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First Official Photo: Anne Hathaway As Catwoman In ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2011 1:34 am EST Warner Bros has released the first official photo of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises. The photo, which appeared on the official website, TheDarkKnightRises.com, has a file name of “selina_kyle.jpg”. Most comic fans know that Kyle is the secret identity of the Batman villainess… but I find it interesting that the file uses that name and not “Catwoman”....

Geek Deal: The Ultimate Matrix Collection Blu-Ray For $26.99 By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2011 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. This seven-disc collection contains the complete Matrix Trilogy in high definition video and lossless high definition 5.1 audio (Dolby TrueHD) — each with hours of special features including WHV’s ground-breaking In-Movie Experience. The Animatrix, the nine-part anime film, three additional bonus discs include more than 35 hours of additional features and a digital copy of The Matrix....

Infographic: 18 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Firefly’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 30, 2011 6:00 am EST Yet even with that level of intense fandom, there are still things most of us – and some fans – might not know about Firefly and Serenity. After the jump, check out an infographic that lists a whole bunch. Eighteen to be exact. Thanks to Carsort.com for this great graphic. If you head to their site, you can see where they sourced all this information....

It’s The 25th Anniversary Of The Goonies By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2010 9:00 am EST The Goonies was released on June 7th 1985, twenty five years ago today. The film was a huge part of my childhood, as I assume it must have been for many children of the 80’s. In fact, as I type this post, I’m staring at a huge French Goonies poster hung on my office wall. Please leave your thoughts on growing up with the movie in the comments below, and wish the movie a happy anniversary!...

Jason Keller Writing ‘The Passage’ For Director Matt Reeves By Russ Fischer/June 20, 2011 4:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. THR has the news, but doesn’t specify whether this is a page-one rewrite or one that will jump off from the work done by John Logan for Ridley Scott. From previous coverage, here’s info and a useful quote from the author about the book:...

Josh Brolin NOT Cast In Jason Reitman’s ‘Young Adult’; Actually Cast In ‘Labor Day’? By Adam Quigley/Sept. 13, 2010 12:13 pm EST When it was announced a few month back that Josh Brolin was circling an upcoming Jason Reitman film, it was assumed that he was referring to Young Adult, the Diablo Cody-scripted, Charlize Theron-starring film that tells the story of “a divorced writer who returns to her hometown and forces herself into the life of her married-with-children high school sweetheart....

Kevin Pollak Offered Role In Kevin Smith’s Red State By Adam Quigley/Sept. 13, 2010 9:55 pm EST Kevin Pollak must have made an impression with his work in Cop Out—the most recent (and least satisfying) of Kevin Smith’s films—because now he’s been offered a part in Red State, Smith’s tale about a group of kids who encounter “a crazed preacher (based on Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church) who gives a whole new meaning to the term ’extreme fundamentalism....

Lauren Graham Leaves Scream 4? By Peter Sciretta/June 30, 2010 4:00 pm EST Last week we reported that Lake Bell left the cast of Wes Craven’s Scream 4 due to supossed “scheduling conflicts”. Now Ghoulsonfilmis (found via: arrow) reporting that Lauren Graham is also leaving the project due to “date conflict and script changes.” Graham was going to play Kate, the mother of Emma Roberts’ character Jill Kessler. No word on who will replace Graham in the project, which is currently filming....

Lily Collins Will No Longer Play The Lead In ‘The Evil Dead’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 24, 2012 1:00 pm EST Just weeks ago Lily Collins (Mirror, Mirror) was announced as the female lead of the new version of The Evil Dead. She was to be the new Ash, essentially, in the Fede Alvarez-directed remake of Sam Raimi’s classic horror film. (Calling the character ’the new Ash,’ refers to the Evil Dead lead played by Bruce Campbell in three films, though that might turn out to be a stretch as we don’t yet know enough about what the new character will really be like....

Mark Wahlberg Training And In Preliminary Talks To Make Sequel To ‘The Fighter’ By Germain Lussier/March 15, 2011 2:00 pm EST Most of the time, films based on true stories that are nominated for seven Oscars and win two don’t scream sequel. In the case of The Fighter, though, the story of boxer “Irish” Micky Ward was just getting started as the credits rolled. As we all found out once we saw the film, The Fighter really wasn’t about boxing....

Marvel Superhero Bits: ‘Amazing Spider-Man,’ Stellan Skarsgard, ‘Daredevil’ Reboot Idea, ‘Iron Man 3’ By Germain Lussier/March 8, 2011 4:00 pm EST Earlier today, we posted a cornucopia of information on upcoming DC comic book movies and now, just to keep things fair, balanced and observe the equal time rule, here’s the Marvel half of that equation. After the jump, we’ll show you a photo of Peter Parker’s high school in The Amazing Spider-Man, talk about Stellan Skarsgard’s involvement in The Avengers, hear Xavier Gens’s idea for the Daredevil reboot and watch Robert Downey Jr....

By Angie Han/Nov. 7, 2011 5:00 pm EST Back when MGM’s financial woes put plans for Bond 23 on indefinite hiatus, director Sam Mendes signed on to direct a quick feature titled On Chesil Beach, based on a 2007 novella by Atonement author Ian McEwan. But now that those Bond issues have worked themselves out, Mendes is hard at work on Skyfall, and On Chesil Beach has fallen into the hands of another filmmaker....

New ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Posters Highlight Famous Video Game Cameos By Germain Lussier/Sept. 19, 2012 7:00 am EST With Wreck-It Ralph, not only is Disney making a movie about video games, they’re paying homage to video games. In addition to the story of Ralph (John C. Reilly), Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) and fictional games like Fix-It Felix Jr., Sugar Rush and Hero’s Duty, real life games all exist in this world. There’s Pac-Man, Q-Bert, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter II, all of the classic games we grew up with in the Eighties and Nineties....

New Mortal Kombat Footage Features Michael Jai White; Does This Tease A New Movie, Video Game, Or Both? By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2010 11:54 am EST The most attention-getting thing to hit the ’net on a very slow news day is this seven minutes of Mortal Kombat footage featuring Michael Jai White as Jax. There’s a lot going on here — introductions and backstory for antagonists like Reptile and Baraka, a fight scene featuring Johnny Cage, and even Jeri Ryan as Sonya Blade....

Phil Lord And Chris Miller In Talks To Direct ‘Bob The Musical’ For Disney By Russ Fischer/Dec. 7, 2010 6:30 am EST Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs very quickly turned me into a fan of directorial team Phil Lord and Chris Miller. The film pointed me towards their sharp and funny, if short-lived show Clone High, and has me anticipating the big-screen version of 21 Jump Street, which they’re set to direct in early spring 2011....

By Peter Sciretta/May 5, 2010 4:00 pm EST 45-year-old comic store owner Michael Baulderstone was dressed as Spider-Man on Free Comic Book Day when he noticed a customer put an expensive X-Men Omnibus in his backpack. The security footage shows Spider-Man “running down the corridor of the shop, grabbing this guy, hauling him off.” Watch the video here: “One of the funniest things about the incident was that I called for people to stand near the door and it just so happened we had people dressed as Jedi knights there blocking the exit, the Flash was there at some point too,” Mr Baulderstone told the Courier Mail....

Robert Zemeckis May Return To Live-Action With ‘Timeless,’ Considered ‘Superman’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 29, 2010 1:13 pm EST Robert Zemeckis has been very active over the past ten years, working to push forward the art of 3D and motion capture with The Polar Express, Beowulf and A Christmas Carol. But when his 3D company, ImageMovers Digital, was abandoned by Disney early this year, there was great supposition about what the filmmaker’s next move might be....

Rumor: Brad Pitt To Play Supporting Role In ‘The Counselor’? By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2012 11:30 am EST Briefly: The Counselor is shaping up to be one of the most exciting big films to shoot in 2012. Based on a script by Cormac McCarthy, the movie will be directed by Ridley Scott with Michael Fassbender playing an attorney who tries to drink from the profit stream of the drug trade, only to find himself pulled underwater....

Say It Ain’t So: Warner Bros. To Produce Live Action / CGI Hybrid Bugs Bunny Film By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2010 6:16 pm EST WB has seemed like it has a pretty good handle on how to revive the classic stable of Looney Tunes characters. There are three short 3D Road Runner shorts running in front of films this summer and fall, which actually look funny, and a new TV series....

Script Sales: Kurtzman And Orci Produce Airport Thriller From Writer Jeremy Slater; Hitman Producers Option Horror-Thriller ‘Suspension’ By Russ Fischer/April 14, 2010 5:57 am EST Writers turned producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Alias, Transformers, Star Trek) have put together a pitch for a thriller set in an airport and set it in motion at DreamWorks. The key element of the equation is their partner in the pitch: screenwriter Jeremy Slater, whose work has ended up on the Black List (Score, in 2007) and has a couple other scripts in development....