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Disney Chooses Successful Warner Bros. Chief Alan Horn As New Studio Chairman By Russ Fischer/May 31, 2012 2:00 pm EST Variety has the initial report. Under his stewardship Warners flourished with big hits like the Harry Potter films, and Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies. A New York Times profile on the exec, dated March 11, 2011, said Horn was being “squeezed out of the studio to make room for a new generation of managers....

Fan Created: Early Look At The Avengers By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2010 10:05 am EST With concept art of Thor and Captain America’s costume having been leaked online this week, /Film reader Randolph decided to put together an updated early preview of what The Avengers might look like. Check it out, after the jump. Fan Created: Early Look At The Avengers By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2010 10:05 am EST With concept art of Thor and Captain America’s costume having been leaked online this week, /Film reader Randolph decided to put together an updated early preview of what The Avengers might look like....

Final Robin Hood Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2010 6:00 pm EST Coming off the not-so-positive early reviews, Universal Pictures has decided to release one final trailer for Robin Hood, packed with action and loud music (or so I hear, I’m currently and Paris and unable to watch the embed due to Hulu’s annoying international policies). From what we’ve read about the film in early reviews, it seems like a bit of a bait and switch in terms of selling a historical epic as an action film....

Futuristic ‘Zorro Reborn’ Screen-Testing ‘The Raven’ Short Director Ricardo De Montreuil By Russ Fischer/March 8, 2012 12:00 pm EST Typically, we hear about screen tests being done for actors. But in the case of Zorro Reborn, which is tentatively set to star Gael Garcia Bernal in a futuristic revamp of the classic character, it is the director that is the object of the test. The guy in question is Ricardo de Montreuil, who gained a lot of studio attention with his short film The Raven....

FX To Make ‘Fargo’ TV Show With Joel And Ethan Coen By Germain Lussier/Sept. 24, 2012 5:19 pm EST The classic Marge Gunderson quote “I just think I’m gonna barf” might comes to mind when you hear that FX has begun adapting the classic Coen Brothers film Fargo for television. But don’t go tossing your cookies just yet. While the idea was already attempted ten years ago without the Coen’s blessing both Joel and Ethan Coen will be executive producing this version of the show, an hour long project “loosely based” on the film written by Noah Hawley (My Generation, The Unusuals)....

Gallery: The Men Of ‘Warrior’ Featuring Tom Hardy And Joel Edgerton By Germain Lussier/July 29, 2011 5:00 am EST I’ve seen Warrior and while I’m technically embargoed from publishing my thoughts, I will say this is a movie you’ll want on your radar. It doesn’t matter if you’re an MMA fan or just a fan of great drama and acting, Warrior delivers the goods. Big time. Plus it’ll make you even more excited to see Tom Hardy play Bane....

Infographic: Transformers Decepticons By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2011 11:00 am EST As a follow up to the Transformers: Autobots Infographic posted last week, we have a new infographic detailing the Decepticons (cars and other land vehicles) from the original American Transformers Generation 1 cartoon, which aired from 1984 to 1987. I’ve been told that, as the series is from 1980s, not all of the art was readily available — thus, some artistic liberties were taken in order to represent as many Decepticons as possible while keeping as true to the spirit of the Generation 1 series as possible....

Jonathan Levine To Direct ‘Little Girl Lost’ By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2010 2:20 pm EST Jonathan Levine has signed on to direct Richard Aleas’ hardboiled crime novel Little Girl Lost for Universal Pictures. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World screenwriter Michael Bacall will pen the screenplay adaptation You might remember that Levine is the director of one of our favorite films of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival — The Wackness.The Wrap broke the news....

Joseph Kosinski Keeps The Party Going, Taps M83 To Score ‘Oblivion’ By Russ Fischer/June 28, 2012 12:00 pm EST When Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski chose French dance/electronica duo Daft Punk to score the Tron sequel, it seemed like a stroke of genius. The duo’s tunes and media image owe more than a small debt to Tron, and their music turned out to be one of the highlights of the final film....

LOL: Star Wars AT-AT Baby Stroller By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2010 12:00 pm EST UPS driver/father Rick Russo modified his baby’s Baby Trend Trendsport Lite baby stroller to look like an AT-AT Imperial Walker from the Star Wars films. You can read an interview with the father on ThingAMaBaby. LOL: Star Wars AT-AT Baby Stroller By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2010 12:00 pm EST UPS driver/father Rick Russo modified his baby’s Baby Trend Trendsport Lite baby stroller to look like an AT-AT Imperial Walker from the Star Wars films....

Nick Frost Is The Final Dwarf In ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2011 1:09 pm EST I like it! Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman has already cast a stellar group of British actors to play the seven dwarfs in the action film that will see the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) saving and mentoring Snow White (Kristen Stewart) rather than doing away with her as commanded by the evil queen (Charlize Theron)....

Scream 2010 Awards: New ‘Harry Potter’ Trailer, ‘Back To The Future’ Reunion And More By Germain Lussier/Oct. 20, 2010 6:00 pm EST Here’s the new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 footage: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | SpikeTV | SPIKE.com And here’s the Back to the Future reunion: Back to the Future Reunites On Stage | SpikeTV | SPIKE.com Finally, here are a list of all the night’s winners....

See Rian Johnson’s Early Short Film ‘The Psychology Of Dream Analysis;’ View Martin Ansin’s ‘Looper’ Poster By Russ Fischer/Sept. 14, 2012 3:00 pm EST Rian Johnson’s third film Looper came in as my most anticipated movie of 2012. While so many other films from that list have fallen short in my estimation, I can say that Looper is an excellent film, surprising and thrilling, and a great example of science fiction....

Short New ‘Django Unchained’ Teaser Has Sam Jackson, Ennio Morricone, And New Footage By Russ Fischer/July 1, 2012 8:22 pm EST Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx were part of the BET awards tonight, and they didn’t show up empty-handed. A new 60-second spot for Tarantino’s upcoming movie Django Unchained debuted during the show, and has now appeared online. This spot features a new overt nod to classic spaghetti westerns, as the beginning of the spot features some of Ennio Morricone’s track ‘The Ecstasy of Gold,’ as heard in the climax of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly....

Video: Director Jon Favreau Interviews Harrison Ford By Peter Sciretta/June 28, 2011 4:00 pm EST I love unconventional interviews, recorded conversations between actors, actresses, directors and screenwriters about the filmmaking process. It might be that the relationships that have already been established on set translate to a more honest interesting and entertaining interview. That is one of the many reasons I LOVED Jon Favreau’s old television talk show Dinner For Five....

Watch Steven Spielberg And John Williams Compose The ‘E.T.’ Theme By Russ Fischer/Oct. 23, 2012 4:00 pm EST As photo (or video) ops go, this one is among the best: video footage of Steven Spielberg and John Williams tapping out an early draft of the main E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial theme on a piano. Whether the camera just happened to be there, or if this was designed specifically as a publicity stunt matters to some extent — it would be nice to know this was really a spontaneous moment — but either way it’s neat to see the birth of one of the more recognizable ’80s movie themes....

/Film Boston - See A Free Screening Of ‘Another Earth’ On Wed. 7/6, Featuring A Q&A With Mike Cahill & Brit Marling By David Chen/July 2, 2011 1:00 pm EST Actress Brit Marling’s career got a shot in the arm recently when she co-wrote, co-produced, and acted in Another Earth and Sound of My Voice, both of which made it into Sundance this year. This woman can do it all, and she’s apparently pretty damn good at it too....

‘Horrible Bosses’ Writers To Direct Their Own ‘Vacation’ Reboot/Sequel Script By Russ Fischer/Feb. 28, 2012 6:00 am EST Horrible Bosses screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein are busy guys. In the wake of the success of their comedic murder plot featuring Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day, the duo worked on Burt Wonderstone and are drafting a sequel to Bosses. But back in 2009 they started writing a reboot of National Lampoon’s Vacation, now to be titled simply Vacation, and as of 2011 they were doing a second draft of the script....

“It Gets Better” — Love, Pixar By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 22, 2010 3:15 pm EST Pixar Animation Studios produced the following video for ItGetsBetter.org, a movement which believes that “everyone deserves to be respected for who they are.” Many LGBT youth can’t picture what their lives might be like as openly gay adults. They can’t imagine a future for themselves. So let’s show them what our lives are like, let’s show them what the future may hold in store for them....

“Phenomenal” 1964 ‘Casino Royale’ Script Shows What That Awful 1966 Spoof Could Have Been By Angie Han/March 10, 2011 1:00 pm EST Although Hecht’s treatment contained “darkly comedic” scenes, for the most part, it was a serious, grown-up adaptation of Fleming’s novel — closer to Martin Campbell’s 2006 film than the 1966 parody it eventually became. The bare bones of the story will be familiar to anyone who saw Campbell’s version — Bond, his lady love Vesper Lynd, Le Chiffre (Colonel Chiffre in Hecht’s script), the torture sequence, the tragic betrayal and eventual suicide....