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Justin Timberlake Campaigning For ‘The Social Network’ Oscar Nomination By Germain Lussier/Nov. 30, 2010 10:00 am EST As 2010 comes to a close, The Social Network is one of the films leading the award season pack. That, along with Toy Story 3, Inception, The King’s Speech, The Kids Are All Right and recent Gotham Award winner Winter’s Bone are just a few of the films vying for awards leading up to the Oscar nominations on January 25....

Metallica Planning 3D Feature Film? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2011 11:56 pm EST Might be a weird week to be Metallica. The band is on the verge of releasing Lulu, a collaboration with Lou Reed that has earned some of the most scornful reactions I’ve ever seen directed at any album in any genre. But no matter what happens, reviews be damned, Metallica keeps on going. I can respect that, even if I can’t respect all of the work the band does....

New ‘Skyfall’ Video Blog: London Calling By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2012 5:30 pm EST The latest video blog to tease the Fall arrival of Skyfall, the latest James Bond film, trumpets the fact that the production got to spend a good amount of time shooting in the streets and key locations in London. While director Sam Mendes doesn’t seem exactly wild about the city as a place of visual splendor, it is difficult to argue the fact that Bond belongs in London in some way, and it’s good to see the character partially rooted in the city once again....

Page 2: Game Of Thrones, Doctor Who, Titanic, Star Wars, Star Trek, Muppets, Young Adult, Inglourious Basterds, Twilight, Firefly, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Space Jam By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2011 1:00 pm EST timemachineyeah spent four days painting her refrigerator to look like the TARDIS. Drew Struzan’s original Police Academy’ Poster art is going for $40,000 Movies.com has premiered the movie trailer for The Pill, which Erik Davis calls the “Most Refreshingly Honest Rom-Com You’ll See This Year"Angelina Jolie’s In The Land Of Blood And Honey will get a U....

Phillip Noyce To Direct ‘Hunter Killer’ For Relativity By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2011 6:30 pm EST Briefly: Reported earlier this week by Moviehole, we’ve now got official word via press release that Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, Salt) will direct a Black Hawk Down-style film called Hunter Killer. The source material is a novel called Firing Point by Don Keith and George Wallace.Jamie Ross (X-Men: First Class) wrote the script, which follows " an untested submarine captain who must work with a Navy SEAL team to rescue the Russian president, who has been taken prisoner during a military coup, in an effort to stop a rogue Russian General from igniting World War III....

POTD: Christopher Nolan’s Map Of The Dream Layers In ‘Inception’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 7, 2010 8:00 pm EST There’s a lot of great Inception material this week, thanks primarily to the DVD and Blu-ray which just hit shelves. But the book Inception: The Shooting Script has been around for a bit, and if you haven’t had a look, there are a couple aspects that make it wortwhile. Beyond the script there’s an interview with Christopher Nolan conducted by his brother Jonathan Nolan....

POTD: Photographing MGM’s Lion Logo By Russ Fischer/Jan. 11, 2011 8:00 am EST I’ve never thought much about the behind the scenes work that created the MGM ‘Lion’ logo. I just accepted it as one of the great cinema icons. Then I saw this great image that captures the creation of that icon. This pic, originally seen today on Reddit, caught my eye not only because of the obvious appeal of seeing the creation of an iconic image....

Preview Pages From ‘Tale Of Sand,’ The Graphic Novel Based On Jim Henson’s Unproduced Screenplay By Russ Fischer/Sept. 26, 2011 5:00 pm EST When Jim Henson passed away, a few unproduced projects were left on his desk. One was an early project called Tale of Sand, a script written with frequent Muppet co-writer Jerry Juhl. The script has been adapted into a graphic novel, by Ramón Perez and comic publisher Archaia....

Rachel Weisz, Barry Pepper, More Cut From Terrence Malick’s ‘To The Wonder’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 29, 2012 10:04 am EST Every film director does some of the most important work of creating a movie in the editing room, but Terrence Malick is more famous for his editing process than most. Malick is known for re-writing films during the editing stage, and for being fearless when it comes to cutting scenes, and even whole characters....

Robert Schwentke To Direct ‘R.I.P.D.’ With Ryan Reynolds; Leaves More Questions About ‘Deadpool’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2010 4:00 am EST A few weeks ago, we got word that Red director Robert Schwentke was first in line to direct Ryan Reynolds in the supernatural action film R.I.P.D., based on the Dark Horse comic of the same name. Now there’s confirmation that Schwentke will in fact direct. The question is: does this, along with the rest of Reynolds’ schedule, kill Deadpool?...

Season 2 Trailers: HBO’s Eastbound & Down And Bored To Death By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2010 2:00 pm EST HBO has released two new trailers for the upcoming second seasons of Danny McBride’s sports comedy series Eastbound & Down and the Jonathan Ames-created detective comedy Bored to Death starring Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson, and Zach Galifianakis. Watch them both, after the jump. Eastbound & Down Season 2 Trailer: Bored to Death Season 2 Teaser:...

Six ‘Star Wars’ Blu-Ray Promos Try To Remind You That You Still Love These Movies By Angie Han/Sept. 13, 2011 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. [via Geek Tyrant] I actually quite like the first video, which is simple but effective — just brief clips of some of the most thrilling moments from the saga, cut together in a very dynamic way. It’s not enough to make me stop hating that Vader “Nooooo!...

SNL Veteran And Adam Sandler Screenwriter Tim Herlihy Hired To Write ‘Pixels’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 10, 2010 6:00 pm EST Tim Herlihy was a writer for Saturday Night Live during Adam Sandler’s tenure as a cast member, and he has also written most of the comedian’s feature films. Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Big Daddy, Bedtime Stories and more Adam Sandler films all credit him as a writer or co-writer....

Teaser Trailer: ‘Scre4m’ (Updated With Official Release) By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2010 10:15 am EST UPDATE: The official embed has been released, so we’ve updated and bumped this post. Yesterday the trailer for Scream 4, aka Scre4m (aka groan) leaked, but you might not have wanted to watch the cameraphone version filmed off a big screen at the Spike Awards. Now there’s a real digital version, and it’s a bit longer than the bootleg....

The Collected Voice Cameos Of James Cameron By Germain Lussier/Oct. 6, 2011 2:30 pm EST Alfred Hitchcock did it, so why not James Cameron? Hitchcock loved to cameo in his own films and, though many people don’t know it, Cameron does the same. Cameron, however, didn’t physically appear on Judgement Day or live on Pandora. Instead the Oscar-winning director of the two most successful films in history has made a voice cameo in every single movie he’s ever done....

VOTD: Mike Relm’s Tron Legacy Remix By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2010 11:13 pm EST San Francisco-based audio/video mash-up artist/performer Mike Relm is back with a new remix for Disney’s Tron Legacy. You might recall that Relm created a cool remix of the Iron Man 2 trailer, which caught the eye of director Jon Favreau, and got turned into a (shorter) television advertisement. Relm’s Tron Legacy remix mixes the special effects test footage (which premiered at Comic Con three years ago) combined with footage from the last two movie trailers....

‘Chronicle’ Director Josh Trank Confirmed To Be Developing ‘Fantastic Four’ Reboot By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2012 10:00 am EST Collider talked to Rothman, and when asked about Fantastic Four, he said, Asked if Trank is full set to direct, however, Rothman tuned demure, Well, I think there’s a possibility of [him directing]. I mean he’s gonna develop it now, and then it depends on the script. The success of Chronicle also put Trank in the position to tackle other comic book properties....

‘Cosmopolis’ Trailer: David Cronenberg And Robert Pattinson Get Weird By Russ Fischer/April 19, 2012 9:00 am EST The first teaser trailer for David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis was a delirious ode to the filmmaker’s middle period — a chapter in his career that we’d begun to think was closed for good. But in that teaser for the adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel about a young billionaire who pulls strings from within a high-tech limo, we’re flashed with wild images of Robert Pattinson engaging in illicit sex, watching what seemed to be a dinosaur-sized rat, putting a bullet through his own hand, and musing about boundaries and desire....

‘Hugo’ Trailer #2 Focuses On The Human Over Fantastic By Germain Lussier/Oct. 24, 2011 1:30 pm EST Even before Hugo got solid buzz coming out of the New York Film Festival, Martin Scorsese’s whimsical, 3D family film was poised to be a must-see. Now only a month away from release, anticipation is building and Paramount has released a second trailer that, yes, features plenty of fantastic elements but also reveals that Hugo isn’t all about hovering robots and Sacha Baron Cohen chasing kids through a train station....

‘I Don’t Know How She Does It’ Trailer By Germain Lussier/May 27, 2011 3:00 pm EST After the critical annihilation Sex and the City 2 got, most of us didn’t think we’d see a third film. And while, technically, we still haven’t, the trailer for I Don’t Know How She Does It, starring Sarah Jessica Parker as an overworked, professional New Yorker complete with self-aware voiceover and beautiful friends, sure feels like it....