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VOTD: Last Tour Of Endor (Indiana Jones Vs. Greedo And Darth Maul?) By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 30, 2010 4:00 am EST The final day of operation on the Star Tours ride in DisneyWorld happened during Star Wars Celebration V. LucasFilm and Star Wars fans took over the theme park and some really cool stuff happened. For instance, the Indiana Jones stunt spectacular was rewritten into a fan film which combines both of Lucas’ franchises, Indiana Jones and Star Wars....

Walt Disney Animation Gives ‘The Snow Queen’ New Life, Retitled ‘Frozen’ - But Will It Be Hand Drawn? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2011 1:47 pm EST Walt Disney Studios has announced the title for their Holiday 2013 movie — Frozen. All of the Hollywood tradepapers are reporting that the movie in question is the Pixar film announced at D23 Expo: Bob Peterson’s “The Untitled Pixar Movie About Dinosaurs”. This is not the case....

Watch The Full Tron Legacy Comic-Con Press Conference By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2010 12:00 pm EST Before the cast and crew of Tron Legacy appeared in front of Hall H for Comic-Con, Disney held a press conference back stage allowing press to ask their own questions. While we were unable to attend the press conference, Action Figure Insider was on the scene and recorded the whole thing on video. So if you’re interested, you can watch the video of the press conference embedded after the jump....

Will Smith’s ‘Annie’ Remake Development Officially Announced; Jay-Z Definitely On Board By Russ Fischer/Jan. 26, 2011 11:30 am EST Late last week we heard that Will Smith might be developing a remake of Annie at Columbia/Sony, the idea being to create a star vehicle for his daughter Willow Smith. At the time there was a rumor that Jay-Z would be involved with the music for the film, just as he was in the production of Willow Smith’s hit single ‘Whip My Hair....

‘Horrible Bosses’ Director Attached To David Bowie-Inspired Comedy ‘Ground Control To Major Tom’ By Russ Fischer/April 20, 2012 2:00 pm EST David Bowie has been in semi-retirement for a while now, but he remains a cultural force. Just days ago we saw Michael Fassbender doing his best Bowie as the android David 8 in a promo video for Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel Prometheus. His impersonation is uncanny. Now Bowie is cropping up in a more direct manner, as Disney has just spent a good amount of money on a romantic comedy script called Ground Control to Major Tom....

‘Love’ Trailer Channels ‘2001,’ ‘Moon’ And ‘Solaris’ Into A Promising New Concotion By Russ Fischer/Jan. 17, 2011 4:00 pm EST For most of you, this one will seem to have come out of nowhere. (It certainly wasn’t on my radar until now.) Love is a film produced and scored by Angels and Airwaves frontman Tom DeLonge, and directed by relative newcomer William Eubank. Based on this trailer, Love is a thoughtful and very beautiful piece of science fiction that aspires to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the giants of cerebral cinematic sci-fi....

‘The Evil Dead’ Remake Synopsis Sounds A Lot Like ‘The Evil Dead’… Up To A Point By Russ Fischer/Oct. 27, 2011 2:45 pm EST We’ve known since this summer that Fede Alvarez, director of the short Panic Attack, is going to direct a new version of Sam Raimi’s breakout film The Evil Dead. Other than that basic report, and the fact that Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues and Diablo Cody all worked on the script, we haven’t known much about the movie....

‘The Hobbit,’ Now With Official Titles And Release Dates By Germain Lussier/May 30, 2011 10:50 am EST Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit will be broken into two parts and those two parts will be called The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again. The former will be released December 14, 2012 and the latter on December 13, 2013. If you follow the site, this isn’t exactly news as we reported on these titles way back in March but now, thanks to an official press release, you can set it in stone....

31-Disc ‘Harry Potter’ Blu-Ray Box Set Revealed By Germain Lussier/March 2, 2012 2:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. No release date has been revealed except “2012.” Click here to preorder now! I want this. Bad. Even if it does support the GOD AWFUL Ultraviolet format. Still, I think I’ll probably wait for a Gold Box deal cause that’s super expensive. What about you?...

Armie Hammer Ready To Ride As ‘The Lone Ranger’ By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2011 7:04 pm EST Gore Verbinski may have his second star to appear in The Lone Ranger opposite Johnny Depp’s Tonto. Armie Hammer, who broke out big with The Social Network, co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar and has been tapped for Relativity’s Snow White, is in early talks to play the ‘star’ of this new look at one of America’s big Western heroes....

Bradley Cooper Offered Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ By Angie Han/Oct. 21, 2011 11:00 am EST When George Clooney dropped out of Steven Soderbergh’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. a few months back, it sent the project scrambling to find someone to replace him. And now, after a whirlwind search process, the actor they’ve come up with is Bradley Cooper. The Hangover star has been reportedly offered the lead role of American agent Napoleon Solo, and is said to be likely to accept....

Casting Bits: Jennifer Lawrence In ‘Silver Linings Playbook’, Annette Bening In ‘Imogene’, Rhys Ifans NOT In ‘Bond 23’ By Angie Han/July 25, 2011 9:00 am EST Jennifer Lawrence is reportedly leading the pack of actresses vying for David O. Russell’s The Silver Linings Playbook, ahead of the likes of seemingly every rising (or recently risen) starlet in town. Elizabeth Banks, Kirsten Dunst, Blake Lively, Rooney Mara, Rachel McAdams, Andrea Riseborough, and Olivia Wilde were all among Lawrence’s competitors for the part....

Cool Stuff: Kirk Demarais’ Movie And Television Family Portraits By Germain Lussier/May 14, 2012 6:00 am EST Film and television feature some of the most messed up families imaginable and, thanks to Kirk Demarais, you can put up their portraits in your home. Demarais has been a staple on the Gallery 1988 scene for sometime, creating portraits of The McFlys from Back to the Future, The Torrances of The Shining, The Johnsons from The Jerk, The Mitchells from The King of Kong and on and on....

Daniel Day-Lewis To Star In Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 19, 2010 11:02 am EST This is big stuff: DreamWorks has just sent out a press release announcing that Daniel Day-Lewis will star as Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s long-planned and oft-delayed Lincoln. Read the full press release after the break. Looks like Robopocalypse won’t be Steven Spielberg’s next film after Tintin and War Horse. Robopocalypse is scheduled to shoot in 2012, and the shoot will follow Lincoln, which is set to shoot in fall 2011 for a fourth-quarter 2012 release date....

By Germain Lussier/June 25, 2012 2:00 pm EST When David Fincher puts his name on a project, people take notice. Usually it’s as a director but, in some cases, he’s been known to produce too and that’s what he’ll do with IOU. The film, whose plot is being kept secret save for the fact it’s a “thriller”, is written by Michael Arlen Ross (Turistias) and directed by Jacob Aaron Estes (The Details, Mean Creek)....

Drew Barrymore To Direct The Wizard Of Oz Sequel Surrender Dorothy? By Peter Sciretta/May 18, 2010 9:20 am EST Pajiba is reporting that Drew Barrymore has resurrected Surrender Dorothy for a possible follow-up to her directorial debut Whip It. This Wizard of Oz sequel was first announced in 2002 with a script by hot shot Zach Helm (who has become known as the mainstream version of Charlie Kaufman, with Stranger Than Fiction and Mr....

Geek Deal: Leave It To Beaver: The Complete Series For $89.99 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 13, 2011 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As with all of the Gold Box Deals, the price will be gone at midnight tonight (February 13th 2011), so act fast! Finally, The Complete Series! Beautifully Restored and Remastered on 37 Discs! Inspired by the real life experiences of creators Joe Connelly and Bob Moshers own children, Leave It To Beaver follows the hilarious everyday adventures of young Theodore ‘Beaver’ Cleaver and his older brother Wally....

Geek Deals: Bambi, Snow White And Beauty And The Beast Blu-Ray/DVD Combos For $36 Total, How To Train Your Dragon Blu-Ray For $12.99 And MORE By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2011 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Gerald McRaney Added To ‘Django Unchained,’ Samuel L. Jackson Finally Confirmed By Russ Fischer/Sept. 14, 2011 5:30 am EST In six to eight weeks, Quentin Tarantino should begin shooting his new film, Django Unchained, in which a German dentist-turned bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) and freed slave Django (Jamie Foxx) seek to free Django’s wife from her powerful owner. The film has quite a few big roles left to cast — chief among them being Django’s wife, Broomhilda — but the film has added actor Gerald McRaney to its roster....

Jordi Mollà Enters Talks For ‘Riddick’, Katee Sackhoff In Final Negotiations By Angie Han/Jan. 10, 2012 7:30 am EST It took years for Vin Diesel and David Twohy to finally get their third Riddick movie off the ground, and even once production began, the project ran into further troubles and was forced to go on a two-month hiatus while it paid off its debts. But production is back in full swing at the Montreal set now, and things are looking up, at least on the casting front....