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‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Will Be Last Batman Film For Christian Bale By Germain Lussier/Nov. 23, 2010 7:18 am EST In David O. Russell’s The Fighter, Christian Bale plays a boxer with a great defensive mindset. Well, those evasive maneuvers are going to be put to the test in the next few months. The actor is almost certain to get his first Oscar nomination for The Fighter, set for wide release on December 17, and to promote that film, as well as his award chances, Bale is going to do a lot of interviews....

‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ 3D Trailer By Russ Fischer/May 20, 2011 1:00 pm EST Paramount has been blitzing us with Transformers: Dark of the Moon footage this week, from the Cameron/Bay 3D talk to a couple of clips and now a new trailer for the film intended to run in 3D with Pirates of the Caribbean this weekend. You obviously won’t be able to see it in 3D here, but we have a nice 2D presentation of the trailer, complete with some big new shots, after the break....

Biopic Of The Worst Boxer Of All Time In Development By Germain Lussier/July 19, 2011 2:00 pm EST In a sports movie, we all cheer for the underdog. And in the world of boxing, there was no bigger underdog than Peter Buckley. Sometimes referred to as “The Worst Boxer Of All Time,” the English welterweight finished his career with a record of 32 wins, 12 draws, and 256 losses. All of that punishment seems to have paid off, though, because a film version of his life is now being developed with director George Tillman Jr....

Brooklyn Decker Scores A Role In Battleship By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2010 3:39 pm EST Briefly: Review, if you will, the cast of Peter Berg’s Battleship as we know it so far. There’s Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights, Wolverine) in the lead as Alex Hopper, the Commanding Officer of a destroyer who is in charge of a team of five trusted shipmates. (Which resportedly include the XO, a female Japanese commander, and a Scotty-like chief engineer....

Check Out Hallmark’s 2011 Pop Culture Inspired Ornaments By Germain Lussier/July 13, 2011 7:00 am EST Little known fact: I collect Hallmark Ornaments. It’s a very expensive hobby my mother got me into when I was still in elementary school. Every July, she and I would go to the store on the day that Hallmark first released their ornaments for that year and we’d buy all the cool ones. This was a tradition that probably would have faded away as I grew older if Hallmark didn’t start making ornaments out of awesome licenses like Star Wars and Star Trek....

Chris Columbus To Direct Reboot Of Sam Peckinpah’s ‘The Rifleman’ For CBS By Angie Han/Nov. 9, 2011 10:00 am EST The TV Western is definitely back in style, with several projects in various stages of development at different networks. And it seems audiences are into it as well — Hell on Wheels just gave AMC it’s second-biggest debut ever, just behind last year’s premiere of The Walking Dead. For its part, CBS has just hatched a plan to reboot the ’50s series The Rifleman, which was originally created by a young Sam Peckinpah....

Christian Bale Mentions ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Sequel That’ll Never Happen; Plus New TV Spot By Germain Lussier/May 29, 2012 1:30 pm EST Or is it? In the new Empire, which has a lot of great stuff in it, Bale has very carefully worded a statement that says he’d be open to the challenge of a fourth movie if Christopher Nolan came to him with the right story. We all know that’s a big, big “if....

Cool Stuff: ‘Arrested Development’ Art Show In Los Angeles By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2012 9:30 am EST Before that can happen, though, Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles is hosting a full, Arrested Development themed art show called There’s Always Money In the Banana Stand. It opens this Friday and, after the jump, check out a huge gallery of images, many of which you won’t find anywhere else. Here are just a few images from There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand....

Cool Stuff: Ghostbusters And Back To The Future Lost Parody T-Shirts By Peter Sciretta/May 18, 2010 2:00 am EST Threadless released an awesome Lost/Ghostbusters parody t-shirt yesterday. Nacho Diaz Arjona’s “Smokebuster” design is available for $18 on Slate American Apparel tee.Teefury also released an awesome Back to the Future/Lost parody design appropriately titled “Constant”. As always, the good news is that you can snag one for only $9. The bad news is that the design will be available today (Tuesday May 18th) online....

Ewan McGregor Joining Bryan Singer’s ‘Jack The Giant Killer’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 24, 2011 4:45 pm EST One of the biggest films currently casting, not based on a comic book, is Bryan Singer’s 3D action epic Jack the Giant Killer. We already knew that Nicholas Hoult (About A Boy) is set to star as the title character in this adult retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk and that he’ll go up against giants, of course, as well as an evil king played by Stanley Tucci....

By Germain Lussier/May 8, 2012 6:52 pm EST Fans of AMC’s incredible show Breaking Bad may not know that, a few months back, comedian Paul Scheer created a site called Breaking Gifs where he would post funny and weird GIF files related to the show. The idea seemed out there, fun but also incredibly suspicious. In 2009, Scheer did something similar for Lost when he started a site called Damon, Carlton and a Polar Bear....

F. Gary Gray To Direct ‘Hair Of The Dog’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2010 10:34 am EST F. Gary Gray last directed Law Abiding Citizen, a film that ambitiously tried to push how far an audience could get behind a violent, justifiably angry anti-hero. As with several of Gray’s films, the idea was better than the execution, which ended up being silly more often than it was satisfying. Gray has also been part of the revolving door directorial staff of the Bruce Willis/Jamie Foxx videogame adaptation Kane & Lynch, but there are reports that he has left that project....

First Look: The Cast Of Sucker Punch By Russ Fischer/July 16, 2010 8:31 am EST The Entertainment Weekly Comic Con preview issue is starting to make its way out into the world and onto the beds of scanners everywhere. There were a half dozen Green Lantern photos from the mag yesterday, and today there’s the first real image from Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch. Here you can see (l-r) Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Emily Browning, Scott Glenn, Vanessa Hudgens and Jamie Chung....

Gary Oldman Joins Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom Of Doom By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2010 9:00 am EST Gary Oldman has joined the voice cast of DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming sequel Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom. According to HeatVision, Oldman will voice a character named Peacock. Longtime story exec Jennifer Yuh Nelson makes her feature directorial debut, in a story following continuing adventures of Po, the Kung Fu panda. The original all-star cast is set to return, including Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu and David Cross....

Guillermo Del Toro Says Disney Double Dare You ‘Is Gone’ By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2010 12:00 pm EST This is an update that we should have included in today’s previous Guillermo del Toro update, but it was buried in the middle of a long interview with Deadline, and I just caught it. (Plus, after Comic Con, GdT updates are everywhere. We could start a GdT mini-site to run for the next week....

Infographics: A Diagram Of Geek Culture And The HBO Programming Venn Diagram By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2011 5:00 am EST Today we bring you two fun charts: The Diagram of Geek Culture and the HBO Programming Venn Diagram. Images thanks to So Geek Chic and College Humor. Infographics: A Diagram Of Geek Culture And The HBO Programming Venn Diagram By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2011 5:00 am EST Today we bring you two fun charts: The Diagram of Geek Culture and the HBO Programming Venn Diagram....

Jai Courtney Will Be John McClane’s Son In ‘A Good Day To Die Hard’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 22, 2012 1:00 pm EST John Moore (Max Payne) will direct A Good Day to Die Hard from a script by Skip Woods, with Bruce Willis once again playing NYC cop (or perhaps former NYC cop) John McClane. This time, he travels to Moscow to talk the local authorities into freeing his jailed son, and both men end up embroiled in a world-threatening terrorist plot....

Leonard Nimoy To Retire From Acting By Russ Fischer/April 21, 2010 3:54 am EST For years after the original broadcast of Star Trek, Leonard Nimoy struggled with identification as his most famous character, the half-Vulcan Mister Spock. He agreed to make Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan only on the condition that Spock would be killed off in grand fashion, but the film turned out well enough that he not only reprised the character in the third film, but directed the picture as well....

LOL: ‘True Grit,’ Subtitled By Russ Fischer/Jan. 11, 2011 11:00 am EST This one doesn’t need much explanation: the folks at College Humor have added their own mocking subtitles to dialogue performed by Jeff Bridges in True Grit. Now, if you really can’t tell what Rooster Cogburn is saying in the film you either need to talk to your theater, or an ear specialist. But in the tradition of occasionally deliberate and entertaining mishearings that lead people to think Creedence Clearwater Revival was singing about a bathroom on the right, here’s True Grit, subtitled for clarity....

Louis Leterrier Wants To Direct ‘Y: The Last Man,’ But Studio Doesn’t Know What It Wants By Russ Fischer/Nov. 10, 2010 4:22 pm EST One of the comic book adaptations that just keeps kicking is Y: The Last Man. For some time DJ Caruso (Disturbia, Eagle Eye) wanted to make the movie with Shia LaBeouf starring. He wanted to make a trilogy of films, but getting a first script New Line liked and the studio to agree to make a trilogy is something that hasn’t happened....