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Martin Freeman And Eddie Marsan Join Edgar Wright’s ‘The World’s End’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 28, 2012 10:12 am EST In Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s upcoming film The World’s End, five friends attempt to relive a bar crawl they did 20 years prior. We know that Pegg and Nick Frost will be two of the friends, completing the Cornetto Trilogy with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, and recently Paddy Considine was revealed as the third....

By Germain Lussier/Oct. 7, 2010 3:00 pm EST Leave it to the guys behind Good Will Hunting to tell one of the most scandalous stories in Yankee history. A few months back, news broke that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon might team up to co-star in The Trade, a film about New York Yankees pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson who, in 1973, swapped both wives and lives. In a recent interview, Affleck said that he and brother Casey Affleck were currently doing a draft of the original script written by Dave Mandel (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm)....

Michael Jackson Estate Begins To Shop Biopic By Russ Fischer/Nov. 16, 2011 5:00 am EST Briefly: The Michael Jackson estate is finally starting to test the waters for a biopic about the King of Pop. Estate executor John Branca has approached Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock of the Montecito Picture Company about financing and producing a Jackson film. It’s way to early to say what the film might look like — the deal to develop the thing isn’t even finished, so there is certainly no writer or director on board....

Movie Trailer: The Company Men By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2010 11:00 am EST The Wenstein Co has released the first full length movie trailer for The Company Men , John Wells’ feature directorial debut. Wells is best known for writing and producing hundreds of episodes of both ER and The West Wing. The movie tells the story of “three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company, and how that affects them, their families and communities over the course of one year....

Nick Cassavetes Drops Out As Director Of ‘Gotti: Three Generations’ By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2011 3:43 pm EST For the past few months, Nick Cassavetes has been attached to direct the film Gotti: Three Generations, which will depict the lives of Gambino crime family boss John ‘The Dapper Don’ Gotti and his son John Gotti, Jr. The film is still moving forward with John Travolta attached to play the Dapper Don (for now) but it needs a new director, as scheduling issues have forced Nick Cassavetes to move on....

Red Band Movie Trailer: 30 Days Of Night: Dark Days By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2010 3:00 pm EST Sony Home Entertainment has released a red band movie trailer for the upcoming direct-to-dvd sequel 30 Days of Night: Dark Days. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Thanks to Bloody Disgusting for providing the embed. Official Plot Synopsis: “It’s been a year since the Alaskan town of Barrow’s population was decimated by vampires during its annual month long sunset....

Ron Howard Will Start Shooting ‘Rush’ This Weekend By Germain Lussier/Sept. 6, 2011 3:30 pm EST Gentleman, start your engines. Director Ron Howard can’t officially start filming his historical Formula One film Rush until star Chris Hemsworth finishes The Avengers, but the director will be at the Nurburgring Race Track in Germany this weekend getting some early footage to use in the film. Both Hemsworth and co-star Daniel Brühl will be on hand as cars from the film’s 1970s time period blaze around the track helping to tell the story of legendary racers James Hunt and Niki Lauda....

Rumors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt For Batman 3; The Lizard As Villain In Spider-Man By Russ Fischer/June 10, 2010 9:11 am EST It’s a slow news week, and when legit news isn’t filling the frame there is room for rumor to grow. There are two big ones today: that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is being primed to appear in Batman 3, perhaps as the Riddler, and that the big villain of Spider-Man will be the Lizard....

Rumors: War Machine Spin-Off In Development; Jeremy Renner For ‘Escape From New York’; Javier Bardem And James Franco For ‘Clash Of The Titans 2? By Russ Fischer/Nov. 8, 2010 11:00 pm EST It was a big weekend for rumors; sadly a lot of the most fun genre and superhero film stories are little more than unconfirmed rumor at this point. Pajiba, for example, tweeted that Marvel has a pitch out to writers for a War Machine spin-off film....

See Footage Of The Accident Scene From David Fincher’s ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Oct. 20, 2011 2:28 pm EST David Fincher and Trent Reznor, or their people at least, are running a great low-key and ‘unofficial’ promo site for Fincher’s version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Today the site, Mouth Taped Shut, has another little treat. In this case what we get to see is ‘vintage’ footage of the accident scene that provides the background for the film’s main story....

Snoop Dogg, Daft Punk, And Jay Baruchel In The Star Wars Cantina Scene? By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2010 12:30 pm EST To promote the Adidas Star Wars Originals Collection, LucasFilm created a special two minute commercial which inserts David Beckham, Daft Punk, Snoop Dogg, Franz Beckenbauer, Noel Gallagher, Ian Brown, Ciara, Jay Baruchel, and DJ Neil Armstrong into the famous Cantina Scene from Star Wars . I guess the revisionist explanation is that it is an “intergalactic 2010 FIFA World Cup™ viewing party....

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 Betrayal Cinematic Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2010 4:00 pm EST LucasArts has released a cinematic trailer for the video game sequel Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. Stuff like this makes me yearn for another real Star Wars movie, or a good Star Wars live-action television series. Watch the trailer now, embedded after the jump. I’ve also included the debut trailer in case you haven’t seen it yet....

Telluride Blog: Pixar’s ‘La Luna’, The Black List Favorite Dark Comedy ‘Butter’ And Wim Wenders’ 3D Dance Documentary ‘Pina’ By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 4, 2011 11:24 am EST There are very few things better than Pixar’s short animated films. They are often fun, sometimes sophisticated, always imaginative, but never boring. In the past few years, Pixar has released a set of Cars Toons featuring Mater and the characters of the Cars universe, on video and television....

The Ones Who Knock S5E02 - Madrigal By David Chen/July 24, 2012 11:42 pm EST The Ones Who Knock is a podcast featuring recaps and reviews of each week’s episode of AMC’s Breaking Bad. This week, Joanna Robinson from Pajiba and Dave Chen discuss the second episode of season 5, “Madrigal.” Feel free to read up on the uncannily accurate depiction of the meth trade in Breaking Bad. E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at acastofkings@gmail....

Vera Farmiga To Direct ‘Higher Ground’ By Russ Fischer/April 9, 2010 10:54 am EST Vera Farmiga quickly broke into the big time. Her early credits came in the late ’90s, and by 2004 she was working with Jonathan Demme (his Manchurian Candidate remake) and then there was The Departed. Up in the Air landed her an Oscar nomination, and she’s continuing to work in movies that aren’t quite mainstream: Henry’s Crime, Madonna’s W....

VOTD: Light Warfare By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2010 12:00 am EST FreddieW has created an action short film using light painting to create the weapons and explosions. “Enough with the rainbows and flowers – it’s time for guns and missles! This is the true power of light painting: every weapon at your fingertips.” Watch the short film now after the jump, followed by a behind the scenes making of featurette on how it was created....

Watch Mads Mikkelsen Talk About His Frequent Director Nicolas Winding Refn By Russ Fischer/June 27, 2012 5:00 am EST Director Laurent Duroche has created NWR, a documentary about director Nicolas Winding Refn. A teaser trailer for NWR has been out for a bit, and now a seven-minute segment featuring actor Mads Mikkelsen discussing about his relationship with Refn, and the four films they’ve done together: Pusher, Bleeder, Pusher II, and Valhalla Rising....

‘Goodfellas’ TV Series Is A Prequel; Martin Scorsese Attached By Germain Lussier/Oct. 27, 2010 10:00 am EST In Goodfellas, when Henry Hill says “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster” no one imagined that over two decades later, the statement could have a whole new meaning. That’s exactly what’s going to happen though if author Nicholas Pileggi and director Martin Scorsese have their way....

‘Lord Of The Rings’ Extended Editions Heading To Blu-Ray This Year? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 14, 2011 1:30 pm EST When Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy was released on Blu-ray in April, many fans were angry that the release did not contain the extended editions, but only featured the theatrical releases. To many Ring fans, the extended editions are the one and only version of the film, the director’s cut of the books they love....

‘Oldboy’ Director Park Chan-Wook To Make ‘Corsica ‘72’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 17, 2012 4:51 pm EST We just talked about the Black List script Ezekiel Moss, which has Philip Seymour Hoffman set to direct, and now there’s another Black List script with a high-profile talent attached to direct. Park Chan-wook, who made the original Oldboy and recently finished his English-language debut Stoker, will make Corsica 72. The script is by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who are familiar to James Bond fans as the writers behind The World is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, and Skyfall....