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By Germain Lussier/May 27, 2011 1:30 pm EST I promise, this is almost over. The Hunger Games casting I mean. When Lionsgate started strategically releasing the cast members who were set to play nameless kids marched to their deaths in a televised battle royal, we debated how to handle it. Eventually we settled on the fact that The Hunger Games is a massive property and it should all be covered. So, once we started, it’s kind of our duty to see it through....

New iTunes Movies Features Attempt To One Up DVD By Germain Lussier/Jan. 4, 2011 8:00 am EST Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is testing new features in iTunes with an eye on the digital distribution of a film becoming its primary one. As it stands now, iTunes movies are generally just that – the movie, with the majority of the special features relegated to a Blu-ray or DVD. But with a few new releases, Sony is “quietly testing” features that will be exclusive to people who purchase a movie on iTunes, such as the ability to clip scenes from their movies to share on social networks as well the ability to search for certain words in the script....

Nicholas Hoult Cast As Jack In Bryan Singer’s ‘Jack The Giant Killer’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 11, 2011 9:45 am EST Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Killer has been coming together over the past couple weeks. We’ve heard casting for some of the supporing roles — Bill Nighy, Stanley Tucci and John Kassir all have roles. Until today, there was no Jack. Now, just after we heard he was on a shortlist, the role has been offered to Nicholas Hoult, who had an early breakout role in About a Boy, then appeared in the original UK version of Skins, had a big role in A Single Man, and plays Beast in the Bryan Singer-produced X-Men: First Class....

Oliver Stone Teases Wall Street 3, Plus Early Buzz On Wall Street 2 By Russ Fischer/May 14, 2010 9:19 am EST Asked about a sequel, Stone told Reuters, Why not? We left it open at the end in a way on which we can hang a Wall Street 3. We’ll have Gekko back and maybe Josh Brolin, too. So what about that ending? Critical word and general recaps of the reception to this morning’s screening are beginning to filter in....

POTD: Edgar Wright And Simon Pegg Have A Script For ‘The World’s End’ By Russ Fischer/April 24, 2012 12:30 pm EST Last time we saw any photo evidence of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s effort to write their new film The World’s End, it was just a picture of the two with a whiteboard and an implied hope that ideas would be forthcoming. Now Pegg has posted a photo of the cover page for a second draft of what will presumably be the third film in the ’not quite a trilogy’ set of films referred to as the Blood and Ice Cream series....

Robert Schwentke Reconvenes Bruce Willis And John Malkovich To Shoot An Epilogue For ‘Red’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 21, 2010 2:02 pm EST Briefly: Robert Schwentke’s movie Red is evidently testing well, and I’ve heard great things about it from a few people who’ve seen big chunks of the movie. (And it’s doing well enough that Schwentke is now up for gigs like Wolverine 2.) But the film isn’t quite done, and the director is down in Louisiana this weekend with Bruce Willis and John Malkovich to shoot a new scene for the film....

Stanley Tucci Cast In Captain America By Russ Fischer/June 7, 2010 11:44 am EST There’s another good addition to the Captain America: The First Avenger cast today: Stanley Tucci is now on board as Dr. Abraham Erskine, the creator of Captain America. Well, Erskine creates the Super-Soldier serum, which when given to Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) turns him into a perfect physical specimen, from which it’s just a red, white and blue jump to superhero-dom....

Superhero Bits: The Amazing Spider-Man, The Avengers, Batman: Arkham City, Thor By Germain Lussier/Dec. 7, 2011 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Nerd Bastards put together a bunch of cool superhero art including this massive piece by Kyriazis which is 52 inches long and includes many of the DC characters. Click here to see the full thing.Gary Oldman told Crave Online he believes there will be more Batman movies with Christopher Nolan as producer:...

TV Bits: Tricia Helfer Goes To Work For ‘The Firm’, Bryan Cranston To Make ‘Simpsons’ Guest Appearance, Ryan Reynolds Sells Comedy Script, Showtime Greenlights Three Pilots By Angie Han/Aug. 23, 2011 5:00 am EST The story revolves around an attorney named Mitch McDeere (Josh Lucas) and his wife Abby (Molly Parker), who are trying to make a new life for themselves in D.C. When Mitch gets brought in as a partner at Kinross & Clark, he slowly comes to realize that the firm isn’t exactly what it seems....

Vin Diesel Says R-Rated ‘Riddick’ Will Shoot In Canada; Offers New Concept Art By Russ Fischer/Sept. 6, 2011 7:00 am EST The update schedule for Riddick, the third film to feature the character Vin Diesel originated in Pitch Black and developed further in The Chronicles of Riddick, has been accelerating. What was once an annual thing from Diesel and writer/director David Twohy has turned into a monthly info blast as pre-production accelerates and a real shoot date looms....

VOTD: Seth McFarlane’s Motion Capture Performance As ‘Ted’ By Russ Fischer/June 26, 2012 4:00 pm EST Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is making the leap to feature-film director with Ted, the story of a man (Mark Wahlberg) who has lived his whole life alongside an unlikely best friend: the dissolute, lazy teddy bear he wished to life as a boy. MacFarlane co-wrote the film, and he does the voice work for Ted....

Website To Check Out: The ‘Where Was It Filmed Database’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 21, 2011 5:00 am EST A new website has popped online with a useful, but lofty, goal: catalog as many filming locations for as many movies as possible so fans have the information at their fingertips. It sounds impossible, and most likely is, but the Where Was It Filmed Database is making a run at it anyway....

‘Battle Royale’ Trailer: The Original Hunger Games Finally Hits US DVD In March By Russ Fischer/Jan. 12, 2012 2:00 pm EST It’s only about twelve years late, but here’s a US trailer for the Japanese film Battle Royale, in which a class full of kids is forced to fight each other to the death on a remote island. The movie was released in 2000, and directed by renowned Japanese filmmaker Kinji Fukasaku based on the novel of the same name by Koushun Takami....

‘Flight Of The Butterflies In 3D’ Trailer: IMAX Gets Back To Its Natural Roots By Germain Lussier/Sept. 11, 2012 7:00 am EST Long before IMAX screens were reserved for blown up versions of the week’s major Hollywood releases, the theaters primarily played nature and science documentaries. That slowly changed as Hollywood filmmakers got a taste for the massive format and the audiences, more likely to pay for Prometheus or Happy Feet 2 than a documentary about space or the ocean, followed....

‘John Carter’ Needs To Make About $700 Million To Earn A Sequel By Germain Lussier/Oct. 11, 2011 5:00 am EST When Tron: Legacy was released, there was a lot of talk about if the film was profitable enough to make a sequel. The film reportedly cost $170 million and grossed $400 million worldwide which, on paper, seems like a home run. But factor in marketing costs, among other things, and it’s far from that....

‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Viral Gives Captain George Stacy A Chance To Speak By Russ Fischer/March 19, 2012 11:00 am EST We’ve wondered since the film was announced where classic Spidey character J. Jonah Jameson fits in, and how his newspaper the Daily Bugle, which employed Spidey alter-ego Peter Parker in most versions of his story, will evolve to find a place in the modern world. With print publications holding a far less important public role than was once the case, the Bugle seemed anachronistic....

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ New Images, IMAX Teaser, And Very Vague Finale Info By Russ Fischer/July 6, 2012 2:00 pm EST With apologies to Spider-Man, as Comic Con approaches the film that everyone seems to be talking about is The Dark Knight Rises. Christopher Nolan’s third and final Batman movie has been the subject of years’ worth of speculation, and now that the film is two weeks away from release, interest in the picture is higher than ever....

‘The Flash’ Script Due Before End Of 2010; Greg Berlanti Unlikely To Direct; Bradley Cooper Rumored To Star By Russ Fischer/Oct. 11, 2010 9:44 am EST The Flash has looked like the most likely candidate as the next DC superhero film to come out of Warner Bros., but we haven’t heard much concrete news about the project in a few months. The Flash has been in the script stage, and until something is delivered that Warner Bros....

‘The Thing’ Now Dateless, ‘Fast Five’ Moved To April, ‘Ouija’ In Flux By Germain Lussier/Nov. 13, 2010 12:13 pm EST Those waiting to see the prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing this April will instead find flashy cars on screen at the theater. Universal had planned to release their new version of The Thing, directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., starring Joel Edgerson and Mary Elizabeth Winstead on April 29, 2011....

‘True Grit’ Star Hailee Steinfeld To Play ‘Ender’s Game’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 1, 2011 4:30 pm EST Writer/director Gavin Hood is having no problem landing a stellar cast for his adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel Ender’s Game. He’s already got Asa Butterfield, star of the Best Picture-winning Martin Scorsese film Hugo, playing the title character. Rumor has it he’s looking at Harrison Ford for a major role and now True Grit Oscar-nominee Hailee Steinfeld is in talks to play Petra Arkanian, one of Ender’s closest allies and one of the few girls at Battle School, the primary setting for the film....