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Jon Favreau Front Runner To Direct ‘Jersey Boys’ By Germain Lussier/June 5, 2012 1:00 pm EST After Cowboys & Aliens, Jon Favreau went back to acting for a bit and produced a tiny film called The Avengers, all while developing a movie we’ve been excited about since its announcement: Disney’s Magic Kingdom. It seems as if that film might be on hold, though, as Favreau has now emerged as the front runner to direct the film adaptation of the Broadway smash hit Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons....

LOL: Chuck & Beans On Zombies By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 19, 2010 6:00 am EST Internet comic strip Chuck & Beans wonders why people in zombie movies don’t know about zombies. Hit the jump to see the strip. LOL: Chuck & Beans On Zombies By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 19, 2010 6:00 am EST Internet comic strip Chuck & Beans wonders why people in zombie movies don’t know about zombies. Hit the jump to see the strip....

Marvel Appeals To George Lucas For ‘Howard The Duck’ 25th Anniversary Blu-Ray By Germain Lussier/June 4, 2012 6:00 am EST LucasFilm’s red-headed step child celebrated his 25th anniversary last year with little fanfare. The 1986 sci-fi comedy Howard the Duck, starring a walking, talking duck was hyped upon release but bombed spectacularly when it hit theaters. Now it’s regularly mentioned amongst the worst films of all time. Since then though, the film gained an appreciative cult fan base....

MGM Gets Rolling On A ‘Child’s Play’ Remake By Germain Lussier/March 25, 2011 1:30 pm EST We’ve seen reboots of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th so it only makes sense that next up is Child’s Play. The horror franchise featuring the iconic killer doll named Chucky began in 1988 and spawned four sequels that took the character into increasingly wacky and off-beat territory....

New Images From ‘Paul’ Starring Simon Pegg And Nick Frost By Germain Lussier/Nov. 8, 2010 3:30 pm EST Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, best known for their on-screen team-ups in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, co-wrote and co-star in the upcoming comedy Paul, which is scheduled for release on March 18. The pair play two British geeks who travel to America to take a road trip of famous UFO landmarks, which begins with a pain-staking re-creation of San Diego Comic-Con, and end up meeting a real life alien named Paul, voiced by Seth Rogen....

Official Logo Revealed For Zack Snyder’s Superman Reboot ‘Man Of Steel’ By Peter Sciretta/March 29, 2012 6:29 pm EST Official logo for Man of Steel: I like the new logo as it looks like a darker contemporary update yet feels alien in nature. Leave your thoughts below. Official information: Release Date June 14, 2013 Studio Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures Starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Michael Shannon, Antje Traue, Julia Ormond, Russell Crowe, Harry Lennix, Christopher Meloni

POTD: Seth Rogen, Elijah Wood And Danny McBride As The Beastie Boys By Germain Lussier/Dec. 9, 2010 2:00 pm EST How much would you pay to see Elijah Wood, Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly and Jack Black all in one movie? If you said anything under the cost of a trip to Utah, you’re out of luck. They make up the cast of one of the most highly anticipated shorts playing at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival....

Rumor: New TMNT Film Simply Titled ‘Ninja Turtles,’ Characters May No Longer Be Teenagers By Russ Fischer/March 26, 2012 10:30 am EST I’m beginning to think that Michael Bay and his cohorts at Platinum Dunes are brilliant marketers. We’re more than a year away from the release of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film that Bay and Dunes are producing, with Jonathan Liebesman (Wrath of the Titans) directing, and there have been headlines about the project every day for the past few days....

See Presidential Benjamin Walker In Behind The Scenes Video From ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 16, 2012 1:30 pm EST What we’ve seen so far of the film adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has been limited to scant images and a couple posters. Now there is a new poster — and it is pretty bad, leading to some suspicion that it is not official — but also a behind the scenes video that shows Benjamin Walker in action as the 16th President and vampire killer....

Short Doc ‘The Politics Of Competitive Board Gaming Amongst Friends’ Finds Rich Intensity In Settlers Of Catan By Angie Han/April 24, 2012 6:00 am EST On the face of it, the documentary short The Politics of Competitive Board Gaming Amongst Friends doesn’t sound like such serious business: A group of friends get together to play Settlers of Catan, and occasionally get on each other’s nerves. Really, it’s difficult to think of anything more frivolous....

Teaser Trailer: Ruairi Robinson’s ‘Blinky,’ Starring Max Records By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2010 10:30 am EST A year ago we posted a concept video for a project called Bad Robot. The footage had an odd robot, sort of R2D2 by way of Pixar, dancing around for a few seconds. The director was Ruairi Robinson, who made the good short film The Silent City, embedded in the concept video link above, and was once attached to the live-action Akira....

The Coen Brothers Choose Oscar Isaac As The Lead Of ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 14, 2011 6:00 am EST Anyone who has paid attention to the work of Oscar Isaac over the past few years has likely predicted great things for the actor. He’s a great presence in Drive, a solid presence in Sucker Punch (fighting against a terrible role) and he’s worked with a stable of established big name directors like Steven Soderbergh, Ridley Scott, and Alejandro Amenábar....

Tribeca Will Help Miramax Distribute ‘Last Night,’ Starring Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington And Eva Mendes By Russ Fischer/Feb. 2, 2011 1:30 pm EST Miramax has new ownership, and is making moves as a real working company once more. This might mean good things for some of the films that were looking orphaned when Disney decided to shutter the label. The first filmto get a new lease on life is Last Night — not the Don McKellar millennial drama, but the film that was well reviewed out of TIFF last year that stars Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington and Eva Mendes....

TV Trailers: ‘The Girl’, ‘Boardwalk Empire’, ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ By Angie Han/Aug. 27, 2012 9:00 am EST The arrival of ever-so-slightly cooler weather can only mean one thing: After a long, lazy summer, it’s finally time to look ahead to the fall TV season. Today, we have new trailers for HBO Films’ The Girl, the third season of Boardwalk Empire, and the fifth season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, all of which will debut within the next two months....

‘Cars 2:’ Extended Int’l Trailer; Retro Posters; And High-Res Images By Russ Fischer/March 9, 2011 3:30 pm EST Cars 2, which opens on June 24, seems to be everywhere lately. Disney and Pixar have been nearing a saturation point with the release of new characters, images, TV spots and trailers. Just this week we had a new full-length trailer that focused on the espionage aspects of the film’s plot, and now we have an extended international cut of that trailer....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Full Trailer By Russ Fischer/March 4, 2011 8:30 am EST If you’re a fan of George R.R. Martin’s fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, this is your week. The fifth novel in the series, A Dance With Dragons, was officially announced yesterday, over five years after the publication of the last book. (That was A Feast For Crows, published in October 2005.) And, more specific to our concerns, there is a new trailer for the HBO adaptation of the first novel in the series, Game of Thrones....

‘Serenity,’ ‘RoboCop,’ ‘Clockwork Orange’ Highlight Hero Complex Film Festival May 18-21 By Germain Lussier/April 25, 2012 12:00 pm EST The third annual Hero Complex Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times, is as star studded as ever. Taking place from May 18-21 at Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14, this year’s line up goes from zombies, to cult classics, animation and superheroes. It all begins with Zack Snyder and Robert Kirkman presenting Dawn of the Dead followed by Edgar Wright and Shaun of the Dead....

‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’ Poster Calls Back To ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 18, 2012 2:00 pm EST A new poster for the film has arrived, and the image trades on ’70s horror/thriller iconography to present We Need to Talk About Kevin as a film that falls squarely in the same territory originally defined by Rosemary’s Baby. Check it out below. AICN debuted the poster. Click to enlarge slightly....

Christopher Nolan Not A Fan Of 3D, Will Probably Release A 3D Film Anyway By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2010 10:39 am EST Though many of us would like this not to be the case, 3D isn’t going anywhere. In the past year, as the format has really exploded in Hollywood, The Dark Knight and Inception director Christopher Nolan has emerged as a figurehead representing old-school blockbusters. The director loves shooting film, as opposed to digital HD or other formats, and resisted releasing this summer’s Inception as a 3D film....

Francis Lawrence May Direct A Houdini Film For Sony By Russ Fischer/March 24, 2011 5:00 am EST Briefly: Since it seems like everything in Hollywood comes in packs of three or more these days, Sony has revived plans to make a Harry Houdini film. Francis Lawrence (Water For Elephants, I Am Legend) is now in talks to direct the film that once had Paul Verhoeven set to direct. Variety says that this version is different from what Paul Verhoeven might have made (shocker); it is taking ‘a new approach,’ but we don’t have any more detail....