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TV Bits: ‘Band Of Brothers’ Writer Developing Western, ‘Game Of Thrones’ Casts Jeyne Westerling, Two ‘Buffy’ Alums To Reunite On ‘Supernatural’ By Angie Han/Aug. 22, 2011 12:00 pm EST Band of Brothers writer Bruce McKenna and Nikita producer/director Danny Cannon are developing a new Western series for TNT titled Gateway. The 1880s-set action/adventure series will follow the three sons of a murdered sheriff in the titular town of Gateway, Colorado, who band together in order to save their town from a corrupt cattle baron....

Vote To Get A ‘Harold And Kumar’ Munchies Food Truck To Your College By Germain Lussier/Oct. 14, 2011 5:00 am EST In what must be a marketing first, Warner Bros. and New Line are sponsoring a Harold and Kumar food truck to visit twelve cities in twelve days to help promote A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas. Appropriately dubbed the Harold & Kumar Munchies Truck, it’ll start in Los Angeles on October 22 and, over the next 12 days, traverse the United States in their own version of the 12 Days of Christmas....

Which Actors Did Henry Cavill Beat To Become ‘Superman’? Will Superman Be All-CG? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 30, 2011 4:37 pm EST Early Sunday afternoon, it was revealed that Henry Cavill (Stardust, The Tudors, Immortals) had been cast as the man of steel in Zack Snyder’s upcoming Superman film. But who did Cavill beat out for the roll? Find out after the jump. Warner Bros and Christopher Nolan auditioned 28-32 year old actors in Los Angeles, New York, and London in November and December 2010....

‘A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’ Red-Band Trailer: Stoned Toddlers And Claymation Genitals By Russ Fischer/Oct. 19, 2011 5:05 pm EST The two existing Harold & Kumar movies have gone a long way towards keeping raunchy, healthy R-rated humor alive over the past few years. The third one, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, seems to be operating on the principle that you can get away with just about anything, so long as it is all wrapped up in a big holiday bow....

‘Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close’ Trailer #2: Searching For Family In A Scarred City By Russ Fischer/Dec. 6, 2011 10:00 am EST The first trailer for Stephen Daldry’s adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close tried to live in the area between quirky, endearing and sentimental. The balance didn’t work for me, especially thanks to the reliance on U2 as the score for the trailer. As a result I think that first look at the movie pegged it as little more than cloying Oscar bait....

‘The Fourth Dimension’ Trailer: Strange Anthology Features Segment From Harmony Korine By Russ Fischer/March 27, 2012 12:30 pm EST Yep, that’s an image of a slacker Val Kilmer on a BMX bike. In a new short from Harmony Korine, Kilmer plays a motivational speaker named Val Kilmer, and we see him do his thing at a roller rink. The short is part of an omnibus feature called The Fourth Dimension that will play soon at the Tribeca Film Festival....

Blu-Ray Geek Deals: Batman Anthology For $25, Ocean’s Trilogy For $15, Ninja Turtles 4-Movie Set For $24 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2011 2:01 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Casting Bits: Nick Nolte In ‘Parker;’ Jesse Eisenberg In ‘The Double;’ Mark Ruffalo And Amanda Seyfried In ‘Now You See Me’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2011 6:00 am EST Here’s one of several casting breaks to come your way in the next few hours, and this one is pretty damned good. Why? Because after the break you’ll find info on the following: Nick Nolte takes a role in hard-boiled crime thriller Parker....

By Russ Fischer/June 29, 2010 8:33 am EST Deadline says the film “charts a professional and personal relationship between two characters that evolves from friendship to betrayal and retribution,” and that description nicely complements the original logline, which described “a man who is framed by his mentor and winds up in prison. Once released, he’s fixated on getting revenge on his former partner, who has flourished in his new life and tried to cleanse himself of the past....

Cool Stuff: Aaron Horkey’s ‘True Grit’ Poster By Germain Lussier/Dec. 22, 2010 5:00 am EST True Grit, the latest film by The Coen Brothers, hits theaters tomorrow and to celebrate the release, Mondo is dropping a brand new print. This eye-catching True Grit poster by Aaron Horkey measures a huge 39 x 15 inches and incorporates not only all the credits, but the all important rattlesnake too. There’s the regular gold print, which is limited to only 400 copies and costs $60, and then the silver variant, which is limited to 110 and costs $120....

Cool Stuff: Ken Taylor’s ‘Sucker Punch’ Poster By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2011 7:00 am EST Mondo has announced that filmmaker Zack Snyder will be joining their “Director’s Series” of collectible limited art poster prints. Entertainment Weekly has premiered the first entry is a Sucker Punch poster designed by Ken Taylor, an artist we’ve featured many times on this site over the years. Posters will go on sale on Friday at a random time, and a higher priced variant version will also be available....

Cool Stuff: Three ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ Posters From Mondo By Germain Lussier/July 29, 2011 7:55 am EST Not only does Friday bring the opening of Cowboys & Aliens, Jon Favreau’s latest film, it brings three brand new, limited edition posters based on the film from Mondo. The poster boutique of the Alamo Drafthouse teamed up with the Iron Man director to curate and art direct a series of posters based on the film and the results are wildly different and incredibly attractive....

Disney Nearing Deal For Black List Script ‘Saving Mr. Banks’, Tom Hanks And Meryl Streep Rumored To Be Circling By Angie Han/Feb. 8, 2012 4:30 pm EST When it first came out in 1964, Mary Poppins was a smash hit both commercially and critically: it out-earned The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady at the box office, received thirteen Academy Award nominations and won five. Now, nearly fifty years later, Disney is looking toward returning to the Mary Poppins well — but don’t worry, it’s not a sequel....

Early Buzz: Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree Of Life’ By Russ Fischer/May 16, 2011 11:28 am EST Well, it’s out in the open now. Terrence Malick’s new film The Tree of Life, many years in the making and the subject of massive speculation and anticipation over the past two years, has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and the reaction is mixed. I’ve been generally avoiding reviews in anticipation of my own screening tomorrow afternoon (and Peter is seeing it right now, which may lead to a review this evening) but figured we should pass along some of the first reactions....

Eddie Murphy And ‘Shield’ Creator Shawn Ryan Shopping A ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ TV Series By Germain Lussier/Aug. 28, 2012 5:35 pm EST The film series that helped launch Eddie Murphy to superstardom is likely coming to TV and Murphy will be a big part of it. He and Shawn Ryan, the creator of the hit TV show The Shield, are currently pitching a rebooted version of Beverly Hills Cop to television stations....

First ‘Life Of Pi’ Clip Online; New Banners Show Off Gorgeous Imagery By Angie Han/June 14, 2012 7:00 am EST Richard Parker is appropriately terrifying, but I don’t think there’s much else to be gleaned from this. There’s been a lot of fantastic early buzz for the look of the film and Lee’s use of 3D, but I doubt a brief 2D video clip on a computer screen is going to do his cinematography justice....

James Gunn Talks IFC’s ‘Super’ Acquisition; First Clip Released By Adam Quigley/Sept. 15, 2010 4:30 pm EST Now writer/director James Gunn has come forth with his first-hand account of the events that took place, providing a rare glimpse into the part that a filmmaker plays in the process of finding a distributor. Even if you have little interest in the film at hand, this is worth the read. Below is a heavily abbreviated version of his blog post, sans all except that which is directly related to Super’s distribution deal....

Jodie Foster Says Her Role In Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’ Isn’t Yet Locked By Russ Fischer/Feb. 4, 2011 4:00 pm EST Jodie Foster is working for Roman Polanski right now, acting in his new film God of Carnage, and it has been widely assumed that she’ll be one of the primary stars of Neill Blomkamp’s second feature, Elysium, alongside Matt Damon and Sharlto Copley. But now the actress says that the deal isn’t quite set, which leads us to wonder if she’s moving away from the role, or if contracts are just taking some time....

Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Make Feature Directorial Debut With Scarlett Johansson Set To Star, May Drop ‘Django Unchained’ By Angie Han/Feb. 7, 2012 3:30 pm EST Though Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s built up an enviable acting career over the years, between his stabs at short film directing and his launching the collaborative production company hitRecord, it seemed like only a matter of time before he branched out into feature filmmaking. Gordon-Levitt is now slated to do just that, as he gears up to direct his first feature, starring himself and Scarlett Johansson....

Marcus Nispel To Direct ‘Hack/Slash’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2012 3:30 pm EST The big-screen directorial career of Marcus Nispel has so far been rooted largely in remakes and reimaginings: he’s made The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th and Conan the Barbarian. But not the original versions of any of those three stories. He also made the viking film Pathfinder, a loose remake of a Norwegian movie from 1987....