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Casting Bits: Alison Brie And Lizzy Caplan In ‘Save The Date;’ Jocelin Donahue And Gillian Jacobs In ‘Live At The Foxes Den;’ More For ‘American Reunion’ By Russ Fischer/June 3, 2011 10:30 am EST First thought upon hearing the plot for the just-announced comedy Save the Date: “another goddamn wedding movie?” First thought after seeing the cast: “I can’t believe I’m going to be excited to see another goddamn wedding movie!...

Casting Notes: Adrien Brody In Woody Allen’s Midnight In Paris; Zoe Saldana In Colombiana; Christopher Walken In Wild Oats By Russ Fischer/May 17, 2010 6:52 pm EST Adrien Brody has joined the cast of Midnight in Paris, the upcoming Woody Allen movie with a title that now, sadly, sounds far too much like a sex tape. As is so often the case with Allen, the cast is becoming quite impressive: it already featured Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson, Michael Sheen and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy....

Check Out Every Detail Of The CGI ‘Green Lantern’ Costume By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2011 11:30 am EST The mystery is mostly gone with respect to the all-CGI costume sported by Ryan Reynolds on-screen in Green Lantern. We’ve seen the suit in trailers and posters, and all that remains is to hope that a little bit of last-minute polish has been done to the film so that the mask looks a bit better....

Danny Elfman Scoring Sacha Gervasi’s ‘Hitchcock,’ And ‘Promised Land’ From Gus Van Sant By Russ Fischer/Sept. 13, 2012 12:14 pm EST Two new movies that will bear music from Elfman are Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land, starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski, and Hitchcock, which chronicles the efforts by the Master of Suspense to make Psycho. Both of these projects make total sense given Elfman’s prior output. Elfman and Gus Van Sant have worked together steadily since the mid-’90s, when Elfman and Van Sant did To Die For....

Early Buzz: Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2010 3:23 pm EST Beyond that, some reports have surfaced from the first test screening, and they are overwhelmingly positive. Keep in mind that these reports are based on a version of the film that is not finished — the sound, music and FX were are not done, and the edit will almost certainly change — but if the basic impressions can apply to the finished cut, 127 Hours may be a very interesting picture when released this coming winter....

Exclusive: JJ Abrams’ Super 8 Teaser Trailer Description Revealed By Peter Sciretta/May 6, 2010 12:19 am EST Update: If you want to read more about the project without any Spoiler details from the trailer, head here: Everything We Know About JJ Abrams’ Super 8 (So Far) We have a full description after the jump. But before you read that, let me urge you not to — if you’re seeing Iron Man 2 in the movie theater, why not just wait....

Exclusive: Mondo And Iron Jaiden Create A Poster For Ben Wheatley’s Wild ‘Kill List’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 30, 2012 11:30 am EST As a follow-up to the movie Down Terrace, director Ben Wheatley made the tense and rather strange film Kill List. The picture defies typical categorization, because it blends elements of domestic drama, a hitman thriller and a much weirder sort of suspense story that will, I think, earn a few pleasingly shocked reactions from viewers....

Exhibitors Angry With Disney Because ‘Beauty And The Beast 3D’ Is Already In Stores By Germain Lussier/Jan. 16, 2012 11:19 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Why the disparity? Is it because Beauty and the Beast is less popular than The Lion King? A general 3D backlash? According to angry exhibitors, it might be because consumers can purchase a Blu-ray of Beauty and the Beast 3D right now, as it’s in theaters....

First Look: Chris Evans As Captain America [Concept Images] By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2010 10:01 am EST Since the Captain America movie was first announced, fans have been submitting images of what the Captain’s movie costume could look like. Earlier this week, we even got an informed description of the Captain’s cinematic wardrobe. But reading about a costume can be boring. How about some images? AICN has landed some very official looking concept images showing what Chris Evans will look like in costume in Captain America: The First Avenger....

First Official Look: Seth Rogen And Jay Chou In The Green Hornet By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2010 9:32 am EST We’ve seen quite a few behind the scenes and on-set photos from Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet, starring Seth Rogen as the title character and Jay Chou as his sidekick Kato. Now Sony has released the first two official photos, in advance of the trailer that will premiere tonight. These images are much like the previous non-official ones we’ve seen, but you might want to check ’em out anyway....

Harvey Weinstein Still Hoping To Make ‘Rounders 2’ By Germain Lussier/June 6, 2011 12:30 pm EST So though Rounders was a theatrical bust, the poker boom made it a home video smash, grossing $70 million in profit for Miramax. The film was recently on a list of catalog titles Miramax was hoping to sequelize along with The Weinstein Company and this week Harvey Weinstein himself, a producer of the original movie and former head of the studio that released it, said he’s still trying to get a sequel to Rounders made....

Info & Teaser For Oscar-Eligible Animated Film ‘Wrinkles’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 7, 2011 2:30 pm EST At the end of last week we got the list of eighteen films that are eligible for consideration in the Best Animated Film category at next year’s Oscars. Many films on the list were expected entries, but there were a couple unknowns. One of those is Ignacio Ferreras’ film Wrinkles, which adapts the graphic novel of the same name by Paco Rosa....

Jason Reitman Says ‘Young Adult’ May Be The Most Unlikable Film He’ll Ever Make By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2011 3:30 pm EST Jason Reitman’s next film Young Adult stars Charlize Theron as a young adult novelist who returns to her hometown to try to rekindle the relationship with her high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson), who is happily married with kids. Written by Diablo Cody, the film is said to be nothing like the previous Reitman/Cody collaboration Juno....

New ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Promo Art Showcases The Lizard By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2012 7:00 am EST For most of the past year, the only members of the public who had any real idea what to expect from the villain in Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man were those in attendance at Sony’s panel at Comic Con last year, when the first footage of the Lizard was shown. Over the past couple months we’ve seen images of licensed products that showed a hint of the character, and the full-length trailer revealed quite a bit as well....

R-Rated Puppet Feature Film ‘We R Animals’ Gearing Up For Production By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 7, 2010 10:00 pm EST I must admit, I know almost nothing about We R Animals. Actually… a few minutes ago, I literally knew nothing about the project or it’s existence. What a difference a few minutes makes… This could now be one of my most anticipated films in development. Seriously… Found via Twitch, We R Animals is the debut feature from Thobias Hoffmen....

Ron Howard Attached To Direct Racing Movie ‘Rush’ By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2011 6:56 pm EST Cross one possible project off of Paul Greengrass’ to-do list: Rush, the Formula One film about rival drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Or, more properly, move that project to the to-do list of Ron Howard, because it is now being shopped around with his name attached. The LA Times says that the Peter Morgan script (he also wrote Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon, you’ll recall) now has Ron Howard’s name in the ‘director’ slot, and the project is out to studios....

Rumors: Jamie Foxx Is Frontrunner For ‘Django Unchained’ Lead, Leonardo DiCaprio “Definitely Signed” By Angie Han/June 14, 2011 11:15 am EST One of the hottest films casting at the moment is Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti Western-influenced ‘Southern,’ Django Unchained. Previous Tarantino collaborators Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz are already on board and Leonardo DiCaprio is rumored to join. However, one star that likely won’t be joining the party is Will Smith, who was previously reported as the frontrunner for the title role....

Sam Raimi Commits To ‘Oz The Great And Powerful,’ David Lindsay-Abaire Rewriting By Russ Fischer/Oct. 6, 2010 9:56 am EST Last time we checked in on Sam Raimi’s possible directorial gigs, he was primarily waffling between Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful and his still-in-development World of Warcraft movie, with a possible adaptation of the comic book Earp: Saints for Sinners as a long-range backup plan. Now Raimi has reportedly committed to Oz, which will also have a rewrite from high-profile scribe David Lindsay-Abaire....

Should Wikipedia Articles Contain Movie Spoilers? By David Chen/Sept. 19, 2010 5:01 am EST The NYTimes has an interesting piece up today about whether Wikipedia should contain movie spoilers in its articles. The Times holds up two exemplars of the trend: the Wikipedia articles for Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap and the recently-released documentary Catfish. Is the online encyclopedia justified in including every single plot detail of every movie its contributors care to write about?...

Speculation Swirls Around Marc Webb’s ‘Spider-Man’ Return By Russ Fischer/July 31, 2012 6:30 am EST Webb’s return is looking likely, which wasn’t always the case, but there’s one thing to iron out first. And for what it’s worth, with respect to the actual story content of the next Spidey film, the LAT says that “the idea would be for Webb to continue to build the world, Nolan style,” with Alex Kurzman and Roberto Orci working with Webb and The Amazing Spider-Man screenwriter James Vanderbilt....