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With These New Photos From ‘Dark Shadows,’ You Can Start To Assemble Your Own Trailer By Russ Fischer/March 8, 2012 6:30 am EST Is Warner Bros. mounting the most abstract trailer release ever? We’ve seen so many new photos from Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows in the past week, it’s like the studio is just releasing the trailer one frame at a time. And it is a little bit weird that we’ve already got a trailer for the stop-motion version of Burton’s Frankenweenie, which opens in October, while we haven’ t yet seen a shred of footage for Dark Shadows, which is a mere two months away, with an opening set for May 11....

‘21 Jump Street’ Poster And Trailer - Channing Tatum And Jonah Hill Are The Cutest Couple At The Prom By Angie Han/Dec. 19, 2011 1:00 pm EST Though it’s being touted as a remake of the ’80s TV series starring Johnny Depp, anyone with even a passing familiarity with the source material will recognize that Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s upcoming action-comedy 21 Jump Street has little in common with its predecessor....

‘Bill & Ted 3’ Coming Together For Real, With ‘Galaxy Quest’ Director Attached By Angie Han/Aug. 10, 2012 9:30 am EST Maybe when we first heard about the possibility of a third Bill & Ted, it sounded like an outlandish idea. As Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves have continued to offer little updates, however — and as more and more ’80s and ’90s properties have found their way to the big screen — it’s started to seem more and more plausible....

‘Clash Of The Titans 2’ Begins Production; Plot Revealed; Gemma Arterton Not Returning By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2011 9:00 am EST The Clash of the Titans sequel, which has been referred to as Wrath of the Titans but a press release today calls Clash of the Titans 2, started shooting this week under the direction of Jonathan Liebesman (Battle: Los Angeles). Sam Worthington returns to star as Perseus, but it looks like Gemma Arterton’s commitment to Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters means she definitely won’t be in the film, as her name is MIA from the release....

‘Comes A Bright Day’ Trailer: Imogen Poots And ‘Submarine’ Lead In Trouble In London By Russ Fischer/July 6, 2012 4:30 pm EST Those who saw and quite liked Submarine now have a new film to look forward to, as Craig Roberts, the star of Richard Ayoade’s film, is also the lead in a romantic crime movie called Comes a Bright Day. Roberts meets and falls for a jewellery sales girl (Imogen Poots) but suffers a turn of difficult events when a couple mean-minded men (Kevin McKidd, Josef Altin) attempt to rob her shop....

‘Doctor Kong’ Trailer – New Donkey Kong Champ Hank Chien Gets His Own Documentary By Angie Han/March 16, 2011 11:00 am EST Ever since The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters was released in 2007, we at /Film have watched with great interest as the documentary’s two main subjects, Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe, took turns beating each other for the Donkey Kong world record. Last spring, however, a New York plastic surgeon named Hank Chien burst onto the scene and stole the title from Mitchell, who’d held it for the previous three years....

/Film Has Your Ticket To See ‘50/50’, One Of Peter’s Favorite Movies Of 2011 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2011 9:00 am EST I was a huge fan/supporter of Jonathan Levine’s 2008 film The Wackness, which premiered years ago at Sundance and got dumped at the box office by Sony Pictures Classics. Levine has had some tough luck in terms of distributors — his debut feature, the critically acclaimed horror film All The Boys Love Mandy Lane premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, yet has still never gotten a US release (both theatrically and even on dvd/blu-ray)....

‘Inception’ Trailer Composer Zack Hemsey Profiled By Peter Sciretta/April 7, 2011 7:00 am EST You might not recognize the name Zack Hemsey, but you’ve certainly heard his music. Hemsey is the 27-year-old composer who created the song “Mind Heist”, which was used in the third trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception. You can hear it here. I was just commenting yesterday on Twitter about how influential the Inception trailer score has been on the marketing of movies....

‘Locke & Key’ Pilot Will Be Shown At Comic Con By Russ Fischer/June 22, 2011 12:24 pm EST Deadline says that the panel will take place July 22 at 10:30 AM with comic creators Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez, as well as Josh Friedman (pilot writer/producer), Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Here is the official synopsis from the publisher: At the 2009 Eisner Awards, Locke & Key was nominated for Best Limited Series and Joe Hill was nominated for Best Writer....

‘Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’ Trailer - Now Bryan Cranston And Jessica Chastain Are Also Along For The Ride By Angie Han/March 20, 2012 10:30 am EST Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, and Jada Pinkett Smith are on board once again as a quartet of Central Park Zoo animals just trying to get back to New York. Unfortunately, they wind up in Europe instead, where they’re chased by a ruthless animal control squad led by Capitaine Chantel DuBois (Frances McDormand)....

A New ‘Toy Story’ Short Will Run Before ‘The Muppets’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 18, 2011 12:15 pm EST We’ve known that on June 24 Cars 2 will be preceded by a new Toy Story short film called Toy Story Hawaiian Vacation. (Possible story details for that short are here.) But now it looks like another new short featuring the Toy Story characters will play in front of The Muppets when it bows on November 23....

Atlas Shrugged Has No Actors, But Will Begin Production In Four Weeks By Russ Fischer/May 26, 2010 10:13 pm EST Can a film be pushed into production through sheer force of will? Over the decades there have been multiple attempts to film Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged. In the last decade the movie has almost been made a couple of times, but plans have always fallen through. Now producer John Aglialoro, who bought the book rights for $1m in 1992, will make the film one way or the other....

Carl Erik Rinsch’s ‘47 Ronin’ Will Be Shot In 3D By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 8, 2010 4:47 pm EST The film is a “priority” “large budget” project for Universal, which makes it all the more unusual that the studio is entrusting a first time feature director with the potential tentpole feature. Wanted screenwriter Chris Morgan has described the project as a “great, Gladiator-esque, 300-like big action movie with samurai and ninja.”...

Casting Bits: Adam Scott In ‘A.C.O.D.;’ Bill Paxton In ‘Vendetta;’ Rosemarie DeWitt In ‘Neighborhood Watch’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2011 5:00 pm EST Here’s a ‘family feud’ themed set of casting updates. After the break you’ll find info on: Adam Scott dealing with his feuding parents in A.C.O.D., Bill Paxton facing off against Kevin Costner in The Hatfields and the McCoys, and Rosemarie DeWitt sparring with husband Ben Stiller before a bigger threat — aliens — comes to town in Neighborhood Watch....

Casting Bits: M.C. Gainey In ‘Django Unchained’, Rose McGowan In ‘Napa’, Toby Kebbell In ‘The East’ By Angie Han/Oct. 4, 2011 10:30 am EST M.C. Gainey, a.k.a. Mr. Friendly on Lost, has entered negotiations to star in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained as what sounds like one of the nastiest characters in a film filled with vile characters. Gainey is up for the part of Big John Brittle, an overseer at the Carrucan Plantation who sets the plot in motion by raping Django’s wife Broomhilda and branding Django’s cheek with the letter ‘R’ (for “runaway”)....

Chris Weitz To Rewrite Disney’s Live Action ‘Cinderella’ For Mark Romanek By Germain Lussier/Feb. 29, 2012 4:30 pm EST In May 2010, Disney bought a pitch by The Devil Wears Prada/We Bought A Zoo scribe Aline Brosh McKenna to remake their classic film Cinderella in live-action. This was a few months after Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland was a major hit for the studio and fantasy remakes became a go-to genre (see Mirror Mirror, Snow White and the Huntsman, Oz the Great and the Powerful etc....

Cool Stuff: Wolverine T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 16, 2010 11:00 am EST Teefury’s t-shirt design of the day is a parody of the Marvel Comics superhero Wolverine, but as shown in the purely animal form. Created by Sassa Tattoo, the t-shirt is available today and today only. The good news is that the tee design is only $9 plus shipping. Check out the full design in larger resolution after the jump....

Disney Wants Mark Romanek To Direct Live-Action ‘Cinderella’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2011 11:34 am EST Disney is looking to take the next step in the studio’s own big-budget live-action fairy tale reinvention with Cinderella, based on a script by Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada). And the Mouse is eying what at first seems like an unlikely directorial choice: Mark Romanek, the music video director also responsible for One Hour Photo and Never Let Me Go....

Early Buzz: Jackass 3D By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 16, 2010 12:00 pm EST At Comic-Con, Paramount Pictures screened 8-minutes of Jackass 3D (watch our video blog here, trailer here) and I called it “a theme park experience but with poop and pee.” I know I hurt from laughing after only 8 minutes, and I believe it takes the gimmicky nature of 3D to the extreme. The cast and crew screening of the movie was held over the weekend, and the buzz has hit the web thanks to a few select tweets on twitter....

Movie Trailer #2: The Chronicles Of Narnia - The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2010 9:42 am EST Official Plot Synopsis: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader hits theaters on December 10th, 2010.