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Scarlett Johansson & James D’Arcy To Star In ‘Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho’ By Germain Lussier/March 2, 2012 6:00 am EST The other two leads, who’ll play the leads of Psycho itself, have also just been cast. Scarlett Johansson will play Janet Leigh and James D’Arcy (Master and Commander, W.E.) will play Anthony Perkins. Read more after the jump. Variety broke the news of this casting and compare the film to My Week With Marilyn, meaning Searchlight is hoping the film does for Johansson what that film did for star Michelle Williams....

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ Trailer Premieres On September 13 By Russ Fischer/Sept. 4, 2012 3:59 pm EST Hey, remember Google+? The company wants you to remember that the social networking/info sharing service exists, and is using Steven Spielberg and his trailer for Lincoln to do it. When the film’s poster (cropped above) showed up online we figured the trailer might only be a couple days away. In fact we have to wait just a bit longer than that, but not by a whole lot....

Terrence Malick: ‘The Tree Of Life’ Storyboards Reveal Cain & Abel Scenes; Actors Talk Upcoming Films By Russ Fischer/Jan. 2, 2012 2:00 pm EST Awards and top ten lists and all of that be damned: months after its release people are still talking about Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, and with good reason. Dispute the effectiveness of the bookending Sean Penn sequences, sure, but the core of the movie is a powerful family story that works precisely because of Malick’s characteristic approach....

The Batmobile In Arthur? By Adam Quigley/July 8, 2010 4:30 pm EST You may have thought you saw the last of Batman Forever’s rendition of the Batmobile (because, honestly, why wouldn’t you have?), but it looks as though it will have one last hurrah in Warner Bros. upcoming Arthur remake, which began shooting today in downtown Manhattan. For those who don’t recall, the original Arthur came out in 1981, and starred Dudley Moore as a booze-happy playboy who’s the heir to a vast fortune—one which he’s at risk of losing when he falls for a woman his family doesn’t like....

VOTD: ‘The Real Goodfella,’ A Documentary About The Late Henry Hill By Russ Fischer/June 18, 2012 3:30 pm EST Movies have a way of elevating even the most dastardly subject. Martin Scorsese’s film Goodfellas, based on the life of gangster turned federal informant Henry Hill, doesn’t try to turn Hill into an anti-hero, but the liveliness and energy of the film almost ensured that some people would see it the wrong way regardless....

VOTD: How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2011 6:00 am EST Check out this vintage Disney-produced short informational documentary How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made which shows how the the studio created the first animated feature film ever produced. The documentary played before feature films in 1939. via: Open Culture VOTD: How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2011 6:00 am EST Check out this vintage Disney-produced short informational documentary How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made which shows how the the studio created the first animated feature film ever produced....

By Germain Lussier/Oct. 14, 2010 9:00 am EST Here’s the new video: Set Your Flux Capacitor to Scream 2010 | SpikeTV | SPIKE.com And here’s the original teaser trailer that it’s re-imagining: How bad ass is that? Though most of us mock award shows, especially ones on cable, the Spike TV Scream Awards are actually kind of fun. Sure they don’t really mean anything, but you get to see awesome people and awards given in categories that we actually have something invested in....

Watch The Trailer For ‘Iron Sky:’ Nazis Attack From The Moon By Russ Fischer/Jan. 25, 2012 12:00 pm EST Germany isn’t all that keen on movies that could possible promote Nazi sensibility. While the tongue-in-cheek sci-fi war movie Iron Sky, in which Nazis attack Earth from a secret base housed on the dark side of the moon, can’t possibly be construed as a pro-Nazi movie, it is still a bit remarkable that the film will premiere next month at the Berlin Film Festival....

Watch THR’s Hour Long Interview With 2011’s Award-Worthy Producers By Germain Lussier/Dec. 16, 2011 7:00 am EST We’ve posted the directors, actors, actresses, writers and now it’s time for the people who bring them all together. Every year during awards season, The Hollywood Reporter organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress, writer and director of the year’s best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty spectacular....

Zoe Kravitz & Sophie Okonedo Join The Smith Family In ‘After Earth’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 6, 2011 12:30 pm EST M. Night Shyamalan’s next film, After Earth, came pre-packaged with its two leads: Will and Jaden Smith. The pair will play a father-son duo whose spaceship crash lands on Earth 1,000 years after humans were forced to leave the planet. Now The Hollywood Reporter says the ladies in their lives are close to being cast and they’ll be played by Zoe Kravitz, who was recently seen in X-Men First Class, and Sophie Okonedo, best known for her Oscar-nominated work in Hotel Rwanda....

‘Catfish’ Filmmakers To Adapt ’70s Satire ‘The Monkey Wrench Gang’ By Russ Fischer/May 7, 2012 3:00 pm EST Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, who made the Sundance 2010 hit/talking point Catfish, and went on to direct Paranormal Activity 3, are now set to write and direct The Monkey Wrench Gang. The film is an adaptation of a 1975 novel by Edward Abbey that has been in development for over a decade....

‘Dream House’ Trailer: Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz And Murder By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2011 11:44 am EST The years since Jim Sheridan’s great film In America have been filled with a couple of strange choices: the 50 Cent movie Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, and the remake of Susanne Bier’s Brothers. (The latter being a film I liked in part, but the idea of remaking it still seems like a strange choice....

‘Prometheus’ International Trailer By Russ Fischer/Feb. 16, 2012 4:00 pm EST An international trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus arrived today, and at first I decided not to post it because there isn’t a single frame of new footage in it, as far as I can tell. In fact, there’s less here, because this version of the trailer features no text to obscure the images. But watching it again in HD I realized that might be a good thing for some viewers — this is the same great trailer, same footage, same edit, same audio, but without the title slowly appearing on the screen, and with no tagline-filled cards between the edits....

‘The Pirates! Band Of Misfits’ Trailer: Aardman Animation’s High-Seas Stop-Motion Adventure By Russ Fischer/July 14, 2011 4:12 pm EST Aardman Animation doesn’t just have the CGI holiday film Arthur Christmas to release in the next year. The company also has the stop-motion The Pirates! Band of Misfits, based in part on Gideon Defoe’s book The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists. The cast was announced not long ago, and is a thing of beauty: Hugh ‘News of the World Killer’ Grant, Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Brian Blessed, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen....

Benicio Del Toro And James Franco Confirmed For ‘The Iceman,’ Starring Michael Shannon By Russ Fischer/Jan. 20, 2011 6:30 pm EST People really want to make movies about mob hitman Richard ’the Ice Man’ Kuklinski. Mickey Rourke has been attached to The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer for some time. But last November we heard about a rival film: The Iceman, with Michael Shannon playing Kuklinski and possible support from Benicio del Toro and James Franco....

Bryan Cranston Says A ‘Breaking Bad’ Movie Sequel Is “Not Far-Fetched” By Angie Han/June 18, 2012 3:00 pm EST It seems like no beloved show comes to a conclusion these days without sparking at least a few movie-sequel rumors, and apparently Breaking Bad is no exception. As the acclaimed AMC drama heads into its fifth and final season, star Bryan Cranston has teased the possibility of reviving Walter White for the big screen somewhere down the road....

Casey Affleck Directing Biopic Of Home Run Champion Josh Hamilton By Germain Lussier/June 22, 2012 2:30 pm EST Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton is probably the best hitter in baseball today, which is incredible considering a few years ago his grandmother caught him smoking crack after squandering millions of dollars. His fall from grace and rise back to stardom is the stuff of Hollywood legend and now his story will become just that....

Casting Bits: Brendan Fraser In Neil Labute’s Next; Kevin James Re-Teams With ‘Zookeeper’ Director For MMA Film By Russ Fischer/Jan. 11, 2011 10:29 am EST Years ago, the idea of Brendan Fraser working with Neil LaBute would have been appealing. In 1998 it would have been the guy from Gods & Monsters being directed by the firebrand behind Your Friends and Neighbors. Good stuff. Now, well, it’s the guy from Furry Vengeance directed by the guy behind The Wicker Man....

Casting Bits: Vanessa Hudgens & Brendan Fraser In ‘Gimme Shelter;’ Laura Vandervoort In ‘Ted;’ Anthony Mackie Rumored For Two Films By Russ Fischer/May 2, 2011 2:00 pm EST The indie drama Gimme Shelter will go into production at the end of this month in Connecticut, and it has Brendan Fraser set to star, with Vanessa Hudgens now likely appearing as well. Ron Krauss wrote and will direct; the film follows a pregnant homeless girl (Hudgens’ role) who “flees her abusive mother and seeks out her biological father....

Clips: Aubrey Plaza Seeks Weapons In ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’, Taylor Kitsch Wishes For Brooklyn Decker In ‘Battleship’ By Angie Han/April 20, 2012 7:00 am EST If Safety Not Guaranteed and Battleship seem like opposites in every way, it’s probably because they are. One is an offbeat indie that’s drawn glowing reviews on the film festival circuit; the other is a big, splashy blockbuster that’s been likened to Michael Bay’s Transformers. But both have just released new clips in preparation for their summer bows, so I’ve decided to arbitrarily lump them together....