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Watch The Social Network “How Did They Ever Make A Movie Of Facebook?” 93-Minute Behind The Scenes Documentary By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2011 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you haven’t yet purchased the awesome Blu-ray release of David Fincher’s The Social Network — why the heck not? Do so now! For those of you who have abandoned purchasing physical media, IMDB has you covered — they have posted the entire 93-minute behind the scenes documentary titled “How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?...

Zack Snyder Compares Superman To Zeus, Says Viggo Mortensen Isn’t Cast By Russ Fischer/March 22, 2011 12:30 pm EST You’ll have to forgive us for the Superman overload in the past few days, but there are a lot of little tidbits out there about the film, thanks to the promo cycle for Sucker Punch. We recapped a bunch of Zack Snyder’s statements about the film yesterday — he calls it his most realistic movie, oddly, and talked about how casting the Kents fit into that approach....

‘Cloud Atlas’ Getting IMAX Release; First TV Spot Highlights Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, And Futuristic Chase Scenes By Angie Han/Sept. 24, 2012 2:00 pm EST Given the sprawling scope and staggering ambition of the Andy and Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer’s Cloud Atlas, it seems only appropriate that the movie open on some of the largest screens in the world. IMAX has announced that the epic saga will hit their super-sized screens next month, on the same day as Cloud Atlas’ regular, non-IMAX release....

‘Cloud Atlas’ Screened At Cannes, Runs Nearly Three Hours, December Date Announced For US Release By Russ Fischer/May 17, 2012 2:30 pm EST There’s a lot going on at Cannes right now, but one of the most exciting activities is the deal-making for Cloud Atlas. The ambitious film from Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski adapts David Mitchell’s novel, which is comprised of six nested stories that span genres and centuries....

‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ First Streaming Title With Dolby 7.1 Audio By Germain Lussier/Oct. 19, 2011 11:00 am EST Home theater technology improves at an alarming rate. Televisions gets bigger and brighter, Blu-ray players get faster and more dynamic, speakers get smaller and louder and they all get cheaper and cheaper. The cycle is one of the primary reasons the home theater experience has turned so many people off from the theatrical experience....

‘Premium Rush’ Bumped To August By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2011 11:30 am EST Sony and Columbia have evidently decided that David Koepp’s bicycle chase thriller Premium Rush is going to do well with a summer audience. The film has been bumped back from January 13, 2012 to August 24, 2012. There’s nothing else on that date right now, possibly because late August is a summer dead zone. But perhaps Koepp’s film can build an audience there....

‘Red Lights’ Trailer - A Better Look At ‘Buried’ Director Rodrigo Cortes’ Paranormal Thriller, This Time In English By Angie Han/Feb. 1, 2012 11:00 am EST After a very unrevealing first teaser, we finally got a better look at Buried director Rodrigo Cortés’ Red Lights when the full-length international trailer hit last week. Unfortunately, with all the dialogue dubbed over in Spanish and nary a subtitle in sight, it was difficult to get a sense of what was actually going on....

‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Viral Videos By Germain Lussier/July 13, 2011 5:00 pm EST These videos have been everywhere (hence the name “viral video”) but the fine folks at Gamma Squad slapped them all together. First up is the one almost 7,000,000 people have seen: And while that video has permeated popular culture, these next three have yet to break through in such a way. Probably because they’re less outwardly violent....

‘Sleep Tight’ Trailer – Don’t Trust The Doorman By Angie Han/April 26, 2011 5:00 pm EST Fresh off his critically acclaimed zombie flick [Rec] and the somewhat less beloved [Rec] 2, Jaume Balaguero has directed Sleep Tight (or Mientras Duermes in Spanish), a horror film about a sinister doorman who knows everything about his residents and does everything in his power to make them miserable. Watch the trailer after the jump....

‘Spider-Man’ Casting: Peter Parker’s Parents And A Second Villain By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 3, 2010 1:01 pm EST HeatVision has learned that Campbell Scott (Roger Dodger, The Spanish Prisoner) has signed on, and Irrfan Khan (Slumdog Millionaire, The Darjeeling Limited), Annie Parisse (Rubicon, National Treasure) and Julianne Nicholson (Kinsey, Little Black Book) are in talks to join the cast of Marc Webb’s 3D Spider-Man reboot. Find out which character they will play, after the jump....

Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Newsroom’ Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2012 7:00 am EST HBO has released a second full length trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s return to television — The Newsroom. In the series, Jeff Daniels plays “a big-time, buttoned-up news anchor who finally lets his real personality fly, and then has to deal with the career fallout that results.” Watch the trailer embedded after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below....

Brett Ratner Could Direct A Film About The Early Days Of MTV By Russ Fischer/March 16, 2012 11:30 am EST Briefly: Brett Ratner’s next project might chronicle the early days of MTV. Sony is near a deal with Ratner to adapt the Craig Marks and Rob Tannebaum book I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution. Jody Lambert (Welcome to People, now titled People Like Us) is set to script, which suggests that this will be a dramatic attempt to tell the story, rather than a documentary....

Casting Bits: Hailee Steinfeld In ‘Romeo & Juliet’, Tim Roth Signs On For ‘Arbitrage’ By Angie Han/April 8, 2011 6:00 am EST Hailee Steinfeld may have lost Katniss Everdeen to Jennifer Lawrence, but she’ll be portraying an even more famous teenager soon. The young True Grit star is reportedly in talks to join Carlo Carlei’s Romeo and Juliet as Juliet. For those who’ve somehow managed to get this far in life without knowing about Romeo and Juliet, the classic William Shakespeare play centers around a pair of teenagers from rival families who meet and fall in love, with tragic results....

Catherine Hardwicke In Talks To Direct ABC’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Series By Adam Quigley/Oct. 13, 2010 1:56 pm EST Catherine Hardwicke’s proposed contemporized Hamlet retelling with Emile Hirsch didn’t work out as planned, but she may yet have her shot at tackling one of Shakespeare’s classic works. The director is currently in talks to direct the pilot for Romeo & Juliet, a TV series adaptation of the play that “follows the famous love story while also pealing away the curtain on the impetuous, incestuous, bloody and violent relationships during the Renaissance in Verona”....

Elle Fanning In Talks To Play Sleeping Beauty In ‘Maleficent’ By Russ Fischer/March 8, 2012 3:00 pm EST After a very long development period, the Sleeping Beauty retelling Maleficent, with Angelina Jolie as the fairy tale’s evil queen, is finally getting rolling. Robert Stromberg was set to direct not long ago, and with a script in hand, a star who wants to make the picture now, and a director ready to go, the Disney project needed just one thing: someone to be Sleeping Beauty....

First Footage: ‘Butter’, Starring Jennifer Garner And Hugh Jackman By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2010 2:13 pm EST We’ve talked a lot about the casting for Butter, the Black List script by Jason Micallef that Jim Field Smith directed starring Jennifer Garner, Hugh Jackman, Ty Burrell, Rob Corddry, Ashley Greene, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone and Yara Shahidi. The film takes place in Iowa among an interrelated group of people, with championship butter carving being the event that brings them all together....

Hans Zimmer Calls ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Score ‘Epic’ And ‘Iconic’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 17, 2011 11:30 am EST Though we have yet to hear anything major from director Christopher Nolan, and probably won’t for some time, members of his crew have been spewing cautious quotes about what’s going on with The Dark Knight Rises. Nolan’s director of photography, Wally Pfister, has been quoted as calling the script “phenomenal” and now, composer Hans Zimmer spoke to MTV News and opened up – a little bit – about what he’s planning for the musical accompaniment to the film....

Idris Elba And Johnny Whitworth Negotiating Roles In ‘Ghost Rider 2’; Elba Also Has A Deal With Marvel By Russ Fischer/Oct. 5, 2010 8:45 pm EST With only a small amount of time left before the rights to Ghost Rider revert back to Marvel, Sony is quickly moving forward with Ghost Rider 2. Nicolas Cage is back as Johnny Blaze, who transforms into a cycle-riding spirit of vengeance, and Ciaran Hinds recently signed on as the picture’s villain....

J.J. Abrams Reportedly Pitching TV Show Starring Lost’s Terry O’Quinn And Michael Emerson By Russ Fischer/Sept. 20, 2010 8:34 am EST Briefly: I’m convinced that J.J. Abrams has a closet packed with Abrams clones, as that is the only possible explanation for the steady stream of news we’ve had lately about new projects from the guy. The latest is a report of an Abrams pitch for a new TV show that would reunite Lost’s Terry O’Quinn and Michael Emerson, aka John Locke and Benjamin Linus, as ‘former black-ops agents....

Joel Edgerton, Dominic Cooper, Luke Evans And Garrett Hedlund To Test For ‘The Bourne Legacy’ By Angie Han/March 24, 2011 6:20 pm EST The last time we checked in on casting for The Bourne Legacy, it seemed that basically every male actor under a certain age was being considered for the lead. Now it looks like casting is narrowing down a bit as the film moves forward. We can’t say for sure which names have been eliminated, but we do know which actors are scheduled for screen tests at the moment: Joel Edgerton, Dominic Cooper, Luke Evans and Garrett Hedlund (who, along with Alex Pettyfer, seems to be up for every major role in Hollywood these days)....