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Help Complete The Drew Struzan Documentary ‘Drew: The Man Behind The Poster’ By Germain Lussier/May 2, 2012 2:00 pm EST We’ve been following the development of the independent documentary Drew: The Man Behind the Poster for some time. And why not? We love posters, we love documentaries and we love Drew Struzan, arguably the greatest poster artist of all time. Director Erik P. Sharkey has completed the film but, in the middle of sound mixing, ran out of money....

Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire, Garrett Hedlund, Others Up For ‘The Bourne Legacy’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 24, 2011 11:19 pm EST Oscar-nominated writer/director Tony Gilroy is looking for an assassin to replace Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne in The Bourne Legacy, the fourth Bourne film, scheduled for release August 3, 2012. According to Variety, his list includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire, Garrett Hedlund, Taylor Kitsch and Kellan Lutz. Deadline is reporting a much longer list though, which includes those names as well as Joel Edgerton, Josh Hartnett, Paul Dano, Michael Pitt, Oscar Isaac, Michael Fassbender, Luke Evans, Alex Pettyfer, and Benjamin Walker, though several might have scheduling conflicts....

Jennifer Lawrence Describes Mystique In ‘X-Men: First Class’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2010 7:00 am EST We’ve seen some images of James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence on the set of X-Men: First Class. But they revealed little but the basic period dress sported by their characters, Charles Xavier and Raven Darkholme, the latter being the ‘real’ name for the character Mystique, originally played by Rebecca Romijn in the first three X-Men films....

Mr. Moviefone’s ‘Six Second Reviews’ Coming To Radio By Germain Lussier/Dec. 22, 2010 4:00 pm EST Film critics have had decades to perfect the art of the long form movie review. The short form review however, made popular in the last few years thanks in part to Twitter and YouTube, is still in its infancy. It’s easy to blab on and on for 3,000 words about why a movie is good or bad, but to take all of those thoughts and squish them into 140 characters is difficult....

New ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Photos By Russ Fischer/Feb. 7, 2012 11:00 am EST Two of Tim Burton’s projects for 2012, Dark Shadows (which he directed) and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (which he produced, with Timur Bekmambetov directing) have yet to show any footage to the public. But both are slowly rolling out new images. We’ve got four new pics today of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which is a June 22 release that stars Benjamin Walker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Alan Tudyk, Anthony Mackie and Dominic Cooper, with Rufus Sewell and Erin Wasson....

Peter Segal Will Direct ‘Grudge Match’ For Warner Bros. By Russ Fischer/Oct. 26, 2010 2:30 pm EST We still don’t know who might star in Grudge Match, the film in development at Warner Bros. that will put two aging former boxing rivals back in the ring for one last match. Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro have been rumored, but it’s very likely it’s a completely unsubstantiated rumor, no matter how entertaining the idea might be from a distance....

TIFF Movie Review: Richard Ayoade’s Submarine By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 13, 2010 8:55 pm EST Based on the Curtis Brown Prize-winning novel by Joe Dunthorne, this dark indie comedy is about a 15-year-old boy who “must fight save his mother from the advances of a mystic and simultaneously lure his eczema-strafed girlfriend in to his bedroom.” It is a coming of age story which is equal parts Rushmore, Election and Squid and the Whale....

Video: ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ Sneak Peek - Now With More Explosions And More Badassery By Angie Han/June 13, 2011 6:00 am EST I have to confess I’ve been only mildly curious about Cowboys & Aliens, Jon Favreau’s adaptation of Scott Mitchell Rosenberg’s sci-fi Western comic. Though I like the concept in theory, and though I’m a fan of Favreau as well as stars Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde, something about the earlier trailers haven’t quite done it for me....

Watch Behind The Scenes B-Roll Footage From Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 24, 2012 9:00 am EST Excited for Looper? You should be. Rian Johnson’s return to the big screen featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Jeff Daniels, Paul Dano and a whole bunch of time-travelling awesomeness is fantastic. Lots of new posters, videos and more have been popping up leading up towards the September 28 release and now two videos of behind the scenes footage have come online....

‘Across The Universe’ Style Grateful Dead Film In Development By Russ Fischer/Nov. 28, 2011 5:00 am EST When Julie Taymor manipulated the song catalog of The Beatles into the soundtrack for her fantasy musical Across the Universe, reactions were strongly polarized. Never mind that there have been more terrible covers of Beatles songs than there is time in the day to play them all; people don’t always like to see a grand re-working of a big chunk of the band’s songbook all at once....

‘Bachelorette’ Red-Band Trailer: Is That Really The Best Way To Get A Super-Fast Cab Ride? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 2, 2012 2:00 pm EST The latest female-driven R-rated comedy is Leslye Headland’s film Bachelorette, which wouldn’t mind finding some of last year’s Bridesmaids audience. The film hit at Sundance and got some good buzz for being a little more dark than the Kristen Wiig film, without sparing any of the laughs....

‘Cars 2’ On Track To Become Pixar’s Worst Box Office Performance Since 1998 By Angie Han/July 19, 2011 10:00 am EST Poor Mater and McQueen: After a 35% Rotten Tomatoes score gave Cars 2 the unhappy distinction of becoming the worst-reviewed Pixar movie of all time, it is now tracking to earn Pixar’s lowest domestic gross since 1998’s A Bug’s Life. Read on after the jump. To put things in perspective, an $8 million fourth weekend isn’t bad, especially considering that it was up against similarly family-focused entertainments like Winnie the Pooh and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2....

‘E.T.’ Writer Melissa Mathison Adapting Roald Dahl’s Children’s Classic ‘The BFG’ By Angie Han/Sept. 26, 2011 3:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The next Dahl book to get the Hollywood treatment will be is 1982 classic The BFG, which is being developed as a feature over at DreamWorks with E.T. scribe Melissa Mathison tapped to write the script. More details after the jump....

‘Iron Man 3’ Casting Call Confirms Returning Character Roster By Russ Fischer/March 26, 2012 1:30 pm EST Marvel’s big team-up movie The Avengers, the film towards which the studio has been building for several years, hits on May 4. But plans are already underway for a third Iron Man movie, in which Robert Downey, Jr. will return to star under the direction of Shane Black, who directed Downey in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang....

‘Oldboy’ Shoot Pushed A Few Months; Still Needs A Villain By Russ Fischer/Jan. 6, 2012 3:30 pm EST It’s great how, with Spike Lee signed as director and Josh Brolin set to play the lead role, the remake of Oldboy went from something I hoped would die a quiet death to a film I’m actually looking forward to seeing. But we’re all going to have to wait a bit longer to see the film, as a delay has set in....

‘The Expendables 2’ Seeks Chinese Co-Financing; Could Partially Shoot In China By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2011 4:00 pm EST The recent story that Donnie Yen has been offered a part in The Expendables 2 is starting to make a bit more sense. Not that it takes any sort of science to figure out why producers would try to land one of the world’s best current action stars for a film that is expressly designed as a showcase for such actors, mind you....

‘The Fighter’ In Real Life: ‘High On Crack Street: Lost Lives In Lowell’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 21, 2010 4:00 pm EST From the first shot of David O. Russell’s The Fighter, it’s obvious that a documentary within the film is going to be of paramount importance. And since The Fighter is based on a true story, the documentary in the film actually happened. It’s called High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell, is incredibly significant to the structure of The Fighter, and now you can watch it online, for free....

‘We Have A Pope’ Trailer: What If The Guy Chosen To Lead The Faithful Didn’t Want The Job? By Russ Fischer/March 4, 2012 10:00 am EST It is sad to me that reviews of We Have a Pope weren’t all that positive when the film premiered at Cannes last year. Because this trailer features a couple of great concepts that could be the basis for a funny and thoughtful film....

AMC Plans Six Film ‘Avengers’ Marathon On May 3 By Russ Fischer/March 12, 2012 6:30 am EST Does your summer vacation start early, or do you want to burn a personal day just as summer gets rolling? Then pencil Thursday, May 3 on your calendar, which is when AMC Theaters will run the Ultimate Marvel Marathon. For forty bucks (that’s $40) you’ll get to see Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Captain America (the latter two in 3D) followed by a midnight screening of The Avengers, also in 3D....

Angelina Jolie Casts Largely Unknown Zana Marjanovic In Her Bosnian War Romance By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2010 2:28 pm EST Angelina Jolie is prepping her directorial debut, a romance set during the early ’90s Bosnian War. Jolie also wrote the script, and is now finalizing the cast for the picture, which begins shooting shortly. In the female lead, as a Bosnian woman who falls for a Serbian man on the eve of the war, Jolie has cast the largely unknown Zana Marjanovic....