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LOL: Coen Brothers Will Watch Tara Reid In ‘The Big Lebowski 2,’ If It Gets Made By Russ Fischer/Feb. 3, 2011 4:30 pm EST Briefly: The saddest or most amusing statement so far this week, depending upon your perspective, came from a substance-affected Tara Reid on the red carpet for a benefit event in Los Angeles. The actress, who played nympho trophy wife (to use the parlance of our time) Bunny Lebowski in The Big Lebowski, said that a sequel would shoot this year....

Martin Campbell Takes Over As Director Of James Cameron’s ‘The Dive’ By Russ Fischer/March 22, 2012 9:30 am EST But thanks to other commitments Cameron has backed away from directing the film and will now act in a producer capacity as Martin Campbell (Goldeneye, Casino Royale, Green Lantern) occupies the director’s chair. Deadline says that Cameron will produce with Lightstorm Entertainment partners Jon Landau and Rae Sanchini, with Barry Josephson. The picture could be a good rebound from Green Lantern for Campbell — after that tentpole mess of indecision and proliferating script drafts, anything self-contained and more realistically powerful has to be refreshing....

Michael Bay Creates Action Adventure Reality Show One Way Out By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2010 12:00 pm EST Michael Bay is set to launch his first Reality TV Series, One Way Out. The action-adventure series pits ordinary people from all walks of life against each other. It is being pitched as “a game with no rules” and is described as a “cross between an extreme Survivor, The Mole and The Amazing Race....

Michael Bay Offers A $25,000 Bounty To Anyone Who Finds Skids And Mudflap In ‘Dark Of The Moon’ By Russ Fischer/May 16, 2011 12:47 pm EST Michael Bay knows that a good many people hated the racist caricature Autobots, Skids and Mudflap, in the second Transformers film — really, are there any characters more generally despised in a blockbuster from the last decade? – and he’s willing to pay a huge bounty to prove that they’re not in Transformers: Dark of the Moon....

Patrick Wilson Joins Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2011 5:30 pm EST

Peter Greenaway To Direct Romantic Comedy By Russ Fischer/Feb. 14, 2011 3:00 pm EST That headline is not a typo. Peter Greenaway, who is among the most art-oriented directors alive (Prospero’s Books, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover) is set to write and direct his first romantic comedy. The film is called 4 Storms and 2 Babies, and is scheduled to shoot in Amsterdam later this year. Has the whole world gone crazy?...

Poster For Angelina Jolie’s ‘In The Land Of Blood And Honey’ Is Bloody And Striking By Russ Fischer/Nov. 23, 2011 4:30 pm EST In the Land of Blood and Honey is the directorial debut of Angelina Jolie, who also wrote the script about a pair of lovers, a Muslim and a Serb, whose relationship forms during the Bosnian War. The poster has just been released, and it is an eye-catching image that bucks the trend of using headshots and/or overly composed, dry imagery to sell the war-torn romance....

Producer Gale Anne Hurd Would ‘Love’ To Make Another ‘Terminator’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 17, 2010 5:00 pm EST The Terminator series is responsible for one of my best, and worst, film going memories. The good one was back in the Summer of 1991 when my parents picked me up at camp and surprised me by driving to the Chester 6 Cinemas in Chester, New York for a matinee of Terminator 2: Judgement Day....

Rewind Theater: ‘X-Men: First Class’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2011 2:00 pm EST Chances are you missed something while watching the movie trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class. IGN has dissected the new trailer, analyzing every single frame and edit. Want to find out what you might have missed? Watch a 6-minute video analysis embedded after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader Lascelles L for the tip. Rewind Theater: ‘X-Men: First Class’ Trailer...

Rob Letterman To Direct, Nicolas Stoller To Rewrite Stretch Armstrong By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2010 2:25 pm EST Who is going to direct the Steve Oedekerk-scripted big screen adaptation of Stretch Armstrong? And why should you care? Originally there were rumors that Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon) would helm the toy adaptation. Then Twilight sensation Taylor Lautner joined the cast, skipping out on Max Steel. And last month it was reported that Monsters vs....

Spencer Susser Adapting His Zombie-Apocalypse Short ‘I Love Sarah Jane’ Into A Full-Length Feature By Angie Han/March 1, 2011 10:30 am EST Ever since we first came across Spencer Susser’s wonderful short film I Love Sarah Jane in 2008, we’ve been following the young Australian filmmaker’s career with great interest. We featured another short by Susser, A Love Story, in 2010, and Peter Sciretta gave Susser’s feature film debut Hesher a positive review at last year’s Sundance....

Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Haywire’ Reportedly Leaves LionsGate, Lands At Overture By Russ Fischer/Sept. 15, 2010 10:15 pm EST Update: I’ve spoken with a rep at Overture, who denies that there is any story here. Not a huge piece of info here, but there’s a report from The Playlist that Steven Soderbergh’s film Haywire (formerly Knockout) is leaving LionsGate for Overture. Ryan Kavanaugh produced the film and now owns Overture, which he picked up not long ago when the distributor was close to failing....

Summit May Distribute Steven Soderbergh’s Thriller ‘Bitter Pill;’ Plot Details Revealed By Russ Fischer/Dec. 1, 2011 5:30 pm EST For a guy who is about to retire, Steven Soderbergh keeps finding new projects. The latest, and very likely the last new one to be announced, is Bitter Pill, a script by Soderbergh’s Contagion and The Informant! screenwriter Scott Z. Burns. That’s the same screenwriter with whom Soderbergh was working on The Man from U....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Green Zone, She’s Out Of My League, Hung (Season 1), And More By Adam Quigley/June 22, 2010 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Nobody will ever acknowledge this, but She’s Out of My League is likely to do more good for the world than a movie like Precious or Milk ever could. The latter are films that, while well-intentioned, have almost no chance of broadcasting their message to an audience that doesn’t already agree with what they have to say....

VOTD: A Short History Of CG Characters In Movies By Germain Lussier/July 29, 2011 6:00 am EST Class is in session. Put away your cell phones, sit up straight, and watch this video that’ll teach you the history of computer generated characters in movies. Beginning with the stop motion animation in the original King Kong and the films of Ray Harryhausen, to how those films influenced massive jumps like Young Sherlock Holmes, The Abyss, Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, let Professor Inrdshelby (a Vimeo username) take you on a tour....

VOTD: Close Encounters Of The Daft Punk Kind By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 16, 2010 2:00 pm EST Frank Ireland decided to take the mother ship scene from Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and remix it using music by Daft Punk. Watch the video embedded after the jump. via: LaughingSquid VOTD: Close Encounters Of The Daft Punk Kind By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 16, 2010 2:00 pm EST Frank Ireland decided to take the mother ship scene from Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and remix it using music by Daft Punk....

Watch Movies At Home The Day They Come Out In Theaters. For $20,000. By David Chen/Dec. 8, 2010 7:50 am EST Home digital delivery systems have been the talk of the town recently. Time Warner recently announced that it will be launching a premium VOD next summer, allowing consumers to view movies at home while they are still out in theaters (probably a month or two after initial release). The cost of this service was supposed to be roughly $20-30 per film, more than a movie ticket but a fair premium to pay for getting a first-run movie beamed to your living room....

Will Ferrell And John C. Reilly Working On ‘Step Brothers’ Rap Album By Germain Lussier/Jan. 5, 2011 12:00 pm EST When Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly’s characters in the 2008 Adam McKay comedy Step Brothers took the stage to perform the rap song “Boats and Hoes,” no one could have predicted where it would take them. In the movie, it helps spawn a business for their group Prestige Worldwide and now, in real life, it might do the same....

Will Knight And Day’s Box Office Affect Mission: Impossible 4? By Russ Fischer/June 23, 2010 1:28 pm EST We’re in speculation-ville here, so don’t take this all too seriously yet. The short answer to the headline’s question: probably not in a huge way. Mission: Impossible is an established franchise with an audience base and an appeal that goes beyond Tom Cruise, so even if Cruise’s action comedy Knight and Day doesn’t find an audience, the prospects for Mission: Impossible 4 shouldn’t be ruled out....

Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch: Alex Pardee’s Character Posters By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2010 11:00 am EST Artist Alex Pardee has been working with Zack Snyder on his latest film Sucker Punch. You might have noticed Pardee’s stylized bunny on the face of Amber’s mech. Some of his other designs also appear in the film. For Comic-Con, Pardee created a bunch of exclusive character posters. We didn’t see them during the con, but they have since shown up on io9....