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Rumors: ‘Before Sunset’ Follow-Up Titled ‘Before Midnight’, Currently Shooting In Greece? By Angie Han/Aug. 29, 2012 6:00 am EST Last fall, Ethan Hawke spilled the beans on another potential Before Sunrise sequel, telling a French publication that he, co-star Julie Delpy, and director Richard Linklater had plans to get started on a script. But updates have been slow to trickle down since then. All three have been careful to emphasize that nothing’s set in stone, and until Hawke let slip in June that the plan was to shoot this summer we had only the vaguest idea of when cameras might roll....

Sci-Fi Updates Being Developed Of ‘Heart Of Darkness’ And ‘The Count Of Monte Cristo’ By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2011 9:03 pm EST It’s probably too early to say that adapting classic stories into futuristic sci-fi tales is going to be the new Snow White, Wizard of Oz or even WikiLeaks trend. I mean, it’s just coincidence that a sci-fi ‘update’ of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness was announced yesterday and today we have a very similar new version of The Count of Monte Cristo announced, right?...

Spike Jonze’s Arcade Fire Collaboration Is A Sci-Fi B-Movie Short Film By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2010 2:00 pm EST In April, we broke the news that Spike Jonze (Where The Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich) was casting a secret film project in Austin Texas. At the time, we didn’t know much about the project other than it was supposedly a short film that tells a story which involves “friends growing apart” and that it was a collaboration with the band Arcade Fire....

The ‘Ninja Turtles’ May Fight Like Characters In ‘The Raid’ By Russ Fischer/June 18, 2012 11:00 am EST Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, and that suggests that some people working on the new TMNT film really, really like Gareth Evans’ film The Raid. The Indonesian martial-arts action picture is built on fight scenes that draw on pencak silat, the collective martial arts style of Indonesia. Choreographed by Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhian, The Raid features some of the best fight scenes since Ong Bak, with fast, joint-shattering and face-breaking violence....

The Coen Brothers’ ‘True Grit’ Moved Up Three Days By Germain Lussier/Nov. 2, 2010 4:00 pm EST With Christmas falling on a Saturday this year, Paramount just announced they’ll move their tentpole holiday release True Grit, directed by the Coen Brothers and starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld, up three days to December 22. It’ll now be in direct competition with Gulliver’s Travels starring Jack Black and Little Fockers with Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson and Jessica Alba....

The Next Terminator Film Could Be The Animated ‘Terminator 3000’, From Tiny Film Company Hannover House By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2010 11:50 pm EST Arkansas-based Hannover House is a company that seemed to come out of nowhere early this year, when it picked up the distribution rights to Joel Schumacher’s Twelve. (Er, good call on that one. Ahem.) Now the company claims to be moving forward with a new production venture in conjunction with Red Bear entertainment: Terminator 3000, “a $70-million dollar budgeted, 3D animated feature film based on the characters and situations introduced in the original Terminator....

VOTD: Star Wars In Two Minutes, Animated In Construction Paper By Russ Fischer/Oct. 6, 2010 11:54 am EST Someone is likely to call this Wes Anderson’s Star Wars. Jeremy Messersmith wrote a nice little song called ‘Tatooine,’ and he persuaded Eric Power to craft a video for the tune. The result is a two-minute recap of the original Star Wars trilogy, animated using construction paper. The result is rather charming, with a couple of nice transitions between the story events of the three films....

Warner Bros Responds: 17 Minutes Of “Lost” ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Footage Found? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 20, 2010 5:00 pm EST Last week it was reported that 17 minutes of lost footage from Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey was uncovered in a salt-mine vault in Kansas. Warner Bros. has now released a statement regarding the “found” footage. Here is Warner Bros statement: “The additional footage from 2001: A Space Odyssey has always existed in the Warner vaults....

Watch Terry Gilliam’s Short Film ‘The Legend Of Hallowdega’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2010 9:26 am EST It’s a strange world. If you’d told me that one day I’d be watching Dale Earnhardt, Jr. introduce a short NASCAR film directed by Terry Gilliam, I can’t imagine I’d have taken the idea seriously. And yet here’s the online presentation of The Legend of Hallowdega, an 18-minute film in which the secret, possibly spooky past of the Talladega Speedway is explored....

Watch The Robot-Free First Clip From ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ By Germain Lussier/May 18, 2011 2:56 pm EST If anyone who watched the latest trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon thought it had too much action in it, today is your lucky day. Yahoo has the first full scene from the film and it’s totally devoid of action. Or robots. Or walls with color on them. In the scene called “My Secret Weapon” we see Sam’s (Shia LaBeouf) totally out of his league girlfriend Carly (Rosie Huntington-Whitely) introducing him to her boss Dylan Gould (Patrick Dempsey)....

WTF: New Images From ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark’ Are Defiantly Bizarre By Russ Fischer/Nov. 15, 2010 11:45 am EST You’ve heard of ’throwing good money after bad,’ and no project seems to better embody that old saying than Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. The $60m musical has been pushed, re-cast, re-designed and is finally nearing an opening preview date in advance of a 2011 Broadway run. But if these images are anything to go by, there might have been a point in the production’s turbulent history at which someone should have just said, “you know what?...

‘Attack The Block’ Director Joe Cornish Set To Adapt Neal Stephenson Novel ‘Snow Crash’ By Germain Lussier/June 14, 2012 5:27 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Cornish has just committed to write and direct Snow Crash, based on the best-selling breakthrough novel by Neal Stephenson, which will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall at Paramount. Snow Crash takes place in a futuristic world run by corrupt corporations, where a deadly computer virus/street drug is circling across the world....

‘Get Low’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/April 19, 2010 12:54 pm EST Get Low, which features Bill Murray as a scheming funeral director hired by an irascible hermit (Robert Duvall) to stage his own funeral while alive, did well at the Toronto Film Festival and was quickly bought by Sony Pictures Classics. Now there’s a trailer for the odd-looking comedy. Word out of TIFF was that Duvall’s performance was outstanding, with great supporting work from Murray, Sissy Spacek and Lucas Black....

‘Godzilla’ Teaser Poster And Footage Description [Comic-Con 2012] By Russ Fischer/July 14, 2012 3:52 pm EST Legendary Pictures showed off two giant monster movies today in Hall H at the San Diego Comic Con. One was expected — Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim, which we’ll have a report on very soon from Angie Han. The other wasn’t exactly unexpected, but the appearance of Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla wasn’t confirmed until teaser footage rolled....

‘Hanna’ International Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2011 2:30 pm EST Focus Features has released a new international movie trailer for Joe Wright’s Hanna, which stars Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones) as a 16-year-old killing machine in. Saoirse plays the title character in Hanna, who has been “raised from childhood to be the perfect assassin by her ex-CIA man father (Eric Bana) in rural Finland.” Wright is probably best known for his period dramas Atonement and Pride & Prejudice....

‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ Teaser Trailer By Germain Lussier/June 28, 2011 5:15 pm EST Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is watch the first official trailer from Brad Bird’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Scheduled for release December 16, the film stars Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner, with Paula Patton, Josh Holloway, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Michael Nyqvist, Anil Kapoor, Lea Seydoux and Vladimir Mashkov. Check out the trailer after the jump....

‘Skyfall’ Domestic Poster Is Minimal And Slick By Germain Lussier/Sept. 13, 2012 5:00 pm EST James Bond’s latest adventure, Skyfall, is surely one of fall’s most anticipated films. Academy Award winning director Sam Mendes takes the reins to tell the story of how Bond (Daniel Craig) is forced to defend MI6 when M’s (Judi Dench) “past comes back to haunt her.” The official U.S. one sheet has just been revealed and, like Bond himself, it’s simple, sleek and cool....

‘The Sitter’ Red Band Trailer, Adventures In Babysitting Meets Superbad Starring Jonah Hill By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 4, 2011 2:00 pm EST A couple years ago, I had a chance to read an early draft I read was pretty great. The Adventures in Babysitting comparison is good, as it is basically an R-rated version of that film. And you’ll see a taste of that in this uncensored trailer. I should also note that the trailer features a one-minute introduction from Hill, alongside the film’s child cast saying, as you might imagine, completely inappropriate things....

‘The Woman In Black’ UK Trailer Offers Fewer Creepy Monkey Toys, More Plot By Angie Han/Oct. 14, 2011 11:00 am EST The last trailer we saw for The Woman in Black was heavy on atmosphere but light on plot, deploying shots of run-down toys, some mysterious little girls, and a terrified-looking Daniel Radcliffe to set an effectively creepy mood. The newer UK trailer is somewhat more straightforward, offering fewer shots of eerie monkey toys but a much better idea of the actual story....

26 New Photos/Concept Art From Tron Legacy By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2010 6:55 pm EST Last week we posted a batch of new concept photos and concept art from Tron Legacy. It turns out there were a lot of concept art images and renderings that we missed. Check them out, after the jump. Click on the images to enlarge as each one is in high resolution. .gallery { margin: auto; } ....