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New ‘Terra Nova’ Promo Welcomes You To Paradise By Angie Han/March 21, 2011 4:00 pm EST [via Blastr] Though it has yet to air a single episode, the show has already had a notoriously rocky production history. The show was initially intended to launch late last year, but found its release date pushed back to spring 2011 and then fall 2011. Executive producer David Fury walked away from the show in September due to “creative differences,” and the remaining producers fired most of the writers in November....

Nikki Reed And Deborah Ann Woll Cast In Catch .44 By Russ Fischer/July 1, 2010 11:56 am EST Nikki Reed from Thirteen has one of the most horrifying scenes in this week’s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, when she recounts her character’s backstory. (Spoiler: it involves gang rape, and the scene is particularly horrifying because it is part of the film’s program to define a skewed vision of sexuality for a young audience....

Oscar-Winning Composer Trent Reznor To Score And Act In ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ By Germain Lussier/March 3, 2011 11:00 am EST When it was announced that Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor would be scoring David Fincher’s The Social Network, it was considered a highly unlikely choice. Over a year later, Oscar in hand, Reznor’s next film seems like a much more logical fit. While he and partner Atticus Ross are currently scoring Fincher’s follow-up, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Badass Digest reports that Reznor will follow that up by not only scoring, but acting in, Timur Bekmambetov’s adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter....

Red Band Movie Trailer: ‘Your Highness’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2010 4:36 pm EST Universal Pictures has released a new restricted NSFW Red Band Movie Trailer for Pineapple Express helmer David Gordon Green’s fantasy comedy Your Highness, which stars Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel, Justin Theroux, and Toby Jones. Ben Best wrote the script with McBride, which tells the story of “an arrogant, lazy prince (McBride) who must complete a quest to save his father’s kingdom....

Richard Linklater Has Three Years Of Shooting Left With Child Actor On ‘Boyhood’ By Angie Han/June 21, 2011 3:00 pm EST Richard Linklater has put out several films over the last decade — School of Rock, Before Sunset, Me and Orson Welles and the upcoming Bernie, just to name a few — but during all that time, he’s been slowly working on another, quietly epic project as well. Linklater began shooting Boyhood (formerly called Growing Up) back in 2002, following one young actor (Ellar Salmon) as he ages naturally from first grade to the start of college....

Sarah Polley To Adapt Margaret Atwood’s 19th Century Murder Tale ‘Alias Grace’ By Angie Han/Jan. 5, 2012 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I haven’t seen Take This Waltz yet, but the perfectly subtle way Polley approached Away From Her (an adaptation of Alice Munro’s story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”) suggests that she could do a great deal with material as rich and complex as Atwood’s take on Marks’ tale....

Sequel Bits: Men In Black 3, The Muppets 2, Catching Fire, Wrath Of The Titans, Hangover III, 300 Sequel By Germain Lussier/March 22, 2012 2:30 pm EST Music, release dates, expanded roles, clips and interviews. It’s all in this edition of Sequel Bits. After the jump read about: Pitbull, not Will Smith, will be doing the theme song to Men in Black III. A nation weeps. Liam Hemsworth talks about how his expanded role in The Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire, didn’t change this performance plus Expendables 2....

The JustifiedCast S3E09 - Loose Ends (GUEST: Joanna Robinson From Pajiba) By David Chen/March 15, 2012 10:18 pm EST Dave Chen chats with Joanna Robinson from Pajiba about this season’s ninth episode, “Loose Ends.” What loose ends need tying up exactly, and by who? Tune in to find out. E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at justifiedcast@gmail.com. You can find every episode of the show at justifiedcast....

VOTD: Inception/Toy Story 3 Mash-Up By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2010 10:00 am EST What would you get if you mashed up two of this Summer’s most anticipated yet completely different films: Christopher Nolan’s Inception and Pixar’s Toy Story 3? ScreenRant’s video editor extraordinaire Mike Eisenberg has edited the movie trailer mash-up so that you no longer need to imagine the results. Watch it now, embedded after the jump. VOTD: Inception/Toy Story 3 Mash-Up...

Warner Brothers First Studio To Offer Full Movies On Facebook By Germain Lussier/March 8, 2011 4:00 am EST “Facebook has become a daily destination for hundreds of millions of people,” said Thomas Gewecke, President of Warner Bros. Digital Distribution in a press release “Making our films available through Facebook is a natural extension of our digital distribution efforts. It gives consumers a simple, convenient way to access and enjoy our films through the world’s largest social network....

‘Age Of The Dragons’ Trailer – It’s ‘Moby Dick’, But With Dragons! By Adam Quigley/March 3, 2011 2:00 pm EST A couple of weeks ago we gave you an early look at Danny Glover as Captain Ahab in Age of the Dragons (previously titled Dragon Fire), the low-budget reimagining of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick which sees the titular white whale replaced with a white dragon. Now there’s an international trailer for the film, which also stars Vinnie Jones....

‘Dogtooth’ Director Assembling ‘Alps,’ A Darker, More Extreme New Film By Russ Fischer/March 9, 2011 9:00 am EST Dogtooth has been a surprising film over the past year, first shocking audiences at Cannes with a depiction of a family whose dysfunction is more whacked-out than most would think possible, and then blindsiding awards prognosticators when it nabbed a Best Foreighn Language Film Oscar nomination. Now director Yorgos Lanthimos is already in post-production on his follow-up film....

‘Full Monty’ Director Peter Cattaneo To Birth ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 30, 2011 4:30 pm EST Two months ago, Bridesmaids director Paul Feig decided he didn’t want to helm the third Bridget Jones movie, leaving the project without a director. The film had a script and a star-studded returning cast, but was left in search of someone to give it a more “British sensibility.” That person has been found....

‘Restrepo’ Co-Director Tim Hetherington Killed In Libya By Russ Fischer/April 20, 2011 10:45 am EST Much of the news about the killing of both men has come from photographer Andre Liohn’s Facebook page. He was reportedly at the hospital with the two photographers, and posted updates about their deaths. But that Facebook thread is no longer available. Meanwhile, NYT social media editor Lexi Mainland has posted that the AP and APF have confirmed the killings....

‘Se7en’ Screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker Boards David Fincher’s ‘20,000 Leagues Under The Sea’ By Angie Han/Nov. 18, 2011 10:30 am EST Some 16 years after they wowed critics and audiences alike with the serial killer pic Se7en, director David Fincher is set to reunite with screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker. But those hoping for another dark, twisted thriller probably shouldn’t hold their breaths — the project they’ll be collaborating on is Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which Fincher has been attached to since last year....

‘Social Network’ Update: Winklevosses Appealing Settlement By Germain Lussier/Jan. 13, 2011 1:00 pm EST Do you know what’s cooler than $140 million dollars? Anything more. And that’s what Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are trying to get from Facebook, more than the $140 million their initial settlement entitled them too. The twins, who play a major role in David Fincher’s film The Social Network, were back in court this week arguing that they were swindled by their 2008 settlement....

‘Wanderlust’ Trailer - Paul Rudd And Jennifer Aniston Take A Trip By Germain Lussier/Nov. 3, 2011 1:15 pm EST The answer is “yes,” Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston have been in a movie together before. It’s called The Object of My Affection, which was released in 1998. The reason you kind of remembered it existed is that it’s forgettable. Wanderlust doesn’t look forgettable at all. This film is directed by David Wain (Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer) and features the actors on a life affirming journey out of New York City eventually ending up at a very laid back commune filled with colorful characters played by Malin Akerman, Justin Theroux, Joe Lo Truglio and Alan Alda....

A Letter From Pete Docter By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2010 8:00 am EST Have you ever written a famous person a letter and not gotten a response? Yeah, me neither – who has the time, really? But I always find it interesting what kind of people actually response. A young man named Adam wrote a letter to Pete Docter, director of Pixar’s Monsters Inc and Up, in 2008 asking for a signed photo....

Back To The Future: Designing 2015 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2010 1:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Watch the clip embedded after the jump. In exactly five years from today, we may have hovercrafts, Mr. Fusion and flying taxis as October 21, 2015 is the date that Marty McFly arrives in Hill Valley in BACK TO THE FUTURE II.

Captain America’s Reunion With Peggy Carter Was Cut From ‘The Avengers’ By Angie Han/April 13, 2012 7:00 am EST One of the most heart-wrenching moments in last summer’s Captain America: The First Avenger came near the end, when (SPOILER ALERT, obviously) Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) promises Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) a date that he fails to make because he sacrifices himself to save the world. When he wakes up in 2012, their scheduled appointment, of course, has long since passed....