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Behind The Scenes Clip: Pixar’s ‘Day & Night’ By Russ Fischer/June 6, 2010 11:20 am EST Day & Night is the new Pixar short film that will run in front of Toy Story 3. We’ve posted a couple of items about the film in the past, and briefly described the way it blends 2D and 3D animation to depict the meeting between two characters, Night and Day. Now there’s a behind the scenes clip that offers up a few fluffy quotes, but also shows clips from the short....

Colin Farrell Frontrunner To Star In ‘Total Recall’ Remake By Germain Lussier/Oct. 21, 2010 12:42 pm EST When they said that Quatto Lives, they weren’t kidding around. Colin Farrell is reportedly at the top of a list that also includes Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender to star in a remake of the 1990 Paul Verhoven/Arnold Schwarzenegger film Total Recall. We last heard about the project in July when Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard) was announced as director of a script by Kurt Wimmer (Salt, Equilibrium) The film will be a “a new, contemporized adaptation of Total Recall, which was based on the story, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip K....

Darren Aronofsky Reveals Title Of Second ‘Wolverine’ Movie And More By Germain Lussier/Nov. 14, 2010 4:00 pm EST Aronofsky revealed the title of the film and the nature of the story in an interview with HitFix. The rumored story of the screenplay, written by Christopher McQuarrie, will feature Logan in the midst of a romance with a Japanese woman who is married to another man. To win her hand, he must literally battle her samurai-filled family....

Disney Mulls ‘Magic Kingdom,’ Or ‘Night At The Museum’ With Disney Characters By Russ Fischer/Sept. 30, 2010 11:19 am EST Sorry, Haunted Mansion, but movies based on single theme park rides are so 2003. We need to move forward and go bigger. Next up: movies about entire theme parks! That’s the suggestion of Magic Kingdom, which Disney is developing in a low-level capacity based on a pitch and script by Battlestar Galactica’s Ron Moore....

Disney Pulls The Plug On ‘The Lone Ranger’ With Johnny Depp By Germain Lussier/Aug. 12, 2011 7:40 pm EST Sometimes even Johnny Depp is too expensive. Deadline is reporting that Disney has pulled the plug on The Lone Ranger, the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, Gore Verbinski-directed action western based on the classic TV show that was scheduled for release next Christmas. According to reports, the proposed budget came in north of $240 million and even when it was cut back, was still more than $230 million....

District 6 Tributes Announced For ‘Hunger Games’ By Angie Han/May 3, 2011 9:00 am EST Casting for Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games continues to move full steam ahead. Lionsgate has just announced Kara Petersen and Ashton Moio in the roles of the two District 6 tributes, who do not have names in Suzanne Collins’ original book. Read more after the jump. Petersen and Moio are the latest additions to a large cast that already includes — deep breath — Jack Quaid, Leven Rambin, Ian Nelson, Kalia Prescott, Ethan Jamieson, Tara Macken, Chris Mark, Jacqueline Emerson, Dayo Okeniyi and Amandla Stenberg as fellow tributes; Jennifer Lawrence as protagonist and District 12 tribute Katniss Everdeen; Josh Hutcherson as fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark; Liam Hemsworth as Katniss’ friend Gale Hawthorne; Elizabeth Banks as Katniss and Peeta’s District escort Effie Trinket; Paula Malcolmson as Katniss’ mother; and Willow Shields as Katniss’ sister....

First Footage From ‘Dylan Dog: Dead Of Night’, Starring Brandon Routh By Russ Fischer/Aug. 3, 2010 1:01 pm EST It’s over two years now that we’ve been hearing about TMNT director Kevin Munroe’s adaptation of the Italian comic series Dylan Dog. News that Brandon Routh would play the character first bubbled up in early 2008, and the film shot last year. It doesn’t yet have a US distributor (hence a lack of major presence at Comic Con this year) but will premiere in Italy later this year....

Geek Deal: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part I On Blu-Ray For Only $9.99 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 8, 2011 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

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Jamie Foxx Is Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django’ [Updated] By Russ Fischer/June 22, 2011 5:30 pm EST We don’t have full confirmation from Quentin Tarantino or The Weinstein Company, but at this point it looks like Jamie Foxx will play the lead in Quentin Tarantino’s new film Django Unchained, which he’ll shoot in the next few months. UPDATE: Variety and other outlets confirm the casting. Variety also says that Kerry Washington is one of several actresses to meet about the role of Django’s wife Broomhilda....

Movie Trailer: Adam Sandler Romantic Comedy ‘Just Go With It’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 5, 2010 7:00 am EST Sony has released the first movie trailer for the new Adam Sandler comedy Just Go With It. Directed by Dennis Dugan (Grown Ups, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, Happy Gilmore), the valentine’s week romantic comedy release tells the story of “a plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie....

New ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ Images Show Sentinel Prime By Russ Fischer/Feb. 28, 2011 12:30 pm EST The new issue of Empire Magazine has some images from Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which give a new look at Sentinel Prime (i.e. the aged ‘bot seen at the end of the film’s teaser) and a new look at the revamped Optimus Prime. See full images and get a few tiny new details about the film, after the break....

New Details On The Chris Pine Reboot Of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Series By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2010 2:20 pm EST There’s been no small amount of speculation about what the previously untitled Jack Ryan film starring Chris Pine will feature in terms of plot, where it might fit amongst the existing films starring Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck, and what it will mean for the character. Now we’ve got a working title — Moscow — and some details about what we might expect from the script....

Page 2: Pirates Of The Caribbean, True Grit, Chicago Code, Toy Story, Iron Man, Star Wars, Quentin Tarantino, Fright Night, Tron By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2011 9:00 am EST Disney will be taking over Hot Topic stores in Hollywood and New Jersey to promote Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides with “Pirates Day” fan events. Salon has compiled a list of pop culture references in the second season of Community....

Paramount Officially Passes On Anchorman 2 By Peter Sciretta/April 29, 2010 12:26 pm EST Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy director Adam McKay just revealed on twitter that Paramount Pictures has officially passes on making an Anchorman 2, even after they did a massive cut to the project’s budget. This comes after a report two days ago that the Anchorman sequel was much closer to happening than anyone had anticipated. McKay was quoted as saying:...

Sandra Bullock And Ryan Reynolds To Re-Team With ‘The Proposal’ Director? Not So Fast By Russ Fischer/June 9, 2010 9:51 am EST Yesterday there was news that Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds would re-team with their The Proposal director Anne Fletcher and screenwriter Peter Chiarelli to make Most Wanted, an action comedy pitch recently picked up by Universal . In a different year this wouldn’t have seemed like much more than a casting news blip but, you know, Bullock just won an Oscar....

Seth Rogen And Evan Goldberg Rewriting ‘Neighborhood Watch’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 16, 2010 11:30 am EST High-concept, then, and I wonder what this means for the film as a whole. Even with their most recent work being Green Hornet, I’d guess you don’t hire the Rogen/Goldberg team when you want super-broad marginally family-friendly fare. But that’s what Peter Segal tends to direct. (He’s also signed for the Warner Bros. boxing/grumpy old men film Grudge Match, you’ll recall....

Terry Gilliam Crafting A Script Based On Paul Auster Novel ‘Mr. Vertigo’ By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2011 3:30 pm EST Novelist Paul Auster has seen his work on screen through a variety of processes: The Music of Chance adapts his novel of the same name (not very well); Smoke and Blue in the Face are the product of a collaborative writing/directing process with Wayne Wang, and Mr. Wang also filmed The Center of the World, on which Mr....

Tom Hiddleston Reportedly Snags Lead Role In Spielberg’s War Horse By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2010 2:06 pm EST Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the novel War Horse, scripted by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis from the novel by Michael Morpurgo, is starting to cast up. Last week we heard that Eddie Redmayne had one of the (human) lead roles, and now there’s word that the second has been filled by Tom Hiddleston, who plays Loki in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor....

Viggo Mortensen A ‘Person Of Interest’ To Play ‘Superman’ Villain General Zod By Germain Lussier/Feb. 25, 2011 6:45 pm EST According to the Hollywood Reporter, Viggo Mortensen is “a person of interest” to play the villain in Zack Snyder’s upcoming Superman reboot and they’re reporting that character is, in fact, General Zod. While Mortensen isn’t the only actor being considered for the role, he’s the one Snyder and producer Christopher Nolan are hoping to get....