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Supermodel/Actress Gemma Ward Cast In Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2010 5:00 am EST Supermodel turned actor Gemma Ward (The Strangers, The Black Balloon) has been cast for a role in producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Rob Marshall ’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. According to the report from The Courier Mail, Ward has been cast in a “small speaking part” as a mermaid, but won’t shoot her scenes until August....

The Latest Competition To Netflix Comes From… Sears? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 29, 2010 3:00 pm EST I was tempted to present this as an LOL post, but then I thought about the fact that competition can come from anywhere, and stranger things have happened than an old retail and catalog giant becoming a player in the movie space. The company will have to become more competitive with prices, though, if there’s any real hope of sticking around for more than a year or two....

The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 54 - The Long Road To Somewhere Else By David Chen/Feb. 10, 2012 1:00 pm EST The conclusion of the heart story trilogy. Stephen finds the missing time from the recovery room. It comes with a message he didn’t expect and will never forget. Come see The Tobolowsky Files LIVE in New York and Boston! The Tobolowsky Files is a podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky....

Two Clips And Featurette From ‘Win Win’ By Germain Lussier/March 4, 2011 3:30 pm EST On the site we’ve already reviewed the film, both on video and in print, spoken to the co-writer/director Tom McCarthy and highlighted the trailer. Now, we’ve found two clips from the film as well as a featurette that’ll get you stoked for one of the best movies of 2011 so far, Win Win. Thanks to The Movie Box for the heads up on all of these videos....

VOTD: ‘Bad Dads’ Starring Michael Cera And Will Hines By Peter Sciretta/March 10, 2011 6:00 am EST This month CollegeHumor launched a new web series titled Bad Dads, starring Michael Cera (Superbad, Scott Pilgrim) and Will Hines (Upright Citizens Brigade, Very Mary-Kate). The series of improv-based comedy sketches directed by Derek Westerman feature “a son tries desperately to form a relationship with his chronically absent father.” After the jump you can watch the first two parts of the five-part series....

Will Joaquin Phoenix Take A Role In ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 1, 2011 6:30 am EST That leaves a couple of big roles, notably the fictional Henry Sturges, a vampire who saves Lincoln at 16 (John Ford wouldn’t recognize this Young Mr. Lincoln) and then becomes the future president’s vampire-killing mentor. A non-vampiric Whistler, if you will. But since Kris Kristofferson is probably not interested and/or too old, the role is reportedly open to Joaquin Phoenix, if he wants it....

Zooey Deschanel And Domhnall Gleeson In Talks For ‘About Time,’ From ‘Love Actually’ Director By Russ Fischer/March 28, 2012 2:00 pm EST Briefly: Since (500) Days of Summer, Zooey Deschanel has been only two features: Our Idiot Brother and Your Highness, both released last year. Now she’ll go back to the big screen with director Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Pirate Radio) and co-star Domhnall Gleeson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the upcoming Dredd)....

‘American Reunion’ Plot Details Revealed By Angie Han/March 24, 2011 7:25 am EST It’s been a couple years since we first reported that Universal was eyeing another slice of American Pie (yup, I said it), and it looks like the film, titled American Reunion, is finally coming together. It was announced last week that Jason Biggs, Eugene Levy and Seann William Scott had already signed deals with Universal, and that most of the rest of the original cast were in talks....

/Film Readers: Help Colin Hanks Make The Tower Records Documentary By Peter Sciretta/May 31, 2011 11:30 am EST Some of you might know Colin Hanks as the son of actor Tom Hanks, but most of you probably know the young actor from his roles in such films as Orange County, Peter Jackson’s King Kong, The Great Buck Howard, Oliver Stone’s W., Band of Brothers and tv shows like Roswell and The Good Guys....

‘Hotel Transylvania’ International Teaser Trailer: Genndy Tartakovsky’s Take On Classic Movie Monsters By Russ Fischer/March 21, 2012 10:00 am EST Hotel Transylvania features the voice of Adam Sandler as Dracula, which isn’t exactly the most attractive casting idea for the classic monster. But the film is directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars) and that is very attractive — Tartakovsky has demonstrated more than once that he has the ability to mix effective characterization with cute and weird visuals....

‘Ra One’ Trailer - The Bollywood ‘Iron Man’ By Germain Lussier/April 5, 2011 8:24 am EST When it comes to huge movies with expensive special effects, no country in the world can touch America. Whether or not that’s a good thing is a whole other argument but even overseas, their biggest budget productions pale in comparison to ours. That tide might slowly be turning, however, with a film like Ra One, an upcoming Indian superhero film in the mold of Iron Man, directed by Anubhav Sinha and starring Shah Rukh Khan, which is being touted as one of the biggest spectacles to ever come out of the country....

‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark’ Getting IMAX Release September 7 By Germain Lussier/Aug. 14, 2012 2:00 pm EST To commemorate the long-awaited Blu-ray release of Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures, Paramount is reportedly planning to re-release Steven Spielberg’s all-time action classic Raiders of the Lost Ark in IMAX theaters from September 7 to 13. Spielberg himself worked on the film’s transition to 70mm while simultaneously remastering the 1981 hit for the high-definition home format....

‘Shut Up Little Man’ – Recorded Roommate Rantings Spawn Cult Comedy Phenomenon [Sundance Review] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 29, 2011 9:00 am EST Two friends move from Wisconsin to San Fransisco and soon realize their crotchety, old next door neighbors argue constantly. And they’re crude. And loud. And it gets so annoying that the two friends begin to record the often hilarious arguments. Those recordings then made it out into the world and slowly but surely became not only an underground smash, but the inspiration for all kinds of art and merchandise....

‘Source Code’ Poster Debuts By Russ Fischer/Jan. 25, 2011 2:30 pm EST We’ve seen a fan-submitted poster for Source Code, the second feature from Moon director Duncan Jones, but here’s the debut of the official one-sheet. The fan-made one was like a blend of Tyler Stout and Saul Bass, whereas the official sheet looks like the sort of art that could have adorned a sci-fi novel in years past. See the full image after the break....

‘Total Recall’ Gets A Strange Cameo; Mars Definitely Out Of The Picture? By Russ Fischer/May 10, 2011 3:00 pm EST So does the new Total Recall go to Mars, or not? At first we assumed it did, then it seemed like perhaps it wouldn’t after all, then there was a suggestion that Mars was still part of the picture. But the latest trade break says that Mars is gone, period. Maybe that’s for the best, because while I like Colin Farrell and am ready to see his version of Quaid, the character made famous by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Paul Verhoeven original, I’m not sure I need to see him tell himself “get your ass to Mars....

18-Minutes Of ‘ParaNorman’ B-Roll Footage Shows Us How A Stop-Motion Animated Movie Is Created By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 7, 2012 7:00 am EST Movie studios release b-roll footage for tv producers to splice in between their 30 second junket interview clip on the local morning show (or other such productions). We often post this unedited footage on the site because we love the brief glimpses it gives us at the creation of a movie....

Another Fan-Made Poster For The Avengers By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2010 7:00 pm EST Earlier this month, concept art leaked for Marvel’s Thor and Captain America giving fans a better understanding of what the future superheroes will look like. We’ve been posting some cool fan art posters for the upcoming superhero team-up film The Avengers. And now /Film reader Ray P sent over another cool fan rendering by someone named the_mad_butcher....

Casting Bits: Gerard Butler In ‘Brilliant’, Robert Redford And Diane Keaton In ‘The Most Wonderful Time’ By Angie Han/March 1, 2012 5:00 pm EST Robert Luketic’s The Ugly Truth was among the worst reviewed films of Gerard Butler’s career, so I can’t say I’m all that thrilled to hear that a reunion is brewing for the pair. Butler has signed on to replace Eric Bana in Brilliant, a thriller about “a small-time criminal who partners with a female thief to pull off a daring diamond heist....

Casting Notes: Sam Jackson And Kellan Lutz In Deathgames; Lily Collins In Abduction; Ethan Hawke In The Numbers Station By Russ Fischer/April 16, 2010 10:33 am EST I’ll be fairly well amused if Kellan Lutz ends up being the real breakout star from Twilight. He’s in a few films now, and even though he lost the lead role in Conan, the fact that he’s not angling for ridiculous paydays (a la Taylor Lautner) makes me think he’ll be around for a minute....

CinemaCon Reactions: ‘Savages’, ‘TED’, ‘Bourne Legacy’, ‘Les Miserables’, Judd Apatow’s ‘This Is 40’, ’ 47 Ronin’, ‘Oblivion’, ‘R.I.P.D.’ By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2012 10:20 am EST Thursday afternoon at CinemaCon, Universal Pictures presented footage, clips and trailers from their upcoming 2012 line-up and beyond. Included in the presentation were clips from Snow White and the Huntsman, Oliver Stone’s Savages, Seth MacFarlane’s TED, The Bourne Legacy, Les Miserables, Judd Apatow’s This Is 40, Carl Erik Rinsch’s 47 Ronin, Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion, and R....