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Scott Derrickson Will Direct Charlize Theron In Remake Of Dutch Thriller ‘Zwart Water’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 18, 2011 3:15 pm EST One of the films to play Fantastic Fest in Austin last month was the Dutch ghost story thriller Zwart Water, aka Two Eyes Staring. Germain wasn’t thrilled with the film, calling it a good story that wasn’t handled well. It’s one that sounds like prime material for a remake, and indeed that is something that is already in motion....

Star Wars: Blu-Ray Release Coming Soon, New Animated Series Will Be A Return Of The Jedi Sequel? By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2010 12:05 am EST Lucasfilm Director of Fan Relations Steve Sansweet made a couple of big Star Wars-related revelations this weekend at Chicago’s C2E2 convention. The first of which is kind of expected: A Blu-Ray release of the six Star Wars live-action feature films is being worked on, and while no official date was announced, Sansweet says “it won’t be in the too distant future....

Superhero Bits: The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Dark Knight Rises, Thor 2, Super Bowl By Germain Lussier/Jan. 11, 2012 11:00 am EST How good does Robert Downey Jr. think Iron Man 3 could possibly be? Which superhero movies might have Super Bowl commercials and which might not? What’s the meaning of the Lazarus Pit in The Dark Knight Rises? Will Jaimie Alexander appear in Thor 2 or The Avengers? Who might perform the theme song for The Avengers and is there a warm way to dress your baby up as Batman or Robin?...

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Invictus, The Messenger, Valentine’s Day, And More By Adam Quigley/May 18, 2010 5:56 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Some historical events function better as documentary subjects than they do movies. Admirable though the effort may be, Invictus is one of them. The film attempts to balance its weighty subject matter with the trifling appeal of an inspirational sports story, but in doing so, fails to satisfy in either regard....

Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie 3D Gets A Voice Cast By Adam Quigley/Sept. 20, 2010 5:02 pm EST Fitting for a film that finds Tim Burton returning to where his career first began, the Hot Topic-favorite director has a voice cast in place for Frankenweenie 3D that will reunite him with some familiar faces. To recap: the film is a stop-motion Disney animated feature, based on his ’80s black-and-white short about a boy named Victor who reanimates his dog after its hit by a car....

Tony Scott To Cast Vince Vaughn In Drug Cartel-Busting Action Thriller ‘Lucky Strike’? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 15, 2012 3:00 pm EST Tony Scott, like his brother and a few other filmmakers such as Guillermo Del Toro, always seems to have a large collection of films in development. That makes pinning down his next project difficult. But now we might have a ’next film’ for Tony Scott. Wouldn’t you know it, this is one that seems a bit like it is coming out of left field....

Trailer: Rian Johnson’s Time Travel Movie ‘Looper’ By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2012 4:00 pm EST Over the past week, Sony has released teaser vignette pieces for Looper, featuring Joseph Gordon Levitt and filmmaker Rian Johnson talking about the film, cut to behind the scenes footage and a few glimpses of the trailer. The first focused on the premise The second looked at the feel of the future world of the film The third takes a look at the transformation Joseph Gordon Levitt went through to look like a young Bruce Willis....

VOTD: Star Trek Tik Tok By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2010 12:03 am EST MissSheenie has created a mash-up using Star Trek and Ke$ha’s song “Tik Tok”: Working on the Enterprise is pretty much a non-stop party as far as I’m concerned. (Probably because the only parts I pay attention to are the Kirk/Spock moments, Scotty when he’s drinking, Chekov when he’s macking on his girlfriend and doing no work, and Uhura singing and just HAVING A GOOF in general....

‘Bel Ami’ Trailer – Robert Pattinson Sleeps His Way Through 19th Century Paris By Angie Han/Dec. 22, 2011 2:00 pm EST It took Robert Pattinson three and a half movies to getting around to bedding his lady love as Edward Cullen in The Twilight Saga (oh, um, spoilers), but as the lead of Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod’s Bel Ami, Pattinson more than makes up for lost time. Based on a novel by Guy de Maupassant, the drama follows a poor young man who climbs the ranks of 1890s Parisian society by calculatedly seducing its wealthiest and most influential women....

‘Censored Eleven’ Looney Tunes To Hit DVD? Possible, But Warner Home Video Says Not Yet By Russ Fischer/Oct. 12, 2010 2:31 pm EST Warner Archive is fast becoming one of the more valuable facets of the DVD landscape. the company is Warner Bros.’ method for direct-marketing the DVD and digital release of many films that have artistic and cultural value, but no great commercial prospects. Is Warner Archive now poised to bring a group of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons packed with racial caricatures, the so-called Censored Eleven, to DVD?...

‘Dinosaurs Vs. Aliens’ Web Series Trailer: Barry Sonnenfeld Teams Up With Grant Morrison By Russ Fischer/July 6, 2012 11:00 am EST Yahoo is really getting into the game of making original animated series; we just saw the trailer for Tom Hanks’ sci-fi series Electric City, for example, and now there is another project in the offing. This time it’s a trailer for Dinosaurs vs. Aliens, a motion comic series created by famed comic book writer Grant Morrison and Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld....

‘Friends With Kids’ Red-Band Trailer: Vulgar, But Nice By Russ Fischer/Feb. 16, 2012 2:30 pm EST Here’s another red-band comedy trailer, and happily it’s one that (I think) works a lot better than the last we saw today. Friends With Kids comes from Jennifer Wesfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein) and explores a slightly absurd premise: two people (Adam Scott and Westfeldt) whose friends have all had kids, decide to have a child together while dating other people....

‘Jurassic Park’ 3D Re-Release Set For Summer 2013 By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2012 3:22 pm EST Briefly: Wasn’t it just months ago that Steven Spielberg seemed to have moved beyond the idea of tinkering with old movies? At a screening of Raiders of the Lost Ark last year, Spielberg said he regretted digitally altering E.T., and suggested that future home video releases of that and Raiders would be their original ‘81 and ‘82 versions....

‘Paradise Lost’ Could Shoot In June, Says Bradley Cooper By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2012 12:00 pm EST Several studios have been actively trimming and shedding projects over the past year. Universal cut loose a handful of board game movies (Ouija, Monopoly, etc.) and scrapped Guillermo del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness, while Warner Bros. has paused or scrapped films like Akira, Arthur & Lancelot and Paradise Lost. That last one is to be directed by Alex Proyas as a big-budget re-imagining of the war in heaven that follows the fall of Lucifer, as told in Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost....

‘Prometheus’ Star Guy Pearce Joins ‘Iron Man 3’ By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2012 11:39 am EST Filming begins next month for Shane Black’s Iron Man 3, and casting details for the next installent of Marvel’s popular movie franchise have begun to be revealed. We know that many of the regulars have signed on to return, including Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts and Don Cheadle as Lt....

‘The Muppets’ Strange Teaser Poster [Updated With Better Quality Image] By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2011 7:18 pm EST Update: We’ve got a much higher quality version of the poster, which you can see below. It looks a bit better when seen as it was meant to be, and without the Donnie Darko tube of cameraphone flash coming out of Kermit’s chest. When we saw the logo for Disney’s upcoming The Muppets it looked just about right....

‘The Secret In Their Eyes’ Director Juan Jose Campanella To Make Animated Soccer Film By Russ Fischer/Oct. 18, 2010 3:30 pm EST Briefly: Juan Jose Campanella’s most recent film, The Secret in Their Eyes, won this year’s foreign-language Oscar, and now he’s chosen his follow-up picture. It might seem like the least likely choice: he’s planning to direct the animated Metegol, a film about soccer.Variety describes the plot, which features “an underdog who, with the help of foosball figures that come to life, must take on a star soccer pro to save their village....

Amy Adams A Likely Lead For ‘Rock Of Ages;’ Paul Giamatti Joins Cast By Russ Fischer/March 24, 2011 2:30 pm EST Adam Shankman’s big-screen version of the rock jukebox musical Rock of Ages has turned into quite the hot ticket. Tom Cruise plays one key character, decadent rocker Stacee Jax, and now Amy Adams is being wooed to play a journalist who intends to write a hit piece on the rock star but ends up falling for him instead....

Anne Hathaway And Tom Rothman Join Steven Spielberg’s ‘Robopocalypse’ By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 24, 2012 11:26 pm EST The official press release follows: Exploring the fate of the human race following a robot uprising, “Robopocalypse” has been adapted for the screen by Drew Goddard, based on the novel of the same name by Daniel H. Wilson. DreamWorks acquired the rights to Wilson’s unpublished manuscript in November 2009. Published by Doubleday on June 8, 2011, the book soon appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers list....

Casting Bits: Ray Liotta Joins David Wain’s ‘Wanderlust’; Alice Eve Replaces Margarita Levieva In ‘ATM’ By Adam Quigley/Oct. 8, 2010 4:36 am EST Wanderlust, the Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston comedy about a married couple who try to escape modern society and end up in a hippie commune, is really starting to come together. Much of the cast has already been set—first Justin Theroux (Mulholland Dr.) joined, then Six Feet Under’s Lauren Ambrose hopped on board, and most recently Alan Alda and Malin Akerman were thrown into the mix—and now the always enjoyable Ray Liotta has been added to round out the group....