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Rumor: Rebooted Batman Will First Appear In ‘Justice League’ Before New Film Series By Germain Lussier/Aug. 28, 2012 4:53 pm EST From here, we pretty much know the score. Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel is scheduled for June 14, 2013; WB is dead set on rebooting Batman; and the script for Justice League is currently looking for a director. Some of the many mysteries beyond that are the links between those films, release schedule and how they’ll deal with a new Batman....

Scarlett Johansson Attached To Play Alien Seductress For Jonathan Glazer In ‘Under The Skin’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 3, 2010 2:00 pm EST The American Film Market is great for announcements of crazy-sounding films that we might once see. We’ll have a great many of them over the next few days (and there’s a big post full of sales art and first-look stills coming up) but one of the biggest new projects right now is probably Under the Skin, to be directed by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast) with Scarlett Johansson starring as “the perfect alien woman....

Splendent Media Selling Remake Rights For 69 Akira Kurosawa Films By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2011 12:30 pm EST This is a story I’d just like to ignore, in the hopes that pretending it isn’t happening will decrease the chances of any sale actually going down. But it is already all over the place, so might as well stare it right in the face. A new-ish company called Splendent Media is now repping the remake rights for dozens of Akira Kurosawa films....

Steven Spielberg Could Direct Moses Film ‘Gods And Kings’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 15, 2011 1:00 pm EST Semantics are always a struggle in film reporting. People are “interested,” “circling,” “offered” or “in talks” for projects all the time but none of those words specifically mean they are doing the movie. Plus, until the cameras start rolling, nothing is definite. For example, a few months back, we reported that Warner Bros. was “interested” in having Steven Spielberg direct their epic story of Moses called Gods and Kings....

Theme Park Bits: ‘The Walking Dead’ And ‘Silent Hill’ Coming To Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, Dreamworks Theme Park Coming To New Jersey By Germain Lussier/July 18, 2012 4:00 pm EST For horror franchises, getting turned into a maze at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights is a badge of honor. Hostel, Scream, The Thing, A Nightmare on Elm Street, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and others have all been immortalized as interactive, three-dimensional experiences and this year, two new properties are being added to the list....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Predators, Please Give, Disneynature: Oceans By Adam Quigley/Oct. 19, 2010 10:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There’s a shot in the trailer for Predators that epitomizes my primary frustration with the film. Some of you will know the shot I’m talking about: it features over a dozen targeting lasers from Predators being locked onto a terrified Adrien Brody, in turn promising a mass heap of Predator carnage already implied by the film’s title....

Tom Hanks And Sandra Bullock Attached To Stephen Daldry’s ‘Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 23, 2010 10:34 am EST Last time we checked in on Stephen Daldry’s adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Daldry had just officially signed on, though he’d been working on the project with producer Scott Rudin for some time. Now Warner Bros. and Paramount are close to a deal to co-produce the film, and Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks are attached to star in the project....

VOTD: Ben Lee/WWF’s Planet Of The Apes-Esque “Space Monkey” Music Video By Peter Sciretta/April 29, 2010 12:00 pm EST Ben Lee’s music video for “Song For the Divine Mother of the Universe” has been developed in collaboration with the World Wildlife Foundation Australia to “raise awareness of the devastating impact the human race could have on the planet, unless a more meaningful, healthier and sustainable way of life is adopted to help preserve its future....

Zac Efron Sets Up New Workplace Comedy, Will Also Play Anakin Skywalker By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2010 6:30 pm EST Forget that Taylor Lautner kid; the real teen heartthrob acting breakout may well be Zac Efron, who has lined up a raft of possible projects along several different subject lines. The latest is an untitled workplace comedy set up at Warner Bros. But first, Efron will play…Anakin Skywalker? Deadline says that Robot Chicken is prepping a third Star Wars spoof show, and that Anthony Daniels (voice of C3PO) is joining the cast along with Erfon, Donald Glover, Mike Henry and the returning Billy Dee Williams and Ahmed Best, along with the regular cast of Robot Chicken....

$999.99 ‘Scarface’ Limited Edition Blu-Ray To Drop September 6 By Angie Han/March 28, 2011 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. That impressive figure is what it’ll cost you to get the limited-edition Blu-ray of the gangster classic, dropping Sept. 6, and it’s quite a jump from the $19.98 “Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition” DVD that’s currently on the market. So what does that extra $980....

‘Act Of Valor’ Co-Director Making Racing Movie ‘High Speed’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2012 10:30 am EST With the ‘real-life Navy SEALs’ movie Act of Valor looking like it is going to turn out to be a good investment, the production company behind the movie is putting together more projects. Bandito Brothers is the company, and two of the participants, former stuntman Scott Waugh and Mike ‘Mouse’ McCoy, co-directed Act of Valor....

‘Clueless’ Director Amy Heckerling’s ‘Vamps’ Heading To DVD And Blu-Ray In November By Angie Han/Aug. 22, 2012 3:46 pm EST The last time we saw Amy Heckerling and Alicia Silverstone team up was for Clueless, a critical and commercial hit that launched the young actress to international fame. It’s an endlessly quotable teen classic that still holds up today, not to mention one of the freshest Jane Austen adaptations ever to hit the big screen....

‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Director Brad Furman The Latest To Tackle Pablo Escobar’s Story By Russ Fischer/Aug. 1, 2011 9:39 am EST The life of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is something that more than one filmmaker has attempted to capture in the past few years. But with respect to dramatic portrayals, none have succeeded. Oliver Stone and Joe Carnahan both tried to mount productions (Escobar and Killing Pablo, respectively) and both failed....

2010 MTV Movie Awards Winners By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2010 12:10 am EST Lets face it, the MTV Movie Awards is not a real award show. It’s more a piece of badly choreographed television “entertainment” than anything else. I mean, at what other Award show does Twilight: New Moon take home five awards, and the movie Obsessed win… well, anything — EVER? For those of you who are interested, you can find a list of winners of the 2010 MTV Movie Awards after the jump....

Amy Adams And Viggo Mortensen Join The Walter Salles-Directed ‘On The Road’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2010 5:00 pm EST I’m not quite sure how I feel about the upcoming film version of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, which will be directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries). But I just became significantly more convinced about the viability of the film thanks to two new cast members: Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen....

Bret McKenzie Lands A Part In ‘The Hobbit’ By Russ Fischer/April 4, 2011 8:39 pm EST Last week we told you that Bret McKenzie, of Flight of the Conchords, was possibly joining the cast of The Hobbit. At the time it seemed likely that he would be reprising his role from The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King, a super-minor elf. The fact that he had a role in either film came as a surprise to many, but given that he had a grand total of a few onscreen seconds in the entire saga, he’s quite easy to miss....

Cool Stuff: Mondo And Randy Ortiz Posterize ‘The Goonies’ By Germain Lussier/July 31, 2012 7:00 am EST The Goonies is one of those movies you either grew up with as a child and love unabashedly, or you watched later in life, driven on hype and nostalgia, and it fell short. I’m firmly in the camp of the former – I adore everything about Richard Donner’s film – and think Randy Ortiz’s poster captures a lot of that adventure and wonder....

Cool Stuff: Star Wars: Visions Art Book By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 3, 2010 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Just as George Lucas drew upon the work of N. C. Wyeth and Norman Rockwell for his own visual inspiration, he has now invited more than 100 well-known and promising artists to draw upon the entire Star Wars galaxy for inspiration. Star Wars: Visions collects these magnificent artworks for the first time....

Francis Ford Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard And Eli Wallach To Receive Honorary Oscars By Russ Fischer/Aug. 25, 2010 10:14 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I don’t think I need to go into any detail on why Coppola is receiving the Thalberg award, and the reasons behind Godard’s honorary statue should be equally clear. While often feted at festival awards and occasionally at France’s César Awards, Godard has never even been nominated for an Oscar....

Geek Deal: Battle Royale: The Complete Blu-Ray Collection For $19.99 By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2012 7:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.