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Movie Poster: Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2010 11:37 pm EST I have come across what appears to be the first poster for Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning.While I can’t confirm this is in fact the film’s one sheet, it does look very much like Sofia’s style. Check out the poster after the jump. Sofia Coppola’s (Lost in Translation) new film Somewhere tells the story of Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), “a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through a life of excess while living at Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont Hotel....

New ‘Mission: Impossible’ May Not Even Be Called ‘Mission: Impossible’? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 27, 2010 7:55 am EST Yesterday when we told you about Jeremy Renner being hired to play opposite Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 4, I said that we didn’t actually know much at all about the script, and wondered how some new elements of the story would be structured. Now there’s new info that suggests some interesting things, including the possibility that the film won’t even be called Mission: Impossible at all....

Read A New Scene From Kevin Smith’s ‘Hit Somebody,’ Bid On Props From His Films By Germain Lussier/April 7, 2011 3:30 pm EST Besides that huge event, Smith has released yet another full scene from what he says will be his final film as a director, the hockey dramedy Hit Somebody, set to star Nicholas Braun, Kyle Gallner, Michael Angarano and possibly Stephen Root, John Goodman and Melissa Leo. Read how you can get in on the bidding, both in person and online, as well as the full scene after the jump....

Renée Zellweger To Make Directorial Debut On ‘4 1/2 Minutes’, Based On Comedian Dov Davidoff By Angie Han/Sept. 6, 2012 11:53 am EST There was a time when it was tough to avoid seeing Renée Zellweger at the multiplex, but these days you couldn’t find her if you tried. She hasn’t appeared in a movie since 2010’s My Own Love Song, which despite being Olivier Dahan’s follow-up to La vie en rose flew mostly under the radar....

Seth Gordon Says ‘King Of Kong’ Remake Will Be A Mockumentary By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2011 6:30 pm EST Seth Gordon seems to have become a director of studio comedies like Horrible Bosses (and he’s remaking WarGames) but don’t forget that he first took the spotlight as the guy who made The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters back in 2007. The film really struck a chord with people, and New Line bought the rights to make a dramatic remake of the video game showdown between Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe....

Star Trek Sequel To Shoot In January, Or Not Until Summer 2011? By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2010 4:30 pm EST You can only rely on actors to a certain degree for info about when a film will shoot. (See: Michael Caine with respect to Batman 3, or the returning cast talking about The Hobbit.) Not because they’re deliberately sowing misinformation, but because they’re only privy to one part of the decision making process....

By Russ Fischer/May 21, 2012 11:00 am EST The film is now called Six Sessions, and it will be released on October 26 of this year. Germain called Six Sessions a sure Oscar contender when he reviewed the film out of Sundance, saying, The October date is a pretty prime one; competition comes from Alex Cross; Fun Size; Of Men and Mavericks; and Silent Hill: Revelation 3D. Which is to say that if things stay the way they are now, Six Sessions will have a clear path to the arthouse audience....

The Bechdel Test By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2010 7:40 am EST Have you ever heard of The Bechdel Test? The term/concept comes from a 1985 edition of Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For entitled “The Rule.” The test points out the systemic problem with a lack of female presence in Hollywood films, and you might be shocked to learn how many popular films don’t “pass” three simple rules....

Tomas Alfredson Will Direct ‘Larklight’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 5, 2010 7:50 pm EST Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson is now in production on his first English-language film, an adaptation of John Le Carre’s novel Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy. Now he’s got a follow-up set: Mr. Alfredson has signed to direct Larklight for Warner Bros., based on the book by Philip Reeve, which is the first installment of a possibly franchise-ready trilogy....

By Germain Lussier/April 11, 2011 4:00 pm EST Craig Brewer’s remake of the classic 1984 Kevin Bacon film Footloose, starring Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough, is scheduled for release in October of this year. When it was first announced, though, a group of filmmakers got so upset that Hollywood was needlessly remaking another great movie they decided to beat them to the punch. 54 filmmakers broke up the original film into segments and, last summer, assembled all those pieces into one brand new movie....

VOTD: Toy Grit - True Grit/Toy Story Mash-Up By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 13, 2010 8:00 am EST You’ve probably seen the trailer for True Grit, and you’ve seen the Toy Story films, but have you seen Toy Grit? Forensicator8 has created a movie trailer mash-up which combines the Coen Brothers’ True Grit and Pixar’s Toy Story series. Watch it now, embedded after the jump. VOTD: Toy Grit - True Grit/Toy Story Mash-Up...

Warner Bros. Developing Musical Comedy For Robert Downey, Jr. By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2010 5:45 pm EST Briefly: This one’s going to be short because we don’t have a lot of info, but Warner Bros. has picked up a pitch for an as-yet untitled musical comedy that the studio will develop as a film for Robert Downey, Jr. Brian Yorkey is writing the script and lyrics, with Tom Kitt doing the music — that’s the team behind the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock opera Next to Normal....

Watch The Genndy Tartakovsky-Animated Prequel For Scott Stewart’s ‘Priest’ By Angie Han/April 7, 2011 9:00 am EST If you found the first few glimpses of Scott Stewart’s Priest to be confusing — and I wouldn’t blame you, that last trailer was pretty “huh?"-worthy — here’s something that might help. Animator Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack, Dexter’s Laboratory) has created a three-minute animated prequel to the film that explains some of the setup and gives a taste of what kind of tone we can expect from the movie....

‘Akira’ On Hold (Again) As Warner Bros. Looks At Budget And Casting By Russ Fischer/Jan. 5, 2012 12:30 pm EST Looks like the process of studios scrutinizing spending on films in development is a process that will continue into 2012. Disney put Lone Ranger on hold last year when the budget escalated to over $250m, and Warner Bros. started looking keenly at the budget for Arthur & Lancelot in mid-December....

‘Transformers 3’ Super Bowl Commercial By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2011 4:59 pm EST Earlier tonight I tweeted “Holy fuck” on Twitter, and almost everyone following me on Twitter knew exactly what I was talking about. Yes, a new television commercial for Michael Bay’s Transformers 3 aired during the Super Bowl tonight. I know I shouldn’t get my hopes up, but Transformers: Dark of the Moon looks like it will be action packed....

Alan Tudyk’s Transformers 3 Role Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 4, 2010 9:01 am EST In May, it was reported that Firefly and Dollhouse star Alan Tudyk had joined the cast of Transformers 3, but details about his role were being kept under wraps.We now have details about what character Tudyk plays in the threequel, and don’t worry — it isn’t a spoiler. Details after the jump. Tudyk tells From Hollywood With Love (via: tfw2005) that he is playing a Sector Seven Agent:...

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s New TV Show Could Be An Animated Series By Russ Fischer/March 24, 2011 1:30 pm EST We just heard that Arnold Schwarzenegger is somehow involved in a TV show that will be announced on April 4 during a press conference in Cannes. But rather than wait for that date, people are trying to get the scoop on the show now. It’s a big deal, after all — the first real project to feature the star since his exit from the political arena....

Cool Stuff: Ibraheem Youssef’s Minimalistic Posters For Inception, Scarface, And The Big Lebowski By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2010 1:00 pm EST Last year we featured Ibraheem Youssef’s minimalistic movie posters for the films of Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson. The Toronto based designer/art director has returned with a new set of simple and clean poster art for the following movies: Inception, Scarface, and The Big Lebowski. Check out the designs after the jump....

Daniel Craig And Sam Mendes Reportedly Not Bailing On Bond By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2010 8:03 am EST At the beginning of this week, a pair of reports circulated from AICN and the Mirror saying that the twenty-third Bond film had been utterly canned at EON Productions and MGM. But these reports didn’t actually have any newly sourced info that made the situation sound any different than it had been when EON suspended development of the film in April pending a resolution of MGM’s financial problems....

Disney Denies Adam Sandler Attempting ‘Three Men And A Baby’ Remake By Germain Lussier/Aug. 1, 2011 2:30 pm EST If someone showed you the trailer for Adam Sandler’s Jack & Jill right before Funny People was released, you would have sworn it was a Judd Apatow joke. Unfortunately, that film isn’t a joke but the latest Sandler rumor is. According to a recent rumor, Sandler was inspired by an episode of MTV’s True Life to produce a remake of Three Men and a Baby featuring his friends David Spade, Chris Rock, and Rob Schneider....