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Cool Stuff: Zombie Care Bear T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2010 7:00 am EST I love Japanese versions of movie posters. The Japanese type automatically makes any poster or artwork at least twice as cool. I feel the same way about Zombies. The zombie version of anything is almost instantly cool. Care Bear? Lame. Zombiefied Care Bear? Cool. Today’s t-shirt design on TeeFury is “Zombie Care Bear” from Yayzus. As with all of teefury’s t-shirts, the design will only be available today, and today only....

Disney Sets 2012 Release Dates For ‘John Carter Of Mars’ And ‘Frankenweenie’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 9, 2010 2:55 pm EST Briefly: It’s release date time. Disney has announced release dates for John Carter of Mars and the stop-motion animated update / expansion of Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie.Andrew Stanton’s John Carter of Mars, the Pixar director’s first foray into live action features, and an adaptation of the pulp adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, will release on June 8 2012....

By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2010 8:31 am EST According to the report, most of the original cast from the Sundance cult classic has signed on to reprise their roles from the film, including: Jon Heder as the title character Napoleon Dynamite, Efran Ramirez as Pedro, Aaron Ruell as Kip Dynamite and Jon Gries as Uncle Rico. Director Jared Hess and his co-screenwriter wife Jerusha are said to be closely involved with the project....

By Germain Lussier/March 29, 2011 12:00 pm EST The first trailer for Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds, hit theaters in November and was mostly panned by fans and non-fans alike. Since then, we’ve seen an extensive amount of footage and promotional materials from competing summer superhero movies like Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger and X-Men: First Class but Green Lantern, scheduled for release June 17, has been a non-entity....

International ‘Black Swan’ Posters By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2010 9:02 am EST Putting movie poster design in the US to shame, there are four new international teaser posters for Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and they are, in a word, spectacular. Check ’em all out after the break. Empire got these images (see them larger there) which count as teasers because the film doesn’t open in the UK until February. Here’s the synopsis again, and be sure to take a look at the trailer if you haven’t yet....

LOL: Batman Hates Wikileaks By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 6, 2010 5:00 am EST From Randy Bish, political cartoonist for Pittsburgh, PA’s the Tribune-Review. LOL: Batman Hates Wikileaks By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 6, 2010 5:00 am EST From Randy Bish, political cartoonist for Pittsburgh, PA’s the Tribune-Review.

By Angie Han/Jan. 5, 2012 7:30 am EST Black Swan star Natalie Portman was hotter than hot coming out of last year’s Oscar season, a freshly minted Best Actress winner with one just-released film (No Strings Attached) and two more (Your Highness and Thor) lined up for the next few months. Since then, however, she’s been laying low, with no new projects on her upcoming slate. No, it wasn’t the supposed Oscar curse at work — Portman’s hiatus came courtesy of her son Aleph, who was born in June....

New ‘Thor’ Poster And Banner By Russ Fischer/March 4, 2011 11:19 am EST God of thunder, or god of blood? Marvel and Paramount have dropped a new banner and poster for Thor today, and they’re both very…red. The look works quite well, actually — it says that the movie is a hell of a lot more severe than some of the other ad materials have suggested. Whether that is really the case remains to be seen, and the footage we’ve seen so far still suggests a very pop-fantasy comic book vibe....

Rutger Hauer Cast As Van Helsing In Dario Argento’s ‘Dracula 3D’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 21, 2011 3:30 pm EST What a great turn of events if Hobo With a Shotgun proved to be a career resuscitation for Rutger Hauer. Though he has worked steadily for the last few years, his last really high-profile roles were in 2005, in Sin City and Batman Begins. But Hobo With a Shotgun gave him some new life at festivals, and he had a notable role in The Rite....

Sequel Bits: Keanu Reeves Says ‘Bill And Ted 3’ Draft Done Soon; Roberto Orci Talks ‘Star Trek 2’ Development By Russ Fischer/April 4, 2011 8:03 pm EST As unlikely sequels go, Bill and Ted 3 always seemed pretty damn unlikely. But last year both Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have talked about the script, and now a draft is almost done. Keanu Reeves recently told MTV that writers are about six weeks from a draft, and that “When we last got together, part of it was that Bill and Ted were supposed to have written the song that saved the world, and it hasn’t happened… So they’ve now become kind of possessed by trying to do that....

Tom Cruise Close To Signing For Time-Loop Sci-Fi War ‘All You Need Is Kill’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 1, 2011 10:30 am EST Looks like Tom Cruise is really going to star in Doug Liman’s All You Need Is Kill, the film that has been given the shorthand description ‘Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day’ thanks to a plot that follows a soldier in a future war who is killed, but relives his final day like a gamer replaying a video game level over and over until he is able to think and fight his way out of the loop....

Video: Michael Bay To Follow ‘Dark Of The Moon’ With $20 Million Black Comedy ‘Pain & Gain’ By Angie Han/June 30, 2011 7:00 am EST If there’s one thing Michael Bay is known for, its his love of blowing things up in the loudest, shiniest, most spectacular ways imaginable. So it may come as a bit of a surprise that Bay’s planned follow-up to his huge Transformers franchise will be a small, Pulp Fiction-esque picture titled Pain & Gain, with an estimated budget of just $20 million....

VOTD: The Movie Alphabet By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2011 6:00 am EST YouTube user TheToaster2006 has created a supercut of film characters reciting the alphabet, one movie for each letter of the alphabet. Hit the jump to watch the video now. Key: A – Jingle All the Way B – Tommy Boy C – Fargo D – Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory E – Heavenly Creatures F – Amadeus G – The Truman Show H – Sexy Beast I – Casino J – Knocked Up K – The Godfather III L – Kill Bill Volume 2 M – A Clockwork Orange N – Rain Man O – The Big Lebowski P – The Rundown Q – Goldeneye R – Crazy on the Outside S – Falling Down T – The Sound of Music U – Fight Club V – V for Vendetta W – There Will be Blood X – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Y – Reservoir Dogs Z – The Matrix Reloaded / Pulp Fiction...

Warner Bros. Reportedly Developing Film Based On Comic Series ‘Starman’ By Russ Fischer/April 29, 2010 7:37 pm EST UPDATE: Well, I’m told that ‘reportedly’ should be downgraded to ’not.’ In other words, a good source says this isn’t happening. Sorry to dash your hopes. Mine are kinda dashed, too. Original article follows. This is a comic book adaptation I can really get behind. As DC Comics starts to get more films in development at Warner Bros....

Watch A Clip From One Of My Favorite Movies Of Sundance 2011 – Zal Batmanglij’s ‘Sound Of My Voice’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2011 9:00 am EST The movie will be playing at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March, and the producers have released what’s being called a trailer, but what in actuality is a one and a half minute clip from the very beginning of the film (so there are no spoilers in as much as you’re watching the first minute or so of the movie)....

Watch A Three-Minute Clip From ‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ By Angie Han/July 19, 2011 10:30 am EST [via Yahoo!] I have to say the WETA effects for Caesar look pretty good, particularly when it comes to subtle facial expressions. We get a very good sense of Caesar’s personality here: he’s compassionate and protective, but also rash and violent. And of course, there’s a nod to the original Planet of the Apes, in the form of that Statute of Liberty toy Caesar’s playing with....

Watch The ‘Drive’ Comic Con Panel Featuring Guillermo Del Toro And Nicolas Winding Refn By Russ Fischer/Sept. 19, 2011 5:00 pm EST Now that Nicolas Winding Refn’s excellent film Drive has been released and you’ve all finally had a chance to see it, there’s no better time to go back to Comic Con, where Drive distributor FilmDistrict presented one of the best Hall H panels to ever hit San Diego. Rather than doing a stock footage presentation and quick talent lineup, FilmDistrict filled the Hall H stage with those responsible for the company’s two genre films, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark and Drive....

Wolfgang Petersen Attached To Direct Rock’em Sock’em Robots? By Russ Fischer/June 24, 2010 11:27 am EST Lest you thought that Inception was going to change things overnight, or that studio execs really are going to start buying original ideas in droves, here comes news of a Rock’Em Sock’Em Robots movie to prove that this remains the summer of our cinematic discontent. Pajiba reports that Mattel and Mendeville Films are working with director Wolfgang Petersen to develop a film based on Rock’Em Sock’Em Robots, the ’60s robot boxing toy that already seems like the inspiration for the movie Real Steel....

WonderCon 2012 Video Blog: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Prometheus, Snow White And The Huntsman, Battleship And Looper By Peter Sciretta/March 18, 2012 11:44 am EST WonderCon 2012 took over the Anaheim Convention Center this year, so more Hollywood studios were in attendance than in previous San Francisco-based editions. While there wasn’t a lot of newsworthy bits to come out of the panels this year, we did get to see a lot of footage from upcoming films: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Prometheus, Snow White and the Huntsman, Battleship and Rian Johnson’s Looper....

Zack Snyder’s ‘Superman’ Won’t Be Tied To Any Previous Movie By Russ Fischer/March 16, 2011 7:28 pm EST When Bryan Singer made Superman Returns, he was very specific in making a film that felt in many ways like a sequel to the original 1978 Superman by Richard Donner. The titles, the music, the costume — all were chosen to reflect the ‘78 film. That became one of many discussion points for the movie....