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First Look: The Suburban Guys Save The World Comedy ‘Neighborhood Watch’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 5, 2011 10:00 am EST Lonely Island member Akiva Schaffer wrapped the Atlanta shoot for Neighborhood Watch not long ago, and here are the first pics from the film. The movie features Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd, director of Submarine), Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Jonah Hill in a story about a handful of suburban dads who end up over their heads when their time-killing neighborhood safety group uncovers a dangerous plot that is beyond what they expected to deal with....

Glimpse The True Forms Of The Aliens In ‘The Darkest Hour’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2011 5:49 pm EST We’ve been teased for some time with info and concept images from The Darkest Hour, the sci-fi film in which Emile Hirsch is trapped in Moscow fighting ball-lightning aliens who have come to take all of our precious energy. The trailer dropped earlier this week, and it seems to hide the ’true forms’ of the aliens pretty well — if in fact they have true forms beyond being flashes of energy....

Godzilla Will Face Other Monsters In Legendary’s Planned Reboot By Russ Fischer/Sept. 21, 2010 10:00 am EST Earlier this year, Legendary Pictures announced that the company is in development on a new Godzilla film. The best part of that news release was that Legendary seems determined to not repeat the mistakes of the forgettable 1998 film directed by Roland Emmerich. The new film is still without a director, and we don’t know very much about what Legendary really plans to do....

Ice Cube And New Line Want To Make A New ‘Friday,’ And Chris Tucker Might Even Return By Russ Fischer/Nov. 16, 2011 4:30 pm EST Friday hit theaters over fifteen years ago, truly launching the film career of Chris Tucker and serving as the first step in the transformation of Ice Cube from gangsta rapper and Compton’s most vocal representative to family comedy guy. Now New Line and Ice Cube are in talks to make a fourth Friday film....

International Movie Trailer: ‘Blitz’ By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2010 4:00 pm EST Lionsgate Pictures has released an international movie trailer for the new Jason Statham film, a London-set serial killer thriller titled Blitz. Blitz is adapted by Nathan Parker (who also scripted Moon) from Ken Bruen’s novel of the same name and directed by Elliott Lester (Love is the Drug) . Statham plays Detective Sergeant Brant, a “tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers....

International Movie Trailer: Buried By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 2, 2010 7:00 am EST When Lionsgate released the first teaser trailer for the Ryan Reynolds one-man thriller Buried in April, some people complained that it didn’t show much. But others argued that it was the perfect tease, a great example of a good teaser trailer. During Comic-Con, Lionsgate released a full length trailer for the film which didn’t show a second of footage from the film....

J Blakeson To Helm Jonathan Nolan Scripted ‘Hell And Gone’ By Adam Quigley/Nov. 9, 2010 8:01 am EST We have yet to see what a Christopher Nolan-less script from Jonathan Nolan looks like, but the odds that we’ll see one soon are looking good. He’s still got his screenplay for Intersellar, set to be directed by Steven Spielberg, in the pipeline, but who knows when Spielberg will get around to making that....

Kelly MacDonald Will Appear In ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 2’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 13, 2010 5:00 pm EST Briefly: Sure, the final Harry Potter film is basically done, but there are still a few secrets to be revealed. (Just as there were with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I.) One of the minor casting bits that had previously been unreported or had escaped notice is that Kelly MacDonald will be playing The Gray Lady, aka the Ghost of Ravenclaw....

MPAA Blasts Websites Planning SOPA Protest Blackouts By Russ Fischer/Jan. 17, 2012 5:00 pm EST Tomorrow the main pages of Google, Wikipedia, Reddit and other sites will go dark to protest support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a piece of legislation in the House of Representatives which is so wide-ranging in effect that it threatens to curb not only piracy and illegal activity, but the method of information use which characterizes the internet....

New Poster: Tony Scott’s ‘Unstoppable’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 23, 2010 9:45 pm EST IMPAwards throws this image out there, and um…why isn’t there a train on it? Is 2010 America so disinterested in trains that a movie about a runaway train gets a one-sheet that doesn’t even have tracks? (The sparks in the text path are obviously from the wheels as the brakes fail, but that’s pretty abstract.) At least we know the film is based on a true story....

New Posters: ‘Rango,’ ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ And ‘Insidious’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 13, 2010 4:30 pm EST Doing poster roundups is always fun, because we end up mashing together films that couldn’t be more different. In this case we’ve got new images for Gore Verbinski’s quirky animated comedy Rango, the Matthew McConaughey legal thriller The Lincoln Lawyer, and James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s horror thriller Insidious. First up is Rango, via Yahoo, and you’ve got to wonder if the release of two new images for the film today is directly timed to counter the trailer debut of the fourth film in Gore Verbinski’s old series, Pirates of the Caribbean....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2011 8:00 am EST Brazilian artist Victor Hugo Queiroz created the awesome baby Magneto illustration posted in the header. 2,000 select Los Angeles Metro buses have been screening 16mm short films shot by kids. TV showrunner Shawn Ryan confirms that The Chicago Code is really dead, as no other network was interested in trying to keep it alive. IO9 lists Totally Demented Green Lantern Storylines That Won’t Be in the Movie....

Parody Trailers: ‘The Oscar-Winning Boston Movie’ And ‘Riverdale’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 26, 2011 10:00 am EST First up, The Oscar-Winning Boston Movie, which mashes together ideas from The Departed, The Town, The Fighter, Good Will Hunting and many more. (And that Whitey Bulger reference is one for the real hometown kids.)[via TheHighDefinite] The film’s YouTube page says, Starring: Mat Dann, Kelly Dooley, Chet Harding, Evan Kaufman, Norm Laviolette, Richie Moriarty and Brian O’Hara...

Pepper Potts Won’t Appear In ‘The Avengers,’ According To Gwyneth Paltrow By Russ Fischer/Dec. 13, 2010 10:30 am EST Briefly: While he didn’t talk in too many details about The Avengers during the LA Times web chat on Friday, Kevin Feige did hint that the film might have a cameo or two beyond the scope of the giant announced cast. But one character who won’t be appearing, according to Gwyneth Paltrow, will be Iron Man’s girl Friday Pepper Potts....

Ridley Scott’s Alien Prequel Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2010 3:00 am EST MTV spoke to the filmmaker about his new film Robin Hood and was able to uncover some details about this upcoming project. Scott says that the story has been decided, they are in their fourth draft, and that designers are already “working graphically on designs for the various requirements of the film.” In the next few weeks he’ll have to turn a ballpark budget figure to the studio, but Scott is adamant that the film is actually going to happen....

Roadside Attractions To Distribute Sundance Hit ‘Circumstance’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 10, 2011 2:30 pm EST If you read the site regularly, you’ve probably heard of Sundance U.S. Audience Award winner Circumstance. The tale of two Iranian lesbians trapped in an impossible system was one of our favorite films of the 2011 festival. Now, Participant Media has locked down a deal to have Roadside Attractions distribute the movie in the United States, possibly as soon as this summer....

The Next Project From David Lynch Is Another Foray Into Music By Russ Fischer/Nov. 30, 2010 7:00 am EST This week the director dropped a digital single on iTunes featuring two songs. They’re the first inking of the music project Mr. Lynch is working on now, which he’s calling “a kind of modern blues.” The two tracks are ‘Good Day Today,’ a sort of soft electro jam punctuated with gunshots and bass thuds, and ‘I Know,’ which boasts a slightly more rock orientation....

Tim Robbins And Adrien Brody Cast In WWII Chinese Famine Film By Russ Fischer/Nov. 18, 2011 9:30 am EST Briefly: Here’s another example of the increasing, and sometimes increasingly weird, overlap between the US and Chinese film industries. Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody have been cast in a film that will chronicle the effects of a famine that devastated central China as war raged against Japan in 1942. That’s not quite the same as Zhang Yimou hiring Christian Bale for The Flowers of War, but it is the result of the same idea being put into play....

TV Bits: ‘DMZ’ Adaptation Killed, Roseanne Barr Developing New Sitcom, ‘True Blood’ Renewed For Fifth Season By Angie Han/Aug. 12, 2011 5:00 am EST The steady stream of television news continues today with a couple of interesting announcements. After the jump, read about the “near miss” of a television adaptation of Vertigo comic book series DMZ, Rosanne Barr’s return to sitcom television, and a fifth-season renewal for True Blood. We also had a near miss with setting DMZ up as a television show, at a verrrry respectable network, and its a bit crushing....

VOTD: 36-Minute Interview With DreamWorks Animation Head Jeffrey Katzenberg By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2010 12:42 am EST If you’ve been reading the website for a while then you know my love for indepth long form interviews with actors, filmmakers and producers. /Film reader Joe L informs me that DreamWorks Animation head Jeffrey Katzenberg just appeared on Charlie Rose last week. I’ve always been fascinated with the history of Disney Animation (and highly reccomend the recent documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty) which Katzenberg headed during the Beauty and the Beast/Lion King boom....