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‘Karate Kid’ Remake Director To Helm ‘Mortal Instruments,’ Lily Collins Still Attached By Russ Fischer/March 16, 2012 4:30 pm EST Last month, Screen Gems decided it didn’t want to bother with Mortal Instruments, the adaptation of the first novel in Cassandra Clare’s young adult fantasy series, after all. At the time, Scott Stewart (Legion) was attached to direct with Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower as possible stars. Now the film is back on, thanks to Constantin Film and Unique Pictures....

‘Looper’ Trailer With Audio Commentary From Director Rian Johnson By Germain Lussier/April 16, 2012 9:00 am EST One of the several big news stories this week was the premiere of the teaser trailer for Looper, director Rian Johnson’s time-travel action film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt. We kind of flipped out for the trailer at WonderCon and based on the comments here on the site Thursday, you did too....

‘Real Steel’ Japanese Trailer By Russ Fischer/June 22, 2011 10:44 am EST Leave it to Japan to deliver a trailer for the robot boxing movie Real Steel that is full of new footage. Shawn Levy directs Hugh Jackman as a washed-up boxer who ‘coaches’ giant mechanical boxers. Given custody of his son (Dakota Goyo) he has to face up to his responsibilities as a father, all while building up a new robot that can win, Rocky-style, in the ring....

Anne Hathaway And James Franco In Talks For ‘Alien’ Prequel By Germain Lussier/Oct. 19, 2010 12:15 pm EST Bloody Disgusting exclusively broke the news that the stars of Pineapple Express and The Devil Wears Prada “could be suiting up for the prequel.” It makes sense, both because of their acting skills and because both actors graduated to big budget event films after getting their starts in relatively small budget productions. Hathaway recently starred as Agent 99 in 2008’s Get Smart and as the White Queen in Tim Burton’s 2010 Alice in Wonderland....

Bret Easton Ellis Says Roger Avary Will Direct ‘Glamorama’ Next Year By Russ Fischer/Oct. 13, 2011 11:30 am EST The association between author Bret Easton Ellis and screenwriter/director Roger Avary goes back a decade. Avary directed a film version of the Ellis novel The Rules of Attraction, released in 2002, and used footage shot for that film to create another movie, Glitterati, which is tangentially related to The Rules of Attraction....

Cool Stuff: New Posters For ‘Vertigo’ And ‘The Big Lebowkski’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 31, 2012 9:39 am EST Whether you’re afraid of heights or spilling your beverages, three posters for classic movies came out Friday. Spoke Art has two brand new prints for Sight and Sound’s greatest film of all time, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, created by Chuck Sperry and Sam Smith, which is screening in 70mm in San Francisco this weekend....

Diablo Cody Says ‘Evil Dead’ Remake Will Be “Unbelievably Violent,” Sees ‘Sweet Valley High’ As ‘American Graffiti’ For The ’80s By Angie Han/Nov. 21, 2011 12:00 pm EST We haven’t seen a feature from screenwriter from Diablo Cody since 2009’s tepidly received Jennifer’s Body, but next month’s Young Adult kicks off a series of interesting projects Cody’s got on her slate. In a pair of recent interviews, Cody touched upon two very different ones: the Evil Dead remake from writer-director Fede Alvarez (which has the blessing of the original’s director Sam Raimi and star/exec producer Bruce Campbell, before you get too up in arms), and that Sweet Valley High movie announced a couple of years back....

Did David Prowse Ruin ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ Two Years Before Release? By Germain Lussier/Nov. 9, 2010 12:30 pm EST Though people today constantly complains about spoilers, they regularly take for granted that they’re available at all. Today, someone can do a simple Google search and find out almost any secret they want to in regards to a movies or television. That’s pretty incredible, especially when you think it wasn’t so long ago the only way movies got spoiled was in the occasional magazine article, printed review or if someone blurted it out while you were in line for the next show....

Eddie Murphy Quits As Oscar Host By Russ Fischer/Nov. 9, 2011 12:26 pm EST Here’s what will hopefully be the last strain of the Oscar fallout from Brett Ratner’s comments over the past week: Eddie Murphy has quit as host of the 84th Academy Awards. Brett Ratner called Murphy his first and only choice to host, and there was something appealing about the idea of blatant showman Ratner working with Murphy for the Oscars....

First Official Look: Leonardo DiCaprio In ‘J. Edgar’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2011 9:30 am EST Here’s your first studio-approved still from Clint Eastwood’s latest prestige picture, J. Edgar. The shot is doesn’t replicate any one classic shot of the long-time FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, but does capture his general image from the ’50s. Leonardo DiCaprio still doesn’t look a whole lot like Hoover, whose rounded, potato-spud face has exactly the deficit of appeal that DiCaprio’s does not....

Geek Deal: Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series For Only $115 On Blu-Ray, $89 On DVD; Save 71% On Blu-Ray Book Editions By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2012 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Infographic: ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Retold In Iconscope’ By Peter Sciretta/April 18, 2011 11:30 am EST In February, Wayne Dorrington recreated Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) in an Infographic using 32-lines of “iconscope”. You may remember that we posted the infographic here. Dorrington has returned with a follow-up, recreating Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back using 63 lines of icons. Check it out after the jump....

Is James Franco Going To Play Kaneda In ‘Akira’? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 11, 2011 3:00 pm EST Answer: Probably not. The development of a live-action film version of Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga Akira has been long and difficult. The massive story isn’t the easiest thing to distill into one or two feature films (just ask the creator, who did it himself in the late ’80s) much less for a price that represents an acceptable balance between risk and reward....

Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo And Noah Segan Cast In Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 21, 2011 3:00 pm EST Around these parts, Rian Johnson’s third feature film Looper is one of the most anticipated films of 2011/2012. The sci-fi / time-travel thriller is ready to roll cameras, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano and Xu Qing leading the cast in a story about “a group of killers who send bodies of their victims back in time, with China as the centerpiece of the storyline....

Jim Carrey Leaves ‘Dumb And Dumber’ Sequel Due To Lack Of Studio Enthusiasm By Russ Fischer/June 20, 2012 9:30 am EST Typically when it comes to cash-in sequels, it’s the studio that really wants to make the movie. But in the case of a sequel to Dumb and Dumber, Jim Carrey says that Warner Bros. and New Line aren’t very interested in the project, and so he has walked away from it....

Joe Eszterhas Scripting Tale Of Legendary Jewish Hero For Mel Gibson, Who May Direct By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2011 7:34 pm EST Is this an expression of genuine artistic interest, a motion of real penance, or a calculated move? Mel Gibson, a man who in 2006 told a cop “the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,” is teaming with Showgirls writer Joe Eszterhas on a script about Jewish hero Judah Maccabee....

Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Oblivion’ Retitled ‘Horizons,’ Karl Gajdusek Rewriting By Russ Fischer/March 16, 2011 5:30 pm EST Last year Disney picked up the film rights to Oblivion, the graphic novel that Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski conceived years ago as a sci-fi story in which “a soldier, assigned to patrol a desolate planet, meets a mysterious traveler.” The graphic novel was meant to be the basis for a film, and so far, so good....

Kathryn Morris Joins Moneyball By Russ Fischer/July 12, 2010 1:12 pm EST The long saga of Moneyball is about to close — after the film was set to shoot with Steven Soderbergh directing his rewrite of Steve Zaillian’s script, Sony shut things down at the last minute. Aaron Sorkin was brought in to rewrite (though some of Zaillian’s script is reportedly being used) and Bennett Miller is now about to direct Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Robin Wright and Philip Seymour Hoffman in the tale of baseball and statistics....

LOL: TMZ Has No Idea Who Terrence Malick Is By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2012 12:00 pm EST One classic ’either or’ question is: would you rather have fortune, or fame? I always go for fortune, because for the most part it looks like fame really sucks. There is real power in being able to do the stuff you want to do, but still walk down the street in total anonymity....

Mark Wahlberg Attached To Two More: ‘Billy Jack’ And ‘When Corruption Was King’ By Germain Lussier/April 14, 2011 2:37 pm EST Ted, Uncharted, The Fighter 2, Bait and Switch, Broken City, Contraband, The Raven. The list of films Mark Wahlberg is currently making, potentially producing or has been attached too is more extensive than some actor’s whole careers. That’s especially the case when you add two more projects to the already lengthy list....