’ve forgotten something in a taxi cab. Well imagine the jolt if, instead of a cell phone, it was your daughter left in the cab and you only had a few hours to find her. That’s the rough plot of Medallion, which will feature Nicolas Cage as former master thief, searching for his daughter, who has been taken hostage and locked in the trunk of a Medallion Taxi Cab in New York City....

Now Channing Tatum Could Be Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ By Angie Han/Nov. 15, 2011 10:00 am EST Apparently, Channing Tatum is the guy you call when Bradley Cooper drops out of a project. Over the summer, Tatum’s name came up for Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s (now grounded) The Crow remake when Cooper left the project, and now that Cooper’s turned down Steven Soderbergh’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Tatum’s reportedly being “eyed” for the lead....

Second Draft Of ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’ Reboot Completed, Peter Segal To Direct? By Angie Han/July 21, 2011 10:00 am EST It’s been a while since we heard about that National Lampoon’s Vacation reboot, but if you were hoping Hollywood had forgotten all about it, I’ve got bad news for you. Last year, we reported that John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (the duo behind this summer’s Horrible Bosses) had been tapped to write the screenplay, titled Vacation (no “National Lampoon’s”)....

Terry Gilliam And Tom Waits Provide Voices For Animated Short ‘The Monster Of Nix’ By Russ Fischer/April 7, 2011 11:30 am EST The very occasional working relationship between Tom Waits and Terry Gilliam is something that has given me great pleasure for a long time. It was a thrilling surprise when Waits played a cameo in The Fisher King in 1991; Terry Gilliam then used the Waits track ‘Earth Died Screaming’ for a key point in Twelve Monkeys, and it all lead up to Waits’ big role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus....

The Hangover 2 Reportedly Confirmed To Take Place In Thailand By Russ Fischer/July 21, 2010 3:49 pm EST Ever since The Hangover became a runaway hit, we knew there would be a sequel. Very shortly after the film was a hit, talk began that the film might take place in Thailand. Perhaps that began with the film’s breakout star Zach Galifianakis, who said, “I think it’s going to be in a foreign country, and I think it has to be in an exotic place....

Twilight Producer Wants Kristen Stewart For Martyrs Remake? By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2010 8:47 am EST Cue a whole lot of irritated groans. A couple weeks back we updated on the remake of the extreme French horror film Martyrs, basically noting that (a) Mark L. Smith had penned a script and (b) the remake sounds, on the surface, like a terrible idea. What I didn’t note at the time is that Twilight producer Wyck Godfrey is one of the producers....

VOTD: ‘Magnus’ By Angie Han/July 13, 2011 5:00 am EST “An old train travels through landscapes, to get to an ancient city.” Today’s animated short may sound boring on paper, but I can promise you that the actual film is anything but. Created as a masters project by Paris 8 University students Nelson Dos Santos and Omar Merandi, “Magnus” combines exquisite graphics with an equally impressive score to tell a story that is, in the end, surprisingly moving....

Warner Bros. Wants Steven Spielberg To Direct Epic ‘Gods And Kings,’ About The Life Of Moses By Russ Fischer/Sept. 28, 2011 5:39 pm EST When a story opens with ‘could Steven Spielberg direct X?’ the answer is almost certainly going to be ’no.’ Naturally a lot of projects land on or near the desk of one of the biggest directors in the world, and naturally he doesn’t have time for 90% of even the ones he would be tempted to make....

By Angie Han/July 11, 2011 7:00 am EST One of the most talked-about documentaries at this year’s Sundance was Project Nim, director James Marsh’s follow-up to 2008’s acclaimed Man on Wire. The film centers around a chimp named Nim Chimpsky, who was the subject of a famous animal language acquisition experiment in the 1970s. Nim was raised from infancy as a human child and taught American Sign Language so that he could communicate with people....

‘21 Jump Street’ And ‘Cloudy’ Directors To Tackle ‘Carter Beats The Devil’ By Angie Han/June 4, 2012 11:30 am EST The movie adaptation of Glen David Gold’s Carter Beats the Devil is one of those projects that started out with a ton of promise and momentum, and then for whatever reason wound up mired in development hell, getting kicked around town for several years. But Warner Bros. gave it a new lease on life when it picked up the project in 2010 and set Michael Gilio (Kwik Stop) to write....