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Marvel News: Avengers Will Begin In February, Nick Fury Will Not Appear In Thor, And Stan Lee’s Cameo Revealed? By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2010 4:33 pm EST Samuel L Jackson has confirmed rumors that Nick Fury will NOT appear in Marve’s Thor, but will have a part in The First Avenger: Captain America. Jackson told IESB that he had no idea why he wasn’t featured in the upcoming Marvel film, despite being name-dropped in the Hollywood trades....

Michael Douglas To Play Ronald Reagan In Indie ‘Reykjavik’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 29, 2012 2:55 pm EST We’ve heard a lot lately about actors being courted to play US Presidents, but most are for one film, Lee Daniels’ new movie The Butler. That one has Alan Rickman set to play Ronald Reagan, and Jane Fonda controversially set to be Nancy Reagan. Over in a different corner of the indie landscape, Mike Newell has taken up the directorial reins of a film called Reykjavik, and has set Michael Douglas to play Reagan, the 40th President of the United States....

By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2010 4:48 pm EST As we’ve reported on the quick pre-production and casting of Young Adult, written by Diablo Cody and to be directed by Jason Reitman, there has been no studio involved. But with those two behind the camera and Charlize Theron in as the lead, it didn’t take much to assume that someone would bite quickly. Now Paramount has bought rights to the film....

Possible Casting: Angelina Jolie In ‘The Silver Linings Playbook;’ Olivia Williams In ‘Hyde Park On Hudson’ By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2011 5:00 pm EST When David O. Russell stepped away from Sony’s tentpole Uncharted, it looked like The Silver Linings Playbook, based on Matthew Quick’s novel, would be his next film. (The project had already been rumored as a possibility to be made before Uncharted.) Mark Wahlberg is set to star as “a delusional former high school history teacher who’s just been released into the custody of his mom....

Ricky Gervais Invited To Host Golden Globes Once More By Russ Fischer/Nov. 16, 2011 2:30 pm EST Few awards hosting appearances have been as divisive as Ricky Gervais’ stint on the last Golden Globes. That gig kicked off with a detailed evisceration of Charlie Sheen before taking time to poke ugly/accurate fun at many celebs nominated for awards, and at the Globes themselves. The fallout was quick, with then-president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Philip Berk saying Gervais “definitely crossed the line....

Rumor: Sylvester Stallone And Robert De Niro To Star In ‘Grudge Match’? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 20, 2010 10:44 am EST Briefly: In May, we heard that Warner Bros. had picked up a pitch from Tim Kelleher to write a film called Grudge Match, about “retired boxers Billy “The Kid” McGuigan and Henry “Razor” Sharp, lifelong bitter rivals who are coaxed out of retirement and into the ring for one final grudge match — 50 years after their last title fight....

See A Long-Lost Ad For The ‘Tron Holiday Special’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 20, 2010 2:00 pm EST Way back in 1982 I would have loved to see a Tron Holiday Special, but I don’t think the rest of America was quite there. Thank Funny or Die, then, for imagining an ad for the Tron TV spectacular that never was. Peek back at an alternate 1982, after the break. Who needs the Star Wars Holiday Special?...

Sequel Bits: Ernie Hudson Says Bill Murray Is Holding Up ‘Ghostbusters 3,’ Plus Updates And Rumors For ‘Trainspotting 2,’ ‘Alien’ Prequels And ‘Scream 4’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 6, 2010 11:10 am EST Fortunately, the balance of his work over the past few years (even factoring in stinkers like Garfield and Passion Play) Bill Murray’s definition of ‘good’ is pretty much…good. I’ll take a Bill Murray failure like City of Ember over Year One....

Sorcerer’s Apprentice Clip: Fantasia Scene By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2010 5:00 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures has released a clip of the Fantasia-inspired scene featuring Jay Baruchel and Teresa Palmer from Jon Turteltaub’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Official Synopsis: THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE WALT DISNEY PICTURES and JERRY BRUCKHEIMER FILMS Website and Mobile site: Disney.com/Sorcerer Become a fan on Facebook: facebook.com/SorcerersApprentice Follow us on Twitter: twitter....

By Russ Fischer/Aug. 9, 2010 10:20 am EST A new adaptation of Tarzan, the classic adventure story by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is swinging into action. (That’ll be the only vine pun, I promise.) The German outfit Constantin Films is prepping a 3D animated version of the story. Constantin recently bought rights to all the Burroughs Tarzan novels; one might guess that the first book, Tarzan of the Apes, will be the launching pad for this film....

There Will Be A Three-Hour Porno Version Of ‘Reservoir Dogs’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 30, 2010 4:00 pm EST “Dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick.” “How many dicks is that?” “A lot.” Quentin Tarantino pretty much embedded the idea of a porn version of Reservoir Dogs in the dialog for the film’s talky opening sequence. And while the idea of porn parodies of popular films is all but comically bankrupt, I’ll admit there’s some brief amusement value in thinking about the porn version of, for instance, the sequence where Mr....

TV Bits: ‘Flintstones’ Reboot Put On Hold; ‘Office’ Reboot And ‘Californication’ Spinoff Being Floated; Donald Glover Returning To ‘30 Rock’ By Angie Han/April 13, 2012 3:00 pm EST Deadline reports that Daniels is talking to NBC about a potential reboot of the workplace sitcom, which would center around a mix of old and new characters — similar, perhaps, to what ABC did with Scrubs. But the reboot is far from certain....

Ubisoft Launches Motion Picture Studio By Angie Han/May 6, 2011 6:00 am EST Critics may not have cared for last year’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, but that didn’t stop audiences from turning out in droves to see it. After an unremarkable start in the U.S., the film ultimately grossed $335 million worldwide — making it the most commercially successful video game adaptation of all time. That’s the kind of money that’ll put dollar signs in anyone’s eyes....

VOTD: Movie Magic TV Specials By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 10, 2011 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When I was a kid, I use to love watching the “Movie Magic” television specials. It was like finding out how a magician created all his wonderful tricks. And this was in the good ol’ days when the tricks were accomplished using mostly practical means, not like today when computer generated imagery is employed to make the impossible possible....

VOTD: Pogo Remixes Snow White By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 4, 2010 5:13 pm EST Australian video remix artist Pogo has been making a lot of noise with his popular video remixes of Disney/Pixar films. In the past, we’ve featured his video remixes for Up – s Upular, and the Toy Story series – Toyz Noize and Buzzwings. Composed using chords, bass notes and vocal samples from the films, each of his videos have gone on to become viral video sensations....

VOTD: The Best Caddyshack Quotes By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2010 12:00 am EST The Huffington Post has edited together a five minute video compiling all the best Caddyshack quotes. Bill Murray, Chevy Chase and Rodney Dangerfield are sure to brighten up your Friday. Watch it now, embedded after the jump. VOTD: The Best Caddyshack Quotes By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2010 12:00 am EST The Huffington Post has edited together a five minute video compiling all the best Caddyshack quotes....

Warner Bros. And Joel Silver Reportedly Developing Tentpole Version Of Don Quixote By Russ Fischer/June 11, 2010 11:15 am EST If this news is true, it can be read, basically, as Warner Bros. and Joel Silver giving Terry Gilliam the finger. But that’s Hollywood, right? The studio and producer are reportedly fast-tracking a tentpole film based on Miguel Cervantes’ massive novel Don Quixote. Pajiba says that the WB / Joel Silver film is “described as a Pirates of Caribbean-style swashbuckling version of a story in which we discover that Don Quixote isn’t crazy and that there is, in fact, a fantasy world....

‘Beyond The Black Rainbow’ Trailer: What Psychedelic Retro-Futuristic Madness Is This? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 12, 2012 1:13 pm EST There is an image in this trailer for Beyond the Black Rainbow in which a silhouetted woman seems to crawl out of the pupil in a screen-filling close-up of a human eye. It’s beautiful and weird, and that’s the trailer in a nutshell. Watching this, I have no idea what this film is about....

‘Iron Man 3’ Armor Revealed On Convention Show Floor [Comic-Con 2012] By Russ Fischer/July 14, 2012 9:53 am EST The Marvel Studios panel for Iron Man 3 doesn’t take place until the end of the day today in Hall H, but something new from the film was revealed on the Comic Con show floor when the doors opened this morning. The Iron Man Mark VIII armor was waiting for fans at the Marvel Booth, and you can check out some photos below....

‘Jack Reacher’ Trailer: “Remember, You Wanted This” By Russ Fischer/July 3, 2012 10:00 am EST Over the weekend we saw a low-quality Russian-dubbed version of the trailer for Christopher McQuarrie’s film Jack Reacher in which Tom Cruise plays a serious hardass ex-MP drawn into what seems like an open-and-shut sniper killing. Now the real thing has arrived, and it clears up a couple things. One is that the color palette of the film is nowhere near as dingy as the last look suggested....