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‘Your Highness’ Red-Band Trailer #2: Cads And Boobie Traps Abound By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2011 11:15 am EST I still can’t quite believe that Your Highness exists. A raunchy sword and sorcery stoner movie from the guy who directed the arthouse fave George Washington and starring Best Actress Oscar winner Natalie Portman? Pure lunacy. (Yeah, it sucks that Universal passed on At the Mountains of Madness, but you can’t say the studio isn’t willing to take chances, looking at movies like this....

2011 Venice Film Festival Lineup Includes ‘Carnage,’ ‘A Dangerous Method,’ And ‘Dogtooth’ Director’s Latest By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2011 10:00 am EST Hot on the heels of the release of a massive batch of films that will appear in the Toronto Film Festival, we’ve got the main lineup for the 68th Venice Film Festival, which runs from August 31 to September 10. We knew that George Clooney’s The Ides of March would open the fest (the trailer premiered last night and you can see it here) and this list confirms quite a few films that we imagined would be playing Venice....

Alex Winter Making A Napster Documentary By Germain Lussier/Aug. 23, 2011 3:30 pm EST Alex Winter is making a new movie. Unfortunately, it’s not Bill and Ted 3 just yet. Instead, Winter is getting back behind the camera to make a movie about the rise of fall of the legendary (or infamous, depending on how you look at it) music sharing sharing service Napster. Winter had been developing the story as a narrative screenplay for the better part of a decade but now, with the backing of VH1, he’ll do it as a documentary....

By Germain Lussier/Dec. 22, 2010 6:00 am EST Leave it to Cameron Crowe to make the soundtrack for a movie before he’s shot a single frame. In a recent interview with MTV, Matt Damon said that when he got the script to Crowe’s new film, We Bought A Zoo, it came with a soundtrack that featured “a lot of Eddie Vedder” and “a lot of Neil Young.” The film, scheduled for release almost one year from today, December 23, 2011, stars shooting next month....

Comic Con 2012 Video Blog: Man Of Steel, Godzilla, The Hobbit And Pacific Rim By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2012 7:00 am EST San Diego Comic Con 2012 was underwhelming, that is, until Saturday when Warner Bros presented footage from Zach Snyder’s Superman reboot Man of Steel, Guillermo del Toro’s giant monsters vs. giant mech movie Pacific Rim, Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit and the surprise premiere of a teaser trailer for Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla....

Director Shortlist For ‘Tales From The Gangster Squad’ Reportedly Includes Francis Lawrence, Paul Greengrass And More By Russ Fischer/Oct. 6, 2010 11:31 am EST I can’t tell if Tales From the Gangster Squad, based on a series of LA Times articles and intended as an ensemble ‘actor’s piece,’ is as much of a priority at Warner Bros. as news would make it seem, or if the film is just an easy headline....

Disney And Jerry Bruckheimer Go Lightspeed By Peter Sciretta/May 25, 2010 8:30 am EST Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer have acquired a pitch from screenwriters Terry Rossio and Bill Marsilii for low-seven figures against $3.5 million. For those of you who don’t know — this kind of price for a pitch in Hollywood these days is HUGE. So what is it about? The epic space adventure pitch is called Lightspeed. Variety says the story follows “a young pilot who makes the Earth Interstellar Racing Team and must take his ship on a perilous journey across the galaxy on the brink of war....

Download 7 Minutes Of Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross’ Score For ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 7, 2011 3:00 pm EST For any fans of David Fincher, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross who might occasionally point their browser over to dragontattoo.com to stream the score from the upcoming The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, you may now close the window. A Fincher fan site has uncovered a free, downloadable MP3 track from the score hidden on the film’s official site....

Dreamworks Animation (Slightly) Rethinks Release Plan By Russ Fischer/Feb. 28, 2011 2:00 pm EST Last year Jeffrey Katzenberg announced that DreamWorks Animation would release three CG animated films every other year, with a goal of making sequels to just about every possible film in the studio’s library. And while the sequels are still in play, it looks as if someone talked sense into those who call the plays at DWA, suggesting that forcing a slate of three films every two years might not be the best idea....

Final Poster Revealed: The Walking Dead By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 21, 2010 8:00 am EST AMC has released and awesome new poster for its upcoming small screen adaptation of The Walking Dead, which premieres Halloween night, October 31 at 10pm. Executive produced and written by three-time Academy Award nominee Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile), The Walking Dead tells the story of “the months and years that follow after a zombie apocalypse....

Geek Deal: The Dark Knight Blu-Ray For Under $10 By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2010 12:16 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Huge Rumor: ‘Batman 3’ To Feature Killer Croc? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2010 3:19 pm EST For the past day, the big buzz on Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film is that the film will shoot next April in Louisiana. The supposition for the Louisiana location, after the previous two films did so much photography in Chicago, is that Warner Bros. loves the tax breaks that helped out Green Lantern when it shot in the state earlier this year....

Hulu Plus Adds ‘Cosby Show’, ‘3rd Rock From The Sun’, And More By Angie Han/Nov. 23, 2011 12:00 pm EST Traditionally, Thanksgiving is a time to get everyone together and remember just how crazy and messed-up your family can be. But if you’re a Hulu Plus subscriber, you can spend this holiday ignoring your wacky relatives and hanging out with someone else’s instead. Sort of. The streaming service has just acquired the rights to 11 sitcoms from Casey Werner TV Distribution including The Cosby Show, should you want to see what a warm, loving family is supposed to look like, and 3rd Rock From the Sun, should you want reassurance that no matter how bizarre your clan gets, they could be worse....

James Cameron And Andrew Adamson Are Making 3D Cirque Du Soleil Feature By Germain Lussier/Dec. 8, 2010 9:00 am EST Cirque du Soleil has made projects about The Beatles, Elvis and Michael Jackson. It’s only fitting that the next superstar they work with is James Cameron. The producer and director of the two biggest films of all time is teaming with the globally successful circus troupe to produce a 3D family film blending narrative with the incredible performances Cirque du Soleil is known for....

Just In Time For The Film’s 20th Anniversary, Development Of A ‘Goodfellas’ TV Series Is Announced By Russ Fischer/Sept. 22, 2010 8:04 pm EST OK, first up, right now, if you’re interested at all in Goodfellas and haven’t read the massive, magnificent GQ article that is built out of quotes from nearly everyone involved in the making of the film, go read it. Waste no time. That’s not even an idle connection, like, “oh, here’s a good place to mention that article....

Movie Trailer #2: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2010 10:36 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures has released a new two and a hald minute movie trailer for the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, Jon Turteltaub-directed The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. The new trailer shows a bit more interaction between Jay Baruchel and Teresa Palmer, and showcases a bunch of new special effects shots. I’ve been hearing a bunch of good things about this movie, and I expect it will surprise us....

New Clips: ‘The Five-Year Engagement’, ‘The Dictator’, And Yes, More ‘Avengers’ By Angie Han/April 14, 2012 8:00 am EST Because we know that not a one of you feel like working on a Friday afternoon (otherwise, you’d be actually working instead of checking /Film), we’ve got new clips from both. For the less humorously inclined, there’s also another new scene from The Avengers. Hit the jump to watch. [via Moviefone]...

Paramount Hoping To Make ‘World War Z’ The First Of A Trilogy By Angie Han/Jan. 5, 2012 7:00 am EST It took Paramount years to get the zombie apocalypse thriller World War Z off the ground, but now that the production is actually up and running, it seems the studio is very eager to keep moving forward with the property. The studio and director Marc Forster reportedly have their fingers crossed that the upcoming film will become the first in a trilogy, all with star Brad Pitt at this center....

Ray Winstone May Be ‘Noah’ Villain By Russ Fischer/June 12, 2012 5:30 am EST For months there were rumors that Liam Neeson might end up playing the villain in Darren Aronofsky’s unique take on the Biblical epic Noah. But one of the last news breaks we had on the film informed us that Neeson was out of the running and Aronofsky would have to look for someone else to oppose the ark-building efforts of Noah (Russell Crowe)....

Russell Crowe Confirmed To Be In Talks For Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 28, 2012 2:30 pm EST Briefly: After years and years of thinking about the movie and prepping ideas for the project, Darren Aronofsky is finally going to get his chance to re-tell the story of Noah, the Ark and the Flood. Aronofsky is now in talks with Russell Crowe to have the actor play the title role in Noah when the film shoots starting in July....