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Casting Bits: Amy Adams In Steve Martin Adaptation ‘An Object Of Beauty’, Philip Seymour Hoffman In ‘A Most Wanted Man’ By Angie Han/Feb. 7, 2012 2:30 pm EST Amy Adams will make her first foray into producing with An Object of Beauty, Maven Pictures’ adaptation of the novel by Steve Martin. (Yes, that Steve Martin.) Adams will star as Lacey Yeager, an ambitious young woman climbing up the ranks of the art world....

Casting Bits: Kristen Stewart Confirmed As Snow White, Andrew Garfield And Ewan McGregor Attached To Two Different Bank Robbery Films, Alec Baldwin Signs On For ‘Rock Of Ages’ By Angie Han/March 5, 2011 4:47 pm EST It’s been rumored for the past month or so that Kristen Stewart would be starring in Snow White and the Huntsman, one of three Snow White-themed films in the works, and we finally have confirmation....

Check Out The Latest ‘Brave’ Poster; New Trailer Coming Thursday By Germain Lussier/Feb. 22, 2012 5:00 pm EST A third trailer for Pixar’s 2012 film, Brave, will hit Apple’s Movie Trailer site sometime on Thursday and to get everyone excited, they’ve exclusively revealed a new poster. Check out the full image after the jump and check back tomorrow for the trailer. Thanks to Apple for this poster. Brave, directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman featuring the voices of Kelly MacDonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Julie Walters, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson and Robbie Coltrane, is scheduled for release June 22....

Cool Stuff: Mondo’s Comic-Con Posters Featuring ‘Lord Of The Rings,’ ‘Princess Mononoke,’ ‘Creature From The Black Lagoon’ And More By Germain Lussier/July 17, 2012 7:00 am EST On Wednesday, you knew it was going to be big. Game of Thrones and two different posters for The Dark Knight Rises were just the tip of the iceberg. The Mondo Booth at San Diego Comic-Con 2012 was a must visit during the convention, featuring hundreds of eager fans rabidly anticipating the next of several random surprise releases....

Cool Stuff: The 2012 BAFTA Best Film Brochure Covers By Germain Lussier/Feb. 6, 2012 6:00 am EST The Oscars aren’t for a few weeks but the BAFTA’s are Sunday February 12. And while the Oscars are usually symbolized by that iconic gold statue, each year the BAFTA’s let artists interpret their Best Picture nominees. This year is no different. After the jump, check out the five images designed by Eda Akaltun & StudioSmall for The Artist, The Descendants, Drive, The Help and Tinker Sailor Soldier Spy for the British Association of Film and Television Awards....

Disney Ready To Let ‘Lone Ranger’ Back On The Range By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2011 5:00 pm EST Are you tired of the back and forth, ‘maybe they will, maybe they won’t’ non-action on Disney’s Lone Ranger? If so, you might be in luck, at least if the idea of the movie happening still seems like a good idea. The studio looks like it is ready to re-commit to the project with Jerry Bruckheimer, Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp....

Disney Steps Up Efforts To Bring Marvel Characters To Disneyland By Germain Lussier/June 15, 2012 9:00 am EST When a movie makes one and a half billion dollars, it’s going to change a few things. In the case of The Avengers, which is now up to $575 million domestically and $1.4 billion overall, Disney has been happily struggling to catch up to its runaway success. This means more expensive Marvel movies, more merchandise, rumored re-releases and heavy theme park integration....

Emma Stone In Talks For ‘Gangster Squad’ By Russ Fischer/July 26, 2011 6:30 pm EST Briefly: One of Emma Stone’s biggest breaks was being cast in Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland. Superbad was a good introduction for many audiences, but Zombieland led to Easy A and Spider-Man. Now she’s likely to re-team with the director for his true-life 1940s LA cops and mobsters film Gangster Squad.Variety says Emma Stone is in talks to be " Jean, a sharp-tongued siren caught in a love triangle with [Ryan] Gosling’s character and Sean Penn, who portrays famed mobster Mickey Cohen....

Exclusive: ‘Attack The Block’ Poster (And Early Buzz) By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2011 12:00 pm EST IGN: “Take the hoodie horror, stick it in a blender with Critters and The Warriors, add a dash of jet-black humour, get John Carpenter to flick the switch and you’ve got something approaching the insane brilliance of Attack the Block.“UGO: “I’ve seen this year’s District 9 and it is called Attack The Block. If you mixed Gremlins with Season Four of The Wire, set it in a Conquest of the Planet of the Apes-like location and gave it some of Edgar Wright’s visual pizzaz, that’s only part of what’s happening in this picture....

First Look: Jeremy Renner As Aaron Cross In ‘The Bourne Legacy’ By Angie Han/Jan. 5, 2012 8:15 pm EST It’s been over a year since we learned that Matt Damon would not be reprising his role as Jason Bourne in the fourth installment of the film series, The Bourne Legacy, and about nine or so months since Jeremy Renner was announced as the new face of the franchise. Now, with about seven months to go until the spy thriller hits theaters, we finally have our first look at its new hero, killer agent Aaron Cross....

Joe Wright’s ‘Anna Karenina’ Welcomes Saoirse Ronan, Kelly Macdonald, Olivia Williams And More By Germain Lussier/June 4, 2011 8:55 am EST After taking a break to make the kick-ass action flick Hanna, Joe Wright is back to his classically literary tricks. The director of Pride and Prejudice and Atonement will return to costumed drama for his next film, a star-studded adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina. Already cast are Keira Knightley as the title character, Jude Law as her older husband and Aaron Johnson as her younger love....

Jose Padilha’s New Film ‘Tri-Border’ Rivals Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Triple Frontier’ By Russ Fischer/May 25, 2011 4:00 pm EST Here’s how things work now: if you have an idea, you’d best either keep it to yourself, or just get it made immediately. Otherwise, someone will step in and do it for you. These days, it isn’t just that companies look for idea with proven audience appeal; they look for stories that other filmmakers want to make, which implies some potential audience appeal....

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ryan Gosling Or Alexander Skarsgard Could Join Steven Soderbergh’s ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 16, 2011 7:00 am EST When George Clooney leaves a project, it’s generally not a good thing. Especially if the film is being directed by one of his best friends and frequent collaborators, Steven Soderbergh. That’s exactly what happened a few weeks ago, though, when Clooney pulled out of Warner Bros. remake of the 1960s television show The Man From U....

LOL: Improv Everywhere’s Ghostbusters Prank In The New York Public Library By Peter Sciretta/May 18, 2010 5:28 am EST Improv Everywhere decided to recreate the opening scene from Ghostbusters in the main reading room of the New York Public Library. “The New York Public Library approached us about a month ago and asked if we would want to stage an Improv Everywhere mission on their property. The library is facing serious budget cuts, and they thought having us do something awesome there might serve to remind people of how great the NYPL is....

Mark Wahlberg Reuniting With ‘Contraband’ Director Baltasar Kormakur On ‘2 Guns’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 3, 2011 5:00 pm EST Briefly: The film 2 Guns is one of the most recent films to line up Mark Wahlberg as a lead actor. The movie is about two undercover law officers who end up investigating each other, with each failing to realize that the other is a lawman. There was a point when Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn were going to be in the film, and David O....

Patrick Warburton Cast In Seth MacFarlane’s ‘Ted’ By Russ Fischer/April 19, 2011 6:30 pm EST Patrick Warburton, who will always be Puddy to some, and will always be The Tick to me, has been a part of Seth MacFarlane’s show Family Guy since the beginning. So I’m surprised to see that it has taken so long for him to be cast in Ted, Mr. McFarlane’s live-action/CGI hybrid comedy in which Mark Wahlberg has to deal with the adult aftereffects of wishing his teddy bear to life....

Read The First Chapter Of Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2010 1:00 pm EST You might recognize the title because it is the same title of a “illustrated novel” announced back in February, written by Kosinski with art by Andree Wallin.At Comic-Con, Radical Comics distributed a preview chapter from the upcoming graphic novel. I was unable to get a copy on the show floor, but thankfully the book has turned up online for everyone to check out....

Rebecca Hall In Talks For Female Lead In ‘Iron Man 3’ By Germain Lussier/May 8, 2012 6:15 pm EST After Oscar-nominee Jessica Chastain passed on the role, writer/director Shane Black is now likely to cast Rebecca Hall as the female lead in Marvel’s first post Avengers film, Iron Man 3. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Pearce and Ben Kingsley, Iron Man 3 will begin production in North Carolina this month leading toward a May 3, 2013 release date....

Reese Witherspoon And Ryan Reynolds Attached To Tim Burton-Produced Art Biopic ‘Big Eyes’ By Angie Han/Jan. 23, 2012 10:00 am EST Considering that each of them has done their fair share of bland romantic comedies, it’s a little surprising that Ryan Reynolds and Reese Witherspoon have never starred together. But the two are set to collaborate at last in Big Eyes, an art biopic that’s decidedly not a romcom. Produced by Tim Burton, the film centers around married couple Margaret and Walter Keane....

RZA, Misty Upham And Anthony LaPaglia Join Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 2, 2011 5:15 pm EST Quentin Tarantino continues to fill his upcoming film, Django Unchained, with a sprinkling of his regulars and a great many excellent actors you’d never expect to play in his universe. For example he’s just cast the RZA, who scored both Kill Bill films for Tarantino, in a small role as a mean slave named Thaddeus....