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Brad Pitt, Rooney Mara, Ryan Gosling, And More Channel The Dark Side For The New York Times Magazine [Gallery] By Angie Han/Dec. 7, 2011 4:30 pm EST As we head toward the end of the year, it’s clear that 2011 has yielded some damn great performances from both established stars (Gary Oldman, Glenn Close) and rising talents (Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska). So naturally, the best way to celebrate their accomplishments is by inviting each of them to play characters wholly unlike the ones they’ve recently received acclaim for....

Casting Bits: Halle Berry In ‘The Hive’, Elisabeth Shue & Abigail Spencer In ‘Of Men And Mavericks’, 50 Cent In ‘The Pursuit’ By Angie Han/Oct. 6, 2011 5:00 am EST Joel Schumacher has confirmed in an interview that Halle Berry is in talks to take the lead in the tentatively titled The Hive, about “a female emergency line operator who, in trying to help a young girl, comes up against a killer from her own past....

CinemaCon Reactions: Ang Lee’s ‘Life Of Pi’, ‘Prometheus’, ‘Taken 2’, ‘Neighborhood Watch’ And ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ By Peter Sciretta/April 26, 2012 1:50 pm EST

Cool Stuff: “Little Warrior” T-Shirt - Smurfs/Avatar Mash-Up By Peter Sciretta/June 28, 2010 5:44 pm EST Personally, I never really thought the Smurfs comparison/knock of Avatar was all that clever or funny (even when done by the South Park guys). But Louise Mundo’s new Threadless tee “Little Warrior” is kind of funny, and a cool illustration. The t-shirt premiered today, and is selling out rather quick. Only $18 plus shipping, so act quick....

Cool Stuff: Fan Rendering Of Captain America’s Red Skull By Peter Sciretta/April 28, 2010 11:00 am EST No, this super high resolution computer rendering is not concept art from Joe Johnston’s The First Avenger: Captain America. This is a fan created concept rendering of what Red Skull could look like in movie form. The computer generated image was created by Sven Juhlin, and passed along to me by /Film reader cole....

Cool Stuff: Mondo Posters For ‘Close Encounters Of The Third Kind,’ ‘Hobo With A Shotgun’ And ‘The FP’ By Russ Fischer/March 10, 2011 12:30 pm EST The latest batch of posters from Mondo, the retail outfit associated with the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin TX, is all over the place. Mondo is doing posters for several films playing the SXSW Film Festival in Austin next week, and we’ve already seen images for Paul, Moon and Source Code....

Cool Stuff: Stamps Featuring Dumbledore, Merlin And Voldemort From UK’s Royal Mail By Peter Sciretta/March 11, 2011 12:00 pm EST UK’s Royal Mail has released a stamp set featuring “the world’s most famous wizards, witches and enchanters.” The set includes characters from The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, Discworld, and Arthurian legend. I wish the US Postal Office would release a set of stamps like this. I guess I’ll have to settle for the upcoming set of Pixar stamps....

Danny Boyle Eyeing Colin Firth And Scarlett Johansson For ‘Trance’ By Angie Han/July 5, 2011 9:30 am EST The last time we checked in on casting for Danny Boyle’s Trance, there was some confusion as to would-be star Michael Fassbender’s involvement with the project. Now it seems Fassbender is definitely out, thanks to “scheduling issues” — but happily, Boyle’s top choice to replace him seems just as good. The director is reportedly looking to cast Colin Firth in the role recently vacated by Fassbender....

Darren Aronofsky Still Wants To Remake ‘RoboCop’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 2, 2010 10:00 am EST Talking to The Playlist, Aronofsky had this to say about RoboCop. It’s a quick three sentences with a trail off, but it leaves the door open. There’s still no official word on what’s going on with MGM but they were able to figure out something with The Hobbit and the 23rd James Bond film might actually be coming around, so anything is possible....

Geek Deal: Twin Peaks: The Complete Series: The Definitive Gold Box Edition For Only $35.99 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2011 2:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

James Bond Producers Want Daniel Craig For Five More Films? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 19, 2011 5:00 pm EST How good is Daniel Craig in Skyfall? So good that producer Michael G. Wilson reportedly wants Craig to play James Bond for another five films, bringing him to a grand total of eight. (Even if the lackluster Quantum of Solace makes it seem as if he’s only done one so far, rather than two....

Jon Hewitt’s ‘X’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Jan. 17, 2011 3:00 pm EST Jon Hewitt directed Hanna Mangan Lawrence in Acolytes, and now the pair have teamed up again for X, which looks like it might be a disturbing thriller set within the bowels of Sydney’s sex industry.Viva Bianca from Spartacus: Blood and Sand stars. After the break, there’s a just barely safe for work trailer with enough dark, foreboding context that you might just feel bad about enjoying how great both stars are occasionally made to look....

Liev Schreiber Will NOT Return For Scream 4, But Wes Craven Will Have Cameo By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2010 10:00 am EST Liev Schreiber has confirmed something that seems pretty obvious to me, something that most people suspected – His character Cotton Weary will not return in Scream 4. “Cotton is dead!” Schreiber told IGN. “I know, I keep reading on the Internet that I’m doing Scream 4, but I don’t know where that comes from....

Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo Cabret’ Is Now Just ‘Hugo’ By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2011 9:57 am EST Soon the film will simply be called ‘H.’ I’m very excited to see footage from Martin Scorsese’s new film, which is his first 3D project, and his first aimed at a family audience. Based on the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the film had until recently been called simply Hugo Cabret, but has now evidently undergone another title change, and will be known to the world as Hugo....

Marvel Studios To Start Producing Short Films? By Angie Han/June 30, 2011 8:00 am EST Last year, we reported on a rumor that Marvel Studios would begin producing 10-minute shorts based on some of its lesser-known characters, such as Luke Cage and Dr. Strange. Although that specific rumor has so far turned out not to be true, a new report suggests that the studio does have some interest in the format....

New Photos From ‘Timecrimes’ Director Nacho Vigalondo’s ‘Extraterrestrial’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2011 2:58 pm EST The last time we checked in with Extraterrestrial, the new film from the director of the acclaimed Timecrimes, we had a couple new images, and those had followed on the heels of two really fun posters. (One of which is captured in part above.) Now we’ve got those two images in better quality along with a couple more....

Nicole Kidman In Talks To Play Grace Kelly In ‘Grace Of Monaco’ By Russ Fischer/April 6, 2012 9:30 am EST Last year a script called Grace of Monaco hit the Black List, that collation of popular but as-yet unproduced screenplays. The script, by Arash Amel, investigates a year in the life of Grace Kelly, the cool blonde movie star turned Princess of Monaco, as she deals with a crisis in her adopted home country....

Producers Won’t Recut ‘Blue Valentine’ To Fight NC-17 Rating By Russ Fischer/Nov. 1, 2010 6:56 pm EST The MPAA has made a lot of boneheaded decisions over the years, and the latest was slapping the film Blue Valentine with an NC-17 rating. That effectively dooms the movie when it comes to advertising and awareness, as a great many print and television outlets won’t run ads for an ‘adults only’ movie, which is how the NC-17 rating brands a film....

Promo Video For ‘Jodorowsky’s Dune’ - “I Want To Create A Prophet” By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2011 3:30 pm EST One of the most exciting pieces of news to emerge from Cannes this week was the announcement of Jodorowsky’s Dune, a documentary about the failed attempt by ambitious and very possibly insane Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky to film Frank Herbert’s novel Dune in the mid-’70s. The project has long stood as one of the great ‘films that never were....

Ryan Reynolds Will Likely Have To Decide Between Deadpool And R.I.P.D. By Russ Fischer/Sept. 21, 2010 8:21 am EST Ryan Reynolds has a huge slate of projects lined up, which has led to obvious questions about whether any one or the other might have to give way due to scheduling issues. His two big comic book-derived films are Deadpool, long in development, still without a director, tangentially related to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and possibly a pretty crazy film....