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Official: The Last Airbender Is The Worst Reviewed Movie Of 2010 (So Far) By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2010 2:00 pm EST It is now official, M Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender has beaten the Brendan Fraser animal family comedy Furry Vengeance to become the worst reviewed film of the year. This according to Rotten Tomatoes, which compiles reviews from movie critics from around the world. Airbender has a 6% rating with 80 reviews counted thus far....

Paul Rudd To Star In Next Errol Morris Film By Russ Fischer/July 12, 2011 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Back in April of 2009 acclaimed documentarian Errol Morris announced his intent to make his second non-doc feature. The film was being written by Stranger Than Fiction scripter Zach Helm, based on two sources: Robert F. Nelson’s memoir We Froze the First Man and a This American Life segment called ‘You’re Cold As Ice,’ which jointly follow the story of Robert Nelson, a TV repairman who developed his own cryogenic preservation technology in the mid-’60s....

Robert Zemeckis To Reunite With Tom Hanks For ‘Major Matt Mason’ By Angie Han/June 13, 2011 5:00 am EST Looks like Robert Zemeckis really has kicked the motion-capture habit for the time being. As previously reported, the director will be making his return to live-action filmmaking with the hero pilot drama Flight, starring Denzel Washington. Now, he’s in talks to add another live-action film to his slate — Major Matt Mason, based on a Mattel toy from the ’60s....

Sam Claflin Is The Prince In ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ By Russ Fischer/May 4, 2011 11:59 am EST Briefly: The casting shuffle for Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman continues, and while the studio still doesn’t have an actor locked to play the Huntsman in the Rupert Sanders-directed film (an offer is out to Thor’s Chris Hemsworth) the project does now at least have a prince. Sam Claflin, who has a sizable role in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, got the nod to be the love interest for Kristen Stewart’s Snow White....

Sequel Bits: ‘Transformers 4’ Casts Its First (Very Tiny) Role, Plus: ‘Bill & Ted 3’, ‘Men In Black 3’, ‘Journey 3’, ‘21 Jump Street 2’ By Angie Han/March 6, 2012 3:00 pm EST Everything old is new again in today’s Sequel Bits, which looks to the ’90s, the ’80s, and even the 19th century for inspiration. After the jump: Transformers 4 auctions off a walk-on role Bill & Ted 3 has a script, but no green light Men in Black 3 implores you to share your alien encounters Journey 3 gets fast-tracked for 2014 Michael Bacall’s working on 21 Jump Street 2 Two decades after the release of Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, Bill & Ted 3 is still coming together, albeit rather slowly....

Showrunner Dan Harmon Not Signed For ‘Community,’ Show Moves To Fridays By Angie Han/May 14, 2012 3:30 pm EST Last week’s renewal of Community was undeniably good news, even with the catch that the upcoming fourth season would consist of thirteen episodes instead of the usual twenty-something. And of course we’re still happy about it… but unfortunately, the caveats continue. Over the weekend, NBC announced that the series would be moving from Thursdays, where it’s been for the last three seasons, to Fridays....

Teaser Image For New Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Film By Germain Lussier/May 18, 2011 10:28 am EST Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie is actually happening. This we confirmed earlier this month when The Weinstein Company picked up worldwide rights to the project, formerly called The Master, which stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix in a currently untitled movie about “a man who returns after witnessing the horrors of WWII and tries to rediscover who he is in post-war America....

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Tonka Trucks To Get Big-Screen Treatment From Sony And Happy Madison By Angie Han/June 11, 2012 2:00 pm EST Apparently the lure of a familiar brand name is so powerful that not even a massive recent flop like Universal’s Battleship can dampen studio execs’ enthusiasm for turning famous toys into movies. The latest Hasbro property to sign on for the big screen treatment is Tonka, Hasbro’s 65-year-old line of toy trucks for kids....

TV Bits: ‘The Newsroom,’ ‘Doctor Who,’ ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Arrested Development,’ ‘Glee’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 2, 2012 4:30 pm EST Aaron Sorkin, head writer and creator of HBO’s The Newsroom, was at the Television Critics Association event this week and found himself defending the show, much like his lead character. Sorkin assured everyone that the writing staff was not fired, as previously reported, he doesn’t feel the show is at all sexist, and denied having a girlfriend in the writers room....

TV Bits: HBO Renews ‘True Blood’ And ‘The Newsroom,’ First Look At The Prison In ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 3 By Germain Lussier/July 2, 2012 4:30 pm EST We look ahead to the new seasons of a few popular shows and more in this edition of TV Bits. After the jump read about: HBO has renewed True Blood and The Newsroom for next season. Check out your first look at the prison which will house most of The Walking Dead season 3....

Watch This: Lost Epilogue Scene “Explains” Dharma Food Drops By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2010 11:00 am EST Access Hollywood has gotten their hands on a clip from the 12-minute Lost epilogue “The New Man in Charge” that will be included on the Series Finale DVD/Blu-ray set. In the clip, actor Michael Emerson reprises his role as Benjamin Linus, and shuts down the Dharma food warehouse which is responsible for the (until now) unexplained food drops....

WWE (Yes, That One) And Lionsgate To Remake ‘Leprechaun’ By Germain Lussier/March 15, 2012 6:30 pm EST While that Child’s Play remake is still in limbo, audiences have grown accustomed to seeing pretty much every other popular horror film from the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties get remade. Now we’re moving into the Nineties. World Wrestling Entertainment Studios is teaming up with Lionsgate to remake the 1993 cult classic Leprechaun, which starred Warrick Davis and Jennifer Aniston, and was about a killer leprechaun trying to recover his stole pot of gold....

Zack Snyder Looking For A Middle Aged Superman? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 20, 2010 1:30 pm EST We don’t know much about the new Superman movie. We’ve heard from a few sources that Zod is the villain, although even that Zack Snyder has written off as just a rumor. While another report claimed that David Goyer’s script follows Clark Kent, a journalist traveling the world “trying to decide if he should, in fact, even become Superman....

‘Big Fan’ Director Rob Siegel Will Direct Bill Hader In ‘Vaughn Meader’ By Russ Fischer/March 10, 2011 12:00 pm EST The other day we told you about Vaughn Meader, a film that is being developed as a star vehicle for Bill Hader. It isn’t a big broad studio comedy, however. The actor would play real-life comedian and impersonator Vaughn Meader, who built a career out of a JFK impression that was enjoyed by huge audiences — the President even loved it — and then saw that career disappear virtually overnight when Kennedy was assassinated in 1963....

‘G.I. Joe’ Sequel Director Shortlist Includes Jaume Collet-Serra, F. Gary Gray And Jon Chu By Adam Quigley/Feb. 11, 2011 10:30 am EST While the main cast of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra will most likely be back for a second round of goofy gadgetry and ninja combat, director Stephen Sommers didn’t have a sequel in his contract, and won’t be returning. That either means he had his eye on other projects and wasn’t interested in coming back, or that the studio told him to take a hike....

‘Rango’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Dec. 14, 2010 9:35 am EST We’ve seen an announcement clip and a teaser trailer for Gore Verbinski’s animated film Rango, which features Johnny Depp voicing a strange little chameleon lost in the desert of the American southwest. Now there’s a full trailer, and you can see it after the break. I’m still on board with this one. I liked the teaser and I like this trailer quite a bit....

‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Teaser Trailer And Poster By Russ Fischer/Nov. 10, 2011 11:17 am EST Here’s the teaser trailer for Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman, the entry in the Great Snow White Race of 2011 that appears to be focused more on action and dark fantasy than anything else. Evan Daugherty wrote the script, and studio interest in his take helped kick off the Snow White fever that we’re seeing culminate with this film and Tarsem’s Mirror, Mirror....

Casting Bits: David Hasselhoff In ‘Piranha 3DD’, Orlando Bloom, Nick Nolte, Stanley Tucci And Cristiana Capotondi In ‘Idea In America’, Dennis Quaid And Zoe Saldana In ‘The Words’ By Angie Han/May 12, 2011 4:00 pm EST David Hasselhoff has become the latest actor to join Piranha 3DD, the sequel to last year’s Piranha 3D (which in turn was a remake of the 1978 film Piranha). The new cast looks just as enjoyably eclectic as the last one — in addition to returning stars Christopher Lloyd, Ving Rhames, and Paul Scheer, 3DD will also feature Katrina Bowden (30 Rock), Gary Busey (Point Break), Danielle Panabaker (The Crazies), David Koechner (Anchorman) and Matt Bush (Adventureland)....

Christopher McQuarrie Says Maverick Is The Lead Of ‘Top Gun 2’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 27, 2010 5:00 am EST Briefly: This is just a quick update on the developing Top Gun sequel, but it is an interesting one in that you’ve got to wonder how it might affect the story as it goes through the studio mill. Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie, Wolverine 2) is being targeted to write Top Gun 2, and has written to Vulture to counter reports that Tom Cruise would have a reduced role in the film....