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Unofficial Movie Trailer: The Expendables Vs Julia Roberts By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2010 10:35 am EST When you put a bunch of musclebound dudes, including most of the biggest action stars in the world, into one movie, how do you go about selling it? Not with the first full trailer for The Expendables — you do it like this. The Monocular Group has cut the first Expendables trailer that is truly for men, and if you’re not grinning by the end, this movie wasn’t for you in the first place....

Will Blake Lively Or Scarlett Johansson Star In Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2010 11:53 pm EST Who will play the female lead opposite Robert Downey, Jr., in Alfonso Cuarón’s upcoming film Gravity? Scarlett Johansson has been the name attached for several months, but last week there was a rumor that Blake Lively was gunning for the role. At the time the news seemed insubstantial, but now there is reason to believe that Lively has a better shot at the role than we’d previously thought....

‘30 Days Of Night’ Screenwriter Stuart Beattie To Direct ‘I, Frankenstein’ By Angie Han/March 29, 2011 2:00 pm EST 30 Days of Night screenwriter Stuart Beattie has signed on to write and direct I, Frankenstein for Lakeshore Entertainment. The film will be based on the Darkstorm Studios graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux, one of the writers behind 2003’s vampire-werewolf action flick Underworld. I, Frankenstein features the classic literary monster as a modern-day private detective who deals with both humans and other supernatural creatures — including Dracula, now a mob boss, and the Invisible Man, a secret agent....

‘Die Hard 5’ Director Short List Includes Joe Cornish, Justin Lin And Nicolas Winding Refn By Germain Lussier/Aug. 1, 2011 1:30 pm EST Deadline first reported that Moore doesn’t officially have the job and that Cornish, Lin and Winding Refn will all join him in having meetings soon to discuss the project. Both Lin and Winding Refn have a slew of projects already on their plates. For Lin, there’s a sixth Fast and Furious film (which already has a release date), the Highlander remake as well as the new Terminator film just to mention a few....

‘Men In Black 3’ Weapon Gallery [Comic-Con] By Germain Lussier/July 25, 2011 6:00 am EST Having gone to San Diego Comic-Con for the better part of a decade, Sunday is usually mop-up day. That’s the day you finally get to explore the convention floor fully because the rest of the time you’ve been waiting in line and watching panels. Inevitably, while exploring the floor, you find something surprising. The surprise this year, for me, was the Studio Art Technology booth and a whole display case full of never before seen screen used props from Men In Black 3....

‘The Boondock Saints III’ Is “Definitely In The Works,” Says Norman Reedus By Angie Han/Sept. 14, 2012 4:00 pm EST Even by cult film standards, Troy Duffy’s The Boondock Saints is a divisive one. Defenders love the off-kilter McManus boys and their dedication to vigilante ultraviolence; detractors (myself included) find it to be Tarantino lite without any of the master filmmaker’s originality, intelligence, or soul. You need only look at the film’s 17% critics’ approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 93% user approval rating to see that all moviegoers are decidedly not on the same page here....

‘The Great Gatsby’ Pushed From Christmas 2012 To Summer 2013 By Angie Han/Aug. 6, 2012 11:30 am EST The year-end prestige movie season was looking especially thick this year, with Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables, Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, and Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained all clamoring for a piece of the box office. As of today, however, one filmmaker who’ll be sitting out that bloodthirsty competition is Baz Luhrmann....

‘Traffic’ And ‘Syriana’ Writer Stephen Gaghan Rewrote M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘One Thousand A.E.’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2011 4:30 pm EST Briefly: M. Night Shyamalan isn’t messing around with the preparation for his next film, the sci-fi feature One Thousand A.E. (Or the execs at Sony and Overbrook Entertainment aren’t messing around.) The film is set to star Will and Jaden Smith as " a father and son who crash-land on Earth one thousand years after mankind has abandoned the planet....

Cool Stuff: Official Map Of Christopher Nolan’s Gotham City By Angie Han/July 24, 2012 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Every superhero is to some extent defined by his hometown, but perhaps none more so than Batman and his beloved Gotham City. As we’ve seen in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, the fictional metropolis isn’t a mere backdrop for his vigilante shenanigans, but the very stage upon which the war between good and evil is waged....

Disney Reportedly Plans To Shoot 5th And 6th ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ Films Back To Back By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2010 6:19 am EST If you were hoping to see Johnny Depp in anything but mainstream fare for the next couple years, this might be the time to store that dream away for a while. The actor is finishing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, then will make Dark Shadows and The Lone Ranger....

Fairy Tale Update: Julia Roberts Locked For ‘The Brothers Grimm: Snow White;’ Famke Janssen Joins ‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 8, 2011 12:37 pm EST Minor news on the Snow White battle front today. We’ve talked twice about Julia Roberts possibly joining the cast of Relativity’s The Brothers Grimm: Snow White, to be directed by Tarsem Singh. First time was when she was rumored, then when it looked like she would take the plunge....

Festival Buys: IFC Takes ‘Unauthorized,’ The Harvey Weinstein Doc; Deals For ‘Rabbit Hole,’ ‘I Saw The Devil,’ Almodovar’s Next And ‘Dredd’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 16, 2010 11:43 am EST It’s been a big Toronto Film Festival for Harvey Weinstein, as The Weinstein Company picked up films like Dirty Girl, Sarah’s Key and the surprise hit of the fest, Submarine. But there’s another Harvey-related buy that might not make him as happy: IFC has picked up Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, a documentary about the industry titan....

First Image: Chris Hemsworth In ‘The Cabin In The Woods’ By Russ Fischer/July 6, 2011 11:30 am EST One of the films that got caught up in the tumultuous financial collapse at MGM was The Cabin in the Woods, which Joss Whedon co-wrote with Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard, who also directed. The film stars Chris Hemsworth (Thor) in a story that tweaks the classic horror plot setup that plops a handful of people into a cabin in the middle of nowhere....

High Resolution: Tron Legacy Light Car Banner And Marvel’s Thor By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2010 4:00 pm EST Last week, Disney released the latest banner/billboard image for Tron: Legacy, art featuring the new four-wheel off-road light car (or whatever they decide to call it). Disney has just sent us the official high resolution digital film (3500 pixels wide) which makes for awesome computer desktop wallpaper. Even though we’ve already posted about the banner, I thought you guys might want to download the high res file for yourself....

Kevin Smith’s Free Comic Book Day Commercial By Brendon Connelly/April 30, 2010 1:30 pm EST The first Saturday in May is always Free Comic Book Day, when you can stop by your local comic shop and pick up some FREE strips to enjoy. Of course, you don’t need me to tell you this when, embedded below the break, we have Kevin Smith’s commercial for the event and he does a perfectly fine job of selling the event....

Lynne Ramsay To Make A Claustrophobic Sci-Fi ‘Moby Dick’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2011 4:30 pm EST I’m a big fan of Lynne Ramsay based on her first two films, Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar. The conversations about her third, We Need to Talk About Kevin, have been extremely tempting to read, but I’m waiting to delve into those until I’ve had a chance to see the film for myself. Suffice to say that the film is polarizing, and sounds like a distinctive piece of work at the very least....

Martin Scorsese And Lars Von Trier’s New ‘Obstructions’ Confirmed; Will ‘Taxi Driver’ Be Their Raw Material? By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2011 5:00 am EST There are many reasons I am glad that Lars Von Trier is out in the world, playing with film, and one is that he actually plays with film. Sometimes that playfulness is also quite perverse — OK, it is often perverse — but that’s still valuable. Dogme was an attempt to set boundaries in which films could be made with an artistic (and consequently a political) freedom from the tropes of Hollywood filmmaking....

Movie Trailer: Jeffrey Blitz’s Lucky By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2010 3:00 pm EST One of the films I was really excited to see this past year at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival was a documentary titled Lucky. Directed by Jeffrey Blitz, the filmmaker behind one of my favorite documentaries Spellbound, as well as the great but under-seen indie film Rocket Science (which won him the Sundance Film Festival Directing Award in 2007 and featured a career-launching performance by Anna Kendrick, who later was nominated for an Oscar for Up in the Air)....

By Russ Fischer/Sept. 29, 2011 1:57 pm EST In June 2010, the short Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, based on the popular fighting video game series, hit the web. Armed with recognizable faces like Michael Jai White and Jeri Ryan and no small amount of violence, the short became a sensation, racking up millions of views on YouTube. The director was revealed to be choreographer Kevin Tancharoen, and the short spawned a web series that played out over the following year....

Now There Are Competing ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’ Prequel TV Series By Russ Fischer/May 29, 2012 7:00 am EST Briefly: Bryan Fuller is doing a TV show for NBC called Hannibal, in which Hugh Dancy plays FBI Agent Will Graham in stories that act as prequels to Jonathan Demme’s 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs. And now there is also a TV show in development to explore the early days of Clarice Starling, the character played by Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs....