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Former Manager Sues Joan Rivers Claiming Defamation By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2010 8:00 am EST I know that /Film isn’t a gossip site, and we rarely report on lawsuits (especially more personal cases like this). But anyone who has seen the new documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work will probably be interested in this late breaking update. If you haven’t yet seen this documentary, you should seek it out. And if you have the time, rent the documentary Comedian, as it makes a powerful double feature....

Geek Deal: Family Guy Seasons For $12.99 Each [Today Only] By Peter Sciretta/March 31, 2011 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

James Cameron Reportedly Earned $350m From Avatar By Russ Fischer/July 9, 2010 1:09 pm EST Briefly: Remember when it was a huge deal that a movie made $300 million? Then it was a huge deal when a movie cost $300m. Well, now there’s a report that James Cameron has personally made $350m from Avatar.Deadline says that the gross percentage deal Cameron arranged for Avatar, for which he acted as writer, director and producer, is what accounts for the payday....

Javier Bardem Talks About His Possible Bond Role: “They’re Changing The Whole Dynamic” By Russ Fischer/Feb. 1, 2011 2:00 pm EST Briefly: Sunday night we heard that an offer was out to Javier Bardem to play a big role in the twenty-third James Bond film, which will star Daniel Craig as Bond with Sam Mendes directing for a Nov. 9 2012 release. There were no details of his possible role, though the assumption is that he would be the villain....

Listen To Ned Ryerson Describe The Making Of ‘Groundhog Day’ By David Chen/Feb. 2, 2011 12:48 pm EST I don’t know what the weather is like where you guys are from, but here in Cambridge, MA, it has been a brutal, hellish winter. In the past 10 days, we’ve had three snow storms, each dumping about 6-12 inches of snow, rain and/or sleet in our city streets. I’m about ready for winter to be over right about now....

New Muppet Movie Gets The Pixar Touch By Adam Quigley/July 22, 2010 10:42 am EST When in doubt, turn to Pixar. That appears to be the new adopted motto by Disney, who only weeks after being revealed to have had a helping hand by the world’s most celebrated studio on Tron, have now turned to Pixar once again to receive input on the new Muppet movie (previously titled The Greatest Muppet of All Time, or possibly, The Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made, according to IMDB)....

Plot Details Revealed For ‘The Green Inferno’, Eli Roth’s Return To Feature Filmmaking By Angie Han/May 30, 2012 11:30 am EST Over the past several years, Hostel helmer Eli Roth has kept himself busy as a producer, writer, actor, TV director, and even theme park attraction designer — as pretty much everything, it seems, but a feature film director. Aside from some uncredited work directing the “Nation’s Pride” film-within-a-film from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Roth hasn’t directed a film since 2007’s Hostel: Part II....

Scott Frank To Write ‘Houdini’ For Director Francis Lawrence By Russ Fischer/May 24, 2011 6:00 pm EST Briefly: Another story that is the subject of several different development projects is the life of Harry Houdini. One movie that hopes to exploit his story is the Columbia project simply called Houdini, which for the past few months has had Francis Lawrence (Water For Elephants, I Am Legend) attached to direct. Last time we checked in there was no screenwriter attached, but that all changes now....

Toronto Fest Adds James Gunn’s ‘Super’ And More To Midnight Madness By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2010 10:28 pm EST So many of my favorite movie experiences are the result of seeing films during the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival. The program perches like a beast ready to devour the more ‘respectable’ films at TIFF. While seeing films at the fest is great, period, there’s nothing quite like catching the world premiere of a psychopathic genre film with a crowd of hundreds of eager fans of left of center cinema....

Trailer: HBO’s Entourage Season 7 By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2010 1:30 pm EST HBO has released yet another trailer, this time for Season 7 of the television show Entourage. I stopped watching the series around season five, and it doesn’t look like much has changed. Watch the trailer now, after the jump. Entourage returns to HBO Sunday, June 27th at 10:30pm. Trailer: HBO’s Entourage Season 7 By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2010 1:30 pm EST...

Update: Disney Takes Rights To Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Oblivion’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2010 10:51 am EST We’ve been following the progress of Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosnski’s attempt to get his graphic novel Oblivion set up with a studio development deal. Kosinski came up with the story a few years ago, and set it into graphic novel format before trying to get a studio to bite. Disney was said to be the frontrunner in the dealmaking, and now the Mouse has taken the rights to Oblivion....

VOTD: ‘Meet Buck’ By Angie Han/Feb. 15, 2011 9:00 am EST It’s a tale as old as time: Boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy meets girl’s father, girl’s father hates boy. In this French animated short, titled Meet Buck, the boy happens to be a Back to the Future t-shirt-wearing deer. And the girl is a regular human with a hunting-obsessed father. As you might guess, their first meeting does not go well....

Watch The First Three Minutes Of Freakonomics By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2010 12:12 pm EST Official Plot Synopsis: Alex Gibney (Enron:The Smartest Guys in the Room, Casino Jack and the United States of Money) delivers a visually arresting look at the crumbling façade of Sumo wrestling and exposes searing and violent truths about this ancient and revered sport. Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) offers up a buoyant and revealing angle on the repercussions of baby names....

What Does David Goyer’s Introduction To A Superman Graphic Novel Suggest About His ‘Superman’ Script? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 22, 2010 11:30 am EST What story is going to power the new Superman film to be directed by Zack Snyder? We know that David Goyer, who wrote the script, pitched an idea to Christopher Nolan that the Batman director regarded as a great way to “address Superman in a modern context.”...

What Is The Real Nature Of Matthew Modine’s Role In ‘The Dark Knight Rises’? By Russ Fischer/May 31, 2011 5:00 am EST When Matthew Modine was announced as part of the cast of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, all we knew was that he would play a character called Nixon. The director has a way of peopling his Batman films with some good, recognizable actors in small roles, so we didn’t think too much of Matthew Modine’s casting....

By Germain Lussier/March 16, 2012 9:00 am EST Deadline broke the news of the deal and say that details on the script specifics are being kept under wraps. No word if the actresses play rivals, friends, or how it all fits into a heist script. According to IMDB, Swindle will be the first screenplay for Mileti, whose worked primarily as an actor in the past but also directed a documentary called Pipe Dreams....

‘Men In Black 3’ Producer Remaking Carol Reed’s ‘The Fallen Idol’ By Russ Fischer/May 27, 2010 2:59 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Deadline says that Parkes and partner Laurie MacDonald are developing the project with Studio Canal, which owns the rights. Why is this an unlikely remake? Because Graham Greene’s script (from his own short story ‘The Basement Room’) and the film that resulted are each a tense, understated study of a kind of perceptual awakening....

‘Myth’ Could Reteam James Cameron And Sam Worthington As Producers By Germain Lussier/June 14, 2011 1:33 pm EST Cameron is currently writing the scripts for his next two Avatar movies, Worthington has a laundry list of films scheduled for release and we’ll next see di Bonaventura’s producing prowess with Transformers: Dark of the Moon. He also worked with Worthington on Man on a Ledge, set for release in early 2012....

‘Sucker Punch’ Banner By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 10, 2011 4:00 pm EST Warner Bros. has released a widescreen banner for Zack Snyder’s new action fantasy film Sucker Punch which showcases the five female leads: Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens and Jamie Chung. Check out the full banner after the jump. Click the below image to enlarge on iTunes: Official Synopsis: SUCKER PUNCH Close your eyes. Open your mind. You will be unprepared....

‘The Expendables 2’ Set For August 17, 2012 Release By Germain Lussier/April 1, 2011 7:34 am EST The sequel to Sylvester Stallone’s surprise hit, The Expendables, has yet to lock down a director, but at least its got a release date. Lionsgate just announced that The Expendables 2, written by David Agosto and Ken Kaufman, will explode into theaters on August 17, 2012. It’ll go head to head with another huge action sequel that comes out the week before: G....