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Mark Zuckerberg Supposedly Spotted At Screening Of The Social Network? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2010 6:00 am EST Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed the upcoming David Fincher film The Social Network as a work of fiction, and has even said that he has no interest or plans to ever see it. However, the Facebook co-founder and CEO was supposedly spotted at a Washington-based screening of the film last night. We have found a couple reports on Twitter from people who claim to have seen “Zuck” at a screening....

Owen Wilson And Zach Galifianakis To Star In ‘You Are Here,’ From ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner By Germain Lussier/March 28, 2012 12:30 pm EST Matthew Weiner has taken a very unique path to feature film directing: write on one of the most popular cable shows of all time, then create another. Those shows are The Sopranos and Mad Men, and Weiner is using his cachet to finally put together a decade old passion project he could never previously get produced....

Preview A Selection Of Jonny Greenwood’s Score To ‘The Master,’ Plus Full Track Listing And More By Germain Lussier/Aug. 15, 2012 9:00 am EST Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, The Master, is one short month away. For limited cities at least. Until then, it’ll be playing in all its (hopefully) 70mm greatness at several different film festivals and buzz will likely begin to build for all aspects of the film: the performances of the lead actors Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix, Anderson’s direction and, most likely, the score by Jonny Greenwood....

Q&A: Why Are The Netflix Envelopes Rectangular Instead Of Square? By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2011 2:30 pm EST Why Are The Netflix Envelopes Rectangular Instead of Square? It’s not a question I’ve ever wondered before, but it is still a good one. Any Netflix subscriber has received and mailed hundreds of those red rectangular envelopes. Wouldn’t making the envelope square save the company a ton of money in production, never-mind save a bunch of trees in the process?...

Sacha Baron Cohen Not Allowed At This Year’s Oscars [Updated] By Germain Lussier/Feb. 22, 2012 4:30 pm EST And then they wonder why ratings are falling and interest is waining. Last year, a big hubbub was created when famous street artist Banksy wanted to come to the Oscars in a monkey mask to preserve his legendary anonymity. He wasn’t even sure if he wanted to come at all but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who nominated the artist’s film for Best Documentary Feature, told him he couldn’t attend if he dressed like that....

Stanley Kubrick’s List Of “Titles In Search Of A Script” By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 20, 2012 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Throughout his career, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick kept a list of potential movie titles that they called “Titles in search of a script.” Kubrick’s personal assistant Tony Frewin revealed the fun list, along with commentary explaining where the titles came from, in the comprehensive book The Stanley Kubrick Archives:...

Telluride Blog: Why We Travel To The Telluride Film Festival By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2011 8:51 am EST Every September, a small rustic mountain ski town in Colorado becomes host to one of the most elite film festivals in North America — The Telluride Film Festival. My friend Alex Billington of FirstShowing has a theory that most of the good film festivals are hard to get to. Alex’s theory is that to see the good films first, you really need to work for it....

Tim Burton To Do Stop-Motion Again, Work With Seth Grahame-Smith Again On ‘Night Of The Living’ By Angie Han/April 9, 2012 5:00 pm EST Like many folks in Hollywood, Tim Burton has a handful of people he likes to work with time and time again. Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carters are probably the most obvious examples of his frequent collaborators, having co-starred in approximately four hundred Burton movies, but in the past year the filmmaker appears to have added another name to his speed-dial list: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author Seth Grahame-Smith....

Was Bill & Ted 3 Rewritten Into Bio-Dome? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 5, 2011 11:30 am EST Earlier this week I saw a bunch of people on my twitter stream retweeting a bit of interesting film trivia: That the 1996 Pauly Shore/Stephen Baldwin “comedy” Bio-Dome was originally scripted as Bill & Ted 3. I was surprised as I had never heard this before. A quick google search showed that the information wasn’t new, as it appears on hundreds of websites across the interwebs....

Watch Piranha 3D’s ‘For Your Consideration’ Oscar Appeal By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2010 10:26 am EST Piranha 3D isn’t being shown to critics, which might mean that the Weinstein Company knows the movie is terrible, or just that they don’t need critics. Why bother, when there’s a built-in audience ready to see boobs, blood and killer fish in 3D? But even the lowliest movie has aspirations towards Oscar, and so we present For Your Consideration: Piranha 3D, in which ‘Hollywood treasure’ Jerry O’Connell leads a pack of actors (Adam Scott, Kelly Brook, Paul Scheer and more) in a campaign to win real award recognition for the film....

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‘Arthur Christmas’ US And UK Theatrical Trailers By Russ Fischer/Oct. 4, 2011 4:00 pm EST We’ve seen a couple teaser trailers for the Aardman Animation holiday film Arthur Christmas, and now, two full-length trailers are out. The UK trailer still shows a lot of the elements we’ve seen before — the North Pole as a high-tech gift processing center; Santa’s sleigh as UFO; and the geeky younger member of Santa’s family who acts as the title character — but it also shows off a lot more of the actual story that puts all those elements to work....

By Russ Fischer/Nov. 9, 2010 10:02 am EST Rights holders for big genre, comic book and toy properties are getting smart. In the past few decades we’ve seen many potentially huge adaptations languish as studios and producers waffled about finding the right approach to a project. But in the wake of big-dollar successes from Lord of the Rings to Spider-Man and The Dark Knight, companies such as Hasbro and the rights holders for projects like Dune are demanding new contracts, levying fines for delayed production starts and refusing to grant option extensions to studios that can’t get a project off the ground....

‘Hell’ Trailer: Roland Emmerich Produced Post-Apocalyptic Thriller By Germain Lussier/Aug. 26, 2011 1:00 pm EST Roland Emmerich has made a career of destroying the world and ignoring the aftermath. All his movies – Independence Day, 2012, etc. – end on a hopeful notion of survival instead of the incredibly depressing realization that billions are dead and all the cities are ruined. Finally, he’s produced a film that isn’t just apocalyptic, but post-apocalyptic....

‘Thor 2’ Director Not Set, ‘Monster’ Helmer Patty Jenkins In Contention By Russ Fischer/Sept. 22, 2011 10:05 am EST A few weeks back, Variety reported that Brian Kirk, who recently directed episodes of Game of Thrones, was in talks to direct Marvel’s Thor 2. But movement has been pretty slow on the project, and we never got the expected press release from Disney and Marvel announcing the finalization of the deal....

‘Win Win’ Writer/Director Tom McCarthy Writing Supernatural Family Comedy For DreamWorks By Russ Fischer/June 7, 2011 3:00 pm EST Fans of animation director Brendon Small are familiar with his series Home Movies, but don’t mistake this new film with the same title for one that has anything to do with the animated series. (Or with Brian DePalma’s 1980 film, either.) This new Home Movies is something different: a supernatural family comedy....

50 Movie Spoilers Of 2010 In 3 Minutes By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 21, 2011 1:00 pm EST Our friends the Fine Brothers have filed the latest episode of their popular “Spoiler” series — 50 Movie Spoilers of 2010 in 3 Minutes, in one take. You might remember that we’ve featured their videos 50 Christmas Movie Spoilers in 3 Minutes, 100 Movie Spoilers in 4 minutes, Spoiling Every Best Picture Winner in Oscar History, 50 spoilers of 2009 in 4 minutes, 100 Horror Movie Spoilers in 5 Minutes, 50 Disney Spoilers in 3 Minutes and 50 Comedy Spoilers in 3 Minutes....

Actress Shortlist For ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Reportedly Features Weisz, Watts, Lively, Portman, Hathaway And Knightley By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2010 1:09 pm EST As was bound to happen, a shortlist has been revealed consisting of actresses who might be up for roles in The Dark Knight Rises. Deadline says that Christopher Nolan is looking at six women for two lead female roles. Reportedly, one is a love interest and the other a villain....

Christina Hendricks Joins ‘Seconds Of Pleasure,’ Mike Figgis Replaces Neil LaBute As Director By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2011 5:30 pm EST Briefly: The last time we reported on Seconds of Pleasure, the film had just cast Brendan Fraser and was set to be directed by Neil LaBute. But things have changed. Neil LaBute’s script is still in play, but now Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, Cold Creek Manor) will direct the movie....

Eight Minutes Of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Previewed, Trailer Coming Midnight Tonight By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2012 4:14 pm EST Sony Pictures held worldwide sneak peek event for The Amazing Spider-Man on Monday in 13 cities. “The Untold Story Begins” events took place simultaneously, with the cast and filmmakers appearing live in various cities, connecting with each other though live satellite feeds in Los Angeles, New York City, Rio de Janeiro and London....