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Infographic: Official Timeline Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe By Russ Fischer/May 16, 2012 4:00 pm EST In the past we’ve featured an infographic — almost a too-detailed one — that shows the timeline of events in Marvel movies. Now the company has issued an official timeline, and at the very least it is easier to read. What might be interesting to some more casual fans who haven’t thought as much about the precise timeline of the convergent story paths is this: a great many of the events in various Marvel films take place in the span of one week....

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Set For ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ Juno Temple Possibly Cast, Too By Russ Fischer/March 18, 2011 6:00 pm EST Briefly: Some minor news on The Dark Knight Rises: Variety says that, after being in talks for some time, and linked to the film almost since day one, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is confirmed for the film. That’s not a big scoop, as there seemed like virtually no chance that he wouldn’t end up in the film....

Josh Brolin Will Be Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 29, 2011 1:00 pm EST A couple months ago when Spike Lee was confirmed to direct Mandate Pictures’ new version of Park Chan-Wook’s revenge tale Oldboy, speculation began in earnest on the identity of the actor who might play the lead role, a man imprisoned for 15 years for reasons unknown to him. One name that came up a few times was Josh Brolin, and now the actor has been cast....

LEGO Cast Confirmed, More Story Info Revealed By Russ Fischer/Aug. 28, 2012 5:15 pm EST We’ve heard some cast rumors for the LEGO film set to be directed by Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, including names such as Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Chris Pratt and Morgan Freeman. Now all four are confirmed for the film, thanks to info from Village Roadshow Pictures and Warner Bros....

Movie Trailer: ‘Welcome To The Rileys,’ Starring Kristen Stewart And James Gandolfini By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2010 5:39 pm EST Jake Scott, son of Ridley, has directed a new feature, Welcome to the Rileys, starring James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart and Melissa Leo. The film debuted at Sundance, where it did relatively well and was picked up by Apparition. Bit of trouble there, though, as Apparition has been undergoing some restructuring. Just a couple weeks ago Welcome to the Rileys moved over to Samuel Goldwyn, and the company already has a trailer out for the film....

Page 2: Labyrinth, Prometheus, Steven Spielberg, Lord Of The Rings, Shawshank Redemption, Jurrasic Park, Blade Runner, Star Trek, Girls, Wonka, Cars Land By Peter Sciretta/June 13, 2012 8:00 am EST Unused Prometheus concept art (link contains spoilers) Help This Lunatic Launch A Video Store In BrooklynSteven Spielberg hanging out with the kids from both E.T. and Poltergeist.The Best Film Writing About the ‘Alien’ Franchise on the InternetLord Of The Rings: One Facebook Thread To Rule Them All...

Rumor: WB Wants Chris Columbus To Direct Superman? By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2010 1:09 pm EST Briefly: Another slow-ish news day, another rumor. The rumor du jour is that, while David Goyer is interested in directing the new Superman film being assembled over at Warner Bros., the studio has someone else in mind. Reportedly, WB’s idea for the best Superman director is Chris Columbus. The report comes from the Superman homepage, and I really hope it is fabricated, exaggerated, or in some way wrong....

Ryan Reynolds To Co-Star With Denzel Washington In ‘Safe House’? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2010 12:28 pm EST Briefly: It’s Ryan Reynolds day! There was just talk of Green Lantern sequels, Deadpool and R.I.P.D., and now there’s word that Reynolds is the ’top choice’ to work opposite Denzel Washington in the thriller Safe House. Deadline says that Reynolds is the frontrunner in a giant pack of young actors that want the role....

Sasha Grey Joins The Cast Of Mark Pellington’s ‘I Melt With You’ By Russ Fischer/July 29, 2010 6:17 pm EST Mark Pellington is soon to shoot his low-budget drama/thriller I Melt With You, and he’s already got Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven and Rob Lowe set to appear as three of the four male leads. Now the supporting cast is coming together, and the most striking name is Sasha Grey, the young porn star who previously appeared in Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience....

Terrence Malick Update: New Info On ‘The Burial’; Trailer For ‘The Tree Of Life’ Attached To ‘Black Swan’ This Weekend By Russ Fischer/Dec. 1, 2010 10:36 am EST JoBlo claims, via Twitter, that there will be a two-minute trailer for The Tree of Life on all prints of Black Swan opening this weekend. I haven’t had confirmation of this, nor any news that the trailer will arrive online at the same time....

True ‘Bruce Almighty’ Sequel Being Written For Jim Carrey By Russ Fischer/Jan. 9, 2012 4:44 pm EST The 2003 film Bruce Almighty was one of Jim Carrey’s last bona-fide hits, and also a movie that went just about as literal as possible with the idea that Morgan Freeman is God. Bruce was big enough that spinning the story off into a semi-sequel, Evan Almighty, seemed like a good idea. Evan was a flop, and a massively expensive one, at that....

VOTD: EW’s 2010 ‘Back To The Future’ Reunion By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 15, 2010 7:00 am EST

VOTD: Pixar Fan Builds Real Life WALL-E Robot By Germain Lussier/Aug. 2, 2012 1:30 pm EST Going by Pixar’s timeline, we’ve got about 800 years until WALL-E is a reality. Thanks to California resident Mike Senna, we’re a tad ahead of schedule. Senna spent the last two years building a life size, working WALL-E that has to be seen to be believed. Since actual materials, decals and parts from WALL-E don’t exist, he was forced to build the entire thing from scratch and the results would likely make everyone from John Lasseter to Andrew Stanton proud....

Watch An Hour-Long Roundtable Interview With 2011’s Award-Worthy Directors By Germain Lussier/Dec. 1, 2011 6:00 am EST Every year at award season, The Hollywood Reporter somehow organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress and director of the year’s best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty spectacular. What’s even better is they release the videos of the full conversations so we can watch. For the 2011 Director’s Roundtable, they’ve brought together The Descendants’ Alexander Payne, Beginners’ Mike Mills, Shame’s Steve McQueen, Young Adult’s Jason Reitman, Moneyball’s Bennett Miller and The Artist’s Michel Hazanavicius to discuss their own, and each other’s, movies, all of which have a good shot at multiple award nominations....

By Russ Fischer/Feb. 23, 2011 8:30 am EST Over the past week, one big question in horror and video game circles has been: will there or will there not be a movie based on the game Dead Island? (Or, at least, based on the trailer for the game.) We heard that film rights had been sold, then heard that the story of the rights sale may have been exaggerated. Now there is a much more detailed statement from one of the major players, seemingly confirming that guns were jumped and a movie won’t be in the works just yet....

‘Dredd’ Update: Pete Travis And Alex Garland Say Reports Of Strife Are Exaggerated By Russ Fischer/Oct. 10, 2011 5:30 pm EST Late last week there was weird news about Dredd, the new film that seeks to bring the 2000AD comic character Judge Dredd to the screen once more. (Some are calling Dredd a remake of the 1995 Sylvester Stallone schlock-fest Judge Dredd, but the only common element is the characters brought in from 2000AD....

‘Gulliver’s Travels’ Moves Back To Christmas By Germain Lussier/Dec. 10, 2010 6:06 pm EST In a curious box office chess move, 20th Century Fox’s 3D Jack Black film Gulliver’s Travels has had its release date pushed back from December 22 to December 25, the the exact opposite move Paramount made with True Grit. Gulliver will now be the lone wide release on Christmas but find himself without a Friday night to help his opening weekend box office....

‘Jack The Giant Killer’ Writer Darren Lemke Tapped For ‘Carmen Sandiego’ By Angie Han/June 27, 2012 11:30 am EST Since co-writing Shrek Forever After a few years ago, Darren Lemke’s built himself a nice career adapting classic kid-friendly fare into big-screen features. He’s one of the scribes behind the fairy tale retelling Jack the Giant Killer and has worked on reinterpretations of both The Nutcracker and The Wizard of Oz. Outside of the fairyland, he’s doing a fresh draft of the R....

Clash Of The Titans And Journey To The Centre Of The Earth Sequels In The Offing, But Original Directors Won’t Be Coming Back By Brendon Connelly/April 28, 2010 3:47 am EST I don’t imagine there’s going to be much fan loyalty to either Louis Letterier or Eric Brevig for their first films in the Clash of the Titans and Journey to the Centre of the Earth franchises, and it looks like there’s going to be no studio loyalty either....

By Germain Lussier/Jan. 19, 2011 1:00 pm EST It’s no mystery that we at /Film are huge Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans. (I enter exhibits one, two and three into evidence if you need convincing.) So it makes sense that Mondo chose us to exclusively debut a pair of posters for the 1990 live action film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Jeff Proctor. The posters were created because the Alamo Drafthouse regularly hosts insane all-you-can-eat pizza party/screenings of the film....