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Rufus Sewell Joins ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ By Angie Han/April 12, 2011 3:00 pm EST The cast for Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter continues to fill out nicely with the addition of British film, television and stage actor Rufus Sewell. Sewell is joining a cast that already includes Benjamin Walker (Kinsey, Flags of Our Fathers) in the title role, Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World) as Lincoln’s wife Mary Todd, Anthony Mackie as Secretary of State William Seward, Dominic Cooper as Lincoln’s mentor Henry Sturges, and Alan Tudyk (Firefly) as real-life politician/fictional vampire ally Stephen A....

Screen Gems Buys ‘Devil May Cry’ Rights; Kyle Ward Writing Screenplay By Russ Fischer/Feb. 28, 2011 7:06 pm EST The Resident Evil series proved to be a monster hit (no pun intended) for Screen Gems and Sony. So the fact that the companies are going back to video games as the RE films get stretched a bit thin should come as no surprise. Appropriately, Screen Gems has even turned to a video game franchise that was born from a concept intended as a Resident Evil sequel....

Tarantino’s ‘Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair’ Plays LA In March; Director’s Next Film Being Prepped By Russ Fischer/Feb. 25, 2011 4:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Now Quentin Tarantino has programmed Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair for a full week at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, as part of his takeover of the theater’s programming for all of March and some of April....

VOTD: How Many Hawaiian Shirts Does John Lasseter Own? By Germain Lussier/May 24, 2011 6:00 am EST We all have our collections. For me it’s pop culture themed art prints, for Quentin Tarantino it’s film prints and for John Lasseter it’s Hawaiian prints. On shirts. We’ve all seen the Pixar Creative Chief do interviews in what has become his patented Hawaiian shirt and it seems like he’s always wearing a new one....

By Germain Lussier/May 13, 2011 11:30 am EST If earlier this week you read our interview with soaring pop culture artist Olly Moss, saw the photos from his new Los Angeles exhibit Paper Cuts, and were disappointed that you couldn’t experience it for yourself, we’ve got the next best thing. The t-shirt company Threadless, which Moss has worked with for years, has created a beautiful video chronicling the opening. Short of heading to Gallery 1988 sometime before May 20, when the show closes, this will give you as good an idea as any of what the show is like....

‘Atlas Shrugged’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Feb. 11, 2011 4:51 pm EST And now, after the break, there is a trailer for Atlas Shrugged Part I. I’ll admit, after the breathless few reports about how the movie had to be made right now, and that actor Paul Johansson would both direct and play John Galt, I stopped following up on the project. So I was surprised to see some familiar faces here: Jon Polito, Michael Lerner, Graham Beckel, Edi Gathegi and Patrick Fischler, for example....

‘Austin Powers 4’ May Not Be A Done Deal After All… For Now By Angie Han/Aug. 15, 2011 7:00 am EST Whether you’re excited or outraged at the prospect of a new Austin Powers movie (and a quick glance at our comments suggests there are people in both camps), you may want to put your feelings on hold just a little while longer. Although news broke a few days ago that Mike Myers was “signed, sealed, delivered” for the fourth installment of the comedy franchise, a new report suggests that the deal hasn’t been signed yet after all, and that New Line actually isn’t too sure what’s going on....

‘Fright Night’ Trailer #2 Introduces David Tennant As Peter Vincent By Russ Fischer/June 6, 2011 10:15 am EST The first trailer for Craig Gillespie’s remake of Fright Night did a pretty good job of getting across the basics: Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin), his mom (Toni Collette) and his new girlfriend (Imogen Poots) have to deal with a little problem when a vampire (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. But there was a lot the trailer didn’t touch on, with one character in particular being almost totally MIA....

‘Melancholia’ Character Posters Include A Sheet For Lars Von Trier By Russ Fischer/Sept. 27, 2011 3:00 pm EST Lars von Trier detractors often accuse the Danish director of being little more than a provocateur, and his impetuous demeanor when dealing with the media doesn’t dispel that impression. That leads some — even our own Germain, in his review of Melancholia — to suspect that Trier’s actual films are constructed, in part, as nothing more than button-pushing exercises....

‘The Dictator’ French Trailer: Prepare For Plot Twists By Russ Fischer/March 27, 2012 1:00 pm EST The Dictator, the new film from Borat creator and star Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles, hasn’t had the easiest PR swing so far. The first teaser and trailers for the film were fairly limp, and the best bit of promo we’ve seen for the film was when Cohen spoke out, in character, against his supposed ban from the Oscars....

Adam Shankman To Direct Family-Friendly Version Of ‘The Nutcracker’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 30, 2011 4:00 pm EST The world as a whole is still trying to forget the unbelievably insane The Nutcracker in 3D, released last year. (And just out on DVD as The Nutcracker: The Untold Story.) The easiest way to forget that the film exists is to make another movie called The Nutcracker, and have this one be a truly family-friendly version....

Avatar Sequel To Be Announced Within ‘A Few Months’ By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2010 9:41 am EST James Cameron spoke about 3D filmmaking at a technology forum in Seoul, South Korea recently, and said that a release date for the Avatar sequel will be announced “in a few months.” He also talked briefly about how long Avatar 2 will take to make. The AP reports on Cameron’s talk, and says that the director estimates the sequel will take about three years to make....

Billy Crystal Compares ‘Monsters University’ To ‘Revenge Of The Nerds’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 23, 2012 10:43 am EST Pixar’s first prequel, Monsters University, will be released next summer and tells the story of how monsters Mike and Sully met in college long before they were scare partners at Monsters Inc. Billy Crystal and John Goodman both return for the film, which is out June 21, 2013. Until now, all we’ve really known is that Mike and Sully started as rivals....

Casting Notes: Elias Koteas In Winnie; Jon Tenney In Green Lantern; Fred Ward In 30 Minutes Or Less; Jessica Chastain In The Help By Russ Fischer/June 25, 2010 4:23 pm EST Elias Koteas has never been one of the more high-profile character actors out there, but he’s always one of my favorites. (Not because of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where he played Casey Jones, but for films like Crash and The Adjuster....

Chinese Audiences Will Get A Longer, “More Shanghai-Centric” Cut Of Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’ By Angie Han/June 25, 2012 10:00 am EST Usually, we have to wait for the Blu-ray/DVD release to watch deleted scenes or check out a new cut of a film. But in the case of Rian Johnson’s highly anticipated Looper, we’ll just have to travel to Asia. The sci-fi flick will be released in a longer “more Shanghai-centric edition” in Chinese theaters, which will include footage of the city’s streets and landmarks per the request of Chinese financiers....

Christopher Nolan Speaks About Avoiding 3D For ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 27, 2010 2:38 pm EST Today’s biggest film news was, without a doubt, the announcement that Christopher Nolan has titled the third Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, and that the film will not shoot in 3D or be released in post-converted fashion. Now there are a few more quotes from the director about his choice of presentation for the film, and they suggest wonderful things about what we might eventually see....

Cool Stuff: Harry Potter Ultimate Editions Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 18, 2009 3:19 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I’ve always wished that Warner Bros had filmed extended editions of the Harry Potter films, in the same vein as Peter Jackson filmed the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Of course, anyone who knows the many differences between the books and the released films knows that it really wouldn’t have been possible....

Edgar Wright Offers ‘Ant-Man’ And ‘World’s End’ Script Updates By Germain Lussier/July 22, 2011 4:00 pm EST While promoting Attack the Block at Comic Con (a movie that, if you read this site, really needs little more hyping) producer Edgar Wright offered updates on his two most anticipated upcoming projects: Marvel’s Ant-Man and the third film in the Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy, tentatively titled The World’s End. Both films are very much still on his plate and we now have the up to the minute details....

Emma Watson Boards Darren Aronofsky’s Biblical Epic ‘Noah’ [UPDATED] By Angie Han/June 8, 2012 6:00 am EST During the tail end of the Harry Potter series, we began to wonder what would happen to the young leads once the last movie wrapped. Hollywood, after all, is full of one-time kid stars who were never able to replicate their early success, or worse, who fall off the rails altogether. But so far, it seems like we have nothing to worry about from that cast....

Eric Bana In Talks For Thriller ‘KIN’; Reportedly Interested In ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2010 8:00 pm EST After the break, a maybe-report on the actor’s possible involvement with Timur Bekmambetov’s new film. And then there’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Now that Timur Bekmambetov is set to direct the adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s revisionist genre novel, it’s time to cast the picture. We’ve heard little in the way of hard and fast info about actors for the project, but now The Wrap reports that Eric Bana is ‘circling’ the lead role of Abraham Lincoln....