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Alan Silvestri Set To Score ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 28, 2011 4:30 pm EST The man who put the music behind Marty McFly and Forrest Gump is going to tackle Steve Rodgers. Alan Silvestri, who wrote such iconic scores as Back to the Future, Contact, Forrest Gump and Predator, has been tapped to write the score for Captain America: The First Avenger, directed by Joe Johnston and starring Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci and Hayley Atwell....

Blue Sky’s ‘Epic’ Will Feature Voices Of Beyonce, Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Aziz Ansari, And More By Germain Lussier/May 31, 2012 4:00 pm EST The voice cast is impressive. It includes Beyonce Knowles, Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Knoxville, Aziz Ansari, Pitbull, Jason Sudeikis, Steven Tyler, Blake Anderson and Judah Friedlander. Directed by Chris Wedge, Epic is scheduled for release May 24, 2013. Read more after the jump....

Casting Bits: Jennifer Hudson In ‘The Three Stooges’, Bradley Cooper In ‘Place Beyond The Pines’, Rachael Taylor In ‘Loft’ By Angie Han/June 2, 2011 8:00 am EST Shooting for the Farrelly Brothers’ The Three Stooges has already begun in Atlanta, but it seems casting for the film isn’t over quite yet. Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson has just joined in the role of Sister Rosemary, a nun who works at the orphanges where the Stooges grow up....

Casting Bits: Mireille Enos In Talks To Play Brad Pitt’s Wife In ‘World War Z’; Mindy Kaling Joins ‘Five Year Engagement’; Joel Kinnaman Joins Universal’s ‘Safe House’ By Adam Quigley/April 26, 2011 1:30 pm EST AMC’s new series The Killing premiered not too long ago to rave reviews from critics, and already its stars are benefiting from the exposure. Either that, or this is simply proving to be a very fortunate time in their careers....

Casting Bits: Zach Gilford In ‘The Last Stand’, Pink In ‘Thanks For Sharing’, Derek Luke In ‘Sparkle’ By Angie Han/Oct. 3, 2011 4:30 pm EST Zach Gilford, best known as sensitive QB Matt Saracen on Friday Night Lights, will be starring opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Last Stand. Described as “a combination of Die Hard and High Noon,” the action film revolves around a border town sheriff (Schwarzenegger) who finds himself tasked with stopping a drug kingpin from crossing the U....

Cool Stuff: Alamo Drafthouse Posters - The Warriors And Survival Of The Dead By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2010 7:40 am EST The Alamo Drafthouse has commissioned a couple artists to create posters for The Warriors and George Romero’s Survival of the Dead. They will go on sale for a very limited time today on Mondotees. I’ve been told the time will be random, and they are sure to sell out qucik, so keep checking back on Mondotees if you don’t want to miss them....

Cool Stuff: Batman’s Batcave-Inspired Home Theater By Germain Lussier/Aug. 18, 2012 10:00 am EST Part of what makes Batman so popular is we all feel like, if we had his money, we could be that person. Just give us billions of dollars and we could afford the suit, the car, the fighting lessons and parental issues. Of course that’s not true but now, here’s proof you can definitely have your very own Batcave....

Cool Stuff: Christopher Nolan’s Tumbler Golf Cart? By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2010 1:14 pm EST Update: Warner Bros has since contacted Tim clarifying that Nolan doesn’t own/use this golf cart. It was apparently created by a Batman superfan who works on the lot. Original story follows:Christopher Nolan has been working hard to lock a final cut of his latest movie Inception. /Film reader Tim G spotted Nolan’s custom Tumbler-styled golf cart that gets him around the Warner Bros lot....

Criterion Collection To Release Digitally Restored ‘Godzilla’ On Blu-Ray And DVD In January By Angie Han/Oct. 19, 2011 5:00 am EST Fans of monster movies and/or the Criterion Collection probably recall that a couple of months back, rumors began surfacing of a Criterion Collection release of Godzilla — an unusual, though not unprecedented, pick by a video distributor that generally favors artsy pictures over genre flicks. So today’s news won’t come as a surprise, but rather a welcome update....

Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Black Swan’ Opens On December 1st By Russ Fischer/July 30, 2010 10:30 am EST Aronofsky directed from a script by Mark Heyman; the film stars Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey and Winona Ryder. A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet, Black Swan stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company (Mila Kunis)....

Doug Liman’s Untitled Moon Project Approaching Lift Off By Germain Lussier/March 22, 2011 6:34 pm EST Just yesterday we wrote that Doug Liman was developing a period epic about a famous bodyguard by the name of Two-Gun Cohen. Now The Hollywood Reporter says he’s got yet another film in development that’s picking up steam and might shoot as early as this summer. Since 2007, Liman has been attached to direct a sci-fi heist film formerly called Luna....

Edited Version Of ‘The King’s Speech’ Gets PG-13 Rating By Russ Fischer/Feb. 25, 2011 2:30 pm EST The Weinstein Company found itself embroiled in two battles with the MPAA last year. One was over the film Blue Valentine, which was given an NC-17 for one sex scene, and the rating was successfully appealed down to an R without edits being made to the film. The other was for The King’s Speech, given an R for profanity, most of which is uttered in one sequence where King George VI (Colin Firth) attempts to break through his stutter....

Emile Hirsch Joins The Darkest Hour By Peter Sciretta/April 11, 2010 12:00 pm EST Described as a 28 Days Later-type thriller, the story follows a group of American tourists visiting Moscow Russia when an alien invasion occurs. Thirlby will play “a trust fund girl trying to survive the attack who teams up with others to try to defeat the invaders.” Hirsch will play one of the other American tourists. Previously:Chris Gorak will direct the film....

FilmDistrict Takes Distribution Rights To Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Drive’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 3, 2010 10:23 pm EST The first big sale out of the American Film Market is for Drive, the first big American film directed by the creator of Pusher, Bronson and Valhalla Rising, Nicolas Winding Refn. Deadline reports that FilmDistrict picked up distribution rights for a late summer or early fall 2011 release. What is FilmDistrict? That’s the new company put together by Graham King and Tim Headington of GK Films and run by Peter Schlessel and Bob Berney, who exited Appartition right before Cannes this year....

First Look: Michael Fassbender And Carey Mulligan In ‘Shame’ By Russ Fischer/July 26, 2011 9:59 am EST Be prepared for a whole bunch of posts today featuring images from the impressive 2011 fall festival slate, as the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced a big portion of the fest’s September lineup. Along with that announcement comes a batch of images to go with many of the films. We’ll have a complete rundown of the TIFF slate shortly, but first let’s highlight one of the most interesting films on the schedule: Shame....

First Photos: Steven Spielberg’s ‘Terra Nova’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2011 11:45 am EST Jason O’Mara (Life on Mars) will headline the series. The series will follow a family who live 100 years from now on future Earth, who are flung back in time 150 million years to the prehistoric age, when Earth was ruled by dinosaurs. Terra Nova was written by Craig Silverstein and Kelly Marcel, based on Marcel’s story idea....

Geek Deal: Game Of Thrones’ On Blu-Ray For Only $44.99 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2012 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Guillermo Del Toro: Not Giving Up On ‘At The Mountains Of Madness,’ Calls Pacific Rim “Biggest Monster Movie Ever”, July 2013 Release Announced By Russ Fischer/June 27, 2011 4:00 pm EST Update: A few hours after this story was published, Warner Bros announced a a July 12th, 2013 release date for Pacific Rim.Guillermo del Toro has been in a bunker for the past few months prepping Pacific Rim, the giant mechs and monsters action film that he will direct for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros....

Hugo Weaving Will Play Six Characters In ‘Cloud Atlas’ By Russ Fischer/May 31, 2011 9:00 am EST The most striking revelation in some recent casting announcements about Cloud Atlas, which Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis are adapting from the novel by David Mitchell, was that all the major actors would be playing multiple roles. That wasn’t the biggest surprise, as the primary characteristic of the novel is that it is a nested set of six stories, each of which relates to the others in ways that are occasionally minor and (once or twice) quite significant....

Jason Statham To Play Special Forces In Action-Thriller ‘Echelon’? By Adam Quigley/Feb. 10, 2011 7:30 am EST If an actor is sharing screentime with Jason Statham in one of his numerous Jason-Statham-kicks-ass-and-drives-cool-cars-and-screws-lots-of-hot-women vehicles, the odds of that character surviving is against them. And assuming that character does meet an untimely yet entirely expected end, the odds of that death being anything short of preposterously brutal is even slimmer. So what’s next on Statham’s agenda of casual murder and badassery?...