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‘In A Better World’ Trailer – Academy Award Nominee And Golden Globe Winner For Best Foreign Language Film Of 2010 By Adam Quigley/Feb. 3, 2011 9:30 am EST Two of the Best Foreign Film nominations for this year’s Oscars were still in need of trailers when the announcements were made, but now that problem has been taken care of. Earlier this week we showed you the trailer for Incendies, a “tale of two young adults’ voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love”, and now comes the trailer for In a Better World, an “exploration of masculinity and the perpetuation of violence”....

‘Monsters Inc.’ 3D Re-Release Pulled Forward To December 2012 By Russ Fischer/July 24, 2012 11:30 am EST Briefly: For those who can’t wait to see the 3D version of Monsters Inc., there’s now one less month to wait. Disney and Pixar have pulled the 3D re-release forward from January 18, 2013 to Wednesday December 19, 2012. That means there will be only three months between the 3D Finding Nemo re-release and this new Monsters date....

‘Super 8’ Clip #3 By Peter Sciretta/May 17, 2011 8:53 pm EST We’ve posted the first two clips, the first of which showed the kids preparing to shoot their Super 8 zombie movie before the big train crash, and the second of which showed what happens to the kids during the train crash. The third clip is a continuation, another 30 seconds of footage, showing what happens after the train crash....

Bloody Good Poster For Kim Ji-Woon’s ‘I Saw The Devil’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 15, 2011 9:00 am EST Kim Ji-woon’s bloody, intense thriller I Saw the Devil (Korean trailer here) is playing Sundance later this month, and through the magic of Magnolia’s genre arm Magnet will also hit US theaters on March 4. It is a serial killer story that has drawn comparisons to Seven and endured criticism in South Korea for the level of violence depicted....

Casting Notes: Tim Robbins And James Gandolfini In Cinema Verite; Toni Collette In Mental; Jamie Foxx And More In Horrible Bosses By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2010 9:47 pm EST What is it with HBO and dramatic recreations of classic documentaries? Last year there was Grey Gardens, and now the network is lining up Cinema Verite, which will be a dramatized behind the scenes take on the 1973 PBS doc An American Family....

Cynical Inception Infographic By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2010 9:00 am EST There have been a lot of Infographics going around the web trying to explain the complexities of Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Talk about ineption (see, I knew I’d find a way to use it today!). As with Nolan’s The Dark Knight, or any other film with way too much praise, a backlash has begun. And while I don’t agree that Inception is a masterpiece, it is one of the best films released this year (right now in my top two or three)....

David Fincher To Direct 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2010 12:14 pm EST File this one under the “it came out of no where” department: Walt Disney Pictures has hired David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) to direct 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. You didn’t see that one coming, did you? Fincher doing a four-quadrant family action movie for Disney? Apparently, Fincher has developed a new take on the franchise with Bourne Ultimatum/The Informant!...

Details From Early ‘Akira’ Draft Will Leave Purists Anticipating The In-Progress Rewrite By Russ Fischer/March 1, 2011 3:30 pm EST We know that Warner Bros. is aggressively moving forward on a live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic manga Akira. Albert Hughes will direct the film from a script that has passed through the hands of several screenwriters, most recently landing on the desk of Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves. He’ll rewrite and then casting can get underway in earnest....

Drew Pearce Writing ‘Iron Man 3’ By Russ Fischer/March 31, 2011 5:35 pm EST While we’d hoped that Shane Black would write Iron Man 3 in addition to directing it, over the past few weeks we haven’t had any solid confirmation that he would definitely pen the script. He’s famous for screenwriting more than directing, after all, having only directed one film: the great Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. So it seemed reasonable to expect (certainly to hope) that he would write....

Duncan Jones’ Second Film ‘Source Code’ To Open SXSW 2011 By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2010 12:00 pm EST The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced the opening night film for the 2011 festival. Source Code, the second film from Moon director Duncan Jones, will have its world premiere on March 11, 2011, the opening night of the fest. In a press release, Film Conference and Festival Producer Janet Pierson said,...

Edgar Wright Set To Direct Johnny Depp In ‘The Night Stalker’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 22, 2012 11:19 am EST Well, this is unexpected. We’ve known that Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World director Edgar Wright is at work on both a new screenplay with Shaun collaborator Simon Pegg and the Ant-Man project for Marvel Studios. (He’s also got a couple other percolating scripts.) But in the meantime Wright is now set to make what will probably be his biggest movie to date....

First Look: William Monahan’s London Boulevard By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2010 11:30 am EST Awards Daily has found the first official photo from William Monahan’s London Boulevard on ONTD. Monahan is the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Martin Scorsese’s The Departed and Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven. Boulevard is Monahan’s directorial debut. Based on the novel by Ken Bruen, this London-based crime drama stars Colin Farrell as “a man newly released from prison who falls in love with a reclusive young movie star (played by Keira Knightley) and finds himself in a duel with a vicious gangster....

First Official Photo: Jason Momoa As The New Conan The Barbarian By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2010 10:44 pm EST In May, some set photos from Marcus Nispel’s new Conan the Barbarian movie leaked online, giving us our first look at Jason Momoa (Stargate: Atlantis) in costume as the film’s title character. Now Nu Boyana Film Studios has released the fist official production photo. Hit the jump to see the full thing....

Four New Inception Banners By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2010 11:35 am EST Warner Bros has released four new theatrical banners for Christopher Nolan’s Inception on Virgin. This is honestly some of the coolest marketing images I’ve seen in quite some time. Take a look at all four banners after the jump. Click on the images below to enlarge: INCEPTION In theatres and IMAX on July 16 (Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary Pictures) Director: Christopher Nolan Writer: Christopher Nolan Producers: Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan Executive Producers: Chris Brigham, Thomas Tull Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine Sci-Fi Action....

By Germain Lussier/Sept. 16, 2010 9:00 am EST So – all of that said, it’s speculation time. What do Abrams and company have up their sleeves for a show set on Alcatraz? Obviously, there’s an irony to having another show set on an island so I would venture to guess that’s the only thing Alcatraz have in common with Lost. Personally, I envision a period show, set well before Alcatraz was closed in 1963, maybe with ghosts haunting the famous inmates and a few wrongfully incarcerated prisoners trying to escape and figure out the mystery....

John Landis Gathering Funds For Biopic About Mad Magazine Publisher Bill Gaines By Russ Fischer/May 16, 2010 11:04 pm EST Bill Gaines is one of the most important figures in comic book history. In the ’50s he was the man behind E.C. Comics, which with titles like Tales From the Crypt and Weird Science became a scapegoat for juvenile delinquency. A Senate Subcommittee investigation into the effects of horror comics led to a skewed public perception of Gaines that nearly put E....

Jon Turteltaub To Direct ‘Last Vegas,’ Aka ‘The Hangover’ For Seniors By Russ Fischer/Sept. 20, 2011 2:30 pm EST Are CBS Films and Mandate Pictures looking to ride The Hangover’s train to success? Seems that way, as the companies are close to signing Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) to direct Last Vegas, a comedy written by Dan Fogelman (Crazy, Stupid, Love.). We’ve got no casting info at this point, but the story summation provided by Variety clues us in on what to expect, as Last Vegas features “four best friends in their late 60s who decide to escape retirement and throw a Las Vegas bachelor party for the only one of them who remains single....

LOL: ‘Predator: The Musical’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 23, 2011 2:15 pm EST Jon and Al Kaplan have spent the past year creating a series of frequently clever, occasionally hilarious videos that re-imagine Arnold Schwarzenegger action films as musicals. The appeal isn’t based so much in listening to an Arnie impersonator warble through a tune, as it is in seeing how nimbly the Kaplans can summarize the plot of each film in a few song lyrics....

LOL: ‘Terminator The Second’ Filters The ‘Terminator 2’ Story Through Shakespeare By Russ Fischer/April 14, 2011 5:00 pm EST Here’s a strange theater project that is coming together via Kickstarter, the same great crowd-sourced funding system that helped gather money to make a statue of RoboCop in Detroit. The project is Terminator the Second, which is a stage retelling of the story from Terminator 2, but where all dialogue is taken directly from the works of William Shakespeare....

Mel Gibson Speaks From The Set Of ‘Machete Kills,’ Plus William Sadler’s Poster Debut By Russ Fischer/July 30, 2012 2:00 pm EST There was a little bit of video from the set of Machete Kills that leaked out a week or so back, but was quickly taken down. Now there’s a replacement, in the form of a TV set visit to the set of Robert Rodriguez’s latest weird action flick. Danny Trejo returns as Machete, and this time he faces (among other things) Mel Gibson playing a character who is “out to get the President....