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Bradley Cooper Movies Recut As Trailer For ‘Five Senses’ By Russ Fischer/July 11, 2011 4:00 pm EST I’m not sure exactly what the fan-cut trailer for Five Senses is supposed to be. It re-purposes footage from Bradley Cooper movies like Limitless and Midnight Meat Train into a trailer for a similar but different project. Which is something that just about anyone could do, I suppose. But in this case, the edit is from Jaron Pitts, who was previously responsible for the well-received fan trailers for Green Lantern and Technotise....

Bruce Campbell Won’t Cameo In Sam Raimi’s ‘Oz: The Great And Powerful’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2011 11:00 am EST Sam Raimi doesn’t have Bruce Campbell to kick around anymore. Not in Oz: The Great and Powerful, at least. Raimi made an early career out of kicking Campbell’s ass on a regular basis through the Evil Dead films, and the actor has cameoed in many of Raimi’s features that followed. He was set for a cameo in Oz: The Great and Powerful, which stars James Franco as the man who becomes the Wizard of Oz, and Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams as three sister witches with whom he becomes entangled when he finds himself in their land of Oz....

Build Your Own Turtle Van By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 22, 2010 1:00 pm EST 23-year-old Brittney Schneck converted her 1994 Dodge Caravan into a replica of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Turtle Va. The conversion took just over a year, and was done in her father’s auto-detailing business. paid for from a part-time cahier job while she was going to college. Jalopnik reports that Schneck “hand-painted and stenciled the exterior colors, fabricated the ray gun, spoiler and other add-ons from scratch,” and “rebuilt and replaced most of the Caravan’s mechanical parts....

Confirmed: Guy Pearce Cast In Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ [Updated] By Germain Lussier/May 2, 2011 11:30 am EST Update: The Playlist has confirmed with the actor’s reps that Guy Pearce has been cast in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. No word yet on which role he is playing. The original rumor story runs after the jump. The mind melts when you realize that Ridley Scott is currently shooting Prometheus, his big budget return to sci-fi and nod to the Alien series....

Cool Stuff: ‘Scream’ And ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’ Mondo Posters By Germain Lussier/April 12, 2011 1:00 pm EST It started with Guillermo Del Toro, moved onto Duncan Jones, Zach Snyder and now the latest director to be chosen for Mondo’s Director Series is Wes Craven. The man responsible for creating two of the most enduring horror franchises of all time, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, has the fourth film in the latter series hitting theaters on Friday and, to celebrate, artist Alex Pardee has immortalized Craven’s two most influential films....

Cool Stuff: Rich Kelley’s UHF Poster By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2010 10:20 am EST Earlier this month, the Alamo Drafthouse held two sold out screenings of UHF at the huge Paramount Theater with Director Jay Levey and Weird Al Yankovic in attendance. To commemorate the event, MondoTees worked with Jay and Al and come up with a special limited edition poster. The poster, designed by Rich Kelley, is available as a 18?...

First Footage From Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ Features A Bit Of The President’s Most Famous Speech By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2012 1:30 pm EST You won’t see much of Daniel Day-Lewis in motion as the sixteenth President of the United States, but you will hear him. (Edit: Or you might not hear him after all — seems like it is the soldier rather than Daniel Day-Lewis speaking.) The voiceover heard here is a snippet from the Gettysburg Address, no matter who is intoning the famous words delivered on November 19, 1863....

Four Awesome New Posters For ‘Horrible Bosses’ By Germain Lussier/May 19, 2011 6:00 pm EST The summer of 2011 is looking pretty solid when it comes to comedies. Bridesmaids is already something of a hit, we know The Hangover Part II is going to be a monster and with the recent releases of trailers for films like 30 Minutes Or Less, Friends With Benefits, Crazy Stupid Love, Bad Teacher, The Change Up and Horrible Bosses, maybe this summer will be remembered less for its loud explosions and leotards and more for its laughs....

James Cameron Working With ‘MythBusters’ To Defend The Ending Of ‘Titanic’ By Angie Han/Sept. 14, 2012 11:09 am EST Jack’s decision to let Rose take the plank at the end of Titanic was unquestionably a noble and romantic one. Unlike so many self-sacrificial heroes, however, he doesn’t go out in a blaze of glory. Instead, he huddles in the icy water and slowly freezes to death. His lady love, meanwhile, gets to sprawl out on her perch and gaze at the stars as she waits for help....

Jeremy Renner For ‘The Bourne Legacy’? By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2011 6:30 pm EST Tony Gilroy has been working on securing a lead for the film and possible franchise that he and Universal are spinning off from the Bourne films. This isn’t a reboot, remember, put a sort of parallel set of stories that will mostly stand on their own but also shed some light on the existing Bourne movies....

Joe Johnston Talks Bucky Barnes From ‘Captain America: The First Avenger,’ Plus Official Image Revealed By Germain Lussier/Feb. 2, 2011 6:00 pm EST Earlier today, some low resolution scans revealed our first look at Bucky Barnes, Captain America’s sidekick played by Sebastian Stan in Captain America: The First Avenger. As has been the case with this film, Marvel has retaliated by releasing an official image of the character and director Joe Johnston has come out to discuss him, saying that their version of Bucky is “slightly on the dark side....

M. Night Shyamalan’s Will & Jaden Smith Movie Retitled ‘After Earth’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 2, 2011 2:30 pm EST Polarizing director M. Night Shyamalan recently joined Twitter and revealed a few things about his upcoming collaboration with Will Smith. Back in April, it was announced Shyamalan would direct both Will and his son Jaden Smith in a movie tentatively titled One Thousand A.E. about what happens when a young boy and his father’s spaceship crash lands on Earth one thousand years after humans abandoned it....

M. Night Shyamalan Worked Story Written For ‘Unbreakable 2’ Into One Of The ‘Night Chronicles’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 3, 2010 6:00 am EST Public perception of the M. Night Shyamalan-produced Devil has been pretty low so far. If you’ve been at a theater that ran the trailer this summer, there’s a good chance you heard laughter (or joined in) when the film’s trailer culminates with Shyamalan’s name. That leaves me wondering how the series of which it is loosely a part, The Night Chronicles, might fare....

Madisen Beaty Confirmed For Paul Thomas Anderson’s Next By Russ Fischer/June 6, 2011 6:00 am EST Briefly: Here’s your daily update on Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film. (Aren’t you glad it isn’t another minor Hunger Games casting break?) One of the actresses rumored or the film last month was Madisen Beaty, perhaps most known for playing the young Daisy in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. She has now been confirmed for the film, via a conversation The Film Stage had with her representatives....

Rami Malek Cast In Paul Thomas Anderson’s New Film By Russ Fischer/June 3, 2011 2:45 pm EST Briefly: Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, the currently untitled religious drama formerly called The Master, is really picking up steam. The Weinstein Company picked up distribution rights to the project that is being financed by Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures, and the casting process is in full swing. The latest addition is Rami Malek (Breaking Dawn, The Pacific), who will play the son in law of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character....

Robert Downey Jr. Says ‘Iron Man 3’ Will ‘Leave It All On The Field’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 19, 2011 7:00 am EST Even with just a brief teaser and some set photos, Marvel is making it feel like The Avengers is the end-all-be-all of their superhero movies. But for the people involved, many are already onto the next thing. And for Robert Downey Jr., that means Iron Man 3, which has a predetermined release date of May 3, 2013....

Ron Howard Attached To Direct ‘Spy Vs. Spy’ By Russ Fischer/June 22, 2011 4:31 pm EST Is The Dark Tower in danger of dying? It looked like that might be the case not long ago, but Universal asked for some script changes and budget cuts, which director Ron Howard recently said were not terribly deep or radical. The project looked like it might be able to shoot next spring. But last night we heard that Ron Howard was attached to direct the Formula One movie Rush that hopes to shoot this year....

Sequel Bits: Viacom CEO Hints At ‘Mission: Impossible 5’, Plus: ‘Rambo 5’, ‘Gnomeo & Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes’, ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II’ By Angie Han/March 8, 2012 2:30 pm EST It’s the All-Ages Edition of Sequel Bits, or maybe the ‘something for everyone’ version, with news on everything from the kid-friendly Gnomeo & Juliet franchise to the 60something star of Rambo. Viacom CEO says there’s plans for a Mission: Impossible 5 Sylvester Stallone could kill off Rambo in Rambo 5 The Twilight trailer lands in front of The Hunger Games Elton John stars working on Gnomeo & Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes The status of Rambo 5 has been going back and forth for years now, but as of right now, it looks like things are slowly coming together....

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, Wolverine, The Avengers By Germain Lussier/May 25, 2012 12:00 pm EST Want to see some more banners and promotional materials for The Dark Knight Rises? How can you mix your own Avengers themed cocktails this holiday weekend? What show will you have to watch to see some brand new Dark Knight Rises footage? Is The Amazing Spider-Man a good hand model? Does Wolverine do well with the ladies?...

Tom Hardy Attached To David Yates’ Al Capone Film; Director Also Mulling Three-Film ‘The Stand’ And ‘Fables’? By Russ Fischer/July 14, 2011 7:10 pm EST As the Harry Potter franchise ends, one question being mulled in some executive quarters is: what will director David Yates do next? Primarily a television director prior to helming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, David Yates oversaw the last half of the Potter franchise in a way that balanced fan and studio interest....