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First Look: ‘The Thing’ Prequel, Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead And Joel Edgerton By Russ Fischer/Oct. 4, 2010 1:34 pm EST A few months back Universal invited a handful of web editors to the set of the prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing. This new film, also called The Thing for the time being, is directed by Matthis van Heijningen Jr. and stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Eric Christian Olsen....

Jason Reitman’s LACMA ‘Reservoir Dogs’ Reading Will Feature All-Black Cast By Germain Lussier/Feb. 9, 2012 4:00 pm EST Our apologies. Even if you live in Los Angeles, posting about Jason Reitman’s awesome live readings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is torture. The casts are so fantastic, the projects so good and yet it’s virtually impossible to go because they sell out so quickly. In fact, they sell-out weeks before the script or cast is even announced....

Joss Whedon Writes An Open Letter To Fans Old And New By Russ Fischer/May 9, 2012 8:00 am EST Whedon gets a lot off his chest in the letter, opening with an admission, and a hope, He also gives hope for his next efforts, People have told me that this matters, that my life is about to change. I am sure that is true. And change is good — change is exciting....

Justin Timberlake To Play Ball With Clint Eastwood And Amy Adams In Robert Lorenz’ ‘Trouble With The Curve’ By Angie Han/Feb. 1, 2012 5:30 am EST The fact that Justin Timberlake’s two big roles in 2010 were Yogi Bear and The Social Network tells you everything you need to know about his uneven track record when it comes to picking projects, but his immediate future’s looking pretty bright. Last fall, he was offered one of the roles in the Coen Brothers’ ’60s folk piece Inside Llewyn Davis, and he’s now set to join Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams in Trouble With the Curve, the directorial debut of Eastwood’s longtime producing partner Robert Lorenz....

Michael Caine Negotiating Role In ‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 7, 2010 4:27 pm EST The cast is coming together for Journey 2: The Sequel You Might Not Be Keen to See. (OK, the actual subtitle to the Journey to the Center of the Earth sequel is The Mysterious Island.) Josh Hutcherson, returning from the first film, will be joined by Dwayne Johnson, and now Michael Caine will play the grandfather of Hutcherson’s character....

Naomi Watts May Be Werner Herzog’s ‘Queen Of The Desert’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 4, 2011 1:45 pm EST I would think that just about any actor would be quick to answer the call to work if the person on the was Werner Herzog. Looks like Naomi Watts is the latest to get the call, and the film Mr. Herzog reportedly has in mind is no small thing. It is called Queen of the Desert, and Naomi Watts would play Gertrude Bell in a film that could easily become a companion piece to Lawrence of Arabia....

Netflix To Stream CBS Content Including ‘Star Trek’ And ‘Twin Peaks’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 22, 2011 4:30 pm EST So every new content deal is a good thing for any given company on the playing field. That said, here’s a new Netflix deal that might not do huge numbers, but could be a boon for fans: the company has signed a new two-year non-exclusive deal with CBS to stream the company’s library content, including The Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks and the various incarnations of Star Trek....

Planets Of The Apes Prequel Rise Of The Apes Announced For Summer 2011 By Peter Sciretta/May 6, 2010 2:25 pm EST I’m sure a lot of Planet of the Apes fans will be upset with this latest development. The Apes will be created using CGI by the wonderful tram at WETA Digital, rather than the costumed actors we’ve seen in past installments of the franchise. The press release says that they will employ “certain of the groundbreaking technologies developed for AVATAR” and “will render, for the first time ever in the film series, photo-realistic apes rather than costumed actors....

Rumors: Jason Statham May Join ‘Fast Five’ Sequel, Next Two Installments To Shoot Back-To-Back By Angie Han/Oct. 4, 2011 9:30 am EST For their latest installment, Fast Five, The Fast and the Furious franchise brought back a slew of actors from previous films including Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, and then added a huge action star in the form of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Now the next film in the series may expand the family by one more, and no, I’m not talking about Walker and Jordana Brewster’s unnecessary subplot baby....

The /Filmcast Interview: Sam Rockwell (Iron Man 2) By David Chen/May 6, 2010 5:21 pm EST The /Filmcast Interview is a series of conversations with actors, directors, and other key figures from the entertainment industry. In this episode, I speak with actor Sam Rockwell about his role in Iron Man 2. Rockwell plays Justin Hammer, the CEO of Hammer Industries, and a direct rival to of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr....

Tony Scott To Direct Drug Smuggling Thriller ‘Narco Sub’ For Fox By Russ Fischer/Nov. 29, 2011 6:00 am EST The script is by new hot screenwriter David Guggenheim, and the project overall is described as being reminiscent of films like Man on Fire and Crimson Tide. Tony Scott has, of course, already made one film on a submarine, way back when his style didn’t rely on an excess of frenetic, circular camera movement....

VOTD: ‘Evil Dead’ Tribute Animation By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2012 2:30 pm EST Be it movies, music, painting or something else, the best art inspires action in the people who view it. Sometimes that inspiration can lead you to change your life, or maybe simply inspires more art. Daniel Kanemoto is a huge Evil Dead fan and when he saw Olly Moss’ 2010 Mondo poster for Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead, he was so inspired by the image he decided to do a little animation showing his love of the franchise....

Watch: Spike Jonze’s Short Film ‘Scenes From The Suburbs’ By Peter Sciretta/June 27, 2011 6:00 am EST Spike Jonze has finally released his 28-minute short film Scenes From the Suburbs online on Mubu. The short is a collaboration with members of the recent Grammy winners Arcade Fire — Bandleader Win Butler wrote the film with his brother William Butler, and the Amblin-esque story follows a group of suburban kids during a dystopian summer where “military control of their town makes the lazy days more aimless than ever....

‘Black Death’ Red-Band Trailer And Poster By Russ Fischer/Dec. 20, 2010 4:00 pm EST Christopher Smith (Severance, Triangle) has finished his film Black Death, in which Sean Bean plays a knight tasked with discovering the truth about a nearby village. Stories say that it is untouched by the black plague, and that it is led by a necromancer who can raise the dead. Eddie Redmayne is along for the ride, as a young monk meant to lead the knight to the storied village....

By Russ Fischer/March 11, 2011 12:30 pm EST Jeff Smith made a huge splash in the early ’90s comics world with his long-form fantasy Bone. The series blended the influences of Walt Disney and Walt Kelley and created a framework with great characters and an ambitious sense of scope in which to tell a story that was unlike anything in comics at the time. His follow-up series, RASL, hasn’t made quite the same giant splash, but the comics world is a very different place twenty years after Bone debuted....

‘Sabrina The Teenage Witch’ To Get Her Own Superhero Movie By Germain Lussier/April 12, 2012 7:00 am EST At the multiplex, male superheroes have all the fun. For every one Elektra, there must be at least five Avengers, Spider-Man or Dark Knight’s. Even the most famous female superhero, Wonder Woman, can’t get her own big budget live-action movie. Sony thinks the market is there though and is turning back into the history books for their female superhero film....

‘Tales From The Gangster Squad’ Writer To Pen ‘Lethal Weapon’ Remake For Warner Bros. By Russ Fischer/Jan. 20, 2011 12:30 pm EST There’s a bunch of potential new remake news from Warner Bros. today, most of which is either silly or plain idiotic. This is one of the silly ones: the studio has moved from the idea of making Lethal Weapon 5 (which Shane Black has already outlined) to rebooting the series entirely....

‘The Walking Dead’ Season 2 Trailer By Angie Han/Sept. 29, 2011 7:00 am EST As we get closer and closer to the Season 2 premiere date, the promos for AMC’s zombie drama The Walking Dead get more and more revealing. With about two and a half weeks to go, a new 90-second trailer has been unveiled which offers the best look yet at the upcoming season. The zombies are still after Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and company, obviously, but just as worrisome is what the survivors are up to when they’re not busy fighting zombies — they’re picking fights with each other and threatening to split off from the group....

‘Thor’: First Clip, And A Cameo Confirmed And Detailed By Russ Fischer/March 30, 2011 10:31 pm EST Hot on the heels of Thor footage being shown at CinemaCon, Marvel Studios and Paramount have released the first clip from the film. It’s a minute-long scene that takes place immediately after Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is found on Earth by Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), Darcy (Kat Dennings) and their professor (Stellan Skarsgard). Some of this has been seen in trailers, so even if you’re trying not to see too much of the film, this clip isn’t terribly spoilerish....

‘Tower Heist’ Review: An Almost Passable Comedy That Straddles The Line Between Fun And Frustrating By Germain Lussier/Nov. 4, 2011 10:00 am EST What do you call a movie that’s not NOT funny and not NOT entertaining? Tower Heist sounds right. The latest film from director Brett Ratner has some fun moments to keep the audience engaged but never puts the claws in. It never grabs you. Never makes you laugh until you cry or pump your fist with excitement....