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David Fincher Takes ‘The Goon’ To Kickstarter, Asks “Does Hollywood Know Better Than You?” By Russ Fischer/Oct. 12, 2012 9:56 am EST For the past few years we’ve watched as producer David Fincher, cartoonist Eric Powell, and Blur Animation Studio have worked to make an animated feature film based on Powell’s comic The Goon. The comic is a foul, funny, zombie ass-kickin’ thing that is worth a read, and deserves a place up on the silver screen a hell of a lot more than another damned Ice Age movie....

First Look: Sacha Baron Cohen & Ben Kingsley In ‘Hugo Cabret’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 8, 2010 10:42 am EST Almost exactly one year from today, we’ll all get our chance to see a 3D Martin Scorsese movie. But there won’t be any baseball bat beatings or vice head squishing in this film. Based on the book by Brian Selznick, Hugo Cabret is about a young boy (Asa Butterfield) who secretly lives in a Paris train station and winds up on a magical adventure....

Hayley Atwell Won’t Appear In ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 2, 2013 3:02 pm EST The character Captain America has had a couple of prime love interests, most prominent being Peggy Carter, encountered in his “pre-freeze” days in the ’40s, and Sharon Carter, originally written as Peggy’s sister, but later turned into her niece, when Cap is revived in the present. (Whatever “the present” happens to mean, depending on when the story is being told....

Howie Mandel “Catches” Comedian Stealing Another Comic’s Material During ‘America’s Got Talent’ Taping? By Peter Sciretta/April 26, 2013 9:00 am EST Last night I attended a taping of America’s Got Talent at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood (please don’t judge, I’m a big Howard Stern fan). The talent show reality series holds audition shows in cities around the country, which are edited to death and eventually televised in highlight packages in the weeks before the show goes live from New York City....

Japan Building Real Life Snowpiercer Train By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2014 11:30 am EST Bong Joon-ho’s big screen adaptation of Snowpiercer imagines a massive luxury Cruise train powered by a perpetual-motion engine that travels around the world. The film is a science fiction story that uses this construct to tell a story of haves and have-nots stuck on a train that has saved them from an ice age that has surely killed most, if not all, of humanity on the planet....

Matt Damon And Paul Greengrass Return To ‘Bourne’ And Bump 2016 Renner Spinoff By Germain Lussier/Sept. 15, 2014 4:34 pm EST Shocking news in the world of Bourne: reports say Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass are making deals to return for their third Jason Bourne film together. (This new one would be the fifth overall film in the series.) The film would take the Summer 2016 release date that was already in place for The Bourne Legacy sequel, which was set to be directed by Justin Lin and star Jeremy Renner....

New Posters: ‘The Wolverine’ And ‘Star Trek Into Darkness,’ Plus ‘The Hangover Part III,’ ‘The Bling Ring’ By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2013 1:28 pm EST We’re well past the point of being gobsmacked by every new material revealed for The Wolverine and Star Trek Into Darkness; by now we’ve got a pretty good idea of what each film looks like. Still, for those who want to keep tabs on every new piece of marketing, here are new posters for each film, as well as sheets for The Hangover Part III, the doc Salinger, Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, Neil LaBute’s Some Velvet Morning, and Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring....

Olga Kurylenko Is The New Bond Girl By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 8, 2008 2:19 am EST Another day (or hour even), another foxy chick latched onto James Bond’s arm (for starters). Daniel Craig’s luck would have that European model-cum-actress Olga Kurylenko is now the official Bond girl in the 22nd installment, while the previously widely reported Gemma Arterton will play an M16 agent called Fields. What else needs to be said here besides gaga?...

Page 2: Breaking Bad, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Totoro, Star Trek, Muppets, Carrie, Goonies By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 18, 2013 1:00 pm EST Header Photo: Typographic Celebrity Portraits Made From Their Famous Lines & Lyrics 10 Little-Seen Movies That Launched the Feature-Film Careers of Ten of Today’s Best ActorsEverything You Know About ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Is Wrong Today’s t-shirt of RIPT Apparel is a Star Wars/Despicable Me-inspired design “Despicable Jawas”...

Page 2: GoT, Star Wars, Gremlins 2, Harry Potter, Transformers, OITNB, Frozen, Aliens, By Peter Sciretta/June 13, 2014 11:30 am EST Header Photo: Iron Throne Shoes A call for an end to serious blockbusters Disney Characters You Didn’t Know Had Famous Voices New Acme Star Wars Prints Pixar Didn’t Just Change the World of Film — It Transformed Business These Leggings Will Make You Feel Like You’ve Enrolled At Hogwarts...

Pixar Art Director Ricky Nierva TED Talk: The Creative Process Behind Pixar’s ‘Up’ By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2014 12:00 pm EST Pixar Art Director/Production Designer Ricky Nierva recently gave a TED Talk at TED x Athens in Athens, Greece. Titled “Don’t Be Afraid Of The Blank Sheets”, Nierva’s talk is about writers block and the artist’s struggle with the creative process and a behind the scenes peek into the design behind the magic created at Pixar....

POTD: Ferris Bueller LEGO Diorama Recreates The “You Killed The Car” Scene By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 12, 2014 9:00 am EST Sweden lego master-builder Etzel decided to recreate the famous “You killed the car” scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in an incredible LEGO diorama. Etzel won a contest with this contribution on Swebrick’s annual AFOL vs. AFOL contest, a Swedish lego forum where other members recreated scenes from 1980’s movies or television series....

Preview The ‘Django Unchained’ Hardcover Comic Collection By Russ Fischer/Nov. 1, 2013 6:00 am EST Quentin Tarantino’s original screenplay for Django Unchained was adapted into comic book form over the past year, presenting realizations of scenes that didn’t end up in the final film. The screenplay was adapted by producer Reginald Hudlin and drawn by R.M. Guera (SCALPED), Jason Latour, Denys Cowan and Danijel Zezelj. For those who like to wait to pick up one volume rather than several, the hardcover collection is hitting next week....

Rumor: Ewan McGregor Will Return In ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 16, 2013 8:00 am EST The gang at Latino Review are at it again. Earlier this week, they started a very interesting conversation with their belief a major Sith Lord would return in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars Episode VII. Now they’re reporting that a very famous Jedi will return as well. Latino Review is reporting Ewan McGregor will return as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars Episode VII....

Superhero Bits: Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Captain America: The Winter Soldier By Germain Lussier/March 18, 2014 3:25 pm EST Want to see dozens of new photos from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier? What would Superman’s GoPro footage look like? Can you see teases of the new Spider-Man and X-Men: Days of Future Past trailers? How does Kevin Feige describe James Spader’s performance in Avengers: Age of Ultron?...

Sylvester Stallone Wants Sigourney Weaver For ‘The Expendabelles’ By Angie Han/Aug. 5, 2014 6:00 am EST Long before there was talk of a lady-centric Ghostbusters reboot or Spider-Man spinoff, Sylvester Stallone was plotting his distaff take on The Expendables. And while no cast members have officially been announced for The Expendabelles as of yet, Stallone does have his eye on one particularly famous female badass. At the premiere of The Expendables 3, Stallone revealed his hopes of getting Sigourney Weaver on board for The Expendabelles — possibly as his wife....

Volkswagen Brings ‘Star Wars’ To The Super Bowl Once Again By Germain Lussier/Feb. 1, 2012 2:45 pm EST Movie fans probably don’t remember much about last year’s Super Bowl (the Packers beat the Steelers 31-25) but they’d be hard-pressed to forget last year’s Volkswagen commercial. It featured a young boy dressed as Darth Vader, using the Force to command a Volkswagen Passat. For about 15 minutes, the kid was a national celebrity and the 49 million YouTube views and counting solidify the Star Wars-themed spot as the most talked about of 2011....

VOTD: ‘The Most Insane Amusement Park Ever,’ Documentary On Action Park In Vernon, NJ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 29, 2013 3:30 pm EST Growing up in the Tri-State area during the ’80s and ’90s, you had two real options if you wanted to head to a big theme park. Drive a few hours to Six Flags, or go a few minutes to the border of New Jersey and New York. There is located the small town of Vernon, NJ, which housed the insane and mythical Action Park....

‘12 Monkeys’ TV Series Gets Pilot Order From SyFy By Russ Fischer/Aug. 26, 2013 12:30 pm EST Briefly: Terry Gilliam’s film 12 Monkeys is going to be remade as a TV series. We’ve heard that SyFy was getting interested in a show based on the 1995 film, which originally starred Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, and Madeline Stowe. Now a pilot order has been given based on the spec script by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett (Terra Nova)....

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 4, 2013 5:11 pm EST The line between prequel/sequel and fan fiction blurs further. There have been several Psycho movies following Alfred Hitchcock’s standard-setting 1960 original, and we’ve wondered just how the prequel TV series Bates Motel would exist in relation to them. Is this a prequel, a reboot, or something else? The movies don’t have the clearest story path with respect to what is “official” or canon story, and with the series charting the purchase of a motel by Norma Bates with her son Norman in tow, we’ve wondered just what to expect....