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Five Photos From ‘The Avengers;’ Nick Fury Isn’t Looking Healthy By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2012 9:00 am EST We’re still waiting for a new trailer for Marvel and Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, but here’s a new batch of photos to tide you over. Well, not new exactly — these are clean versions of pics that showed up not long ago in Empire. You won’t see much here in terms of grand plot or character revelation here, as the shots are mostly of Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey, Jr....

LOL: Fake Dastan Interviews Prince Of Persia Cast And Crew By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2010 12:00 pm EST Italian-German reporter/comedian Daniele Rizzo decided to interview the cast and crew of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time dressed as Jake Gyllenhaal’s character, and pretending to be the long lost son of Tamina and Dastan. The results vary depending on who he is interviewing, but Sir Ben Kingsley really plays along with the gag while Gyllenhaal can’t stop laughing....

Mitch Hurwitz Talks ‘Arrested Development’ On Netflix, Hints At Possibility Of Additional Seasons By Angie Han/April 18, 2012 10:00 am EST The pessimist in me still refuses to believe in an Arrested Development revival until the finished product is actually up there on the screen, but even I have to admit that with every little update, it’s looking more and more like a reality. Last fall, Netflix picked up the exclusive rights to a ten-episode fourth season of the critically beloved sitcom to air in the first half of 2013....

More Details About JJ Abrams Secret Super 8 Movie Revealed? By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2010 1:56 pm EST Earlier this morning, it Hitfix revealed that a easer trailer for a super secret JJ Abrams project was attached to prints of Iron Man 2. All we knew is the trailer is titled “Super 8”, and is locked in a film canister “that has a coded electronic lock on it” with the final reel of Iron Man 2....

Roger Ebert’s ‘At The Movies’ Going On Hiatus By Angie Han/Dec. 4, 2011 9:00 am EST After recent reports that PBS’ Ebert Presents At the Movies was in financial trouble, executive producer Roger Ebert has now announced that the film review television series will be going on hiatus while Ebert and his wife/co-producer Chaz Ebert find additional funding. “This move is necessary to allow the public television stations that carry our show to plan their programs for the beginning of the new year,” he wrote on his blog....

Rumor: Paramount Wants Justin Timberlake For Big-Screen ‘Baywatch’ By Russ Fischer/June 20, 2012 5:00 am EST We’ve seen quite a few TV series adapted to film, and they are almost uniformly forgettable. (Starsky and Hutch, The A-Team, Dark Shadows, and so on.) So if Paramount wants to make a Baywatch movie, based on the show that made a star of Pamela Anderson and revived the career of David Hasselhoff, let them go for it....

The Latest ‘Akira’ Report: Keanu Reeves To Play Kaneda? By Russ Fischer/May 6, 2011 11:14 am EST Oh, Akira. You’re never going to be able to make fans happy. Die-hards are going to hate the fact that the characters are older than the original incarnations in Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga and movie — maybe up to 30 years older if this rumor comes true. There is the whitewashing issue, and the fact that, even with two films and a big-ish budget to play with, concessions will have to be made to put the story on screen....

UK Poster For Gareth Edwards’ Monsters By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2010 12:58 pm EST Magnolia Pictures/Magnet have released a UK Poster for Gareth Edwards’ new low budget monster movie Monsters which takes a very District 9 approach to film marketing. Hit the jump to see the poster. Since screening the film at Cannes, we’ve been hyping the movie (read my mini review here). We called it Lost in Translation in a world infested by monsters....

‘Hanna’ Director Joe Wright Wants Saoirse Ronan And James McAvoy For ‘Anna Karenina’ By Russ Fischer/April 6, 2011 5:30 pm EST Atonement director Joe Wright is likely to do well this weekend with his new ’teen assassin’ film Hanna, but he’s already looking forward to the future. His next film could well be a return to the more literary work we’ve come to expect from the man: an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina....

‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2011 4:47 pm EST The full theatrical trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 has hit a bit early this evening. The eighth film in the Harry Potter series depicts the Battle of Hogwarts and the final confrontation between Harry and Voldemort. The trailer, appropriately, promises a conclusion on a massive scale. Check it out after the break....

By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2010 8:13 am EST Clint Eastwood’s upcoming Hereafter, starring Matt Damon, is now slated to close this year’s installment of the New York Film Festival. David Fincher’s The Social Network is opening the fest and Julie Taymor’s The Tempest is another of the big films; new additions to the program include Certified Copy, We Are What We Are (the ‘Mexican cannibal movie’), Another Year and Meek’s Cutoff....

‘Machete Kills’ Adds Amber Heard By Angie Han/May 3, 2012 3:00 pm EST The idea of Machete Kills has been floating around ever since it was promised in the end credits of the first Machete, back in 2010. But it’s only recently that the project’s really begun picking up steam, with Danny Trejo entering talks to reprise his role this past February. Now, as Machete Kills comes together to start shooting later this month, it’s been locking down cast members left and right....

‘RoboCop’ Remake Director Says Michael Fassbender Casting Rumors Blown Out Of Proportion By Russ Fischer/Sept. 26, 2011 6:00 am EST Here’s the problem with the classic “so and so wants actor X for new film” story: it can so easily turn out to be something that is blown out of proportion. The latest case in point is Jose Padilha’s remake of RoboCop. On Friday it was widely reported that the director wants Michael Fassbender for the role originated by Peter Weller....

‘The Deep Blue Sea’ Trailer - Tom Hiddleston Thinks Rachel Weisz Is Super Hot By Angie Han/Feb. 28, 2012 3:00 pm EST Valentine’s Day may have already come and gone, but between the re-release of Titanic and the opening of Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea, it looks like cinema’s most romantic days are still ahead of us. Rachel Weisz stars as Hester Collyer, whose marriage to an older judge (Simon Russell Beale) falls apart when she strikes up a passionate affair with a dashing ex-RAF pilot (Tom Hiddleston)....

‘The Hunger Games’ Sequel ‘Catching Fire’ Gets ‘Twilight’ Title Treatment By Germain Lussier/May 24, 2012 12:00 pm EST Briefly: Ask most people if they’re excited for the sequel to The Hunger Games and they’d probably say “Yes.” Ask those same people if they’re excited for Catching Fire and they might say “What’s that?” Catching Fire is the title of the second Hunger Games book by Suzanne Collins but, just to avoid any confusion, Lionsgate is officially titling the sequel film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire....

‘The Words’ Trailer #2 - Bradley Cooper Fakes It Til He Makes It By Angie Han/Aug. 1, 2012 7:00 am EST After breaking out with Wedding Crashes and The Hangover a few years back, Bradley Cooper’s been trying to make the transition into more dramatic roles. Which, for some reason, starts with playing shabby, dishonest writer types. In last year’s Limitless, Cooper played a hapless copywriter who cheats his way to success with a performance-enhancing drug....

‘Whole Lotta Sole’ Trailer - A Light, Brendan Fraser-Starring Comedy From The Director Of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ By Angie Han/May 22, 2012 4:30 pm EST Don’t worry — though the groan-inducing title and involvement of Brendan Fraser suggest the worst, Whole Lotta Sole is not a stupider sequel to 2010’s Furry Vengeance. Instead, it’s an uncharacteristically lighthearted dramedy from Terry George, the writer/director behind such serious-minded works as Hotel Rwanda and Reservation Road....

A Better Queue Mines Netflix’s Instant Offerings For Critically Acclaimed Gems By Angie Han/May 9, 2012 5:00 am EST Netflix already has its own sophisticated algorithm for tailoring recommendations to each individual user, but there are times when their suggestions can be a little too customized. Like, say, when you’re looking to expand your horizons with a critically acclaimed classic you expect to admire more than like, or dip your toe into a genre you rarely explore....

Chris Pine To Star In Alex Kurtzman’s Directorial Debut ‘Welcome To People’? By Adam Quigley/Sept. 30, 2010 1:00 pm EST Alex Kurtzman has worked as a writer and producer on numerous projects that Steven Spielberg has helped develop (the Transformers films, Eagle Eye, Cowboys & Aliens), but with Welcome to People, Spielberg will be producing Kurtzman’s first directorial effort. The film also marks Kurtzman’s first attempt to make a name for himself outside of the action/sci-fi genre fare he’s so accustomed to....

Cool Stuff: The Dude Abides T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2010 8:00 am EST The t-shirt of the day at Ript Apparel is a tribute to The Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski created by Tom Ledin. Check out the full design after the jump. I love the doodle pen sketch of the Dude. The bad news is that with all of RIPT’s tees, the design will only be available for today and today only (midnight eastern it disappears)....