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Gerard Butler Will Be ‘Playing The Field’ With Uma Thurman And Jessica Biel By Germain Lussier/Feb. 23, 2011 5:00 am EST Variety broke the news of this film, which is being developed by Nu Image/Millennium Films. Butler will also produce along with Jonathan Mostow and others. Though I joked about Butler’s recent penchant toward romantic comedy, if you look at his body of work as a whole, he’s actually doing a pretty good job of balancing those movies with more male oriented films....

Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘At The Mountains Of Madness’ To Shoot This Summer By Germain Lussier/Dec. 7, 2010 8:00 am EST Almost every week, Guillermo del Toro’s name comes up in regards to something. He’s producing this, he’s developing that, appearing here, overseeing this. But when is he finally going to get back to directing? After he left The Hobbit, we all assumed del Toro’s next film would be At the Mountains of Madness, produced by James Cameron, but there haven’t been any updates in a few months....

By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2010 12:25 pm EST Briefly: Lest you ever think to yourself that J.J. Abrams already has more work set up than one man can possibly handle, here’s a story about the guy taking on one more project. According to Pajiba, he’s producing a film called Infinitely Polar Bear. Despite the immediate conclusions to which Lost fans might leap, this is in no way related to former projects from the producer....

Ken Watanabe To Star In Japanese ‘Unforgiven’ Remake By Russ Fischer/Aug. 20, 2012 7:22 am EST The relationship between samurai films and westerns goes back many years, thanks in large part to remakes of Akria Kurosawa films; his 1954 film Seven Samurai was remade as the western The Magnificent Seven in 1960, and the defining Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood movie A Fistful of Dollars remade Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, without explicit credit given to Kurosawa....

LAIKA Animation’s Holiday Card By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2010 8:00 am EST Today I received an online holiday card from LAIKA, the animation company behind the film Coraline. It’s a short 2D animated cartoon, and since its online for all to enjoy, I thought I’d share it with you guys. Check it out now on laikaholiday.com or embedded after the jump. [flv:http://laikaholiday.s3.amazonaws.com/ecard_comp.flv 550 309] LAIKA Animation’s Holiday Card By Peter Sciretta/Dec....

Leonardo DiCaprio Talks About Clint Eastwood’s J Edgar Hoover Biopic By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2010 4:00 pm EST Last week it was reported that Leonardo DiCaprio had signed on to star in a biopic of original FBI director J. Edgar Hoover directed by Clint Eastwood. Today at the press conference for Inception, DiCaprio was asked about the potential upcoming project, and the star confirmed that he is in talks for the role:...

Mark Romanek Announces Release Date For Never Let Me Go By David Chen/May 25, 2010 8:58 am EST It’s probably been awhile since most of you have seen any work by director Mark Romanek. After directing One Hour Photo in 2002, Romanek quit Universal’s Wolfman remake amidst reports of production troubles. However, it looks like Romanek’s next film will soon be in theaters. Romanek tweeted last night (via The Film Stage) that the Alex Garland-scripted Never Let Me Go is complete, and will be out in select cities beginning October 1....

Neil Burger Talks ‘Uncharted’: Back To Basics, New Script, No Casting Decisions Yet By Russ Fischer/July 18, 2011 1:30 pm EST The development of a film version of Sony’s treasure-hunting action/adventure game series Uncharted has turned into a surprisingly thorny process. Original director David O. Russell decided to depart from many story elements as presented in the games, and wanted to cast Mark Wahlberg as lead character Nathan Drake. Neither of those ideas sat well with a vocal legion of fans....

Olivia Wilde And Jason Sudeikis Cast In ‘Relanxious’ By Russ Fischer/March 13, 2012 5:00 pm EST First-time feature director Christopher Storer has landed an impressive cast for his debut comedy: Olivia Wilde, Jason Sudeikis, Brie Larson and Fred Armisen are all set for a comedy called Relanxious. It’s a somewhat awkward title, sure, but the characters within also sound like they’ve got some issues. More details follow. Deadline announces that the script, by Storer, features Wilde as Barrett, “an anxiety-ridden woman” who meets and falls for the agoraphobic George (Sudeikis)....

POTD: Twilight Back Tattoo By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2011 2:00 pm EST 49-year-old supermarket worker Cathy Ward spent £2,000 (about $3,100) and 22-hours in a tattoo artists chair for this extensive Twilight back tattoo. The Daily Mail quotes Ward: “‘I wanted a permanent reminder of the amazing series so I got a small tattoo and that turned into what I have got now.” via: tdw POTD: Twilight Back Tattoo By Peter Sciretta/Jan....

Quentin Tarantino To Act In Western ‘The Angel, The Brute And The Wise’ By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2011 5:59 pm EST When the news first broke about Quentin Tarantino’s new movie, there was some confusion as to the real nature of the project. We first heard the movie was called The Angel, the Brute and the Wise, and that classic spaghetti western star Franco Nero would be involved. That confusion continued when we learned that QT’s new film is actually called Django Unchained, as Django is the name of Franco Nero’s best-known set of films....

Rio Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2010 12:06 pm EST I love the design of the birds (the human character not so much), and you can definitely tell this trailer was edited to appeal to the 3D audiences seeing Shrek Forever After. Blue Sku Studios has always been good at creating cute little creatures, but they have suffered finding good stories. The most interesting character in the Ice Age sequels was the cute squirrel Scrat, who would always relegated to the sidelines....

Roland Emmerich’s ‘White House Down’ Invades Theaters Next Year By Germain Lussier/May 9, 2012 6:00 am EST Sony has set a November 1, 2013 release date for their Roland Emmerich-directed action film, White House Down. Written by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man, Zodiac) it’s about a “paramilitary take over of the White House,” basically Die Hard meets Air Force One. Emmerich had previously reserved that date for his sci-fi film Singularity, but with it being put on hold, White House Down will move first, likely to get ahead of a rival project called White House Taken starring Gerald Butler....

Sam Worthington In Talks To Join Arnold Schwarzenegger In David Ayer’s ‘Ten’ By Russ Fischer/July 23, 2012 3:00 pm EST Avatar star Sam Worthington has had two films in theaters this year, Wrath of the Titans and Man on a Ledge, but it feels like he’s been relatively low-profile, especially after the dual push of Terminator: Salvation and James Cameron’s mega-hit. He does have a couple projects in the pipeline, however, including the Avatar sequels....

Sarah Silverman To Appear Nude In Sarah Polley’s ‘Take This Waltz’ By Adam Quigley/Sept. 17, 2010 4:00 pm EST Let’s skip the formalities, shall we? Sarah Silverman is co-starring in Sarah Polley’s film Take This Waltz, and for the first time in her career, she will be appearing naked. As in: full-frontal nudity. The context of this scene is unknown, but her first line in the film is, “I look in the mirror, and I wanna f**k myself....

Science Says Online Buzz More Important To A Movie’s Success Than Traditional Advertising By Germain Lussier/June 21, 2012 2:30 pm EST Obviously, this post is a tad self-serving but don’t let that get in the way of what’s a very interesting finding. Japanese scientists believe they found a correlation between the success or failure of a movie based on its online presence and use of traditional advertising. The findings revealed that the amount of social networking and online posts about a film, as on a site like ours, is more directly tied to a movie’s success than the number of commercials airing on TV....

Scorsese And De Niro’s ‘The Irishman’ To Be Two Films With A Heavy Fellini Influence? By Russ Fischer/April 15, 2010 6:07 pm EST It doesn’t look like he’s getting to it any time soon, but after Martin Scorsese finishes The Invention of Hugo Cabret and the planned follow-up Silence (his ‘Jesuit priest drama’) there has been talk of finally making The Irishman, which would reunite the director with Robert De Niro....

Sequel Casting: Zoe Saldana In ‘Machete Kills’, Anthony Hopkins In ‘Red 2’ By Angie Han/May 24, 2012 2:30 pm EST Earlier this month, a press release announcing the return of Red stars Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, and Mary Louise Parker for Red 2 promised that the retired black ops team would be facing on “a new set of enemies all across Europe.” Now we have a better idea of what exactly those baddies will look like....

Set Photos: Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 7, 2011 6:01 pm EST Director of Brick and The Brothers Bloom, Rian Johnson, is hard at work on his latest film Looper. Set in the future, the film is about a group of mob hitmen who send their victims into the past with a bunch of other cool, sci-fi twists. It stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Xu Qing, Jeff Daniels, and Piper Perabo among others....

Sony Films Temporarily Pulled From Netflix Streaming By Russ Fischer/June 17, 2011 5:30 pm EST Briefly: What happened today with Sony and Netflix? It is a slightly complicated situation, but here’s the short version: Sony movies are made available to stream via Netflix thanks to deals that both companies have with Starz. Evidently there is a wrinkle in the Sony/Starz contract that needs to be sorted out, in that it stipulates a maximum number of users to whom Starz can deliver content....