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Could Adam McKay’s ‘The Boys’ Get Made At Paramount? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2012 9:30 am EST With his film The Other Guys, Anchorman and Talladega Nights director Adam McKay expanded his ability for staging physical comedy to staging all-out action. From there, he was interested in adapting The Boys, a comic series penned by Garth Ennis in which a super-powered CIA squad acts as a sort of enforcement unit overseeing the world’s reckless superheroes....

Elizabeth Olsen And Dane DeHaan Join Early Beat Poet Murder Story ‘Kill Your Darlings’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2012 9:30 am EST Thanks to her performances in Martha Marcy May Marlene and Silent House, Elizabeth Olsen became one of the brightest young stars of 2011, and now she’s landed a part opposite Daniel Radcliffe in Kill Your Darlings, a film that explores the very early days of Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg....

IFFBoston Movie Review And Interview: Michael Webber’s ‘The Elephant In The Living Room’ By David Chen/May 2, 2010 3:54 am EST At one point or another, we’ve probably all thought about the possibility of owning an exotic pet. How awesome would it be to terrorize your enemies with a 20-foot boa constrictor, or have a lion ready to back you up when a thief breaks in in the middle of the night?...

Japanese ‘Super 8’ Poster Sells Some Serious Spielberg By Russ Fischer/May 18, 2011 8:02 pm EST One of the calling cards for Super 8 has always bee the participation — somewhere between mentoring and really being hands on — of Steven Spielberg. The J.J. Abrams film about a dangerous something released into a small American town has been painted as an inheritor to the Amblin mantle from day one, and every bit of footage and imagery we’ve seen has locked down that relationship....

LOL: 1980’s Movie Bullies Montage By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2010 10:00 am EST The Huntington Post has put together an awesome five minute compilation of bully characters from 1980’s movies. So many jerks, so many memories… what happened to all these guys? Watch the video now embedded after the jump. LOL: 1980’s Movie Bullies Montage By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2010 10:00 am EST The Huntington Post has put together an awesome five minute compilation of bully characters from 1980’s movies....

Max Minghella And Jeffrey Wright Join George Clooney’s ‘The Ides Of March’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 10, 2010 10:26 am EST George Clooney’s The Ides of March, based on the play Farragut North, is gathering steam. It quickly found funding, then was picked up for US distribution by Sony well before a frame of film had even been shot. (Cameras roll, or record to hard disk – whatever – next year.) Now the film has two more cast members to complement George Clooney, Ryan Gosling and Marisa Tomei: Max Minghella and Jeffrey Wright have both signed on....

By Germain Lussier/May 25, 2012 11:30 am EST While the last three pieces from the Breaking Bad Art Project have all been distinctly from the series, the fourth one by Justin Santora can stand on its own. Unless you are really a fan of the hit AMC show, you’d be hard pressed to guess what the image you’re looking at is. Fans, of course, know it’s Walt in his backyard looking at Wayfarer 515 and we know how he, Jesse and the gang were tied into its fate....

MTV Opens Online Archive Of ‘Liquid Television’ Shorts By Russ Fischer/Oct. 10, 2011 11:47 am EST I’m not sure how long this has been online, but judging by the reaction I see it getting on Twitter today, either it hasn’t been long or no one realized what MTV had done. But for those who spent late nights with MTV in the early ’90s, when the channel celebrated the unusual corners of pop culture as well as the fat, chewy center, this is going to be one hell of a trip....

New ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ TV Spot Reveals Jack Black In A Land Of Giants By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2010 3:00 pm EST /Film reader Lascelles L noticed this new tv spot for the Jack Black comedy adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels which shows us a bit new material from the upcoming film. So far the trailers have only shown us Gulliver as a giant in a world of miniature people, but some of you might recall that Jonathan Swift’s 18th-century novel of the same name features more worlds....

New ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows-Part 1’ Behind The Scenes Featurette By Germain Lussier/Oct. 26, 2010 6:00 am EST Long after the Harry Potter films finish in 2011, we’ll look back at them as one of the most momentous achievements in the history of cinema. Over the course of eight films, an entire world will have evolved with a singular cast maturing at the same rate as their characters. The continuity is unprecedented....

New Photos Reveal New Predators By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2010 6:30 pm EST A bunch of new photos from the Robert Rodriguez-produced, Nimrod Antal-directed Predators have appeared online. And these aren’t just some boring photos of the cast looking off camera, these are photos of the actual Predator creatures themselves. Check them out, after the jump. Photos removed at request of Fox Head over to Filmz.ru for even more photos....

Peter Berg Says New ‘Friday Night Lights’ Film Script Almost Done; Scheduling Remains Biggest Hurdle By Russ Fischer/Feb. 15, 2012 7:32 am EST This may or may not be good news, depending on whether or not you think the Friday Night Lights television series finale was the best possible end to the show’s story. Just as the finale was about to air, we heard that the show could find new life on the big screen, and a short time later producer Peter Berg confirmed the development of a film featuring the series’ characters....

Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, And Deborah Kara Unger Return For ‘Silent Hill: Revelation 3D’ By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2011 4:00 pm EST When we first heard about Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, the film sounded more like a spin-off than a sequel to Christoph Gans’ 2006 film Silent Hill. Michael J. Bassett (Solomon Kane) wrote and is directing this new film right now in Toronto, with Adelaide Clemens and Kit Harington starring....

Robert Rodriguez Offers ‘Machete Kills,’ ‘Sin City 2’ & ‘Heavy Metal’ Updates; ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ Getting 3D Re-Release? By Russ Fischer/March 14, 2012 2:30 pm EST Robert Rodriguez may originally be from San Antonio, but Austin, TX has been his private and professional home for many years. So an appearance at the SXSW festival is to be expected, and Rodriguez did indeed show up at the film and interactive portion of the fest to talk about his upcoming projects....

Steven Spielberg To Produce Screenwriter Alex Kurtzman’s Directorial Debut ‘Welcome To People’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2010 11:01 pm EST Steven Spielberg has been working with screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci for a few years now. Introduced through Michael Bay with the DreamWorks produced 2005 film The Island, the screenwriting duo went on to pen the Spielberg-produced Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and were put in charge (ie produced) of DJ Caruso’s Eagle Eye which was based on a Spielberg idea....

Sucker Punch Featurette: “Inside Look” By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2010 7:00 am EST Warner Bros. has released a new behind the scenes featurette for Zack Snyder’s new action fantasy film Sucker Punch. The two and a half minute video is basically an extended trailer with commentary from Snyder, the cast and some crew members. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Official Details: SUCKER PUNCH Close your eyes. Open your mind....

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers, Thor: The Dark World, Iron Man 3, The Wolverine By Germain Lussier/Aug. 1, 2012 11:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Jest has done a bunch photoshopped Dark Knight Rises headlines like the one above. Some are more spoilery than the rest so beware if you haven’t seen it, but, really funny.The Dark Knight Rises passed $300 million domestically and $50 million in IMAX, the fastest to do so....

Terrence Malick Gives The Title ‘Lawless’ To John Hillcoat For The Movie Formerly Called ‘Wettest County’ By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2012 1:30 pm EST A couple years ago John Hillcoat (The Road, The Proposition) stared the process of adapting Matt Bondurant’s novel The Wettest County in the World. The film stars Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Jessica Chastain and many more in the story of a bootlegging family. The title was soon shortened down to The Wettest County....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: The Last Airbender, The Kids Are All Right, Best Worst Movie, And More By Adam Quigley/Nov. 16, 2010 9:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I suspect that there won’t be much reason to revisit The Kids Are All Right ten years from now, when the perspective it provides on families of a modern era loses its freshness, but for the time being, it stands out as a uniquely contemporary, occasionally satirical portrait of a family and the issues they must contend with....

VOTD: All-Profanity ‘Pulp Fiction’ Supercut By Angie Han/June 16, 2011 5:00 am EST It’s no secret that Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is one profane work of art, but have you ever wondered exactly how profane? YouTube user TheCussingChannel has, and they’ve put together a supercut of every curse word in the film — and nothing else. You’ll find no lingering over elegant lines of dialogue or gorgeous camerawork here, but you will hear just about every bad word you can think of....