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Comic-Con Footage Review And Panel: ‘Terra Nova’ Shows Potential, But Doesn’t Live Up To It (Yet) By Angie Han/July 24, 2011 10:00 am EST The Steven Spielberg-produced sci-fi series takes place both many years in the future and many, many years in the past: In the year 2149, Earth is dying thanks to centuries of pollution and overdevelopment. The best hope for the human race is an experimental colony called Terra Nova, located in prehistoric (read: dinosaur) times....

Cool Stuff: Rich Pellegrino’s ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ Poster By Germain Lussier/Aug. 25, 2011 3:15 pm EST This December will mark ten years since Wes Anderson released The Royal Tenenbaums and it remains as breathtaking today as it was in 2001. The unique portrait of an eclectic New York family of artists would have been interesting on its own but mix it up with Anderson’s trademark style and it pops off the screen....

By Germain Lussier/March 4, 2011 12:30 am EST South by Southwest begins next week in Austin, Texas and besides incredible music and awesome films, the festival also has great art. Not only do they host a Flatstock, which is basically screenprint Comic Con, it’s in Mondo’s hometown, so they get in on the festivities. They’ve commissioned a whole bunch of posters exclusively for SXSW screenings and today we’re got the first batch (with more coming next week)....

Daniel Craig In Talks To Star In David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo By Russ Fischer/June 3, 2010 5:02 pm EST In the past couple weeks, the most widely-reported word on David Fincher’s remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was that Brad Pitt was waiting on Steve Zaillian’s first script draft, which was turned in on June 1. The belief was that Pitt was going to make a decision about starring in the film after reading the script....

Daniel Craig Looks Likely To Do Two More Bond Movies [Updated With Confirmation] By Russ Fischer/Sept. 7, 2012 1:00 pm EST As the 23rd james Bond film, Skyfall, went into production, one question was: how many more times is Daniel Craig likely to play Bond? This is his third outing as the super spy, and supposition has run the gamut of options, from thinking he might be done after Skyfall, to the idea that he’s got another one or two films in him....

Darren Aronofsky Offers Encouraging Words About ‘The Wolverine’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 22, 2010 9:30 am EST Recalling that he was once intent on making a new version of manga samurai classic Lone Wolf and Cub might provide some illumination, since The Wolverine is a tale set in Japan that will focus, to some extent, on the intersection of honor and violence. It’s probably a reach to assume that this will be the film his Lone Wolf and Cub might have been — this is vastly different material and he’s now a different director than he was when planning that adaptation — but that’s one early way to get positive perspective on the project....

In True James Cameron Fashion, ‘Avatar 2’ Might Already Be Delayed By Germain Lussier/Jan. 11, 2012 1:00 pm EST There are several ways to look at this news. The most obvious is the literal one, that Avatar 2 won’t be out until 2016, four years from now. However, Landau could have also meant 2015 because, if it was released in December 2015, it would still be in theaters January 2016 which is “four years away” from right now....

James Cameron’s ‘Titanic’ 3D Re-Release Set For April 6, 2012 By Russ Fischer/May 19, 2011 7:55 am EST We’ve known for some time that a 3D re-release of James Cameron’s Titanic would be hitting theaters, and we had a very good idea that it would be sometime in April 20120. Now the film has a firm release date: April 6, 2012. That date nearly marks the centennial anniversary of the Titanic’s maiden voyage (she actually left Southampton for New York on April 10, 1912) and what better way to honor the passengers who died days later than by turning the sinking of the ship into a 3D moneymaking event?...

Jessica Chastain May Play Princess Diana In ‘Caught In Flight’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 7, 2011 5:00 am EST Quite a few big possible projects have already come out of the American Film Market (AFM) over the past week, and here’s one more: Jessica Chastain, who has made quite a mark in 2011 thanks to The Tree of Life, Take Shelter, The Help and The Debt, is set to play the late Princess Diana in Caught in Flight....

Katniss And Peeta Are Dressed To Impress In New ‘Hunger Games’ Photo By Angie Han/Jan. 19, 2012 3:00 pm EST What’s interesting about the marketing for Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games is that although we’ve already seen quite a bit of the film in the form of clips and photos, fans of the source material can attest that there’s still quite a bit they’re holding back. With about two months left til the film hits theaters, yet another still has been released, and in typical Hunger Games fashion it teases what’s bound to be one of the more visually dazzling sequences in the movie without totally giving away the goods....

Now Theater Chain Execs Are Talking About Allowing Cell Phone Use In Theaters By Russ Fischer/April 25, 2012 3:30 pm EST The question of cell phone use in movie theaters continues to be engaged on various levels of the business, despite not being a question at all. There should be no cell phone use — the light and sound are tremendously distracting to other patrons — but that isn’t stopping people wondering if kids are so attached to their phones that we might as well just let them use the damn things in a movie theater....

Oliver Platt Joins X-Men: First Class By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2010 9:53 am EST Briefly: This week, expect a casting update for X-Men: First Class every day. It’ll be like a mutant advent calendar, where we open little doors that reveal who’s cast in small to medium sized roles, hopefully leading up to the reveal of an actor for Scott Summers, aka Cyclops, the last of the film’s leads. For now we’ve got news, via Deadline, about Oliver Platt joining the cast as a non-mutant character called The Man in Black....

POTD: Gandalf Checks Out ‘The Hobbit’ In 3D By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2011 11:39 am EST How can we not share this photo? Ian McKellen dropped this image onto Flickr last night and says, “The Hobbit is being filmed in 3D. Even wizards have to wear the glasses. Snapped by Peter Jackson in Wellington, 2011.” More to the point, this is our first look at the new/old Gandalf as Ian McKellen returns to the role for the two Hobbit films....

Rose Byrne Replaces Greta Gerwig In ‘The Place Beyond The Pines’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 9, 2011 6:00 pm EST Blue Valentine director and star Derek Cianfrance and Ryan Gosling are back together for the multi-generational crime/grudge saga The Place Beyond the Pines. The film follows Gosling as a stunt cyclist who robs banks in order to provide for his son, and ands up entangled with cop-turned-politician Bradley Cooper. Their antagonism spills down the family tree, eventually involving their sons....

Rumor: Lucas Cruikshank Up For A Part In ‘Runaways’? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 4, 2010 6:14 pm EST Lucas Cruikshank might not be a name known to a lot of you, but his face is familiar to a legion of young YouTube watchers. He’s the kid who created Fred, the fast-paced, squeaky-voiced character with enough of a following on YouTube to earn his own feature film. (Even if it did mostly go straight to DVD....

Shane Black Signs To Direct Manga Adaptation ‘Death Note’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2011 12:36 pm EST Fans of Shane Black get to be very happy today: the writer/director has just signed with Warner Bros. to direct an adaptation of the manga Death Note, thereby increasing the chance that we might see a follow-up to his utterly wonderful Kiss Kiss Bang Bang sometime before the Mayan-predicted apocalypse. But fans of the man as a writer/director have to take a step back: he won’t write the script....

The Death Of The Video Store By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 20, 2010 4:30 pm EST The Chicago Tribune has a somber nostalgic article about what we’ll miss about the video rental stores, just as the rental retail business is about to completely die off. It’s the kind of thing that made video stores vital to movie culture, said Issa Clubb, a producer at the Criterion Collection in New York, which for decades has churned out an intricately curated selection of high-end video releases of classics and underrated films....

The Sound And Music Of ‘The Social Network’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 29, 2010 11:00 am EST If David Chen’s indepth sountrack interview with Trent Reznor wasn’t enough (if you haven’t listened to it, click the link), our friends at the Soundworks Collection have published a 45-minute question and answer session with The Social Network music composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, alongside sound re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor Ren Klyce. The discussion was moderated by Bruce Carse on Sunday, November 7th, 2010 at the DGA Theater, Los Angeles, CA....

Tom Hardy In Talks To Star In ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 26, 2010 9:14 am EST We’re into the final turn and Universal now leads Relativity by a nose. It seems like only yesterday that Relativity Media’s The Brothers Grimm: Snow White was leading the race to get everyone’s favorite dwarf loving brunette onto the big screen. Now, Universal’s competing project, Snow White and the Huntsman, is gaining momentum as reports have surfaced that Tom Hardy, he of Inception and the upcoming Batman 3, is eying the lead male role of the Huntsman....

Trivia: Scientific Errors In ‘Star Wars’: A “Parsec” Is A Unit Of Distance, Not Time By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 8, 2010 8:40 am EST Watch science comedian Brian Malow rant about the biggest scientific error in George Lucas’ Star Wars: A New Hope, Han Solo’s claim that the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in “less than twelve parsecs.” Thanks to /Film reader Lascelles L for the tip. via: boingboing Trivia: Scientific Errors In ‘Star Wars’: A “Parsec” Is A Unit Of Distance, Not Time...