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Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’ Gets The Zack Snyder Release Date In 2013 By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2011 4:30 pm EST Briefly: Sony has announced that District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s second feature Elysium will hit theaters on March 8th 2013. The second weekend in March is a release date made popular by director Zack Snyder, who famously opened the R-rated comic book adaptation 300 to a record $70.9 million opening weekend. Snyder has also opened Dawn of the Dead and Watchmen on the same weekend....

New Posters: ‘Thor’ Gets Two International Images By Russ Fischer/March 18, 2011 10:22 am EST Here are two new international posters for Thor that proclaim the immortality of courage. One of the sheets is an ugly photoshopped thing with more floating heads than an average season of Futurama. The other is a better image, if only by comparison to the first. Check them both out after the break. Official Synopsis:...

Page 2: Dragon Tattoo, Donnie Darko, Game Of Thrones, Doctor Who, Firefly, Lost In Translation, Star Trek, Titanic, 30 Rock, Blade Runner, HBO, Shepherd Fairey By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 15, 2011 12:00 pm EST Today’s t-shirt of the day on TeeFury is a Donnie Darko-inspired design “That’s Frank, Folks”. ScreenJunkies lists 7 Hollywood junkies who were targeted by J Edgar Hoover.Game of Thrones Cake Filmmakers Neveldine/Taylor tweeted a review of Joseph Khan’s Detention:...

Quentin Tarantino’s Top 11 Movies Of 2011 Are Sure To Inspire Discussion By Russ Fischer/Jan. 16, 2012 11:30 am EST Last year, Quentin Tarantino released a list of what he called the best films of 2011. This year he has repeated the list-making effort, and Tarantino’s list of the best eleven films of 2011 is out now. (Or best twelve films, really, since there is a tie in one position.) Along with that comes a collection of associated lists, from his estimation of the best directors of the year, to a set of ’nice try’ picks, which includes some peoples’ fave film, Drive....

Remake Bits: Nate Parker Joins ‘Oldboy’, ‘Carrie’ And ‘The Evil Dead’ Get Synopses, José Padilha Responds To ‘Robocop’ Rumors By Angie Han/Sept. 4, 2012 12:30 pm EST Spike Lee is turning to some familiar faces to help round out the cast of his Oldboy remake. After adding his Do the Right Thing star Samuel L. Jackson a few weeks back, Lee is turning to his Red Hook Summer actor Nate Parker for another supporting role....

Steven Spielberg Talks Up Procedural Aspects Of ‘Lincoln;’ Hopes To Shoot ‘Robopocalypse’ Summer ‘12 By Russ Fischer/Sept. 29, 2011 5:00 pm EST Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin is opening very soon in the UK and France, with a US debut coming a couple months later, on December 21. In advance of the film’s premiere overseas, the director is starting to do some interviews. Naturally, some questions are aimed at his future projects, such as Lincoln, which will star Daniel Day-Lewis as President Abraham Lincoln, and the adaptation of the novel Robopocalypse....

Super Bowl TV Commercials: Fast Five, Priest, Just Go With It, Limitless, The Eagle, Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Rio By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2011 4:22 pm EST Here is a compilation of some of the movie commercials which have aired during the Super Bowl so far. The movies include: Fast Five, Priest, Just Go With It, Limitless, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Rio, and The Eagle....

Trailer: William Shatner’s Documentary ‘The Captains’ By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2011 8:00 am EST A few days back we posted a fun photo of William Shatner arm wrestling Chris Pine. As it turns out, that photo is a still from Shatner’s upcoming documentary The Captains which will premiere on July 21st 2011 on the EPIX HD cable channel. The Captains – an Epix Original Documentary produced and directed by William Shatner....

Trivia: Why Nicolas Cage Really Left ‘The Green Hornet’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 11, 2011 7:00 am EST Some of the best movie lore has to do with why projects didn’t happen, rather than the stories behind ones that did. This is halfway to one of those stories. The Green Hornet opens this week as directed by Michel Gondry, but the film might have been very different. Stephen Chow was set to direct, and Nicolas Cage was originally going to play the villain role that was taken instead by Christoph Waltz....

VOTD: Elijah Wood Fights Dominic Monaghan At Fantastic Fest 2011 By Germain Lussier/Sept. 26, 2011 9:00 am EST Where do you stand on World of Warcraft? If you’re a fan of it, you’re in Dominic Monaghan’s corner. If you hate it, you’re in Elijah Wood’s corner. And if you have no idea what I’m talking about you probably aren’t the only one. One of the signature events at Fantastic Fest every year is the Fantastic Debates....

Watch Anna Kendrick In A Video For LCD Soundsystem’s Song ‘Pow Pow’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2010 2:30 pm EST Looks like MTV likes music videos once more — the company is finally producing them. MEAN Magazine founders have teamed with MTV to create a series of clips called Supervideo that will " tap buzzworthy music, filmmakers and talent in a high voltage expression of art and music." The first effort stars Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air, Scott Pilgrim vs the World) in a video for ‘Pow Pow’ by LCD Soundsystem....

Why You Should Pay Attention To ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ Viral, Mouth Taped Shut By Germain Lussier/Oct. 21, 2011 6:00 pm EST Earlier this month, a Tumblr called Mouth Taped Shut launched for David Fincher’s upcoming remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Up until now, if you weren’t paying attention, you weren’t really missing much. An odd video here, a weird photo there. But recently the Twitter account @MouthTapedShut has started tweeting locations in cities....

Will Diablo Cody’s ‘Sweet Valley High’ Be A Musical? By Angie Han/Jan. 13, 2012 5:00 pm EST The more I’ve heard about Diablo Cody’s Sweet Valley High movie adaptation, the clearer it’s become that she’s the perfect person to bring Francine Pascal’s YA series to the big screen. Since landing the project back in 2009, Cody’s described her approach as a “sharp comedy/satire” that will “[be] to the ’80s what American Graffiti was to the [early] ’60s....

William Friedkin Preparing To Film Another William Peter Blatty Adaptation? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2010 2:15 pm EST The first collaboration between director William Friedkin and author/screenwriter William Peter Blatty produced one of the most famous / notorious horror films in movie history. (Um, The Exorcist.) Now, as Mr. Friedkin promotes a limited theatrical re-release and Blu-ray disc of The Exorcist and prepares to shoot the film Killer Joe in Louisiana, he may also be ready to re-team with Mr....

‘Elektra Luxx’ Trailer And Release Date By Germain Lussier/Jan. 31, 2011 4:30 pm EST The sex comedy Elektra Luxx premiered almost a year ago at South by Southwest but, until now, we weren’t sure when we’d get to see it. Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez, who wrote Snakes on a Plane, it stars Carla Gugino as a pregnant ex-porn star turned sex education teacher who gets pushed back into things when an old friend, played by Marley Shelton, approaches her with a proposition....

/Film Exclusive: Mad Magazine Does ‘The Walking Dead’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 7, 2011 3:15 pm EST On a regular basis, /Film posts t-shirts, videos and photos the poke fun at the popular culture we love. These things can be cute, seem novel, but parodying pop culture is far from a new practice. Mad Magazine has been giving pop culture the business for almost 60 years and continues to do so today....

‘Indiana Jones’ Blu-Ray Trailer Promises Seven Hours Of Bonus Features And More By Germain Lussier/July 10, 2012 9:30 am EST For years Steven Spielberg didn’t embrace DVD and all of his classic films stayed on VHS only. Eventually, he had a change of heart. The same can be said for the DVD to Blu-ray conversion. Spielberg was originally tentative to allow his films onto the new high definition format but has since changed his mind....

‘Margin Call’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2011 7:00 am EST One of the top 10 screenplays listed on The Black List this year was a script by JC Chandor titled Margin Call. While I often refer to The Black List as a annual list of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, that isn’t actually the case — the list is compiled with a poll of 300 development executives and high-level assistants, and contains a ranking of the hot screenplays making the rounds in Hollywoodland, which were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2010 and will not be released in theaters during this calendar year....

‘Sympathy For Delicious’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2011 1:30 pm EST Mark Ruffalo’s directorial debut Sympathy For Delicious premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The film is an independent dramedy about a newly paralyzed DJ who “gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.” /Film’s own David Chen saw the film at Sundance, here is a short excerpt from his review:...

‘The Muppets’ Movie Logo Revealed? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2011 4:00 pm EST Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Tom Staggs held a special presentation to select groups of voyagers on board the maiden voyage of the Disney Dream, previewing some of Walt Disney Motion Pictures upcoming projects. One of the slides gives us a peek into what might be the logo for the upcoming The Muppets feature film. This also suggests that Disney is keeping The Muppets title and not converting to The Muppets Movie, something which was being internally discussed in the marketing department....