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Gerard Butler Joins Surfing Picture ‘Mavericks’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 14, 2011 4:00 am EST Almost a year ago we heard that Curtis Hanson (The River Wild, L.A. Confidential) would make a film about the late surfer Jay Moriarty, who rode massive Northern California wave breaks called ‘mavericks,’ but died at 22 in a diving accident. When we first reported on the film Sean Penn was rumored; the role he was very vaguely linked to is Rick ‘Frosty’ Hesson, the young surfer’s friend and mentor....

Infographic: Back To The Future Roads Chart By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2010 12:00 pm EST At the end of Back to the Future, Marty McFly tells Doc Brown that they don’t have enough street to get up to 88 miles per hour. Doc looks over at Marty and explains that “Where we’re going… We don’t need roads…” Some of you might be confused as 2015 is almost upon us and we still need roads....

Jessica Chastain Joins Tom Cruise In Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Horizons’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 26, 2011 4:15 pm EST Jessica Chastain’s star continues to rise. The actress shot two films some time ago (The Debt and The Tree of Life) which both saw release this year along with Take Shelter, Wilde Salome, The Help, Texas Killing Fields and Coriolanus. That’s a lot of late-2011 exposure for an actress that was basically an unknown to the public as recently as this past May, even if much of it is only via festival appearances....

Kimberly Peirce’s ‘Carrie’ Remake To Drop In Spring 2013 By Angie Han/April 12, 2012 5:00 pm EST Whether or not you think Stephen King’s Carrie needs to be remade yet again, the latest incarnation of the ultimate outcast revenge tale continues chugging along. At least the project’s attracting some solid talent: Boys Don’t Cry helmer Kimberly Peirce is lined up to direct, with rising star Chloe Grace Moretz in the lead role....

Movie Trailer: ‘Brighton Rock’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 21, 2010 1:12 pm EST Optimum Releasing have released the movie trailer for 28 Weeks Later and The American screenwriter Rowan Joffe’s directorial debut, an adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1938 novel Brighton Rock. The book was first adapted to the screen in 1947 in a movie starring Richard Attenborough. This time around Joffe has updated the setting to the 1960’s. The story follows “the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish....

Must Listen: ‘Jurassic Park’ Theme Song Slowed Down To Create Hour Long Symphony By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 17, 2011 7:00 am EST Georgia-based musician Birdfeeder decided to slow down composer John Williams’ Jurassic Park theme song eighteen times, which surprisingly resulted in a beautiful hour-long ambient symphony which you must hear for yourself. Listen now embedded after the jump. Jurassic Park Theme (1000% Slower) by birdfeeder Found via Roger Ebert’s retweet....

Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’ Planned As Six-Season HBO Arc By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2011 9:00 am EST Plans made by HBO and Tom Hanks’ Playtone Productions to adapt Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods to television are even more elaborate than we expected. In April we learned that cinematographer Robert Richardson had brought the novel to Playtone, which in turn made a deal with HBO. But we didn’t know any details of how the adaptation would go, other than that Neil Gaiman would work on the pilot script with Mr....

New Projection Technique Creates Glasses-Free 3D Movies By Germain Lussier/Aug. 21, 2012 2:13 pm EST Uncomfortable glasses are certainly near the top of anyone’s laundry list of problems with 3D. For decades, glasses have been an unavoidable fact because 3D is comprised of two different images, projected from behind you, and the glasses are the tool that combines the two into a three-dimensional illusion. In recent years, with 3D become more popular and lucrative, companies have been trying to solve the problem of presenting 3d without glasses....

Not Surprisingly, Alamo Drafthouse’s Tim League Also Against Separate Text-Friendly Screenings; Read His Open Letter By Angie Han/July 17, 2012 1:30 pm EST As the debate about texting in theaters rages on, TheWrap’s Chris Davison has proposed one possible compromise between the two sides: Designate screenings as either “texting” or “non-texting,” and deal with glowing screens accordingly. That way, movie theater purists can be assured an experience free of those disruptive lights, those who don’t mind them can Tweet / email / text to their hearts’ content, and industry folks can rake in the dollars from both types of viewers....

Peter’s Reaction To JJ Abrams’ ‘Super 8’ By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2011 10:00 am EST Video Blog:Brief Thoughts on Super 8: The best compliment I can give Super 8 is that I could watch a whole movie with the characters of this film, a story that doesn’t involve a train crash, a mysterious monster on the loose, or any sci-fi aspects at all, and I would enjoy it just as much (if not more)....

Sorry, India: David Fincher’s Unwillingness To Cut Nudity Means No Release For ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2012 4:30 pm EST Briefly: David Fincher is committed to the integrity of his films. He’s committed to it to the degree that The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo won’t be released in India, because the director refused to make cuts. Variety reports that the January release of the movie was delayed to February, and that the Central Board of Film Certification demanded cuts to five scenes featuring nudity....

Sylvester Stallone To Finally Write And Direct ‘Hunter’? By Russ Fischer/Sept. 21, 2012 9:27 am EST For those interested in a fifth Rambo movie from Sylvester Stallone, the name Hunter might sound familiar. It’s a novel by James Byron Huggins with a sci-fi premise, in which a specialized, elite hunter takes aim at a “half-human abomination created by a renegade agency” that is tearing through sparse areas north of the Arctic Circle....

The Pursuit Of Happyness Scribe To Write The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty By Russ Fischer/April 23, 2010 7:46 am EST Now the film has a new screenwriter: Steven Conrad, who wrote The Pursuit of Happyness. Conrad is the latest in a rather long list of writers who have worked on a new version. Babaloo Mandel & Lowell Ganz, Chuck Russell, Peter Tolan, Zach Helm, Richard LaGravanese, Jay Kogen, David Reynolds and Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant have all made attempts at crafting a new take, with Steven Spielberg, Mark Waters and Chuck Russell all meaning to direct at various points and Jim Carrey, Owen Wilson and MIke Myers have been attached to star....

Tom Hardy Talks Mad Max: Fury Road By Russ Fischer/June 28, 2010 7:45 am EST We’ve had little bits of news about George Miller’s fourth film in the Max storyline, Mad Max: Fury Road, but until now nothing terribly significant. The casting of Tom Hardy in the lead role was a great step in the right direction, and now the actor is starting to talk about the film, which shoots later this year....

VOTD: Home Alone With Zombies By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2010 1:30 pm EST What if Home Alone was a movie about a boy left home along in a city overrun with zombies? This is exactly what Jeff Schmalz has imagined in this video which mashes the films Home Alone and I am Legend together into one movie. Macaully Culkin stars in this post-apocalyptic thriller about a young boy all alone at Christmas who is attacked by zombie vampires....

Watch Tim Burton’s Odd ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Introduction, Plus Behind The Scenes Footage By Russ Fischer/Feb. 15, 2012 10:00 am EST Also after the break is a short behind the scenes reel for the film that explains a bit of the film’s approach to creating the ‘secret life’ of Lincoln. There’s a bit of new footage in there, too. Here’s Burton’s intro, via Deadline: And this is the BTS clip:...

‘Candyland’ Likened To ‘The Lord Of The Rings,’ With Candy By Russ Fischer/May 23, 2011 4:00 pm EST Of the many projects to come out of Hasbro’s movie wheeling and dealing, there may be none more scorned than Candyland. Based on a board game that really has no plot or any characters that are possessed of more than a name and cartoonish countenance, the film seems far more crass than your typical cash grab....

‘Green Lantern’ – What Did You Think? By David Chen/June 17, 2011 7:00 pm EST I’m a huge fan of Martin Campbell. This is the guy who successfully rebooted the Bond franchise (twice), and brought a kickass version of Zorro to the big screen. A superhero film based on Green Lantern seemed like a bit of a stretch, but with Campbell’s action sensibilities and his ability to portray characters broadly yet compellingly, I was more than willing to give it a chance....

‘People Like Us’ Trailer: ‘Transformers’ And ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ Writers Segue Into Drama By Russ Fischer/March 29, 2012 11:00 am EST Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci made their name as a team crafting geek-friendly TV like Alias and Xena: Warrior Princess, before moving on to properties like the Transformers films, Mission: Impossible, the Star Trek reboot and the ‘swing and a miss’ film Cowboys & Aliens. Now Alex Kurtzman has directed his first feature, People Like Us, written by the duo with Jody Lambert....

‘Shot Lister’ iPhone/iPad App Could Revolutionize Film Set Planning And Organization By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2012 7:00 am EST If all of that wasn’t enough, he’s inventing new applications to revolutionize the process of working on a film set. When does this guy find the time to rest? We don’t really cover the backend process of filmmaking as much as I would like to, but having directed a feature film myself years and years ago, I see the huge value in a program like Shot Lister....