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First Look Photos Of Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch’s Pink Bunny Mech, Masked Zombie War Soldier And… Oh Yeah, The Girls Too By Peter Sciretta/July 22, 2010 6:00 am EST Last week we posted the first photo from Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch. At Comic-Con, some props and maquettes are on display from the film, giving us a better look at our group of girl heros, a World War I masked zombie solider, and a mech suit featuring a pink bunny....

Geek Deal: Modern Family Season 1 Blu-Ray For $26 By Peter Sciretta/March 8, 2011 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Geek Deal: Spaceballs Blu-Ray For Only $7.99 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 27, 2012 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Geek Deals: Harry Potter 1-6 Giftset $24 DVD/$40 Blu-Ray And Tons Of Insane Pre-Black Friday Deals By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 23, 2010 12:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Collection on sale this week for $70.49, 50% off the $140 msrp. A listing of the special features can be found after the jump. This deal is good through November 27th 2010. And they are also running Gold Box lightening Deals throughout the day (items need to be purchased during the specified times to get the sale price):

Glen Mazzara Is Your New ‘The Walking Dead’ Showrunner By Russ Fischer/July 27, 2011 3:30 pm EST Last night a bombshell hit The Walking Dead: Frank Darabont, who launched the show along with The Walking Dead comic writer Robert Kirkman and producer Gale Anne Hurd, stepped down as showrunner as the series is in the middle of shooting its second season. We were told that there would be no significant interruption in production....

John Hawkes Cast In ‘Surrogate’ By Russ Fischer/March 16, 2011 6:00 am EST The last couple years have been good for John Hawkes. A career of smallish roles and a few very notable attention-getting turns (a notable Deadwood character, the lead in Me and You and Everyone We Know) led to Easbound and Down. With a raised his profile the actor ended up in the excellent film Winter’s Bone, for which he was nominated for an Oscar....

Kurtzman And Orci Producing ‘Ender’s Game’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2011 11:42 pm EST In September, it was reported that Gavin Hood, the director of Tsotsi and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, was developing a big screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s award winning 1985 sci-fi novel Ender’s Game. The trades reported that Hood had rewritten a script that Card himself wrote and was developing the project to direct with a production company called Odd Lot Entertainment....

Lee Byung-Hun Returns For ‘GI Joe 2’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 17, 2011 2:00 am EST Briefly: The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Lee Byung-hun (The Good, the Bad, the Weird, I Saw the Devil) is set to return as Storm Shadow in the announced GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra sequel.Previously: The original movie earned over $302 million worldwide despite mostly negative buzz and reviews (34% on Rotten Tomatoes). The film surpassed studio expectations domestically, which was enough to greenlight a sequel....

Mel Gibson’s ‘Hangover 2’ Cameo Canceled By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2010 3:23 pm EST Earlier this week it was reported that Mel Gibson would be filming a cameo for The Hangover 2, in an attempt to one-up Mike Tyson’s appearance in the first film. Gibson was set to have “a comedy role as a tattoo artist” in the film, when production moved from Thailand to a Bangkok set currently built on the Warner Bros....

Neill Blomkamp Reteams With Sharlto Copley For ‘Elysium’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 6, 2010 10:40 am EST Neill Blomkamp won’t be heading to District 10 for his sophomore directorial effort, but he will be staying in the sci-fi genre. The District 9 director is currently shopping Elysium, a futuristic story set on a far away planet, around Hollywood and it’s set to star his long time friend and District 9 collaborator Sharlto Copley....

Nestor Carbonell Likely Returning For ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Russ Fischer/April 15, 2011 1:27 pm EST Briefly: Looks like Nestor Carbonell will be back in Gotham City as mayor — the actor is in talks to join the cast of The Dark Knight Rises. He’s one more small piece of the puzzle that Christopher Nolan is starting to assemble, and joins other returning cast members Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman....

Release Dates: ‘Lego 3D,’ ‘42’ And Three Weinstein Company Animated Films By Germain Lussier/April 24, 2012 2:00 pm EST Get out that red pen and mark your calendar as several major movies just got release dates. The biggest one is Lego 3D, written and directed by 21 Jump Street helmers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and co-directed by Chris McKay, which is now scheduled for February 14, 2014. 42, the Jackie Robinson biopic starring Harrison Ford and Chadwick Boseman, written and directed by Brian Helgeland, will be released a year earlier on April 12, 2013 and The Weinstein Company revealed release dates for a bunch of upcoming animated films such as Santapprentice, The Trick or Treaters and Leo the Lion....

Roger Ebert’s Top 10 Movies Of 2010 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 20, 2010 12:00 pm EST As the year comes to a close, more Top 10 lists are being published. Last week pulitzer prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert filed his annual listing of the top 10 movies of 2010. Hit the jump to find out what movies made Roger’s list this year. Roger Ebert’s Top 10 Movies of 2010: The Social Network – “it is an early observer of a trend in our society, where we have learned new ways of thinking of ourselves: As members of a demographic group, as part of a database, as figures in…a social network....

The A-Team: Four New Character TV Spots By Peter Sciretta/May 6, 2010 7:00 pm EST Hannibal: Leader of the A-Team Faceman: Trouble Shooter B.A.: Munitions Expert Murdock: Aviation Expert Based on the 1980’s television series, The A-Team movie will follow a group of Iraq War veterans (changed from Vietnam) who are trying to clear their name with the U.S. military. They were arrested for committing a crime for which they were framed, and break out of a maximum-security stockade to clear their name ....

Tobe Hooper To Direct ‘Djinn’ By Russ Fischer/March 1, 2011 4:00 am EST Tobe Hooper will forever be linked to two of the most memorable horror films ever made: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist. (Questions of direction of the latter film aside, that is.) His more recent stuff hasn’t been quite up to that level of recognizance, and in fact it has been over five years since he directed any feature or TV work....

Trailer: Tim And Eric’s Sundance Short ‘The Terrys’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 6, 2011 6:00 pm EST When the Sundance Film Festival announced their impressive short film program for 2011, a few stood out from the pack. One was The Terrys from cult comedy duo Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim. If you don’t know Tim and Eric, then you probably don’t watch TV past 11 p.m. They not only just finished the fifth and final season of their own television show, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, but have appeared on HBO’s Funny or Die and are behind John C....

Tweet For A Chance To See ‘The Hunger Games’ Early By Germain Lussier/Feb. 29, 2012 2:00 pm EST Twenty-four days remain until The Hunger Games is released and Lionsgate is sponsoring a contest giving fans a chance to see the film early. Beginning today, 24 cities will compete to get a screening of the film based on how many people tweet a hashtag specific to a city. The top four will get advanced screenings....

Watch A Deleted Scene And Bloopers From ‘The Muppets’ Blu-Ray By Angie Han/Feb. 29, 2012 6:00 am EST Aside from a brief appearance by Miss Piggy and Kermit and a win for composer Bret McKenzie, this weekend’s Oscar ceremony was tragically light on the Muppets. But in just a few weeks, fans will be able to get their fill of the gang when the film hits DVD and Blu-ray. Today, we have a preview of some of the bonus features from The Muppets, including a making-of featurette, a blooper reel, and a deleted scene — plus a clip of Kermit and Glee star Darren Criss performing “Rainbow Connection” for E!...

Will Gary Ross Return For ‘Hunger Games’ Sequel? Probably, But It’ll Cost Lionsgate By Angie Han/April 4, 2012 12:30 pm EST That Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games would get a sequel was practically a forgone conclusion before the film ever opened. Now that it’s officially become a hit, drawing in $368 million to date, it’s an absolutely sure bet that we’ll see Katniss, Gale and Peeta again on the big screen before long....

Will Pixar Make ‘Doctor Strange’? Probably Not, But It’s A Fun Idea By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2010 1:55 pm EST Briefly: This one is pretty insubstantial, so I’m not going to ask too much of you. We know that Marvel is interested in making a film starring Doctor Strange, aka the ‘sorcerer supreme’ of the Marvel superhero universe. And we know that it’ll be one of the first Disney / Marvel films....