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Follow Friday: Steve Martin Has Joined Twitter By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 17, 2010 11:00 am EST Comedian and actor Steve Martin joined Twitter this week and already has almost 100,000 followers. You can follow him now @SteveMartinToGo. And remember, you can always follow /Film for the latest news updates and more @slashfilm. Follow Friday: Steve Martin Has Joined Twitter By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 17, 2010 11:00 am EST Comedian and actor Steve Martin joined Twitter this week and already has almost 100,000 followers....

Former ‘Lost’ Showrunner Carlton Cuse To Rewrite ‘San Andreas: 3D’ By Angie Han/July 19, 2012 12:00 pm EST According to Variety, the plotline follows a man who makes the dangerous cross-state trip in the wake of an earthquake in order to reunite with his estranged daughter. When we first learned about San Andreas: 3D in December, the story details were more specific (and more 2012-esque). The LAT wrote at the time that the protagonist would be traveling via “unconventional transportation” from Los Angeles to San Francsicso to find his ex-wife and kids, who are now living with another man....

Has Armond White Been Kicked Off Rotten Tomatoes? By Germain Lussier/Nov. 15, 2011 11:00 am EST Thanks to Adam Sandler, Armond White is back in the news. The former New York Press film critic who notoriously loves almost universally panned movies like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Jonah Hex while hating, and often being the sole voice of opposition against, beloved films like Inception and Toy Story 3, last week published a rave review for Jack & Jill, Sandler’s latest film which has gotten some of the worst reviews of his career....

Is A Fourth ‘Evil Dead’ Close To Shooting? By Russ Fischer/July 12, 2011 7:00 am EST The safe money would go on “nope, probably not.” An update on a fourth Evil Dead movie and/or info on an Evil Dead remake seems to surface every few months. For years, Sam Raimi has talked about making a fourth film, and in January of this year his long-time producer Robert Tapert said plans to remake the original film were still afoot....

Joaquin Phoenix In Talks To Play The Incredible Hulk In The Avengers? By Peter Sciretta/July 11, 2010 10:21 pm EST For a few weeks now, we’ve been hearing rumors that Marvel Studios was set to unveil Edward Norton on stage at Comic-Con later this month, revealing that the actor would return to reprise his role from The Incredible Hulk in the superhero team-up movie The Avengers. But last week Marvel confirmed that Norton would not be back for the new film due not to “monetary factors” but the “the need for an actor who embodies the creativity and collaborative spirit of our other talented cast members....

Lindy Booth Latest To Join ‘Kick-Ass 2’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 21, 2012 3:09 pm EST To the delight of fans everywhere, Kick-Ass 2 is well into pre-production, with filming scheduled to start September 10. Jeff Wadlow is directing the sequel to the 2010 cult-hit with Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse all reprising their roles. Newcomers include John Leguizamo, Donald Faison, Morris Chestnut and Robert Emms. Jim Carrey was rumored for a cameo, but that’s still up in the air....

More Transformers 3 Behind The Scenes Set Visit Video Previews By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 28, 2010 11:00 am EST Last week we posted a preview of Entertainment Tonight’s visit to the set of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Today clips from the set visit are now online for you to watch. The clips show us director Michael Bay shooting a couple action sequences, and stars Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, and Patrick Dempsey say a few words about the new sequel....

Movie Trailer: ‘I Saw The Devil,’ Starring The Leads From ‘Oldboy’ And ‘J.S.A.’ By Russ Fischer/July 9, 2010 9:00 am EST If The Good, the Bad, the Weird had received any sort of extensive release in the States, I’d just pitch this trailer for I Saw the Devil as being from the writer/director (Kim Ji-woon) and star (Lee Byung-hyun) of that film. But a lot of you have probably only heard of The Good, the Bad, the Weird, if even that....

Naomi Watts Suggests That Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe Biopic Is Still Happening By Russ Fischer/Oct. 20, 2010 3:55 pm EST Earlier this year, Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) was one of two filmmakers lined up to make films based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. He was prepping Blonde, based on the Joyce Carol Oates speculative biography of the actress, with Naomi Watts set to star....

New Tron Legacy Image; Space Paranoids Game Playable Online By Russ Fischer/May 7, 2010 8:49 am EST Still over six months to go until Tron Legacy is in theaters, but Disney continues to drop a steady trail of images and treats for Tron fans. There’s a spiffy new lightcycle image (above; click for high-res) and, if you’ve got a few minutes to kill, a fully playable version of the game Space Paranoids, originally shown to visitors to Flynn’s Arcade at Comic Con last summer....

Plot Details Emerge For Terrence Malick’s Movie With Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams & Javier Bardem By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2011 4:00 pm EST Terrence Malick news has been plentiful of late. I’d almost feel uneasy about this — a flurry of activity from a guy known for completing an average of one film every decade — if it wasn’t so pleasant. Yesterday we got the announcement of two new films from the director, Lawless and Knight of Cups....

See A Portfolio Of Character Images And Bios For David Fincher’s ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2011 1:31 pm EST Hot on the heels of the trailer release for Tanner Hall, the 2009 movie featuring the new Lisbeth Salander, Rooney Mara, comes a full portfolio of portraits and bios for every significant character in David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. These are appropriately grim images for the so-called ‘feel bad movie of Christmas,’ but for those who want to know what actor corresponds to their favorite (or most-hated) character in the original Swedish film, they’ll do the trick....

Steve Jobs Asked Aaron Sorkin To Write A Pixar Movie By Germain Lussier/Oct. 11, 2011 9:00 am EST When you’re one of the best screenwriters in the world, sometimes you’d get random phone calls from Steve Jobs. That’s what happened to Oscar-winner Aaron Sorkin who, after professing his love for Mac products in an interview, began a telephone friendship with the recently passed entrepreneur. Sorkin wrote about their friendship in a new issue of Newsweek and revealed that, the last time he spoke to Jobs, Jobs asked him to write a Pixar movie....

TV’s ‘Munsters’ Reboot Renamed ‘Mockingbird Lane’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 2, 2012 3:30 pm EST When last we left Bryan Fuller’s reboot/re-imagining/overhaul of the classic Sixties TV show The Munsters, it was being described as a mix of True Blood and Modern Family. While difficult to imagine exactly what that means, at least it sounded encouraging. The latest update sounds less encouraging. TV Line is reporting the show has been renamed from The Munsters to Mockingbird Lane, after the street the family lives on....

Video From The Grand Opening Of The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2010 10:00 am EST Universal Studios has released video footage from last week’s grand opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Watch it now embedded after the jump. I’ve also included a few other well-produced unofficial fan-made videos from the opening, giving you a tour of the Orlando-based Hogwarts. And here are some unofficial fan videos:...

VOTD: The Raven [Futuristic Sci-Fi Short Film] By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2010 5:00 pm EST Ricardo de Montreuil’s six minute sci-fi short film The Raven hit the web this week and has been making noise around Hollywood. The film tells the story of Chris Black, who “possesses a power that could lead to the destruction of the current regime, and they will stop at nothing to destroy him. The chase is on as Chris runs for his life in this sci-fi thriller set in an alternate and futuristic Los Angeles....

‘A Dangerous Method’ Domestic Trailer: Less Kinky, Still Beautiful By Russ Fischer/Aug. 31, 2011 10:45 am EST Oh, I can’t wait for this. Here’s the second trailer we’ve seen for David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, which tells the story of Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), who both fall into a web tethered by Jung’s patient Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley). The previous trailer was just a bit more explicit — as you’d expect from the intersection of Cronenberg and early psychoanalysis, there is some kink ahead....

‘A Serbian Film’ Gets Edited U.S. Theatrical Release, Uncut Online Release, May 13 By Germain Lussier/March 11, 2011 4:00 pm EST The film that could get you in trouble just for showing it, Srdjan Spasojevic’s A Serbian Film, is actually going to be released in the United States. Invincible Pictures will release an edited version of the ultra-violent, controversial film in select theaters on May 13 and simultaneously release the full, unedited version, online....

‘Daredevil’ Reboot Still In The Works; New Script Ordered From David James Kelly By Russ Fischer/April 30, 2012 9:00 am EST Deadline says that the script is still based on the 1986 Frank Miller/David Mazzucchelli storyline Born Again, which featured the Kingpin discovering Daredevil’s true identity (lawyer Matt Murdoch) and essentially destroying his life. The Kingpin was played by Michael Clarke Duncan in Johnson’s film, and while there was one report that this new movie would be a continuation of Johnson’s film rather than a total reboot, at this point I’d expect to see all roles recast for Slade’s movie....

‘Primer’ Director Shane Carruth Prepping New Film: ‘Upstream Color’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 11, 2011 12:00 pm EST When your first film garners the kind of reviews, respect and cult status that Primer did for director Shane Carruth, there’s always pressure to go big for the follow up. Instead of succumbing to the hype and jumping into another movie, though, Carruth dropped off the radar. There was one blip last year when details were revealed about a project Carruth was working on, called A Topiary....