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‘Twilight’ Screenwriter Bringing Marvel’s Jessica Jones To Television By Russ Fischer/Dec. 17, 2010 9:44 am EST Just a week ago, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige chatted with fans, expressing his love for female heroes and a desire to bring more to the big screen. He also enthused “I love Jessica Jones,” that being the lead character, a superhero turned investigator, in the comic series Alias (no relation to the TV show) and Pulse....

60 Minutes: “The Musical Spectacle Of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 29, 2010 4:00 pm EST On this week’s CBS News 60 Minutes broadcast, U2’s Bono and The Edge were interviewed about the making of the highly anticipated comic book musical adaptation, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Earlier this morning we featured a look at the initial buzz coming from the first preview screening of the stage production (read that here)....

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Got James Cameron To Change One Thing In ‘Titanic 3D’ By Angie Han/April 2, 2012 10:30 am EST Aside from the addition of 3D, this week’s rerelease of James Cameron’s Titanic promises to be just as you remembered — unless, perhaps, you’re a bit of an astronomy geek. After prodding from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director has made one small edit to his 1997 film concerning the star formation during the sinking of the ship....

Avatar Blu-Ray Sets Record For First-Day Sales By David Chen/April 23, 2010 6:24 am EST According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Avatar Blu-Ray disc has already sold a staggering 1.5 million in its first day of release alone. For comparison, The Dark Knight sold 600,000 Blu-Ray copies on its first day. On average, retailers have sold out 60% of their Blu-Ray inventory already, and the movie looks on track to become the top-selling title of the year....

Baz Luhrmann Prepping ‘The Great Gatsby’ With Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire And Amanda Seyfried? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2010 8:15 am EST To answer my own question: yes and, quite possibly, no. We’ve known for some time that a new version of The Great Gatsby was on Baz Luhrmann’s plate, along with a couple of other pictures like a historical epic, another musical, possibly with Slumdog Millionaire score composer A.R. Rahmann....

Casting Bits: Kodi Smit-McPhee In ‘Romeo And Juliet,’ Michael Pena Signs For ‘Gangster Squad,’ Corbin Bernsen Joins ‘Lay The Favorite’ By Germain Lussier/June 8, 2011 6:00 am EST An up and comer, a recognizable character actor and a seasoned veteran have all signed on to very different projects. The up and comer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, best known for his awesome work in The Road and Let Me In, is reportedly circling the role of Benvolio in Carlo Carlei’s new film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet along side Haliee Steinfeld, Holly Hunter and Ed Westwick....

Cool Stuff: Tim Doyle’s Ghostbusters-Inspired “Ready To Believe You” Print By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2010 1:00 pm EST Tim Doyle has a new Ghostbusters-inspired print on Nakatomi, and today is the last day that the print will be available for preorder (midnight CST Monday night). But you’ll have to subscribe to their e-mail list if you want one. “Ready To Believe You” is available in two different editings, a regular edition (red, white and blue as seen above) and a limited Slimed (Glow Edition) whihc will only be available to mailing list subscribers....

By Germain Lussier/Nov. 14, 2011 4:30 pm EST It’s hard to hide from domain registration. In today’s Internet culture, URLs, Twitter handles and Facebook pages are a huge part of a film’s marketing strategy and it is paramount that studios acquire them before an official title is released. This way they won’t be squatted, or hilariously spammed, which happened to Sony this weekend. Sometimes studios register domains on the off chance a project gets made....

DreamWorks Wants To Make The ‘Halo’ Movie By Germain Lussier/Oct. 6, 2010 10:21 am EST Stuart Beattie, the writer behind G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, wrote a Halo spec script in 2007 that was based on the book Halo: The Fall of Reach. That fits in line with this story and could be the basis for this new interest from DreamWorks but nothing is confirmed. “I’m just a huge fan,” he told Vulture, “and my long-term goal is to get three Halo movies [based on the three novelizations] made....

Fandom Trailers: ‘My Other Me’ And ‘Toy Masters,’ Documentaries About Cosplayers And He-Man By Germain Lussier/Aug. 3, 2011 4:30 pm EST Documentaries have the rare ability to make someone who knows nothing about a subject an immediate fan. Who hasn’t wanted to play Donkey Kong after watching The King of Kong or save the environment after seeing An Inconvenient Truth? But sometimes there are documentaries that hit a little closer to home and those can be even more special....

First Footage: ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1’ By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2011 3:28 pm EST It’s a wedding! Squee! I know that the /Film audience is not, by and large, one that is obsessed with every little bit of Twilight news that comes across the interwebs, but the first real footage from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is something of interest. There’s not a lot to this clip, which is (of course) a cross-promotion with MTV....

By Angie Han/March 6, 2012 9:30 am EST It’s an unfortunate end for a series that suffered a long string of setbacks even before it made it to air, including staff shakeups, snowballing production costs, and complicated special effects. Unsurprisingly, those early troubles did nothing to help the series. In January, Reilly told press at TCA that “the show was hunting for itself creatively through the season.” “The fact is if we if this is all we produce, we made money on it, the studio made money on it, the audience enjoyed it, the show looked fantastic,” he said at the time....

By Germain Lussier/Oct. 21, 2011 3:30 pm EST That last option is a rarity because embracing the NC-17 rating means fighting an unfair, almost pornographic, connotation. The MPAA website itself explicitly states “NC-17 does not mean ‘obscene’ or ‘pornographic’ in the common or legal meaning of those words, and should not be construed as a negative judgment in any sense. The rating simply signals that the content is appropriate only for an adult audience....

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Is This What The Ending Of ‘The Sopranos’ Was Supposed To Mean? By Germain Lussier/May 25, 2012 5:00 am EST The final scene of The Sopranos has become something of TV legend. After six seasons of drawn out brilliance, creator David Chase places his star family in a New Jersey diner. Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ is playing on the jukebox. Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) orders some onion rings for the table as the camera moves to several suspicious people....

Jason Momoa Writing A ‘Conan The Barbarian’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/Aug. 8, 2011 6:00 am EST Let’s hear it for actors who try to take their careers into their own hands. It’s not something that always works out, but I can applaud people who are proactive when it comes to shaping the direction of their career path. We’ve recently heard that Bradley Cooper, for example, is so keen on making a film based on Dan Simmons’ Hyperion novels that he’s angling to write the script himself....

Joesph Kosinski’s ‘Oblivion’ Testing Jessica Chastain, Olga Kurylenko, Brit Marling, Noomi Rapace And Olivia Wilde By Russ Fischer/Aug. 26, 2011 8:30 am EST Briefly: You can probably call this the constant lineup of actresses that will test or be wishlisted for a great many lead female roles over the next year. Variety reports that Joeseph Kosinski is testing Jessica Chastain, Olga Kurylenko, Brit Marling, Noomi Rapace and Olivia Wilde for the lead female role opposite Tom Cruise in his latest film....

Jose Padilha’s ‘RoboCop’ Remake Adds ‘Contagion’ Actress Jennifer Ehle By Angie Han/Aug. 3, 2012 9:30 am EST As one Paul Verhoeven remake plops into theaters, another one is gearing up to start shooting. Fortunately for us, Jose Padilha’s RoboCop already looks much more promising than Len Wiseman’s Total Recall ever did. For one thing, Padilha is assembling a top-notch cast. Joel Kinnaman has been set to play the lead for some time now, but in the last few months Padilha’s been busy locking down some other interesting talents like Gary Oldman, Abbie Cornish, Samuel L....

Judd Apatow Developing Pee-Wee Herman Film By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2010 6:13 pm EST Since Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman started to work his way back to the spotlight, he’s been talking about making two movies. One would be for adults, and one for kids. And now there’s word that one of these two films is being developed for Universal by Judd Apatow, with Reubens and Paul Rust writing. The question is: which film is it?...

Kristen Bell Wants A ‘Veronica Mars’ Movie Enough To Finance It Herself (Or Maybe A Web Series) By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2010 12:44 pm EST Or so a headline trumpets in The Hollywood Reporter. Veronica Mars is the TV-to-film project that has been the subject of nearly as much speculation as Arrested Development, but every time creator Rob Thomas and star Kristen Bell talk about a possible film, it always comes down to one thing: Warner Bros....