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Daft Punk’s ‘Tron Legacy’ Score Releases On November 22 By Russ Fischer/Sept. 27, 2010 8:53 am EST I’m still more interested in the music for Tron Legacy than any other single aspect of the film. Written and performed by French electronic duo Daft Punk, the score will now release on November 22, almost a month before the film’s debut on December 17. The bits we’ve heard from the score sound perfect for the film, or at least for what I expect the film to be....

Geek Deals: Larry Sanders Show Complete Series For $60, Bourne Trilogy Blu-Ray For $35, Back To The Future Trilogy For $39 And Insane HBO Blu-Ray Deals By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 20, 2010 6:42 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. for only $59.99, 60% off the $150 msrp. The set includes the Complete Series: 89 Original Episodes on 17 Discs. Extras include The Complete Introduction With Garry Shandling, All-New Deleted Scenes, All-New Outtakes, Garry Lectures At USC, 60-Page Collector’s Book, The Making Of The Larry Sanders Show: Feature-Length Documentary, Garry Shandling And Judd Apatow On “The Writer’s Process”, Extended Interviews With Cast, Garry Shandling’s Personal Visits With Guest Stars Alec Baldwin, Sharon Stone, David Duchovny, Tom Petty, Jon Stewart, Ellen DeGeneres, Jerry Seinfeld And Carol Burnett, and Much More....

Joe Pesci Confirmed For ‘Gotti: Three Generations,’ Lindsay Lohan In Talks By Germain Lussier/April 12, 2011 10:30 am EST John Travolta is already playing the Don in a film about the Gotti family, and now his extended cast of underlings in Gotti: Three Generations is slowly being filled up. The film, which will tell the story of the complex relationship between John Gotti Sr. (Travolta) and his son John Gotti Jr....

Martin Scorsese Introduces ‘Hugo’ In Featurette; Film Premieres Tonight At New York Film Fest By Russ Fischer/Oct. 10, 2011 5:00 pm EST Over the past week there has been word that a major film would have a surprise showing tonight at the New York Film Festival. This morning the film was revealed as Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, which will be shown as a ‘work in progress’ print. The film is Scorsese’s adaptation of the young adult book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, and it marks the director’s first foray into family films and 3D....

Movie Trailer: Charlie St. Cloud By Russ Fischer/July 1, 2010 2:36 pm EST How serious can Zac Efron be? That’s mostly a rhetorical question because, his High School Musical past notwithstanding, the guy indicated in Me and Orson Welles that he might actually be able to bring it. But Charlie St. Cloud might be the real test. This is the movie where Efron’s character has to choose between the hot girl and life of a sailor on one hand, and literally spending time with the ghost of his dead brother on the other....

By Russ Fischer/May 22, 2012 11:30 am EST Kelly Reichardt (Meek’s Cutoff) isn’t going to have the market cornered when it comes to new female-led Westerns. Scottish director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin, Ratcatcher) is now attached to direct a film called Jane Got a Gun. And now the project has Natalie Portman attached to star and produce. THR reports that the project is coming together now at Cannes, with a bidding war of sorts erupting as financiers and studios investigate the possibility of funding the film....

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 19, 2011 1:49 pm EST If that headline doesn’t mean anything to you, allow me to translate: Syd Mead, aka the ‘futurist’ who created many of the most memorable designs for Blade Runner will be designing sets for Neill Blomkamp’s second feature film, Elysium. We’ve known for some time that the project was being assembled by the director and Media Rights Capital, and that once the year turned and the major cast was in place, it would go out to studios to find a distribution partner....

New Photo: Kodi Smit-McPhee And Chloe Moretz In Let Me In By Russ Fischer/May 8, 2010 11:31 am EST Yesterday we saw the first image from Let Me In, the new adaptation of the same novel that spawned the Swedish film Let the Right One In. The first image showed only Chloe Moretz as Abby, the vampiric young girl who forms an odd friendship with Owen, a boy in her new apartment complex....

New Thor Photo Reveals Hall Of Asgard Featuring Fandral, Hogun, Frigga, Helmets And More By Peter Sciretta/July 18, 2010 8:07 pm EST A new photo from Marvel Studio’s big screen adaptation of Thor was released in today’s print edition of the Los Angeles Times. The new photo reveals a wide angle view of the epic set of the Hall of Asgard, featuring a kneeling Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Asgardians Fandral the Dashing (Josh Dallas), Hogun the Grim (Tadanobu Asano) and Frigga (Rene Russo); and Odin (Anthony Hopkins) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) both sporting ceremonial helmets....

Orphanage Director Will Film ‘The Impossible’ With Naomi Watts And Ewan McGregor By Russ Fischer/May 3, 2010 2:33 pm EST Not so long ago, there was a rumor that Juan Antonio Bayona, director of the slow-burn Spanish horror/thriller film The Orphanage, would direct an episode in Summit’s Twilight series. While that didn’t happen (whew!) evidently there was something between the director and Summit, because he’s now making his follow-up to The Orphanage under their auspices....

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master’ Set For October 12 Limited Release By Germain Lussier/March 28, 2012 5:00 am EST It was a rumor, and now it’s official. The new Paul Thomas Anderson film, The Master, will be released by The Weinstein Company on October 12. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams, The Master tells the story of a man who returns from war and begins his own organized religion....

Rian Johnson’s Looper Begins Shooting In January By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2010 1:00 pm EST It looks like Brick director Rian Johnson’s sci-fi thriller Looper is officially a go. Production Weekly is reporting that the project will begin filming in January 2011. Optimistically, this means the film could be ready in time for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival (Rian premiered Brick at the fest and Levitt is a fest favorite) or maybe even the Cannes Film Festival later that year....

Scott Kosar To Write And Direct ‘The Family’ With Ryan Kwanten As Charles Manson By Russ Fischer/Oct. 29, 2010 7:30 am EST Charles Manson has been portrayed on film many times, and the Manson Family has had more than a few cinematic representations, too. But The Machinist writer Scott Kosar has been working on a script called The Family, which he intends as a biopic — in fact, the definitive biopic — of the Manson Family....

The Crew Of ‘A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’ Lipdub’s ‘Party In The USA’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 8, 2011 4:45 pm EST Watching A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, it’s pretty damn obvious everyone making it is having a blast. Whether it’s Neil Patrick Harris acting straight and referencing Starship Troopers to get a girl naked, Danny Trejo wearing an awful sweater, cast members referring to John Cho as “Sulu” or body parts liberally flaunted on screen, the whole thing is just totally over the top and fun....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: The Girl Who Played With Fire, Winter’s Bone, The Venture Bros. (Season 4, Vol. 1), And More By Adam Quigley/Oct. 26, 2010 6:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Winter’s Bone is a tense, dreary affair, consisting almost exclusively of characters devoid of vitality or a sense of humor. It’s a thriller, but not in the traditional sense; the thrill stems more from the grim, desperate atmosphere that pervades every frame than it does any acts of violence or terror....

Trent Reznor Won’t Be Working On ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ By Peter Sciretta/March 10, 2011 6:30 pm EST Earlier this month it was reported that Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor (the Academy Award-winning composer of The Social Network) would be composing the score for Timur Bekmambetov’s adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and would also appear on screen in the movie as the vampire who kills Lincoln’s mother....

Watch The First Two-Minutes Of ‘Sound Of My Voice’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 14, 2012 11:00 am EST As the April 27th 2012 release date approaches, Searchlight is beginning their marketing push. Today they have released the first two-minutes of the film as a clip on Apple.com — you can watch it after the jump. Tomorrow we will be exclusively be posting the entire first 12 minutes of the film (the entire first chapter of the story) before it is released on the official website later this week....

Will Green Lantern’s Costume Look Like This? By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2010 10:31 pm EST Will Ryan Reynolds’ superhero costume in Green Lantern look anything like this recently posted piece of concept art? I hope not… Comic artist Jason Palmer posted the following message to his Deviant Art blog last week: “Hello all, Been busy with, among other things, two movies each based on DC comic characters (one has a scar, one has a ring) I’ll share with you when I can....

Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight In Paris’ Trailer And Poster By Germain Lussier/March 28, 2011 10:30 am EST Woody Allen’s star-studded new film, Midnight in Paris, will be world-premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in May and now we’ve got our first look at the film. Yahoo Movies has premiered the trailer for the romance starring Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Michael Sheen, Adrien Brody, Nina Arianda, Corey Stoll, Mimi Kennedy, Kurt Fullerby, Carla Bruni, and Léa Seydoux which opens in New York and Los Angeles on May 20....

WTF: ‘Stealth’ Director Turning Sir Isaac Newton Into An Action Hero By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2012 3:00 pm EST Today’s a big day for unlikely action film developments; in this case I imagine that Neal Stephenson just started sharpening one of his swords. The author created a very specific portrait of the pioneer scientist Sir Isaac Newton, who also worked for a time at the British Mint, for his massive eight-book Baroque Cycle....