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Fake 3D Films Score Lower On Rotten Tomatoes, But Only With Critics By Angie Han/Nov. 28, 2011 5:00 pm EST As film geeks, we tend to get grumbly about crappy 3D, and no wonder. With the technology adding as much as $4 or $5 to the price of a standard movie ticket, we want to know that when we shell out that extra cash, we’ll get our money’s worth. And there are movies that put that extra money to good use, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo being one recent shining example....

First Look: Denzel Washington In ‘Safe House’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2011 3:15 pm EST In early February 2012, we’ll see the thriller Safe House, which marks the studio debut of Snabba Cash director Daniel Espinosa. The movie is based on a hot-ticket script pitch from relatively new screenwriter David Guggenheim, and was shot this year with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds in the lead roles. We’ve seen no official images or video from the film until now....

FX Cancels ‘Terriers’ By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 6, 2010 11:11 am EST FX has officially canceled the best show on television that you weren’t watching, after only one season. Terriers had strong critical acclaim and a cult following, but mainstream audiences never found it due to a variety of reasons: a horrible title, bad marketing, and a plot which wasn’t excitingly explainable in one quick sentence. The series, created by Ted Griffin and exec produced by Griffin, Shawn Ryan and Tim Minear, starring Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James as a former cop and reformed-criminal who team up to practice Private Investigation....

International Poster For ‘The Muppets’ By Russ Fischer/July 11, 2011 1:00 pm EST It has been fun to watch Disney remind audiences about The Muppets as it prepares to release a new feature starring Jim Henson’s classic characters. There have been some creative, playful trailers and a poster that was a little bit unusual as Muppet depictions tend to go — Muppets with legs! But this new international poster is a pure and simple old-school look at the crew, with no humans allowed....

J.J. Abrams Shopping Jonah Nolan’s First TV Series By Adam Quigley/Sept. 9, 2010 12:20 pm EST J.J. Abrams is one busy dude. One would think he’d be spending his time prepping his upcoming monster movie/Spielberg tribute Super 8—and he is—but it’s hard to imagine how he has time to do that when all he seems to be doing is helping get other people’s ideas off the ground.The Ausiello Files is reporting that Abrams is currently shopping an untitled crime-thriller series created by Jonathan Nolan, brother of Christopher Nolan....

Lost Director/Producer Jack Bender Developing Feature For Bad Robot? By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2010 10:39 pm EST Lost fans will know the name Jack Bender, a man who served as Executive Producer on 101 of the 114 episodes of the television series Lost. He also directed 36 episodes of the series, including some of the most talked about episodes: Walkabout, White Rabbit, Exodus, Man of Science, Man of Faith, Through the Looking Glass, The Constant, There’s No Place Like Home, The Incident, LA X, The Candidate and the series finale The End....

Louis Leterrier To Direct Sci-Fi Disaster Movie ‘G’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2011 6:40 pm EST Clash of the Titans/The Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier has signed on to direct and produce the science fiction disaster movie G for Universal Pictures. What is it about? Good question… The plot is being kept tightly under wraps but Heat Vision says it has “shades of The Day After Tomorrow and Taken.” What does that mean?...

Neil Jordan To Direct ‘Skippy Dies’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 2, 2010 7:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The such adoring press it’s no wonder a film development deal is in motion, and now Neil Jordan is signed to write and direct. Deadline and Variety both report that Jordan is writing and directing the film, How does this fit into Jordan’s existing slate, which includes Showtime’s Renaissance family drama The Borgias, with Jeremy Irons, and an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book?...

Paz De La Huerta Stars In ‘Nurse 3D’ Complete With NSFW Image By Germain Lussier/July 14, 2011 6:00 am EST Apparently, 3D and nudity go together like popcorn and soda. Just ask the team behind Sex and Zen 3D, a massive blockbuster from Hong Kong that uses sex to sell the third dimension. And while that film is supposed to hit North American shores at some point, Lionsgate is also embracing the concept…and dripping blood all over its naked body....

Robert Downey, Jr. Leaves The Cast Of ‘Gravity,’ May Join ‘How To Talk To Girls’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 17, 2010 10:13 pm EST Now he has, in fact, left the production. THR doesn’t offer a whole lot of information, but the guess would be that scheduling is a factor. The idea had been for RDJ to shoot some of Sherlock Holmes 2, then break to shoot his brief bits of Gravity, then go back to Sherlock....

By Russ Fischer/March 17, 2011 11:00 am EST Meanwhile, the Brian Miller story picked up by Paramount is “a big idea with a budget under $30m,” per Deadline. That definitely fits into the low to mid-budget paradigm, and the speed with which this was picked up suggests that Paramount is pretty happy with Apollo 18, which went into production very fast after producer Timur Bekmabetov sparked to Brian Miller’s script.

Universal Removes Director Carl Erik Rinsch From ‘47 Ronin’ Editing Room? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 19, 2012 10:54 pm EST When the Keanu Reeves samurai epic 47 Ronin was pushed from Fall 2012 to February 2013, some feared that the movie was troubled. The studio denied problems, saying the film needed more time to finish visual effects. Ronin was surprisingly absent from Comic Con, reshoots in full swing, and the release date was pushed back again (this time to Christmas 2013) which got even more people speculating about troubles between the studio and the commercial filmmaker turned first time feature director....

Video: Benh Zeitlin Discusses The Making Of ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ By Angie Han/Aug. 16, 2012 3:30 pm EST In each year, there are a handful of smaller films that come seemingly out of nowhere to blow everyone away and achieve box office success. One such title from the current crop of festival hits is the bayou-set fantasy Beasts of the Southern Wild, which garnered raves at Sundance and hasn’t stopped raking in the compliments ever since....

VOTD: ‘Boop’ Trailer, Starring Rose McGowan By Angie Han/April 20, 2011 5:00 am EST Cultural icons don’t get much more recognizable than Betty Boop. Since her first appearance during the Great Depression, she’s become one of the most famous and beloved cartoon characters in the world. To this day, her image appears regularly on t-shirts, lunchboxes, and the like. But what do you know about her really? Did you know, for example, that she was the creation of animator Max Fleischer, who also introduced the world to Popeye?...

Watch ‘The 3 Rs,’ Aka David Lynch’s Kooky Trailer For The 2011 Vienna Film Festival By Russ Fischer/Sept. 27, 2011 5:00 pm EST Last week a new piece of film arrived from David Lynch. Like much of his recent film work, it is a commercial, but in this case it’s a commercial for something closely related to movies. The 70-second film, The 3 Rs, is a trailer for the 2011 Vienna International Film Festival....

Zack Snyder To Direct Afghanistan War Thriller ‘The Last Photograph’? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 2, 2011 12:45 pm EST A few years ago Zack Snyder cooked up a war story more grounded in reality than most of his work. Scripted by 300 writer Kurt Johnstad, The Last Photograph is about two Americans, a journalist and a retired soldier, who attempt to rescue a kidnap victim in Afghanistan. The film has been in active development for the past year, with Christian Bale attached to play the reporter, and Sean Penn rumored for the soldier....

‘A Little Bit Of Heaven’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 13, 2011 6:30 am EST The Weinstein Co has released an early international teaser trailer for A Little Bit of Heaven, a romantic dramedy from director Nicole Kassell (The Woodsman, The Closer, Cold Case). The film stars Kate Hudson as “a guarded woman who finds out she’s dying of cancer, but when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death....

‘Incendies’ Director Denis Villeneuve Helming ‘Prisoners’ By Russ Fischer/April 22, 2011 4:47 pm EST The history of the development of the film Prisoners is convoluted. Suffice to say that the Aaron Guzikowski script hit the Black List in 2009, was briefly set to be a Bryan Singer film with Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, before those two actors dropped out and it briefly became an Antoine Fuqua and Hugh Jackman movie....

‘The Lone Ranger’ Poster And More New Images By Russ Fischer/Oct. 2, 2012 11:09 am EST Yesterday we saw some new official photos from Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger, which stars Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer as Tonto and the Ranger, respectively. Now we’ve got a couple more new photos along with a strange and mysterious teaser poster. The poster highlights Tonto over the Ranger, demonstrating that while Hammer’s character may get the film’s title, this is really Depp’s show....

‘The Lorax’ Trailer: Adding Backstory To Dr. Seuss’ Environmental Tale By Russ Fischer/Oct. 27, 2011 8:00 am EST Here’s the trailer for The Lorax, the CGI animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. The story describes a budding industrialist, the Once-ler, who destroys a small ecosystem in order to make and sell his invention, the theed, a thing that everyone needs. In doing so he meets the disapproval of the Lorax, who speaks for the trees....