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Former Lost Writers Talk About Their New Fairy Tale TV Series ‘Once Upon A Time’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 14, 2011 2:38 pm EST Last year it was revealed that Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, who wrote many great episodes of Lost, had sold to ABC a new show called Once Upon a Time. We didn’t know much about it at the time, other than the fact that it would offer a new take on fairy tales, but now a lot more details have come to light....

Guys (And Girls, Of Course) Should Totally See ‘Bridesmaids’ By Germain Lussier/May 12, 2011 5:00 pm EST This isn’t so much a review as it is a disclaimer. Bridesmaids, which opens Friday May 13, isn’t what you think it is. I know the ads and trailers make it out to seem like a bit of a chick flick. Something that’s strictly for a group of girlfriends to go see akin to Sex and the City 2....

Jack Nicholson Offered Jackie Robinson Biopic ‘42’ By Angie Han/Oct. 13, 2011 11:00 am EST The dramatic, inspirational story of Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball’s first black player, seems so ripe for a Hollywood adaptation that it’s a little surprising we haven’t seen the story hit the big screen in some time. Filmmakers have certainly tried — Spike Lee had a biopic in the works at one point, and Robert Redford tried for years to get his own version going — but for whatever reason, those projects never panned out....

James McAvoy Is Professor X In X-Men: First Class By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2010 3:47 pm EST Discuss: Is McAvoy a good choice for young Charles Xavier? Here is the official plot synopsis: source: Heatvision X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, following the classic Marvel mythology, charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga. Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time....

Jamie Foxx Running For President (Of Roland Emmerich’s ‘White House Down’) [UPDATED] By Angie Han/June 7, 2012 5:30 am EST Jamie Foxx will next be seen playing a freed slave turned bounty hunter for Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, but his role after that will have him climbing all the way to the tippy-top of American society. The star has just entered talks to play the President of the United States in the thriller White House Down, one of two competing projects being described as “Die Hard in the White House....

Kate Winslet And Josh Brolin Lead Cast Of Jason Reitman’s ‘Labor Day’ By Russ Fischer/June 16, 2011 10:17 am EST Jason Reitman has quickly crafted a significant directorial resume — Thank You For Smoking, Juno (reject the blowback — it’s a sweet, effective movie), and Up in the Air — and he has already wrapped his fourth movie, the Diablo Cody-scripted Young Adult. Now he is getting ready to work on his fifth, which will be an adaptation of Joyce Maynard’s novel Labor Day....

Let Me In - What Did You Think By David Chen/Oct. 1, 2010 5:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Matt Reeves’ Let Me In (an film adaptation of the Swedish book) arrives in theaters today with some pretty high expectations attached to it. The original Swedish film, Let The Right One In, directed by Tomas Alfredson, is generally regarded by the film geek community as a nearly-flawless genre piece....

Mike White Is Reportedly The Top Choice To Direct ‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 3, 2010 12:30 pm EST I evidently need to read the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies script (anyone got it?) because while the idea of inserting zombies in Jane Austen’s classic story sounds amusing enough to power a bit of sketch comedy, I’m having difficulty coming to terms with it as something that people are jockeying to direct....

Red Band Trailer For ‘The Five Year Engagement’ Is Filled With Deleted Scenes By Germain Lussier/April 20, 2012 3:30 pm EST Universal Pictures has just released a red band trailer for The Five-Year Engagement and, like most red band trailers, it’s filled with raunchy humor. Written by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, the guys who made Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and produced by Judd Apatow, you’d expect nothing less. The odd thing about this trailer, though, is that while most red band trailers horribly spoil a good comedy this one doesn’t really because a lot of the jokes aren’t in the movie....

Roland Emmerich Sci-Fi Project ‘Singularity’ Lands At Sony [Updated] By Russ Fischer/June 29, 2011 1:04 pm EST Here’s yet another stopgap measure to keep Foundation fans happy. Roland Emmerich made his latest film, the Shakespeare conspiracy drama/thriller Anonymous, with Sony, and now there is a report that he has a mysterious new sci-fi project with the working title of Singularity. THR reports that Sony has right of first refusal on the film, and while a deal isn’t made at this point, it could be something that, like 2012, the studio picks up knowing that he’ll deliver something that can easily crack $500m in global ticketing....

Screen Version Of Supernatural Appalachian Tale ‘Dark Of The Moon’ In The Works By Russ Fischer/Jan. 28, 2011 5:00 am EST Well, this could be confusing. The third Transformers film is subtitled Dark of the Moon, but there’s an older tale that shares that name, and now a film based on the original Dark of the Moon is edging towards development. This alternate story with the same name features no giant bearded robots on the moon, but it might be just the thing for those who have no interest in that sort of thing....

Sequel Bits: Black Widow Won’t Be In ‘Iron Man 3’, Plus: ‘Muppets 2’, ‘Star Trek 2’, ‘Scary Movie 5’ By Angie Han/April 25, 2012 1:00 pm EST It seems that Iron Man 3 won’t feature quite the redhead trio we expected, as Jessica Chastain and Gwyneth Paltrow won’t be joined by Scarlett Johansson after all. Also after the jump: Muppets 2 gets some very early marketing art Chris Pine says Star Trek 2 has action, character development Scary Movie 5 finds a director in Malcolm Lee But that doesn’t necessarily mean Johansson is locking Black Widow away for good....

Spike Lee And ‘Entourage’ Creator Team Up For HBO Boxing Drama Based On Mike Tyson By Angie Han/June 24, 2011 8:00 am EST Although he’s currently best known as that guy whose tattoo artist tried to sue Warner Bros. for reproducing his design on Ed Helms’ face, Mike Tyson was once famous for being one of the best boxers of his day. It’s true! I read about it on Wikipedia. Now HBO has ordered a pilot for a new drama called Da Brick, which will be “loosely inspired” by Tyson’s early days as a boxer....

Tony Stark Pours A Drink, Explains The Avengers To Loki In Another New Clip [UPDATED With New TV Spot] By Angie Han/April 11, 2012 10:30 am EST At the rate we’re getting new clips from The Avengers, we’ll have seen the whole thing before it actually hits theaters next month. Today brings yet another new scene, which I think it may be my favorite yet. Robert Downey, Jr. demonstrates his trademark cool as Tony Stark, calmly and helpfully reminding Loki (Tom Hiddleston) how powerful the Avengers are — and how very upset they are with him....

VOTD: ‘Harry Potter’ Flash Mob Invades Grand Central Terminal In NYC By Germain Lussier/Nov. 10, 2010 6:00 am EST Muggles beware. It seems like Manhattan is becoming a frightening hot bed of wizard activity. We know they’re hosting the fourth annual Quidditch World Cup later this week and a few years back the Chosen One, Harry Potter himself, was seen naked on stage with a horse. Now, Voldemort and his Death Eaters have been video tapped causing a ruckus in Grand Central Terminal....

‘Crave’ Trailer: When Death Wishes Come True By Russ Fischer/July 18, 2012 12:00 pm EST There’s a guy out there whose work almost every one of our readers knows, but very few people are likely to know his name. The guy in question is Charles de Lauzirika, and he has been one of the top DVD producers for many years, having worked on things like the Twin Peaks Gold Box, and the 5-disc Blade Runner Blu-ray restoration and release....

‘How To Die In Oregon’ – Beyond Emotional Doc About Legal Suicide [Sundance Review] By Germain Lussier/Feb. 1, 2011 5:00 am EST Which is fine because the bulk of the film is spent with Cody Curtis, a mother of two with terminal liver cancer, who is one of the most courageous, brave and strong women even filmed. She – like other people who’ve made this decision – knows that she’s going to die and just wants to do it on her own terms....

‘Hunger’s Steve McQueen And Michael Fassbender Reuniting For ‘Shame’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2010 10:42 am EST Hopefully you’ve managed to see Hunger, the quite excellent film about IRA prisoner Bobby Sands and the hunger strike he mounted against his jailers. Hunger was directed by Steve McQueen and was the film that really made a broad audience acknowledge the capabilities of actor Michael Fassbender. And now the two are reuniting for Shame, a drama about a guy ruled by his sex life....

By Angie Han/Feb. 21, 2012 6:00 am EST [via Vulture]

‘The Beaver’ Will Open Limited On March 23 And Go Wide On April 8 By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2010 8:00 am EST The headline gags just seem to write themselves, but calm down — this is purely a release date post. Summit has announced a date for Jodie Foster’s film The Beaver, in which Mel Gibson plays a family man who goes down a dark, angry road before being led back into the family fold by a plush beaver puppet....