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Josh Brolin Talks ‘Oldboy’ Remake; Has Chan-Wook Park’s Approval, Confirms Hammerfight And More By Germain Lussier/May 3, 2012 1:00 pm EST Are you nervous that Spike Lee is remaking Oldboy starring Josh Brolin? So is Josh Brolin. The Oscar-nominee was asked about the film at the junket for Men in Black 3 and expressed true passion, knowledge and pause about making the film. He also confirmed the cast we’ve already heard about, Elizabeth Olson and Sharlto Copley, and said he wouldn’t agree to do the film unless original director Chan-wook Park gave his blessing....

Kristin Davis Joins ‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 22, 2010 5:37 pm EST I wonder if Kristin Davis is realizing that it’s a good time to do something that is very explicitly not like Sex and the City. She’s got a couple of projects brewing. One is a single-camera TV series based on the Gretchen Rubin memoir The Happiness Project, which she’ll star in and co-exec produce with Kristin Newman....

Marvel Has Shot A Secret ‘Avengers’ Trailer Featuring Which Villain? By Germain Lussier/March 2, 2011 6:00 pm EST Two very cool, symbiotic pieces of news regarding Joss Whedon’s 2012 film The Avengers have just been revealed. According to Ain’t It Cool News, Marvel has shot some kind of secret teaser trailer for the film that will either either be attached to Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger or both. That’s not particularly surprising since Marvel likes to tack connective bits onto their movies....

Movie Trailer: Howl By Russ Fischer/July 14, 2010 2:00 pm EST On the day that a McSweeney’s parody/recontextualizing of some of Allen Gisnberg’s most famous lines made a little ripple on the internet, it is appropriate that a trailer arrives for Howl, the film that chronicles the creation of the poem Howl and the obscenity trial that eventually followed its publication. James Franco stars as Ginsberg, and just as the film wasn’t widely praised at Sundance (David and Peter didn’t love it) the trailer is only modestly interesting....

Movie Trailer: The Hindi Remake Of ‘Pusher’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 28, 2010 12:36 pm EST Earlier this week while perusing the IMDB listing for Nicolas Winding Refn, I noticed that he’s credited as writer on a Pusher film with a release date of 2010. The third and final Pusher film, I Am the Angel of Death, was released in 2005. Confused, I checked out some info on the film… turns out it’s a UK-based, Hindi remake of Refn’s original Pusher....

Movie Trailer: The Roommate By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 17, 2010 1:00 pm EST Screen Gems has released a movie trailer for their new horror/thriller The Roommate. The film stars Minka Kelly as a college student named Sara who finds her safety jeopardized after she’s assigned to a dorm room with a new roommate, Rebecca (played by Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester). The film co-stars Alyson Michalka (Easy A, Bandslam), Cam Gigandet (Twilight), Matt Lanter (90210, Sorority Row), and Danneel Harris (One Tree Hill, The Back-up Plan)....

New Photo: Lindsay Lohan In Machete By Russ Fischer/July 19, 2010 11:09 am EST But now there’s a photo of Lohan in costume and it’s looks just about how I always imagined the Blues Brothers’ fantasies about their old headmistress might look. If they had such things. Which, of course, being degenerates, they did. Check it in full after the break. To reiterate some basic details, Robert Rodriguez wrote the Machete script and co-directed the movie with his longtime editor Ethan Maniquis....

Nicolas Winding Refn Plans RomCom With Ryan Gosling, Would Cast Christina Hendricks As Wonder Woman By Russ Fischer/June 20, 2011 10:52 am EST Nicolas Winding Refn could own 2011 and 2012. The director has been one of our faves for some time thanks to the Pusher trilogy, Bronson, and Valhalla Rising, and his action thriller Drive, with Ryan Gosling, generated great buzz at Cannes and won Mr. Refn the Best Director prize....

No Jason Bourne In ‘The Bourne Legacy,’ Says Director Tony Gilroy By Russ Fischer/Oct. 9, 2010 4:05 pm EST When we heard that Tony Gilroy would be writing and directing the fourth Bourne film, called The Bourne Legacy, a lot of quesitons came to mind. Chief among them was whether Matt Damon might return as titular hero Jason Bourne. Now Mr. Gilroy has cleared up some of the lingering questions, and put right a few details he didn’t think were properly reported in the first place....

Paramount And Shawn Levy Developing The John Hughes Version Of ‘Mad Max’ By Russ Fischer/June 15, 2012 4:00 pm EST Briefly: Just as Mad Max: Fury Road gears up to start production, Paramount is trying to get in on the post-apocalyptic action. The studio is in talks to buy Brian Duffield’s script Monster Problems, which Shawn Levy will produce. (Levy produced The Watch and directed Date Night, Real Steel and the Night at the Museum films....

Philip Seymour Hoffman Offered Key Role In ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ By Angie Han/June 12, 2012 6:30 am EST Though most of the early casting rumors for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire have focused on handsome fan favorite Finnick Odair, the very first bit of reliable casting news involves a different character altogether — and, at least in my view, a much more exciting name than any we’ve heard so far for Finnick....

POTD: The Real-Life Location Of Big’s Zoltar Is Now A Pepsi Machine By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2011 4:00 pm EST I’ve always been fascinated with visiting the real life locations shown in my favorite movies. However, with my childhood favorites, it is almost always a depressing experience. Times change, renovations happen, and the locations barely look like they did in the movies. Scouting New York visited Rye Playland, an 82-year old waterfront amusement park which was the location of the famous Zoltar machine from the Tom Hanks movie Big....

Reeve Carney Will Play Jeff Buckley For Director Jake Scott By Russ Fischer/Aug. 15, 2011 4:25 pm EST The second Jeff Buckley biopic just found its leading man. (The first is Greetings From Tim Buckley, which has Penn Badgley and Imogen Poots starring, and will chronicle the late singer’s early days, before he rose to minor fame.) This second one is currently untitled, and comes from Jake Scott (Welcome to the Rileys)....

Richard Griffiths Joins ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 27, 2010 11:15 am EST You might feel a fond little glow when hearing the name Richard Griffiths, in which case you’re probably a fan of Withnail & I, Bruce Robinson’s 1987 comedy about two unemployed actors and the retreat they take to the country cottage owned by Withnail’s lecherous Uncle Monty. Richard Griffiths played Monty, and it’s a role that will likely be his best-remembered....

Rumor: Charlize Theron, Vera Farmiga And Kacie Thomas In Contention For ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2010 12:20 pm EST Slow news day, more rumors. This time the wheel has come back around to The Dark Knight Rises, with word that three actresses have either been offered or auditioned for roles in Christopher Nolan’s film. The rumor is good as a conversation starter more for the characters specified than for the names that are very tentatively attached to the roles....

Scott Stuber Options Graphic Novel ‘The Order’, About Young Priests Fighting Evil Forces By Angie Han/Aug. 29, 2012 5:00 am EST It’s fairly common in horror films for haunted families to call on a priest to help fight the forces of evil, and the poor guys often don’t meet such a great end. So perhaps it was just a matter of time before cinematic clergymen started taking matters into their own hands and bringing the fight to the monsters....

Spider-Man Actor Shortlist Features Jamie Bell, Andrew Garfield, Frank Dillane, Josh Hutcherson And Alden Ehrenreich By Russ Fischer/May 26, 2010 4:59 pm EST Since Sony announced a reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, the big question has been: who will play Peter Parker and Spider-Man? Quite a few names have come up, but Sony has denied almost all, and evaded the issue as much as possible. Now a new shortlist has been uncovered, and it features a couple expected names, and a few surprising ones....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Jackass 3, The Walking Dead (Season 1), The Next Three Days, Morning Glory, Four Lions, And More By Adam Quigley/March 8, 2011 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For at least half of its runtime, Four Lions is a relatively good-natured comedy, foremost because its characters seem like relatively good-natured people. This is obviously in spite of the film’s subject matter, which focuses on a group of young Muslim men aspiring to become Jihadi Islamist terrorists....

Trailer: Rob Reiner’s ‘The Magic Of Belle Isle’ Starring Morgan Freeman, Virginia Madsen And Kenan Thompson By Peter Sciretta/April 11, 2012 3:30 pm EST Trailer: Official Synopsis: Reuniting with his director from the hit film, The Bucket List, Morgan Freeman plays Monte Wildhorn, a famous Western novelist whose struggle with alcoholism has sapped his passion for writing. He takes a lakeside cabin for the summer in picturesque Belle Isle, and befriends the family next door—an attractive single mom (Virginia Madsen) and her young daughters—who help him find inspiration again....

Vince Vaughn Developing ‘Brady Bunch’ Reboot For CBS, ‘Raising Hope’ Producer Mike Mariano To Write By Angie Han/July 31, 2012 2:30 pm EST The Collinses came back this summer in the form Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows. The Munsters are gearing up for a small-screen return with Bryan Fuller’s Mockingbird Lane at NBC. But it’s not just monstrous retro families that are making a comeback. The Brady Bunch is now poised for a revival at CBS, with Vince Vaughn on board as co-developer and executive producer....