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Shane Black Will Direct ‘Iron Man 3’, But Will He Write The Script? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2011 1:45 pm EST Update (from editor Peter Sciretta): Deadline is reporting that Shane Black is in final negotiations to direct Iron Man 3, but it’s not clear whether he’ll be writing the screenplay. Black has only recently transitioned into directing, and is better known as one of Hollywood’s top screenwriters — so I’m hoping he is also involved on the script end....

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Amazing Spider-Man, Shazam By Germain Lussier/Jan. 30, 2012 1:00 pm EST Select theaters, possibly only outside the US, will have these 3D glasses available when The Avengers opens in May. Thanks to Bad Taste (via Superhero Hype). Speaking of The Avengers, there will be a Twitter chat Tuesday with Joss Whedon and a few cast members, culminating in 10 seconds of the 30 second trailer for the film that will play during the Super Bowl....

Toby Jones Cast In Captain America By Peter Sciretta/May 6, 2010 7:42 pm EST Marvel is in final talks with British actor Toby Jones to play the evil scientist Arnim Zola in Joe Johnston’s Captain America: The First Avenger (yes, they flipped around the title — it use to be The First Avenger: Captain America). Jones is best known for playing Truman Capote in Infamous, Karl Rove in Oliver Stone’s W....

TV Bits: HBO’s ‘Luck’ To Get Early Premiere, Plus: ‘Alcatraz’, Summer Glau, Noah Baumbach, Burt Reynolds, And More By Angie Han/Nov. 4, 2011 6:00 am EST While we’re on the subject of HBO: The cable network has shifted the premiere date of its new horse racing drama Luck to a cushy spot on Sunday, December 11, immediately following the Season 2 finale of Boardwalk Empire. The show won’t officially launch until January, but the network reportedly hopes to give Luck an early boost by drawing in some of the large viewership it’s expecting to get for the Boardwalk Empire episode....

TV Producer Zack Estrin To Write ‘Paranormal Activity 4’ By Germain Lussier/March 15, 2012 1:30 pm EST Once Paranormal Activity 3 had a gangbuster opening this past October, a fourth film was inevitable. Soon after the release, directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman reportedly agreed to make Paranormal Activity 4 and an October 19, 2012 release date was set. That’s almost exactly seven months to the day from right now....

Watch Marvel Short Film ‘The Consultant,’ Linking ‘The Incredible Hulk’ To ‘The Avengers’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 31, 2011 3:00 pm EST At Comic Con Marvel debuted footage of the studio’s first short film, The Consultant, in which Clark Gregg as SHIELD Agent Coulson and Maximiliano Hernández as Agent Sitwell meet to talk about the fact that bigwigs want Emil Blonsky, aka The Abomination, to be a part of the Avengers....

When Can We Expect To See More Trailers For ‘Transformers 3’? By Peter Sciretta/March 1, 2011 6:48 pm EST A list of release dates for trailers and tv spots for Transformers: Dark of the Moon has leaked online on Trailer Addict. The list has not been confirmed by Paramount Pictures, but it looks like it could be legit. When can we expect the full-length movie trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon?...

Woody Allen Renames Upcoming Film ‘Nero Fiddled’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 13, 2011 3:45 pm EST This past summer, Woody Allen enjoyed the unexpected success of his film Midnight in Paris, which has been going strong in arthouses since May with over $100m earned worldwide. He also shot a new film in Rome, and for quite some time he was planning to call the movie Bop Decameron. There’s a lot to like about that title — it’s very Woody Allen, and even a good bit more jaunty than most of his titles....

By Germain Lussier/March 5, 2012 3:30 pm EST You can almost hear the rhythmic chants of “Toga, Toga, Toga” bellowing in the rafters already. The New York Times reports John Landis’ landmark 1978 comedy, Animal House, is being adapted into a Broadway musical with help from Canadian rockers Barenaked Ladies and Book of Mormon co-director Casey Nicholaw. Universal Pictures Stage Productions announced the production on the 30th anniversary of the death of the film’s star John Belushi....

‘Dancing With The Stars’ Winner Julianne Hough Lands Lead In ‘Rock Of Ages’ By Germain Lussier/March 3, 2011 6:51 pm EST Country singer and two-time Dancing With The Stars winner Julianne Hough has just landed the lead role of Sherrie in Adam Shankman’s adaptation of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages. She’ll star alongside Tom Cruise and Mary J. Blige (as well as possibly Russell Brand and Alec Baldwin, though those deals haven’t been locked yet) as a country girl who comes to Los Angeles and gets eaten up and spit out by the ’80s hair metal scene....

‘Muppets’ Sequel Moving Forward, But Jason Segel Won’t Write By Angie Han/March 1, 2012 10:30 am EST It’s not like Kermit, Miss Piggy, and the gang ever totally disappeared from the public eye, but last fall’s The Muppets definitely went a long way toward reinvigorating the franchise for a whole new generation. The film was a hit both critically and commercially, and it’s in no way surprising that Disney’s now getting the pieces together to move forward on the sequel....

‘Tower Heist’ Trailer: Eddie Murphy Will Help You Take Revenge On Alan Alda By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2011 9:17 am EST Watch the trailer for Tower Heist, below, and see how long it takes to guess who made it. (Assuming you don’t already know.) The film follows a group of people who work in a wealthy New York City high rise building. When the building’s penthouse resident (Alan Alda, playing a Bernie Madoff-like scumbag) defrauds everyone in the building, the motley crew (led by Ben Stiller and including Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick, Téa Leoni, Michael Peña, and Gabourey Sidibe) recruits a criminal (Eddie Murphy) to help them steal their money back....

Adam Green To Direct Chris Columbus-Produced Adaptation Of Killer Pizza By Peter Sciretta/May 28, 2010 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. What excites me most about this film is that it sounds like the kind of films that Columbus was creating in the 1980’s Amblin era of Gremlins and The Goonies. Also, while I have yet to see Green’s Hatchet, I was impressed with his contained three person single-location thriller Frozen, which premiered at Sundance....

Atlas Shrugged Is Filming; One Tree Hill’s Paul Johansson Starring And Directing By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2010 7:15 am EST Atlas is finally shrugging towards theater screens. A few weeks ago we told you that producer John Aglialoro was going to get a feature version of Ayn Rand’s novel together come hell or high water. And, indeed, cameras started to roll on Atlas Shrugged Part One over the weekend. Who are the star and director?...

Billy Ray Rewriting Martin Scorsese’s ‘Sinatra’ Biopic By Germain Lussier/Aug. 13, 2012 4:30 pm EST Like most famous, talented directors, Martin Scorsese always has a bevy of projects at his fingertips. Right now he’s shooting The Wolf of Wall Street with Leonardo DiCaprio but once he finishes that, who knows? Maybe it’ll be Silence, maybe it’ll be The Irishman, or maybe he’ll finally get around to directing the long rumored biopic of legendary singer and actor, Frank Sinatra....

Casting Bits: Tim Roth And Cillian Murphy In ‘Broken’, Hope Davis In ‘Disconnect’, Rutger Hauer In ‘Flight Of The Storks’ By Angie Han/Oct. 8, 2011 1:00 pm EST Tim Roth and Cillian Murphy have boarded Rufus Norris’ Broken, along with Rory Kinnear, Robert Emms, Zana Marjanovic, Bill Milner, and newcomer Eloise Laurence. The story, which was adapted by Mark O’Rowe (Boy A) from Daniel Clay’s novel of the same title, follows a young girl whose life changes after she witnesses a brutal attack....

Comic Con 2012 Video Blog Reaction: Footage From Disney’s ‘Wreck It Ralph’, ‘OZ: The Great And Powerful’ And ‘Lone Ranger’ By Peter Sciretta/July 13, 2012 1:00 pm EST On the first official day of San Diego Comic Con 2012, Walt Disney Pictures presented a panel which included footage from their upcoming video game animated feature Wreck It Ralph, Sam Raimi’s Wizard of Oz prequel OZ: The Great and Powerful, and the first production teaser trailer for Gore Verbinski’s Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp....

David Chase’s Feature Debut Finally Has A Title By Germain Lussier/March 2, 2012 5:30 pm EST We’re months beyond stating the obvious fact that 2012 has a fantastic slate of movies. It goes without saying. What’s more interesting at this point are the films that may not be on people’s radars. The top of that list, for me at least, is the feature film directoral debut of Sopranos creator David Chase....

David Cronenberg Wrote A Semi-Sequel To ‘The Fly,’ Not A Remake By Russ Fischer/Oct. 3, 2011 3:30 pm EST Speaking to STYD, Cronenberg said ‘The Fly’ is not exactly a remake, it’s sort of a sequel, kinda. Yeah, that was a thing. I’ve written a script of that, and I don’t know if that’s going to really happen, but that has to do with Fox. The director also addressed the possibility of a sequel to Eastern Promises, which is something that has been mentioned off and on for a couple years:...

DreamWorks Animation Readies ‘Rumblewick’ By Russ Fischer/March 7, 2011 7:30 am EST Briefly: The future slate for DreamWorks Animation is already packed with a great many sequel projects, but there is evidently still room for some new projects that could spawn future sequels down the line. The lastest option is for the kids’ book My Unwilling Witch (The Rumblewick Letters) by Hiawyn Oram and Sarah Warburton, which tells of a witch’s cat whose owner no longer wants to be a witch....