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Clark Gregg And Rachel Bilson Join ‘The To Do List’ By Russ Fischer/July 5, 2011 3:30 pm EST The coming of age sex comedy The To Do List, formerly called The Hand Job, has been on our radar since it began to assemble a massive cast of young comedic talent. Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation, Scott Pilgrim) plays a young woman who wants to head into college with a wealth of sexual experience under her belt, and so spends her post-senior summer trying to check off items on a sexual to-do list....

Commercial Director Fredrik Bond To Direct Sci-Fi Film ‘Year 12’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 14, 2010 9:00 am EST His name is Bond, Fredrik Bond. And this wildly successful commercial director is now attached to direct Year 12, a sci-fi action film produced by Joe Roth, based on a spec-script by Edward Ricourt. The film is set 12 years after an alien invasion of Earth in which the human resistance recruits an underwater uranium miner to help them blow up an alien mothership....

Cool Stuff: Martin Ansin’s “Space Seed” Star Trek Poster By Peter Sciretta/June 9, 2010 9:00 am EST The Alamo Drafthouse and Mondo Tees have announced a series of Star Trek-inspired posters. The first one will be released on the Mondotees website today (Wednesday) sometime around mid-day (so keep checking back). Martin Ansin’s “Space Seed” poster profiles one of the most infamous characters in Star Trek history — KHAN!!! Instead of doing WRATH OF KHAN right off, we decided to do a poster for his first appearance, SPACE SEED....

Cool Stuff: Tron-Inspired “My Other Ride Is A Light Cycle” T-Shirt And Hoody By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2010 10:30 am EST Back in 2008, I posted about a Tron-inspired hoody design which was submitted to Threadless. That design, sadly, never made it to sale. I had always assumed that either it was too geeky, or maybe the design was too much like the one in the film. Two years later, that design has finally been made into a threadless t-shirt, possibly fueled by the buzz and excitement for Tron Legacy....

By Germain Lussier/Aug. 10, 2011 7:00 am EST Short of putting a Blu-ray on your shelf or a poster on your wall, quoting a movie in conversation is one of the best ways to pay tribute to movies you love. We’ve all dropped a quote from a movie into casual conversation and then gotten a nod of recognition from someone who is in on the joke. What’s cool about these posters by designer Jerod Gibson is that it takes those quotes and puts them on a pedestal, making the words the stars of iconic films like the original Star Wars Trilogy, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and Ghostbusters....

Dead Projects: Hairspray 2 And Metal Gear Solid By Russ Fischer/June 4, 2010 7:08 am EST Sadly, these two movies don’t seem to have simultaneously killed each other in a fight to the death, but regardless: both Hairspray 2 and the Metal Gear Solid movie are dead. At least for the moment. There’s always the possibility of a zombie attack. Details on both after the break — I know you’ll wade through David Hayter’s comments on MGS just to get to the AquaNet....

Disney Domain Registrations Suggest ‘Doctor Strange’ Movement By Germain Lussier/Oct. 6, 2011 9:00 am EST Marvel’s post-Avengers plans have been a point of contention for sometime. Obviously, they’re planning on continuing with their already successful characters in Iron Man 3 and Thor 2 and a last week Kevin Feige revealed that Ant Man, Guardians of the Galaxy and Inhumans were all in various stages of development. Where does that leave Doctor Strange?...

Early Buzz: A Very Harold And Kumar Christmas 3D By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2011 2:00 pm EST A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas 3D has begun to test screen in Los Angeles, and the first reactions have hit the web. Hit the jump to find out what moviegoers thought of an unfinished cut of the film. I have only been able to find three reactions so far, two positive, two negative: egarciadesigns on Twitter: “Went to the Harold and Kumar Christmas 3D screening tonight....

First Posters: Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn’ By Russ Fischer/May 16, 2011 9:34 am EST The first collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn, opens in the UK on October 26 and in the US on December 23, but we’ve seen almost nothing of the film so far. A few images have been released, and that’s it....

Flixster’s Top 10 Movies Of 2010 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 7, 2011 6:00 am EST IMDb might be the largest sample of user submitted movie ratings on the internet, but Flixster is a close second. After IMDb released their list of the top 10 user rated movies of 2010, Flixster has released their own listing. Find out which films ranked highly, after the jump. Flixster’s Top 10 Movies of 2010 The King’s Speech – 96% positive (17,387 ratings) Inception – 93% (346,136) Toy Story 3 – 91% (286,431) How to Train Your Dragon – 90% (209,744) Tangled – 90% (58,784) The Fighter – 91% (39,057) True Grit – 90% (46,400) The Social Network – 89% (127,616) Black Swan – 89% (58,359) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – 87% (234,979) The Hollywood Reporter premiered the list, but they failed to get the proper order right....

Gerard Depardieu And Irrfan Khan Cast In Ang Lee’s ‘Life Of Pi’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 8, 2010 1:30 pm EST After the break I’ve dropped a refresher synopsis of Life of Pi along with the details we know about the production. A large chunk of the novel takes place on the sea, and the idea of shooting 3D on the water seems daunting. (It’s part of the reason Piranha 3D was post-converted....

James McAvoy Cast In ‘Welcome To The Punch’ By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2011 5:00 pm EST One of the best rising stars of the moment is certainly James McAvoy, who, like his X-Men: First Class co-star Michael Fassbender, seems right at home in a film of just about any scale, and in stories as diverse as Atonement, Wanted and The Conspirator. If he’s in a movie, chances are we want to see it....

Joel Edgerton Joins Jennifer Garner In ‘The Odd Life Of Timothy Green’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2010 5:00 am EST A couple months back we did a quick casting break on The Odd Life of Timothy Green, and now we’ve got another one, as Joel Edgerton has joined the cast. The actor seems poised to break out as something between a legit tough guy and a capable leading man. Hardly a new actor, he had an early part in the Star Wars prequels as Owen Lars, and was more recently in his brother Nash Edgerton’s film The Square, is in the very good Animal Kingdom, and is one of the leads of Universal’s prequel to The Thing....

Jon Favreau To Direct New J.J. Abrams Pilot ‘Revolution’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 9, 2012 3:00 pm EST As Jon Favreau continues to prep what we think will be his next feature directorial gig, Magic Kingdom, he’s taking some time to work with J.J. Abrams. Favreau will direct the pilot of Revolution, a new drama produced by the Lost/Alias/Felicity/Star Trek/Super 8 mastermind. The NBC show, also produced by Supernatural creator Eric Kripke, is about humans struggling to survive in a worth where all energy has mysteriously disappeared....

Len Wiseman To Direct Total Recall By Peter Sciretta/July 29, 2010 10:36 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I’m not one of those people that think a Total Recall remake has to be aweful, but signing Wiseman to helm said remake gives me less faith that it is achievable. Wimmer is best known as the screenwriter of Equilibrium and Ultraviolet, but more recently worked with the studio on the Angelina Jolie spy thriller Salt, and co-wrote the F....

LOL: Tracy Morgan Tries To Explain ‘Star Wars’ To Jimmy Fallon By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2010 10:00 am EST During his appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, comedian/actor Tracy Morgan attempts to explain Star Wars. Watch the video embedded after the jump thanks to Hulu. via: geektyrant LOL: Tracy Morgan Tries To Explain ‘Star Wars’ To Jimmy Fallon By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2010 10:00 am EST During his appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, comedian/actor Tracy Morgan attempts to explain Star Wars....

More Concept Art And Info For The ‘Tank Vs. Balrog’ Movie ‘Panzer 88’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 17, 2010 11:47 am EST We’ve seen a few splashes of concept art for Panzer 88, the film to be directed by Peter Briggs with Gary Kurtz producing and effects by WETA. It’s great-looking stuff, showing the intersection of detailed WWII recreation and what appears to be some supernatural element. Now Peter Briggs is allowing more concept art out into the wild, and he’s talking about the film in much greater detail....

Pete Travis Is Not The Law; Director Forced Off ‘Dredd,’ Writer Alex Garland Oversees Post-Production? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2011 11:12 am EST There’s trouble in Mega-City One. Earlier this year, director Pete Travis oversaw production on a new film based on the 2000AD comic character Judge Dredd. Karl Urban plays the lawman in Dredd, and the movie has been in post-production for some time. But Pete Travis is reportedly no longer in control of Dredd, as “creative disagreements with producers and executives” came to a head, and he was asked to step aside....

POTD: ESPN Magazine Imagines NBA Players As Marvel Superheroes By Germain Lussier/Oct. 22, 2010 5:00 am EST While we don’t regularly cover professional sports here on /Film, we do regularly cover Iron Man, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger. So when three of the biggest stars in the NBA are portrayed as these three Marvel mainstays, we have to give you a heads up. The November 1st, NBA Preview issue of ESPN The Magazine hits newsstands Friday and features Kobe Bryant, Lebron James and Kevin Durant as Iron Man, Captain America and Thor respectively....

R.L. Stine’s Book Series ‘Goosebumps’ To Become Live-Action Movie By Germain Lussier/Sept. 16, 2010 4:30 pm EST Chances are, if you were born in the last 30 years, you’ve either heard of or read one of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books. The series, which features horror stories for kids, contains over 150 books which have sold over 300 million copies worldwide. The only bigger young adult publishing franchise is Harry Potter. Columbia Pictures picked up the film rights in 2008 and have just announced a screenwriter to kick-start the book series as a potential live-action franchise: Carl Ellsworth, the writer behind Disturbia, Red Eye and The Last House On the Left remake....