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Emily Blunt Joins Rian Johnson’s Looper By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 30, 2010 4:28 pm EST Production Weekly is reporting that Golden Globe-winning actress Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada, The Wolfman) has signed on to join Brick director Rian Johnson’s sci-fi thriller Looper. Blunt will likely play the female lead, a woman/mother named Sara who finds Joe (Joseph Gordon Levitt) hiding-out on her farm. Looper is set in the near future. Time travel doesn’t exist yet, but it will be invented a few decades in the future....

Imagine Entertainment Developing Fairy Tale Thriller ‘Legends’ By Russ Fischer/June 17, 2010 10:27 am EST OK, here’s a great idea. We’re going to take The Brothers Grimm and mash it up with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. You know, have ‘dark fantasy’ versions of Red Riding Hood, Jack the Giant Killer and Hansel and Gretel teaming up to solve a murder mystery. Who says there is no longer any reverence for the true good stories?...

Javier Bardem Still Attached To ‘The Dark Tower’ As Ron Howard Seeks New Funding By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2011 9:00 am EST The boys at Imagine Entertainment aren’t going to let Universal’s brush-off get them down. Not long ago, Universal opted not to fund an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel series The Dark Tower, which was planned to encompass three feature films and at least two short connective television series. Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Akiva Goldsman make up the trio that have been trying to assemble the project, and, as intimated by King when Universal turned away, they’re not giving up....

Johnnie To’s Latest, ‘Life Without Principle,’ Added To Venice Fest Lineup; See The Trailer And Poster By Russ Fischer/Aug. 9, 2011 4:45 pm EST The last competition slot in the Venice Film Festival has now been taken: Life Without Principle, the latest film from prolific Hong Kong director Johnnie To, will now be programmed alongside much-anticipated films like Carnage, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Shame, and Alps. If the punning title didn’t already give you the heads-up, Life Without Principle appears to be a multi-strand thriller with roots in the recent economic crisis....

Josh Duhamel, Ice Cube And Ryan Seacrest In Talks For ‘New Year’s Eve’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2011 6:29 pm EST We’ll keep this one quick because, well, it’s another casting report about New Year’s Eve, the sorta-spinoff romcom from Valentine’s Day director Garry Marshall. The film already has Robert De Niro, Ashton Kutcher, Sofia Vergara, Halle Berry, Zac Efron, Jessica Biel, Michelle Pfeiffer, Abigail Breslin, Hilary Swank, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jon Bon Jovi, Seth Meyers, Til Schweiger and Sienna Miller set to appear....

LOL: Comic Book Guy Responds To Comic-Con’s Potential Move By Peter Sciretta/May 6, 2010 12:00 pm EST While it appears that Comic-Con International may stay in San Diego after the city commits to convention center and hotel expansions, it isn’t yet a done deal. Last week, CCI officials visited Los Angeles “to see the new LA Live facility and how things have changed downtown.” Comic-Con Director of Marketing and Public Relations David Glanzer told CBR:...

New ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ Trailer Reveals ‘Mark Of The Spider-Man’ Viral Campaign By Germain Lussier/Feb. 7, 2012 4:00 pm EST The biggest news of the past 24 hours was certainly the release of the new trailer for Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man. As is the case with any trailer of that magnitude, minutes following the its debut, fans had already began to pour over its minutia. What does The Lizard look like?...

Phantom Menace Guy’s 25 Minute Review Of Baby’s Day Out By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2010 11:30 am EST Mike from Red Letter Media (AKA the guy who put together the epic, 70-minute review of The Phantom Menace and the 90-minute review of Attack of the Clones) has moved on past sci-fi and is now doing shorter video reviews. The newest is a twenty five minute dissection of the Patrick Read Johnson’s 1994 film Baby’s Day Out....

Release Date Announcements/Changes: The Zookeeper, The Adjustment Bureau, Catfish, Your Highness, James Cameron’s Sanctum 3D, Ron Howard’s Cheaters M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil And More By Peter Sciretta/April 28, 2010 5:00 am EST We have a bunch of new release date announcements/changes to report on, including the Kevin James comedy The Zookeeper, the Matt Damon/Emily Blunt thriller The Adjustment Bureau, the 2010 Sundance sensation Catfish, David Gordon Green’s medieval comedy Your Highness, the James Cameron-produced Sanctum 3D, Ron Howard’s comedy Cheaters, and The Night Chronicles: Devil....

Ryan Reynolds Could Be Immortal; Lionsgate Wants Him For ‘Highlander’ By Russ Fischer/May 18, 2012 1:30 pm EST Someone needs to run through several centuries worth of storyline, decapitating people in swordfights, and Lionsgate wants it to be Ryan Reynolds. The actor is reportedly the top choice to lead the cast of the new version of Highlander, based on Russell Mulcahy’s 1986 film in which Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery were immortal warriors participating in an age-old contest for The Prize....

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises, Amazing Spider-Man, The Avengers, Stan Lee, Disney By Germain Lussier/March 20, 2012 2:00 pm EST Want to enter a Dark Knight Rises contest judged by Christopher Nolan himself? How about see photos and video of awesome cosplay at WonderCon? What did Tom Hiddleston have to say about The Avengers on Sirius XM Radio? Which old Marvel cartoons will make their way onto the new Disney XD block?...

Taylor Lautner Wanted For X-Men: First Class But Unavailable, Kevin Bacon’s Role Revealed? Also: Bryan Singer Debunks Wolverine 2 Rumors By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2010 8:00 am EST There actually seems to be a bit of legitimacy to the rumors that Twilight star Taylor Lautner was being courted for X-Men First Class. Singer confirms to ScifiWire the following: Singer also debunked the rumor that he would be helming Wolverine 2:...

VOTD: The Ferris Bueller Fight Club Theory By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2010 12:00 am EST Last year we wrote about a wacky but fun movie theory called the Ferris Bueller Fight Club Theory, which theorized that “Ferris Bueller, the person, is just a figment of Cameron’s imagination, like Tyler Durden in Fight Club, and Sloane is the girl Cameron secretly loves.” You can read the original post about the topic here....

Watch Conan O’Brien’s ‘Conan Show Zero’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 1, 2010 8:15 pm EST Conan O’Brien promised to air a live test of his new Conan talk show on the internet prior to the small screen return next Monday night on TBS. That test show streamed online tonight and was kinda a bait and switch — a short five-minute mini-show (some might even call it a skit or an extended commercial)....

‘A Bag Of Hammers’ Trailer By Germain Lussier/March 16, 2011 5:00 pm EST South by Southwest is still going strong down in Austin, Texas and if you’re following along on Twitter, there are a ton of movies that should have hit your radar. Films like Kill List, The FP, Bridesmaids and Attack the Block just to name a few. Another one that seems to have people talking is A Bag of Hammers, one of those classic, festival ready indie comedies starring co-writer Jake Sandvig, Jason Ritter and Rebecca Hall....

‘Attack The Block’ Director To Make ‘Rust’ Graphic Novel Adaptation By Russ Fischer/July 11, 2012 9:06 pm EST The original story is by Royden Lepp, with Aline Brosh McKenna scripting based on Lepp’s graphic novel. The story follows a family whose lives are changed when a jetpack-wearing boy crashes into their barn while being chased by a giant old war robot. Here’s a description of Rust: I’ve seen comparisons that link Rust to E....

‘Juan Of The Dead’ Trailer: An Insane Looking Cuban Horror Film By Germain Lussier/July 8, 2011 3:00 pm EST I would rip off someone’s jaw to see Juan of the Dead right now. That’s how cool this first trailer is for what Latino Review calls “Cuba’s 1st Horror Film” is. Written and directed by Alejandro Bruges, Juan of the Dead takes place 50 years after the Cuban Revolution, where the island is overrun by zombies the government swears were sent by the United States....

‘Meaning Of Robots’ Trailer: Robots Need Lust, Too By Russ Fischer/Jan. 16, 2012 2:30 pm EST With this one-minute trailer, the short film Meaning of Robots just became a film I’m very interested to see. The trailer at first seems to be a pretty straight-forward document about Mike Sullivan, a nice old guy who makes robots. But look closely at his designs, and you’ll see they’re a bit more… sexualized than what you might expect to see....

‘Safe’ Trailer: Jason Statham, The Protector By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2011 9:00 am EST One of the hoariest action movie plot cliches is the one where a tough guy has to protect a kid against all manner of danger. That’s the old saw used for the latest Jason Statham movie, Safe. He’s a former bad-ass cop who finds himself protecting a young girl who has memorized a string of numbers that everyone in New York city seems to want....

‘Spy Kids: All The Time In The World’ Trailer #2 By Russ Fischer/July 1, 2011 6:39 pm EST So there is a fourth Spy Kids movie, which was shot in 3D but also features a ‘4D’ element Robert Rodriguez and Dimension are calling ‘AromaScope,’ and I’m not sure what else to say about it. This is a movie for kids, pure and simple, with Jessica Alba playing either a secret agent whose emotional response to the world around her has been damaged by some severe interrogation, or a suburban mom who can’t go six hours without a valium....