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Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ Casts Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Many More By Russ Fischer/May 5, 2011 4:38 pm EST Steven Spielberg is a busy man, and while his plans to finally make an Abraham Lincoln biopic were announced late last year, we’ve had little news since. We know that Daniel Day Lewis would play the title role, and that Sally Field will be Mary Todd, but other than that, there has been very little to report....

Taylor Lautner Attached To Adaptation Of Futuristic Thriller Novel ‘Incarceron’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 9, 2010 5:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. But with Twilight’s end approaching, he’s in a position to continue lining up projects. One is an adaptation of Catherine Fisher’s novel Incarceron, set in a massive futuristic prison. Deadline says that Adam Cooper and Bill Collage will write; they previously wrote some of Brett Ratner’s Tower Heist, and are the writers on Moby Dick for Timur Bekmambetov....

Watch Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Legato’s ‘Art Of Creating Awe’ TED Talk By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2012 2:43 pm EST Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor Rob Legato has been involved in many Hollywood classics and blockbusters over the last two decades, including: Apollo 13, Titanic, Armageddon, Cast Away, Harry Potter, Bad Boys 2, The Aviator, The Departed, Avatar, and Hugo. Over the summer, Legato gave a TED talk entitled “The Art of Creating Awe” about how visual effects are used to recreate reality or sometimes even “trump the real thing”....

Will Paul Greengrass Direct ‘Cleopatra’? By Russ Fischer/Jan. 4, 2011 11:30 pm EST We first started to hear about producer Scott Rudin’s new 3D Cleopatra last year when James Cameron looked like a potential director and Angelina Jolie was talked up as the star. Mr. Cameron moved on to his Avatar sequels, but Angelina Jolie remains attached to the film that will be based on Stacy Schiff’s biography Cleopatra: A Life....

‘Green Lantern’ Increases Effects Budget To Battle Rising Problem In Hollywood By Germain Lussier/April 26, 2011 1:00 pm EST With an exorbitant amount of tentpole, big budget effects movies aiming to hit theaters this summer, it’s no surprise that Hollywood visual effects houses are feeling the heat. Much as there are only so many studios making movies, there are only so many companies who can work on the effects for dozens of films like Green Lantern, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Captain America: The First Avenger....

‘Jack The Giant Killer,’ ‘Rock Of Ages,’ ‘One For The Money’ Get Release Dates By Angie Han/March 24, 2011 10:30 am EST We may only be three months into 2011, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to start getting excited for 2012. Release dates have just been announced for three films to open next year: Bryan Singer’s “adult fairy tale” Jack the Giant Killer, the Broadway musical-based Rock of Ages, and the Katherine Heigl “comedy crime pic” One for the Money....

‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’ Trailer: The Rock May Be This Movie’s Best Effect By Russ Fischer/Nov. 9, 2011 7:13 pm EST One of the movies that kicked off the current wave of 3D films was Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, which arrived more than a year before Avatar cemented 3D as the next big wave in theatrical technology. Now the sequel to that movie is finished, with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson stepping in for former lead Brendan Fraser....

‘Skyfall’ Set Visit Preview And Four New Photos By Russ Fischer/April 11, 2012 11:00 am EST Over the past few days I’ve been in London, and west of the city in Iver Heath. In that small village is the renowned Pinewood Studios, home of the 007 Stage. The occasion was a visit to that massive stage to see a bit of the twenty-third James Bond film, Skyfall, in action, and to spend time talking to Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, Berenice Marlohe, and some of the producers and crew....

‘The King’s Speech’ Wins Producers Guild Top Award For 2010 By Russ Fischer/Jan. 23, 2011 6:00 pm EST For those keenly interested in the award season race, here’s the first big upset of the year: the winner of the Producer’s Guild of America (PGA) Producer of the Year award for films released in 2010 — aka the organization’s Best Picture award — is The King’s Speech. That represents a big upset over The Social Network, and seems to dramatically alter predictions for the Oscar race....

Blu-Ray Geek Deals: ‘The Prestige’ $6.96, ‘28 Weeks Later’ $7.99, ‘Indiana Jones: Complete Adventures’ $68.99 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2012 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Deal prices are subject to change. We don’t know the window for these prices, so act fast before they disappear.

Cool Stuff: Michael Steele’s Back To The Future 2 Print For Sale By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 21, 2010 7:00 am EST When Gallery 1988 announced the line-up for Crazy4Cult 4, I was excited to pick up a print of Michael Steele’s Back to the Future 2 tribute piece “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” But when the show opened, it turned out that Steele’s artwork was not made available as an print....

Cool Stuff: Pee-Wee Herman Tribute Art Exhibit In Los Angeles By Germain Lussier/July 28, 2011 1:30 pm EST With his signature suit, voice and subversive family nature, Pee-Wee Herman has been a pop culture mainstay for decades. Even when the actor portraying him, Paul Reubens, had a bit of a run in with the law, fans still clamored for more Pee-Wee, rabidly watching his old specials, TV shows and movies. In 2010, Pee-Wee jumped back in the spotlight with a live Broadway show and he’s even got a new movie in the works with Judd Apatow....

Could Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ Lose Robert Downey, Jr.? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2010 12:23 pm EST Warning: this is a half-speculative story that could easily be worked out within by the end of the week, so it could amount to nothing. But it’s one more piece of the difficult mosaic that has been the development process for Gravity, the space-bound thriller from Alfonso Cuarón. After a long search, the film finally found a lead in Sandra Bullock....

Could Gaspar Noe Direct The Bret Easton Ellis Script ‘The Golden Suicides’? By Russ Fischer/May 16, 2011 7:23 pm EST Gaspar Noe’s third feature, Into the Void, was one of the more divisive films of the past couple years, and easily one of my favorites. I’ve admired his peculiar and confrontational approach to storytelling, and the superb technical craft that underlies his narrative bravado. But those very qualities I admire, and the working methods they imply, make him the sort of director that isn’t likely to take many work for hire gigs....

Daniel Radcliffe Set To Star In All Quiet On The Western Front By Russ Fischer/June 23, 2010 10:38 am EST Seems that World War I is the new World War II, at least as far as movies are concerned. After years of movies and TV that exploited the backdrop of WWII (some to very good effect) we’re now starting to see a few high-profile films that go back to the more gruesome trench warfare of the first worldwide conflict....

Diane Kruger In Talks To Join Saoirse Ronan In Stephenie Meyer Adaptation ‘The Host’ By Angie Han/Jan. 20, 2012 2:30 pm EST Although this November’s Breaking Dawn Part 2 is the last film currently planned in The Twilight Saga, Stephenie Meyer will be back at the box office again just four months later, with March’s The Host. The adaptation of Meyer’s first non-Twilight novel has been in the works for a couple of years now, and picked up steam last year when Saoirse Ronan and Andrew Niccol (In Time) signed on to star and direct, respectively....

Dwayne Johnson Says ‘Fast Six’ Gearing Up For May Start, Won’t Shoot Back-To-Back With ‘Fast Seven’ By Angie Han/Feb. 15, 2012 1:00 pm EST With the smashing success of last year’s Fast Five, Universal’s been eager to keep moving forward with its popular Fast and the Furious franchise. A Fast Six was in the works before Fast Five even hit theaters, and for the past several months the rumor’s been that Fast Six and Fast Seven would tell an interconnecting story and shoot back-to-back this year....

Fan-Made ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2’ Teaser Trailer By Germain Lussier/April 18, 2011 10:01 am EST UPDATE: Warner Brothers has just confirmed to /Film that this very convincing trailer was, in fact, fan made. We’ve been asked to remove it from our site. Original story follows. Sorry Potter fans. A two-minute teaser trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 has found its way online. In it, you’ll see Harry, Ron and Hermione battle the Death Eaters, including Lord Voldemort himself, at Hogwarts and much more....

First Look: Kick-Ass 2 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2010 2:00 pm EST Judging by the box office numbers, we might not ever see a big screen sequel to Kick-Ass… but you never know. The first issue of the six-issue comic book sequel “Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall” written by Mark Millar with art by John Romita Jr. was released yesterday. You can pick up the book at your local comic book store for $2....

Geek Deals: Labyrinth And The Dark Crystal On Blu-Ray For Only $7.99 Each By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 30, 2010 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. $24.99 Blu-Ray Box Sets: Blu-Ray Deals: DVD Deals: