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Casting Bits: Ken Jeong In ‘The Chung Factor’; Karl Urban, Ben Barnes, And Emilia Clarke (Maybe) In ‘Overdrive’; Katheryn Winnick In ‘Charlie Swan’ By Angie Han/Oct. 26, 2011 5:00 am EST Ken Jeong has built up a respectable career as a supporting actor, most notably on NBC’s Community and the Hangover films, but for his next movie role he’ll be moving a little closer to the spotlight. Jeong is set to star in and produce The Chung Factor, which landed on the 2005 Black List back when it was titled The Ex-Factor....

Casting Bits: Nick Nolte In ‘The Company You Keep;’ Jay Chou In ‘The Viral Factor;’ Christopher Judge In ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2011 6:00 am EST Lots of casting news has been flying about for the past few days, and in the wake of Comic Con we’re still catching up on a few things. In this particular casting break you’ll find: Nick Nolte will lend his wonderfully grizzled talent to Robert Redford’s new film....

Comic-Con: Paul Panel And Footage Description By Devindra Hardawar/July 24, 2010 7:40 pm EST We’ve been waiting for some time to see footage from Paul, director Greg Mottola’s follow-up to Adventureland, and given what we’ve seen today at San Diego’s Comic-Con, the wait was certainly worth it. Mottola, along with much of the cast –including Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Sigourney Weaver, Jeffrey Tambor, and Jason Bateman — hit the stage to chat about the film, and give us our first glimpse at the footage....

Cool Stuff: Matt Owen’s Limited Edition ‘Young Adult’ Pop-Up Screening Art By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 2, 2011 12:00 am EST Paramount Pictures is running unannounced pop-up screenings of Jason Reitman’s new film Young Adult in cities around North America. As a special bonus, Reitman and Paramount enlisted the curatorial services of Los Angeles’ famous pop culture art gallery Gallery1988 to pick the artists and produce limited edition pieces of art for the surprise screenings....

Cool Stuff: Mondo’s Fantastic Fest 2011 Posters By Germain Lussier/Sept. 22, 2011 9:43 am EST I type this from the tables right outside the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin Texas as Fantastic Fest 2011 is getting ready to kick off. Of course, it wouldn’t be a true to form Alamo event if Mondo didn’t get involved and in addition to an Olly Moss American Werewolf in London poster that will be revealed on Saturday, Mondo has a bunch of limited edition posters that will be available for the first time at the fest....

Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’ Shoots In New York And Iceland; Liam Neeson Still Uncertain By Russ Fischer/April 23, 2012 9:30 am EST Here’s a pretty minor update on Darren Aronofsky’s Noah. Just as we get word that The Wolverine, the film Aronofsky was previously set to direct, will shoot in Australia rather than Japan, we’ve now got basic details on the locations for Noah. The movie, which tells a version of the biblical tale of Noah and his mission to preserve humans and animals against God’s cleansing flood, will have location work done in Iceland and New York, with studio work likely done in the latter....

Dominic Cooper Joins Peter Dinklage In ‘Anvil!’ Director’s ‘My Dinner With Hervé’ By Russ Fischer/July 11, 2011 3:00 pm EST Sacha Gervasi is looking to follow up his hit documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil with an intriguing sorta-biopic called My Dinner With Hervé. The film will follow the final days of Fantasy Island TV star Hervé Villechaize, based in part on the interviews that Sacha Gervasi actually did with the actor just before his suicide in 1993....

Duncan Jones’ Script ‘Mute’ To Become A Graphic Novel By Russ Fischer/March 11, 2011 6:00 am EST A couple years ago, it looked like Duncan Jones might follow up his debut feature, Moon, with a sci-fi film called Mute. Set in futuristic Berlin, the script follows a mute bartender looking for his abducted girlfriend. Comparisons were made to Blade Runner, and some script reviews praised the visual detail implied by the script....

By Russ Fischer/April 3, 2012 2:30 pm EST The future has been bleak for the Halloween series. There was once a plan for The Weinstein Company to follow Rob Zombie’s two movies with a third movie, to be written by Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer, but start dates and release dates for that movie have come and gone, and in general TWC seemed little interested in making a new film....

Jan De Bont To Direct Live-Action Mulan Movie By Adam Quigley/Sept. 6, 2010 3:19 pm EST With the lone exception of Speed, the critical appreciation for Jan de Bont’s directorial efforts (Twister, The Haunting, Lara Craft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Speed 2: Cruise Control) has never come close to the success that he’s found at the worldwide box office—but now he may be aiming to change that. With years having gone by since his last film, his return to cinema looks to be a departure from the Hollywood genre pics he’s done throughout his career....

By Germain Lussier/Aug. 14, 2012 11:30 am EST To date, Joss Whedon’s The Avengers has only grossed $617.3 million in the United States and Box Office Mojo reports it’s barely playing on 200 screens. That’s unacceptable, says the writer/director, who released a video damming the upcoming film Sleepwalk With Me from stealing some of those precious, and much needed screens. The comedy, written and directed by Mike Birbiglia, won an audience award at Sundance earlier this year and begins to hit theaters later this month....

Mark Steven Johnston To Direct Racing Thriller ‘Autobahn’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 3, 2011 6:54 pm EST But now he’s got a new project, and not one that brings him back to his Grumpy Old Men and Simon Birch roots. Autobahn is the name of this one, and the film, written by Greg Russo and formerly called I-95, sounds like some combination of Speed and Taken. More info awaits below. THR reports that the film is about “a washed-up ex-Formula One driver who wakes up trapped inside a BMW on the side of the Autobahn, Germany’s famed high-speed roadway, which has no general speed limit....

Michael Moore To Make A Fictional Film Next? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 8, 2011 10:00 am EST Briefly: In one of the many pieces that ran last night about the lawsuit Michael Moore is bringing against the Weinsteins over the profits for Fahrenheit 9/11, there was a minor nugget of info. Deadline says that the Weinsteins were just discussing the filmmaker’s next film right up until when the lawsuit was filed. He reportedly “wants to direct a fictional feature film....

New Poster: Let Me In By Peter Sciretta/July 22, 2010 12:26 pm EST Chloe Moretz has posted a new poster for Let Me In, the Let The Right One In remake/adaptation on Twitter. Check it out right now after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader Ross R for the tip. Release: October 1st, 2010 (Wide) Directed by: Matt Reeves Screenplay by: Matt Reeves Produced by: Donna Gigliotti, Simon Oakes, Nigel Sinclair, Guy East, John Nordling, Carl Molinder Executive Producers: Alex Brunner, Tobin Armbrust, John Ptak, Philip Elway, Fredrik Malmberg, Vicki Dee Rock Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz and Richard Jenkins Rating: TBD Runtime: TBD An alienated 12-year-old boy befriends a mysterious young newcomer in his small New Mexico town, and discovers an unconventional path to adulthood in Let Me In, a haunting and provocative thriller written and directed by filmmaker Matt Reeves (Cloverfield)....

Oliver Stone’s ‘Savages,’ ‘Despicable Me 2’ And Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Oblivion’ Get Release Dates By Germain Lussier/June 16, 2011 6:00 pm EST Universal just added one entry to the 2012 Oscar race and two to the 2013 Summer box office bonanza. They just announced that Oliver Stone’s adaptation of the Don Winslow novel Savages, starring Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, Emile Hirsch, Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Uma Thurman and John Travolta (wow), will bow on September 28, 2012, the sequel to the 2010 hit Despicable Me, cleverly called Despicable Me 2 for now, will hit theaters July 3, 2013 and the Joseph Kosinski-directed sci-fi epic Oblivion (which we’ve covered in excruciating detail) starring Tom Cruise will be released July 19, 2013....

Plot Synopsis For M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘After Earth’ Revealed By Germain Lussier/July 2, 2012 12:45 pm EST Buried in the incredibly busy Saturday schedule for San Diego Comic-Con 2012 is a panel concerning M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film, After Earth. The sci-fi film, which stars Will and Jaden Smith, seems like a natural fit for Comic-Con, but neither the director or its two leads will be in attendance. Instead, the panel will be in a medium sized room....

Quentin Tarantino To Head Venice Film Fest Jury; Tree Of Life To Debut At The Fest? By Russ Fischer/May 6, 2010 11:07 am EST Quentin Tarantino has led the jury at Cannes, in 2004, but his experience at the Venice Film Festival has been limited to programming a couple of sidebars in ‘04 and ‘07. That changes this year, as the fest has named Tarantino head of the 2010 competition jury for the festival which will run from September 1-11....

RED Movie Logo Revealed By Peter Sciretta/April 10, 2010 2:25 pm EST Comic co-creator Cully Hamner has posted the on-set logo for the big screen adaptation of the DC Comics/Warren Ellis graphic novel Red on his blog. Of course, the temp logo, which appears on the chairs on the New Orleans set, looks almost exactly like it does on the comic book covers. Check out a close-up, after the jump....

Richard Linklater Has Jack Black And Shirley MacLaine For His Fargo-Like Film ‘Bernie’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2010 6:26 pm EST It’s been a tough year for Richard Linklater. He came into the year with his film Me and Orson Welles finally open in US theaters, but then he had two films fail to get off the ground. That’s What I’m Talking About, the ‘spiritual sequel’ to Dazed & Confused, and the road-trip movie Liars A-E both fell apart....

Sequel Bits: Brent Spiner Jokes About ‘Star Trek 2,’ ‘Horrible Bosses’ Screenwriters Writing ‘Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/July 7, 2011 10:45 am EST Couple of bits of info on upcoming sequels for you today. First up, Brent Spiner, who played Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation and in several movies that followed, might like to appear in the upcoming Star Trek sequel currently being written by Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and J....