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Sundance 2011 First Look: ‘Margin Call’ By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 29, 2010 10:00 am EST One of the top 10 screenplays listed on The Black List this year was a script by JC Chandor titled Margin Call. While I often refer to The Black List as a annual list of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, that isn’t actually the case — the list is compiled with a poll of 300 development executives and high-level assistants, and contains a ranking of the hot screenplays making the rounds in Hollywoodland, which were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2010 and will not be released in theaters during this calendar year....

Teaser Poster For Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/April 11, 2012 5:00 pm EST UPDATE: We’ve added the domestic teaser poster as well. Yup, it’s really coming. Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Django Unchained, is still filming in Louisana and though it comes out in eight short months, all we’ve seen to curb our anticipation is a quick, unofficial glimpse of Christoph Waltz’s character (above). No posters, trailers, official stills, nothing....

The Final ‘Happy Feet Two’ Trailer By Germain Lussier/Nov. 15, 2011 3:00 pm EST With only a few days until Happy Feet Two is released in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D, it seems kind of odd that Warner Bros. would release a brand new trailer. Then again, they must think they have a huge hill to climb this weekend considering they’re opening versus The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. While that will most certainly win the weekend, possibly in record setting fashion, Happy Feet Two has one major thing going for it....

Tron Legacy World Of Color By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 30, 2010 1:33 pm EST If you haven’t heard, this Summer Disneyland premiered a new water show in their Disney California Adventure theme park. We’ve even posted video of it on the site in the past. I’ve seen it in person, it’s incredible — makes the Bellagio in Vegas look like a water fountain at a mall. Last night Disney launched it’s first encore presentation – a two and a half minute show which focuses on their upcoming film release Tron Legacy....

TV Bits: ‘Arrested Development,’ ‘Community,’ ‘Dracula,’ ‘Fringe,’ ‘Modern Family’ By Germain Lussier/July 26, 2012 2:00 pm EST Arrested Development is coming back and I couldn’t be more excited. Ron Howard feels the same way. The narrator/executive producer just got the first script of the season’s first episode and it confirms what we’d heard, each episode will be character centric and episode one will focus on Michael, played by Jason Bateman. Here’s his TwitPic....

What Is Doc Brown From ‘Back To The Future’ Doing In Argentina? [Video] By Russ Fischer/Aug. 25, 2011 4:00 pm EST What is Doc Brown — that is, Christopher Lloyd — advertising in this Argentinian commercial? (Or ‘Argentine.’ I’m never certain which is correct.) The spot features Doc appearing in the Back to the Future DeLorean, which promptly crashes into Garbarino, an electronics superstore. Is this a commercial for the store, or for the phone that Doc seems to be reaching for right at the end?...

‘Anna Karenina’ Trailer: Director Joe Wright Returns To The Classics By Russ Fischer/June 20, 2012 2:00 pm EST Joe Wright moved from the stately but intense period piece Atonement to the violent modern fairy tale Hanna without missing a step, and now he has danced back to period form with an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic romance Anna Karenina. ‘Danced’ is exactly the word to use, as Wright shot most of the film on a single soundstage, and there is a very theatrical look to the sumptuous footage....

‘Blue Valentine’ Director’s HBO Show Is Based On Bodybuilding Memoir ‘Muscle’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 5, 2011 7:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Now we know a little more. His HBO series is based upon the Sam Fussell memoir Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder, and will be a single-camera comedy. Deadline says that Derek Cianfrance will co-write the script with the original author, and that Mr....

‘Red Lights’ Teaser – ‘Buried’ Helmer Directs Robert De Niro And Sigourney Weaver By Angie Han/Sept. 13, 2011 1:59 pm EST Although director Rodrigo Cortes isn’t a household name just yet, last year’s gripping, suspenseful Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds, marked him as a talent to watch. So we’ve been curious about his new project, Red Lights, ever since it was first announced last year. Our anticipation only heightened as we watched Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy, and indie darling Elizabeth Olsen join the cast, one by one....

‘Scenes From The Suburbs’ Trailer: Spike Jonze And Arcade Fire Go Amblin By Russ Fischer/March 14, 2011 10:00 am EST The latest film from Spike Jonze is Scenes From the Suburbs, a 28-minute short created in collaboration with members of the recent Grammy winners Arcade Fire. Bandleader Win Butler wrote the film with his brother William Butler, and the story follows suburban kids during one summer where military control of their town makes the lazy days more aimless than ever....

‘The Do-Deca-Pentathlon’ Trailer - The Duplass Brothers’ Sweaty Tale Of Brotherly Love By Angie Han/May 16, 2012 10:00 am EST Although the timing of the release makes it seem like the Duplass brothers’ The Do-Deca-Pentathlon is a follow-up to this spring’s Jeff Who Lives at Home, the filmmaking duo actually shot the film shortly after 2008’s Baghead and then shelved it while they moved onto Cyrus. Nevertheless, The Do-Deca-Pentathlon works as a smaller-scope continuation one major theme from Jeff – namely, the messy relationship between brothers....

‘The Tall Man’ International Trailer: ‘Martyrs’ Director Puts Jessica Biel Through A Different Horror By Russ Fischer/June 29, 2012 4:00 pm EST French director Pascal Laugier got an international reputation for his film Martyrs, which was the ne plus ultra of torture porn films, a movie that found a weird salvation in a devastatingly a tormented character. Laugier’s follow-up has been a long time coming, thanks in part to a flirtation with the Hellraiser remake....

American Society Of Cinematographers Announces 2011 Award Nominations By Russ Fischer/Jan. 11, 2012 4:30 pm EST Briefly: Here’s the award nomination for for those whose interest in film runs just a bit deeper than others. Today the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) announced its nominees for Best Cinematography of 2011. The nominees are: Guillaume Schiffman (The Artist), Jeff Cronenweth (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Robert Richardson (Hugo), Hoyte van Hoytema (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), and Emmanuel Lubezki (The Tree of Life)....

Bryan Singer Talks ‘Jack The Giant Killer’ By Germain Lussier/June 3, 2011 12:30 pm EST As many of us watch Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy, aka, The Beast, in X-Men First Class this weekend, the actor himself is off in London shooting his next film with Bryan Singer, X-Men’s producer. Hoult is the star of Jack the Giant Killer, a 3D fantasy fairy-tale loosely inspired by Jack and the Beanstalk and Singer’s first directorial effort since 2008’s Valkyrie....

Cameron Crowe Discusses ‘Say Anything’ Sequel; Announces ‘We Bought A Zoo’ Composer By Germain Lussier/Aug. 1, 2011 5:30 pm EST After a six year hiatus, Cameron Crowe is about to come back in a big way with three films released in five months: The music documentaries Pearl Jam Twenty and The Union as well as the narrative film, We Bought A Zoo. Like all of his previous films, though, these are singular stories....

CinemaCon Reactions: ‘Skyfall’, ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’, ‘MIB3’, ‘Looper’, ‘Total Recall’ By Peter Sciretta/April 26, 2012 9:30 am EST Wednesday night at CinemaCon, Sony Pictures presented footage, clips and trailers from their upcoming 2012 line-up. Included in the reel was the first teaser trailer for Skyfall, a new sizzle reel for The Amazing Spider-Man, clips from Men In Black 3, An extended trailer for Looper, and some extended sequences from Total Recall....

Colin Farrell Takes The Chris Sarandon Role In Fright Night Remake; Also Cast In Comedy Horrible Bosses By Russ Fischer/May 11, 2010 8:28 am EST The remake of Fright Night started off with a great piece of casting, as Anton Yelchin will play Charley Brewster, the young guy who fears for his life when he discovers that a vampire has moved in next door. Now we’ve got a name for the vampire — Colin Farrell will play the role originated by Chris Sarandon in the original Fright Night....

Concept Designer Offers Info On The Live-Action ‘Akira’ Remake By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2011 1:30 pm EST The live-action version of Akira is currently without a director and may or may not be dead. (Again.) But it is floundering, at the very least, and when we see discussion of it by people involved in the production, we’re seeing the film referred to in the past tense. Probably a good sign, all things considered, even if I did have a strange interest in seeing how the project worked out....

By Germain Lussier/March 28, 2011 12:30 pm EST Sunday March 27th was Quentin Tarantino’s birthday and not only was he able to finally screen his combined opus, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, at his theater in Los Angeles, the New Beverly, popular artist Tyler Stout made a special poster to commemorate the occasion. Mondo Tees quickly sold out at the theater but they’ll sell the majority of the 600 print run online later this week....

Cool Stuff: The 3G Art Show: Ghostbusters, Goonies And Gremlins - Part 3 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 30, 2010 12:00 pm EST You may recall that we’ve posted two previews from the upcoming show the first one with over 25 images, and a second preview with another 20 pieces of art. After the jump I have compiled an additional collection of 24 awesome pieces created for this exhibition. Dave Perillo – Goonies...