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Google Doodle Pays Homage To Original ‘Star Trek’ Series By Russ Fischer/Sept. 7, 2012 3:03 pm EST Briefly: Today’s Google Doodle is a really nice little interactive adventure that honors the 46th anniversary of the original Star Trek TV series. Clicking through the doodle, which uses a point-and-click adventure game style to present a brief away mission, reveals a few nods to well-known elements of the show (Tribbles, Uhura’s allure) as it celebrates certain iconic visual elements of the show....

Guillermo Del Toro’s Next Film To Be Horror; Also Producing Stop-Motion Pinocchio And Horror Anthology TV Series By Russ Fischer/July 23, 2010 2:52 pm EST Today during the Miramax panel for Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Guillermo del Toro, who co-wrote and produced the film, commented specifically on a couple of projects has has going in the near future. When asked about his upcoming work, del Toro said he would talk only about things that were really happening, not just films he would like to make....

High Resolution Images: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 1 By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2010 2:46 pm EST At the end of last week we saw some scans from the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, which offered a few new images from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now Warner Bros. has sent over high-res versions of the new pics, which you can see after the break. While a couple of these images are familiar (Hermione’s bloody hand, for instance) the rest are new and very clear looks at the film....

John Krasinksi To Star In Matt Damon’s Directorial Debut, Filming Begins Next Year By Germain Lussier/June 8, 2011 1:00 pm EST A few years ago, it seemed like the only time Matt Damon would ever follow his friend Ben Affleck was in an alphabetical list. Both were Oscar-winning screenwriters turned popular leading men but Damon’s choices earned him a much more respectable reputation. However, Affleck has recently become a highly-sought after director and now Damon is hoping to follow his friend into the director’s chair....

Josh Brolin And Tim Burton Developing ‘The Hunchback Of Notre Dame’ By Russ Fischer/March 1, 2011 6:00 am EST Tim Burton has a few big projects on his plate: he’s about to direct a big-screen version of the supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows, and will be directing a feature-length update of his short film Frankenweenie. He is producing Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and is attached to produce and/or direct several other films....

Joss Whedon Describes His Script Work On Captain America: The First Avenger By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2010 11:00 am EST Last night we published some quotes from writer/director Joss Whedon talking about The Avengers. But lets not forget, when Whedon signed on to direct the Marvel superhero team-up film, he was also hired to rewire Captain America: The First Avenger. Last week Whedon commented about his contributions to Joe Johnston’s film, but many film sites, including us, missed it....

Keanu Reeves Wants To Play The Villain In His Directorial Debut ‘Man Of Tai Chi’ By Russ Fischer/April 7, 2011 5:00 am EST Last year Keanu Reeves started talking about Man of Tai Chi, which would be his first feature project as a director. The martial arts film would be set in the present day, but is intended as an homage to classic kung-fu films. Now Mr. Reeves says he wants to play the villain in the film, which is gathering financing now....

Lucas Till Cast As Havok In X-Men: First Class By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2010 4:00 pm EST Here is more information on Havok thanks to wikipedia: In case you’re confused, here is the official casting thus far: Havok generates powerful “plasma blasts”, an ability he has had difficulty controlling. He is the son of Corsair, the younger brother of the X-Men’s Cyclops and older brother of Vulcan. He often resents Cyclops’ authoritative attitude and reputation as a model X-Man....

Morgan Spurlock Premieres Trailer For ‘Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope’ At, Appropriately, Comic Con By Russ Fischer/July 21, 2011 1:31 pm EST For those who go to Comic Con year after year, there’s always a point when one has to stammer through an attempted description of the pure sensory overload that characterizes the event. Soon we won’t have to go through elaborate ; we’ll be able to point at Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope and say “watch this....

Nicolas Winding Refn Adds Another To His Plate: ‘Button Man’ By Germain Lussier/June 1, 2012 7:00 am EST Blending parts of 13 Tzameti, Hostel and The Professional, Button Man: The Killing Game has possibly found a director. Nicolas Winding Refn is in talks to helm the DreamWorks owned film adaptation of the graphic novel by John Wagner and Arthur Ransom about an assassin who’s recruited to take part in a fight to the death game of trained killers, overseen and bet on by millionaires....

Patton Oswalt Will Spice Up Ben Stiller’s ‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2012 11:30 am EST I’ve really enjoyed watching the rise of Patton Oswalt as an actor. His early stand-up remains hugely entertaining (as is his recent comedy), but his legit acting work has been improving massively since his early role on The King of Queens. I still dig his leading performance in Big Fan, and his work in Jason Reitman’s Young Adult is one of the best supporting roles of 2011....

Read The First 20 Pages Of ‘Zombieland’ Co-Screenwriter Rhett Reese’s Novel ‘Anxiety’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 5, 2010 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Reese was inspired by an 1990’s article from the Los Angeles Times about very small motels that exist in tiny towns near the border of California and Arizona catering to a specific clientele who doesn’t just stay the night, “but who stay for weeks, months and even years....

Rumor: Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman, And Kevin Costner May Join Tom Cruise In ‘Magnificent Seven’ Remake By Angie Han/June 12, 2012 6:00 am EST John Sturges’ 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven featured an iconic cast that included Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz, and Eli Wallach, so it’s only appropriate that the new remake brewing at MGM seems to be collecting some top-level talent as well....

Rumor Control: Ryan Reynolds Not Yet Confirmed For ‘Highlander’ Reboot By Russ Fischer/June 27, 2012 1:30 pm EST Briefly: Not too long ago Ryan Reynolds was nominated to become the new champion decapitator at the center of the Highlander reboot. He would theoretically be stepping into the shoes formerly worn by Christopher Lambert, who played a Scottish Highlander who learns that he is born of an immortal bloodline. The catch is: immortality actually kinda sucks, because it turns into a game of “watch your loved ones die....

Star Wars Trivia: Gary Kurtz Says Toys Ruined The Series; Talks Prequels And Original ‘Return Of The Jedi’ Downer Ending By Russ Fischer/Aug. 13, 2010 1:29 pm EST Some stories have been told of the split, and of what Kurtz saw as flaws of the Star Wars series. But now, in honor (might use that word lightly) of this weekend’s Star Wars Celebration V, Kurtz has said quite a lot about what he thinks of the Star Wars saga....

Stellan Skarsgard Comments On ‘Thor 2’ And ‘Nymphomaniac,’ Which Also Adds Christian Slater By Russ Fischer/Sept. 12, 2012 3:47 pm EST It’s always difficult to rely upon an interview run through one of the various automatic translators on the internet, no matter how good the babel fish in question might be. So take what follows with a slightly elastic spirit — unless you speak Swedish, and want to verify the translation of the original text....

Superhero Bits: The Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man, Dark Knight Rises, Justice League, Wolverine By Germain Lussier/June 21, 2012 12:00 pm EST So it is actually possible that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Robin in The Dark Knight Rises after all? What different suits are playable in The Amazing Spider-Man video game? Which comic book store is the latest to get its own reality TV show? Where can you see an Avengers storyboard artist talking about the process?...

Tania Raymonde And Alexandra Daddario Cast In ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D’ By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2011 8:00 am EST Some purist genre fans might be starting to feel like they’re in a Scream-like movie where the terror of the plot is that all the movies they like are being given hybrid sequel/remakes. Recently the horror classics have been on the block, with all sorts of news about an Evil Dead remake, and now some new casting info on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D....

Teaser Trailer: ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 19, 2010 10:14 pm EST This morning, if someone said “You’re going to be reading movie news about two films with the word “Lincoln” in the title today,” you would have laughed in their face. However, hot off the heels of the big news about Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, we’ve now got your first look at footage from The Lincoln Lawyer. Not to be confused with those little blocks you played with as a kid, The Lincoln Lawyer is a murder mystery starring Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, Marisa Tomei, William H....

TED Talk: Rob Reid Investigates MPAA’s Piracy Claims With “Copyright Math” By Angie Han/March 16, 2012 1:30 pm EST One of the big questions in the battle over piracy is exactly how much damage is actually being done. The MPAA and the RIAA, naturally, claim to be losing staggering amounts of revenue thanks to piracy. As this new TED Talk from Listen.com/Rhapsody founder Rob Reid shows, however, there could be a big difference between actual, cold-hard-facts math and what he calls their “©opyright Math™....