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San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Badges On Sale Today…Or Not By Germain Lussier/Nov. 1, 2010 8:52 am EST UPDATE: Due to traffic, the San Diego Comic-Con website has suspended badge sales. They posted a message on the official site saying to check back on November 8. More info after the jump. Just a heads up, if you want to attend the world’s largest pop culture convention, San Diego Comic-Con, happening July 21-24, 2011, you will want to purchase tickets today....

Teaser Trailer: Greg Mottola’s ‘Paul’ Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost And Seth Rogen By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 18, 2010 1:42 am EST Universal Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for Superbad/Adventureland director Greg Mottola’s sci-fi adventure comedy Paul which stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (and an alien voiced by Seth Rogen). We got a chance to see some early footage from the film at Comic-Con, and most everyone agreed that it wasn’t what they were expecting (which isn’t entirely a bad thing)....

The Weinstein Company To Appeal ‘Blue Valentine’s NC-17 Rating By Russ Fischer/Oct. 14, 2010 10:49 am EST Blue Valentine was one of the hits of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and it has been considered a likely awards contender thanks to great performances by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. So there was no small amount of shock expressed last week when the MPAA slapped the film with the NC-17 rating, effectively killing any chance of wide advertising and booking....

VOTD: ‘Angry Caller’ No-Texting Announcement From The Alamo Drafthouse By Russ Fischer/June 6, 2011 12:21 pm EST The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, TX operates with a few simple rules, chief among which is this: don’t disturb the people around you. Don’t talk, don’t text. Period. If you do, and people complain, you’re booted without a refund. Get the hell out and good riddance. As you’d expect from someone rude enough to damage the theatergoing experience for other anonymous paying customers, people who get booted from the Drafthouse sometimes get angry....

Will ‘Ghostbusters 3’ Be A Remake?; Ivan Reitman “Quite Nervous” About ‘Triplets’ By Angie Han/Sept. 25, 2012 9:30 am EST The long-gestating Ghostbusters 3 got yet another new lease on life over this summer, when Sony hired Etan Cohen to give the script another rewrite. As of July, it looked like Cohen would be sticking with the same premise we’ve been hearing about for years now: “original castmembers Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray passing the torch to a new generation of ghostbusters....

Winter’s Bone Trailer And Poster By Russ Fischer/May 1, 2010 4:12 pm EST We missed posting this earlier this week, but I can’t totally pass up the chance to highlight the trailer for Winter’s Bone, the Grand Jury Prize winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. I quite like the look of the photography here, which is mostly naturalistic, but with a tinge of something fantastic, like the edges are just starting to fray....

By Russ Fischer/Sept. 18, 2010 12:00 pm EST The Darkest Hour is Summit’s 3D alien attack thriller that started shooting in Moscow earlier this summer. The film’s title came true in an unlikely manner, however, and production was shut down due to overwhelming smog from nearby forest fires. Now the production is back on track, so Emile Hirsch and Olivia Thirlby can get back to work. That’s right — Hirsch and Thirlby, a fairly unlikely duo for a film about " five young Americans who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack....

‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2’ Scene Marks Beginning Of The End By Germain Lussier/March 13, 2012 2:00 pm EST Today is a joyous, joyous day for fanboys everywhere. We have footage from what will be the final Twilight movie ever. (Maybe.) Which means The Twilight Saga, in every way, is nearing its end and that’s something all of us have one reason or another to celebrate. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 picks up where last year’s film left off, with heroine Bella Swan (Kirsten Stewart) having finally been turned into a vampire....

Book Trailer: ‘The Making Of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 14, 2010 1:28 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Yes, you read that right. You are reading a post about a trailer for a book. But not just any book. This is a goosebump-inducing trailer for Del Ray Books The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back by J.W. Rinzler....

Bryan Singer Confirms ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past,’ Suggests Connection To Other X-Men Films By Russ Fischer/Aug. 1, 2012 8:00 pm EST As Simon Kinberg has been at work scripting a sequel to X-Men: First Class for producer Bryan Singer and returning director Matthew Vaughn, speculation has run rampant that the film would feature the ‘Days of Future Past’ storyline, which originally appeared in the pages of Uncanny X-Men in 1981....

Casting Bits: Eddie Redmayne In ‘Les Miserables’, Rashida Jones And Corey Stoll In ‘Decoding Annie Parker’, Shea Whigham In ‘The Silver Linings Playbook’ By Angie Han/Nov. 1, 2011 4:00 pm EST My Week with Marilyn star Eddie Redmayne will join Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Anne Hathaway in Tom Hooper’s prestige musical Les Miserables. Based on the hit Broadway show and Victor Hugo’s classic novel of the same title, the film follows an ex-con named Valjean (Jackman) in 19th century France as he seeks to redeem himself....

Dan Aykroyd Still Talking ‘Ghostbusters 3,’ Hints Bill Murray Could Be Re-Cast By Germain Lussier/Feb. 13, 2012 2:30 pm EST They eventually made a fourth Indiana Jones. That’s what I tell myself each time Dan Aykroyd comes out and speaks, with the utmost confidence, that a third Ghostbusters will eventually be made. Like the Jones sequel, Ghostbusters 3 is a movie that has been long rumored and discussed ad nauseum. So I figure if Spielberg, Lucas and Ford can find a common ground after years of conjecture, the same will probably happen for the Ghostbusters crew....

David Fincher In The Running To Direct Sony’s ‘Cleopatra,’ Likely To Direct ‘The Girl Who Played With Fire’ By Russ Fischer/March 22, 2011 9:00 am EST The last time we checked in on the Sony take on Cleopatra, which Scott Rudin is producing as a possible Angelina Jolie star vehicle based on Stacy Schiff’s biography Cleopatra: A Life, James Cameron wasn’t going to make the film because of his commitment to Avatar 2, and Paul Greengrass was looking like a possible director....

Early Buzz: Robin Hood Reviews Break Before Cannes Premiere By Peter Sciretta/May 9, 2010 8:02 pm EST Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood is set to open up this year’s Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday night, but early reviews have begun to leak out over the weekend. The reviews range from mixed to not-so-positive. Check a sample of excerpts after the jump:Variety: ““Can you not sing a happy tune?” growls a not-so-merry man in “Robin Hood,” and one might direct the same question at Ridley Scott’s grimly revisionist take on England’s most famous outlaw....

Geek Deal: 58% Off Torchwood On DVD And Blu-Ray By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 14, 2010 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As with all of the Gold Box Deals, the price will be gone at the end of the day so… act fast!

Michael Shannon Is Zod In ‘Superman’, Now Titled ‘Man Of Steel’ By Peter Sciretta/April 10, 2011 1:46 pm EST Last month, it was rumored that Michael Shannon was in talks to play a villain role in Zack Snyder’s new Superman: Man of Steel. Today Warner Bros has officially announced that Shannon has signed on to star in the film, as Kryptonian villain Zod. This is just a couple weeks after Zack Snyder said that Viggo Mortensen is definitely not cast in the film....

Might Viggo Mortensen Lead ‘Dracula’ Spin-Off Story ‘The Last Voyage Of The Demeter’? By Russ Fischer/June 25, 2012 4:30 pm EST The Last Voyage of the Demeter is an unusual project, as it spins a brief interlude in Bram Stoker’s Dracula — the voyage of the title character from Transylvania to England — into a feature-length thriller. The script has been kicking around for a while, and nearly got made a couple years back with David Slade directing and Noomi Rapace and Ben Kingsley in the lead roles....

Movie Trailer: Skyline By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2010 2:23 pm EST At Comic Con, we saw the first footage from a small sci-fi thriller called Skyline, written and directed by the Strause Brothers. The alien invasion film was made on a small budget, but has fairly large-scale ambitions. Now you can see the same trailer we caught at the Con, after the break. It takes a minute for this trailer to kick in, but there’s a suggestion that things might get interesting when we start to see the action at the end....

New Poster For ‘Fast Five,’ Plus Director Justin Lin Talks Franchise Maturity By Germain Lussier/Feb. 3, 2011 6:00 pm EST Faster than a souped up Honda Civic that just hit the Nos, or some equally apropos hyperbole, Justin Lin’s fifth installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise, Fast Five, starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson, is speeding to theaters April 29. Universal and IGN have just released the latest poster for the film which captures both the action and speed that has made the series so popular....

Now Chris Hemsworth Is Rumored For ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ By Russ Fischer/May 2, 2011 12:38 pm EST Universal just can’t get someone to commit to play the male title role in Snow White and the Huntsman. The latest name to float to the top of the casting cauldron is Chris Hemsworth, who everyone will soon know as Thor. He’s truly good in that film — a great screen hero with charisma and physical presence to spare — but would be a lot younger than the Snow White role as it was originally written....