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‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ Helmer Sean Durkin To Direct ‘Joplin’ Biopic, Tony Winner Nina Arianda To Star By Angie Han/July 10, 2012 11:00 am EST Despite plenty of attempts, Hollywood’s had quite a bit of trouble getting a Janis Joplin biopic off the ground. But that’s not going to stop enterprising young filmmakers from trying anyway. The latest director to take a stab at bringing the rock icon’s story to life will be Sean Durkin, director of last year’s indie hit Martha Marcy May Marlene....

‘Pearl Jam Twenty’ Teaser Clip: Cameron Crowe’s Doc Briefly Revels In Early Days By Russ Fischer/May 3, 2011 1:00 pm EST Cameron Crowe hasn’t had a film on screens in a while — his last was the tepid Elizabethtown, in 2005 — but he’s roaring back with three features in 2011. Roaring, I tell you. One new film is the drama We Bought A Zoo, with Matt Damon, Scarletty Johansson and Elle Fanning....

‘Saw’ Director James Wan To Direct Vampire Comic Book Movie Adaptation ‘Nightfall’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2010 7:00 am EST Saw co-director/co-creator James Wan has signed on to direct, and will oversee the screenplay development of a big screen adaptation of the graphic novel Nightfall for William Stuart’s Aurora Productions and Platinum Studios, Inc. Nightfall tells the story of a man who finds out just how bad life can get when he discovers that the prison he just entered is controlled by vampires....

31st Annual Razzie Award Winners By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 27, 2011 12:43 am EST The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation have announced the “dis-hours” for the year in film that was 2010. M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender swept this year’s awards, winning Worst Director, Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay and a brand-new category created for this year’s awards — Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3-D. Jackson Rathbone also took home the award for Worst Supporting Actor for both Airbender and The Twilight Saga’s Eclipse....

A Remake Of ‘The Bodyguard’ Is In The Works By Germain Lussier/Feb. 23, 2011 6:00 pm EST In the second piece of Kevin Costner-related news this week, Warner Brothers has decided to remake their 1992 film The Bodyguard. They’ve hired screenwriters Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, who wrote the 2010 Black List film Family Getaway, to update the original story of a Secret Service agent turned bodyguard who falls in love with his client, a popular singer....

Anthony Mackie And Dominic Cooper Added To ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 10, 2011 1:30 pm EST The next two actors has been added to one of our most anticipated movies currently in pre-production that’s not based on a comic book character. Anthony Mackie, star of The Hurt Locker, 8 Mile and the upcoming The Adjustment Bureau, and Dominic Cooper, star of Captain America: The First Avenger, An Education and Mamma Mia have signed on to co-star in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, directed by Timur Bekmambetov, produced by Tim Burton and starting Benjamin Walker as Lincoln....

Christopher Nolan And Emma Thomas Producing Wally Pfister’s Directorial Debut By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2012 11:30 am EST One of the best things about the films of Christopher Nolan is Wally Pfister’s cinematography. In March, we told you that Pfister would be making the leap to director after The Dark Knight Rises is fully finished. (And hopefully not leaving cinematography behind, as Jan De Bont and Barry Sonnenfeld did.) At the time we had little info on the film that Pfister plans to direct....

Cool Stuff: Todd Slater’s Star Wars Print “Great Warrior” By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 25, 2010 5:00 pm EST The next print in Mondo’s LucasFilm-licensed Star Wars art print series is Todd Slater’s “Great Warrior”. The image uses leaves, sticks, ferns and other flora found in the swamps of Dagobah to create Yoda’s face. Here is what Slater said about the print on OMG: “From the first time that I saw Star Wars, I was captivated by the mystery of Yoda’s species and home world....

Duncan Jones Offers Update On Source Code; Explains Why He Didn’t Direct Judge Dredd By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2010 9:44 am EST Duncan Jones became a name to watch thanks to his excellent directorial debut Moon. He’s been shooting his follow-up film, Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, and the film is now in the editing room. Now we’ve got an update on that film’s progress, as well as some thoughts about the success of Moon and the new movie version of Judge Dredd, which Jones decided not to direct....

Early Buzz: Tron Legacy By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 12, 2010 8:00 am EST Hollywood industry insider Jeff Wells has early buzz on Disney’s Tron Legacy and it doesn’t sound good, but is it even legit? Wells’ “second-hand source” has seen the film and claims it’s “a technical marvel, but uninvolving and remote despite Pixar’s attempts to infuse emotion into the father-and-son scene.” “The primary source, obviously Pixar-friendly, feels that Team Lassiter (including Toy Story 3 screenwriter Michael Arndt, Incredibles director Brad Bird) “needed to be involved from the beginning, and not consulting after the fact....

First Images: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry And More In Tykwer/Wachowski Epic ‘Cloud Atlas’ [Updated] By Russ Fischer/July 25, 2012 6:00 pm EST With Cloud Atlas set to play TIFF, we knew that images and new info would be arriving soon, and now we’ve got the first official pics of Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, and Ben Whishaw as they appear in two of the film’s six stories. Written and directed by Tom Tykwer (directing one unit) and Andy and Lana Wachowski (co-directing another unit) the film is based on David Mitchell’s novel of the same name, and features all the actors playing multiple roles, some of which have them crossing gender and racial lines....

First Look: Adam Sandler’s Animated Dracula In ‘Hotel Transylvania’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 31, 2011 4:30 pm EST Hotel Transylvania won’t be out until this time next year but Sony Pictures Animation is giving its Facebook fans a Halloween treat. The film, which marks the feature directorial debut of animation guru Genndy Tartakovsky, features Adam Sandler as the voice of the famous vampire Dracula who opens a hotel to keep his young daughter occupied with a never ending run of other famous monster patrons like Frankenstein, Mummy and the Invisible Man....

Gus Van Sant Will Direct The Film Previously Set As Matt Damon’s Directorial Debut By Russ Fischer/Jan. 6, 2012 1:00 pm EST Matt Damon has been planning his directorial debut for months now — the film would be one he wrote with John Krasinski, based on a timely story that Krasinski cooked up with Dave Eggers. But just this week Damon backed out of directing the film, because scheduling issues, personal and professional, made the project impossible for him....

By Russ Fischer/May 19, 2010 2:01 pm EST See, while Summit is reportedly ready to say, “yeah, we’re splitting Breaking Dawn into two films,” there has been a hold-up. Lutz and Green wanted more money for their services in the fifth film. A lot more money. And, depending on who you believe, they didn’t get as much as they were asking for. But they are still in the film(s). THR says that Lutz and Greene will now get $1....

Latest Netflix iOS Update Is Now Optimized For iPad By Germain Lussier/Dec. 16, 2011 6:00 am EST iPad users who have the Netflix app should head into the App Store immediately and download the latest update. It’s being billed at Netflix 2.0 and has a vastly improved user interface as well as support for Latin America. Read more after the jump. Netflix announced the new update on their blog, which was then picked up by sites like Engadget....

LOL: New York Subway Spoiler Warning By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 25, 2010 6:00 am EST /Film’s own David Chen has figured out a way to fix the New York Subway… Photo after the jump. Okay, so the above Spoiler Warning sign was not actually installed by Dave. It was created by Newmindspace and Jason Eppink (found via Laughing Squid). And no, the photo really isn’t film related per say, but I thought it would be funny to post because of the film community’s obsession with avoiding possible spoilers....

Marc Webb Confirmed To Direct ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 28, 2012 11:55 am EST Now Webb is confirmed to return to direct the sequel, with Garfield reprising his role from this summer’s film and Emma Stone in talks to return. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner have been rewriting the sequel script penned by James Vanderbilt; hopefully the sort of problems that caused last-minute editing in the first film will be tackled at the script stage this time....

Morgan Spurlock’s The Greatest TED Talk Ever Sold By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2011 1:30 pm EST Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) gave a presentation at TED in March titled “The Greatest TED Talk Ever Sold”. The talk was tied into his upcoming film The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. When I reviewed the movie at Sundance, I called the film “the most meta movie ever created.” The film pretends to be a film about the growing world of product placement in television shows and movies, with the twist being that the doc would be completely financed by product placement....

New Photos: ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,’ ‘Hugo,’ ‘We Bought A Zoo,’ ‘The Muppets,’ ‘Jack And Jill’ And More By Germain Lussier/Aug. 12, 2011 1:00 pm EST Entertainment Weekly’s Fall Movie Preview hits newsstands Friday and, as usual, it’s filled with new information and photos from some of the most anticipated films scheduled for release between September through December. After the jump, check out new photos from We Bought a Zoo, Jack and Jill, Like Crazy, Contagion, Drive, Abduction, Hugo, The Muppets, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, The Adventures of Tintin and The Descendants....

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Set Visit Video Blog By Peter Sciretta/May 25, 2010 3:00 am EST In July 2009, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to travel to the Toronto-based set of Edgar Wright’s upcoming action-comedy Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. As you know from reading the site, I’m a huge fan of the comic book series written by Bryan Lee O’Malley and have been very excited to see it adapted to the big screen by Wright....