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Video Blog: Riding Universal Hollywood’s King Kong 360 3D By Peter Sciretta/June 30, 2010 11:00 am EST This week King Kong returns to Universal Studios Hollywood in the form of a state of the art 3D attraction as part of the studio tram tour. As you may recall, a couple years back a fire burnt down the old animatronic Kong attraction and a big section of the backlot. Universal worked with Peter Jackson to create a new ride for a new decade....

VOTD: ‘The Dark Knight Rises Trailer’ Recreated In LEGO By Russ Fischer/March 29, 2012 4:00 pm EST Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are preparing to make a feature-length LEGO film, with all the characters animated as the toy mini-figs familiar to so many kids young and grown everywhere. We know their film is based in part on the many pieces of animation found on the web that use LEGO pieces and figures to create or recreate dramatic scenes....

Watch A New Halloween Short From ‘Trick ‘R Treat’ Director Mike Dougherty By Russ Fischer/Oct. 12, 2011 3:15 pm EST This may be the most adorable gory little Frankenstein movie you’ll see this week. Mike Dougherty hasn’t had a film in theaters since the great Halloween anthology Trick ‘r Treat (which actually never got a real theatrical release — it went straight to DVD in the US) but the director makes the occasional short....

Watch The First 10 Minutes Of ‘The FP’ By Germain Lussier/March 5, 2012 5:00 pm EST The FP has been on our radar for almost a year when it first premiered at South by Southwest 2011. The 2012 version of that festival is now just around the corner and, finally, the Trost Bros’ Dance Dance Revolution action comedy is getting a proper release on March 16 ( you can get the full theater list here....

‘Chronicle’ Writer Max Landis Is Writing ‘Vigilant,’ A TV Show Exploring Vigilante Action By Russ Fischer/Sept. 18, 2012 3:30 pm EST Now he’s got a TV show in development at Teakwood Lane, a television production company based at Fox. Vigilant sounds like it explores the idea of a vigilante working both against the system and against a bigger criminal element. Deadline says the story is “told through the unlikely POV of a brilliant 20-year old woman who is also a social outcast....

‘Dead Man Down’ Brings Together Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace And Original ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Director Niels Arden Oplev By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2011 7:30 am EST Here’s another project announced at the American Film Market this week: Dead Man Down is an action thriller that will see Noomi Rapace working again with her The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev. Colin Farrell is signing on as well, for a film that is being sold as a “thrilling tale of vengeance....

‘Jurassic Park’ Will Be Released On Blu-Ray This Year By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 13, 2011 10:00 am EST During an interview with Ecranlarge, Universal France marketing director Eric Legay revealed that Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park will finally be released on Blu-ray in 2011, along with the other two movies in the franchise (if you care..,). I assume we’ll get single discs and a box set, but no word on new extra features....

‘Melancholia’ US Trailer By Russ Fischer/Sept. 2, 2011 3:17 pm EST There’s not a whole lot in this first official domestic trailer for Lars von Trier’s Melancholia that we haven’t seen in previous trailers and clips. (Such as the great UK trailer we just saw a few days ago.) But what the hell, the film is among our most-anticipated of the year, and this trailer offers up a great HD look at the gorgeous and subtle cinematography from Manuel Alberto Claro....

‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ Trailer Attached To ‘Tron: Legacy’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 13, 2010 11:11 am EST File this under “painfully obvious,” but Disney will attach the teaser trailer for their Summer 2011 blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides to their Holiday 2010 blockbuster Tron: Legacy, according to Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Tron: Legacy will be released in IMAX 3D, Disney Digital 3D and 2D screens on December 17 and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, directed by Rob Marshall and starring Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Penelope Cruz and Ian McShane, will also be released in 3D on May 20, 2011....

‘The Big Year’ Trailer And Poster; Starring Steve Martin, Jack Black And Owen Wilson By Germain Lussier/Sept. 7, 2011 10:00 am EST That bird watching movie now has a trailer and apparently it’s about more than just bird watching. The Big Year stars Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson as three friends who decide to take a year off from the lives and do the things they’ve always wanted to do....

‘The Thing’ Trailer And Poster By Russ Fischer/July 14, 2011 11:43 am EST Seemingly dormant since appearing at the New York Comic Con last year, Universal’s prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing has started to show signs of life this week. A teaser poster arrived (see below) and now there is a trailer. The movie tells the tale of an ill-fated Norwegian research camp that dug up a shapeshifting alien something in the permafrost of Antarctica, as seen in the early scenes of John Carpenter’s movie....

‘World War Z’ Appears To Have New Life At Paramount By Russ Fischer/March 29, 2011 12:49 pm EST There are a hell of a lot of zombie movies coming in the next year or two — so many that it almost seems ridiculous to get excited over one more. But when that one is an adaptation of a well-liked novel and has Brad Pitt set to star, it’s a different story....

‘Your Highness’ - What Did You Think? By David Chen/April 8, 2011 9:43 pm EST Graph the trajectory of director David Gordon Green’s career and you’ll probably get a linear, downward slope, where the X-axis is “Time” and the Y-axis is “How Highbrow His Movies Are.” Once known for atmospheric drama/thrillers like Undertow and Snow Angels, Green hit the big time with the stoner comedy Pineapple Express. His latest film, Your Highness, arrives in theaters today and seems to represent Green’s deepening exploration into base, gross-out humor and violence....

Antje Traue To Battle ‘Superman’ As Faora By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2011 12:17 pm EST Zack Snyder’s Superman: The Man of Steel may have its secondary villain, or villainess, as it were. Deadline reports that German actress Antje Traue, who was in Pandorum (as pictured above) is the frontrunner to play an as-yet unnamed character who will gang up on Superman (Henry Cavill) with Michael Shannon’s General Zod. More info on her potential role is after the break....

Brian De Palma To Direct ‘Passion,’ A Remake Of A French Thriller By Russ Fischer/Jan. 26, 2011 5:00 pm EST Brian De Palma has made only a few features in the last ten years: the psycho-sexual thriller Femme Fatale (which I’ll defend until death), a shaky adaptation of James Ellroy’s novel The Black Dahlia, and the intriguing but not so successful Iraq war film Redacted. He’s had a couple other directorial prospects, but now he may remake a French film from Alain Corneau called Crime d’amour (Love Crime), in which a conflict between two competing female corporate executives leads to murder....

Ciaran Hinds And Violante Placido Join Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 30, 2010 10:31 pm EST Ciaran Hinds and Italian actress-singer Violante Placido are in talks to join the cast of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Hinds has appeared in Munich, There Will Be Blood, Road to Perdition, Race to Witch Mountain and plays Aberforth Dumbledore in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows films. Placido is best known to US audiences as playing Clara in The American....

Damon Lindelof Rewriting Alien Prequel? By Adam Quigley/July 28, 2010 2:22 pm EST Depending on how you felt about the final season of Lost, this news will either excite or infuriate you. Word is that Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof met with Ridley Scott and studio reps from 20th Century Fox, and is now set to do a rewrite on the script for Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel. Learn more about this (possible) development after the break....

David Cronenberg Explores The Early Days Of Surgery With TV Series ‘Knifeman’ By Russ Fischer/March 13, 2012 7:00 am EST David Cronenberg is about to do the first television work he has done in some time. The director did a lot of work for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in his early days, and he even directed episodes of some Canadian-shot shows that you might not associate with his particular brand of cinema....

David Gordon Green To Make Biopic About Teen Outlaw Colton Harris-Moore By Hunter Stephenson/April 13, 2010 11:15 am EST The project is being batted around as a future directorial effort from Green, who will next helm the rowdy coke run comedy, The Sitter, starring Jonah Hill, and has the medieval stoner-adventure Your Highness due for an October release. No writer(s) is currently attached to adapt the planned book on Moore-Harris, entitled Taking Flight: The Hunt for a Young Outlaw....

Elizabeth Banks To Play Tinkerbell In Disney’s Live Action Romantic Comedy ‘Tink’ By Adam Quigley/July 14, 2010 8:30 pm EST Tinkerbell has already appeared in film four times now—first in the silent 1924 version of Peter Pan; most memorably in the ’50s animated classic; later in Spielberg’s Hook, where she was played by Julia Roberts; and most recently in 2003’s Peter Pan, as portrayed by the gorgeous (and frequently clothesless) Ludivine Sagnier....