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VOTD: Star Wars: Legacy By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2011 4:30 pm EST YouTuber Kevleth created this Star Wars/Tron:Legacy movie trailer mash-up. Watch the video embedded after the jump. via: toplessrobot And here is art created by: Omar Elí: VOTD: Star Wars: Legacy By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2011 4:30 pm EST YouTuber Kevleth created this Star Wars/Tron:Legacy movie trailer mash-up. Watch the video embedded after the jump. via: toplessrobot And here is art created by: Omar Elí:...

‘BioShock’ Creator Says There’s No Need To Make A Movie By Germain Lussier/Nov. 16, 2011 6:00 am EST With its period/Gothic aesthetic set in an underwater, futuristic world, the BioShock video games were practically begging to be adapted into a film. Since 2008, directors like Guillermo Del Toro, Gore Verbinski and Juan Carlos Frenadillo have either been rumored or attached to a big screen adaptation and, at times, it’s been very close to being made....

‘Cowboys & Aliens’ Trailer By Germain Lussier/April 14, 2011 5:28 pm EST Thursday night during American Idol, Universal Pictures and director Jon Favreau premiered the theatrical trailer for the upcoming Summer blockbuster Cowboys & Aliens. Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde, the big budget, western sci-fi hybrid is scheduled for release on July 29. Up until now we’ve seen a teaser trailer, a Super Bowl commercial and attendees of Comic Con, Butt-Numb-A-Thon and WonderCon have seen extended scenes, but this is by far the most revealing look yet....

‘Priest’ Trailer #3 By Germain Lussier/April 12, 2011 6:00 pm EST When discussing the movies set for release this summer, one that’s been largely overlooked – especially being as it’s a comic book adaptation – is Priest. Directed by Scott Stewart, the film stars Paul Bettany as a warrior priest who must break his beliefs to help save his niece from a pack of vampires. He’ll take the ride along with Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban and Lily Collins....

‘Take Shelter’ Director Casts Matthew McConaughey And Reese Witherspoon In ‘Mud’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2011 6:30 pm EST Deadline summarizes Mud as “a redemptive tale of a charismatic fugitive and his unlikely friendship with a 14-year-old kid who is determined to help Mud escape from the law and some tough bounty hunters so he can reunite with his soul mate Juniper.” Tye Sheridan (The Tree of Life) is in talks to play the boy....

Alex Gibney Making WikiLeaks Documentary; Separate Julian Assange Biopic Also Planned By Russ Fischer/Jan. 21, 2011 2:00 pm EST One of the first big pieces of news out of Sundance is that Universal will fund a documentary about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, directed by Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Casino Jack and the United States of Money). Together with the biopic of Mr. Assange that is about to go into development at a different company, that would make him quite the man of the moment — if he hadn’t already been the man of the moment thanks to the actions of WikiLeaks over the past months....

Brad Anderson And Christian Bale Plan To Reunite For Adaptation Of J.G. Ballard’s ‘Concrete Island’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 9, 2011 9:45 am EST Brad Anderson’s most recent film is Vanishing on 7th Street, but he’s best known for two other films: the abandoned mental hospital ghost story Session 9, and The Machinist, in which Christian Bale wastes away into madness before our very eyes. (He also directed a couple episodes of The Wire and several of Fringe, among other things....

Cameron Diaz Is The Most Dangerous Internet Celebrity By David Chen/Aug. 21, 2010 8:47 am EST Software security company McAfee has released its fourth annual report of the most dangerous celebrities to search for on the internet. Topping the list this year? Cameron Diaz, who replaced last year’s #1 choice, Jessica Biel. Hit the jump for the details, and for the rest of their top 10 list. McAfee compiled search phrases that contained the names of public figures, then figured out what percentage of searches for those phrases would lead to a site with viruses, spam, adware, or other malware....

Casting Bits: Ellen Page And Jessie Eisenberg In Woody Allen’s Next, Jeff Foxworthy In ‘Crackerjack;’ DeRay Davis In ‘21 Jump Street’ By Russ Fischer/April 14, 2011 5:00 am EST The other day when Alec Baldwin was set as one of the actors for Woody Allen’s next film, Jesse Eisenberg was mentioned as a possible choice as well. And many of you probably thought “well, duh. Of course he is.” Is there any more obvious, even necessary actor to put in a Woody Allen movie?...

Casting Bits: Tom Wilkinson In Talks For ‘Little Boy;’ Hilary Duff And Kevin Zegers Won’t Be Bonnie And Clyde After All; Chazz Palminteri Joins ‘Gotti’ By Angie Han/Aug. 24, 2011 3:00 pm EST While Disney figures out what it wants to do with The Lone Ranger, would-be star Tom Wilkinson has entered negotiations for the indie Little Boy. Directed by Alejandro Monteverde, the historical family drama follows a developmentally disabled 8-year-old brother (newcomer Jakob Salvati) and his teenage brother (David Henrie)....

Field Of Dreams Writer/Director Penning Heist Film For J.J. Abrams By Russ Fischer/May 20, 2010 7:49 am EST “I may be a thief and a liar, but I am going to tell you a true story.” Those are the words of Leonardo Notarbartolo, spoken from prison as he was serving a sentence for taking part in what has been called the heist of the century. Last year, Paramount optioned a Wired article that tells his tale: The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist by Joshua Davis....

First Official Look At Daft Punk In ‘Tron Legacy’; Another Soundtrack Tune Previewed By Russ Fischer/Oct. 12, 2010 9:55 am EST At the risk of becoming an extension of the PR division at Disney, here’s your first official look at French electronic duo Daft Punk as they appear in Tron Legacy. Looks, well, more or less like Daft Punk as they always appear. But that’s the point, right? They were into Tron when no one else was; this is the payoff....

Geek Deal: Gone With The Wind 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition For 56% Off By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 3, 2010 1:06 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Geek Deal: The Man With No Name Trilogy Blu-Ray For $24 By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2011 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Harlan Ellison Suing New Regency, Claims ‘In Time’ Rips Off His Short Story By Angie Han/Sept. 16, 2011 10:37 am EST Ellison is arguing that the two works are clearly similar, as they’re both set in a “dystopian corporate future in which everyone is allotted a specific amount of time to live” and involve an authority called the “Timekeeper” who enforces the limits on people’s lives. Other overlaps that Ellison points out include “the manipulation of time an individual can live, the type of death experienced by those whose time runs out, rebellion by story protagonists, and so forth,” writes The Hollywood Reporter....

Has Craig Gillespie Left ‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’? [Nope! Updated] By Russ Fischer/Aug. 30, 2011 8:22 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Oh, no, not this again. Lionsgate has had a terrifically difficult time getting a film version of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies off the ground. The film has gone through multiple directors and screenwriters, with David O. Russell penning a script and once planning to direct....

Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Oblivion’ Could Go To Universal And Star Tom Cruise By Germain Lussier/April 12, 2011 3:53 pm EST Directing a movie that makes $400 million has its perks. Joseph Kosinski for example, who directed TRON: Legacy for Disney, had hoped to make his next film, Oblivion, with that studio. They bought the pitch and also snatched him up to make a third Tron as well as The Black Hole. In the end though, Disney felt the subject matter of Oblivion was a bit too raw for their liking and decided to let the project go....

Lionsgate Adapting YA Trilogy ‘Chaos Walking’ By Angie Han/Oct. 4, 2011 7:00 am EST With all the buzz surrounding next year’s The Hunger Games, based on a wildly popular young adult series by author Suzanne Collins, it’s no wonder Lionsgate is already looking to snap up more hot YA properties. The studio has just picked up the movie rights to Patrick Ness’ Chaos Walking trilogy, another action-filled, dystopian drama centering around a brave adolescent protagonist, with Doug Davison (How to Train Your Dragon) signed on to produce....

By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 29, 2010 6:00 am EST Some people are claiming the Aaron Sorkin-penned David Fincher-directed movie The Social Network is a bit over-dramatized compared to the real version of events. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has decided to finally tell his side of the story, and has written, directed, and stars in his own version of the story (okay, not really, but lets pretend). Watch the faux trailer after the jump....

By Russ Fischer/Aug. 3, 2010 9:29 am EST Every year around Comic Con time I start thinking of older or lesser-known comics that would be great on screen. (Time to run a list, I know.) One that has long been in mind is Matt Wagner’s Mage. The series depicts the adventures of an ordinary, down on his luck guy who meets a mage and discovers that he has a greater destiny than he’d ever suspected....