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Ben Whishaw In Line For Steven Spielberg’s ‘Robopocalypse’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 25, 2012 2:16 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Variety broke the news of Whishaw’s likely casting, saying that “he has been at the top of DreamWorks’ list since the casting process began.” Spielberg is currently finishing Lincoln while simultaneously doing pre-production on this aimed at an early 2013 start date. The film was originally scheduled to hit later in the year but was eventually given a more realistic release date of April 25, 2014....

Blockbuster No Longer Has New Releases 28 Days Before Redbox And Netflix By Germain Lussier/Dec. 17, 2010 3:00 pm EST According to Fast Company, the reason for the switch is “lower acquisition costs.” Meaning, if you get a movie when it’s not new anymore, it’s going to be cheaper. This is a strategy Netflix actually embraced to help cut costs. They went to the studios to seek it out. And because Blockbuster was making such a big deal of their exclusive 28 day window, the studios knew they weren’t in much of a position to negotiate....

C. Thomas Howell’s ‘Spider-Man’ Role Revealed? By Germain Lussier/Jan. 12, 2011 7:00 pm EST Unlike he did in the Eighties, C. Thomas Howell will not be fighting Russians, Socs or racial stereotypes in Marc Webb’s Spider-Man reboot. We recently reported that he’d been cast in the film, starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, but were unsure who he might be playing. Entertainment Weekly has now revealed that the character’s name is “Ray” and while that doesn’t scream “Spider-Man” like the names Norman, Cletus, Otto or Eddie might, it still makes sense in a roundabout kind of way....

Casting Notes: Jennifer Connelly In Cheaters; Sean Astin In And They’re Off; Olga Kurylenko In Empires Of The Deep By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2010 10:35 am EST Ron Howard’s Cheaters already has Vince Vaughn, Kevin James and Winona Ryder. Now it has put out an offer to Jennifer Connelly for what will be, for her, a rare comedic role. She would be Vaughn’s girlfriend; Vaughn plays a guy torn on the question of whether or not to tell his best friend (James) that his wife (Ryder) is cheating on him....

Cool Stuff: Sean Gordon Murphy’s Wolverine ABC’s By Peter Sciretta/May 25, 2010 1:00 pm EST 29-year-old Brooklyn-based graphic artist Sean Gordon Murphy created an alphabet using nothing but illustrations of the Marvel Comics’ X-Men character Wolverine. Check out a sample of the alphabet, after the jump. Head to Murphy’s Deviant Art page for all of the illustrations. Cool Stuff: Sean Gordon Murphy’s Wolverine ABC’s By Peter Sciretta/May 25, 2010 1:00 pm EST...

Don Cheadle And Freida Pinto Offered Roles In Planet Of The Apes Prequel By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2010 3:13 pm EST The Apes will be created using CGI by the wonderful tram at WETA Digital, rather than the costumed actors we’ve seen in past installments of the franchise. The press release says that they will employ “certain of the groundbreaking technologies developed for AVATAR” and “will render, for the first time ever in the film series, photo-realistic apes rather than costumed actors....

Early Buzz: Black Swan Test Screening Report “Natalie Portman Has Never Been Better” By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2010 1:00 pm EST Here is his brief report (compiled from blogspot and twitter): Can’t wait to see the film later this year. The film sneaked at the landmark in the westside pavilion and though I can’t spill the beans about the plot, I will say that Natalie Portman has never been better. Man is Natalie Portman good in it, yowzers....

Edgar Wright’s ‘Ant-Man’ Could Be Marvel’s Third Film In 2014 By Russ Fischer/July 17, 2012 3:00 pm EST Marvel Studios has been fairly solid in its plan to release two films per year over the next few years. But there’s a movie that might help the outfit change that plan: Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man, which made its very early debut last weekend at Comic Con via impressive test-footage Wright shot just a couple weeks back....

Emma Stone Won’t Star In ‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’ [Updated] By Russ Fischer/June 24, 2011 3:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A few different actresses have been possible leads for the film version of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Predjudice and Zombies. Natalie Portman was an early candidate, and Mia Wasikowska and Anne Hathaway have also been linked to the project. But a series of directors have come and gone through a revolving door: David O....

By Russ Fischer/Nov. 10, 2010 10:21 am EST Let’s untangle a possibly confusing scenario. Over the weekend, the Weinsteins picked up distribution rights to Apollo 18, a Timur Bekmambetov-produced film about a supposedly canceled moon mission that really happened in secret, leading to an alien discovery. But Warner Bros. was already set to make Dark Moon, which follows basically the same plot. (Investigation of secret moon mission discoveries leads to alien encounter....

Geek Deal: Fraggle Rock: The Complete Series For Only $37.49 By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2010 11:34 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Geek Deal: The Social Network On Blu-Ray For $16.99 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2011 10:01 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

George Clooney Producing Wall Street Bailout Film, Possibly To Direct By Russ Fischer/April 14, 2011 10:30 am EST In December 2009 the Washington Post published an article called The $700 Billion Man, about Neel Kashkari (on the left, above) a Treasury Department official who was appointed as the federal bailout chief by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, only to retreat from Washington DC to the isolation of a small northern California town seven months later....

Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘The Strain’ Gets Pilot At FX, ‘Lost’ Producer Carlton Cuse Will Showrun; Plus More By Germain Lussier/Sept. 20, 2012 3:54 pm EST These days, it seems everything Guillermo Del Toro touches turns to gold. While the director is firmly focused on his big budget film Pacific Rim, HBO recently option a property he’s attached to and FX order a pilot based on a book series he wrote. The FX pilot will be based on The Strain, a trilogy of vampire novels co-authored by Del Toro, which will be overseen by Lost executive producer and co-show-runner Carlton Cuse....

Insane Studio Accounting: Warner Bros Claims $167 Million Loss Over Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix By Adam Quigley/July 6, 2010 5:05 pm EST The Twilight gang has it right: if you’re going to be earning a percentage of a film’s profits, make sure it’s from the theatrical gross, and not the net profits. Certain members of the cast and crew of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix haven’t been so lucky though, as a leaked accounting statement from Warner Bros....

Joaquin Phoenix Won’t Help Finish Final River Phoenix Film ‘Dark Blood’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2011 7:00 am EST Yesterday director George Sluizer claimed that he would soon finish and release his film Dark Blood, which was originally in production in 1993. The movie starred River Phoenix, and was shooting at the time of the young actor’s unfortunate death in LA. The movie halted there, and little has been heard of it in the nearly twenty years since....

Kenneth Branagh To Direct Adaptation Of Swedish Novel ‘Italian Shoes’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 19, 2011 4:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Producing will be the Swedish company Yellow Bird. You might not know that name, but you’ll probably recognize the company’s logo, as it is tacked on the front of the original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, as well as on the other two Millennium Trilogy novel adaptations that follow it and the film Headhunters, which played Fantastic Fest and is already set up to be remade....

Leslie Mann Joins Olivia Wilde And Ryan Reynolds In ‘The Change-Up’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 22, 2010 10:22 am EST The body-switching comedy is a minor sub-genre that will never die. Every five years or so we’re bound to get a new story in which two people switch bodies so that hilarity may ensue. They may be a pair that are young and old, male and female, or hot and… not hot....

Meet The New Bond Girls In The Latest ‘Skyfall’ Video Blogs By Germain Lussier/March 29, 2012 12:00 pm EST James Bond has it so tough. Not only is he bad ass, rich and handsome, he always has multiple gorgeous women at his side. Sure, a lot of the time those women try to kill him, but that’s the price you pay for being a secret agent. In Sam Mendes’ upcoming Bond film, Skyfall, Daniel Craig’s James Bond will again have two lovely ladies to interact with....

New Weezer Album Is A Tribute To LOST’s Hurley By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 9, 2010 2:00 pm EST Weezer’s next CD, their eigth LP, is a tribute to the ABC television series LOST. The musical group has ramed their upcoming Album “Hurley” and the album cover is simply a close-up photo of actor Jorge Garcia who plays Hugo “Hurley” Reyes in the series. Hit the jump to see the CD cover....