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First Looks: Colin Firth And Cameron Diaz In ‘Gambit;’ Willem Dafoe In ‘4:44 Last Day On Earth’ By Russ Fischer/May 15, 2011 1:44 pm EST Some few years ago the Coen Brothers scripted a remake of the ’60s romantic caper comedy Gambit (originally starring Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine) and the remake is finally shooting now under the direction of Michael Hoffman (The Last Station). Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz star in the key roles, and Stanley Tucci and Cloris Leachman have joined Alan Rickman and Tom Courtenay in the supporting cast....

Guillermo Del Toro Reportedly Producing And Writing Treatment For New Van Helsing Film By Russ Fischer/June 11, 2010 12:15 am EST The moment that Guillermo del Toro walked away from The Hobbit, speculation began to run rampant as to what his next film might be. He’s got quite a few options, and now there might be one more: a report says that he’s working to develop a new film featuring the vampire hunter Van Helsing invented by Bram Stoker and spun off into a very silly film of his own in 2004....

Idea: Why Not Offer The First Episode Of Every TV Series For FREE? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2011 6:00 am EST Everyone loves free stuff. People will even flock to free stuff when the free stuff is actually junk. Free stuff can be great marketing — and unlike a lot of marketing promos, it actually works. Sure, you see a promotion like the Pan-Am freebie pop up every once in a while, usually when a network is forced to do something drastic....

Jack Black, Nicolas Cage And Steve Carell Attached To Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Frank Or Francis’ By Russ Fischer/July 22, 2011 12:45 pm EST Here’s a pretty great bit of news that doesn’t come from Comic Con: Charlie Kaufman’s long-gestating Frank or Francis now has a possible cast. Jack Black and Nicolas Cage are now attached to the film, and Charlie Kaufman is in talks with Steve Carell to sign on, too....

January Jones Talks Rushed ‘X-Men: First Class’ Schedule, Praises Matthew Vaughn By Russ Fischer/Feb. 14, 2011 10:15 am EST Now January Jones echoes his comments, while praising the skills of her director. Speaking to the Canadian site Jam!, the actress said, Poor (director) Matthew Vaughn is going to have to edit it in three days… That’s been a blast. We’ve all had so much fun making that movie… I think it was unrealistic for them to think they were going to make such a huge movie in whatever we had — two months or something....

Jerry Bruckheimer And The Rock Producing ’80s Wrestling Drama For NBC By Germain Lussier/Aug. 24, 2011 6:00 am EST Real wrestling fans know anyone hoping to make a television show based on the professional wrestling boom of the 1980s will be hard pressed to beat Hulk Hogan’s Rock ’n’ Wrestling. The Saturday morning cartoon series featured Hogan and some of the World Wrestling Federation’s other good guys battling Rowdy Roddy Piper and a team of bad guys....

Marvel Hires Writer For ‘Black Panther’ Movie By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 20, 2011 2:00 pm EST The Black Panther is considered the first modern Black superhero. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, he first appeared in Fantastic Four vol. 1, #52 in July 1966. The Black Panther is entitled to the use of a heart-shaped herb that grants the person who consumes it enhanced strength, agility, and perception.

Mike Mignola Pessimistic About Idea Of Guillermo Del Toro Making ‘Hellboy 3’ By Russ Fischer/June 20, 2011 6:00 am EST For several years — since the promotion cycle for Hellboy 2: The Golden Army — Guillermo del Toro has been talking about making a third Hellboy movie. Other participants, such as Ron Perlman, have talked about it, too, but the idea always came down to the availability of the director. The latest person to weigh in on the potential for a sequel is Mike Mignola, the man who originally wrote and drew the character on the comics page....

Mondo Does Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Drive’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 1, 2012 10:30 am EST Nicolas Winding Refn’s suspenseful and cool character piece, Drive, was recently named the best film of 2011 by the Alamo Drafthouse. Add that to the fact the film was just released on Blu-ray (with a lame cover), and that Mondo is on a kick of releasing more current films (Kill List, anyone?) and it makes perfect sense that they are doing a poster for Drive....

Movie Poster: Mars Needs Moms By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 18, 2010 9:00 am EST Walt Disney Pictures has released the first movie poster for the Robert Zemeckis’ produced adaptation of Berkley Breathed’s children’s book Mars Needs Moms on Yahoo. The performance capture film is being directed by The Prince of Egypt/The Time Machine helmer Simon Wells and stars Seth Green, Joan Cusack and Dan Fogler. Hit the jump to see the poster....

New Images: ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 31, 2011 10:30 am EST We still don’t have a full trailer for Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger, which opens on July 22. But here are two new images that show off Cap in uniform. Both come via Empire, and while the cover of the new issue is a good shot of Chris Evans, I’m a lot more partial to the smaller shot that shows off the character in full mask and helmet....

Release Dates: ‘Bad Teacher’ And ‘Footloose’ Shuffled To New Berths By Russ Fischer/Nov. 18, 2010 5:44 pm EST Here’s news on the release dates for three films that couldn’t be more different. Well, we haven’t seen any of the three yet, or even trailers for any of them, but do you really expect there will be much common ground between the remake of Footloose, the comedy Bad Teacher and the Steven Soderbergh action/espionage picture Haywire?...

Rumor Control: No ‘Akira’ Offer For Zac Efron; Jeremy Renner Not In ‘Escape From New York’; Brad Pitt Not Making Chilean Miners Movie By Russ Fischer/Nov. 15, 2010 4:00 pm EST Ten days ago there was a rumor, based on a tracking board report, that an offer had gone out to Zac Efron to star in the live-action version of Akira to be directed by the Hughes Brothers. But a rep for the directors told Digital Spy the story isn’t true....

Spider-Man Shortlist Gets Longer: Aaron Johnson And Anton Yelchin Considered By Russ Fischer/June 11, 2010 12:58 pm EST A couple weeks ago we reported that Sony and Marc Webb were looking at five actors to play Peter Parker in the new version of Spider-Man: Jamie Bell; Andrew Garfield; Alden Ehrenreich; Frank Dillane; and Josh Hutcherson. Last week we heard that Jamie Bell was the front-runner, albeit without any official confirmation. Now there are two more names to add to the list: Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson and Anton Yelchin, from Terminator: Salvation and the upcoming Fright Night remake....

Sylvester McCoy Says He’s In Talks For ‘The Hobbit’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 29, 2010 7:47 pm EST Briefly: Here’s your latest small update on The Hobbit. The actor Sylvester McCoy (aka the seventh Doctor Who) has been rumored to be a candidate for a big role in The Hobbit, with some pegging him as a possible Bilbo Baggins. That always seemed a bit absurd, for while he looks the part, he’s rather too old for that role....

VOTD: 1950’s Version Of The Inception Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 5, 2010 7:00 am EST This fan made movie trailer cut of Christopher Nolan’s Inception is modeled after the trailers of Alfred Hitchcock’s films from the 1940’s and 50’s. Here is a word from the editor, krishnashenoi93: The audio is picked from the trailers of ‘Rear Window’, ‘Spellbound’ and ‘Vertigo’. The words are my own, but those are just like what they normally cover the entire screen with....

Warner Bros. Passes On Ron Howard’s Adaptation Of Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 20, 2012 4:22 pm EST Has The Dark Tower finally fallen? Imagine Entertainment partners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer have been working up a very ambitious three-film and dual-TV series cycle of productions to adapt Stephen King’s epic novel series. But last summer Universal decided not to finance the project, and Imagine took The Dark Tower to other studios....

Watch Vincent Cassel Seduce His Way Through Paris In Darren Aronofsky’s YSL Ad By Angie Han/April 21, 2011 5:00 am EST When Keira Knightley or Natalie Portman stars in a luxury fragrance commercial, she gets one gorgeous love interest. But when Vincent Cassel appears in one, he gets three. As part of his duties as the “face” of Yves Saint Laurent’s La Nuit de L’Homme cologne, Cassel recently reteamed with his Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky to shoot this ad, in which Cassel goes on the prowl on one eventful night in Paris....

‘Super 8’ Review – J.J Abrams’ Turducken For Film Lovers By Germain Lussier/June 9, 2011 11:00 am EST Ever heard of a turducken? It’s a food item consisting of chicken and duck stuffed into a turkey; three elements that don’t exactly go together, but are delicious enough individually that the end product is a delight. I ask because J.J. Abrams’ latest film, Super 8, is the movie equivalent of a turducken....

‘Wuthering Heights’ Teaser Trailer: ‘Fish Tank’ Director’s Take On The Brontë Classic By Russ Fischer/Sept. 19, 2011 3:00 pm EST In the past decade Andrea Arnold has emerged as a promising art-house filmmaker, even if she has only two features to her name. Her 2009 film Fish Tank rightfully impressed many, thanks in no small part to Michael Fassbender’s effective performance. (His follow-up to Hunger.) And if her 2006 film Red Road is less impressive overall, it is photographed and assembled so beautifully that I couldn’t help but be drawn in to the dour, lonely world it depicts....