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Seth Rogen Not In Judd Apatow’s ‘Knocked Up’ Spin-Off; Says ‘Jay And Seth Vs The Apocalypse’ Shoots February 2012 By Russ Fischer/Sept. 7, 2011 1:30 pm EST When Judd Apatow announced his upcoming film, once tentatively titled This is Forty, we immediately wondered about the cast. That’s not just a result of Apatow’s fondness for a stable of comic actors that goes back to the Freaks & Geeks days, but a natural question given that the film is a spin-off from Apatow’s previous movie Knocked Up....

Tobey Maguire To Co-Star In Ang Lee’s ‘Life Of Pi’ By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2011 3:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Hollywood has been trying to make a since the fantasy adventure book was released in 2001. The book tells the story of Piscine “Pi” Molitor Patel, an Indian boy who survives 227 days after a shipwreck, while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a hyena, an injured zebra, an orangutan and a hungry Bengal tiger....

By Angie Han/Aug. 23, 2011 3:00 pm EST I’ve got my fingers crossed that at least one of those tunes is a rap song — I wouldn’t want her skills, as recently demonstrated on Conan, to go to waste. [Vulture] Jared Gilmore, who played Bobby Draper on Mad Men, recently announced that he would be leaving the series for AMC’s Once Upon a Time. That’s not the big news here, though....

TV Trailer And Photo Gallery: ‘Game Of Thrones’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 29, 2010 11:59 am EST The two teasers we’ve seen so far for the HBO series adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones showed very little. What we did see had the color bled out to fit the dour tone of each teaser, and while the brief images were tantalizing, there was no way to get a real sense of how the series might play....

Watch A Video That Explains How The Ending Of The ‘Breaking Bad’ Season Finale Went Down By Angie Han/Oct. 11, 2011 3:00 pm EST Sunday night’s Breaking Bad Season 4 finale contained any number of intense OMG WTF moments, but perhaps the most disturbing arrived in the form of a quiet shot at the very end of the episode. The scene took many viewers by surprise, myself included, but as it turns out, the hints were lying in plain sight all along....

What’s Up With Darren Lynn Bousman’s ‘Mother’s Day?’ By Germain Lussier/March 21, 2011 8:00 pm EST Darren Lynn Bousman’s brutally violent re-imagining of a Troma film of the same name, Mother’s Day, was originally scheduled for released on April 1. Suffice to say, that won’t be happening as we’ve yet to see an official trailer, poster, or anything for the horror film starring Rebecca De Mornay, Jaime King and Shawn Ashmore....

‘Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest’ Trailer By Germain Lussier/June 2, 2011 1:30 pm EST Even as a young suburban kid growing up in the 1990s, the music of A Tribe Called Quest found its way into my life. Their smooth rhymes and lyrical beats wore out my cassette player, CD player but then they seemingly disappeared for a while. At the time, without the internet or viable entertainment news, finding out what happened to the hip hop legends wasn’t the easiest thing....

‘Bellflower’ Is ‘500 Days Of Summer’ For The ‘Jackass’ Hipster Generation [Sundance Review] By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 23, 2011 3:00 pm EST Bellflower is an ultra low-budget (500) Days of Summer-like love story for the Jackass Hipster generation. Written/Directed/co-starring/co-produced/co-edited by Evan Glodell, the movie follows two friends who build flamethrowers and death cars in preparation for the possible global apocalypse. One of them meets a charismatic young woman (played by the promising newcomer Jessie Wiseman) who takes him on adventures he never dreamed....

‘Black Swan’ Co-Writer Mark Heyman Set To Script ‘Age Of Rage’ For Director Marc Webb By Russ Fischer/Jan. 26, 2011 7:00 pm EST (500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb is currently shooting Spider-Man, and will likely be busy with Sony’s web-swinger reboot for some time. But prior to landing that gig he’d been developing the film Age of Rage. Now there’s a new screenwriter on the project to get things moving forward while Spider-Man is being born: Black Swan co-writer Mark Heyman is going to script....

‘Bored To Death’ Movie In The Works? By Angie Han/June 14, 2012 3:00 pm EST Strong as HBO’s current lineup is, it’s simply not possible to squeeze in that many exciting new shows without cutting out a few of the old ones. And late last year, one of the unfortunate casualties of the updated programming turned out to be the excellent Bored to Death. While the noir-inspired comedy never really kicked ass in the ratings, it developed enough of a cult following (including yours truly) that its passing was noticed and mourned....

/Film LA: D23 Teams With Arclight Cinemas To Screen Classic Disney Movies By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2010 1:00 pm EST D23, Disney’s official fan club, has teamed with ArcLight Cinemas to present classic Disney movies every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday throughout the month of August, giving film fanatics a chance to revisit these movies on the big screen. Films include Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Rocketeer, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Black Hole, Escape to Witch Mountain, Cinderella, Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Book, Peter Pan, Newsies, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Pete’s Dragon and Mary Poppins....

‘G.I. Joe 2’ Has New Title, Takes Former ‘Star Trek 2’ Release Date [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/July 27, 2011 2:45 pm EST UPDATE: The new title is official. Wording below corrected. With less than a year to the long rumored Star Trek 2 release date, and no start date in sight, it’s no surprise the film has been pushed back. Paramount announced that date so early, though, it pretty much scared off all competition....

‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ No Longer Shooting In 3D; Will Post Convert By Germain Lussier/June 29, 2012 7:00 am EST In a move sure to start some controversy, George Miller has decided not to shoot his new film Mad Max: Fury Road in 3D. Instead the film, which stars Tom Hardy and Charlize Theorn, will be post converted from 2D to 3D. Production just began in Nambia. Read more after the jump....

‘The Broken Tower’ Teaser Trailer: James Franco Directs, Writes And Stars In A Poet’s Life Story By Russ Fischer/Jan. 11, 2012 3:30 pm EST You have to give James Franco credit for trying a great many different things, from graduate studies to acting to writing and directing short films and transitioning up to features. Franco has plans to adapt a couple of the more challenging authors around, Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian) and William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying), in the immediate future....

‘The Iceman’ Trailer: Michael Shannon Kills A Lot Of People By Angie Han/Aug. 30, 2012 1:30 pm EST Michael Shannon is second to none when it comes to channeling intensity, but as the lead of Ariel Vromen’s The Iceman he could be more frightening than ever. Shannon stars as real-life mob hitman Richard Kuklinski, whose touching devotion to his family masks a knack for cold-blooded killing. (Though he maintains a soft spot for women and children in both lives....

‘The Wolverine’ Announces Casting For Shingen, Yashida, Mariko, And Yukio [UPDATED] By Angie Han/July 9, 2012 2:30 pm EST The Wolverine has been delayed a couple of times over the past year, thanks to Japan’s weather and star Hugh Jackman’s schedule. But with Jackman’s role in Les Misérables now wrapped up, the long-awaited superhero flick is finally coming together for a summer 2013 release. And as such, it’s just announced some key bits of casting....

‘Transformers 4’ Will Be Michael Bay’s Last (Really); Features All-New Cast By Russ Fischer/June 6, 2012 11:00 am EST I’d like to take this moment to apologize to Josh Duhamel. Earlier this year, he said he didn’t think any of the cast from the previous three Transformers films would return for Transformers 4, and I cast aspersions on his comment. Actors are usually the last to know what’s up with a film in development, after all, and so how would he know who would be back and who wouldn’t?...

Casting Bits: Thomas Ian Nicholas Will Attend ‘American Reunion’, Al Pacino Signs On For ‘Gotti’, Maggie Gyllenhaal And Viola Davis Join ‘Still I Rise’, Billionaire Warren Buffet Applies For A Job On ‘The Office’ By Angie Han/May 10, 2011 1:00 pm EST Universal’s been saying for a while now that the entire American Pie gang would be returning for American Reunion, and what do you know, they’re actually making good on that promise....

Clint Eastwood Will Direct Beyoncé In Remake Of ‘A Star Is Born’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 20, 2011 7:07 pm EST Deadline has the surprising news of Clint Eastwood’s involvement. Beyoncé has been attached since last year, and there was a point where it looked like Russell Crowe might co-star with Nick Cassavetes directing. That version died, but the script now is apparently the same one by Will Fetters that was floating around WB then....

Cool Stuff: Footage Of Eric Stoltz In Back To The Future Finally Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 12, 2010 11:00 am EST The newly released footage appears in the upcoming Back to the Future DVD/Blu-ray release. Watch a clip below: