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‘Dredd’ Trailer: Attack The Block By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2012 6:00 am EST How does a budget-limited production get around the expense of creating a massive post-apocalyptic city? One method is to restrict a film set in that city primarily to the interior of one massive apartment building. And in Dredd, Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby play two law enforcers — agents with a mandate to act as judge, jury and executioner in this hellish city of the future — who lead a team into an apartment block controlled by a drug-dealing criminal (Lena Headey)....

‘Gossip Girl’ Creator Josh Schwartz Remaking Brit Sci-Fi Drama ‘Misfits’ By Angie Han/Oct. 20, 2011 5:00 am EST I know how most of you feel about remakes, and I know how most of you (or at least most of those of you’ve heard of Misfits) feel about Misfits, so you may want to take a deep breath before you move on to the next paragraph. Ready? Josh Schwartz, who helped will The O....

‘Jersey Shore’ Producers Casting MTV Geek Reality Show By Angie Han/Dec. 22, 2011 3:30 pm EST When Clint Eastwood agreed to appear on an upcoming reality show for E!, it served as a dramatic reminder that the format isn’t just for spoiled heiresses or boozed-up guidos anymore. In fact, MTV’s now looking to feature people like you — yes, you! — on a new “experimental documentary series” about geek culture titled Fandom Rising, “from the masterminds behind The Jersey Shore....

‘Juan Of The Dead’ Review [Fantastic Fest 2011] By Germain Lussier/Sept. 25, 2011 9:00 am EST After premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, Juan of the Dead had its U.S. Premiere Friday night at Fantastic Fest 2011. Read more after the jump. You have to commend Brugués for not only getting this film made in Cuba, but approved by the Cuban government – it’s billed as the first Cuban horror movie of all time....

‘Riddick’ Finds More Money, Production To Restart Soon By Germain Lussier/Nov. 28, 2011 4:30 pm EST Nothing is coming easy to Vin Diesel and David Twohy when it comes to making another Riddick movie. After years of development and teases, the star and writer/director finally began production on the sequel to Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick a few months ago but had to stop in the middle of shooting because they ran out of money....

‘Sol’ Trailer – Ambitious Young Folks Navigate A Forbidding Planet In Young Filmmaker’s Feature Debut By Angie Han/June 21, 2011 5:00 am EST There are a lot of crappy spots for films of every stripe, so it’s always a pleasant surprise when you stumble across a cool one you weren’t expecting. A trailer has just been released for Sol, the intriguing feature debut of young director/screenwriter Benjamin Carland. Carland’s sci-fi tale centers around a group of young adults who travel to a remote planet in order to compete against in the prestigious and brutal Sol Invictus competition....

‘The Mechanic’ Red Band Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2011 5:10 pm EST CBS Films has released an uncensored red band movie trailer for The Mechanic, British director Simon West’s (Con Air, Tomb Raider, When a Stranger Calls) remake of the Charles Bronson thriller starring Jason Statham, Ben Foster, and Donald Sutherland also co-stars. The story follows Statham as a veteran hitman who takes on an apprentice (Foster) who has a connection to one of the hitman’s previous victims....

A Karate Kid Sequel? After This Weekend’s Performance, Bet On It By Russ Fischer/June 15, 2010 9:40 am EST The Karate Kid easily owned the weekend box office in its debut outing, thrashing The A-Team by a margin of two dollars earned for every one taken by Joe Carnahan’s TV revival. With Will Smith’s son Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan earning $56m, well surpassing expectations, do you think there will be a sequel?...

A Nightmare On Elm Street 3D Sequel By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2010 12:48 pm EST Platinum Dunes A Nightmare on Elm Street remake “killed” (pun intended) at the box office this weekend, taking in over $32.9 million domestically in its first outing. This is the biggest opening for the Nightmare series, and the largest horror opening for the months of both May and April. Apparently this was enough to get Warner Bros/New Line to commit to a 3D sequel....

Billy Mitchell Opens ‘King Of Kong’ Arcade In Orlando Airport By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2011 2:30 pm EST Many of you probably have seen the 2007 documentary The King of Kong (and if you haven’t, Netflix it now!). The movie follows the battle between Steve Wiebe and noted Donkey Kong/vintage video game champion Billy Mitchell, over the world record for Donkey Kong. Since the release of the film, it has been fun tracking the back and fourth battle between Wiebe and Mitchell for the world record (Steve Wiebe recently reclaimed the Donkey Kong World Record from Billy Mitchell before losing the title months later to Plastic Surgeon Hank Chien)....

Bryan Singer To Shoot ‘Jack The Giant Killer’ In The Dark By Germain Lussier/Dec. 27, 2010 2:00 pm EST Most people who go to the movies take it for granted, but light is as important a facet of cinema as the budget or the script. Without light, your movie couldn’t be projected up onto the big screen. And without light on set, the cameras wouldn’t be able to recognize the image in front of them....

By Germain Lussier/May 20, 2011 5:00 pm EST From M to Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, the length of a movie’s title can be very short or incredibly long. But with recent short-title hits like Hop and Rio, one fan wondered, does the length of a movie’s title have any correlation to its box office success? Mark Lee over at OverthinkingIt.com thought that sounded like a challenge and set out to answer the question....

Casting Bits: Jamie Chung In ‘Knife Fight;’ Joey King In ‘Oz: The Great And Powerful;’ Katrina Bowden In ‘American Reunion’ By Russ Fischer/May 26, 2011 2:00 pm EST Jamie Chung has two big Legendary Pictures films behind her this year, Sucker Punch and The Hangover Part II, and now (probably not as a response) she’s going indie for the film Knife Fight. That’s the one starring Rob Lowe where he plays “a political crisis manager who specializes in playing hardball on behalf of scandal-plagued clients....

Casting Notes: Téa Leoni In ‘Tower Heist’; Lea Michelle In ‘New Year’s Eve’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 23, 2010 10:33 am EST Brett Ratner’s new movie, the thriller/action/comedy Tower Heist, is prepping to shoot in November in New York City. The cast is enough to earn at least an interested glance: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda, Gabourey Sidibe and Michael Pena. Now there are two new additions: Téa Leoni and Nina Arianda....

Confirmed: Jon Favreau Will Not Direct ‘Iron Man 3’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 14, 2010 12:55 pm EST Update: Deadline has confirmed that Favreau will not direct Iron Man 3. Favreau even confirmed this on Twitter: Original post follows: Once Jon Favreau gets back from the Magic Kingdom, he reportedly won’t be returning to Stark Industries. Rumors are coming in that Favreau has informed Marvel he will not be returning to direct Iron Man 3....

Cool Stuff: Anne Benjamin’s Limited Edition ‘Young Adult’ Pop-Up Screening Art By Russ Fischer/Oct. 22, 2011 7:30 pm EST Paramount Pictures is running unannounced pop-up screenings of Jason Reitman’s new film Young Adult in cities around North America. As a special bonus, Reitman and Paramount enlisted the curatorial services of Los Angeles’ famous pop culture art gallery Gallery1988 to pick the artists and produce limited edition pieces of art for the surprise screenings....

David Fincher’s ‘Heavy Metal’ Is Dead, Now Robert Rodriguez Has The Rights By Russ Fischer/July 21, 2011 5:53 pm EST For some time I’ve hoped that David Fincher would really find a way to make a new version of Heavy Metal. The original animated anthology film based on or inspired by stories from Metal Hurlant/Heavy Metal magazine was released in 1981 and didn’t find a huge audience, but turned into a cult classic over time....

DC Pierson Announces New Novel ‘Crap Kingdom’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2012 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A couple years ago, Vintage published DC’s first novel, The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To, a critically acclaimed hilarious high school coming of age story with a small side of mutant creatures from another galaxy. That book is currently being developed into a feature film by Dan Eckman (director of Mystery Team and the Community episode " Digital Exploration of Interior Design" which focused on the blanket fort war and Subway)....

Disney Offers Buy-One-Get-One-Free Tickets For Sorcerer’s Apprentice, But Will It Drive More Interest In The Movie? By David Chen/July 14, 2010 6:24 pm EST I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I was doing my daily deal-hunting and discovered a buy-one-get-one free deal for Sorcerer’s Apprentice tickets. At first I thought it was a Fandango promotion, seeing as how Apprentice is one of Disney’s tentpole releases this summer. Why on earth would they be giving away free tickets on a massive scale for the film’s opening weekend?...

First Look: Rob Zombie’s ‘The Lords Of Salem’ By Russ Fischer/April 6, 2011 4:30 pm EST Here’s the first look at any imagery from Rob Zombie’s new film The Lords of Salem. But what is it, exactly? Your guess is as good as mine. To start with, is seems to be a mask of some sort, and probably one designed to punish people, extract information from them or both. But how does it factor into the film?...