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‘Playing For Keeps’ Trailer - Soccer Moms Love Gerard Butler By Angie Han/Aug. 8, 2012 9:00 am EST When a holiday movie schedule is as crowded as this year’s promises to be, it’s actually kind of a relief to see a trailer for a year-end release that looks like lighthearted, feel-good entertainment with no apparent aspirations of picking up a little gold man come February. The romantic dramedy Playing for Keeps (formerly Playing the Field) stars Gerard Butler as onetime pro athlete George Dryer, who’s still struggling to adjust to adult life....

Arnold Schwarzenegger Could Join Sylvester Stallone In ‘The Tomb’; Mikael Håfström In Talks To Direct By Angie Han/Jan. 12, 2012 10:00 am EST About a year and a half ago, it seemed like Antoine Fuqua was set to direct Bruce Willis in the original action thriller The Tomb. In the time since, however, the project’s rotated through a couple of other well-known action-names. Fuqua and Willis dropped out of the project, and Willis’ The Expendables co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger flirted with taking the lead before another Expendables man, Sylvester Stallone, ultimately signed on....

Behind The Scenes ‘Man Of Steel’ Image Shows Henry Cavill’s Friendly Side By Russ Fischer/Jan. 23, 2012 12:00 pm EST The first real shot of Henry Cavill as Superman in Zack Snyder’s new film Man of Steel wasn’t quite what fans expected to see, but it did start to give us a look at the suit that Cavill will sport as the new man from Krypton. We saw some other pics of Cavill in a stripped-down suit, which clued us in to some of the unusual alien accents that decorate the suit....

Casting Bits: Susan Sarandon In ‘Hemlock Drive;’ Julia Stiles In ‘Between Us;’ Justin Long And More In ‘Lumpy’ By Russ Fischer/April 21, 2011 10:00 am EST Rosanna Arquette is about to make her first dramatic feature, Hemlock Drive, after making a couple of documentaries. The film is “about an eccentric mother in Connecticut who learns she is dying and brings her three adult children back home for a weekend.” Part of the plot involves the matriarch getting her kids to throw a living funeral, Get Low style, although it sounds like this is meant to be a bit more funny than the climactic scene in that movie....

Cool Stuff: Fan Made Poster For Marvel’s The Avengers By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2010 6:00 am EST Over the last week, concept art has leaked for Marvel’s Thor and Captain America giving fans a better understanding of what the future superheroes will look like. Yesterday we published an image which was quickly put together by a /Film reader, combining the heroes that will make up the upcoming superhero team-up film The Avengers....

Director F. Javier Gutiérrez And Writer Jesse Wigutow Tapped For ‘The Crow’ By Angie Han/Jan. 24, 2012 4:00 pm EST Now that Relativity Media and The Weinstein Company have resolved their legal dispute over the remake of Alex Proyas’ The Crow, it looks like the companies aren’t wasting any time getting the ball rolling. Hot on the heels of yesterday’s resolution announcement comes news that F. Javier Gutiérrez has been tapped to helm the project, while Jesse Wigutow is on the verge of closing a deal to write the script....

Filming Delayed For Mad Max: Fury Road; Production May Not Resume Until 2012 By Adam Quigley/Oct. 9, 2010 5:43 am EST Well this is disappointing. After extensive prep work had gone into setting up back-to-back filming of Mad Max: Fury Road and Mad Max: Furiosa—both to be shot in 3D—the shoot has now been delayed from its originally planned February 2011 date to, if we’re lucky, February 2012. This is the second major setback for the film....

Geek Deal: 58% Off ‘The Stanley Kubrick Collection’ On DVD Or Blu-Ray By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 10, 2011 11:09 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Julia Roberts, Alec Baldwin, Matt Bomer, And Jim Parsons To Join Mark Ruffalo In Ryan Murphy’s ‘The Normal Heart’ By Angie Han/Jan. 23, 2012 11:30 am EST Ryan Murphy is best known as the co-creator of such unusual TV hits as Glee, American Horror Story, and Nip/Tuck, but he’s slowly been building up a big-screen career as well. Though 2006’s Running with Scissors wasn’t quite a box office smash, 2010’s Eat Pray Love pulled in $200 million worldwide despite mediocre reviews....

Kenneth Lonergan’s Long-Delayed ‘Margaret’ Finally Gets A Release Date By Angie Han/Aug. 4, 2011 11:30 am EST Starring Anna Paquin, Mark Ruffalo and Matt Damon, Margaret revolves around a young woman dealing with guilt and grief in the wake of a tragic bus accident. The film marks a reunion for Ruffalo and Lonergan, who previously worked together on the excellent You Can Count on Me. Read more after the jump....

Kevin Costner’s Waterworld-Inspired Ocean Therapy Device May Actually Help Clean Gulf Oil Spill By David Chen/May 19, 2010 8:48 pm EST First, a little bit of background on the spill. The result of an explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon rig, the Gulf oil spill is currently sending over 210,000 gallons of oil into the water per day. British Petroleum have been trying everything to slow down the rate of spillage....

Kristen Wiig, Owen Wilson, And Christopher Walken Could Join Paul Rudd In Errol Morris’ ‘Freezing People Is Easy’ By Angie Han/Jan. 4, 2012 2:30 pm EST Whether or not Kristen Wiig decides to do Bridesmaids 2, what’s obvious is that she’s not wanting for work. The actress-writer-producer is already involved with several intriguing projects, and she may soon be attached to one more. Wiig, along with Owen Wilson and Christopher Walken, are circling roles in Errol Morris’ Freezing People is Easy, based on Robert F....

LOL: Daily Show: “Barack Obama Is Luke Skywalker” By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 5, 2011 8:00 am EST Jon Stewart compares US President Barack Obama to the rise of Luke Skywalker in this hilarious segment from Monday’s The Daily Show. Watch the video now embedded after the jump. If you want to skip to the Star Wars segment, it begins at the 2 minutes and 25 second mark. LOL: Daily Show: “Barack Obama Is Luke Skywalker”...

LOL: Disney And Porn Movies Are Both Responsible… By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2010 3:00 pm EST From the website “Stuff No One Told Me (But I Learned Anyways)” comes this comic that explains that Porn movies and Disney movies are both “responsible for the most frustrated human beings I know”. via: TDW LOL: Disney And Porn Movies Are Both Responsible… By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2010 3:00 pm EST From the website “Stuff No One Told Me (But I Learned Anyways)” comes this comic that explains that Porn movies and Disney movies are both “responsible for the most frustrated human beings I know”....

Mark Ruffalo Will Do Mo-Cap Performance For Hulk In ‘The Avengers’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 24, 2010 5:54 pm EST Mark Ruffalo signing on to play the Hulk for Marvel’s upcoming The Avengers was a good move. Given that Edward Norton wasn’t coming back, I don’t think the studio could have gone with a more interesting choice than Ruffalo. He’s a great, nuanced actor who will hopefully have the room to make his own mark on the character....

Martin Scorsese To Produce Rolls Royce Biopic ‘Silver Ghost’ By Germain Lussier/May 14, 2012 2:00 pm EST The Rolls Royce is largely considered one of the most luxurious and desirable cars in the world. It’s so elegant that, today, most people who own them don’t even drive them. They have drivers to drive them. But how exactly did this company develop into such a well-respected and high quality brand? Apparently, the story is much more dramatic and secret than you’d expect....

Rango (And Mr. Timms) To Invade Comic-Con By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2010 11:30 am EST One of the films suspiciously missing from the announced programing list for this year’s Comic-Con International is Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski’s computer animated feature film Rango. Just a few minutes ago, I got an e-mail directing me to the following url: mrtimms.com. The website appears to be a “super special fan site and store for Mr....

RZA Is Blind Master And D.J. Cotrona Is Flint In ‘G.I. Joe 2’ By Germain Lussier/June 28, 2011 10:30 am EST Director Jon Chu is loading up the cast for next summer’s G.I. Joe 2. He’s bringing back Channing Tatum as Duke, we heard that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will be playing Roadblock and now D.J. Cotrona is in negotiations to play Flint and The RZA will play the man who trained Snake Eyes, the Blind Master....

Screenwriting: Hammer Films Buys Black List Screenwriter Chris Borrelli’s Wake; Writer Hired For Einstein Biopic By Russ Fischer/June 4, 2010 10:34 am EST Writing about screenplay buys can be difficult — there isn’t often a lot of detail about a story and without creative talent beyond the writer and producer, we’re often left to do little more than speculate about what the finished product might be like. But what the hell, we’ll do it anyway....

Supervillain Stars Tom Hardy And Michael Shannon Join Forces For ‘The Long Red Road’ By Angie Han/Aug. 16, 2012 5:00 am EST It’s well known that Warner Bros. is planning to group together several of its heroes for Justice League, but to see DC baddies Bane and General Zod join forces you’ll have to look outside the comic book realm. Tom Hardy and Michael Shannon are attached to star in The Long Red Road, based on the play by Brett C....