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Development Stalls On TV Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ By Russ Fischer/March 14, 2011 4:30 pm EST Last year I got depressed when Warner Bros. Television started developing a television series based on Neil Gaiman’s standard-setting comic book series Sandman. The property had been in film development hell for many years, and seemed well-suited for it. Over the course of seventy-five issues Sandman told a huge variety of stories with the sort of detail and fearlessness that would likely fail to translate to the screen....

First Look: ‘The Muppets,’ Featuring New 20-Something Muppet Walter By Russ Fischer/Nov. 5, 2010 1:42 pm EST Briefly: There’s a double-page photo spread in the new Entertainment Weekly that features Jason Segel, co-writer and star of The Muppets, along with his hand-made co-stars from the film. Most of the characters in the photo spread are established faves, but there’s also a reveal of the new addition: Walter, who proudly brandishes an iPhone....

Four Sweet And Simple New Posters For ‘The Muppets’ Unveiled By Angie Han/Oct. 3, 2011 3:00 pm EST I’ve loved all the goofy parody trailers, eaten up every plot detail, and followed each bit of celebrity casting, but at the end of the day, the real reason I’m so eager to see The Muppets doesn’t have a whole lot to do with famous stars or pop culture gags. My excitement all boils down to the something much more basic: the Muppets themselves are just plain freakin’ lovable....

Full Cast And Plot Revealed For ‘Riddick’ By Angie Han/Feb. 3, 2012 3:30 pm EST It’s been a long eight years for fans of David Twohy and Vin Diesel’s Riddick saga, but after numerous stops and starts, the third installment is coming together at last. Universal Studios has issued a press release announcing the start of principal photography in Montreal on the new sci-fi thriller, a follow-up to 2000’s Pitch Black and 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick — and in the process, offered up some new crumbs of information about the film’s plotline and casting....

Geek Deal: Die Hard Collection On Blu-Ray For $33 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 6, 2010 11:42 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Interview: Graham Yost, Creator And Executive Producer Of Justified By David Chen/March 4, 2012 9:00 am EST Dave Chen and Myles McNutt from Cultural Learnings interview Graham Yost about how he developed the third season of Justified. Graham discusses getting the show’s dialect correct, figuring out how to resolve the Raylan/Winona storyline, and trying to change up the game from season two. He also drops some tantalizing hints about the future of the series....

MTV’s ‘Catfish’-Derived Series May Be Just Another Reality-TV Dating Show By Russ Fischer/Sept. 16, 2011 5:00 pm EST A couple months ago we got an odd report: MTV has been developing a TV show based on the buzzed-about indie documentary Catfish. (Or ‘documentary,’ depending on how you view the film’s position vis a vis honesty.) At the time all we knew was that unspecified Catfish creators, presumably Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, were among those working on the show....

New ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Image Graces The Cover Of Entertainment Weekly By Germain Lussier/Jan. 11, 2012 3:20 pm EST Come July, when The Dark Knight Rises is everywhere from your TV to billboards, bus stops and almost definitely Comic Con, it won’t be newsworthy if it appears on the cover of a magazine. Six months away from release, however, everything is still a big deal. Like the fact that tickets are on sale....

New Software Negates Need For Actors To Shape Their Bodies By Germain Lussier/Oct. 8, 2010 1:00 pm EST Some of the greatest performances of all time are when an actor so totally commits to the role that they’re willing to destroy their body for it. Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull is the ultimate example. More recently, Christian Bale lost a sickly amount of weight for The Machinist, Matt Damon put on the pounds for Courage Under Fire and The Informant!...

Photos: Blake Lively & Chloe Moretz In ‘Hick’, Jason Segel In ‘Jeff Who Lives At Home’, Rachel Weisz & Tom Hiddleston In ‘The Deep Blue Sea’, Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen & Sarah Silverman In ‘Take This Waltz’ By Angie Han/July 27, 2011 9:00 am EST The Toronto International Film Festival has just announced the first fifty or so films from its 2011 line-up today, including new works by Alexander Payne, the Duplass Brothers, Sarah Polley, and Madonna, and many, many others....

Ridley Scott Has Two Alien Prequels Planned, Confirms 3D By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2010 9:36 pm EST Yesterday we finally learned early details about Ridley Scott’s upcoming Alien prequel (you can read the story here). Turns out there is more to the story — or should I say STORIES. Collider was at the Robin Hood junket today and learned that Ridley Scott has plans for not one, but two prequel films....

Steve Carell To Star In Dave Barry Adaptation ‘Lunatics’ By Angie Han/Nov. 11, 2011 3:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While Steve Carell has obviously been trying to branch out beyond his funnyman roots with some of his recent choices, the latest addition to his crowded slate sounds more like classic Carell. The very busy actor is attached to produce and star in Universal Pictures’ Lunatics, a big-screen adaptation of Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel’s forthcoming novel....

Telluride Review: Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 4, 2010 4:17 pm EST Many of you probably know Boyle as the English director behind Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, A Life Less Ordinary, The Beach, Sunshine and Slumdog Millionaire. His stylized character-centric films have won him many awards including “Best Director” at the 2009 Academy Awards. As you may expect, Boyle doesn’t take a realistic doc-style approach to the filming of this story, but instead injects it with energy and life while retaining the authenticity of the experience....

Tom Cruise May Be Jack Reacher In ‘One Shot,’ And That Seems Like A Terrible Idea By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2011 7:49 pm EST I know that I have always been very publicly in favor of novel to film adaptations that throw out the notion of extreme fidelity to the source. So I don’t really have a leg to stand on in this argument. But if you’re casting Jack Reacher, a French/American ex-military cop who stands 6'5" and often breezes into any given burg looking like a giant disheveled blond bum, then Tom Cruise is the opposite of the man you should be looking for....

Trailers: Andrew Dosunmu’s Sundance Film ‘Restless City’ And Ray Winstone In The Big Screen Adaptation Of ‘The Sweeney’ By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2012 1:30 pm EST Today we bring you a couple new movie trailers: The Sweeney is a big screen adaptation of the British television series starring Ray Winstone and Ben Drew (aka rapper Plan B) as Detectives specializing in armed robbery and violent crime in London. Andrew Dosunmu’s Restless City premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011....

VOTD: Clark Gregg’s Top Five Moments From Marvel Movies By Russ Fischer/May 4, 2012 10:00 am EST Clark Gregg knows that he’s the glue that holds the Marvel movie universe together. And now, on the eve of the release of The Avengers, in which his role as SHIELD Agent Phil Coulson really comes into its own, Gregg took a moment to run down his top five Marvel movie moments. The video is a bit more than just a top five, however....

Watch ‘Sleepless Night’ For FREE On Thursday Night In Los Angeles By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2012 1:00 pm EST /Film will be co-presenting a free screening of Sleepless Night on Thursday, May 3rd at USC in Los Angeles with our friends at FirstShowing. We first saw this french action film at the Toronto International Film Festival and it blew me away. It’s probably one of the best written contained action thrillers in years....

Watch A History Of The Winter Soldier To Prepare For ‘Captain America 2’ By Angie Han/Sept. 27, 2012 3:00 pm EST This summer’s announcement that the Captain America sequel had been titled Captain America: The Winter Soldier was met at Hall H with cheers and roars from comic book fans excited to see one of the more memorable Cap stories in recent memory brought to life. For Marvel movie lovers who don’t follow the books, however, the reaction was more of a mild confusion....

WonderCon 2012 Announces Movie Panels: ‘Sound Of My Voice,’ ‘Battleship,’ Possibly ‘Prometheus’ And More By Germain Lussier/Feb. 28, 2012 11:30 am EST For the full, three day schedule, click here. But here are the Saturday movie panels: Producer, writer, and actress Brit Marling is a rising talent and new voice in the genre world, creating independent films about everyday people finding themselves in fantastic circumstances. In her new film, The Sound of My Voice, Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius), a couple and documentary filmmaking team, infiltrate a mysterious group led by an enigmatic young woman named Maggie (Brit Marling)....

‘Another Night In Suck City’ Begins Production; Dale Dickey And Lili Taylor Added To Cast By Russ Fischer/March 8, 2011 4:30 pm EST Focus Features has send out a press release announcing the start of production on the Paul Weitz adaptation of Nick Flynn’s memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. The film is working without a title for now, but as previously reported it does feature Paul Dano as Nick Flynn, and Robert De Niro as his homeless father, whom Flynn encounters while working at a shelter in Boston....