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By Russ Fischer/Oct. 19, 2010 10:17 am EST Big batch of new posters today. We’ve got the latest in a long series of one-sheets for Tron Legacy, though this one is supposedly the last. For real. There’s the first poster for David O. Russell’s The Fighter, and a sales sheet for Coriolanus, which is the directorial debut of actor Ralph Fiennes. And just because I know some commenters will have a field day with it, there’s a little surprise at the end of the post....

Movie Trailer #3: A Rhythmic, Testosterone-Heavy Look At ‘The Fighter’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 1, 2010 6:00 pm EST I know, we just posted a second trailer for David O. Russell’s The Fighter less than twenty-four hours ago. But a third one has shown up and it is quite a bit different than the other two. Not so much in the sense that there is a lot of new footage, but it is cut in a wildly different style....

Movie Trailer: Avatar: Special Edition By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2010 11:25 am EST And for those wondering, the music is “Heart of Courage” from Two Steps From? Hell. via: Marketsaw

Movie Trailer: Hobo With A Shotgun By Adam Quigley/Sept. 2, 2010 11:19 pm EST Add another title to the ever-growing list of meta-films, this one being possibly the most ridiculous of all. It’s odd enough that the fake trailer for Machete was made into a movie, but that project had Robert Rodriguez (and a budget) backing it, not to mention it was originally envisioned as a feature-length film prior to the trailer even being made....

Netflix Acquires Exclusive ‘Mad Men’ Streaming Rights By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2011 4:40 pm EST Lionsgate Television is finalizing a deal with Netflix for the exclusive internet streaming rights ofAMC’s Mad Men. The deal covers the previously broadcast four seasons, and the rest of the run through season seven. The deal is estimated to have cost Netflix around $1 million an episode (which adds up to something like $75 million to $100 million total)....

Owen Wilson Circling Paul Weitz Drama ‘Admission’ With Tina Fey By Angie Han/March 2, 2012 5:00 pm EST When we first heard about Tina Fey circling Paul Weitz’ Admission back in January of last year, we were midly surprised to note that the project seemed to be a drama. Considering that Fey’s known for stuff like Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, and Mean Girls, and that Weitz’s resume includes as many comedies (Little Fockers, American Dreamz) as dramas (Being Flynn), it seemed much more natural to assume that it’d be another funny film....

Peter Jackson’s New ‘The Hobbit’ Video Blog Focuses On 3D By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2011 7:24 am EST It’s been a few months since we saw a video dispatch from the set of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. For the new video blog, it’s all about the mechanics of making the movie. There’s some relatively technical stuff in this particular video, as Jackson and his crew explain just how they go about shooting 3D at 48 frames per second with two Red EPIC cameras and a mirror system....

Peter Weller’s Role In The ‘Star Trek’ Sequel Revealed? By Germain Lussier/Dec. 7, 2011 11:00 am EST On Monday morning, amid all the controversy over Benicio Del Toro and Kahn, Robocop actor Peter Weller was semi-quietly cast in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek sequel. At the time not much was known about his role, though I immediately thought he’d be perfect for the older, supporting villain mentioned when Alice Eve was cast....

Pixar Reportedly Developing ‘Planes’ As Direct To DVD Spinoff Of ‘Cars’ By Russ Fischer/July 14, 2010 11:29 am EST It had to happen eventually. Pixar has flirted with the idea of direct to DVD sequels in the past — notably with Toy Story 2 — and as the studio veers more overtly towards sequels that leverage proven characters (the Toy Story films, Cars 2, Monsters Inc. 2) it is probably inevitable that we’d see a direct to DVD Pixar project....

Robert Duvall Lines Up Role In ‘One Shot,’ Perhaps As The Villain By Russ Fischer/Sept. 28, 2011 11:55 am EST The cast of Christopher McQuarrie’s adaptation of Lee Child’s novel One Shot is looking pretty good. Tom Cruise plays Jack Reacher, an ex-military cop who is called upon to assist the prime suspect in a series of sniper murders. Rosamund Pike plays a young defense lawyer who is also roped into the case; Richard Jenkins plays the DA trying to prosecute the sniper....

Roger Deakins On Digital Vs. 35mm: “Whether I’ll Shoot On Film Again, I Don’t Know” By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2011 1:30 pm EST Nine-time Academy Award nominated cinematographer Roger Deakins (The Coen Brothers films, The Shawshank Redemption, A Beautiful Mind, The Reader, Kundun) has seen the future, and it isn’t 35mm. Deakins has worked on film for 35 years. He is the type of veteran whom you would expect to be a film purist....

Romain Duris Joins Audrey Tautou In Michel Gondry’s Adaptation Of ‘L’Ecume Des Jours’ By Angie Han/Aug. 29, 2011 6:00 am EST Back in May, we wrote about Michel Gondry’s plans to make a film with Audrey Tautou. At the time, we didn’t know a whole lot about the movie, but recently, new details have emerged — and a new star as well. French actor Romain Duris has signed on for the project, which has now been revealed as an adaptation of Boris Vian’s 1947 novel L’Écume des Jours....

Teaser Trailer: Beauty And The Beast In 3D By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2010 10:00 am EST We still don’t know when the 3D version will hit theaters, but many assume it’s February 14th 2011, as Disney wanted to target Valentine’s Day in it’s previous release plans. But a one minute teaser trailer has been found online, and can now be watched embedded after the jump. According to the trailer, it will get a very limited release in New Zealand on August 12th 2010....

The Making Of King Kong 360 3D Part 1 By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2010 11:00 am EST Universal Studios Hollywood have released a five minute making of featurette for Peter Jackson’s King Kong 360 3-D, which opens next week at the California-based studio/theme park. The video is actually part one of four, and we’ll post the upcoming segments as they are released. This segment shows the history of the King Kong attraction, and gives us a glimpse of Peter Jackson testing out the massive 360 degree 3D screen which will surround the studio tram for the ride....

The Revolution Will Be Limited: 48FPS Version Of ‘The Hobbit’ Gets Dramatically Downscaled Distribution By Russ Fischer/Aug. 8, 2012 7:30 am EST Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit is a Big Deal for a few different reasons. It’s his return to Middle-Earth, and to the stories that established him as one of the biggest directors working today. It is now the beginning of a trilogy, rather than a mere two-film cycle....

TV Bits: ‘Legion’ Turned Into TV Series At Syfy, NBC Delays Munsters Pilot By Germain Lussier/Feb. 13, 2012 5:00 am EST While most people would agree Scott Stewart’s 2010 film Legion isn’t exactly a masterful piece of cinema, the film’s idea is rock solid. God has decided to smite humanity and sends his legions of angels down upon us. It’s then up to a rogue angel to help a group of strangers make their last stand....

Watch Red Letter Media’s Takedown Of ‘Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 23, 2011 2:30 pm EST Find a barrel. Fill with water, drop in fish. Then point shotgun and shoot. That’s the general process of taking down the fourth Indiana Jones movie, but that’s not going to stop Red Letter Media, which has already served up feature-length review/deconstructions of the Star Wars prequels. And despite the fact that these four films are four of the easiest smackdown targets in mainstream cinema, there are still some smart observations to be made about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull....

‘13’ Trailer #3: Still Selling Weird, Unconvincing Action By Russ Fischer/Sept. 15, 2011 4:30 pm EST In Gela Babluani’s film 13 Tzameti, a young man lands in the weirdest game of Russian roulette ever held. Babluani remade the French film for US audiences as 13, but rather than hitting theaters in regular fashion the film found a perch on a dusty shelf and sat there for quite some time. Anchor Bay is finally going to release it and a new trailer has just hit....

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Star Anil Kapoor And Léa Seydoux Join ‘Mission: Impossible 4’ As Villains By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2010 12:15 pm EST Brad Bird is pulling together quite a cast for the fourth Mission: Impossible film, which is now shooting in Europe. Specifically, the evil end of the spectrum is now well-represented by a core trio of actors.Michael Nyqvist from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the lead baddie, but now Anil Kapoor from Slumdog Millionaire and French actress Léa Seydoux have both signed on as evildoers — or at least the opponents of the Impossible Mission Force — in the series’ third sequel....

‘The Wettest County’ Set For April 2012 Release By Russ Fischer/Nov. 15, 2011 5:30 pm EST There was a point earlier this year when it looked like we might see John Hillcoat’s The Wettest County by the end of the year. The Weinstein Company picked up the film, originally called The Wettest County in the World, at Cannes, and it seemed reasonable to assume that a bootlegging tale from the director of The Proposition and The Road starring Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf might be a solid year-end release....