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New ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Info Found In Casting Call By Germain Lussier/Aug. 12, 2011 9:00 am EST G.I. Joe: Retaliation, directed by Jon Chu, is seemingly getting bigger by the day, and I don’t just mean The Rock’s muscles. New actors – such as Joseph Mazzello and Bruce Willis – have been joining the cast and the film got a shiny new summer release date. Now, the latest comes from io9 who found some casting calls from the film which reveal a bunch of characters names and specific details on what each is best at, known for and even a few scenes....

New ‘Green Lantern’ Merchandise Reveals More Kilowog And CG Rendered Suit By Germain Lussier/Jan. 10, 2011 1:30 pm EST As the summer inches closer, not only will we be seeing more posters, commercials and trailers for all the huge, blockbuster movies coming out between May and August, we’re going to start seeing a lot of merchandise too. In the last few years, the revelation of the merchandise is often how we get our first, sometimes best, looks at these films....

New Banner For Universal’s ‘The Thing’ Prequel By Russ Fischer/Oct. 8, 2010 12:24 pm EST Briefly: Earlier this week we saw the first official still shots and behind the scenes images for Universal’s prequel to The Thing. For reasons that no one really understands at this point, the studio is currently calling this prequel simply The Thing, which could create some confusion between the original film and the new picture....

New Lawsuit Targets Hurt Locker Pirates By David Chen/May 12, 2010 3:45 am EST Remember that lawsuit from awhile back that targeted 50,000 individuals who pirated a bunch of relatively unknown indie films like Uwe Boll’s Far Cry? It was filed by the U.S. Copyright Group (hereafter referred to as “The Group”) in an attempt at creating a new “revenue stream” for the financiers of those films. Turns out that, as promised, those lawsuits were just the beginning, and U....

Paramount To Adapt Comic ‘Last Man Standing’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 11, 2010 10:56 pm EST Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to make a big screen adaptation of the graphic novel Last Man Standing from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman’s Heavy Metal Publishing. We have more information about the graphic novel and a ton of artwork after the jump. LMS (Last Man Standing) tells the story of Gabriel, the last living Paladin soldier....

Sacha Baron Cohen Might Be Spanish Gross-Out Hero ‘Torrente’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 15, 2010 7:02 pm EST In the United States, we’re so used to our own franchises it’s easy to forget that other countries have their own too. One example are the Torrente films in Spain. Created and portrayed by Spanish comedian Santiago Segura, the Torrente films follow an overweight, racist, corrupt cop who gets fired from the force but still patrols the streets....

Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ Coming To Big Screen By Germain Lussier/Jan. 31, 2011 6:27 pm EST One of the most influential books of all time might finally be coming to a theater near you. CBS Films, which has long held the rights to Stephen King’s epic story of good vs. evil, The Stand, has just partnered with Warner Brothers to adapt the novel for the big screen. Warners beat out several other studios for the partnership and will star hearing pitches from writers and directors in the next few weeks....

Steve Carell And Keira Knightley Both ‘Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World’ By Germain Lussier/April 1, 2011 8:28 am EST With inevitable apocalypse on the horizon, love and laughter are probably two things most people would seek out. In Hollywood, though, they tend to believe we’d be all about big explosions or enlightenment. Movies about the end of the world usually take comedy and romance and make them secondary to the detailed destruction of a city or the religious significance of it all....

Stop-Motion Addams Family Movie Still Moving Forward With Tim Burton In Mind To Direct By Russ Fischer/June 27, 2010 5:41 pm EST In March, a story came out of Deadline that a stop-motion animated Addams Family film is being developed with Tim Burton as likely director. Burton’s reps quickly issued a denial, saying that he “has not lined up any of his upcoming projects.” When Brendon reported on the story and the denial, he surmised that Deadline’s report wasn’t incorrect, but that this project might just be a long ways off....

Thor Screenwriter Mark Protosevich Adapting ‘Freakshow’ By Russ Fischer/July 27, 2010 7:48 am EST The San Diego Comic Con is a giant tangle of new publications, and it can be difficult to sort out the good from the bad. One title I came across on the last day of the con (the only time I got to wander the show floor at my own pace) was Freakshow, from writers David Server and Jackson Lanzing and artist Joe Suitor....

Universal Is Working On A ‘Safe House’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/Sept. 5, 2012 6:32 pm EST Briefly: David Guggenheim went from US Weekly editor to big-time screenwriter thanks in part to his script for what became the Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds thriller Safe House. And now Universal has set him to write another one.THR has the news, and says that Reynolds would likely return, though a deal hasn’t been made....

VOTD: Kees Van Dijkhuizen’s Cinema 2011 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2011 3:00 pm EST One of the “best of the year” videos we’ve featured over past years is created by editor Kees van Dijkhuizen (see the videos for 2008, 2009 and 2010). So now that 2011 is coming to a close, Kees has released Cinema 2011. Here are some words from the editor: A mix of laughs, kisses, fights, tears and everything in between....

Watch Marvel Studios’ Animatics Supervisor Federico D’Alessandro’s ‘Halloween’ Remake Pitch Reel By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 18, 2012 12:30 pm EST Federico D’Alessandro started as a storyboard artist on James Cameron’s 3D docuemtnary Aliens of the Deep, and worked his way up the ladder working on horror movies like Stay Alive before getting his chance on big studio pictures like I Am Legend, and The Chronicles of Narnia sequels. For the last couple years, D’Alessandro has been working as the Head Storyboard Artist and Animatics Supervisor over at Marvel Studios, working on all the superhero movies: Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, Thor 2 and Iron Man 3....

‘All You Need Is Kill’ Writer To Rewrite ‘Twilight Zone’ By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2012 5:00 am EST Briefly: Warner Bros. is still poking at a new take on The Twilight Zone, and has set a new writer to tackle the script. Joby Harold, who did work on the Tom Cruise project All You Need is Kill (which may end up with a different title) is the latest writer on the new thriller/sci-fi picture....

‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ Trailer #2: Chris Evans Becomes A Tool To Forge Freedom By Russ Fischer/June 23, 2011 4:33 pm EST Earlier today we saw a new poster for Captain America: The First Avenger and now the second full trailer, teased over a week ago at the Hero Complex festival in LA, is online. You can see it after the break. So there are a lot more early first-act details here than we’d seen before, but that’s pretty good....

‘Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Sept. 28, 2011 6:02 pm EST Here’s the trailer for Stephen Daldry’s adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, based on a script by Eric Roth. The movie has been a curiosity for me for months in part because the book is a piece of post-modernism that doesn’t lend itself easily to adaptation, and in part because Daldry chose a non-actor, Thomas Horn, to play the central role of 11-year old Oskar Schell....

‘Iron Man 3’ Production Delayed As Robert Downey Jr. Sustains Ankle Injury By Germain Lussier/Aug. 16, 2012 1:00 am EST Briefly: There’s a tiny bit of trouble in Marvel land today as production on Iron Man 3 has been temporarily delayed. The reason? Tony Stark himself, Robert Downey Jr., sustained an ankle injry on the set of the Shane Black-helmed superhero sequel, scheduled for release May 3, 2013. Read the official statement after the jump....

By Germain Lussier/Jan. 24, 2011 3:00 pm EST Paramount picked the film up for $4 million on Sunday so you’ll get to see it soon. But, before that, read our review. Like Crazy’s gritty, guerrilla style is the audience’s first clue that they’re seeing something unique. The second is its narrative spark. Most romances – say, for example Knocked Up – use pregnancy to set the story in motion. They dramatize an in the moment decision during sex where your whole life can change in a blink....

‘True Legend’ Trailer – ‘Drunken Master’ Helmer Yuen Woo-Ping Returns To The Director’s Chair By Angie Han/March 29, 2011 12:30 pm EST A new trailer has just been released for True Legend, an upcoming film by influential director and fight choreographer Yuen Woo-ping. Yuen made his name as a director back in the ’70s with movies like Drunken Master, but has recently focused more on action choreography, for films including The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill and Kung Fu Hustle....

By Angie Han/Dec. 16, 2011 10:00 am EST Finally, Saxon, who’s produced Silence of the Lambs, Adaptation., and Away We Go, is set for Barrington Smith-Seetachit’s screenplay Children of Others. Winner of the studio’s Best Script Award, the story follows a woman who finally gets pregnant through a fertility clinic, but then learns that her unborn child could be the first step of a massive alien invasion — or humanity’s best hope for salvation....