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‘Coraline’ Studio Laika Producing ‘Goblins,’ From ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ Animation Director By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2012 12:00 pm EST A few more details follow. We don’t know who’ll write the picture at this point, and there is no voice cast announced just yet. We can pass along the book synopsis, however: Gustafson has also been involved with the stop-motion Pinocchio that Guillermo del Toro has been part of with the Jim Henson Company, Pathé and Warner Bros....

‘Deadfall’ Trailer: It’s A Good Sign When You Feel A Little Bad By Russ Fischer/Aug. 13, 2012 2:00 pm EST In Deadfall, Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde are a brother/sister team who heist a casino and then get stuck near the snowy US/Canada border as they try to make their escape. Bana goes his own way as Wilde leverages the interest of a small-town ex-boxer (Charlie Hunnam) who is en route to a holiday feast with his family (Kris Kristofferson and Sissy Spacek)....

/Film Exclusive: ‘The Raid Redemption’ Stunt Featurette By Germain Lussier/April 11, 2012 6:00 am EST Odds are, if the insanely excellent action film The Raid: Redemption isn’t yet playing in a theater near you, that’ll change on Friday. Sony Pictures Classics is opening the film in almost 700 theaters this week enabling fans from all over to see a film that reminds us what action films can be. Directed by Gareth Evans, The Raid: Redemption is a non-stop roller coaster of chaos following an elite squad of police who enter a drug dealer’s sky rise strong hold....

Anti-Casting Notes: Bradley Cooper Says He’s Not In ‘The Flash’; Heather Graham Not In ‘Hangover 2’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2010 6:00 pm EST At the beginning of the week, when word came out that a script for The Flash is meant to be delivered by the end of the year, the news came with a rumor. It suggested that Bradley Cooper was in the running (ahem) to play the title character....

Apple In Talks With Cable Providers To Stream Live TV By Angie Han/Aug. 16, 2012 3:57 pm EST If you’re even a little bit of a tech geek (or sharing living space with someone who is), odds are the space around your TV is cluttered with devices. You’ve got your cable box, your Blu-ray player, your XBox, your Apple TV, and what have you. But if Apple has its way, you may be able to ditch one of those boxes soon....

Blake Lively Not Interested In ‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’ Either By Angie Han/Oct. 4, 2011 2:00 pm EST Blake Lively has just joined the A-list ranks of Scarlett Johansson, Emma Stone, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, and Natalie Portman as the latest actress to turn down the opportunity to star in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Craig Gillespie’s beleaguered adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Jane Austen spoof. Lively’s rejection comes as yet another setback for the project, which has already suffered numerous stops and starts throughout the development process....

Bradley Cooper Advertises A Wonder Drug In Viral Promo For Neil Burger’s ‘Limitless’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 9, 2010 11:30 am EST Earlier this week there was a brief bit of news that Dark Fields, the new film from Neil Burger (The Illusionist) had changed titles; the movie is now called Limitless. Now there’s a sort of viral promo for the film. It features Bradley Cooper more or less in character as the pitchman for a wonderdrug called NZT, aka ’the clear pill....

Casting Bits: James Franco Out Of ‘The Iceman’, Tom Felton And Tony Curran In ‘Labyrinth’, Troy Garity In ‘Gangster Squad’ By Angie Han/Oct. 19, 2011 1:30 pm EST It feels like James Franco is attached to pretty much everything these days, but now there’s one less Franco project we have to look forward to. According to JustJared.com, the star has pulled out of The Iceman, a biopic of Mafia hitman Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski....

Cool Stuff: Gorgeous Pixar Themed iPhone Wallpaper By Germain Lussier/April 26, 2012 6:00 am EST This one is going to be short and sweet. After the jump you can link to Pale Designs, the blog of Jess Fong who has created a gorgeous Pixar themed wallpaper for your iPhone home screen. Check it out below. Here’s a blue and a black version of the wallpaper which you can download at Pale Designs....

Cool Stuff: Max Dalton’s ‘Horror Die Cut Collection’ Poster By Germain Lussier/June 29, 2012 2:30 pm EST On a daily basis I look at my walls and ask myself why artist Max Dalton isn’t more popular. His work is exceptional, taking popular pop culture iconography and giving it a unique and exciting twist, yet he’s nowhere near as revered as one would expect. The answer to my question is probably “he hasn’t done a Mondo poster yet,” but Dalton is still pumping out gorgeous work for Spoke Art....

Emma Thompson May Write Sony’s ‘Annie’ Remake By Russ Fischer/June 23, 2011 7:02 pm EST One of Will Smith’s kids has his own remake franchise brewing (Jaden, and The Karate Kid) so now the erstwhile Fresh Prince is working on balancing his family dynamics by crafting a similar film for daughter Willow. The property in question this time is Annie, in which Willow Smith will play the moppet adopted by Oliver ‘Daddy’ Warbucks....

Exclusive: Making Of Carl Erik Rinsch’s The Gift By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2010 10:00 am EST Philips has provided us with an exclusive behind the scenes making of video for Carl Erik Rinsch’s futuristic action thriller short film The Gift, which you can watch right now embedded after the jump. Watch The Gift now: The Gift: A robotic manservant flees the police in the futuristic action thriller.Directed by Carl Erik Rinsch....

First Look: Will Sasso, Sean Hayes & Chris Diamantopoulos In ‘The Three Stooges’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 27, 2011 9:30 am EST Only hours after the news that Bobby and Peter Farrelly are moving forward with a sequel to Dumb and Dumber, we’ve got the first real look at the Farrellys’ new Stooges. Here are Will Sasso, Chris Diamantopoulos, and Sean Hayes as Curly, Moe and Larry in The Three Stooges. I invite you to compare and contrast Chris Diamantopoulos as Moe in this pic, and old shots of Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas from Dumb and Dumber....

Future Marvel Movie Possibilities: Iron Fist; Black Panther; SHIELD By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2010 4:52 pm EST Here’s a Marvel post that isn’t based on rumor or innuendo: we know that Marvel has plans for movies beyond The Avengers, but right now they’re pretty opaque. Ant Man has long been a possibility, but we know little about that, and there have been plenty of Doctor Strange stories, with screenwriters even hired....

Hannibal Lecter Is Getting His Own TV Show By Russ Fischer/Sept. 12, 2011 2:00 pm EST French film studio Gaumont is launching an LA-based TV production arm, Gumont International Television, and in doing so plans to bring an iconic screen killer back to life. Two projects are mentioned in the release informing of the new company. One, written by Michael Hirst, is a six-hour Madame Tussaud mini-series. The other, written by Bryan Fuller (Heroes, Pushing Daisies) will be about the early days of Hannibal Lecter, the serial killer who became one of the world’s most famous film characters thanks to Anthony Hopkins’ portrayal in The Silence of the Lambs....

HBO’s ‘Cocaine Cowboys’ Comes Back To Life; ‘The Pacific’ Writer Penning New Pilot By Russ Fischer/March 11, 2011 1:30 pm EST We just heard that David O. Russell is attached to direct the feature version. And now, after being dormant for some time, the HBO series is coming back to life with a new pilot script from The Pacific writer Michelle Ashford. Deadline says that the series won’t feature any of the real-life characters from the doc, but that it will “borrow from its portrayal of the events of the illegal drug trade in Miami during that time frame....

Isla Fisher In Talks For Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ By Russ Fischer/April 19, 2011 1:00 pm EST Despite some vague comments about when, exactly, he’ll make the film, Baz Luhrmann continues to pull together the cast for his new version of The Great Gatsby. And I have to hand it to him: he’s got a hell of a lineup. So far the key roster includes Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, the young wealthy resident of Long Island’s West Egg community, and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, who spends a summer renting a bungalow near Jay’s home, leading to a friendship between the two that forms part of the basis for the story....

John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick And Ray Stevenson Join Billy Bob Thornton’s ‘Jayne Mansfied’s Car’ By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2011 4:30 pm EST Looks like Billy Bob Thornton is set with cast and financing for his next directorial effort, Jayne Mansfield’s Car. But it also looks like neither of the recently reported additions, Dennis Quaid and Dwight Yoakam, might be in the movie. Get the full new roster after the break....

Martin Sheen Cast As Uncle Ben In Marc Webb’s Spider-Man By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 4, 2010 4:18 pm EST Breaking news: Martin Sheen (Apocalypse Now, The Departed, Catch Me If You Can) has joined the cast of Columbia Pictures’ 3D Spider-Man reboot, which is being directed by (500) Days of Summer helmer Marc Webb. Sheen will play Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben. In the traditional Spider-Man story, Peter Parker is brought up by Uncle Ben and Aunt May....

Must Watch: ‘Ruin’, An Awesome Animated Short Film Set In A Green Post-Apocalyptic Universe By Peter Sciretta/March 16, 2012 11:00 am EST Ruin is an animated action short film set “way in the future” in a green post-apocalyptic universe. Directed by Wes Ball, who has been working in Hollywood for 8 years doing graphic work for HBO and DVD/Blu-ray featureetes. A graduate of Florida State University, Tallahasse, his 2003 short film A Work in Progress won the Bronze Metal at the Student Adacemy Awards (I have also included that film after the jump)....