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Superhero Bits: First Look At Sif In Thor, Jennifer Love Hewitt Is Fighting For Wonder Woman Role, Brian Michael Bendis Turned Down Venom Spin-Off Movie? By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2010 9:00 am EST We have a few superhero related mini movie news items to get to, so I thought we’d compile them in one post. After the jump you can see a low-resolution first look at Jaimie Alexander as Sif in Marvel’s big screen adaptation of Thor, Jennifer Love Hewitt is campaigning to play Wonder Woman in the long in development movie adaptation, and we find out that comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis turned down the chance to pen the Spider-Man Spin-Off Venom movie....

The Losers Sizzle Reel By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2010 7:00 pm EST Earlier today we posted 34 high resolution photos from the big screen adaptation of The Losers. I’m not sure why, but after all the trailers, photos, clips and interviews, I haven’t really been excited to see this movie. That is, until Warner Bros premiered a sizzle reel for the film at WonderCon this past weekend. This three and a half minute clip (which should really be called an extended movie trailer) doesn’t show a ton of new footage, but somehow I came out thinking this movie might be a lot of fun....

Troma Entertainment Selling Remake Rights For ‘Class Of Nuke ‘Em High’ And ‘Poultrygeist’ By Angie Han/Oct. 20, 2011 7:00 am EST Troma Entertainment may be famous for its low-budget, independent approach to filmmaking, but the B-movie house isn’t averse to the big-money kind, either. Last year saw the Fantastic Fest premiere of the Brett Ratner-produced Mother’s Day remake, as well as the announcement of a Toxic Avenger reimaginging by to be produced by Akiva Goldsman and directed by Steven Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine)....

Warner Bros. Will Distribute New Sylvester Stallone Film, Formerly Called ‘Headshot’ By Russ Fischer/June 11, 2011 11:00 am EST The Sylvester Stallone film Headshot, which adapts the Matz and Colin Wilson graphic novel Bullet to the Head, became a bit more promising than just another action film when Walter Hill signed on to replace Wayne Kramer as director. Mr. Hill hasn’t made a great many movies in the past twenty years, but on the basis of classics like The Warriors, 48 Hrs....

Will David Lindsay-Abaire Write The ‘Poltergeist’ Remake? By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2011 8:00 am EST I’ll say this for MGM: while the company seems hell-bent on using remakes as the springboard back to relevance — a very dodgy strategy — it is at least trying to hand them to some interesting people. RoboCop went to José Padilha, which is flat-out inspired. Carrie went to playwright, comics writer and Spidey Broadway fixer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, which seems smart at the very least, even if the idea of remaking Carrie might be dumb....

WTF: Real Life ‘Breaking Bad’ As Walter White Is Wanted For Cooking Meth By Germain Lussier/Aug. 17, 2012 12:30 pm EST A man named Walter White is wanted by authorities for making and trafficking methamphetamine. No it’s not a spoiler for the current season of Breaking Bad, it’s a real-life situation. In one of the most incredible coincidences imaginable, a man who shares the name of the lead character in the award-winning AMC show about cooking meth has now been charged for doing the same thing....

‘Anchorman: The Legend Continues’ Teaser Poster: Count The Legs By Russ Fischer/May 16, 2012 9:00 am EST There is no real footage yet — hell, there’s not even a script — but today Paramount is debuting a quick teaser for Adam McKay’s often-discussed, once thought dead sequel Anchorman: The Legend Continues, and the studio has also cobbled together a teaser poster just for the occasion. At first glance this is a pretty straightforward line-up of the news team (Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and David Koechner), but something seems to be missing....

‘Kill The Irishman’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Dec. 10, 2010 3:48 pm EST Jonathan Hensleigh made a career writing films and then directed Thomas Jane in The Punisher (2004). Now he’s done a feature with another Punisher actor: Ray Stevenson. Kill the Irishman adapts Rick Porrello’s book To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia. It stars Mr. Stevenson and his wig as the Irishman of the title, who starts out working for the mob and then feels the mob’s wrath when he strikes out on his own....

‘Shark Night 3D’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/May 25, 2011 1:19 pm EST David R. Ellis, who directed the second and fourth Final Destination films and Snakes on a Plane, at one point was campaigning to have his new film released with the working title intact: Untitled 3D Shark Thriller. That was, he said, because “The title says everything you need to know: ‘We’ve got sharks.’ ‘It’s in 3D.’ and, ‘It’s a thriller....

‘The Change-Up’ Red-Band Trailer By Russ Fischer/April 20, 2011 2:00 pm EST The Change-Up, directed by David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers) asks a very important question: what if two drunk friends pissing in the same fountain accidentally changed bodies and got to live each others lives? Yep, The Change-Up is a body-switching comedy, and it gives about as much weight to the reason for the switch as Hot Tub Time Machine did time travel....

‘The Master’ Early Buzz: Sneak Screening Yields Raves For Actors, Comments On “Fever Dream” Tone By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2012 9:18 am EST Here’s why you should go out to the movies on a Friday evening: last night at the Aero, in Santa Monica, audiences who turned up to see The Shining were told that Kubrick’s movie would be followed by a surprise double-feature. That second film was Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, and it was projected in 70mm....

‘Thor’ Sequel Will Feature More World-Hopping, Continue Jane Foster And Odin Arcs By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2011 1:30 pm EST A little ripple of mixed confusion and curiosity went through the internet yesterday when Patty Jenkins was revealed to be in talks to direct Marvel’s Thor 2. Jenkins helped Charlize Theron win an Oscar when she directed Monster, but that film is Jenkins’ sole feature credit. The Thor 2 deal seems predicated on two things: the success of her pilot for The Killing, and the fact that her quote is low....

‘TRON: Legacy’ Character Banners Revealed By Germain Lussier/Sept. 17, 2010 3:00 pm EST Kevin Flynn, The Man himself, can now grace your desktop, wall or where ever you’d like him to go. The third in a series of TRON: Legacy banners appeared online today and features Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn (not to be confused with his dual role as Clu 2.0, the evil/younger CGI version of Flynn that plays a pivotal role in the highly anticipated Disney film)....

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu May Direct Revenge Tale ‘The Revenant’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2011 6:09 pm EST Michael Punke’s novel The Revenant, a dire revenge tale set in raw 1800s America, has been in the hands of Warner Bros for almost a decade. John Hillcoat was once linked to the film, with Christian Bale said to be attached to star; prior to that Park Chan-wook and Samuel L. Jackson were linked....

Banksy Creates New TV Special: ‘The Antics Roadshow’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 13, 2011 9:00 am EST He’s long since conquered the art world and, last year, he conquered the movie world with his meta-documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. Now, international man of mystery Banksy is moving onto another medium: television. He’s created an hour-long special that will premiere Saturday night on Channel 4 in the U.K. called The Antics Roadshow, a take off of The Antiques Roadshow, described as ‘Banksy’s ‘incomplete guide to total anarchy’ providing a greatest hits of wayward behavior, sedition and sabotage....

Billy Ray To Rewrite Johnny Depp’s ‘The Thin Man’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2011 1:30 pm EST The new version of The Thin Man, which Johnny Depp set in motion at Warner Bros. last year, is still moving forward. The star has wanted to make a new film based on Dashiell Hammett’s classic novel (which already spawned a six-film series and a television show) and last year roped in his Pirates 4 director Rob Marhsall to direct....

Brian Cox Joins Rise Of The Apes By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2010 7:16 pm EST Cox will join James Franco (Spider-Man/Milk) who is set to play the lead, “a young, driven scientist who becomes a crucial figure in the war between humans and apes.” Other co-stars include John Lithgow, who plays Franco’s father, also a scientist, Don Cheadle (Iron Man 2), Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire), who plays a primatologist who helps Franco, and Andy Serkis, who will play Caesar, the chimp who leads the simian revolt....

Commercial Director Fredrik Bond To Make Feature Film Debut With Romantic Action Comedy Starring Zac Efron By Angie Han/March 15, 2011 12:00 pm EST The first time we heard about The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, it was set to star Shia LaBeouf with commercial director Dante Ariola helming. Since then, fellow Disney alum Zac Efron has taken over LaBeouf’s role, and a different commercial director, Fredrik Bond, has stepped in for Ariola....

Cool Stuff: Tim Doyle’s Die Hard Poster And Godmachine’s Predator Poster By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2010 11:00 am EST If you don’t recognize Tim Doyle’s name, then you haven’t been paying attention. We’ve featured the Texas-based artist numerous times on the site over the past few years. His latest is a poster for the classic action film Die Hard starring Bruce Willis. Doyle was commissioned to create the artwork for a cinema in Australia called the Astor Theatre which screens classic films regularly....

David Koepp Writing ‘The Thin Man’ For Johnny Depp And Rob Marshall By Russ Fischer/Aug. 30, 2011 3:30 pm EST I think any lingering interest I had in Johnny Depp’s remake of The Thin Man, to be directed by Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides director Rob Marshall, just evaporated. It’s the one-two punch of hiring David Koepp to write the script, and the fact that part of the plan is to create a version of The Thin Man that has “a Sherlock Holmes-like stylized treatment....