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No, Seriously, The ‘Book Of Mormon’ Movie Is Still A Long Ways Off By Angie Han/Sept. 21, 2011 12:00 pm EST Well, we did warn you it wasn’t going to happen anytime soon. Not long ago, we reported on an eventual feature film adaptation of The Book of Mormon, the award-winning Broadway musical by South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker and Avenue Q co-writer Robert Lopez. At the time, we wrote that the movie was still several years away, but now it sounds even less solid than that....

Now MGM Wants Russell Crowe For ‘RoboCop’? [Update: “No,” Says Crowe] By Russ Fischer/Feb. 2, 2012 6:31 am EST This is starting to get ridiculous. Yesterday we heard that Akiva Goldsman is still trying to call in favors with Russell Crowe, among other actors, to play a role in his directorial debut Winter’s Tale. Then it came out that Darren Aronofsky wants the actor for Noah. Now MGM is supposedly looking at Crowe for RoboCop....

Official Plot Synopsis For Steven Spielberg’s ‘War Horse’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 14, 2010 9:11 am EST While the 2010 Holiday Movie season has been a little lackluster, 2011 is looking amazing. Sure this year we get a sequel to TRON and a new film by the Coen Brothers but next December alone we get new films from Martin Scorsese, Cameron Crowe, Brad Bird, David Fincher, Guy Ritchie as well as two new films by Steven Spielberg....

By Russ Fischer/April 28, 2011 2:30 pm EST We don’t have a plot recap at this point, but in the announcement of the deal Deadline relates that the script “blends Robert Ludlum and JRR Tolkien.” I have no idea what that would actually be on the page — the combo suggests any number of possibilities. Oddly, it also suggests the sort of genre-bending that is the core of Ron Howard’s current big project, The Dark Tower....

Ryan Gosling Bails On Directing And Starring In ‘The Idolmaker’ By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2011 6:30 pm EST A couple weeks ago, we somehow missed reporting on the fact that Ryan Gosling had signed to write and direct a remake of Taylor Hackford’s 1980 film The Idolmaker for MGM. (The original was a biopic of early rock and roll manager and eventual burnout Bob Marcucci.) Perhaps that omission was somehow driven by prescience, as that deal has fallen apart....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Prince Of Persia, Glee (Season 1), It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (Season 5), And More By Adam Quigley/Sept. 14, 2010 3:24 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Available on Blu-ray? Yes.Notable Extras: DVD & Blu-ray – Extended episodes, a sing-along karaoke, behind-the-scenes of “The Power of Madonna” episode, Glee Makeovers, never-before-seen “Sue’s Corners” and a dance tutorial titled “Staying in Step with Glee....

Tom Cruise Will Take A Significantly Reduced Up-Front Salary For Mission: Impossible 4 By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2010 8:26 am EST Is the future for big stars? As Paramount hammers out deals for Mission: Impossible 4, one detail has come to light: Tom Cruise will take a lot less money up front than he once would have commanded. The trade-off is that he’s in line for a back-end payday that could still put his take in line with old-school movie star signing salaries....

TV Bits: ‘Bob’s Burgers’, ‘Arrow’, ‘Sherlock’, ‘Star Wars’, ‘Falling Skies’, ‘The Farm’ By Angie Han/Aug. 24, 2012 1:06 pm EST Earlier this week, the casting of Jessica De Gouw as The Huntress on Arrow got fans wondering what other familiar faces from the comics might pop up on the CW drama. While there’s no doubt the show has a few more surprise cameos in store, exec producer Marc Guggenheim has revealed several high-profile figures that won’t be making an appearance....

Watch The First Four Minutes Of ‘Iron Sky’ By Russ Fischer/March 16, 2012 4:00 pm EST Iron Sky, the jokey movie in which Earth is invaded by a Nazi colony that hid for decades on the dark side fo the moon, is finally out in the wild. Or in nature preserves, at least: it premiered at the Berlin Film festival, and then played SXSW in the past week. Reviews haven’t been great so far, with The Guardian delivering a real blow: “not terrible, by any means: just not nearly as funny or cruel as its killer premise suggests....

Watch This: The Incredible ‘Dead Island’ Video Game Trailer By David Chen/Feb. 16, 2011 8:36 pm EST Beautiful. Sublime. Stunning. These are not usually words I usually associate with video game trailers (though there are exceptions), but they could all be used to describe the newest trailer for Dead Island. Techland is the developer behind the game, but it’s had a pretty rough history; it was originally supposed to be released way back in 2008 on PC and on Xbox 360....

Young Leonardo Da Vinci Action Movie ‘Leonardo’ In Development At Universal By Russ Fischer/Nov. 9, 2011 9:00 am EST Warner Bros. isn’t the only studio getting behind the idea of recasting the young life of Renaissance poster boy Leonardo da Vinci as an action movie. Last year, WB started working on Leonardo Da Vinci and the Soldiers of Forever, written by Marc Guggenheim (Green Lantern) from a pitch by producers Adrian Askarieh, Roy Lee and Doug Davison....

/Film LA: The Wayne Federman International Film Festival Featuring Garry Shandling, Doug Benson, Kevin Pollak And More By Germain Lussier/Jan. 9, 2012 2:30 pm EST Los Angeles film goers get a little more spoiled this week as the Cinefamily is hosting The 1st Annual Wayne Federman International Film Festival. Federman is one of those classic “that guy” actors everyone knows and he came up with the idea to get a bunch of famous stand-up comedians to pick films that inspire them, introduce, screen and talk about them....

‘In Our Nature’ Trailer - Roger Sterling Disappoints Matt Saracen By Angie Han/March 7, 2012 5:00 am EST Specifically, Gilford stars as a son who still harbors resentment over his parents’ split. When a scheduling mishap leads to Gilford and his girlfriend (Jena Malone) sharing the family vacation home with his dad and his girlfriend (Gabrielle Union), father and son are forced to come to terms with one another and with the women in their lives....

‘Man On A Ledge’ Trailer And Poster: Is Sam Worthington Suicidal, Or Just Providing Misdirection? By Russ Fischer/Sept. 22, 2011 12:25 pm EST We’ll have to say this every time one of two films comes up for the next few months. Don’t get Man on a Ledge, the trailer for which you’ll find below, confused with The Ledge, the trailer for which we saw some time ago. Man on a Ledge stars Sam Worthington as a man pushed to the breaking point when he is tagged as the perpetrator of a crime....

‘Super 8’ TV Spot Features New Footage By Russ Fischer/April 4, 2011 7:30 am EST Super 8, the J. J. Abrams film produced in conjunction with Steven Spielberg that very deliberately seeks to recapture the spirit of ’80s Amblin films, is looking like one of the best bets of the summer. Footage wowed audiences at CinemaCon last week, and at a media preview not long before that. A new TV spot for the film ran last night in the States, and it features a few very small bits of new footage....

‘The Divide’ Trailer: ‘Frontier(s)’ Director Xavier Gens Goes Post-Apocalyptic By Russ Fischer/Oct. 11, 2011 2:30 pm EST For his third film, French genre director Xavier Gens has locked a bunch of New Yorkers in the basement of a building as they wait out the end of the world. But it turns out these people aren’t the only survivors, and interactions with people who didn’t make it to shelter set off a chain of events that probably won’t end well....

‘The Hangover Part II’ - New Character Banners And A New Danzig Song By Russ Fischer/April 14, 2011 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After the trailer for The Hangover Part II, it is difficult to maintain anything more than a passing level of interest in the film. Hopefully the sequel won’t be as much of a blanket retread of the first as that trailer makes it out to be, but until proven otherwise I’m putting my money on other summer films....

‘X-Men: First Class’ Official Plot Synopsis Revealed By Germain Lussier/Dec. 11, 2010 3:25 pm EST X-Men First Class stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, January Jones, and Kevin Bacon and will be released June 3. Read the plot synopsis after the break. Thanks to Screenrant for the heads up. Here’s the official plot plot synopsis. The Screenrant article seems to be sure that “to stop Armageddon” means the X-Men character Armageddon and not “Armageddon” as in the end of the world....

Adam Sandler Shatters Razzie Records With Eleven Nominations By Angie Han/Feb. 27, 2012 11:00 am EST As the race for the year’s most coveted trophies came to a close with this weekend’s Oscars ceremony, another much less prestigious awards competition was just getting started. Nominations have been announced for the 32nd Razzie Awards, handed out to the “worst achievements in film” each year. Leading the 2012 list is Adam Sandler, whose involvement in Jack and Jill, Bucky Larson, and Just Go With It earned him a record-breaking eleven Razzie nominations....

Alice Braga Joins Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’ By Russ Fischer/May 29, 2011 1:37 pm EST The latest addition to the cast of Neill Blomkamp’s mysterious second film Elysium is Alice Braga, who has been seen in Predators, Repo Men, The Rite, and City of God. As with most of the cast of the film, we know nothing about her role at this point. Indeed, apart from the fact that the script contains some of the same blend of sci-fi and topical commentary that characterized District 9, and the fact that it is set 150 years in the future and involves Jodie Foster as the head of state of an alien planet, we know very little about Elysium as a whole....