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James Cameron Explains How Sigourney Weaver Might Appear In ‘Avatar 2’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 11, 2011 12:40 pm EST When James Cameron does interviews, he loves setting the record straight. He was in New York Monday night to receive a Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics. While on the red carpet, he commented on the voice cameo viral video that we recently published, the Avatar world that will be opening at Disney and also Sigourney Weaver’s comment that she’d be returning for Avatar 2 even though she died in the first film....

Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott And Eugene Levy Locked For ‘American Reunion’ By Germain Lussier/March 16, 2011 3:00 pm EST Just when you thought you’d seen the last of the gang from American Pie, Universal is baking another. They’ve officially locked deals with three of the stars of the original films, Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott and Eugene Levy, to appear in American Reunion, according to The Hollywood Reporter. They’re also negotiating with Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Chris Klein, Mena Suvari and Jennifer Coolidge to reprise their roles as well....

By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2010 10:00 am EST So according to Fox, the flash-sideways are not purgatory, but instead a creation of his own mind during death. What do you think? “There are certain religious beliefs, spiritual ideas, that when you die, you have to remember your own death in the momentin the moment of your death, you have to remember all the people that brought you to that, all the people that were most important to you, bringing you to that moment....

Merry Christmas From /Film! By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 25, 2010 11:25 am EST I hope all of you are having a very merry Christmas (and/or Happy Holidays)! Merry Christmas From /Film! By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 25, 2010 11:25 am EST I hope all of you are having a very merry Christmas (and/or Happy Holidays)!

Milk Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black To Write/Direct 3 Story Adaptation By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2010 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Publisher’s Weekly describes the story as being “a modern fable, exploring the life of the giant man, Craig Pressgang, through the experiences of three women—his mother, wife and daughter.” The story chronicles Craig’s journey from birth to his growth to over three stories tall....

More Scream 4 Footage And Interview With Neve Campbell By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 30, 2010 3:00 pm EST Last week, Entertainment Tonight aired an on-the-set report for Scream 4 featuring some footage and interviews with cast members. /Film reader Jedz has alerted me that ET Canada has now begun airing their own coverage of the set visit, which includes a bunch of new on the set footage and an exclusive interview with star Neve Campbell....

New ‘Bridesmaids’ Red-Band Trailer, Plus Six Character Posters By Russ Fischer/April 26, 2011 8:32 pm EST That’s right. There are now enough trailers for Bridesmaids that some of you may have lost count. Paul Feig’s film, written by Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, is a great comedy with more personality and character than you could hope for, and a lot of soul, to boot. But there are as many trailers now as there are main characters....

Page 2: Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Star Wars, Game Of Thrones, David Lynch, Taxi Driver, Hunger Games, Ghostbusters, Titanic, Joey Lauren Adams, Alien, Akira Kurosawa By Peter Sciretta/April 11, 2012 8:00 am EST Screenwriter John August on the pressure of a PG-13 rating. Harry Potter Monster Book of Monsters PlushToplessRobot lists 10 More of the Greatest Ghosts of Geekdom The TARDIS Trash Can Has Infinite Space io9 lists 10 Books Every Fantasy Author Should Read...

Page 2: Indiana Jones, Donald Glover, Final Destination, Conan O’Brien, Avatar 2, Little Mermaid, Fanboys, Big Lebowski, Star Trek, Tron, George Lucas, Muppets, Star Wars, Shaquille O’Neal, Harry Potter By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 17, 2011 8:00 am EST Header Photo: Vintage photo of David Warner and Bruce Boxleitner on the set of 1982’s Tron. A new marketing report finds that 75% of Hispanic consumers go to the movie theater once a month, and 25% see movies 3 times a month....

Steve Carell Attached To Produce And Star In Drama ‘Dogs Of Babel’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 22, 2011 2:00 pm EST THR says that Mandate is looking for a director immediately, which means this could be the one of Steve Carell’s many attachments over the past year to really go forward. Jamie Linden (Ten Year, Dear John, We Are Marshall) wrote the script. The novel is about a linguistics professor (Carell) who finds his wife dead in the back yard....

The Evolution Of Movie Poster Colors Throughout Film History By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2012 2:30 pm EST Vijay Pandurangan wondered how color choices in film advertising had changed over the years. He decided to create a chart that shows the evolution of colors in movie posters over the history of film (or since 1914). The data was compiled using 35,000 posters spanning a wide array of genres, and black and white colors were ignored....

Warner Bros And Producer Roy Lee To Develop Remake Of TIFF Hit ‘Sleepless Night’ By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2011 7:30 pm EST I walked out of an early Toronto International Film Festival press screening 10 days ago ranting and raving about Frédéric Jardin’s incredible French contained action thriller Sleepless Night. I posted an enthusiastic review on September 12th calling it “one of the best and tightest written action thrillers I’ve seen in the past few years” and predicted that some lucky Hollywood studio would be developing a big budget American remake within the week....

Will Mark Ruffalo Mo-Cap The Hulk For ‘The Avengers’ Or Will He Not? By Russ Fischer/Jan. 31, 2011 1:00 pm EST Briefly: There was a small stir a few months back when Mark Ruffalo announced that in addition to playing Bruce Banner in The Avengers, he would play all of the Hulk’s scenes via motion capture. The excitement was caused because he said that had never been done — one actor playing the Hulk’s monstrous form — since Lou Ferrigno’s TV work....

‘Narnia’ Scribe Ann Peacock To Write Cinderella Script For Universal By Angie Han/Sept. 9, 2011 10:30 am EST Now that the story of Snow White has been picked clean by three different movie projects, Hollywood’s got its sights on another fairy tale: Cinderella. Last year, Disney bought a pitch for a live-action retelling, to be directed by Mark Romanek from a script by Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada)....

4-D Coming Soon To A Theater Near You By Angie Han/July 9, 2012 5:00 am EST It wasn’t too long ago that good 3D felt like cutting-edge technology, but apparently those three measly dimensions are no longer enough to impress the moviegoing public. At least, that’s the thinking of the South Korean conglomerate CJ Group, which plans to bring its 4D system to our shores this year. Whereas 2D and 3D movies rely mostly on sight and sound to draw audiences in, 4D is a more immersive sensory experience — imagine actually feeling the spray of the ocean or the shaking of an earthquake as characters experience them onscreen, or smelling the roses during the finale’s grand romantic gesture....

Adam McKay Confirmed To Be In Talks To Direct ‘The Boys’ By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2010 11:50 pm EST As more and more graphic novels and comic books are adapted to the screen, studios are broadening the search for possible directors. It’s not just proven talents in action, horror and fantasy, but established vets of just about any stripe. Earlier this year we heard that Samuel Bayer (A Nightmare on Elm Street) wanted to direct an adaptation of the Garth Ennis series The Boys, but it wasn’t a huge surprise to hear that the studio, Sony, wants someone a little different: Adam McKay, director of Anchorman and Step Brothers....

Andrew Currie Directing Eric McCormack In ‘Barricade’ By Russ Fischer/March 11, 2011 7:00 am EST WWE Studios, which was born WWE Films in 2002 and then took on its new name in 2008, is probably a non-entity to people who aren’t fans of wrestling and the men who are (or were) stars in that sphere. But the company is now preparing to make a movie that doesn’t star a wrestler, and the picture will be directed by someone who has made a movie with a well-deserved, if minor cult following....

Brad Pitt Backs ‘Blonde,’ Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe Film By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2012 5:30 pm EST Before making the movie that became Killing Them Softly, The Assassination of Jesse James director Andrew Dominik was developing a biopic of Marilyn Monroe. Actually, Blonde is not quite a biopic — it is an account of the screen icon’s life, but one based on a Joyce Carol Oates novel that imagined Monroe’s thoughts....

Comic Creator Harvey Pekar Has Died By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2010 10:00 am EST Harvey Pekar, creator of the independent underground/cult autobiographical comic book series American Splendor, has died at 70-years old. He was discovered dead in his Ohio home by his wife. Pekar had been suffering from prostate cancer, although no immediate cause of death has been determined at this time. Pekar’s comic book/life was made into a 2003 film American Splendor starring Paul Giamatti, which was nominated for an Oscar for best adapted screenplay....

Cool Stuff: “It’s A Trap” Star Wars/Ghostbusters T-Shirt Mash-Up By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 18, 2011 8:00 am EST Today’s t-shirt design of the day over at TeeFury is a Star Wars/Ghostbusters mash-up which features Admiral Ackbar from Return of the Jedi in a Ghostbuster’s uniform holding up a ghost trap (get it? just like Ackbar’s famous line… yeah…). As with all of Teefury’s tees, the shirt is available for only $9 plus shipping, but will only be available today (January 18th 2011) and today ONLY....