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Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Serial Killer In Adaptation Of ‘The Devil In The White City’ By Adam Quigley/Nov. 1, 2010 6:00 pm EST Leonardo DiCaprio is an actor who consistently aims to challenge himself with weighty, Oscar-caliber roles, and his next few films promise more of the same. He’s shooting Hoover, Clint Eastwood’s FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover biopic, in the coming year, and he’s rumored to be starring in Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby....

By Germain Lussier/April 13, 2012 5:30 pm EST With the book not being released until Fall and DiCaprio having a fair amount of projects on his plate, I wouldn’t hold your breath for this one. But, anything can happen as the star only has one more movie set in stone on his schedule. Are you a Lehane fan? Does this sound like it has potential?

LOL: Why ‘Back To The Future’ Is Secretly Horrifying By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2010 10:00 am EST We missed this a few weeks back, but I thought it might still be worth posting. The guys at Cracked have an old school Clerks-esque discussion about why they think Back to the Future is secretly horrifying. While I don’t agree with many of their nitpicks, it is still an interesting watch. Hit the jump to see it now....

Martin Scorsese Planning ‘Silence’ As Next Film By Russ Fischer/Dec. 5, 2011 4:30 pm EST Good news for those who were beginning to fear that mainstream opportunities would forever interfere with Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence: the director says that Silence will be his next movie. In the wake of Hugo’s big critical acceptance, Scorsese has been linked to an adaptation of the thriller novel The Snowman, by Jo Nesbo, and he has also talked up possibilities such as The Irishman and The Gambler....

Marvel’s Greatest Foe Strikes Again In New Images Of ‘The Avengers’ [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Sept. 29, 2011 8:21 am EST You might recall that early this year a group of Marvel’s Mightiest, the X-Men, had a run-in with that evil-doer most foul, Crappy Photoshop. Now the villain strikes again as the heroes of The Avengers make their Entertainment Weekly cover debut. Hit the jump, if you dare, to see the horror of Black Widow’s giant head and the visage of Mark Ruffalo as he is afflicted with the scourge of the middle 2000s, duckface....

Movie Poster: ‘Blue Valentine’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 9, 2010 7:00 pm EST Given the way the film has been shafted by the MPAA, I think most of us here at /Film want to take every reasonable opportunity to make sure people know about Blue Valentine, which has been unfairly slapped with a restrictive NC-17 rating. Don’t worry: we probably won’t have the opportunity for a Tron Legacy level of saturation. For now I’ll have to be content with presenting the moody, atmospheric new poster for the film....

Movie Trailer: ‘Wrecked’ By Adam Quigley/Oct. 14, 2010 7:00 pm EST Adrien Brody is a man without a name in Wrecked, a survival thriller that finds the Oscar winning actor in a debilitating car wreck, surrounded by dead bodies, with no memory of who he is or what happened. We first discovered the film earlier this year, during the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, which premiered some promo imagery for the picture....

Mystery ‘Superman’ Female Role Revealed To Be Kryptonian Villainess By Germain Lussier/Feb. 5, 2011 12:40 am EST After the intriguing news leaked that actresses Alice Eve, Diane Kruger and Rosamund Pike were contenders for a role in Zack Snyder’s Superman, but that role wasn’t Lois Lane, the speculation began to run rampant. Who could these blond beauties play in Metropolis? Well, Latino Review is now exclusively reporting that those ladies are up for the role of a Kryptonian villainess named Ursa....

New Images: Batman And Bane From ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 19, 2011 11:12 pm EST We don’t have huge images to share, but Empire finally revealed both the Batman (Christian Bale) and Bane (Tom Hardy) covers the magazine has been teasing for its The Dark Knight Rises cover story. We’ve seen so many high-res set pics of the characters that some new official images don’t feel like great big reveals, but at least we get to see some new tech....

Next Film From ‘The Illusionist’ Director Sylvain Chomet Will Either Be CG Animation Or Live-Action By Russ Fischer/Dec. 29, 2010 8:08 pm EST Noted hand-drawn animation director Sylvain Chomet made The Triplets of Belleville, had an unsuccessful stint as director of The Tale of Desperaux when the film was in development, and now has his new film, The Illusionist, in theaters. With that latest milestone passed, the question naturally arises: what will the director do for an encore?...

Not Dead Yet: New Screenwriter For Disney’s ‘King Of The Elves;’ He-Man Reboot Still Gestating At Sony By Russ Fischer/June 29, 2011 9:01 pm EST Some movies are born easily: they represent a whole bunch of factors like script, talent and money that happen to be in the same place at the same time. Others aren’t born so easily, and lurch towards screens in fits and starts. Case in point: Disney’s animated adaptation of a Philip K....

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master’ Could Be Released In October By Germain Lussier/March 6, 2012 9:00 am EST One of the great mysteries of the 2012 movie calendar is whether or not Paul Thomas Anderson’s highly anticipated film, The Master, would be released this year. The Weinstein Company will handle domestic distribution and, as was once again evidenced a few weeks back, they’re masters at Oscar campaigning. Anderson’s film, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams, screams “award season contender” but there had been no formal announcement....

See A Few Seconds Of That Canned ‘Wonder Woman’ Pilot By Russ Fischer/June 10, 2011 11:21 am EST Rubbernecking 2.0: scouring the web for traces of failed projects. Case in point: the interest in even a bit of footage from David E. Kelley’s rejected NBC pilot for Wonder Woman. Naturally, as soon as the network realized that no one might want to see the show, a great many people consequently want to see it....

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men, The Avengers, Stan Lee By Germain Lussier/Dec. 23, 2011 1:00 pm EST Very cool minimalist Dark Knight Rises poster by BatmanIsMyHomey. Thanks to Comic Book Movie, which has another one too. Get More: Movie Trailers, Movies Blog Hans Zimmer teased MTV about the Catwoman theme he’s writing, but hasn’t written yet, for The Dark Knight Rises.Clark Gregg once again teased the villains who will appear in The Avengers....

Timur Bekmambetov Producing ‘Apollo 18’ For Weinsteins And Possibly A Deep Space Picture For Fox By Russ Fischer/Nov. 6, 2010 4:00 pm EST Deadline reports on both films. Apollo 18 was the subject of a bidding war that The Weinstein Company won early this morning; the film is being spearheaded by Mr. Bekmambetov and has a planned March 4 2011 release date.Trevor Cawood, a former effects guy, is directing from a script by Brian Miller....

Universal Sets Release Dates For ‘Ouija,’ ‘The Bourne Legacy,’ ‘The Dark Tower’ And More By Russ Fischer/Oct. 29, 2010 10:30 am EST This week Universal Pictures got the urge to fill out the company’s calendar for the next couple of years. Yesterday we heard that the studio has dated Judd Apatow’s as-yet-untitled new film for summer 2012. Now there is a flood of new release dates for the studio, for a diverse array of films....

Video From The Set Of Louis Leterrier’s Illusionist Thriller ‘Now You See Me’ By Russ Fischer/April 16, 2012 10:30 am EST One of the wildcard films of 2012 is Now You See Me, directed by Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans). Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco play The Four Horsemen, a group of illusionists that perform big business heists even as they’re on stage doing their magic act....

VOTD: New York Times Tours Pixar Animation Studios By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 10, 2011 9:00 am EST The New York Times’ Melena Ryzik was given a behind-the-scenes look at the Pixar Animation Studios complex in Emeryville California. Hit the jump to watch the six and a half minute video tour. VOTD: New York Times Tours Pixar Animation Studios By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 10, 2011 9:00 am EST The New York Times’ Melena Ryzik was given a behind-the-scenes look at the Pixar Animation Studios complex in Emeryville California....

VOTD: Pogo Remixes ‘A.I.: Artificial Intelligence’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 17, 2011 6:00 am EST What do a tapping foot, sliding face and removable jaw have in common? They’re three of the main elements Australian film/audio remix artist Pogo uses for his latest work, Davyd, a music video inspired by and comprised of sounds and music from Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s vision, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Check it out after the jump....

Wes Bentley Cast In ‘The Hunger Games,’ More Tributes Too By Germain Lussier/May 5, 2011 11:17 am EST We’ve spared you the latest two Hunger Games casting updates this week in hopes that one of real substance would come along to tie them all together. That break has come. Wes Bentley, best known for his breakout role in American Beauty, has been cast as Head Gamemaker Seneca Crane in director Gary Ross’s adaptation of the Suzanne Collins novel, The Hunger Games....