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First Look: Merida From Pixar’s ‘Brave’ By Germain Lussier/May 26, 2011 4:46 pm EST Pixar’s first original fairy tale, Brave, is about a young princess named Merida (Kelly Macdonald) who defies her parents and inadvertently brings turmoil to their Kingdom. She must then do whatever is in her power to make things right. Featuring the voices of Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson and Robbie Coltrane the Marc Andrews/Brenda Chapman-directed film is scheduled for release June 22, 2012 and a trailer should be in front of Cars 2....

Geek Deal: ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ On Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Combo Pack For Only $6.99 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 13, 2011 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

By Angie Han/May 18, 2012 9:30 am EST After years of planning, Guillermo Del Toro jump-started his 3D stop-motion animated take on Pinocchio last week when he announced that he’d be co-directing with Mark Gustafson, with production to get underway next summer. Now one of the team’s next steps will be picking out a voice cast. While no one’s locked in just yet, del Toro said he does have a few names in mind....

Javier Bardem Offered Lead In ‘The Dark Tower’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 26, 2011 6:15 pm EST It was just earlier today that we heard Christian Bale might be on the wishlist for the role of Roland Deschain in Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman’s film and TV adaptation of Stephen King’s series The Dark Tower. It seemed odd, given that Mr. Bale will soon have his hands full being Batman for a third and possibly final time....

Joe Wright Developing Live-Action Version Of The Little Mermaid By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2010 9:34 am EST Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid, first published in 1837, has been adapted into a great variety of media. The most famous is Disney’s animated musical of the same name, which helped kickstart the revitilization of Disney animation when it was released to great success in 1989. So any new adaptation of The Little Mermaid is probably going to be seen as a remake of Disney’s movie, whether or not that is really the case....

Johnny Depp’s Company Options Death Row Memoir From Damien Echols Of The West Memphis Three By Russ Fischer/Feb. 7, 2012 11:30 am EST There are four documentaries about the West Memphis Three (three Paradise Lost films and the new West of Memphis) and The Devil’s Knot, a dramatic re-telling of the trio’s story in development with Atom Egoyan set to direct. Now there is one more film about to go into development....

POTD: Clever ‘Mad Men’ Skyscraper Advertisement By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2011 4:30 pm EST New Zealand-based advertising company Draftfcb has taken a clever approach to marketing Mad Men, which begins airing in February on the NZ television network Prime. The advertisement plays of imagery from the show’s opening credit sequence (embedded after the jump, in case you somehow missed it). via: Adsoftheworld / superpunch POTD: Clever ‘Mad Men’ Skyscraper Advertisement...

Release Date Set For Part Two Of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn; Lee Pace Reportedly Cast By Russ Fischer/Aug. 3, 2010 11:59 am EST Briefly: Contain your excitement! Or, if you’re eagerly awaiting the end of the Twilight films, don’t. Rejoice that the end is near. Summit has set a release date for the final film in the series. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 will open in theaters on November 16, 2012....

Russell Crowe May Be Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah;’ Liam Neeson Eyed For Additional Role By Russ Fischer/Feb. 2, 2012 6:00 am EST We’ll probably never see Russell Crowe in a sequel to Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, but what about having Crowe play the commander of another ship in another epic adventure film? How about if he was the commander of the ship — by which I mean Noah, and his ark....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Black Swan, Tangled, Fair Game, Treme (Season 1), And More By Adam Quigley/March 29, 2011 4:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Darren Aronofsky doesn’t want you to experience joy or happiness. He wants to devastate you. He wants to punish you as he does his characters, fully immersing you in every dreary facet of their world as it collapses around them....

Tron Legacy Video Clip: “The Page” By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 27, 2010 9:30 am EST Walt Disney Pictures has released a fourth video clip from Tron Legacy. The first clip featured Quorra (Olivia Wilde) saving Sam (Garrett Hedlund) from possible death, escaping through some off road terrain on a four-wheel Light Runner (one of the new vehicles introduced in the sequel). If you missed that clip, you can watch it here. The second clip, entitled “You’re Here”, showed the reunion between Sam and his father Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), who has been trapped in the computer world of Tron since his childhood....

VOTD: Tom Tykwer And Andy And Lana Wachowski Introduce And Explain ‘Cloud Atlas’ By Russ Fischer/July 27, 2012 9:00 am EST The biggest conversation piece online yesterday was the long trailer for Cloud Atlas, the adaptation of David Mitchell’s novel co-written and co-directed by an unlikely trio: Tom Tykwer, and Andy and Lana Wachowski. Along with the trailer came something we linked yesterday, but which is worth highlighting in its own right: a video introduction from the three writer/directors, in which they explain their attraction to the material and the difficulty they had in getting it made....

Watch 8 Minutes Of Rare On-Set Footage From ‘Jurassic Park’ By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2012 12:00 pm EST You’re probably aware of my love for behind the scenes documentaries which offer real fly on the wall footage from film sets. The new featurettes that come packaged with DVDs and Blu-rays are usually too-polished to offer any interesting footage of the director in action. In recent years we’ve been posting a lot of B-Roll footage from contemporary film productions (like The Avengers)....

‘Chronicle’ Director Josh Trank Signs To Make ‘The Red Star’ By Russ Fischer/March 20, 2012 8:30 am EST Chronicle turned director Josh Trank into a bankable young talent; his name has been cropping up quite a bit in the wake of the success of his small-budget “kids with powers” film. He’s been linked vaguely to a new Fantastic Four movie, and more directly to Sony’s long in-development Venom spin-off from the Spider-Man movies....

‘ImaginOcean,’ A New Animated Series Coming From Jim Henson Company By Germain Lussier/March 27, 2012 1:30 pm EST While we might be waiting a while for the Jim Henson Company to do a Fraggle Rock movie or bring The Muppet Show back to TV, they’ve just signed on to do an animated series. It’s based on a family touring stage production called ImaginOcean, created by John Tartaglia, which follows three fish friends and their underwater sea adventures....

‘Return’ Trailer – Linda Cardellini Is A Woman On The Verge By Angie Han/Jan. 4, 2012 9:00 am EST It’s never quite been clear to me why Linda Cardellini isn’t a bigger star. Cardellini’s talents have been apparent ever since she starred in Paul Feig’s Freaks & Geeks back in 1999, and over the years she’s shown remarkable range in projects ranging from the deadly somber (Brokeback Mountain) to the utterly silly (Legally Blonde, the Scooby-Doo films)....

Bradley Cooper To Play ‘The Crow’ For Juan Carlos Fresnadillo? By Germain Lussier/April 12, 2011 4:05 pm EST A remake of the 1994 film The Crow has been in discussions for years. Mark Wahlberg was at one point going to star, Stephen Norrington was set to direct but, like many projects in Hollywood, it all just sort of went away….until last week. Last week Relativity Media signed 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to direct a remake of the film, based on the comic by James O’Barr....

Casting Bits: Stanley Tucci And Chris Cooper In ‘The Company You Keep’, Nicholas Braun In ‘Neighborhood Watch’, Kerry Bishé In ‘Argo’ By Angie Han/Sept. 13, 2011 3:00 pm EST Stanley Tucci and Chris Cooper have become the latest additions to Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep, a thriller based on the novel by Neil Gordon. The film boasts quite a strong cast already — Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte, Brit Marling, Shia LaBeouf, and Redford himself are all set to star as well....

Cool Stuff: Mondo’s Epic ‘John Carter’ Poster, Available For Free At IMAX Midnight Screenings On Opening Day By Angie Han/Feb. 21, 2012 4:12 pm EST Disney’s John Carter has had a rough go of it on the marketing front — a tracking report leaked last week showed “shockingly” low public interest in the film, and you don’t need statistics to know that the trailers and teasers so far have been kind of a mess....

Damon Lindelof Writes A Love Letter To ‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 1, 2011 7:00 am EST “True love is hard to find. Sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom, blindfolded, like a goddamn magic show.” And while that second sentence has nothing to do with the rest of this article (it’s just one of my favorites, two points if you get the reference) the first one does....