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Title Changes For Former ‘John Carter Of Mars,’ ‘Now’ And ‘Still I Rise’ By Germain Lussier/May 23, 2011 3:00 pm EST Double Academy Award-winning director of Finding Nemo and WALL-E, Andrew Stanton, is currently working on his first foray into live action, an adaptation of the classic sci-fi fantasy novel John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. For some reason, though, Disney has now changed the title from that to “Gary Carter,” the Hall Of Fame catcher for the 1986 New York Mets....

Universal In Talks To Bring Lego’s Hero Factory Line To The Big Screen By Angie Han/May 24, 2012 10:30 am EST You’d think that Battleship’s dismal $25.5 million opening this past weekend would make Hollywood in general and Universal in particular wary of making more movies based on toys, but no: Universal is now in talks to acquire movie rights to Hero Factory, Lego’s line of robotic toys. While no director has been named at this point, Predators scribes Michael Finch and Alex Litvak are already negotiating to write the script for the live-action feature, with Mike Gordon, Ben Forkner, and Dean Schneider on board to produce....

Vin Diesel Will Be ‘The Last Witch Hunter’ For ‘The Crazies’ Director Breck Eisner By Angie Han/Sept. 7, 2012 12:30 pm EST Hansel and Gretel won’t be the only witch hunters headed to the multiplex in the near future. Vin Diesel has just entered talks to play the lead in the similarly themed The Last Witch Hunter, which has had The Crazies and Sahara helmer Breck Eisner signed on to direct since last year....

VOTD: Wes Anderson/Roman Coppola Directed Stella Artois Commercial By Germain Lussier/Oct. 12, 2010 6:00 am EST It’s the eternal debate for all geeks: beer or sex? That’s the question posed in a clever commercial for Stella Artois beer that premiered this weekend. A young French man brings a young lady back to his home, which is set up like something out of a James Bond movie. She starts to play with some of his remote controls and, well, you should watch the one minutes commercial to find out....

Watch Four Minutes Of ‘Green Lantern’ By Peter Sciretta/April 2, 2011 10:59 am EST Warner Bros was so happy with the reaction to the 10 minutes of Green Lantern footage from CinemaCon and WonderCon that they have decided to put four minutes online for fans nationwide to see. While the video claims to be an abridged four minute video from the WonderCon footage, I spotted a bunch of shots that weren’t screened at WonderCon/CinemaCon (for example, the mask footage — which I still think looks unfinished)....

Watch This: All 61 Ads From Super Bowl XLV (2011) In 2 Minutes By David Chen/Feb. 9, 2011 9:56 am EST Some of us watch the Super Bowl for the camaraderie. Some of us watch it for the ads. And some of us probably didn’t get around to watching it at all. For those who wanted to be in the second category but ended up in the latter, the folks at AdWeek have come up with a pretty spectacular compilation: all 61 ads from the Super Bowl, compressed into a 2-minute long video....

WB Picks Up ‘Two Guns;’ Now There Are Multiple Wyatt Earp Projects By Russ Fischer/April 4, 2011 5:14 pm EST For the rest of 2011, let’s just assume that if any one producer starting moving forward with a new film based on a story or character that has even a vague recognizance rating, others will soon flock to the same subject. See: Snow White, Peter Pan, even Gertrude Bell. Recently we saw that Val Kilmer had been cast in an indie film about Wyatt Earp, and now Warner Bros has picked up a spec script called Wild Guns, which also concerns Earp and his companion (and former Val Kilmer role) Doc Holliday....

‘Bridesmaids’ Sequel Possible Says Director Paul Feig By Germain Lussier/May 20, 2011 10:00 am EST It’s no secret that we here at /Film love Bridesmaids. And though comments on some of our articles don’t exactly share our sentiment, a number two spot at the box office on opening weekend and a very strong mid-week gross, even beating out Thor, tends to suggest that most of America agrees with our adoration. Now, according to director Paul Feig, if the film continues to experience the kind of success it’s currently enjoying, not only is a sequel very much a possibility, they’ve talked about it....

‘Haywire’ Star Gina Carano Cast In Another Action Film, ‘In The Blood’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 14, 2012 9:00 am EST Steven Soderbergh saw Gina Carano fight and decided to build a movie around her. The result was Haywire, released earlier this year. And now it seems that other filmmakers have seen Haywire, and want to make more movies around Carano. The former MMA fighter has been cast in a new action thriller called In the Blood, which sounds a bit like a gender-reversed riff on Taken....

‘Hit & Run’ Trailer - Dreadlocked Bradley Cooper Goes After Dax Shepard And Kristen Bell By Angie Han/May 15, 2012 2:30 pm EST With projects like Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines, David O. Russell’s The Silver Linings Playbook, and Susanne Bier’s Serena all coming up, The Hangover star Bradley Cooper looks poised to make the move into Serious Actor respectability. But he hasn’t left broad comedy behind completely, or at least not yet....

‘Mama’ Trailer: A Mother Never Forgets By Russ Fischer/Sept. 13, 2012 10:37 am EST The trailer for Mama doesn’t mess around — it gives you a feral child within seconds, and ultimately gets to some effectively creepy ghost scares by the time the title card hits, all without feeling like it has given away the entire film. Jessica Chastain (decked out in a black bob and dark wardrobe that highlights her vague resemblance to a young Angelina Jolie) plays the woman who ends up being a surrogate mother for two children who lived alone in the woods after their parents were killed....

‘The Cabin In The Woods’ Director Drew Goddard Rewriting The End Of ‘World War Z’ By Russ Fischer/July 11, 2012 12:30 pm EST The Paramount adaptation of Max Brooks’ novel World War Z, directed by Marc Forster with Brad Pitt in the lead role, ran into some trouble months ago. The film’s release date was pushed and extensive reshoots scheduled to create footage that addresses big story deficiencies. As part of that reshoot process, Damon Lindelof was hired to rewrite the end of the film....

‘The Moth Diaries’ Trailer: A Bit Of Sex, Blood And Death By Russ Fischer/Feb. 24, 2012 4:30 pm EST Since the release of American Psycho in 2000, director Mary Harron has made only one feature, the 2005 release The Notorious Bettie Page. She’s hardly been idle, and has put a great amount of television work on her resume in the past decade. But now Harron returns to the big screen as the director of a gothic thriller called The Moth Diaries....

Casting Bits: Adam Brody In ‘Some Girls’ And ‘Welcome To The Jungle’, Jeffrey Dean Morgan In ‘The Rut’ By Angie Han/Jan. 17, 2012 5:00 am EST 2012 is already shaping up to be the biggest year yet of Adam Brody’s post-OC career, as the actor books two more high-profile roles. One is Some Girls, a feature adaptation of Neil LaBute’s recent play about an almost-married man who travels across the country to visit his ex-girlfriends....

Cool Stuff: Official ‘Avengers’ Art Show In LA May 3-6 By Germain Lussier/April 23, 2012 1:45 pm EST Mondo isn’t the only pop culture art authority teaming up with Marvel and Disney to celebrate the release of The Avengers, Gallery 1988 is assembling right along side them. They’re going to have a very special, officially licensed, Avengers themed art show in Los Angeles over the film’s opening weekend, May 3-6, at a brand new location....

Cool Stuff: Russell Brand As Captain Hook And More In Annie Leibovitz’ 2012 Disney Dream Portraits By Germain Lussier/Aug. 1, 2012 3:00 pm EST Disney fans, and /Film readers, are likely aware that major Hollywood stars have been dressing up like Disney characters. It’s not as bad as it sounds. In the past few years we’ve seen Olivia Wilde as the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella, Jessica Biel as Pocahontas and many others dressing up to help promote the Disney brand....

Damon Lindelof Teases A Few Secrets Of ‘Prometheus’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 28, 2011 2:30 pm EST Damon Lindelof, brought on to the project by Ridley Scott and who ended up rewriting the Alien prequel script that Jon Spaihts had penned, is well versed in keeping secrets. But in a recent chat he gives up a few details about Prometheus that add to the recently-released synopsis and might answer a few questions you’ve had about the movie....

Edgar Wright, Director Of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Discusses Superhero Movies, 3D, And Why His Films Have So Many Shots By David Chen/Aug. 12, 2010 1:00 pm EST The other night, Adam Quigley and I had the opportunity to chat with filmmaker Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) about his newest film, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. In our one-hour interview, Edgar discusses his feelings towards 3D, how little his movie has in common with The Expendables, the nature of his distaste for superhero origin stories, and why his film have so many shots....

First Full Clip From Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’ Doesn’t Want To Talk Time-Travel By Germain Lussier/Aug. 30, 2012 11:32 am EST Though Rian Johnson’s sci-fi film Looper doesn’t open for a month, you’re soon going to be hearing a lot about it. It has its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next week and /Film will be on the scene. The film, which stars both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis as a character named Joe, takes place in a world where time-travel was invented but quickly made illegal....

First Look: Ed Harris As John McCain In HBO’s ‘Game Change’ By Russ Fischer/May 16, 2011 4:30 pm EST Today has been a good day for politics as Donald Trump announced that he’d stick with what he knows — business and insipid TV — rather than leap feet-first into the political arena. It isn’t quite as good a day for entertainment that leapfrogs off of politics, but here’s one fairly entertaining thing: a new image from the HBO film Game Change....