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Ed Helms’ Tyson Tattoo Might Be Digitally Removed From ‘The Hangover Part II’ By Germain Lussier/June 9, 2011 11:30 am EST When The Hangover Part II comes to Blu-ray and DVD in December, a major running joke could be totally different. There is an ongoing lawsuit between between Warner Bros. and tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill, the man who designed Mike Tyson’s famous face tattoo referenced in the film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, if the lawsuit isn’t settled, the studio plans to digitally remove Ed Helms’ Tyson tattoo from the packaging and film itself....

First Look: ‘The Last Airbender: The Legend Of Korra;’ Cast Announced By Germain Lussier/March 7, 2011 6:30 pm EST Before you get all nervous, The Last Airbender: The Legend of Korra is a not a sequel to M. Night Shyamalan’s multiple Razzie award winning (or is it losing) film The Last Airbender. It is, however, a sequel to the wildly popular and critically acclaimed animated television show Avatar: The Last Airbender on which that crappy film was based....

By Germain Lussier/Oct. 12, 2010 9:15 pm EST Vulture, once again, got the exclusive insider report on Fox’s reaction to Lindelof’s script. In addition to everything said above the jump, they talked to an insider who made it clear that a PG-13 Alien movie isn’t necessarily a bad thing: That’s certainly a good point. We already know that this film will be set about 35 years before Ripley and the Nostromo ever land on LV-426 and will explain the Space Jockey that the crew comes upon before John Hurt’s character Kane is implanted by the Face Hugger....

Lisa Cholodenko May Direct ‘Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’ By Russ Fischer/May 4, 2011 4:15 pm EST Lisa Cholodenko (High Art, Laurel Canyon) won an Oscar nomination for her direction of The Kids Are All Right, but since the end of last year the only project to which she has been really attached is a simmering HBO show about which we know very little. Now she is reportedly in talks to direct a very unexpected project: an adaptation of the kids’ book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day....

M Night Shyamalan Joins Twitter And Facebook By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 29, 2011 3:30 pm EST Say what you will about M Night Shyamalan, but one thing this filmmaker isn’t is up to date on the latest promotional services offered by the internet. He only joined the web two years ago with a untraditional explorable haunted mansion website MNightShyamalan.com. And now M Night has finally decided to open up Twitter and Facebook accounts....

Movie Trailer: ‘Blue Valentine,’ Which Gets NC-17 Rating By Germain Lussier/Oct. 8, 2010 10:04 am EST 2010 was the first time I’d ever been to the Sundance Film Festival and the first movie I saw there was Blue Valentine, a devastating parallel portrayal of both the blossoming and wilting of a modern relationship starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams and directed by Derek Cianfrance. With those two stars, two powerful performances and a beautiful structure, I figured the film was destined to at least be seen by audiences for awards contention and that seemed to be its destiny when The Weinstein Company purchased the film at the festival....

New Photos: Nathan Fillion, Amy Acker, And Alexis Denisof Banter In Joss Whedon’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ By Angie Han/Aug. 2, 2012 3:30 pm EST Trust Joss Whedon to go from the $220 million extravaganza that is The Avengers to a micro-budget indie adaptation of William Shakespeare. The filmmaker announced last fall that he’d secretly shot Much Ado About Nothing in just two weeks while taking a brief break from his work on his superhero flick, and it’s now due to debut at the Toronto Film Festival next month....

New Posters: ‘Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy;’ ‘Take Shelter;’ And ‘Bellflower’ By Russ Fischer/July 19, 2011 5:00 pm EST It’s a Gary Oldman sort of week. Yesterday we saw him as Jim Gordon, incapacitated or dying in the teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. Now we’ve got an image of the actor rendered in code on the poster for his fall thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. That film, directed by Tomas Alfredson of Let the Right One In fame, happens to be one of our more anticipated films of the year....

New Release Dates For ‘Conan 3D’ And ‘21 Jump Street’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 31, 2010 2:54 pm EST Looks like Universal got the jump on everyone at the end of this past week by announcing a boatload of release dates. Others are falling in line to grab their own weekends, and so we’ve got new dates for Lionsgate’s 3D version of Conan, which now seems to be officially called Conan 3D, and Sony’s 21 Jump Street, the latter of which is being pushed back from a 2011 date and had previously been dated as a ‘Winter 2012’ film....

Nick Cave Rewriting ‘The Crow’ Remake By Russ Fischer/July 27, 2010 8:40 am EST I don’t know if there’s any real way to parse the information that Nick Cave is rewriting the remake of The Crow. Yeah, that Nick Cave: the singer who wrote The Proposition and the famously rejected draft of a sequel to Gladiator. Reaction I had was simply, “what?!” which might be all you can really say....

Official Plot Synopsis Released For Christopher Nolan’s Inception By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2010 1:00 pm EST Lets not act like this is some huge mystery. Most of us know what Christopher Nolan’s Inception is about. And those of you who still don’t get it, will certainly understand the concept after the new trailer hits attached to Iron Man 2 this week. Warner Bros has finally issued an official plot synopsis for the film, which I’ve included after the jump....

Standup: “I Was A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle” By Russ Fischer/Dec. 31, 2010 2:33 pm EST It’s the slowest news week of the year, and in the last few hours of 2010 don’t expect to find any big breaking stories about something crazy, like James Cameron taking over Asimov’s Foundation series from Roland Emmerich. What you will find is a video of Steven Ho, who did stunt work as Donatello in the second and third Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, doing stand-up comedy in his character’s mask....

Stanley Tucci Reveals Details On Captain America Role By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 30, 2010 9:00 am EST In June it was officially announced that Stanley Tucci was cast as Dr. Abraham Erskine in Joe Johnston’s Captain America: The First Avenger. Erskine is of course, the creator of Captain America, the scientist that creates the Super-Soldier serum, which when given to Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) turns him into a perfect physical specimen. Now Tucci has been talking about his part in the upcoming Marvel superhero adaptation while doing press for his latest project, Easy A....

Teaser Trailer: ‘I Am Number Four’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 29, 2010 8:45 am EST We’ve covered I Am Number Four quite a bit, in part because it was originally rumored as a directorial gig for Michael Bay. Then DJ Caruso (Disturbia, Eagle Eye) signed on, as did Sharlto Copley from District 9. Copely had to drop out and was replaced by Timothy Olyphant, and Alex Pettyfer took the title role....

Timur Bekmambetov To Direct Edison/Westinghouse Battle ‘The Current War’ By Russ Fischer/May 3, 2012 11:00 am EST Briefly: Timur Bekmambetov now has a project to possibly follow up Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. He has just been attached to direct The Current War, which isn’t about a war taking place now, but rather about a battle over electricity. Specifically, Michael Mitnick’s spec script is about “the competition between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to create the first sustainable electrical current....

WETA Developing A Live-Action / Animatronic Wind In The Willows By Russ Fischer/June 11, 2010 9:23 am EST Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, which follows four anthropomorphized characters in a classic pastoral English countryside, has been adapted to the screen many times. Now there’s a new version on the way, to be directed by Ray Griggs, with Peter Jackson’s WETA providing a suite of animatronic effects to bring the animal characters to life....

‘House At The End Of The Street’ Trailer: Can Jennifer Lawrence Survive A House Of Horror? By Russ Fischer/March 29, 2012 7:00 am EST Jennifer Lawrence is really covering all the bases. She’s got a resume with acclaimed indies (Winter’s Bone, Like Crazy), the reboot (X-Men: First Class) and the giant blockbuster hit (The Hunger Games). But she has also shot a role in a somewhat old-fashioned looking horror thriller called House at the End of the Street....

‘Paranormal Activity 2’ To Get IMAX Release By Russ Fischer/Oct. 14, 2010 1:05 pm EST Quick, what’s the film that seems least suited for an IMAX release? If you thought Paranormal Activity 2, then you and I are on the same page. And yet Paramount’s sequel to the low-fi horror hit will now hit the nation’s largest screens. Here’s a statement from IMAX about the release: “Paramount has delivered another great movie that we believe will really resonate with IMAX fans,” said IMAX CEO Richard L....

‘Saw’ And ‘Project Greenlight’ Screenwriters Adapting Their Novel, Black Light, For Big Screen By Germain Lussier/Nov. 3, 2011 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. That last project will soon make the pair’s big screen resume as well. They’ve reportedly been tasked with turning the book into a screenplay. Read more about the book, and watch a trailer, the jump. And here’s a video trailer for the book....

‘The Hobbit’ To Be Shot In 3D? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 4, 2010 3:00 am EST Rumors about The Hobbit are starting to swirl faster and faster. Last time we checked in, the report was that a green light would be given to the film any day now. Now there’s word from a very reputable source that, when the green light is given, the film(s) will go forward with cameras rolling to capture three dimensions rather than two....