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Stephen Fry Confirmed For ‘The Hobbit,’ Two More Roles Cast By Russ Fischer/May 18, 2011 6:47 pm EST We’ll probably be hearing about minor casting for The Hobbit for months to come. We’ll even hear about some major names — no one has yet been announced as the voice of the dragon Smaug, for example. This story is a good middle ground. The Master of Laketown may not be a huge character, but if he’s played by Stephen Fry, things change a little bit....

Surfer Erica Hosseini Auditioned For The Role Of Willow In X-Men: First Class By Peter Sciretta/July 5, 2010 12:30 pm EST Erica tells Straight2DVD (via: CBM): We don’t yet know if Hosseini has been cast in the part, but we do now know that the character Willow is featured in the new movie. According to wikipedia: “I was auditioning for a role named Willow (hopefully I don’t get in trouble for blabbing details on the off-chance that I get it)....

The First Hint Of Marvel Studio’s Post ‘Avengers’ Plan Revealed By Germain Lussier/Oct. 4, 2010 2:00 pm EST Several years ago, Marvel announced their master, multi-year plan to make a sequel to Iron Man, movies based on Thor and Captain America and then bring it all together with The Avengers. Well, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger are now mere months away, and The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon, is set to start shooting in February....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: A Single Man, Brooklyn’s Finest, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo By Adam Quigley/July 6, 2010 5:43 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A Single Man drowns its audience in beauty. It unapologetically flaunts its gorgeous, dreamy cinematography; it captivates the senses with its hypnotizing piano-and-violin-infused classical score; it highlights the statuesque male form with lustful enthusiasm; and so on....

VOTD: Every Line Of Dialogue In ‘The Lost Boys’ Is “Michael” By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 14, 2011 6:00 am EST Have you ever noticed that the name Michael is said 114 times during the course of The Lost Boys? Well Dan Nixon noticed and created a video compiling them all. Watch it now embedded after the jump. via: Waxy VOTD: Every Line Of Dialogue In ‘The Lost Boys’ Is “Michael” By Peter Sciretta/Jan....

Wayne McClammy To Direct Isla Fisher In Desperadoes By Russ Fischer/May 17, 2010 11:49 pm EST Now he’s working out a deal to direct the film Desperadoes, the Ellen Rapoport Black List script called “a female-oriented The Hangover.” THR says that the film is being developed around Isla Fisher, and that it is expected to start at the end of the year. When we covered the script as part of the 2009 Black List, we said that Desperadoes follows:...

Will Chloe Moretz Be In ‘Dark Shadows’? By Russ Fischer/March 31, 2011 12:00 pm EST UPDATE: Deadline and Variety both report that Chloe Moretz is in talks for the Dark Shadows role. She’ll play Carolyn, daughter to Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer). Original article follows. Time for a little speculation. Just a couple days back Thomas McDonell was cast in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows; he’ll play the young version of Johnny Depp’s character Barnabas Collins....

WTF: In Chile, The Jedi Temple Will Teach Your Child Martial Arts By Russ Fischer/March 19, 2011 10:00 am EST Before you say “I want to go to there,” check out more info after the break. The school’s second session just started yesterday, and the school’s director told the BBC, The school has 20 students ranging in age from 6 to 12, and uses replica lightsabers for training in addition to teaching general martial arts, performance and meditation....

WTF: New Study Finds Young Moviegoers Want Theaters To Allow Texting By Germain Lussier/March 21, 2012 4:30 pm EST A recent study by The Hollywood Reporter uncovered a bunch of interesting facts about the modern moviegoer. For example, did you know that 88% of people think Twitter and Facebook now count as a form of entertainment? Or how about the fact that 80% of Facebook users check the site while watching television?...

‘Modern Times Forever,’ The Longest Film Of All Time, Now Playing By Germain Lussier/March 25, 2011 10:30 am EST Most people consider a long movie to be anything over two hours. Something over two and a half hours is a very long movie. Cross the three hour threshold and it’s almost impossible to comprehend and if something clocks in around four hours? It almost certainly hurts it chances at financial success....

‘Skyfall’ Will Be James Bond’s IMAX Premiere By Russ Fischer/Feb. 23, 2012 7:30 am EST Briefly: It’s a regular thing to see action and ’event’ films upscaled for presentation in IMAX theaters, and so we shouldn’t be surprised to learn that Skyfall, the twenty-third James Bond film, will be digitally remastered to show in IMAX when the film hits on Oct. 26 (internationally) and Nov. 9 in the US. Note that director Sam Mendes and cinematographer Roger Deakins did not shoot the film with IMAX cameras, so this won’t quite be a Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol-style spectacle....

‘The Hobbit’ Production Video #3 By Russ Fischer/July 21, 2011 5:00 am EST The bad news is, there is no video presentation of footage from The Hobbit in the offing at Comic Con this week. I’m not sure that anyone really thought that such a thing was likely, but with Steven Spielberg showing up for Tintin, implying that his co-conspirator on that film, Peter Jackson, would be here as well, some thought there was an outside chance that Mr....

‘The Son Of No One’ Trailer: Channing Tatum And Tracy Morgan In A Serious Cop Drama By Russ Fischer/Jan. 21, 2011 1:00 pm EST The Son of No One will close the Sundance Film Festival next week; we had the poster a couple days ago, and now here’s the first very serious trailer. Channing Tatum stars as a cop whose relatively calm life with his wife (Katie Holmes) is threatened by the spectre of an unsolved murder from years in the past....

‘Trishna’ Trailer: Michael Winterbottom Makes A Star Of Freida Pinto By Russ Fischer/Aug. 19, 2011 5:15 pm EST You’ve got to hand it to Michael Winterbottom: he’s a prolific director who isn’t afraid to experiment. The results of his experiments are pretty hit and miss, but he’s got as many hits as misses, and that’s a better track record than many can boast. His latest is Trishna, which is also his third Thomas Hardy adaptation....

AFI’s Top 10 Movies And TV Shows Of 2010 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 13, 2010 2:00 pm EST It’s that time of year again, when all of the critics societies and film organizations name their top 10 movies of the year. The American Film Institute have released their lists of the top 10 films and television shows of 2010. As with most of the lists AFI releases, the films are not numbered in any order, but instead just a compilation of “winners....

Alternate Versions Of ‘Super 8’ Commercial Reveal More Clues By Germain Lussier/Feb. 9, 2011 11:12 am EST It seems the Super 8 Super Bowl commercial that actually played during the game was slightly different from the one that showed up online. Both are identical until the very end when a whole different set of images flash across the lens of the Super 8 camera. We did a post highlighting a bunch of images from the online version and now the awesome site MovieViral....

Animated Characters Will Appear In Johnny Depp’s Doctor Seuss Biopic By Russ Fischer/Oct. 24, 2011 3:00 pm EST Johnny Depp has, improbably, become one of the world’s biggest movie stars. He has a great number of projects in the works, from Dark Shadows and a fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie to Lone Ranger, The Thin Man and, a bit further on the horizon, a possible biopic of Theodor Geisel, aka Dr....

Casting Bits: Alexandra Maria Lara In ‘Rush;’ Cody Horn In ‘Magic Mike;’ Caleb Landry Jones In ‘Byzantium’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 22, 2011 5:30 pm EST Ron Howard’s film Rush, scripted by Peter Morgan, tells the true story of the 1976 rivalry between British Formula One driver James Hunt and Austrian racer Niki Lauda. Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl play the two drivers, and now Alexandra Maria Lara (Downfall, The Reader) has signed on to play what we presume will be the love interest of Niki Lauda, who is nearly killed when he crashes his Ferrari during the German Grand Prix, but is racing again six weeks later....

Comic Book Sequels: Aaron Johnson Says ‘Kick-Ass 2’ Shoots This Fall; Timur Bekmambetov Teases “Shocking” Sequel To ‘Wanted’ By Russ Fischer/June 18, 2012 9:00 am EST Let’s do a little update on Mark Millar movies. First up, while we were doubtful for months about the chances of Kick-Ass 2 actually shooting and bringing the cast of the original film back together, turns out we were too pessimistic. Looks like the film will in fact go before cameras this year, with Jeff Wadlow directing and most of the original cast returning....

Find Out When The Duplass Brothers’ Cyrus Is Coming To Your City By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2010 1:00 pm EST Friday, June 18th Los Angeles New York Friday, June 25th Austin Boston Chicago San Diego San Francisco Toronto Washington D.C. Friday, July 2nd Atlanta Baltimore Dallas/Ft. Worth Denver Detroit Indianapolis Minneapolis Montreal Portland Philadelphia Phoenix Seattle St. Louis Vancouver Friday, July 9th Albany Albuquerque Ann Arbor Boca Raton/W. Palm Beach...