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James Cameron Says ‘Avatar 2’ Will Focus On Ocean Issues, Tours Future Site Of Disney’s Avatar Land By Angie Han/Oct. 18, 2011 4:00 pm EST Apparently, one of the most essential qualities of an Avatar fan is patience – Avatar 2 isn’t hitting theaters until 2014, and Disney World’s Avatar-land won’t open until years after that. But in the meantime, we have a couple of tidbits on what to expect from the future of the franchise....

Kirsten Dunst Joining Mark Ruffalo And Billy Crudup In ‘Red Light Winter’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 17, 2011 10:00 am EST This past spring Mark Ruffalo said that he was looking at a role in Red Light Winter, a film based on the play of the same name by Adam Rapp (The L Word, Winter Passing), and a movie that would be brought into the world by Scott Rudin, the producer whose taste tends more genuinely toward the literary than almost anyone else working in the US right now....

LOL: Siri Responds To ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Reference On The Apple iPhone 4s By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 12, 2011 8:00 am EST One of the killer features in Apple’s new iPhone 4S is a virtual personal assistant program named Siri. The new software, which is built into the core operating system, allows users to ask questions or create tasks using natural speech. The engineers at Apple have also included a bunch of cool Easter eggs in the results....

LOL: Stephen Colbert’s Movies That Are Destroying America By Germain Lussier/May 6, 2011 12:00 pm EST On a nightly basis, fans eagerly watch as Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report skewers the political machine and news media with hilarious results. Earlier this week, though, host Stephen Colbert decided to move his cross hairs from Washington D.C. to Hollywood with a segment called “Movies That Are Destroying America: Saving America Edition.” In it he focuses on Captain America: The First Avenger as well as Atlas Shrugged: Part I, while also working in digs to several other major Hollywood blockbusters and classics....

M. Night Shyamalan-Produced ‘Twelve Strangers’ Is Now ‘Reincarnate’; Daniel Stamm Confirmed To Direct By Russ Fischer/Sept. 15, 2010 9:07 am EST Briefly: M Night Shyamalan and Media Rights Capital are moving full speed ahead with the ‘Night Chronicles’ series, audience laughter at trailers for Devil be damned. (And, honestly, I half expect the people that see Devil to come away liking it. But we’ll find out soon enough.) A while back, Buried screenwriter Chris Sparling was hired to write the second Night Chronicles film, Twelve Strangers....

Movie Teaser: Will Smith Talks About Men In Black 3D By Russ Fischer/June 11, 2010 9:50 am EST Yeah, that’s right: Men in Black 3D. No, the film hasn’t started shooting yet, but Sony has already shot a teaser (of sorts) for the movie that will reunite director Barry Sonnenfeld and stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, with newcomers like Josh Brolin and Jemaine Clement. The ’teaser’ — which is really just Will Smith talking to the camera while standing either on the Sony lot or in a similar location — was presented at the Sony 3D TV launch event which took place this week at Sony Pictures Studios....

New Photos From ‘The Hobbit’ Show Wary Bilbo, Dwarves In Barrels, And Gollum By Russ Fischer/July 3, 2012 11:00 am EST Next week we’ll likely see some new footage from Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected journey, but for now let’s have a gander at ten new photos from the film. Pete mentioned EW’s cover story on the film in passing earlier today, but the site also has a whole batch of images that some of you won’t want to miss....

Ralph Fiennes Joines Tomas Alfredson’s ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’; Firth, Oldman And Fassbender Confirmed By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2010 3:00 pm EST Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson has been at work assembling an adaptation of the novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy from author John Le Carre. A month ago we heard that Gary Oldman was set to star, with possible co-stars Michael Fassbender, Colin Firth and David Thewlis....

Robert De Niro Joins Michael Douglas In ‘Last Vegas’ By Germain Lussier/May 11, 2012 9:00 am EST It’s The Hangover meets Grumpy Old Men and now it’s got some real star power too. Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas have joined the cast of Last Vegas, a comedy written by Dan Fogelman (Crazy, Stupid, Love) and directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice). The film follows four friends who head to Las Vegas for the bachelor party of a friend marrying a woman half his age....

Sequel Bits: ‘Kick-Ass 2’, ‘The Hobbit’, ‘Thor: The Dark World’, ‘Sherlock Gnomes’ By Angie Han/Sept. 5, 2012 4:33 pm EST Get a nice long look at some behind-the-scenes goings-on in today’s Sequel Bits. After the jump: Kung Fu Panda’s John Stevenson will direct Sherlock Gnomes Is this our first look at the Hobbit trilogy’s Bolg the Goblin-king? See pics of Mother Russia and Hit-Girl’s bike from the Kick-Ass 2 set Check out more photos from Thor: The Dark World’s Bourne Wood set Sherlock Gnomes, the unfortunately titled sequel to 2011’s Gnomeo and Juliet, has just picked up a director from another well-loved animated franchise....

Sequel Talk: Robin Hood 2; Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2; And An Odd Mulholland Drive Rumor By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2010 2:02 pm EST The public hasn’t had a chance to check out Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, which premieres at Cannes, but if the receipts are high, we may see more than one episode featuring Russell Crowe as the famous British character. Speaking to the Times Online, Scott defines this film as an origin story, saying, “It is the beginnings of how the man becomes known as Robin the Hood…You don’t really get that until the last few minutes....

Seth Rogen Goes Dramatic To Great Effect In ‘Take This Waltz’ [Tribeca Review] By Angie Han/April 24, 2012 1:00 pm EST If you’d told me that Seth Rogen would be the pleasant surprise of a quiet indie relationship drama starring Michelle Williams, I’m not sure I’d have believed you. This is her territory, after all, if it is anyone’s. (See also: Blue Valentine.) But even as the rest of Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz lurches between moments of understated heartbreak and scenes of thudding obviousness, Rogen quietly proves once and for all that despite his comedy roots, he’s got some serious dramatic chops....

Sundance Invades The Summer Of 2011 By Germain Lussier/April 17, 2011 8:00 am EST Some of our favorite films, like Win Win, Cedar Rapids, I Saw the Devil and POM Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold are already out or coming out in the next week or two. You can link to those reviews above. Others, like the award winning Like Crazy, are being held for awards seasons. But the majority are summer movies....

Sylvester Stallone Has A Pitch For ‘The Expendables 2’, Talks About His Edgar Allen Poe Biopic By Russ Fischer/Aug. 11, 2010 12:24 pm EST We’ve heard about possible sequels to Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables for over a year. Last July, producer Avi Lerner said, “We already have got some ideas about Expendables No. 2, No. 3. Definitely, it’s a franchise movie.” The film is opening this week, and if the rather expensive picture ($80m without factoring in prints and advertising) does well — not a given thanks to the R rating and competition from films like Scott Pilgrim — then Stallone is already developing an idea that would power a sequel....

Trivia: Quentin Tarantino Almost Directed A Chris Tucker Stand-Up Comedy Movie By Germain Lussier/June 20, 2012 9:00 am EST In the late Nineties, Chris Tucker was one of the biggest movie stars in the world. He was making over $20 million to star in Brett Ratner’s Rush Hour films but then he faded away. This was a guy who proved he was a comedy genius in the film Friday, could be awkward and great in a sci-fi film like The Fifth Element, but he more or less dropped off the face of the Earth after 1998’s Rush Hour, only returning for its two sequels....

VOTD: 35 Movies In 2 Minutes By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2010 1:11 am EST Felix Meyer and Pascal Monaco picked 35 of their favorite movies and tried to simplify them as much as possible, resulting in “a 2 minute journey through the history of film.” Watch the short film titled 35mm after the jump. Take a close look and see how many movies you can recognize. VOTD: 35 Movies In 2 Minutes...

Want To Save On Movie Tickets? Try Buying In Bulk By Angie Han/March 12, 2012 3:30 pm EST Much as I agree with Ridley Scott (and cinephiles everywhere) that a giant movie theater screen remains the ideal way to watch a film, the fact remains that the moviegoing experience itself isn’t always so great. There are a lot of irritants to contend with, including overpriced snacks, cramped spaces, noisy patrons, distracting cell phone screens, and so on — but expensive ticket prices, at least, may be something you can get around if you’re willing to make a few tradeoffs....

Watch Tom Hardy’s ‘Star Trek: Nemesis’ Screen Test By Germain Lussier/July 31, 2012 6:00 am EST Playing Bane in The Dark Knight Rises might have made Tom Hardy a household name, but it wasn’t his first major genre sequel. The actor – who really hit the radar of film fans starring in Nicolas Winding-Refn’s Bronson – previously appeared in Star Trek: Nemesis as Shinzon, a villainous clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, and a video of the actor’s screen test has surfaced online....

Will The Academy Awards Move To January? By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2010 3:00 am EST The Academy Awards have usually taken place sometime between the last weekend of February and the last week of March. Deadline is reporting that the possibility of moving up the 2011 Oscar Ceremony to sometime in January was discussed at Tuesday night’s Board of Governors meeting of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences....

Zak Penn Rewriting Sequel To ‘The Karate Kid’ Remake By Germain Lussier/Feb. 7, 2012 5:30 pm EST As a huge fan of the original Karate Kid, I die a little bit inside anytime I see the three words “The Karate Kid” on my TV guide only to find it’s the 2010 remake with Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan. Apparently, though, I’m in the minority. The film was an absolute smash hit for Sony, grossing $176 million domestic and about $182 internationally....