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‘Blue Valentine’ Director And Star Reuniting For ‘The Place Beyond The Pines’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 2, 2010 2:00 pm EST Derek Cianfrance’s second narrative feature, Blue Valentine, was a Sundance favorite and has become a critical darling over the course of 2010. The film has also become a sort of film industry firebrand thanks to the MPAA’s decision to hit it with a restrictive NC-17 rating. A passion project that took years to come together, and which was built in part from the director and leads, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, living in the same space and aggressively improvising and workshopping characters and scenes, the film is a serious piece of work....

By Russ Fischer/April 20, 2012 12:00 pm EST Lobo is a strange comic book property: the character is a grizzled, violent, foul-mouthed intergalactic mercenary/bounty hunter, but he’s also a parody of the serious version of those sorts of characters. He was Deadpool before Marvel thought of Deadpool. (Just a bit before, but that’s good enough.) Lobo became a fan-favorite character in the early ’90s and has long been a wishlist option for a silver screen incarnation....

‘Milocrorze: A Love Story’ Review: Best Picture-Winning, Visually Stunning Anthology With Musical Numbers, Fantasy Characters And Samurai [Fantastic Fest 2011] By Germain Lussier/Sept. 29, 2011 10:00 am EST Certain movies undeniably pop off the screen. Movies such as Amelie, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Waking Life and What Dreams May Come each have a visual style that is colorful, stylized and a treat for your senses....

‘That’s My Boy’ Green Band Trailer - Much Fewer F-Bombs, Slightly More Laughs By Angie Han/March 6, 2012 7:00 am EST Proving that just because you can doesn’t mean you should, the new green-band trailer for That’s My Boy drops much of the cursing, nudity, and bodily fluids that comprised last week’s red-band trailer, and is, frankly, all the better for it. The jokes are still pretty hit or miss, but the fact that it has jokes at all — rather than just a lengthy string of “fucks” — makes this cut a vast improvement over the last one....

‘Tim And Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie’ Is A Go Featuring Zach Galifianakis, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly By Germain Lussier/March 2, 2011 7:00 pm EST We reported on this rumor a few weeks ago but now it turns out to be true. Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim have co-written and will co-direct a film called Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie which stars the two comedians, best known for their recently ended Cartoon Network show Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, in story about them making a movie for $1 billion dollars and the problems that arise from it....

‘What’s Your Number?’ Trailer – Anna Faris Gets Friendly With Captain America By Angie Han/April 26, 2011 7:00 am EST Like her House Bunny co-star Emma Stone, Anna Faris is one of those actresses who has enough charm and verve to brighten up even the most lackluster material. And it’s mostly for that reason that I’m actually looking forward to What’s Your Number? The upcoming romcom features Faris as a woman who, upon realizing that she has slept with 20 men, revisits her former flames to see if “the one” might’ve been among them....

Arnold Schwarzenegger Ends Post-Scandal Hiatus With Kim Ji-Woon’s ‘The Last Stand’ By Russ Fischer/July 11, 2011 12:47 pm EST It’s been a rollercoaster year for Arnold Schwarzenegger. After finishing his term as Governor of California, the icon announced his return to acting, helped create awful-looking animated series The Governator, and waffled between a few projects including Kim Ji-woon’s English-language debut The Last Stand and another film, Cry Macho, before settling on the latter as his first major post-political film role....

Casting Bits: Benicio Del Toro In ‘Savages;’ Derek Mears In ‘Hansel & Gretel;’ Emma Roberts In ‘Adult World;’ Kenan Thompson In ‘Party Starters’ By Russ Fischer/March 25, 2011 1:00 pm EST Oliver Stone is assembling Savages, which adapts the book of the same name by Don Winslow and has Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch set to star as best friends and pot growers who get roped into working for a drug cartel when the bad guys kidnap their friend/girlfriend....

Casting Notes: Cameron Diaz And Benicio Del Toro In An Ex To Grind, Liam Hemsworth In The Throwback, Shiloh Fernandez In Girl With The Red Riding Hood By Russ Fischer/April 20, 2010 5:02 pm EST This might be the year’s most unlikely romantic comedy pairing: Cameron Diaz and Benicio Del Toro are tapped to appear in the screen version of Jane Heller’s novel An Ex to Grind. Del Toro would be a star athlete who has supported his wife, a waitress....

Casting Notes: Danny Trejo And Michelle Rodriguez In ‘Skinny Dip’; Bryan Cranston In ‘The Grief Tourist’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 30, 2010 3:27 pm EST Machete won’t be the last time you see Danny Trejo and Michelle Rodriguez working together. The two will be on screen in an indie called Skinny Dip that will likely be produced and co-directed by Trejo’s son Gilbert Trejo. The other co-director will be Frankie Latina....

Could MTV Pick Up ‘Locke & Key’? By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2011 6:00 am EST Now Deadline says that the head of MTV programming took a look at the show, and is reportedly interested. The site’s report is actually pretty speculative, as it basically boils down to “we think the guy watched and liked the pilot.” So it’s probably a stretch to generate any real hopes that MTV is going to pick up the show....

Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan And The Wrestler Started As One Movie By Adam Quigley/Aug. 31, 2010 8:00 am EST After watching the deliriously bizarre and awesome Kafkaesque trailer for Black Swan, it’s baffling to think that the film could’ve ever been originally envisioned as the same movie as the heart-wrenching, profoundly moving The Wrestler, but a recent interview with director Darren Aronofsky confirms that this was the case. Read what he had to say after the break....

Dean O’Gorman And Lee Pace Join ‘The Hobbit’ By Russ Fischer/May 2, 2011 4:00 am EST Recently Peter Jackson and The Hobbit lost Robert Kazinski, the actor playing the dwarf Fili, when he had to return home for personal reasons. Now that role has been recast with Dean O’Gorman, who is a New Zealand actor. Additionally, Lee Pace has been cast as the Elven King Thranduil; you might have seen him in Tarsem’s film The Fall (he was the lead) and he’s been in Pushing Daisies, The Resident and A Single Man....

Elusive Gem ‘Rolling Thunder’ Finally Hitting DVD; Playing Atlanta Theater November 5 By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2010 4:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Luckily, if you live in Atlanta you can see a projected print on Friday, November 5 at the Plaza Theater. For everyone else, be happy that the film is streaming online and will finally hit DVD (hooray!), albeit not quite in the way you probably want....

Gary Oldman Won’t Be In ‘Akira’, Ken Watanabe Offered Colonel Role Instead By Angie Han/Nov. 22, 2011 6:43 pm EST Say what you will about Jaume Collet-Serra’s live-action Akira, but the casting folks have been making some pretty intriguing choices so far. Okay, so Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart haven’t exactly gone over great with the fans. But the first two actors we heard of getting offers were Helena Bonham Carter and Gary Oldman, with Keira Knightley being “approached” at some point and the likes of Michael Pitt and Paul Dano testing for the part of Tetsuo....

George Romero And 200 Live Zombies Attend Mondo Mystery Screening Of ‘Dawn Of The Dead;’ Photos And Videos Here By Germain Lussier/Oct. 31, 2011 8:00 am EST Mondo and the Alamo Drafthouse had their biggest event ever this weekend this weekend as 700 attendees piled onto buses and were escorted by police to the Highland Mall in Austin Texas for their ninth mystery screening: George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. When the buses pulled in, 200 zombies attacked them, forcing the film goers to race into the mall to watch the movie....

Go ‘Back To The Future’ Again On November 6 By Germain Lussier/Nov. 3, 2010 6:30 pm EST They did it once, they did it twice, and now “due to the overwhelming response and popularity” of AMC’s Back to the Future screenings on October 23 and 25, they’re screening the film again 12:30 p.m. Saturday November 6 at 75 select theaters. It’s not November 5, the day Marty actually arrived in 1955, but it’s pretty close....

Gus Van Sant’s ‘Promised Land’ To Get Oscar-Qualifying Late December Release By Angie Han/Aug. 24, 2012 9:00 am EST A few titles have lately dropped out of the ultra-competitive year-end release calendar, but now one more has jumped into the fray. Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land is getting a limited NY / LA release in late December, in order to give it a shot at the next Oscar race. The film will then roll out to additional markets starting in January....

Jessica Chastain Won’t Be In ‘Iron Man 3’ After All By Russ Fischer/May 7, 2012 2:30 pm EST For a moment, Iron Man 3 was shaping up to be a ginger convention, with Gwyneth Paltrow and Scarlett Johansson reprising their roles from previous Iron Man films and The Avengers, and Jessica Chastain in talks to play a ‘sexy scientist’ said to be Tony Stark’s intellectual equal. But Johansson said she wouldn’t be in the film, and now Chastain also can’t do the picture....

Lego Possibly Reveals A New ‘Man Of Steel’ Villain & ‘Iron Man 3’ Action Scenes By Germain Lussier/Sept. 21, 2012 10:35 am EST When Zack Snyder hit the stage at Comic-Con to premiere footage from his 2013 Superman film, Man of Steel, he was reluctant to confirm or deny the film’s villain. Michael Shannon was briefly shown in the footage flying around and fighting Superman (Henry Cavill) and the actor has said, on the record, that he’s playing Zod....