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Casting Bits: Naomi Watts And Liev Schreiber In ‘Bleeder;’ Mos Def In ‘Dexter;’ Imogen Poots In ‘Comes A Bright Day’ By Russ Fischer/May 11, 2011 8:39 pm EST It always happens at this time every year: producers go to the Cannes marketplace with armfuls of potential projects, and we get a flood of casting reports as actors are attached left and right. Some of these will get made, some won’t, and some will get made with an entirely different cast....

Casting Bits: Ruth Wilson In ‘The Lone Ranger’, B.J. Novak In ‘The Dictator’, Peter Mullan In ‘Man Inside’ By Angie Han/July 13, 2011 10:00 am EST Ruth Wilson will be breaking into the boys’ club as the female lead of Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger, starring Armie Hammer as the Texas ranger and Johnny Depp as his sidekick Tonto. Although Wilson’s name may be unfamiliar to most Americans, she’s known in the UK for her work on the BBC’s Luther and the Masterpiece Theatre miniseries Jane Eyre....

Cool Stuff: Star Wars/Space Invaders T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2010 10:22 pm EST Today’s t-shirt at Ript Apparel is a Star Wars/Space Invaders parody design by Mexican illustrator RoboRock titled “Invader”. The design features a lone green fighter sending one shot into an army of space invaders in the shape of the dark lord Vader. The good news is that the t-shirt is only $10. The bad news is that the T-shirt will only be available for 24 hours, so act now before it ends up in the tee graveyard....

Damon Lindelof’s Top 6 TV Shows Of 2010 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2010 9:00 am EST As the year comes to a close, more Top 10 lists are being published. Last week, Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof filed a list of his top five favorite television shows of 2010. Hit the jump to find out which television shows made Damon’s list this year. Damon Lindelof’s Top 5 TV Shows of 2010 Mad Men – “I keep praying for this show to start sucking because it consistently reminds me of what a shitty writer I am....

Disney Animation’s ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Will Feature ‘Roger Rabbit’ Style Cameos From Classic Nintendo, Atari And Sega Video Game Characters By Peter Sciretta/April 25, 2012 9:00 am EST Disney Animation’s computer animated feature film Wreck-It Ralph follows Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly), a bad guy from a Donkey Kong meets Rampage inspired 1980’s arcade game Fix It Felix Jr. The story is set inside the world of video games. Fix It Felix Jr....

Exclusive Interview: Let Me In Director Matt Reeves By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 1, 2010 1:38 pm EST During my visit to Fantastic Fest in Austin Texas, I got an opportunity to sit down with filmmaker Matt Reeves. After graduating from the University of Southern California, Reeves co-wrote a script that eventually became Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and made his feature directorial debut with The Pallbearer. The film screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section but went on to make only $5....

Fast Five Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 14, 2010 12:19 pm EST Universal Pictures has released the first movie trailer for the latest installment of the Fast and the Furious series, Fast Five. The film stars Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson and Ludacris. Justin Lin, who has directed the last couple of sequels (beginning with The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in 2006), directed this latest installment....

Final Destination 5 Plot Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2010 2:00 pm EST Warner Bros/New Line has released a press release announcing the start of principal photography on Final Destination 5, which includes the first official plot synopsis: In this fifth installment, Death is just as omnipresent as ever, and is unleashed after one man’s premonition saves a group of coworkers from a terrifying suspension bridge collapse. But this group of unsuspecting souls was never supposed to survive, and, in a terrifying race against time, the ill-fated group frantically tries to discover a way to escape Death’s sinister agenda....

Infographic: Harry Potter And The Multibillion-Dollar Empire By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2011 6:00 am EST Fast Company and designer Mikey Burton created an infographic taking a look at the multibillion-dollar empire that is the Harry Potter franchise. Check it out after the jump. Infographic: Harry Potter And The Multibillion-Dollar Empire By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2011 6:00 am EST Fast Company and designer Mikey Burton created an infographic taking a look at the multibillion-dollar empire that is the Harry Potter franchise....

JK Rowling Considered Killing Harry Potter’s Best Friend, Ron Weasley By Germain Lussier/Oct. 31, 2011 1:30 pm EST Before the July 2007 release of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, one of the major points of discussion was which characters the author would kill. Would Harry make it through? Which side characters would be offed? In the end, though Rowling did kill a handful of name characters, she was mostly merciful....

Kerry Washington Is Broomhilda In ‘Django Unchained’ By Angie Han/Oct. 26, 2011 10:30 am EST And there you have it, folks. For the past several months we’ve watched as Quentin Tarantino filled seemingly every single role in his Django Unchained except the key character of Django’s wife Broomhilda — but the part remains empty no more. Kerry Washington has landed the female lead in the “Southern-fried spaghetti Western,” in which she’ll star opposite Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, and many others....

Listen: The Los Lobos Theme Song To ‘Rango,’ Starring Johnny Depp By Germain Lussier/Feb. 3, 2011 3:30 pm EST Re-teaming director Gore Verbinski with Johnny Depp in the wild world of animation has most of us incredibly curious about Rango, which opens March 4. The film is about a chameleon who fancies himself a hero in a wild-west town that is not hero friendly. To give the film an authentic southwestern feel, Verbinski, along with composer Hans Zimmer, searched high and low for just the right sound....

By Angie Han/Oct. 20, 2011 9:00 am EST Like so many actors before him — including BFF Ben Affleck — Matt Damon’s been harboring aspirations of becoming a director. He announced over the summer that he was getting ready to helm his first film, with The Office’s John Krasinski set to star. At the time, we figured that the project in question was probably the road trip story Father Daughter Time....

Megan Ellison Lands ‘Terminator’ Rights By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2011 8:37 am EST Briefly: And things get interesting. Megan Ellison’s company Annapurna Pictures has won the auction for rights to make future films in the Terminator franchise, beating out LionsGate and becoming the producers behind Justin Lin and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s potential Terminator sequel.Deadline says the company now has rights to make “at least two more” films in the series. We don’t have much more detail now, and I’ll refer you back to the thoughts put down two days ago when this outcome started to seem like a real possibility....

Michael Clarke Duncan Has Died At 54 By Angie Han/Sept. 3, 2012 3:36 pm EST He enjoyed a robust television career as well, guest-starring in shows such as Family Guy and Two and a Half Men. Recently, he starred in Fox’s cancelled Bones spinoff The Finder. In addition, he did voice work in films like Kung Fu Panda and last summer’s Green Lantern. Duncan had been in the hopsital for the past seven weeks following a July 13 heart attack that put him in intensive care....

New ‘At The Movies’ Critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s Ballot For The Best Films Of 2010 By Germain Lussier/Jan. 7, 2011 3:00 pm EST If you don’t recognize the name Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, you probably missed the recent story about him taking the spot vacated by Elvis Mitchell on the upcoming new show Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies. The 24-year-old movie blogger will be going toe to toe with Associated Press film critic Christy Lemire each and every week discussing the latest films to come out in theaters....

New ‘The Three Stooges’ Trailer Tries To Sell Slapstick By Russ Fischer/March 21, 2012 12:00 pm EST Remember when we thought for a minute that Johnny Knoxville might play Moe in the Peter and Bobby Farrelly version of The Three Stooges? That didn’t happen, but now things have come full circle, in a way, as the new trailer for the film opens by emulating the warning that opened every episode of Knoxville’s breakout show Jackass....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2012 8:00 am EST What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If you have any interesting items that we might’ve missed that you think should go in /Film’s Page 2 – email us!...

Reactions From Paramount’s CinemaCon Presentation: ‘One Shot’, ‘The Dictator’, ‘Madagascar 3’, And ‘Rise Of The Guardians’ By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2012 1:30 pm EST Monday at CinemaCon, Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation presented footage from their upcoming 2012 slate to a room full of theater exhibitors (and a few press). After the jump you will find a video blog I recorded with Frosty from Collider reacting to 25 minutes of Madagascar 3, 15 minutes of Rise of the Guardians, three scenes from Christopher McQuarrie’s One Shot starring Tom Cruise and a sequence from Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator....

Roger Ebert’s ‘Life Itself: A Memoir’ Will Be Released On September 13th 2011 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 23, 2011 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Beloved film critic Roger Ebert’s new 448-page book Life Itself: A Memoir will be released in hardcover on September 13th 2011, and is now available for preorder. The book tells the story of Ebert’s life, and his rise and journeys as the most popular film critic in cinema history....