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Alfonso Cuaron, David Cronenberg, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Shortlisted For ‘Hunger Games’ Sequel ‘Catching Fire’ By Angie Han/April 12, 2012 2:30 pm EST Chatter about who could or should direct the Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire began the second word got out that the first film’s helmer, Gary Ross, might be leaving the franchise. And now that his departure’s officially been confirmed, the conversation has further heated up, not just among fans but among Lionsgate studio execs as well....

Bruce Campbell Says ‘Bruce Vs. Frankenstein’ Will Be “‘The Expendables’ Of Horror” By Adam Quigley/Sept. 8, 2010 8:00 am EST Beloved B-movie actor/God Bruce Campbell is making a sequel to My Name is Bruce. To many that decision may seem odd, considering that not even diehard fans of ‘The Chin’ were terribly blown away by the first film, and Campbell has been scrupulous enough in his project undertakings that he passed on a sequel to Bubba Ho-tep, but after reading his description of the sequel, entitled Bruce Vs....

Casting Bits: Larry David As A Nun In ‘The Three Stooges;’ Armie Hammer Attached To ‘2:22;’ Frank Grillo In ‘Lay The Favorite’ By Russ Fischer/May 2, 2011 5:00 pm EST Want to see Larry David play a nun? How about a nun named Mother Mengele? Then you’ll need a ticked for the Farrelly Brothers’ The Three Stooges. Larry David was rumored to play one of the Stooges for some time, but now he’ll be “the unfortunate nun who runs the orphanage where the Stooges grow up and learn to create mayhem....

By Russ Fischer/Oct. 18, 2010 12:18 pm EST After the break, Andrew Niccol’s next gets another cast member, and Mr. Popper’s Penguins gets two. The adaptation of kids’ book Mr. Popper’s Penguins is shooting now for an August 12 2011 release date. The film just added James Tupper and Clark Gregg to the cast, which already included Jim Carrey and Carla Gugino in the lead roles. Mr. Carrey plays a wealthy businessman who inherits six penguins, which " completely disrupt his life and swanky New York apartment....

Coen Brothers: Five Favorite Westerns, Plus Their Joke About Remaking ‘Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 9, 2011 9:26 am EST True Grit is poised to cross the $100m mark in the US. While the movie is the Joel and Ethan Coen’s widest open to date (1100 more screens than their last greatest domestic success, No Country For Old Men) that doesn’t lessen the fact that this is still their biggest domestic gross ever....

Dianne Wiest Boards Noah Baumbach’s ‘The Corrections’ For HBO; Chris Cooper In Talks By Angie Han/Oct. 19, 2011 10:00 am EST Last month, I got very excited about reports that Noah Baumbach would be adapting The Corrections for HBO. The Squid and the Whale director struck me as a perfect pick to bring Jonathan Franzen’s unhappy family tome to life. Today’s news makes me even more certain that HBO will do right by Franzen....

Did Relativity Make A Mistake Moving Its ‘Snow White’ Up To March To Beat Universal’s ‘Snow White And The Huntsman?’ By Germain Lussier/May 24, 2011 2:51 pm EST The irony of two movies about the sweet, simple character of Snow White doing such vicious battle must be lost on the executives of both Universal and Relativity. For months we’ve been reporting on the dueling developments of Relativity’s Untitled Snow White film (which was at one point called The Brothers Grimm: Snow White) versus Universal’s Snow White and The Huntsman....

Geek Deal: L.A. Confidential Blu-Ray For $10.49 By Peter Sciretta/May 30, 2011 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

By Russ Fischer/Feb. 3, 2011 6:46 pm EST Briefly: Looks as if Hugh Jackman likes the way Real Steel is turning out. News now is that he will do another film with director Shawn Levy after The Wolverine is finished. There isn’t much information on the project right now, aside from the fact that it is planned to be an action adventure film. Oh, and Lost co-creator Carlton Cuse is scripting....

By Germain Lussier/Aug. 26, 2011 3:30 pm EST As much as moviegoers, filmmakers and theater owners try and try, the fight against piracy seems to be a losing one. People can take all the precautions in the world but there’s always going to be one person who pirates a movie, uploads it online and then it spreads like wildfire. Now the pirates would let you believe this is their right and what they’re doing doesn’t hurt the bottom line....

Infographic: The Animated History Of The Oscars By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2011 5:00 am EST How many Animated Feature Films have been nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award? This question and more are tackled in BorderStylo’s “The Animated History of the Oscars” infographic. Hit the jump to check it out. source: BorderStylo Infographic: The Animated History Of The Oscars By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2011 5:00 am EST How many Animated Feature Films have been nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award?...

Johnny Depp In Talks For Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Sleeping Dogs’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 6, 2010 3:18 pm EST Johnny Depp’s schedule is packed, but when the chance comes up to work on a reality-based dramatic action thriller with the team that won last year’s Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture Oscars, you bet he’s going to try and make time. So Mr. Depp is now in talks to join Sleeping Dogs (or Triple Frontier, depending upon whom you believe) from director Kathryn Bigelow and co-writer Mark Boal....

Los Angeles’ New Sundance Cinema To Charge Sliding Amenity Fee For Premium Services, No Pre-Show Commericals By Germain Lussier/Aug. 17, 2012 5:00 am EST A new, state of the art theater is soon opening in Los Angeles and it’ll do something few theaters do: charge a sliding amenity fee to all tickets. Depending on what day and time you go to the new Sundance Sunset Cinemas in West Hollywood, CA, you’ll be charged an additional $1-$3 on top of the standard $12 admission to account for reserved seating, WiFi and lack of commercials....

Method Man Has A Role In David Gordon Green’s ‘The Sitter’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 31, 2010 3:00 pm EST Briefly: I can’t quite believe that David Gordon Green will have two R-rated comedies out within months of one another in 2011. April sees the release of Your Highness, starring James Franco, Danny McBride, Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel. And then in July there’s The Sitter, starring Jonah Hill as a guy who ends up taking three kids he’s watching across town on a mission to buy drugs for his girlfriend (Ari Graynor)....

New ‘The Master’ Poster Is A Dramatic Kaleidoscope By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2012 3:30 pm EST The best news this weekend was that Paul Thomas Anderson did a sneak screening of his new film The Master on Friday night after a showing of The Shining in Santa Monica, and that attendees were very impressed by the director’s work. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the title character, a self-made religious/cult leader in the vein of Scientology’s L....

Shawn Levy Officially Directing Fox’s ‘Frankenstein’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 1, 2011 3:30 pm EST Variety lists the other Frankenstein films as follows: But with a distributor, script and big time director attached, it seems like Fox’s film could very well be the first out of the gate. From the recent Snow White debacle, we know that’s super important to Hollywood executives. When I wrote about this last week I posed the following concerns which are still valid now:...

South Korea’s Bae Doona Cast In ‘Cloud Atlas’ By Russ Fischer/July 18, 2011 3:30 pm EST As the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer have cast up their film adaptation of the David Mitchell novel Cloud Atlas, we’ve seen quite a few good choices being made. Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Ben Whishaw, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon and Jim Broadbent are the major players who will embody multiple roles in the six slightly interconnected stories that make up Cloud Atlas....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: The Karate Kid, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Splice, The Secret Of Kells, And More By Adam Quigley/Oct. 5, 2010 6:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Splice has its problems—not least of which is a flat third act horror turn-around—but it’s also refreshingly weird and original, taking the familiar monster movie/genetic-experiment-gone-wrong formula and twisting it into something uniquely its own....

This Week In Trailers: Windfall, The Viral Factor, Tatsumi, Doppelgänger Paul, DeafBlind, Sicario: Room 164 By Christopher Stipp/Jan. 20, 2012 4:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. “Yoshihiro Tatsumi is a mangaka known for his gekiga style of alternate Japanese manga.” Wish I knew what that meant. Director Eric Khoo hopefully will bridge that knowledge gap like two planks put down across a creek bed because this trailer has some complex ideas to translate and it does it well....

Tom Hanks Attached To Play Richard Phillips In Somali Pirate Movie By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2011 1:15 pm EST Some actors attach themselves to scores of films, most of which will never get made, or will never get made with those actors in the cast. Tom Hanks is not one of those actors. He latches on to far fewer projects, and the ones he does pick have a higher probability of getting made....