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Split Between The Two Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Films Revealed, Along With New Images By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2010 5:59 pm EST Since the 2008 announcement that the final film in the Harry Potter series would in fact be the final two films in the series, one big fan question has been: where will the split fall? Last year an interview with director David Yates in the LA Times suggested one spot, but now it seems that the edit process has led him to a different cliffhanger....

Star Trek Showrunner And Friday Night Lights Star Join Steven Spielberg’s Time Travel Dinosaur TV Series Terra Nova By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2010 10:52 pm EST Meanwhile, Entertainment Weekly has word that Friday Night Lights star Kyle Chandler has been made a “very lucrative offer” to headline the series. The series will follow a family who live 100 years from now on future Earth, who are flung back in time 150 million years to the prehistoric age, when Earth was ruled by dinosaurs....

Tron Legacy’s Invasion Of San Diego Has Begun By Peter Sciretta/June 29, 2010 2:32 pm EST Earlier this month, Walt Disney Pictures announced their plans to invade Comic-Con this year with a huge push for the upcoming 3D sequel Tron Legacy. Banners have begun to appear around San Diego, promoting the upcoming comic convention and Disney’s Tron (including a shot of Jeff Bridges with a light disc). Check out all the photos, after the jump....

VOTD: Spock Thinks Everything Is Fascinating By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 17, 2011 4:00 am EST As a follow-up to the Video of the Day from last week where Every Line of Dialogue in The Lost Boys is “Michael”, here is a video compilation which proves that Star Trek’s Spock thinks everything is Fascinating. via: iheartchaos VOTD: Spock Thinks Everything Is Fascinating By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 17, 2011 4:00 am EST As a follow-up to the Video of the Day from last week where Every Line of Dialogue in The Lost Boys is “Michael”, here is a video compilation which proves that Star Trek’s Spock thinks everything is Fascinating....

VOTD: Tick Tock By Peter Sciretta/March 2, 2011 7:00 am EST What would you do if you had five minutes to live? Tick Tock is a student short film which played at the 2011 Emory Campus MovieFest. The one-shot short film plays in reverse, and traces “a young man’s few minutes of trying to fulfill his highest potential.” Here are a few words from the filmmaker, Ien Chi: Never have I put in so much effort into a single film....

Warner Bros. Shows Off New Poster For ‘The Hobbit,’ But Where Is ‘Man Of Steel’? By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2012 1:00 pm EST This weekend saw the reveal of posters for two of Warner Bros. three big Comic Con showcases: Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim (seen here), and this one-sheet for Peter Jackson’s first of two recently-wrapped films adapting The Hobbit. This sheet for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is quite nice, as it shows Gandalf (Ian McKellen) strolling into the Shire, but it really trades on our memories of the Lord of the Rings films....

William Monahan To Write And Direct ‘Becket’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2010 4:00 pm EST William Monahan (The Departed) graduated from screenwriter to writer/director with London Boulevard, for which we just saw a UK trailer. Now he’s lined up a second directorial project: an adaptation of the Jean Anouilh play Becket.Deadline has the story, noting (as should be common knowledge) that this would follow the 1964 adaptation of the play that starred Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton....

WTF: ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1’ Causing Seizures? By Russ Fischer/Nov. 26, 2011 12:00 pm EST Here’s one more reason to think twice about seeing the latest Twilight installment, Breaking Dawn, not that box office numbers suggest that many people have really thought twice about going. It’s not just that the film is a terrible one, or that it has some of the most horrific visions of sexual development and romantic relationships we’ve ever seen aimed at teen girls....

You’ll Be Able To Read A Sequel To ‘Drive’ In April 2012 By Russ Fischer/Dec. 12, 2011 5:00 am EST I don’t know that I’d put much money on this ever becoming a film, but if you were enough of a fan of Nicolas Winding Refn’s film Drive that you have to find out what might happen to the main character at some point in the future, a novel scheduled for April release will deliver the info....

‘Hick’ Red-Band Trailer - Chloe Grace Moretz, Blake Lively, And Eddie Redmayne Step Into White-Trash Stereotypes By Angie Han/April 26, 2012 2:30 pm EST Plenty of young talents have attempted the leap from precocious child star to grown-up actor, with severely mixed results, but Chloe Grace Moretz seems to be having an easier time of it than most. Though she’s just 15, she’s already shown a facility for between family-friendly fare like Hugo and more mature entertainments like Let Me In and Kick-Ass over the last few years, and she’s lucky enough to have (apparently) skipped an awkward phase altogether....

‘Scarface’ Gets Modern Reimagining From ‘Training Day’ Writer By Germain Lussier/Nov. 29, 2011 4:15 pm EST Since its release in 1983, Brian De Palma’s Scarface has evolved into much more than a movie. It has become a way of life. A mantra for the young who to aspire to any kind of American dream. A common, pop culture lightning rod for conversations about sex, violence and machismo. What many of the film’s fans don’t realize, though, is De Palma’s film is actually a remake of a 1932 film co-directed by Howard Hawkes....

‘The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence’ Crawls Into Theaters In October By Russ Fischer/Sept. 1, 2011 4:00 pm EST Briefly: You have a month to prepare: on October 7, Tom Six’s The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence will hit theaters. If that seems like pretty short notice before the release, well, it is. Very short. We haven’t even seen a trailer yet from IFC. (There was that one footage-free teaser many months ago....

‘The Other Woman’ Trailer Starring Natalie Portman By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 27, 2010 11:56 pm EST IFC Films has released the movie trailer for The Other Woman, a film adaptation of Ayelet Waldman’s novel “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits”. The comedy/drama stars Natalie Portman and “details the story of a woman’s difficult relationship with her stepson.” The film co-stars Lisa Kudrow (Friends), Daisy Tahan (13, Nurse Jackie) and Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under)....

‘Thurgood’ Trailer, Starring Laurence Fishburne By Angie Han/Feb. 17, 2011 6:00 am EST HBO Films is on a roll today. Earlier today we showed you the trailer for Cinema Verite, due out in April. Now we have a 42-second trailer for Thurgood, starring Laurence Fishburne. Thurgood will air February 24th on HBO in honor of Black History Month. (It occurs to me now that Thurgood is almost as distinctive a first name as Madonna — I immediately, and correctly, assumed the title was referring to Supreme Court Justice Marshall, and I bet you did too....

‘Wake In Fright’ Rerelease Trailer: The Outback Will Destroy You By Russ Fischer/Sept. 17, 2012 10:00 am EST I’m pretty excited to have a look at the new trailer for the remastered re-release of Wake in Fright, directed by Ted Kotcheff (First Blood, Uncommon Valor). The thriller, about a British teacher who loses himself while stranded in the Australian outback, emerged from Australia in 1971 at the Cannes Film Festival, where it earned raves and began to amass a following of eager cinephiles....

‘West Of Memphis’ Poster: Jock Contributes Art For Peter Jackson-Produced West Memphis Three Doc By Russ Fischer/Jan. 12, 2012 2:30 pm EST When the West Memphis Three (Jason Baldwin, Jesse Misskelley Jr., and Damien Echols) were freed last year, we learned that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh had been paying for investigations into the case for which the three were convicted. The murders for which the WM3 went to prison are widely believed to have been committed by other parties, and Jackson and Walsh bankrolled DNA tests and other efforts to find the real perpetrators....

Adam McKay Offers The Last Word On Anchorman 2; Step Brothers Sequel Could (Maybe) Happen By Russ Fischer/July 19, 2010 7:00 am EST We’ve talked about the possibility of an Anchorman sequel for quite some time, and early this year it seemed like the film had a chance to see the light of day. But Paramount passed, and now director Adam McKay offers both the final word (more than likely) on the sequel, and teases a detail that might make you mourn it just a little bit more....

Casting Notes: Olivia Wilde And Alicia Silverstone In Butter; Kevin Bacon Joins Steve Carell Comedy By Russ Fischer/April 13, 2010 4:38 pm EST The casting info continues to pour in for Jim Field Smith’s political satire called Butter. There’s already quite a lineup: Jennifer Garner, Rob Corddry, Ty Burrell, Ashley Greene and more. Now Olivia Wilde (Tron Legacy) has been added, as has Alicia Silverstone. But there’s some confusion. Movieline reports that Wilde is cast as a tattooed stripper (with Betty Page bangs, no less) who is mistress to a butter-carving champion played by Ty Burrell....

Cool Stuff: HBO Brings Back Vintage Subway Car To Promote ‘Boardwalk Empire’ By Angie Han/Sept. 8, 2011 7:00 am EST It can be really, really difficult to make a TV poster stand out during the fall season, especially in an area as littered with advertising as New York. So props to whatever genius thought up HBO’s newest marketing gimmick: an authentic, operational vintage train from the ’20s promoting the second season of Boardwalk Empire....

Cowboys & Aliens Plot Revealed By Peter Sciretta/May 13, 2010 9:30 am EST Dreamworks has revealed the official plot synopsis for Jon Favreau’s upcoming big screen adaptation of Cowboys and Aliens. Since the film is based on the comic book series written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley, we had some idea, but now the full plot details have been revealed. Official Plot Synopsis: 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution....