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Watch A Clip From Marvel’s “One Shot” Short Film ‘The Consultant’ Starring Clark Gregg As Agent Coulson By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2011 2:03 pm EST We’ve been hearing rumblings for a while now that Marvel would begin releasing live-action short films with their feature films, to introduce, test out, and tease possible future Marvel story-lines and characters. The idea is to use the short films as a development testing ground kind of like what Pixar has done with their computer animated short films....

Xavier And Magneto Character Posters From ‘X-Men: First Class’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 28, 2011 3:00 pm EST Thanks to Filmosphere for these images (with a nod to Cinemablend). There’s no confirmation if these are domestic or international posters but they are most certainly real.

‘Albert Nobbs’ Trailer: Glenn Close Cross-Dresses To Equal Opportunity By Russ Fischer/Oct. 13, 2011 7:00 am EST What a strange thing this is. Albert Nobbs is a passion project for Glenn Close, who plays the title character, a woman who poses as a man so she can take a job in a hotel in 19th century Ireland. You’ll probably hear a lot of award-season talk about Close’s performance here, and watching this trailer that just released, it’s easy to see why....

‘Hearts Of Dorkness’ Trailer: The Making And Selling Of Star Wars Opening Night Film ‘5-25-77’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 22, 2012 6:08 pm EST Patrick Read Johnson is making a film called 5-25-77 that follows a group of kids on Star Wars’ opening night. The picture is close to the finish line, but Johnson needs more money to finish it. To raise that money he’s doing an unusual road show, presenting the cut as it currently stands at movie- and geek-friendly locations like Devil’s Tower, in the hopes of finding new fans and donors....

‘Man Of Steel’ Premieres Footage, Poster, Teases Villain And ‘Justice League’ Link [Comic-Con 2012] By Germain Lussier/July 14, 2012 5:01 pm EST The first footage ever from Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel premiered Saturday evening during the Warner Bros./Legendary panel in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con 2012. It did not disappoint. The film looks to be about a young man’s struggle with the inevitably of his superhero destiny and, in the footage, we saw tons of curious images....

‘MYST’ Video Game Optioned For A Movie By Adam Quigley/Sept. 30, 2010 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. MYST, the top selling computer adventure game franchise of all-time, wouldn’t seem to be a likely candidate for a film adaptation. As popular as it is, the format of the games—a non-linear narrative requiring you to explore and progress through mysterious environments by pointing-and-clicking—doesn’t conveniently lend itself to the film medium....

‘Sherlock Holmes’ Screenwriter Tapped To Rewrite Paramount’s Jack Ryan Reboot By Russ Fischer/Sept. 20, 2010 8:03 am EST Anthony Peckham is one of the credited screenwriters on last year’s Sherlock Holmes reinvention and now he’s going to have his name on Paramount’s reinvention of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan character, too. Peckham has been hired to polish up the draft of the script that will put Star Trek’s Chris Pine into Jack Ryan’s shoes....

‘Starship Troopers’ Reboot Will Likely Be Less Violent, More Faithful To The Book By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2012 2:00 pm EST Disemboweled bodies, gaping wounds and dripping blood are just a few trademarks in a Paul Verhoeven action movie, especially Starship Troopers, RoboCop and Total Recall. Violence is part of their charm and with all three films currently at different stages of being remade, the question of the universal appeal of excessive violence has been raised....

‘The Hunger Games’ Clip - Peeta Makes His Move By Angie Han/March 12, 2012 10:00 am EST Another day, another The Hunger Games clip. Where most of the previous ones have focused on Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) — she is the protagonist, after all — this one puts the spotlight on her fellow competitor Peeta (Josh Hutcherson). In it, he sits down for his public interview with Caesar (Stanley Tucci) and makes a declaration that, true or not, is sure to pique the interest of viewers and potential sponsors....

Casting Notes: Amanda Seyfried In Andrew Niccol’s Sci-Fi ‘I’m.mortal’; Chris Pratt In ‘Moneyball’; Haley Joel Osment In ‘Sex Ed’ By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2010 9:34 am EST After his movie The Cross seemed to fall apart, writer/director Andrew Niccol diverted to a slightly more mainstream sci-fi approach: he’ll direct the ‘action love story’ I’m.mortal, which now has Amanda Seyfried set up to star. The film is about a society in which aging stops at the age of 25, which is as good an excuse as any to cast a lot of attractive 20-somethings....

Charlie Sheen To Star In Roman Coppola’s ‘A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charlie Swan III’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2011 3:30 pm EST Classic sayings have that status for a reason. Take ‘be careful what you wish for.’ Just a few days ago we found that Roman Coppola’s new film, the existence of which was teased by his sister Sofia Coppola many months ago, is a picture called A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charlie Swan III....

Cool Stuff: Bad Robot Statue (With Slusho) By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 21, 2010 12:00 pm EST Most film geeks will recognize the Bad Robot logo (pictured above) which can be found attached to most of JJ Abrams-produced/directed projects, movies and television series such as Lost, Fringe, Star Trek, Cloverfield and the upcoming Super 8. Quantum Mechanix is producing a Limited Edition Maquette based on the production company mascot. Offered to the public for the first time, this mischievous mascot of Bad Robot Productions stands 10 inches tall and is cast in solid polystone....

Cool Stuff: Lil Tuffy’s Limited Edition Art From First ‘Young Adult’ Pop-Up Screening By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 18, 2011 4:30 pm EST Paramount Pictures is running unannounced pop-up screenings of Jason Reitman’s new film Young Adult in cities around North America. The first screening took place in Toronto Canada tonight. As a special bonus, Jason and Paramount enlisted the curatorial services of Los Angeles’s famous pop culture art gallery Gallery1988 to pick the artists and produce limited edition pieces of art for the surprise screenings....

Cool Stuff: Mondo’s New ‘Jurassic Park’ Poster Asks “What If Nothing Went Wrong?” By Germain Lussier/Sept. 5, 2012 12:57 pm EST Unfortunately, John Hammond’s vision of what Jurassic Park could’ve been never came to pass. Life found a way and all his precious, living, previously extinct attractions ran amuck and created enough chaos for three movies, with a fourth on the way. That might have been the case on Isla Nublar, but outside the movies, artists are free to change the fate of the park however they want....

Cool Stuff: Retro Style VHS Video Tape Notebook By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2012 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Here is the official description: For most of us, the VHS is just a nostalgic memory, but we thought it was an object worth revisiting, in the form of this very nice Video Notebook. Video Notebook comes in a VHS sleeve and as a lovely touch, we’ve included those famous labelling stickers, just like the old days!...

David Dobkin’s ‘Arthur & Lancelot’ Hits Budget Troubles At Warner Bros., May Head To Another Studio By Angie Han/Dec. 13, 2011 3:00 pm EST Over the summer, Warner Bros. put David Dobkin’s Arthur & Lancelot on the fast track at the expense of two other adaptations of the legend, but now it’s looking like Dobkin’s project may not come together at the studio, either. Though the picture’s been moving at a brisk pace over the past few months, it’s now hit a huge roadblock in the form of budget troubles so bad that Warner Bros....

Did Kevin Smith Just Cast Colin Hanks In ‘Hit Somebody’ Over Twitter? By Germain Lussier/May 19, 2011 3:30 pm EST With Kevin Smith now talking for hours every single day on his own podcast internet station called S.I.R., things have obviously gotten pretty hectic for the soon-to-be-retired filmmaker. Hectic enough that he’s taken to Twitter to do a little haphazard casting. Wednesday, a fan asked Smith about Colin Hanks and Smith threw out the notion that he wanted the actor (best known for roles in Orange County, King Kong and the TV show The Good Guys) to appear in the upcoming hockey comedy Hit Somebody....

Dimension Films Acquires ‘The Greys’ By Angie Han/April 29, 2011 5:00 am EST The Weinstein Co.’s Dimension Films has acquired a mysterious new sci-fi thriller titled The Greys, written by Adam Cohen and produced by Sean and Bryan Furst, along with Radar Pictures’ Ted Field and Mike Weber. Spanish filmmaker F. Javier Gutierrez is attached to direct. Read more after the jump. Gutierrez first attracted attention a few years back with his apocalyptic serial killer film Tres Dias (known as Before the Fall in English), his feature film debut....

Dwayne Johnson In Talks For Brett Ratner’s ‘Hercules’ By Angie Han/Feb. 23, 2012 2:30 pm EST A couple of years ago, Brett Ratner signed on to direct a Hercules film at Millennium/Nu Image. That one never quite worked out, but he seems to be having much better luck with that other Hercules project he boarded last spring. At least this one’s gotten as far as casting, and with a pretty big name at that....

Eddie Izzard, Bob Hoskins And Toby Jones In Talks For Dwarf Roles In ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2011 7:18 pm EST I am becoming slightly conflicted about Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman, which is moving forward with Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman, Kristen Stewart as Snow White, Sam Claflin as her Prince and Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen. I’m conflicted because there are eight dwarf roles in the film, and it would be rather nice to see them filled out by little people....