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Guillermo Del Toro And David Eick Developing ABC’s ‘The Incredible Hulk’ Live-Action TV Series By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 15, 2010 10:33 pm EST In October it was announced that Marvel Studios was working on a live action television series for The Incredible Hulk for ABC, one of three live-action series the comic book television division is developing for the Mouse House. At the time we didn’t have many details. The project was assumed to be an hour-long program, and we didn’t know how involved Heroes exec producer Jeph Loeb, head of development at Marvel’s television division (launched in June), would be in the project....

Jennifer Garner Is Miss Marple In Disney’s Agatha Christie Adaptation By Angie Han/March 29, 2011 10:00 am EST Disney has obtained the movie rights to Agatha Christie’s amateur sleuth character Miss Marple, who has appeared in twelve of Christie’s novels. Traditionally, Miss Marple has been an elderly English woman who enjoys knitting and weeding, and whose harmless-looking exterior hides a sharp, logical mind. In fact, a large part of the fun of the character is the discrepancy between the assumptions you’d make from her outward appearance and her true nature as a shrewd detective....

Marvel Rumors: Josh Holloway Courted For Major Role; Captain America Costume Description By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2010 12:56 pm EST News is a little slow so far today while LA wakes up from the long Memorial Day weekend, but there are a couple of notable Marvel rumors worth commenting upon that have cropped up in the past couple days. The first is that Marvel is in talks with Josh Holloway from Lost....

New Image And Clip From ‘This Must Be The Place’ Show Sean Penn In Full Robert Smith Mode By Russ Fischer/April 15, 2011 12:00 pm EST So far, I’ve been more than a little mystified over images from This Must Be the Place, in which Sean Penn plays an aging musician who looks very much like The Cure’s Robert Smith. The big hair, lipstick and eyeliner aren’t doing Sean Penn many favors, and with each image — that’s the first official one, above — I’ve wondered about the fate of the film....

Page 2: Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Game Of Thrones, Harry Potter, Simpsons, Star Trek, Avatar, Back To The Future By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: A Look at ‘Jurassic Live,’ a Mind-Blowing Fan Tribute to the Spielberg Classic Ranking the Greats 4: The 10 Best Films by Oliver Stone Jeff Carlisle’s Star Wars Celebration VI print. End of An Era: NBC Ends Its Burbank Studio TourComic: How To Explain Why Star Trek Is Better Than Star Wars...

Paramount Gives ‘One Shot’ And ‘TMNT’ Prime December Release Dates In 2012 And 2013 By Russ Fischer/March 14, 2012 7:00 am EST How much confidence does Paramount have in One Shot, directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, and the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, about which we still know next to nothing? Both films have been given high-profile December release dates, with One Shot now set to open on December 21, 2012, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set for Christmas Day 2013....

Superhero Bits: The Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America, The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers, X-Men Anime By Germain Lussier/Oct. 21, 2011 12:00 pm EST Is The Killing Joke the new meme? Yesterday we posted a video the Batman story remade with Legos and today Comics Alliance (via Topless Robot) has posted this version done with shadow puppets. In Spanish. Check out the detail on this Diamond Select 7-inch figure from The Amazing Spider-Man posted by Art Asylum (via CBM)....

Universal Creating SyFy-Branded Theatrical Film Label By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2010 6:00 am EST While watching a film like Sharktopus, have you ever wished that you were experiencing the film on a much larger screen? If so, Universal and SyFy have a deal for you. The companies are teaming up to great a genre label called (wait for it) Syfy Films, which will “develop Syfy branded content for the bigscreen.”...

Video: On The Set Of Upside Down And Neil Burger’s Dark Fields By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2010 6:00 pm EST A couple new on set behind the scenes video pieces have appeared on the web today, including a visit to the set of Neil Burger’s Dark Fields, where they are shooting “critical scene” on the streets of Philadelphia with Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper, and Entertainment Tonight’s visit to the set of Juan Diego Solanas’ Upside Down which involves stars Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst flying through the air on a blue screen stage....

Vincenzo Natali Officially Announced As Director Of Neuromancer By Russ Fischer/June 10, 2010 8:06 pm EST Because it’s been a story confirmation kinda evening (Pirates 4 casting, Breaking Dawn split, etc) why not throw out the official confirmation of a movie that could be a bit more exciting than those others? We’d heard not long ago that Splice director Vincenzo Natali would direct an adaptation of William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer, and now there’s an official release making the news, er, official....

VOTD: 37 Movie Trailers Featuring Art Gilmore By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 3, 2010 10:15 pm EST Last week, Art Gilmore, the voice of many of the movie trailers from the 1950’s and 1960’s died at age 98. His voice has been heard on more than 2,700 trailers. We have rounded up a compilation of 37 trailers featuring Gilmore’s famous voice over, embedded after the jump. “Radar Men from the Moon” (1952) Republic serial trailer....

VOTD: 47 Years Of ‘Dr. Who’ In 6 Minutes By Angie Han/April 18, 2011 7:00 am EST As someone who finds the 200-something episodes of Joss Whedon’s Buffyverse plenty daunting, I can’t even begin to imagine tackling Dr. Who. The long-running British television show spans 47 years, over 700 episodes, and eleven different incarnations of the titular character. Dr. Who’s long, convoluted history can be tough for even a devoted fan to keep straight, to say nothing of newcomers just tuning in for the first time....

Wesley Snipes Says He’s Planning His Own J. Edgar Hoover Film; Still Wants To Play Blade By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2010 9:00 pm EST To hell with being convicted of tax evasion: despite being sentenced to three years in jail after a protracted battle with the IRS, Wesley Snipes continues trying to make movies. And to hell with Clint Eastwood, too: the movie Mr. Snipes is trying to make now deals with J....

Will Ferrell Will Be A ‘Flamingo Thief’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 13, 2012 9:30 am EST Will Ferrell is now attached to a film that could be a sort of companion piece to his 2010 relationship dramedy Everything Must Go. Over the weekend Ferrell was revealed to be linked to Flamingo Thief, a Michael LeSieur script that hit the 2011 Black List. The story is based on Susan Trott’s novel of the same title about a lawyer who, after a personal tragedy, finds solace in stealing flamingo ornaments....

X-Men: First Class Producer Suggests Aaron Johnson Is Not In The Film By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2010 5:27 pm EST For months now there have been rumors that Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson would be in Fox’s upcoming X-Men: First Class. Matthew Vaughn is the director of both films, adding apparent credit to the rumor, and the popular belief has been that Johnson would play Cyclops. But Tarquin Pack, a producer on both films, says that Johnson is “kind of busy,” which seems to indicate he won’t be in the film....

‘Everyone Has A Plan’ Trailer - Viggo Mortensen Is Twice As Badass En Español By Angie Han/June 8, 2012 3:30 pm EST Who knew the vaguely British-sounding Aragorn was an adept Spanish speaker? Though Danish-American star Viggo Mortensen works primarily in English, it turns out he’s actually equally fluent in Danish and Spanish, the latter thanks to a childhood spent in Argentina. And as a trilingual actor, he likes to make forays into foreign-language film from time to time....

‘Half Nelson’ Team Ryan Fleck And Anna Boden To Get ‘Hate Mail’ By Angie Han/Sept. 30, 2011 6:00 am EST It’s only been a few years since writing-directing team Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden burst onto the scene, but in that short time they’ve managed to build up quite a reputation for themselves. After creating a string of well-received shorts, the pair first caught public attention in 2006 with their debut feature Half Nelson, which earned star Ryan Gosling an Oscar nod....

‘Jackass’ Stars Spoof ‘Black Swan’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 19, 2011 9:00 am EST Last week we told you that the stars of Jackass has filmed four parodies of scenes from the four 2010 Best Picture nominees for the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. We even posted a behind the scenes video from the guys spoofing scenes from David Fincher’s The Social Network and Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Today we bring you Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, as performed by the Jackass stunt players....

‘Men In Black III’ Shoot Delayed Again; Second Half Of The Script Still Being Tweaked By Russ Fischer/Feb. 15, 2011 9:23 pm EST The production schedule for Barry Sonenfeld’s Men in Black III has been a strange one. After an initial delay, filming started last year. But a break was planned into the schedule — for reasons innocuous or not, depending upon whom you believe — with the first half of the shoot kicking off last November and running until Christmas....

‘Neighborhood Watch’ Retitled ‘The Watch,’ See The New Red-Band Trailer By Russ Fischer/May 4, 2012 12:30 pm EST The trailer presents the first unexpurgated look at the R-rated shenanigans of Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade. THE WATCH is the new title for “Neighborhood Watch.” As the subject matter of this alien invasion comedy bears no relation whatsoever to the recent tragic events in Florida, the studio altered the title to avoid any accidental or unintended misimpression that it might....