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First Look: Christoph Waltz On The Set Of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ By Russ Fischer/April 2, 2012 2:00 pm EST I’m surprised it has taken this long for images of Quentin Tarantino’s in-progress Django Unchained to make their way online. The film has been shooting for weeks, and security has done a great job of keeping it low-key. So this is our first look at any character in the film. In this case, we see Christoph Waltz in costume as Dr....

Geek Deal: The Bourne Trilogy On Blu-Ray For Only $27.99 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2012 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Inception Prologue Comic Book Online By Peter Sciretta/July 13, 2010 2:00 pm EST Warner Bros has released a 19-page Inception prologue comic book on Yahoo! Movies. Written by Jordan Goldberg, and featuring art by Long Vo, Joe Ng, and Crystal Reid, Inception: The Cobol Job tells the story of the job that Cobb (the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the film) and his team take on, which leads to the opening of the feature film....

Is H.R. Giger Reteaming With Ridley Scott For ‘Alien’ Prequel? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 20, 2010 10:30 am EST Previously, of course, Giger conceptualized and built designs for Ridley Scott’s original Alien — those designs scared the hell out of people and earned the artist an Oscar and legions of fans. His highly sexualized, ‘biomechanical’ visualizations were one of the primary factors that made Alien stand out from other films of the time, and his core xenomorph design became one of the most recognizable movie monsters....

Jack Black, Matt Dillon, And Renee Zellweger Attached To ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner’s ‘You Are Here’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 25, 2010 10:25 am EST We’re mere days removed from the season four finale of Mad Men and show creator Matthew Weiner is already getting busy – but not with Don Draper. Word is that his directorial debut film, You Are Here (not to be confused with I’m Still Here or I’m Not There), is once again ramping up production with Jack Black, Matt Dillon and Renee Zellweger all attached to star....

John Hillcoat And Shia LaBeouf Reportedly Circling Crime Drama ‘Triple Nine’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2010 10:27 pm EST OK, don’t get too worried yet: this is just talk of interest in a film, not even ‘attachment’ or anything else. But John Hillcoat and Shia LaBeouf were talking about working together earlier this year when The Promised Land, based on the novel The Wettest County in the World seemed like a going concern, before it went to pieces....

Jonah Hill And James Franco Cast In Credulity-Testing Journalist Memoir ‘True Story’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 27, 2012 10:30 am EST The strangest stories are often true. The film adaptation of Moneyball, for instance, is a slightly strange story, as it traces multiple attempts to make the film, culminating in the Bennett Miller picture starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill. The film could be called Hill’s real coming-out as a dramatic actor, and he did a fine job....

Justin Lin Leaves ‘Terminator 5’, But May Be Back By Angie Han/Sept. 21, 2011 7:00 am EST After a couple years of slow-moving development, progress on Terminator 5 suddenly picked up earlier this year. Arnold Schwarzenegger and director Justin Lin both came aboard, indie financier Megan Ellison grabbed the rights and Lin began talking up what he’d like to see in the next installment of the franchise. In fact, the problem now may be that things are moving a little too fast....

Lionsgate Slots Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Snitch’ For February 2013, Pushes ‘I, Frankenstein’ To September By Angie Han/Sept. 18, 2012 3:00 pm EST Though we got our first peek at Aaron Eckhart in monster mode back in April, it now seems we’ll have to wait a whole other year to see the movie surrounding him. Lionsgate has just shifted the comic book adaptation I, Frankenstein from February to September, putting the Dwayne Johnson actioner Snitch in early 2013 instead....

Logan Lerman Cast As ‘The Only Living Boy In New York’ By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2011 11:00 am EST Briefly: You’re probably going to be hearing a lot more about Logan Lerman in the next couple years. He was reportedly in the running for Spider-Man after starring in Percy Jackson & the Olympian: The Lightning Thief. He’s D’Artangan in The Three Musketeers (trailer here), and he’ll be the lead in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, opposite Emma Watson....

LOL: ‘Atlas Shrugged’ DVDs Recalled Because Of Objectivist-Opposing Marketing Blurb By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2011 3:00 pm EST This is simply beautiful. The first part of the movie adaptation of Ayn Rand’s ’love it or hate it’ novel Atlas Shrugged hit a few theaters early this year, and is now on DVD, the better to be the backbone of home drinking games. (Do a shot every time someone mentions metal or trains....

Michael Haneke Preparing To Shoot ‘These Two’ With Isabelle Huppert And Jean-Louis Trintignant By Russ Fischer/Nov. 10, 2010 9:06 am EST Michael Haneke is finally settling on his follow-up to the Palme d’Or winning The White Ribbon. Oddly, the film he’ll make is one he’d planned to make, then discarded in favor of another. The Austrian director had been planning to make Ces Deux, aka These Two, but scuttled the idea in February, deciding instead to make a film about the internet....

Movie Trailer: ‘Linotype: The Film’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 9, 2010 12:00 pm EST Just as the Internet changed how we distributed the written word a few decades ago, the linotype machine did the same thing in the late 1880s. However, this massive and complicated machine that could set type in a much more organized manner than ever before, was quickly overshadowed by newer technologies and now, over 100 years since its invention, is in danger of becoming extinct....

Paramount Wants To Release ‘Justin Bieber Never Say Never’ Director’s Cut ASAP By Germain Lussier/Feb. 15, 2011 1:00 pm EST When the positive reviews of Justin Bieber Never Say Never began to pour in last week, it probably caught most of us by surprise. And when the movie almost took the box office crown from an Adam Sandler romantic comedy, on Valentine’s weekend no less, the 3D documentary pretty much cemented itself as a must-see for anyone who fancies themselves a pop culture guru....

Patrick Lussier And Todd Farmer Now Set To Direct ‘Hellraiser’ Remake By Russ Fischer/Oct. 20, 2010 5:00 pm EST The story of the Hellraiser remake that has long been in development at Dimension just keeps taking new turns. Quite a few possible directors have been attached to the project in the past few years, and just this week there was a rumor that Christian E. Christiansen, recently in talks to direct, then supposedly off the project, was not only back on but ready to make a PG-13 version of the story....

Ron Howard Heads To Showtime With Aztec Story Of ‘Conquest’ By Russ Fischer/July 31, 2012 1:30 pm EST Once upon a time there was a real break between TV and movies, but that is long since eroded. Writers, directors, and actors regularly bounce between features and TV, and few are quite as known for the practice as Ron Howard. After his early days as a TV actor, Howard reinvented himself as a director, and eventually an Oscar-winning one....

Sam Raimi Begins Shooting ‘Oz The Great And Powerful,’ Full Synopsis Released By Russ Fischer/July 26, 2011 10:20 am EST With the press release announcing the commencement of shooting on Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful, I’d hoped we might have some small casting additions. Maybe a role for Ted Raimi? Nothing new on that front, however. So we’ll make do with the knowledge that James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams lead the cast....

By Russ Fischer/April 14, 2011 8:30 am EST Briefly: Simon Crane, long-time stunt coordinator, was once set to direct the troubled film Kane & Lynch. After cycling through a few directorial attachments, that production seems to have settled on F. Gary Gray as helmer. But Simon Crane has other films lined up now — he’s been working on one called Echelon, a Euro action thriller with Jason Statham. And now he is attached to High Wire, written by The Conspirator screenwriter James Solomon....

Super-Secret Sci-Fi Projects: J.J. Abrams Producing Thriller For Paramount, Warner Bros. Developing David Koepp’s ‘The Wind’ By Angie Han/May 25, 2012 1:30 pm EST If the current wave of prequels, sequels, threequels, remakes, reboots, and retellings is wearing you down, the good news is that Paramount and Warner Bros. have just put a couple of original sci-fi projects on our horizon. Paramount is teaming up with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot for an untitled thriller from “rising scribes” Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken, while Warner Bros....

Tilda Swinton And Jamie Bell In Talks For Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Snow Piercer’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 18, 2012 2:30 pm EST I was excited when Chris Evans was announced as the likely lead for Snow Piercer, the film that Mother and The Host director Bong Joon-ho has been developing for years and finally looks to be ready to shoot in the next few months. Evans is one of the better crop of actors in the tentpole business right now; his turn in Sunshine a few years back convinced me that he’s got a lot more to offer than just superhero-type characters....