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Crank 2: High Voltage Pics. Man In Suit!!! Etc. By Hunter Stephenson/July 21, 2008 3:48 pm EST What must it feel like to see a man in your suit parade around an electrical field? Jason Statham, sit back and put on some shades. Today, the LA Times unleashed a crop of behind-the-scenes photos for Crank 2: High Voltage. Apparently directors and /Film buds, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, have thought up a zany Godzilla-esque dream sequence for their much anticipated, free-basing sequel due April ‘09....

David O. Russell’s Untitled Abscam Pic Gets Alessandro Nivola And A Holiday 2013 Release Date By Angie Han/March 12, 2013 1:48 pm EST Silver Linings Playbook is still in theaters in some markets, but David O. Russell’s already moving full speed ahead on his next project. For the past few months, we’ve watched as he’s picked up one A-list actor after another for his untitled Abscam pic. Now, with its spring start date just around the corner, a couple more pieces are falling into place....

Five Big Continuity Issues In ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ By David Chen/May 22, 2014 12:30 pm EST One of the appeals of a film like this is that it can pay off at least some of the character development and plot work from the films that have come before. But when I tried to connect the dots between past X-Men films and this one, a few of the plot details really left me scratching my head....

Geek Deals: Save 60% Off HBO Blu-Ray Season Box Sets By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2012 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Act fast while the prices last!

Jason Reitman Turns Down Justice League By Peter Sciretta/April 10, 2008 8:03 pm EST Juno director Jason Reitman was also on the Howard Stern Show today and revealed that he turned down an offer to direct Justice League of America for Warner Bros. Howard’s first question was “How’s the script?” “Good, FINE… You know, I mean. I had to sign something, they send me the script and it comes on this spy paper which cant be xeroxed,” revealed Jason Reitman....

Johnny Depp To Finish Heath Ledger’s Role In Doctor Parnassus? By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 25, 2008 1:17 pm EST Director Terry Gilliam is said to have his sights on Johnny Depp to finish a presumable portion of what remains of Heath Ledger’s role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The news comes from Rupert Murdoch’s scandal-obsessed UK paper The Sun, complete with a quote from an unnamed studio source… “There is a point in the film when Heath falls through a magic mirror,” says the anonymous source....

Knocked Up Movie Posters By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2007 7:09 am EST Three posters for Judd Apatow’s follow-up to 40 Year Old Virgin have been released. Knocked Up follows a young guy who find out that he impregnated his one night stand. The film stars Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Leslie Mann, and Paul Rudd. According to imdb: Steve Carell, Owen Wilson, and Ryan Seacrest also appear in the film as themselves....

Listen: Clint Mansell’s ‘Noah’ Score And Mica Levi’s ‘Under The Skin’ Score By Russ Fischer/March 26, 2014 1:30 pm EST We’ve got two great scores for you to check out in full this week. One is a score you’ve probably been excited to hear: Clint Mansell’s Noah score, marking one more collaboration between the composer and director Darren Aronofsky. The other is Mica Levi’s great and at times unearthly score for Under the Skin, the Jonathan Glazer film starring Scarlett Johansson....

Martin Freeman Will Star In ‘Fargo’ TV Series By Germain Lussier/Sept. 26, 2013 4:22 pm EST The Office, The Hobbit, and Sherlock: Martin Freeman seems to be everywhere these past few years. Adding to his already impressive, and growing, resume the actor, who was also recently seen in The World’s End, has just signed on to play the William H. Macy role in the FX mini-series based on the Coen Brothers’ movie Fargo....

Mel Gibson And Antonio Banders Confirmed For ‘The Expendables 3’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2013 8:00 am EST Sylvester Stallone has been dropping bombs on Twitter in the past couple days, beginning with the announcement that Bruce Willis would not appear in The Expendables 3, but that Harrison Ford had been added to the cast. Sly has now confirmed the participation of Mel Gibson (he’s the bad guy) and Antonio Banderas for the third Expendables movie....

Paul Thomas Anderson Casts Katherine Waterston As ‘Inherent Vice’ Female Lead By Russ Fischer/May 31, 2013 9:04 am EST Briefly: More casting news is in for Paul Thomas Anderson’s adatpation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel Inherent Vice. This time, we’ve even got a confirmed role to go along with the actor; most of the actors cast so far have been in roles that are speculative, at best. Anderson has picked Katherine Waterston (daughter of Sam Waterston) to play Shasta Fay Hepworth, once the girlfriend of lead character “Doc” Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) and now the mistress of real estate mogul Mickey Wolfmann....

Photo Roundup: New Looks At The A-Team, Green Hornet, Clash Of The Titans, Red Dawn And Date Night By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2009 11:53 am EST [No photo] We’ve got a batch of new photos, mostly snapped surreptitiously from set. First up is the debut look at the new cast of The A-Team as they shoot in Vancouver. And after the break, you can get a look at better shots of The Green Hornet, a new magazine cover for Sam Worthington in Clash of the Titans, a bunch of Red Dawn’s propaganda posters and the shot of Steve Carell and Tina Fey in Date Night I know you’ve all been waiting for....

Rumor: Josh Gad Up For The Thing In Josh Trank’s ‘Fantastic Four’ [Updated] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 27, 2014 6:06 pm EST Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four reboot has got to be the most mysterious of all the big 2015 releases. Even with a film as secret as Star Wars Episode VII we hear rumblings. Trank’s film, however, which is likely a major part of Fox’s Marvel plans, has a release date and little announced beyond that....

Shailene Woodley Lands Lead In Dystopian YA Adaptation ‘Divergent’ By Angie Han/Oct. 19, 2012 6:00 am EST Landing a key part in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 would be enough to make most up-and-coming actress’ months, but for Shailene Woodley the good news just keeps on coming. The Descendants actress has entered talks for the coveted lead role in Divergent, the Neil Burger-directed adaptation of Veronica Roth’s popular YA trilogy. The books have been touted as the next Hunger Games, which means Woodley could be leading her very own blockbuster franchise if all goes well....

Stream Shane Carruth’s Full Score For ‘Upstream Color’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 20, 2013 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Shane Carruth’s film Upstream Color is my favorite film of the year so far. The strange but tender love story is colored with surprising and unsettling sci-fi concepts, all told in a manner that perfectly straddles the line between direct and oblique. A big part of the film’s success is the score, composed by Carruth....

Superhero Bits: Secret Service, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Thor: The Dark World, Dark Knight, Deadpool By Germain Lussier/Sept. 3, 2013 3:30 pm EST Which pop culture icons are rumored to be in The Secret Service? Want to see a cool behind the scenes image from The Dark Knight? What happened in the 2002 Batman vs. Superman script? How far along is filming on Guardians of the Galaxy? Has Mark Wahlberg directed an Iron Man movie?...

VIDEO: Hugh Jackman And Anne Hathaway Sing On Set Of ‘Les Miserables’ By Germain Lussier/April 20, 2012 2:30 pm EST Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper’s big budget, musical adaptation of Les Miserables made my top ten anticipated films of 2012 because behind all the geek stereotypes, a good musical really gets to me and Les Miserables is one of my favorites. So when I say these newly leaked set videos featuring stars Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway singing are among some of the best I’ve ever seen, it comes from a place of passion....

By Germain Lussier/Aug. 11, 2014 12:00 pm EST Just when you thought the saga between Vin Diesel and Marvel was over, he pulls us back in. Who can forget last summer when Diesel told the world he’d been called into Marvel Studios for a meeting? He then teased various different announcements culminating in the revelation he was voicing the tree character Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy. All questions seemed to be answered....

‘Black Gold’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2011 4:30 pm EST We don’t know a whole lot about Black Gold, the new film from Jean-Jacques Annaud (Seven Years in Tibet, Two Brothers). It stars Antonio Banderas, Mark Strong, Freida Pinto, and Tahar Rahim, the lead of A Prophet. The film was shot on location in the Sahara, with a script based on the book South of the Heart: A Novel of Modern Arabia, by Hans Ruesch, which has also been released under the simple paperback title Arab....

‘Frank’ Trailer: A Giant Fake Head, Michael Fassbender, And Music As Art By Russ Fischer/March 6, 2014 12:00 pm EST Frank is a really great and strange movie, and you should watch the trailer right now. Actually, let me rephrase: Frank is a great movie about a strange guy, but the movie itself isn’t all that weird. Sure, it features Michael Fassbender as the title character, a poet/musician who wears a giant fake head....