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Aziz Ansari Joins Seth Rogen And Evan Goldberg’s Directorial Debut ‘The Apocalypse’ By Angie Han/April 6, 2012 3:00 pm EST Seth Rogen has been a top comedy star, writer, and producer for several years now, so it’s not remotely surprising he’s been collecting an exceptionally funny cast for The Apocalypse. Still, the quality of the talent involved really is impressive. James Franco, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, and Danny McBride have all been attached to Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s co-directorial debut for months, and now Parks & Recreation star Aziz Ansari has been added to the roster as well....

Captain America And Thor Movie Logos Revealed By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2010 7:37 pm EST Marvel Studios have premiered the logos for the upcoming movie adaptations of Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger at the 2010 Licensing International Expo in Las Vegas. CBM was able to get some snaps from the show floor, which I have fixed up in photoshop (as seen above). Captain America And Thor Movie Logos Revealed...

Casting Bits: Steve Carell In ‘Conviction’, Ben Kingsley And Jena Malone In ‘A Doll’s House’, Ryan Kwanten And Amy Smart In ‘7500? By Angie Han/Nov. 2, 2011 5:00 am EST Steve Carell’s been doing quite well for himself in his post-Office career. He’s already got several films lined up for the next couple of years, including Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher and the magician comedy Burt Wonderstone. Now the latest addition to his slate is Conviction, a heist film which he’ll produce and star in....

Danny Elfman To Score Sam Raimi’s ‘Oz’ And ‘The Hunger Games’ By Russ Fischer/June 20, 2011 5:12 pm EST Danny Elfman had a fairly high-profile falling-out with his Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 director Sam Raimi while trying to score Spider-Man 2 — a falling out that prompted the composer to declare that the two would never work together again. Well, something happened, because now, in addition to scoring Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows and Frankenweenie, Mr....

Finances Stall ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’; Meanwhile, Terry Gilliam Will Do More Work With Arcade Fire By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2010 1:29 pm EST Just when we thought it was safe to have hope for Terry Gilliam’s resumed efforts to film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the project is stalled again. The famous first stall was a decade ago, and has been documented so many times that I won’t go into it again....

First Look: Arnold Schwarzenegger On The Set Of ‘The Last Stand’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 3, 2011 9:30 am EST Celebrity Twitter accounts make some first-look reveals pretty easy. I’m surprised it has taken this long for Arnold Schwarzenegger to tweet out a cast photo from his new action movie The Last Stand. And I’ll say this: in this pic at least, he looks the part of an aged lawman who has retreated to a sheriff post in a small down....

Five High Resolution Photos From ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 2’ [Updated] By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2011 12:00 pm EST Update: Warner Bros has sent us high resolution versions of the photos released in EW. Hit the jump to check them out. There are new photos floating around today from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, which concludes the epic Harry Potter series when it opens on July 15....

Geek Deals: Walking Dead For $9.99, Modern Family Blu-Ray For $21.49, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy Blu-Ray For $20 By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2011 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

George Miller Might Make A Whole New ‘Mad Max’ Trilogy By Russ Fischer/Nov. 29, 2011 2:30 pm EST The expanding universe of Mad Max keeps on expanding. There was a point a couple years ago when it was surprising to learn that series creator/director George Miller had written a new Mad Max movie and would be bringing it to screens. That project, Mad Max: Fury Road, is set to star Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron and will hopefully shoot sometime in the first half of 2012....

Italian Poster For Greg Mottola’s ‘Paul’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 30, 2010 2:30 pm EST Here’s a new poster for Greg Mottola’s new film Paul, which was written by and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The two play geeks on a post Comic Con road trip who encounter an actual alien, voiced by Seth Rogen, and then have to deal with a variety of oddball characters including a couple of Feds played by Jason Bateman and Bill Hader....

Joe Johnston On Why Chris Evans Was Cast As Captain America By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2010 2:30 am EST Who knows how, but Earth’s Mightiest somehow got director Joe Johnston to comment on the recent casting of Chris Evans as Captain America/Steve Rogers in The First Avenger: Captain America. Johnston reveals that Evans didn’t even have to audition for the role, as the filmmaker had already seen all of his films and was “championing his cause”....

Lee Daniels To Direct Hugh Jackman In MLK Assassination Film ‘Orders To Kill’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 1, 2012 10:00 am EST After Precious became a hit, director Lee Daniels ended up looking into dual true-story films with civil rights interests. The first, Selma, lined up an impressive cast (Hugh Jackman, Liam Neeson, David Oyelowo, Robert De Niro, Cedric the Entertainer) for a tale about the relationship between Martin Luther King, Jr....

By Russ Fischer/Aug. 25, 2010 12:04 pm EST Last time we saw Belén Rueda in a Guillermo del Toro-produced film, it was The Orphanage, which premiered at the Toronto Film Fest in 2007. Now Rueda is back in another GdT film: Julia’s Eyes, directed by Guillem Morales (The Uncertain Guest). A Spanish-language trailer has been floating around for a while, but now there is a subtitled version, which is very much worth a look....

New Poster: Pedobear…Er, ‘Yogi Bear’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2010 5:22 pm EST It’s good to see that Warner Bros. is turning to 4chan for Yogi Bear marketing materials. If you thought the first poster and trailer for the film were bad, then just get a load of this new image, found on the film’s official site. What else is there to say? The eyes, the framing and positioning of the characters....

Rumor: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ To Feature A Giant, Scaly Battle? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 21, 2011 6:00 pm EST Today’s big rumor (yep, bigger than the Prometheus one) is that Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man will feature quite a memorable battle. This is 100% unconfirmed for now, so for now treat this post as something that it for the purpose of entertainment only. The details, so as not to spoil those who would prefer not to know, are after the break....

See A Cast Photo From The ‘Red Dawn’ Remake By Russ Fischer/Jan. 4, 2011 12:30 pm EST As MGM has come out of bankruptcy and inched closer to being a real working studio once more, we’ve heard a lot about the potential for The Hobbit and a new James Bond film. We haven’t heard much at all, however, about the completed remake of Red Dawn, which has been sitting on the shelf for six months....

Steve Zaillian Again Working On Moneyball; Has Completed His Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Script By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2010 8:56 am EST How many runs through a script can a studio take? Moneyball is supposed to shoot in a little over a month, after a year of wrangling and being on life support. Now Steve Zaillian, who wrote the draft that got the scrapped Steven Soderbergh version moving in the first place, is back on the picture....

Trailer For Aaron Sorkin’s New HBO Show ‘The Newsroom’ By Russ Fischer/April 2, 2012 7:00 am EST Aaron Sorkin returns to television with The Newsroom, and this first trailer makes the show out to be so very Aaron Sorkin. For fans of The West Wing and Sports Night, that’s probably all you need to hear. For those who aren’t predisposed to love Sorkin’s work, here’s the attraction in The Newsroom: Jeff Daniels, playing a big-time, buttoned-up news anchor who finally lets his real personality fly, and then has to deal with the career fallout that results....

Video: The Making Of Transformers The Ride 3D By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2012 4:00 pm EST Earlier today we ran an exclusive preview of Universal Studios Hollywood’s new Transformers: The Ride, which will have its grand opening on May 25th 2012. Universal has just released a three minute behind the scenes featurette showing the development and construction of this new theme park attraction. Watch it now embedded after the jump....

VOTD: The Art Of Film And TV Title Design By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2012 1:30 pm EST When opening title sequences are done right, they become much more than a list of credits. They can compliment the film in ways that you might never even realize — an artful transition into a movie which helps set mood, tone and style. We regularly feature links to The Art of the Title, a site which focuses on great title sequences and has interviews with the creators behind them....