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‘Jack Ryan’ Director Kenneth Branagh Will Also Play The Villain By Angie Han/July 20, 2012 5:00 am EST Paramount’s had a bit of trouble getting its Jack Ryan reboot off the ground, and things looked especially dire a few months ago when director Jack Bender exited the project after months or perhaps even years stuck in development hell. But the movie quickly bounced back with a new director in the form of Kenneth Branagh, and now it’s moving on into casting....

‘Prometheus’ “Should Be” Rated R, Says Ridley Scott; Plus New Image Scans By Russ Fischer/March 28, 2012 3:30 pm EST Empire has a cover story on Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, and thanks to that feature we’ve got a batch of new images, and some new info about how Ridley Scott is approaching the rating of the film. You might remember that, last year at Comic Con, Scott said that he planned to create PG-13 and R-rated cuts of the film, as he does for most of his films, and let the studio decide which to release....

‘That’s My Boy’ Red Band Trailer - Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, F-Bombs, Strippers, Lots Of Bodily Fluids By Angie Han/March 1, 2012 12:00 pm EST The first red-band trailer has dropped for Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg’s That’s My Boy, formerly titled I Hate You Dad. Sandler plays an aging party boy and horrible father who falls into deep debt. He decides to move in with his more tightly wound son (Samberg), who’s on the verge of getting married, to a character played by Leighton Meester....

‘The Wettest County’ Release Date Pushed Back Again, To Labor Day Weekend By Angie Han/Jan. 6, 2012 3:00 pm EST Based on “mostly true” events, Hillcoat’s historical drama centers around a group of brothers (Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, and Jason Clarke) who get into the bootlegging business in Prohibition-era Virginia. Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, Guy Pearce, and Gary Oldman also star. More after the jump. But not everyone’s buying the official explanations, particularly because the company sorely mishandled Hillcoat’s last film for them, The Road....

‘The Wonder Years’ Now Available On Netflix Instant By Germain Lussier/Oct. 4, 2011 6:00 am EST Netflix has just landed the end all be all of previously unavailable, home viewing content. Vulture is reporting that all 115 episodes of the classic TV show The Wonder Years have now made it to their streaming service. The show, which ran from 1988-1993, remains a long time favorite for fans but it used so much popular music from the era during which it was set, the Sixties, no one has every been able to untangle the rights to release the series on DVD....

28 Weeks Later Helmer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo To Direct Clive Owen In Intruders By Russ Fischer/April 8, 2010 2:17 pm EST Intacto and 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo hasn’t done much since he helmed the sequel to Danny Boyle’s zombie film. He’s been working on the feature version of the video game BioShock since last summer, but that seems to be stalled. So Fresnadillo is moving on to a horror/thriller picture called Intruders, based on a script by Jaime Marques and Nico Casariego, which will star Clive Owen and Inglourious Basterds vet Daniel Brühl....

Abbie Cornish In Talks For ‘Robocop’ By Angie Han/June 8, 2012 10:00 am EST Whatever doubts you may still have about MGM’s Robocop remake, at least director José Padilha is recruiting a strong cast to help him out. The Killing star Joel Kinnaman was confirmed as the title character earlier this year, and since then Padilha’s been filling out the supporting roles with stars like Gary Oldman and Samuel L. Jackson – and now Abbie Cornish, who has been offered the female lead....

Another New Photo: Jason Momoa As Conan By Peter Sciretta/July 5, 2010 1:00 pm EST In the past weeks, a couple photos of Jason Momoa (Stargate: Atlantis) in action in the Marcus Nispel-directed Conan have leaked online.And today we bring you another new image of Conan in action. Hit the jump for the full production photo. The newest image comes from out friends at Uruloki: Looks pretty horrible for an official promo image....

Brad Bird Linked To Naval Creature Feature ‘Here There Be Monsters’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 2, 2012 10:00 am EST Today is a big one for stories that boil down to “hey, this guy might do this movie.” (See Russell Crowe in Noah and RoboCop, and Ed Harris in Pain and Gain.) The latest along those lines is a bit more exciting, however. Brad Bird has got to be at the top of a lot of director wishlists after the performance of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol....

Brad Pitt No Longer Planning A Visit To ‘The Lost City Of Z’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 3, 2010 7:25 pm EST Vulture says “the issue was an impasse with Paramount over compensation for Lost City’s director James Gray,” which sounds as if it translates to the fact that agreements couldn’t be met in general, and when the opportunity arose for the actor to get back to work with his Jesse James director Andrew Dominik, he took that path instead....

David Simon Agrees To Make Sixth Season Of ‘The Wire’ If U.S. Agrees To End War On Drugs By Germain Lussier/June 10, 2011 2:30 pm EST For my money, The Wire is the best show to ever grace a television screen. I’ve watched I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Seinfeld, MAS*H, The Sopranos, and I still think the The Wire towers above them all. For five amazing seasons, series creator David Simon created an intense, detailed and eye-opening cross-section of Baltimore’s beating heart by focusing on law enforcement, the drug trade, politics, education, shipping and the press....

Exclusive: PaleyFest 2011 ‘Freaks And Geeks/Undeclared’ Reunion Poster; Plus ‘Walking Dead’ And ‘True Blood’ By Germain Lussier/March 7, 2011 9:00 am EST If you watch a lot of television, chances are you’ve heard of PaleyFest. And if not, here’s the scoop. Each year, PaleyFest is an event where some of the biggest shows on television assemble their casts and creative teams for in-depth discussions about the past, present and future of their shows....

J.K. Simmons Will Narrate Jason Reitman And Diablo Cody’s ‘Young Adult’ By Angie Han/March 14, 2011 8:00 am EST Could character actor J.K. Simmons be the secret to director Jason Reitman’s impressive success? Probably not — I’m guessing the real secret is something like “hard work” or “talent” — but Simmons has appeared in all of Reitman’s works to date, leading Simmons to jokingly refer to himself as Reitman’s “good luck charm....

Joss Whedon Suggests He’d Like More Females In ‘Avengers 2’ By Germain Lussier/May 14, 2012 6:00 pm EST In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Joss Whedon suggested that The Avengers was a little heavy on the testosterone and the sequel could use some more female superheroes. That’s a fantastic idea in theory, however, there are two major variables to the statement. First of all, Whedon has to come back or be involved in a second Avengers....

Mark Wahlberg Or Channing Tatum May Replace Bradley Cooper In ‘The Crow’ By Angie Han/Aug. 16, 2011 9:00 am EST When news broke earlier this year that Bradley Cooper would be playing Brandon Lee’s role in a remake of 1994’s The Crow, most of your reactions ranged between irritation and outrage — that is to say, they were generally negative. Well, now I ask you: Is Mark Wahlberg better? How about Channing Tatum?...

Mila Kunis In Sam Raimi’s ‘Oz The Great And Powerful,’ James Franco Confirmed As The Wizard? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2011 3:00 pm EST Sam Raimi’s Oz revision / prequel, Oz the Great and Powerful, may have a new Wicked Witch of the West, in the form of Mila Kunis. While she was reportedly looking at a key role in Albert Hughes’ live-action Akira (more on that in an article to follow, since there’s a bunch of Akira stuff to talk about) it is look as if she’ll now fly to Oz with Mr....

Page 2: Adventure Time, Alien, Django Unchained, Jaws, Top Gun, Star Wars, Metropolis, Blade Runner, Transformers, Drive, Prometheus, Monster’s Inc, Total Recall By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2012 8:00 am EST Scott C’s Top Gun-inspired Great Showdown. 5 Breakout Performers & Directors From The 2012 Cannes Film FestivalA New Hope poster by Chris RobertsTime To Cry: Top Seven Romantic Time Travel Movies DIY Metropolis Costume 10 Films That Feature A Battle RoyaleComic: Darth Vader Is a WinnerWhy People Love When Critics Hate...

Peter Weller To Voice Batman In ‘The Dark Knight Returns’ Direct To DVD Animation By Russ Fischer/May 23, 2012 7:30 am EST Frank Miller, Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley helped change the comic book landscape when the first issue of their four-issue Batman reinvention The Dark Knight Returns was released in 1986. Those four issues have influenced film and television as well as comics; Christopher Nolan’s three Batman films are shaped to a great degree by the grim, violent vision of Batman put forth by Miller & Co....

Rumor: Could Martin Scorsese And Robert De Niro Make ‘The Comedian’? By Russ Fischer/May 23, 2011 5:00 am EST There are those who are excited at the thought of Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese reuniting for a new film, no matter what it is. For months the object of anticipation has been The Irishman, which might light the fire of any fan of the pair’s crime films, as that long-in-development project would team the two men (with Joe Pesci, too) in a true crime tale....

Sean Penn And Ryan Gosling Offered Roles In ‘Tales From The Gangster Squad’ By Russ Fischer/March 30, 2011 4:00 pm EST For the past year Warner Bros. has been moving forward with development of Tales From the Gangster Squad, a movie based on LA Times reports about attempts to curtail the movement of organized crime into LA in the ’40s. A litany of possible directors was considered last year, including Ben Affleck, Paul Greengrass, Darren Aronofsky and more....