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Bryan Singer Admits ‘Superman Returns’ Had Problems By Germain Lussier/April 18, 2011 5:00 pm EST Grossing almost $400 million at the worldwide box office is rarely considered a failure. Unless, of course, you’re talking about a Superman movie. Bryan Singer’s 2006 Superman Returns was meant to reboot the Man of Steel much like Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins did for the Caped Crusader. However, with its lack of action and unusual tweaking of the Superman mythology, the film was largely dismissed by its core fan base and ended up struggling to make $200 million domestically....

Casting Notes: Abigail Spencer In ‘This Means War’; Ben Foster And Giovanni Ribisi In ‘Contraband’; Liam Hemsworth In John Singleton’s ‘Broken Run’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 2, 2010 5:00 pm EST Add one more to the cast of McG’s This Means War, in which Chris Pine and Tom Hardy go to war over the affections of Reese Witherspoon. (Angela Bassett was just cast the other day.) Mad Men’s Abigail Spencer has signed on; she’ll play Tom Hardy’s ex-wife....

Casting Notes: Amber Heard In ‘The Applicant’; Abigail Breslin In ‘New Year’s Eve’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 3, 2010 5:00 am EST Despite earning a nice little fanbase for All the Boys Love Mandy Lane and forgetting to wear any clothes in The Informers, Amber Heard’s closest thing to a break-out moment probably remains her bit part as the first zombie encountered by Jesse Eisenberg in Zombieland. Now she’ll appear as “a stalker student” in The Applicant, a thriller to be directed by Eric Bross....

Casting Notes: Jon Hamm In Kristen Wiig Comedy; Ciarán Hinds And Toby Jones In The Rite; Casting Call For David Chase’s Musical By Russ Fischer/May 3, 2010 7:08 pm EST Since the great success of Mad Men, we’ve been waiting to see Jon Hamm break into movies in a huge way, but with the show still going, he’s primarily taken supporting roles. He’s shot parts for a couple forthcoming projects, like Ben Affleck’s The Town, and Sucker Punch and Howl....

Cyber Monday Geek Deals: $25 Firefly Blu-Ray, $24 Planet Earth, $4-8 Batman And Much More! By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 29, 2010 4:01 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Firefly: The Complete Series on Blu-ray for only $25, 72% off the $90 retail price. Act fast before the deal is gone!

Details Emerge About Gaiking Movie By David Chen/May 12, 2010 4:41 am EST One month ago, Ain’t It Cool News broke an exclusive story about a new film based on Gaiking, a giant mech member of the Shogun Warriors. The Shogun Warriors were popularized via a number of manga and anime TV series during the 1970s, not to mention the legendary Japanese toy line that was licensed by Mattel. It was also the subject of a 20-issue series by Marvel Comics....

Diane Lane Suggests That ‘Man Of Steel’ Will Tell Superman’s Origin…Again By Russ Fischer/April 13, 2011 6:00 pm EST Warner Bros. and Zack Snyder have been very tight-lipped about the script for the new Superman movie Man of Steel. We know next to nothing beyond the fact that Lois Lane (Amy Adams) and General Zod (Michael Shannon) are in the film, and that Clark Kent’s adoptive human parents (played by Diane Lane and Kevin Costner) are also factoring in....

Fan Art: Sean Izaakse’s Real Toy Story By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2010 7:00 am EST What if Pixar’s Toy Story wasn’t just a story about toys, but instead an action film about a Spaceman, a Cowboy and their friends? It might resemble this awesome piece of fan art created by UK artist Sean Izaakse. See the full design after the jump. via: TDW Fan Art: Sean Izaakse’s Real Toy Story...

First Look: Milla Jovovich’s Wardrobe For The Three Musketeers By Peter Sciretta/July 5, 2010 12:00 pm EST As you know, Milla Jovovich will be playing M’lady De Winter in her husband Paul W.S. Anderson’s 3D adaptation of The Three Musketeers. The actress posted some photos on twitter of some of the dresses she will wear in the film, taken at the costume test. Check them out now, after the jump....

Geek Deal: ‘The Shield’ Season Box Sets For Only $11.49 Each By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 14, 2012 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The deal will be gone at the end of the day, so act fast! For a limited time only, order single seasons of the controversial, compelling, and critically acclaimed police drama The Shield on DVD for only $11.49.

Infographic: The 3D Bubble By Germain Lussier/Dec. 19, 2011 4:00 pm EST For several years, 3D has been one of the most popular topics of discussion among cinephiles young and old alike. Is shooting in 3D better than post-conversion? What kind of films benefit from 3D? Are 3D ticket prices scaring away audiences? Should box office records with 3D be counted against those without? Are 3D re-releases here to stay? What will happen when modern auteurs get their hands on 3D?...

John Hillcoat’s ‘The Wettest County In The World’ Is Reporedly Back On, With Shia LaBeouf And Tom Hardy By Russ Fischer/Dec. 8, 2010 5:00 am EST Late last year, it looked like John Hillcoat (The Road, The Proposition) would direct an adaptation of the Matt Bondurant book The Wettest County in the World, possibly with Shia LaBeouf and Ryan Gosling in the lead roles. The name of the film was changed to The Promised Land when it appeared at the 2009 American Film Market, but financing never came together and in January of this year the film was pronounced dead....

John Malkovich Confirms He Would Have Played The Vulture In The Never-To-Be Spider-Man 4 By Hunter Stephenson/April 16, 2010 2:00 pm EST While visiting the sweltry set of Red this month, /Film had the pleasure of hanging and chatting a bit with John Malkovich. The iconic actor’s thoughts on the 2010 Warren Ellis comic book adaptation remain under wraps, but Malkovich also took a sec to extend on his rumored involvement in Sam Raimi’s (thankfully?...

Listen To ‘Selene,’ A ‘Moon’-Inspired Hip Hip EP By Russ Fischer/Feb. 24, 2011 4:00 pm EST Hip hop has appropriated a lot of stuff from movies over the years: score samples, sound effects, dialogue. It’s all fodder. (RZA and The Wu Tang Clan are the most obvious examples, thanks to RZA’s heavy reliance on martial arts films.) Now Richard Rich and Max Tannone have created Selene, an EP that is heavily derived from Duncan Jones’ film Moon and the wonderful score to the film by Clint Mansell....

Movie Trailer: ‘Windfall’ Presents The Business Of New Energy Sources As Rural Horror By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2010 12:51 pm EST In some rural communities, arguments are brewing. Energy companies are renting and buying space to erect 40-story windmills to generate electricity. It seems like an easy financial windfall for some — get paid for doing nothing. But there are concerns: how do the machines affect wildlife, and the quality of human life?...

Page 2: WALL-E, Star Wars, Breaking Bad, Evil Dead, Johnny Depp, Big Lebowski, Les Misérables, Monsters Inc, Game Of Thrones, Lord Of The Rings, The Shining By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 11, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: WALL-E and Eve reimagined Kickstart This: Dany Saadia’s Intriguing Time Travel Film ‘Just in Life’Emma Watson Is Now the Most Dangerous Celebrity to Read About Online R2-D2 Kegerator Alamo Drafthouse offers cocktails with The Master...

Robin Wright And Stellan Skarsgård In Talks For The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2010 12:02 am EST Robin Wright has an increasingly promising slate of films coming up: she’s in Robert Redford’s The Conspirator (in the title role) and is shooting a part in Moneyball, where she’ll play the ex-wife of Billy Beane, played by Brad Pitt. And now she’s in talks to work with David Fincher in his new version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which was recently confirmed to star Daniel Craig and may also feature Stellan Skarsgård....

Roger Avary Will Script Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Jesus Of Nazareth’ By Russ Fischer/June 20, 2012 10:30 am EST Paul Verhoven, the dual-sided filmmaker whose Hollywood career is broadly split between highly aware genre fare (RoboCop, Starship Troopers, Black Book) and gleeful, exploitative silliness (Showgirls, Basic Instinct, Total Recall), has long wanted to make a film about Jesus. Yes, that Jesus, the carpenter. He co-wrote a book on the subject, Jesus of Nazareth, and has tried for some time to raise money to do a film version....

The Rock Offers Up A First Look At Gina Carano In ‘Fast Six’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2012 1:00 pm EST In Fast Six, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson returns as DSS agent Luke Hobbs. This time, his crew’s power is bolstered by the addition of Gina Carano, the former MMA fighter whose first film, Haywire, led to her gig in Fast Six. The film is shooting now under the direction of Justin Lin, who returns to the director’s chair, and Johnson has tweeted a photo of he and Carano in costume on the set of the film....

Tom Cruise Working On A Les Grossman Movie By Russ Fischer/June 7, 2010 3:43 pm EST You want a Les Grossman film. You may not have realized that, but it’s true. Tom Cruise knows you want a Les Grossman film. He knows that his pudgy, balding, egocentric turn in Tropic Thunder is the most popular thing he’s done in years, and so — in true modern Hollywood fashion — he’s working on a way to spin the character off into his own movie....