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/Film Invades Comic-Con 2010, Wednesday Night Meet-Up Planned! By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2010 11:00 pm EST Please Note: This post will be Sticky’d to the top of /Film until Thursday night. /Film will be invading San Diego for the 2010 Comic-Con International. /Film team members Peter Sciretta, Devindra Hardawar, Adam Quigley and Russ Fischer will be covering the entire con, Wednesday through Sunday (unfortunately, David Chen couldn’t make it this year)....

‘Safety Not Guaranteed’ Trailer: Is Mark Duplass Really Able To Travel Through Time? By Russ Fischer/March 28, 2012 1:00 pm EST Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow had a pretty great idea for a script: take a wacky real-life classified ad, one looking for a time-travel partner, and expand it into a strange comedy. The result is Trevorrow’s film Safety Not Guaranteed, which wowed Pete at Sundance and was quickly picked up for distribution....

‘The Cold Light Of Day’ Trailer: Bruce Willis Is Superman’s Secret Spy Dad By Russ Fischer/Jan. 30, 2012 3:00 pm EST People have been talking about Abduction a bit today, because of the tangentially-related news about Stretch Armstrong dumping Taylor Lautner and going to a new studio home at Relativity. Which, strangely, makes today a good one for the arrival of the trailer for another film in which a son discovers that his parents are connected to something secret and potentially violent....

‘The Sitter’ Green-Band Trailer – Now With 100% Fewer Orgasms By Angie Han/Aug. 8, 2011 9:05 am EST A few days ago, we posted a red-band trailer for David Gordon Green’s The Sitter, and several of you complained about the very NSFW audio that opens the trailer. I’m not sure why so many of you are watching movie trailers with the volume turned all the way up in your offices and classrooms — do your bosses really not care if you watch trailers all day as long as they’re SFW?...

‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ International Trailer And Character Posters By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2011 4:30 pm EST At this point I can’t imagine that I have to reiterate the basic facts that have many of us anticipating Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy like crazy. There’s the source material: John le Carré’s jargon-laced cold war novel, which has already led to a great 1979 BBC version starring Alec Guinness. There’s the director: Tomas Alfredson, whose last film was Let the Right One In....

Casting Bits: Nicole Kidman In ‘Before I Go To Sleep’, Ewen Bremner In ‘Snow Piercer’ By Angie Han/March 1, 2012 3:30 pm EST Between Trespass and the Razzie-nominated Just Go With It, it’s safe to say 2011 wasn’t Nicole Kidman’s best year. Happily, her upcoming slate looks much more promising. Kidman will hit the big screen this year in Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy and Chan-wook Park’s Stoker, and the small one in HBO’s Hemingway & Gellhorn....

Cool Stuff: Todd Slater’s Metallic ‘Dexter’ Poster By Germain Lussier/Sept. 26, 2012 9:27 am EST The brand new Bottleneck Gallery in Brooklyn, NY kicked off with a bang earlier this month with a show focusing on your favorite cable TV shows. Art focused on shows like The Sopranos, Homeland, Game of Thrones, Weeds and many others adhere the walls of the gallery through this weekend and, to go out with a bang, they’re releasing one more piece....

Cool Stuff: Tyler Stout’s Poster For ‘Let The Right One In’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 26, 2010 11:54 am EST Tyler Stout has done a new poster for Let the Right One In for a show organized by design group AllCity Media. The show was organized “to help AllCity celebrate 10 years of design for film,” and features a variety of artists doing new posters for films like Moon, Spirited Away, Old Joy and Let the Right One In....

Crank Duo Negotiating To Direct Ghost Rider Sequel, Starring Nicolas Cage By Russ Fischer/June 15, 2010 3:17 pm EST The last time we heard about Ghost Rider 2, now being called Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance, there was a possibility that it would be moving forward without Nicolas Cage, because Sony needs to make the sequel soon or lose the rights altogether. (It could be Ghost Rider Shrugged!) Now there’s a report that Cage will likely star in the film....

David Cronenberg Lines Up Colin Farrell And Marion Cotillard For Cosmopolis By Russ Fischer/May 11, 2010 1:58 pm EST Last summer as Comic Con was in full swing, David Cronenberg announced that he’d direct an adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel Cosmopolis. At the time he’d been trying to get The Matarese Circle made at MGM with Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington. But Cruise bailed and Matarese was left belly up....

Doug Liman To Direct The Last Of The Tribe Adaptation By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2010 9:00 am EST The story definitely sounds ripe for a Hollywood adaptation. I tend to prefer Liman’s smaller films (Swingers, G0) to his big budget productions (Mr. And Mrs. Smith and Jumper) with The Bourne Identity being the perfect middle ground. This sounds like it might fall somewhere in the center as well. Here is the official book description:...

ET Has First Footage From ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Sequel By Germain Lussier/Jan. 18, 2011 1:30 pm EST Entertainment Tonight (not the E.T. you were thinking of) got an exclusive visit to the set of the still untitled Sherlock Holmes sequel and came back with some very cool footage including gun shots, train escapes, director Guy Ritchie heckling his stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law as well as Downey in multiple female costumes....

Greg Mottola In Talks To Direct Semi-Improvised Larry David Comedy By Angie Han/May 17, 2012 10:00 am EST Although David has enjoyed a successful career in television for three decades, with Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm as his crowning achievements, he has only made very occasional forays into film. His only big-screen leading role to date was in Woody Allen’s 2009 comedy Whatever Works. More recently, he made a cameo appearance in the Farrelly brothers’ The Three Stooges, playing Sister Mary-Mengele....

José Padilha’s ‘Robocop’ Remake Finds A Villain In Hugh Laurie By Angie Han/June 13, 2012 6:00 am EST After eight seasons of playing the stubborn, selfish, and mean-spirited — but ultimately helpful — Dr. Gregory House on TV, Hugh Laurie is about to go full-on evil for the big screen. The Brit actor has just signed on for José Padilha’s upcoming remake for MGM of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 sci-fi classic Robocop, in the role of the villainous Omni Corp CEO....

Movie Trailer #2: Kevin Spacey In ‘Casino Jack’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 16, 2010 12:12 pm EST When we first saw a trailer for Casino Jack, starring Kevin Spacey as disgraced ‘super lobbyist’ Jack Abramoff, the film was called Bagman and the trailer was miserable. Tonally the clip was all over the place, the voice over was laughable, and it committed a serious sin by trying to pretend that Rolling Stones songs like ‘Gimme Shelter’ and ‘Sympathy For the Devil’ have any life left for use in cinema....

Noam Murro Directing ‘300: Battle Of Artemisia’ By Russ Fischer/July 16, 2011 8:56 am EST Here’s another confirmation to follow the Tom Cruise/One Shot news. The 300 sequel formerly called Xerxes is now 300: Battle of Artemisia, and one of the men previously tipped as possible director, Noam Murro, has been chosen to helm the film. And while Zack Snyder has moved on to Superman, this sequel will be shot in the same visually exaggerated style that looked unique when Snyder applied it to 300 and has since become an action/fantasy cliche....

POTD: The Female Character Flowchart By Germain Lussier/Oct. 12, 2010 2:00 pm EST No matter where I go recently, I can’t avoid discussions about the role of the female in film. Allegations of sexism in The Social Network are just the latest in a long line of controversial conversations taking place on message boards, in film schools and bars across the country. Wasn’t it a travesty that Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar win for Best Director was the first ever for a woman?...

Prince Of Persia Is The Highest Grossing Video Game Movie Of All-Time By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2010 4:00 am EST Film Junk reminds us that a milestone has just been crossed: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has become the highest grossing video game movie adaptation of all-time. The film might be a bit of a finacial disappointment as far as Disney is concerned, but Jerry Bruckheimer does have bragging rights....

Restricted Footage From ‘30 Minutes Or Less’ Features Dirty Sex Talk By Germain Lussier/Aug. 9, 2011 3:45 pm EST The summer of 2011 is coming to a close and the final big studio comedy coming our way is 30 Minutes or Less, director Ruben Fleischer’s post Zombieland/pre-Gangster Squad comedy starring Jesse Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride and Nick Swardson. In the film, which is loosely based on a true story, a pizza delivery boy (Eisenberg) has a bomb strapped to him by two thugs (McBride and Swardson) and is forced to rob a bank....

Rumor Control: Robert Zemeckis Says ‘Yellow Submarine’ Is Still A Go By Russ Fischer/Oct. 26, 2010 4:00 pm EST Briefly: A week ago there was a rumor that the Robert Zemeckis 3D remake of Yellow Submarine was dead. The source was actor David Tennant, who said on a UK talk show that he had been up for a part as a Blue Meanie. His comments about not getting the part led to speculation that the film was dead altogether....