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Geek Deal: The Hunger Games Trilogy On Kindle For Only $4.38 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 29, 2011 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Hugh Jackman Offered ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Role By Russ Fischer/April 6, 2011 11:58 am EST Sometimes stars align. Talks recently broke down to get Viggo Mortensen into the key Huntsman role in Snow White and the Hunstman, and now with The Wolverine on hold for several reasons, Hugh Jackman has been offered the part. If he accepts, that could push the film into an entirely different realm of mainstream appeal....

James Bond May No Longer Conspire With Jeffrey Wright By Russ Fischer/Sept. 12, 2011 2:30 pm EST James Bond fans will recognize CIA agent Felix Leiter as a frequent participant in the superspy’s adventures. He was introduced in the novel Casino Royale and has a part in many of Ian Fleming’s Bond stories. On film, he showed up in the first Bond movie, Dr. No., played by Jack Lord. In the nearly 50 years that follow, Felix has been played by nine actors in eleven films....

Kathryn Bigelow’s Untitled Black-Ops Thriller May Be About The Hunt For Osama Bin Laden By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2011 8:52 am EST (UPDATE: Too good to be true, I guess. Mark Boal’s reps reached out to The Playlist and told them that both the Osama Bin Laden angle is wrong, as is the report that IM Global has worldwide rights. This twigged odd given that producer Charles Roven had recently said, as linked below, that Triple Frontier would shoot this spring....

Kevin Durand Joins I Am Number Four And Real Steel By Peter Sciretta/May 6, 2010 4:38 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Durand played bad guy Martin Keamy in Season 6 of Lost, Joshua on the Show Dark Angel, and has hard parts in Walking Tall, Smokin’ Aces, Wild Hogs, 3:10 to Yuma, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Legion, and recently played Little John in Robin Hood....

Les Grossman Movie Officially Happening By Russ Fischer/June 9, 2010 3:23 pm EST After his appearance(s) in conjunction with the recent MTV Movie Awards, there was speculation that Tom Cruise is developing a film based on his Tropic Thunder character Les Grossman. Cruise confirmed that something was in the works, and now we’ve got official word from Paramount that a film, the Untitled Les Grossman Project, is in fact in development....

Mia Wasikowska Boards Richard Ayoade’s ‘The Double’ With Jesse Eisenberg By Angie Han/Feb. 1, 2012 2:30 pm EST I enjoyed his debut feature Submarine enough that I would’ve been looking forward to Richard Ayoade’s next effort no matter what it wound up being, but his sophomore project is already shaping up to be every bit as interesting as his first. Jesse Eisenberg was cast in the lead role last summer, and it’s now been announced that rising star Mia Wasikowska will be joining him as well....

Movie Trailer #2: Red By Russ Fischer/July 22, 2010 4:22 pm EST I know there’s resistance to Red based on the fact that the film looks quite a bit different from the Warren Ellis comics upon which it is based. I haven’t read the comic, so can only approach the film based on what I see — and I really enjoy the stuff we’ve been shown so far. There’s one trailer already, and a second premiered today in conjunction with the film’s appearance at the San Diego Comic Con....

Philip Seymour Hoffman To Direct ’30s-Set Ghost Story ‘Ezekiel Moss’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 17, 2012 4:20 pm EST Philip Seymour Hoffman is down in Atlanta right now, filming the second Hunger Games movie, Catching Fire, and probably also enjoying some of the afterglow of The Master having a record-setting weekend. And now we’ve got more good news for Hoffman fans, as he is prepping to make his second directorial effort, based on the 2011 script Ezekiel Moss....

POTD: The Coolest Piece Of Marketing For ‘The Dark Knight Rises’? By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2012 9:00 am EST Billboard found on Sunset and La Brea in Hollywood. Not a graphic, but a 3D hole in a billboard with destruction extruding. POTD: The Coolest Piece Of Marketing For ‘The Dark Knight Rises’? By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2012 9:00 am EST Billboard found on Sunset and La Brea in Hollywood. Not a graphic, but a 3D hole in a billboard with destruction extruding....

Six-Minute ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Preview Plays In Front Of IMAX 3D Shows Of ‘Men In Black III’ By Russ Fischer/May 22, 2012 12:31 pm EST Briefly: Just in cast you can’t wait for the 120-minute showing of footage from The Amazing Spider-Man that will open on July 3, this Friday May 25 there will be a chance to see a new six-minute look at the film. The official Facebook page for Marc Webb’s film announced today “See an exclusive 6-minute sneak peek of The Amazing Spider-Man when you experience Men In Black in IMAX 3D starting Thursday at Midnight!...

Superhero Bits: Amazing Spider-Man, DC Nation, Green Lantern, Plastic Man, Batman, Batgirl By Germain Lussier/Feb. 23, 2012 12:00 pm EST How are Plastic Man, Batgirl, Wonder Woman and Supergirl going to make it onto Cartoon Network? Which comic books worth upwards of $2m did a Virginia man find in his closet? Is Todd McFarlane still working on a new Spawn movie? Want to see some unused posters from Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance?...

The Losers - What Did You Think? By David Chen/April 25, 2010 3:00 pm EST Note: This post will be sticky’d to the top of the site until Monday morning. I didn’t have high expectations for Sylvain White’s The Losers. White’s filmography wasn’t terribly impressive to me, and the plot led some of my fellow critics to refer to the film’s titular group of operatives as “a poor man’s A-Team.” Still, I held out hope that we’d at least get an enjoyable action romp....

The Sound Design Of ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ By Russ Fischer/July 6, 2011 12:00 pm EST Cast your memory back to January 2010 and you might recall that we featured a short video piece that looked into the sound design of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The clip wasn’t all great, but there were a couple of moments in there that showed how a flash of creative inspiration made parts of the second Transformers film unique from a sound perspective....

Trivia: Jennifer Hudson Turned Down ‘Precious’ By Angie Han/Dec. 28, 2011 7:00 am EST Gabourey Sidibe was a complete unknown when she beat out hundreds of other candidates in a nationwide casting call for the lead role in Lee Daniels’ Precious, but that quickly changed once the film actually came out. The young star garnered tons of acclaim for her fearless performance, including an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, and now it’s tough to imagine anyone but Sidibe ever playing that part....

VOTD: All Star Voice Actors Live Read ‘Star Wars’ By Germain Lussier/May 25, 2012 3:30 pm EST We all know Star Wars so well that whenever there’s a new interpretation or spin, it’s always kind of fun. When that new interpretation features some of the most famous and recognizable voice actors in the world reading the entire script interchanging characters and dialogue with some of their own, it’s really, really fun....

‘Back To The Future’ Set Photos By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2011 11:00 am EST The downtown Hill Valley scenes from Back to the Future were shot on the Universal Studios backlot. A security guard on the studio lot has released personal photos he took of the sets while the film was in production. Mr. Biscuit writes: Click on the image below to see the set photos on Biscuit’s Flickr: via: buzzfeed

‘Breaking Bad’s’ Final Season Begins On AMC July 15th By Germain Lussier/May 21, 2012 1:30 pm EST Like many great dramas in television history, each season of Breaking Bad has left audiences with their jaws on the floor and questions on their mind. This past year, season four, was no different and fans have been waiting since October to see the results of those chilling last few minutes. The wait is almost over....

/Film LA: Monster Creeps – Fred Dekker’s ‘Night Of The Creeps’ And ‘The Monster Squad’ Art Show, Screening And Q&A By Germain Lussier/Aug. 3, 2011 7:00 am EST Fred Dekker isn’t a household name but, for a large portion of us, his films are household essentials. Films like Night of the Creeps and The Monster Squad are cult classics revered almost thirty years later and this Saturday Night in Burbank, CA, they’ll both be celebrated....

‘The Avengers’ Breaks All-Time Domestic Box Office Opening Weekend Gross By Germain Lussier/May 6, 2012 10:35 am EST Take a seat Harry Potter. Step back Batman. Put away that arrow Katniss. There’s a new king of the box office world and it’s a throne shared by several superheroes. Early reports say Joss Whedon’s The Avengers will end the weekend grossing $200.3 million, setting the all-time opening weekend domestic box office record by a large margin....