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Patton Oswalt And Johnny Knoxville Cast As Brothers In New Untitled Comedy By Russ Fischer/Aug. 22, 2011 12:30 pm EST Patton Oswalt is set to take his biggest film role since starring in Big Fan in an as-yet untitled comedy from Todd Rohal, director of The Catechism Cataclysm. The new film (“an outlandish yet poignant comedy,” says the press release) will feature Oswalt and Johnny Knoxville as “a pair of battling brothers who attempt to honor their ailing father by taking a troop of boys on a last ditch camping trip that goes wildly wrong....

Paula Patton Cast In The Next ‘Mission: Impossible’ Film By Russ Fischer/Sept. 1, 2010 4:53 pm EST Briefly: Last week three actresses were testing for one of the plum female roles in the new Mission: Impossible film, to be directed by Brad Bird with Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner starring. Lauren German (Hostel: Part II), Paula Patton (Precious) and Kristin Kreuk (Smallville) were all in the running, but now Paula Patton has been handed the part....

Sony Snaps Up Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium;’ Director Will Make ‘Chappie’ Afterward By Russ Fischer/Jan. 20, 2011 5:00 am EST Well, that didn’t take long. It was just hours ago that we mentioned that Elysium, the second feature from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp, had gone out to studios to find a distribution partner. And he quickly found one. Media Rights Capital put together a deal with Sony to distribute the film worldwide....

Star Wars Episodes II And III To Get Back To Back 2013 3D Re-Releases By Germain Lussier/Aug. 26, 2012 1:12 pm EST Good news for Star Wars fans hoping to get the original trilogy in theatrical 3D. LucasFilm has just announced the second two prequel films, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, will get theatrical 3D re-releases on September 20, 2013 and October 11, 2013 respectively....

Wes Anderson Preparing To Shoot Next Film ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ In Spring 2011 By Russ Fischer/Sept. 30, 2010 4:40 pm EST Update [From the editor]: Production Weekly is reporting that the film’s title is “Moonrise Kingdom”. Nothing more is known at this time. The original update by Russ can be found after the jump.Briefly: We don’t have too much information right now, but there are two reports about Wes Anderson’s next film, which Production Weekly reports is in pre-production now for a Spring 2011 shoot....

‘Bond 23’ Opens In Istanbul; French Actress Bérénice Marlohe Rumored As New Bond Girl By Russ Fischer/Sept. 29, 2011 10:38 am EST As a start date looms for the 23rd James Bond film, currently referred to simply as Bond 23, we’re starting to learn bits and pieces about the picture. The latest intel involves the film’s opening sequence, which will see the franchise returning to Istanbul. (The location was used in From Russia With Love and The World is Not Enough....

‘Cars 2’ Update: New Poster, Lawsuit, Image And Character By Germain Lussier/March 22, 2011 4:00 am EST Save for the disappointingly childish trailers, I’d say Pixar and Disney are doing a great job marketing Cars 2. Most of the video has left me stone faced and uninterested, but the more cool characters and cars that are slowly revealed, the more my interest starts to percolate. That balance of good and bad continues with this latest Cars 2 news....

‘Django Unchained’ Trailer: Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Vengeance By Russ Fischer/June 6, 2012 7:00 pm EST Here’s the first trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Django Unchained. I don’t think I need to say much more, other than that the trailer shows the rescue of Django (Jamie Foxx) by Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), who enlists him to help find three slaver brothers. In the process, they come across big-time slaver Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), who may hold the key to Django’s long-lost wife (Kerry Washington)....

‘How To Train Your Dragon’ Producer Offers Details On First Sequel And TV Series By Russ Fischer/Jan. 17, 2011 9:00 pm EST Last year, How to Train Your Dragon seemed like a move in the right direction for DreamWorks Animation: a character-oriented film that had great action and, contrary to some of the studio’s work, didn’t seem to be pandering to the audience. We know that there will be at least one sequel, with several films tentatively planned overall, and that a spin-off TV show is also in the works....

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Pushes ‘The Bourne Legacy’ Back A Week By Germain Lussier/June 22, 2012 1:30 pm EST Universal has just moved the release of The Bourne Legacy back one week from August 3 to August 10. The official reason? They’re scared of The Dark Knight Rises. Seriously. Read the statement below. Here’s the statement from Universal: Just as THE AVENGERS demonstrated marketplace sustainability that well outpaced traditional patterns earlier this summer, the industry expects a similar trajectory for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES....

‘The Simpsons’ And ‘Dexter’ Could End This Season Due To Contract Disputes By Germain Lussier/Oct. 4, 2011 4:30 pm EST The Daily Beast first reported the news on The Simpsons ultimatum. Here’s the statement released by Fox: The Dexter situation seems to be a little more manageable, according to Deadline. The sixth season is about to wrap and Hall’s contract is up when that happens. He wants $24 million for two more seasons but Showtime is only offering $20 million and negotiations reportedly broke down over that amount....

Andrew Garfield Talks About Suiting Up For ‘Spider-Man’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 23, 2010 8:00 pm EST Marc Webb’s new Spider-Man film has been shooting for a couple weeks now, but the production is on Christmas break right now. We’ve seen a few set pics from the shoot, but nothing yet of Andrew Garfield, who plays Peter Parker and Spider-Man, and nothing of the costume for the title character. I think quite a few people are curious to see what the actor will look like in the suit, but for now we’ll have to make do with a few comments he made in an interview....

BAFTA Nominations Highlight ‘The Artist,’ ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,’ And ‘Drive’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 17, 2012 8:30 am EST Check out the full nomination list below. The Orange British Academy Film Awards take place on Sunday 12 February at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. The ceremony will be hosted by Stephen Fry and will be broadcast exclusively on BBC One. 2011 NOMINATIONS (presented in 2012) BEST FILM THE ARTIST – Thomas Langmann...

Casting Bits: David Oyelowo In ‘One Shot;’ Marisa Tomei In ‘Us & Them;’ Nathan Lane In ‘The English Teacher’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 15, 2011 3:45 pm EST The latest to join One Shot, the adaptation of Lee Child’s thriller novel about former military cop Jack Reacher and the investigation of a strange set of sniper murders in the midwest, is David Oyelowo. Fresh from The Help and Rise of the Planet of the Apes, he’ll play a veteran homicide detective who investigates the sniper deaths....

Catherine Hardwicke’s ‘Haml3t’ With Emile Hirsch Won’t Happen By Adam Quigley/Sept. 22, 2010 7:30 am EST Did we really need another film rendition of Hamlet? Probably not, but I’d be lying if I said Emile Hirch and Catherine Hardwicke’s “suspense thriller” take on the material didn’t intrigue me at least a little, if only to see how it’d turn out. Alas, looks like we’ll never know. For reasons that haven’t yet been made clear, the project is no more....

Channing Tatum Attached To Pitch Called ‘Peter Pan Begins’ By Germain Lussier/March 1, 2011 5:30 pm EST Ripping off both J.M. Barrie and Christopher Nolan in one fell swoop, a pitch is now out to Hollywood studios called Peter Pan Begins. The pitch has star Channing Tatum, screenwriter Billy Ray (The Hunger Games, Shattered Glass) and producer Joe Roth all attached. Roth is responsible for producing several films with new spins on classic literature, including Sam Raimi’s Oz, The Great and the Powerful and Snow White and the Huntsman with Kristen Stewart....

Cool Stuff: Ghostbusters-Inspired Trap ‘Em All, Let Egon Sort ‘Em Out T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 1, 2010 7:00 am EST You might recall that we featured Scott Derby’s Ghostbusters-inspired Trap ‘Em All, Let Egon Sort ‘Em Out artwork as part of the awesome 3G Art Show. Teefury picked Scott’s design for today’s tee of the day. Available in a cream colored guys shirt or powder blue colored girls shirt for only $9 plus shipping....

Cool Stuff: Tyler Stout’s ‘Kill Bill’ Posters By Peter Sciretta/April 4, 2011 2:30 pm EST Tyler Stout created this awesome Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair movie poster as a surprise for Quentin Tarantino’s birthday screening of the uncut film at the New Beverly Cinema. Posters were sold at the screening, and will go online tomorrow on Mondo. They are also selling a limited edition Japanese variant for $100, which OMG says is “printed on paper that lands somewhere between rice and parchment, plus it has some subtle changes to the art”....

David Cronenberg And Howard Shore Enlist Metric To Aid ‘Cosmopolis’ Score By Russ Fischer/Oct. 13, 2011 5:00 am EST David Cronenberg has been a forward-thinking guy at many points in his career, but the overall tone of his films tends more towards the classic than the contemporary. He has relied upon Howard Shore to score his films for over thirty years. While some of those scores have been as unusual as the films they complemented, none have exactly been rock....

Exclusive ‘Tai Chi Zero’ Poster Debut: The Master (No, The Other One) By Russ Fischer/Sept. 20, 2012 10:00 am EST I know that everyone is thinking about Philip Seymour Hoffman as the Master right now, especially with that film opening in more theaters today. But right now I want to direct your attention to a different Master — this guy is one of the characters in the wild-looking steampunk martial arts film Tai Chi Zero (aka Tai Chi 0)....