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Listen To Samples Of Hans Zimmer’s ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Score By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2012 9:00 am EST Part of the lingering appeal of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight was Hans Zimmer’s eerie, often ominously quiet score. There has been great anticipation in some corners for Zimmer’s follow-up work in The Dark Knight Rises, and the bits we’ve heard in recent trailers are certainly promising. Now we’ve got 30-second samples of the fifteen tracks on Zimmer’s score for the new movie....

LOL: ’80s Hollywood Agent Warren Klein’s 4 Minute Voicemail To Christian Slater Concerning Skateboarding By Germain Lussier/Dec. 13, 2011 1:00 pm EST Following all the funny, viral videos that pop up online is virtually impossible. The secret is finding a niche that you like. Some people like cats, other like fake trailers or people getting hurt. For me, I love voicemails from the “powerful 1980s Hollywood agent” Warren Klein. Funny or Die has already released two of these gems and now the third has just gone up....

Mark Strong Explains ‘John Carter’ Title Change By Germain Lussier/June 17, 2011 1:00 pm EST Much has been made of the fact that Disney and director Andrew Stanton decided to change the title of John Carter of Mars to simply John Carter. Here was my assessment at the time: The title John Carter means nothing. It could be anything from a courtroom drama to romantic comedy to porn film. It has zero style or substance and I hope Disney realizes that John Carter Of Mars at least lets the audience know what they are in for: an epic sci-fi fantasy movie....

New ‘Magic Mike’ Trailer, Video Interview And Poster: Of Course It’s Raining Men By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2012 4:30 pm EST At this point there isn’t much of a science to selling Steven Soderbergh’s new film Magic Mike. It has a bunch of good-looking guys, led by Channing Tatum, taking their clothes off in a story that is thinly based on Tatum’s own experiences as a youthful exotic dancer. Shocker: there’s an audience for that!...

Photo: William Shatner Vs. Chris Pine In A Captain Kirk Arm Wrestling Match By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2011 2:30 pm EST EpixHD tweeted out this photo of William Shatner, who played Captain James T Kirk in Star Trek: The Original Series taking on Chris Pine, who plays Kirk in the JJ Abrams’ Star Trek reboot, in an arm wrestling match. It doesn’t get more awesomely geekier than that does it? At first I thought the photo must be a fan photoshop, but after doing a little bit of research, I found that the moment is actually part of a documentary that will be airing on Epix....

Sherlock Holmes Producer Developing Treasure Island For Warner Bros. By Russ Fischer/April 20, 2010 9:36 am EST We’d heard earlier this year that a new Treasure Island movie was in development, the idea being to create a version of the story that has the same appeal as the Sherlock Holmes and Pirates of the Caribbean films — in other words, a mostly modern take that happens to be set in the original time period....

Six ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Character Posters Improve On Theatrical One-Sheet By Germain Lussier/May 22, 2012 1:00 pm EST Monday’s reveal of what’s likely the final theatrical poster for The Dark Knight Rises was met with considerable venom. “This was done in 20 seconds” said Zach H in our comments. “This will be the next instagram feature. Instant-movie-posters,” wrote ThatEuropeanGuy and Bryan C simply said “How terribly uninspired.” The poster even inspired a truly hilarious GIF showing how the poster combines elements from The Dark Knight Rises teaser poster and The Dark Knight theatrical poster....

Sundance Sales: ‘My Idiot Brother,’ ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene,’ ‘The Ledge,’ ‘Homework’ And ‘Life In A Day’ All Find Homes By Russ Fischer/Jan. 24, 2011 1:59 pm EST After the break, a rundown of sales over the last twelve hours, which includes sales for early festival fave Martha Marcy May Marlene and the comedy My Idiot Brother. The Weinstein Company nabbed My Idiot Brother. Jesse Peretz directs from a script by Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall....

The CW Nearing Pilot Order For Green Arrow TV Series ‘Arrow’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2012 9:00 am EST The CW lost Smallville when the series ended with the finale of the show’s tenth season in May 2011. Since then, the network has been looking at other DC properties, like the Deadman series that is being spearheaded through development by Supernatural’s Eric Kripke. Now the CW is nearly ready to order a pilot for what could become its new DC franchise: Arrow, a show based on the long-running DC archer Green Arrow....

Thomas Jane Joins Sylvester Stallone In ‘Headshot;’ Sly Still Not Directing ‘The Expendables 2’ By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2011 2:00 pm EST Let’s tackle these in reverse order from the headline. Last week rumors emerged that Sylvester Stallone would direct The Expendables 2 after all. (Several months back it had been announced that he would not write or direct.) The rumor showed up via a BoxOfficeMojo tweet, and was reportedly sourced from LionsGate, which distributed the first film....

THR’s 2010 Awards Watch Actors Roundtable By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 3, 2010 2:20 pm EST It’s award season, and The Hollywood Reporter has begun posting their series of roundtable discussions with the contenders. Last month they posted an one-hour discussion between screenwriters Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network), Simon Beaufoy (127 Hours), Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3), John Wells (The Company Men), Todd Phillips (Due Date) and David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole) and the Animators roundtable discussion between Bonnie Arnold (producer, How to Train Your Dragon), Roy Conli (producer, Tangled), Bob Last (producer, The Illusionist), Tom McGrath (director, Megamind), Chris Meledandri (producer, Despicable Me) and Lee Unkrich (director, Toy Story 3)....

Trivia: Read Stanley Kubrick’s Plans For “The Best Movie Ever Made” By Russ Fischer/Jan. 10, 2011 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of the more legendary unrealized films is Stanley Kubrick’s planned film about Napoleon. The director did an amazing amount of research, eventually claiming to have read five hundred books on the subject. He wrote a script (read it here) and planned to shoot the film on location in France and Romania, with additional work in studio space in the UK....

VOTD: ‘The Thing: The Musical,’ From ‘Conan The Barbarian: The Musical’ Creators By Russ Fischer/Oct. 11, 2011 10:30 am EST Jon and Al Kaplan have done it again! Yesterday I saw a couple references to Frank Sinatra singing a musical version of John Carpenter’s The Thing, and for some reason the idea that it might be the work of the Kaplans didn’t even occur to me. But it is their latest musical offering, a single song that recaps more or less the entire movie....

VOTD: Kees Van Dijkhuizen’s ‘Mischief Managed: The Harry Potter Retrospective’ By Angie Han/Sept. 6, 2012 6:00 am EST As much time and money and effort as Hollywood pours into big-budget franchises, only a handful manage to make a real lasting impression on moviegoers. But the best of them live on long after the last installment has hit theaters, and one that falls into that category is Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter series....

VOTD: Monsters Director Gareth Edwards’ Attila The Hun By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2010 12:00 am EST Since screening the film at Cannes, we’ve been hyping Gareth Edwards’ new low budget monster movie Monsters. Hollywood is already going nuts over the filmmaker, who supposedly made the film for a fraction of a million dollars (maybe even as little as $15,000), and some are touting him as the next Neill Blomkamp. Yesterday we posted a featurette showing how director Gareth Edwards was able to achieve what he did with Monsters on such a low budget....

Watch WETA’s Live Stream Chat About ‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/April 13, 2011 2:15 pm EST How did they go about crafting such an achievement? Will it work? At 2:30 p.m. PST Wednesday WETA hosted a LiveStream event on Facebook where fans were able to ask questions of WETA’s Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Joe Letteri and Caesar himself, Andy Serkis. They showed some new footage and provided a whole bunch of tidbits ultimately revealing that the trailer would hit the net on Thursday....

What Would Jon Hamm Look Like As Superman? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 22, 2010 7:00 am EST Mad Men fans have long been championing star Jon Hamm to star as Clark Kent in a new Superman film. We were originally told by director Zack Snyder that the movie will probably feature the character’s early days, and reports claimed that David Goyer’s script follows Clark Kent, a journalist traveling the world “trying to decide if he should, in fact, even become Superman....

Will Ferrell And Mark Wahlberg To Battle In ‘Turkey Bowl’ By Germain Lussier/May 17, 2011 3:00 pm EST Before The Other Guys became a surprise $120 million hit, teaming up Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg seemed like a somewhat awkward proposition. After, though, it seems like a sure fire recipe for success. Warner Bros. thinks so at least as they’ve just bought a pitch for a film tentatively called Turkey Bowl, which will feature Wahlberg and Ferrell as rival football fans who compete in a neighborhood vs....

‘A Christmas Story 2’ Trailer: The Lamp Is Back By Russ Fischer/Sept. 5, 2012 5:29 pm EST See that “official sequel” stamp in the image above? That’s the mark of quality. There’s now a trailer for that direct to DVD sequel to A Christmas Story, and it proves that capturing the ineffable is just as difficult as we assumed it would be. Almost nothing in this trailer works (save for the Slinky joke) but I’ll suggest you hit the jump and take a look anyway....

‘American Reunion’ International Trailer – The More Things Change… By Angie Han/Jan. 17, 2012 2:30 pm EST As someone who was almost the same age as the central characters when the first American Pie was released in 1999, I am totally, unironically excited to see the East Great Falls crew together again for American Reunion, even as I suspect I’ll find the franchise has lost some of its charm over the past decade....