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‘The Collection’ Trailer: When ‘Saw’ Met ‘Aliens’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 19, 2012 10:49 am EST The so-called “torture porn” genre is mostly dead, but has given way to a sort of action-adventure horror that fuses elements of that particular vision of horror with other ideas. That seems to be the slot in which to place The Collection, which comes from Saw IV-VI writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan. The latter also directs, and the film is his sequel to the 2009 effort The Collector....

‘Toy Story Hawaiian Vacation’ Clip And High-Res Images By Russ Fischer/March 1, 2011 10:15 am EST We don’t often post clips or teaser trailers for short films, but we can make an exception for Pixar. The new Toy Story short, Hawaiian Vacation, will play in front of Cars 2 when that feature opens on June 24. The first look at the short, which shows what happens when Bonnie’s family goes on vacation without her toys, is after the break....

Back To The Future Video Game Concept Art And Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2010 12:00 pm EST I love the concept art, can’t wait to see how it looks in action in the actual gameplay. USA Today also offers up the following tidbits: Thomas F. Wilson to reprise Biff Tannen. Knowing Chrispin Glover, his appearance would probably be unlikely. For those of you who don’t recognize the name of the company — Telltale Games is a video game developer founded in 2004, consisting of a group of former LucasArts employees who worked on the Monkey’s Island and Sam & Max games....

Casting Bits: Johnny Knoxville And More Join ‘Fun Size,’ Allison Janney Joins ‘Liberal Arts’, Seth Green And Michelle Trachtenberg Join ‘Sexy Evil Genius’ By Germain Lussier/June 2, 2011 5:00 am EST Three radically different comedies are filling up with a bevy of well-known actors. Johnny Knoxville, Josh Pence and many more have joined the cast of Fun Size, a kid comedy described as a Halloween-set blend of Superbad and Adventures in Babysitting....

Casting Bits: Miles Fisher In ‘J. Edgar’; Wes Bentley, Jennifer Carpenter And Emily Wickersham In ‘Gone’ By Adam Quigley/March 9, 2011 8:30 am EST The J. Edgar casting train keeps on chugging. Clint Eastwood is in the midst of shooting his J. Edgar Hoover biopic, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role and Armie Hammer as Hoover’s colleague and reported lover Clyde Tolson, but more and more actors continue to fill out the cast....

Casting Bits: Ron Livingston In ‘Game Change;’ Steve Austin And Danny Trejo In ‘Recoil’ By Russ Fischer/April 26, 2011 6:00 pm EST The Tom Hanks company Playtone is putting together Game Change, in which Julianne Moore will play Sarah Palin under the direction of Jay Roach (Austin Powers). The film follows the 2008 Presidential election, and Ed Harris plays John McCain. Now Ron Livingston has been cast as Mark Wallace, senior advisor to the McCain-Palin ticket....

David Kajganich Writing Ben Affleck’s ‘The Stand’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 18, 2012 6:13 pm EST Briefly: Warner Bros. has spent a lot of time developing big-budget adaptations of two classic Stephen King tomes, It and The Stand. The latter has seen a lot more activity of late, with Harry Potter team David Yates and Steve Kloves briefly attached to make the film before they decided one or two feature films wouldn’t do justice to the material....

Don Payne Writing ‘Thor 2’ By Russ Fischer/July 1, 2011 9:43 am EST Briefly: Yesterday Marvel and Disney dropped word that Thor 2 will make the trip from Asgard to Earth on July 26 2013, and that Kenneth Branagh would not be along for the ride. Chris Hemsworth will almost certainly return, and we’ll see whether or not Natalie Portman makes another appearance. While the studios figure out who will direct, they’re in the process of pulling together something that someone could direct, and the first stage is scripting....

Exclusive: Making Of Jake Scott’s The Hunt By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2010 11:00 am EST In April, Philips released their collaboration between five filmmakers from Ridley Scott Associates, called Parallel Lines. Scott’s commercial division RSA was asked to create a series of groundbreaking short films in a genre of their choice, using “the same unifying theme.” RSA directors submitted forty-five treatments and Philips selected five it believed were most ground-breaking: Jake Scott, Greg Fay, Johnny Hardstaff, Carl Erik Rinsch, and Hi-Sim....

Geek Deal: The Wire: The Complete Series For $89.99 By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2010 11:24 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. This is a ridiculously cheap price for what some believe is the greatest television series of all time. If you have never watched the show before, you owe it to yourself to pick this one up. You can listen to the /Filmcast’s 3.5-hour long review of the entire series of The Wire by clicking here....

Guillermo Del Toro Producing, Co-Writing A New Version Of The Haunted Mansion By Russ Fischer/July 22, 2010 11:56 am EST Update: We got part of this wrong earlier — del Toro is not directing. He’s only producing and co-writing. Prior to Comic Con he’d said his next directorial project will be announced after the Con, and he repeated that in a statement to Latino Review. Original article follows. At the tail end of the Tron panel today at Comic Con, surprise guest Guillermo del Toro took the stage to announce his next film: The Haunted Mansion....

High Resolution Photo Of The Red Skull From ‘Captain America’ By Russ Fischer/March 4, 2011 1:30 pm EST Update: Paramount Pictures/Marvel Entertainment have provided us with a super high resolution file of the new Red Skull photo. Hit the jump to see the image in high res! One of the big questions about Joe Johnston’s Captain America: The First Avenger was concerned with how Hugo Weaving would look in makeup as villain The Red Skull....

Keke Palmer In Talks To Join Marvel’s Runaways By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 30, 2010 11:30 am EST Last we heard, Marvel Studios big screen adaptation of Brian K Vaughan’s Runaways was gearing up to begin production in March 2011 in Los Angeles (being produced under the fake production title “Small Faces”, a reference to the 1960’s-1970’s English rock n roll band which had a song titled Runaways). We heard that Randi Hiller Casting and Sarah Finn Casting were searching for the boys and girls to be cast in the big screen movie, but we have yet to hear a single name… until now....

Liv Tyler Cast In Ti West’s Psychological Sci-Fi Thriller ‘The Side Effect’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 18, 2012 12:00 pm EST Ti West is really moving forward with his next film, the sci-fi tinged thriller The Side Effect. (Which we formerly referred to as The Side Effects, and which I still suspect will get a new title, as Steven Soderbergh is making a movie called Side Effects.) Just days ago we pointed out an interview where West said the film was nearly funded and that he had a lead actor in mind....

Movie Trailer: Aussie Thriller ‘Red Hill’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2010 11:00 am EST Red Hill takes a classic small thriller concept — a few lawmen trying to hold off an aggressive criminal — and looks as if it infuses it with some Western influence and maybe a little touch of noir. Bring in some great cinematography and True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten as a wounded officer just looking for the quiet life, and you just might have something....

New Jonah Hex Poster By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2010 1:56 pm EST There’s been very little Jonah Hex material out there for the past year, but why do I get the idea that after this week we’re going to see a lot of the film? The trailer hits on Thursday and now Warner Bros. has released a new poster, via Yahoo. This image makes relatively clear the idea that the film has comic book origins (or perhaps the character poses and title font just say ‘comic book’ to me) and also looks like it comes from WB’s school of Harry Potter poster design....

New Lucifer Concept Art From Alex Proyas’ ‘Paradise Lost’ By Russ Fischer/July 25, 2011 6:42 am EST Last week we saw a few pieces of concept art for the planned Legendary Pictures version of Paradise Lost, which Alex Proyas will direct with Bradley Cooper playing Lucifer. The art shown at Comic Con isn’t online in high resolution at this point, but the company has released a new piece of concept art teasing the appearance of Lucifer....

Poster Gallery: ‘Alex Cross,’ ‘Taken 2,’ And Two For ‘The Campaign’ By Germain Lussier/June 25, 2012 3:30 pm EST Thanks to IMP Awards for the first two images and Yahoo for the second two, with a hat tip to The Film Stage. Taken 2 is exactly what you’d expect. It’s become a well-known near-franchise and Neeson’s visage with that “two” is more than enough to sell audience on the film. It opens October 5....

Promo Poster: The Whistleblower By Peter Sciretta/May 18, 2010 1:00 pm EST Another promo poster I ran across at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival is a teaser one-sheet for Larysa Kondracki’s The Whistleblower, which stars Rachel Weisz as Kathryn Bolkovac, “a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal.” The drama co-stars Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci and David Strathairn, and is planning for a tentative late 2010 release....

Robbie Pickering To Direct Vampire / Zombie / Alien Pic ‘The Kitchen Sink’ By Angie Han/Feb. 8, 2012 11:00 am EST With zombies, vampires, and aliens all hot in Hollywood right now, why pick one supernatural creature when you can have all three? That seems to be the reasoning behind The Kitchen Sink, a 2010 Black List script that pits humans, zombies, and vampires against an alien invasion. Jonah Hill was in talks to make his directorial debut with the film back in March, but he’s since departed, and now indie director Robbie Pickering is set to take over at the helm....