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25 Cinemark Locations To Host All-Day, Six-Film Avengers Marathon On May 3 By Angie Han/April 10, 2012 10:00 am EST Sure, you could probably enjoy Joss Whedon’s The Avengers without knowing the first thing about Thor’s mythological hammer or Captain America’s doomed ’40s romance. But even casual comic book movie fans know the payoff will be all the sweeter if you’ve been with the Marvel Studios mega-saga since Nick Fury first approached Tony Stark in 2008’s Iron Man....

Casting Bits: William Hurt In ‘The Host;’ Abbie Cornish In ‘Seven Psychopaths;’ Felicity Jones In ‘The Invisible Woman’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 7, 2011 9:00 am EST William Hurt is the latest addition to The Host, the adaptation of Twilight author Stephenie Meyer’s sci-fi romance that will be directed by Andrew Niccol (In Time, Gattaca). The actor is in talks to play Jeb, “eccentric uncle” to Saoirse Ronan’s character Melanie. Ronan’s character has her mind taken over by an alien intelligence called Wanderer as part of an invasion....

Charlie Kaufman To Warp Tweens; Scripting ‘Chaos Walking’ Film For Lionsgate By Russ Fischer/April 24, 2012 7:30 am EST Time to give Lionsgate a round of applause. The studio is already preparing for the days when The Hunger Games is over, and one YA property being groomed as the Next Big Thing is the Patrick Ness series Chaos Walking, about a dystopian future in which all human thought is made audible, leading to great chaos....

Christian Bale Now On ‘The Dark Tower’ Wishlist? By Russ Fischer/Jan. 26, 2011 1:00 pm EST We still don’t know who Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman and Brian Grazer will chose to lead the cast of their large-scale and very ambitious adaptation of Stephen King’s equally large-scale and very ambitious novel series The Dark Tower. Javier Bardem and Viggo Mortensen have been said to top the wishlist, but now they may have company: Christian Bale is reportedly now a contender....

Death To ‘Videodrome:’ Commercial Helmer To Remake David Cronenberg Classic By Russ Fischer/Aug. 22, 2012 1:52 pm EST I try to be open-minded about remakes, and maybe, somehow, I’ll get around to being slightly more open-minded about this one. But for the time being, the idea of Ehren Kruger scripting a remake of David Cronenberg’s Videodrome for commercial director Adam Berg pretty much sucks from every angle. That’s the Ehren Kruger who wrote the last two Transformers movies, and is scripting the fourth, by the way....

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Help Save The Lars Homestead Set From Star Wars By Angie Han/March 2, 2011 1:00 pm EST Star Wars geeks, this one’s for you. You know the Lars family home from the films? It’s still up in Tunisia, and open to visitors — but thanks to a harsh climate, it’s badly in need of restoration. Star Wars uberfan Mark Dermul is spearheading the Save the Lars Homestead project to restore and maintain the construction....

Ian McKellen Talks About Seeing ‘The Hobbit’ In 3D By Germain Lussier/March 8, 2011 6:30 pm EST We’re just about two weeks away from cameras finally rolling on Peter Jackson’s two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. It seems like we’ve been talking about it forever. And while we all wait in anticipation of news coming from the set, those of us who have poured over all the extras on the Lord of the Rings Extended Editions already have a pretty good idea: A lot of work, designing, preparation and planning....

Josh Lucas Cast As Charles Lindbergh In ‘J. Edgar’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 18, 2011 12:57 pm EST Briefly: Looks like Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar will have a solid subplot involving Charles Lindbergh and the kidnapping and murder of his child, which was dubbed ’the crime of the century’ at the time. We already knew that Damon Herriman was on board as Bruno Hauptmann, the man who was convicted of the crime and executed as a result....

Kiefer Sutherland Says The ‘24’ Movie Will Hit In 2012 By Russ Fischer/March 21, 2011 1:00 pm EST Briefly: The 24 movie is starting to be a bit like the Arrested Development movie: something that gets talked up a lot without a great deal of backup to suggest that it will actually happen. Billy Ray wrote a script last year that was nixed by Fox, and then Tony Scott got involved....

Look At All The New Footage In The Japanese Trailer For ‘The Avengers’ By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2012 6:30 am EST It makes a certain sort of sense that Japan would get the best trailer yet for The Avengers — I say that because the film feels to me like one of the live-action adaptations of old animated properties that we see come out of Japan on a fairly regular basis....

MGM Is Out Of Bankruptcy, And Has $500 Million To Spend On New Projects By Russ Fischer/Dec. 21, 2010 6:30 am EST Now’s the time to start laying odds on how long it will be before we hear about the twenty-third James Bond film going forward. MGM has announced that it is out of bankruptcy, and that the company has been successfully restructured. Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum of Spyglass Entertainment are the new co-chairmen and CEOs, and the company has $500m worth of financing to throw around....

New Line Meeting With Directors For ‘Y: The Last Man’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 10, 2012 3:15 pm EST In an instant, every man on planet Earth dies. Only women remain, which is fine by them, until they realize without men the human race doesn’t have a chance of surviving. That makes that fact that one man survived — one man on the entire planet — kind of a big deal. That’s the basic plot of Brian K....

Post-Bankruptcy MGM Wants ‘Bond 23’ To Arrive November 2012; Details Of New Bond Novel Emerge By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2010 12:50 pm EST MGM filed for bankruptcy yesterday, and while there’s no need to go into all the financial specifics yet again, this is just the next step in the company’s reorganization. This pre-packaged bankruptcy should leave MGM creditors with equity in a new version of the company, with Spyglass Entertainment holding the studio reigns....

Robert De Niro And John Travolta To Star In ‘Killing Season’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 31, 2011 5:30 pm EST Mark Steven Johnson, the director of the first Ghost Rider film, as well as of Daredevil, Simon Birch and When in Rome, is now set to direct a movie called Killing Season. This will be the first film to team Robert De Niro and John Travolta, and the two actors will face off in a pretty classic adventure scenario....

Spoiler-Filled Details Emerge About The Plot And Characters Of Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ Prequel By Russ Fischer/Oct. 20, 2010 6:15 pm EST Consider yourself warned. An Australian outlet evidently got a copy of the latest script for the Alien prequel due to be directed by Ridley Scott, and subsequently put together quite the rundown of what goes on after the title page. We’ve got quite a few of the details to relay to you, but it’s all spoilerish as hell, so if you don’t want to know too much, this is your cue to stop reading....

TV Bits: ‘Modern Family’ Star To Play Fatty Arbuckle, Isaiah Mustafa In ‘Charlie’s Angels,’ ABC Picks Up ‘Jekyll & Hyde’-Inspired Drama, Return Dates For ‘Covert Affairs’ And ‘Burn Notice’ By Angie Han/Aug. 24, 2011 5:00 pm EST Modern Family star Eric Stonestreet has signed up to play silent film star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle in an HBO biopic titled The Day the Laughter Stopped. Arbuckle was one of the most popular, most successful actors of his time, but his career fell apart after he was accused of raping and murdering actress Virginia Rappe....

TV Bits: Is This The Leaked Script For The Season 5 Premiere Of ‘Breaking Bad’? Plus: ‘The Newsroom’, ‘True Blood’, ‘24’, ‘Saturday Night Live’, ‘Sons Of Anarchy’, And More By Angie Han/April 5, 2012 4:30 pm EST And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The star-studded two-hour special will also feature appearances by 24’s Kiefer Sutherland; Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane; Ally McBeal’s Calista Flokhart; Beverly Hills, 90210’s Shannen Doherty, Ian Ziering, and Gabrielle Carteris; The Tick’s Patrick Warburton; In Living Color’s Keenen Ivory Wayans, Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans; and American Idol’s Ryan Seacrest, Jennifer Lopez, Randy Jackson, and Steven Tyler....

TV Bits: Netflix Could Save ‘Terra Nova’, Plus: ‘Mad Men’, ‘Community’, ‘Sons Of Anarchy’, Ken Marino & Judy Greer By Angie Han/March 8, 2012 10:00 am EST There’s good stuff today for fans of Community, Mad Men, Sons of Anarchy, and even the just-cancelled Terra Nova. After the jump: Terra Nova could go the way of Arrested Development A new Community trailer hints at the madness to come Cast and crew continue to play coy in new Mad Men featurette Kurt Sutter hints at Sons of Anarchy Season 5, wants to do a prequel Ken Marino joins Judy Greer in American Judy Wondering what those crazy Greendale kids have been up to in the three months since we last saw them?...

TV Trailer: Dexter Season 5 By Devindra Hardawar/July 26, 2010 6:00 am EST Unfortunately, I missed the Dexter Comic-Con panel this weekend, but thankfully Showtime has just put the season five trailer it revealed at the convention online for everyone to see. Now after seeing it, I wish I had carved out the time to make the panel, because it’s a helluva trailer. After the break, find the trailer as well as my general impressions....