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Casting: Bryan Cranston In Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive; Cillian Murphy In Andrew Niccol’s I’m.mortal; Ethan Hawke In A Late Quartet By Russ Fischer/Aug. 9, 2010 8:13 am EST Nicolas Winding Refn is preparing to shoot the movie Drive next month in LA, and he’s already got Ryan Gosling starring as a guy who has dual lives as a stuntman and criminal getaway driver. We haven’t had details on the rest of the cast, but repeated praise for Breaking Bad from Refn should have been a clue: he’s now got Bryan Cranston set to appear in the film....

Casting Notes: Sigourney Weaver In Red Lights; Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje In The Thing; Octavia Spencer In The Help; Two Films For Grant Bowler By Russ Fischer/May 26, 2010 10:39 am EST Buried director Rodrigo Cortés will next direct Sigourney Weaver in Red Lights, in which she’ll play Margaret Matheson, “a para-psychologist who attempts to debunk a very reputable psychic who has just returned to the limelight after 30 years.” What are the chances her character is named after author Richard Matheson?...

Check Out Images From ‘Paperman’, Disney’s Much-Hyped 2D Short By Angie Han/June 28, 2012 3:00 pm EST As if there weren’t already enough reasons to look forward to Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph, here comes one more. We’ve already told you about Paperman, the hand-drawn/CG hybrid animated short that’ll be premiering in front of that feature, and the insane amount of great buzz it’s already received. (Well — a lot of that early talk was from Pixar employees, but still....

Demi Moore, Paul Bettany And Simon Baker Join ‘Margin Call’ By Russ Fischer/June 18, 2010 10:12 am EST The film Margin Call, essentially sounding like a dramatization of our recent economic crisis, has come together very fast. We first heard about it at Cannes, when sophomore writer/director J.C. Chandor and his producers lined up Kevin Spacey and Zachary Quinto as part of the cast. (Quinto is one of the producers, so he lined himself up, technically speaking....

Details On The Opening Minutes Of Transformers 3 By Russ Fischer/July 15, 2010 1:19 pm EST We’ve seen quite a few spy pics from the set of Transformers 3, but so far the actual story details have remained guarded. But now a big chunk of info has broken out into the wild. Want to know how the movie opens, which will obviously have some serious impact on the story as a whole?...

Director Candidates For Ouija Board Movie Extend To ‘The Losers’ Director Sylvain White And ‘Priest’ Director Scott Stewart By Adam Quigley/Oct. 27, 2010 6:00 pm EST Last week there was word that Pierre Morel, the director of District 13, Taken, and From Paris with Love, had been named as “a lead candidate” to helm Universal’s Ouija, based on the Hasbro board game. Now two more filmmakers have entered the mix: Sylvain White, director of Stomp the Yard, The Losers and the DTV effort I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, and Scott Stewart, director of Legion and the upcoming Priest....

DreamWorks Buys J. Michael Straczynski Script ‘Voices From The Dead’ About Houdini And Arthur Conan Doyle By Russ Fischer/Feb. 9, 2011 3:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of the most interesting pop culture stories from the early days of the 20th century is the friendship between Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Spiritualism was all the rage at the time — think seances, levitations, speaking to the dead, and so forth, driven in part by people hoping to reconnect with loved ones killed in WWI....

Dwayne Johnson Could Star In Michael Bay’s ‘Pain And Gain’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 5, 2011 1:30 pm EST [UPDATE: According to Variety’s Jeff Snieder, Mark Wahlberg has officially passed on this film. Headline and photo updated. Original article follows.] Even though Steven Spielberg, Hasbro and a legion of robot fans want Michael Bay to make a fourth Transformers, after three in a row, he’s earned the right to do a film for himself....

Early Buzz: Comedian/Podcaster Marc Maron Discusses Judd Apatow’s ‘This Is 40’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 14, 2012 3:49 pm EST Testing a film with a live audience is a huge part of Judd Apatow’s filmmaking process. Finding the biggest laughs and gauging reactions is treated as an additional round of editing for the writer/director/producer. The danger in that is, even though most people sign non-disclosure agreements, word is bound to leak out early....

Elizabeth Hurley Will Be ‘Wonder Woman’ Villain By Russ Fischer/March 3, 2011 10:45 am EST Where has Elizabeth Hurley been? She hasn’t had a screen role since 2004, seemingly spending her time raising family and doing charity work in the meantime. Now she’s making her way back to movie screens — she’s got a voice role in the animated film The Wild Bunch, and now says that she’ll be the ’evil villain’ in the new Wonder Woman TV series....

Emma Roberts Joins Rashida Jones And Andy Samberg In ‘Celeste And Jesse Forever’ By Russ Fischer/May 23, 2011 6:24 pm EST We reported not long ago on Celeste and Jesse Forever, which has Rashida Jones not only starring, but co-writing the script with Will McCormack. Andy Samberg was also in the first round of cast picks, and now Emma Roberts, Chris Messina and Ari Graynor have signed on, too. The film is a comedy that quite a few people will be able to relate to, as it follows a young couple in the middle of a divorce who try to maintain some sort of friendship while still living together....

Four More ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Pics; Christopher Nolan Explains Where This Film Sits On His Movie Timeline By Russ Fischer/Nov. 21, 2011 9:00 am EST Over the weekend two new official images were revealed from The Dark Knight Rises by way of Empire’s two new covers touting the mag’s on-set report from the film. Now we’ve got four more images from within the magazine, as well as some quotes from director Christopher Nolan and star Tom Hardy that appear within the piece....

Four New Photos From ‘Thor’ In Empire Magazine By Germain Lussier/Oct. 5, 2010 4:00 am EST It’s so crazy that we’re exactly seven months away from Thor hitting the big screen. Doesn’t it feel like just yesterday when we heard that Kenneth Branagh was attached to direct, Chris Hemsworth was going to star or when that first trailer hit the web? And as May 6, 2011 inches closer, so does the onslaught of materials....

Full Trailer For HBO Hitchcock Biopic ‘The Girl’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2012 3:27 pm EST We’ve seen a couple brief teasers for The Girl, which describes the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. That was when Hitchcock (played here by Toby Jones) molded Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller) as his latest icy blonde starlet, the latest “Hitchcock blonde” to follow actresses such as Grace Kelly, Eva Marie Saint, Janet Leigh, and Kim Novak....

Gallery: ‘Black Swan’ Behind The Scenes Photos By Germain Lussier/March 5, 2012 5:00 am EST Chances are if you read this site, you spend a lot of your time thinking about movies that are on the horizon. Whether it be through reading, discussion or just general anticipation, movies that you haven’t seen are of the utmost importance. Then, once you see the movie in question, a few days pass, and it’s on to the next thing....

Geek Deal: Scott Pilgrim 2-Disc DVD/Combo For Only $9.99 By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2012 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

IFFBoston: Kevin Kline Receives Career Achievement Award By David Chen/April 22, 2010 3:53 am EST The Independent Film Festival of Boston has begun! I’ll be here over the course of the next week providing coverage, hopefully in the form of interviews with exciting people from the indie film scene. Here are some of the movies I’m most looking forward to, and here’s a link where you can find all of our IFFboston coverage from this year and last year....

Movie Trailer: The Kids Are All Right By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2010 6:03 pm EST One of the surprise film premieres at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival was The Kids Are All Right. I didn’t get to write about this movie on the site, but I did quite enjoy it (but not as much as my friend Katey Rich, who said it “may be the first great relationship comedy of the decade”) Focus Features snapped up the domestic distribution rights after the buzz overtook Park City....

New ‘Hobbit’ Poster Crams In Thirteen Dwarves And A Pastry Platter By Angie Han/Sept. 27, 2012 11:35 am EST With the last teaser poster for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the Warner Bros. marketing team quite consciously called back to Peter Jackson’s earlier Lord of the Rings trilogy. The portrait of a sword-wielding Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) was of a piece with the posters for Fellowship of the Rings and Return of the King, which showed Frodo and Aragorn, respectively, in similar poses....

New ‘Prometheus’ Viral Clip Offers A Strange Look At Idris Elba By Russ Fischer/Sept. 7, 2012 10:35 am EST The promo campaign for Prometheus was mysterious and masterful, and now we’ve got a new clip showing Idris Elba’s Captain Janek being prepped for a mission into space, presumably aboard Prometheus. Check it out below and try to figure out just what is going on in the footage. HeyUGuys has the clip:...