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By Germain Lussier/April 20, 2011 11:00 am EST When Mondo announced that they’d be doing Director’s Series posters, beginning with Guillermo del Toro, the one title on the list that really stood out was Pan’s Labyrinth. What would a limited edition poster for this classic film look like? Finally, we have the answer. /Film is proud to exclusively present your first official look at Aaron Horkey’s Pan’s Labyrinth poster, presented as part of Mondo’s Director’s Series and the Alamo Drafthouse’s Big Screen Classics series....

More Details Revealed About Spielberg-Produced TV Show Terra Nova By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2010 10:14 pm EST So what is the show really about? We’ve said before that the Craig Silverstein and Kelly Marcel script is about “a family who live 100 years from now on future Earth, who are flung back in time 150 million years to the prehistoric age, when Earth was ruled by dinosaurs.” EW now elaborates a bit:...

Movie Trailer: ‘London Boulevard’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 29, 2010 10:35 am EST Screenwriter William Monahan made his directorial debut not long ago with London Boulevard. But despite being the first film from a big-name writer and featuring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley, the film didn’t show up at festivals and has generally had a rather low profile. And if this just-released trailer is any indication, that might be because the movie is a weird blend of tone and genre....

New Clip From Drew Struzan Documentary, ‘Drew: The Man Behind The Poster’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 2, 2011 11:00 am EST One of the most prolific poster artists of our generation, Drew Struzan, is the subject of an upcoming documentary called Drew: The Man Behind Poster. Directed by Erik Sharkey, the film features interviews with George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Michael J. Fox, Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, Steven Spielberg and others all discussing the man behind such iconic posters as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Back to the Future, Blade Runner, The Goonies, the first Harry Potter films, Big Trouble in Little China, Hellboy and so many others....

New Projects: ‘The Departed’ Screenwriter William Monahan Directing ‘Mojave,’ Catherine Hardwicke Making ‘Diamond’ By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2012 6:00 am EST Catherine Hardwicke, who made the first Twilight film a few years back, and followed that with Red Riding Hood, is looking back towards the indie circuit. She’s about to make Plush, a thriller with Evan Rachel Wood, and as a potential follow-up she’s developing a gangster film set in ’60s London....

Philip Noyce To Remake ‘Bloodsport’ By Russ Fischer/May 17, 2011 9:26 am EST Yep, the headline says what you think it says. The 1988 Jean-Claude Van Damme film Bloodsport is going to be remade, and Philip Noyce, who last directed the rather silly film Salt, is going to be behind the camera. Screen Daily says the film will follow “an American who goes to Brazil to recover from the violence he has experienced in Afghanistan who gets involved in a martial arts contest....

Roger Ebert Will NEVER, EVER, Watch A Movie On His iPhone, Will You? By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2010 2:24 pm EST During Steve Jobs keynote at the WWDC earlier today, it was announced that Netflix is developing an app for the iPhone which would allow customers to stream movies on their iPhone. Following the announcement of the Netflix iPhone app, Pulitzer prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert tweeted that he “will never, ever, watch a movie on my iPhone....

Steven Soderbergh To Direct Channing Tatum And Alex Pettyfer In ‘Magic Mike’ By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2011 9:33 pm EST We’ve known for some time that Channing Tatum wanted to make a movie about a male stripper. (Stripping being something Tatum really did in his own past.) We were surprised, a couple weeks back, when Steven Soderbergh revealed that he would make the movie as one of his last few before retiring as a director, under the title Magic Mike....

Superhero Bits: Iron Man 3, The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers, Hulk, Amazing Spider-Man, Pixar By Germain Lussier/May 29, 2012 11:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. This is rad. Scientific American (via IO9) has posted some Hulk anatomy drawings by Glendon Mellow. In Empire (via CBM), Kevin Feige made it sound like Tony Stark’s alcoholism won’t be an issue in the Iron Man movies:...

Teaser Trailer: JJ Abrams’ Super 8 By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2010 8:45 am EST Paramount Pictures has finally released the official high definition quicktime movie trailer for the Steven Spielberg-produced JJ Abrams-directed super secret project Super 8. You may have watched a bootlegged handicam version on YouTube over the weekend, but now it is officially online. The teaser trailer is sure to wet your appetiate, and head on over to our post Everthing We Know About Super 8 to learn more....

The Duplass Brothers Scripting ‘Mule’ For ‘The Hangover’ Director Todd Phillips By Russ Fischer/April 26, 2012 5:00 pm EST Earlier this year there was a rundown of films that Todd Phillips (the two Hangover movies, Old School, Due Date) might direct next. Phillips is already set to do a third Hangover movie for Warner Bros., and his production company has a first-look deal with the studio. One of the possible films was described as: Mule, adapted from Tony D’Souza’s novel “about a young couple that turns to drug trafficking to scratch a living during the recession....

The JustifiedCast S3E10 - Guy Walks Into A Bar (GUEST: Myles McNutt From Cultural Learnings) By David Chen/March 26, 2012 8:20 pm EST Dave Chen chats with Myles McNutt from Cultural Learnings about this season’s tenth episode, “Guy Walks Into a Bar.” This week we find out a lot regarding Quarles’ backstory. But is it too much? E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at justifiedcast@gmail....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Alice In Wonderland, The Wolfman, And More By Adam Quigley/June 1, 2010 10:14 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Available on Blu-ray? Yes.Notable Extras: DVD – 3 featurettes (“Finding Alice”, “The Mad Hatter”, “Effecting Wonderland”). Blu-ray – Includes everything on the DVD, as well as additional featurettes (“The Futterwacken Dance”, “The Red Queen”, “The White Queen”, “Scoring Wonderland”, “Stunts of Wonderland”, “Making the Proper Size”, “Cakes of Wonderland”, “Tea Party Props”, “Time-Lapse: Sculpting the Red Queen”)....

Tom Cruise Offered Supporting Role In Film Version Of Musical ‘Rock Of Ages’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 27, 2010 6:30 pm EST There’s been talk of late about a remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cult film which adapted a stage musical of the same name. Given the current popularity of Glee I can see why studios might be thinking it’s time to dip back into the musical well. But there have to be better options to create a musical hit than trying to replicate and expand upon the cult popularity of Rocky Horror....

Young ‘Super 8’ Star Joel Courtney To Play Tom Sawyer In Indie Mark Twain Adaptation By Russ Fischer/June 23, 2011 2:43 pm EST Joel Courtney was an unknown a few months ago; now he is on thousands of movie screens as Joe Lamb, the young man at the center of J.J. Abrams’ movie Super 8. We haven’t had much word on what he might do to follow up that film, but now there is a report that he is in talks for two roles....

‘Darling Companion’ Trailer - Four Oscar Nominees, Three Oscar Winners, Zero Original Ideas By Angie Han/Jan. 23, 2012 4:30 pm EST On paper, Lawrence Kasdan’s Darling Companion sounds promising. Kasdan, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and filmmaker, directed the drama from a script he co-wrote with his wife Meg Kasdan, also an Oscar nominee. The star-studded cast, as the trailer is happy to remind you, includes two Academy Award nominees (Richard Jenkins and Sam Shepard) and three Academy Award winners (Diane Keaton, Dianne Wiest, and Kevin Kline), as well as promising younger actors like Elisabeth Moss and Mark Duplass....

‘The Hobbit’ News: No Ron Perlman, Allegations Of Casting Racism, New Shire Photo By Russ Fischer/Nov. 30, 2010 10:24 pm EST There’s a bunch of varied news from the Shire today, including, appropriately, a new image of the Shire. First up is some minor casting clarification. While Ian McKellen has listed The Hobbit on his own website as a 201? project (that question mark is verbatim, not my typo) and therefore seemingly confirms his participation, Ron Perlman will not be in the film....

Adam Brody Will Also Romance Emily Watson, Zoe Kazan, Jennifer Morrison, And Mia Maestro In ‘Some Girls’ By Angie Han/March 7, 2012 11:00 am EST Adam Brody’s certainly come a long way from his days playing geeky misfit Seth Cohen on The O.C. Earlier this week, news broke that Kristen Bell had signed on to play one of his ex-girlfriends in Jennifer Getzinger’s Some Girls, adapted by Neil LaBute from his own play....

Alexander Payne Wants Bruce Dern And Will Forte For ‘Nebraska’ By Angie Han/May 15, 2012 3:30 pm EST Although there was a seven-year gap between Sideways and last year’s The Descendants, Alexander Payne seems eager to get going on his next project sooner rather than later. The filmmaker has begun casting for Nebraska, the black and white father-son road trip comedy he has set up at Paramount, and he now has top picks in mind for the two leads....

Casting Notes: Danny McBride Attached To ‘Used Guys’, Katherine Heigl Out Of ‘Adaline’, Gerard Butler In Antoine Fuqua’s ‘Afterburn’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 16, 2010 12:23 pm EST After the break, Katherine Heigl backs out of her next picture, and Gerard Butler teams up with Antoine Fuqua. Adaline was scheduled to shoot in March, but due to reasons that are being disputed (was there bad blood or was there not?) Katherine Heigl has dropped out of the film....