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What If Stan Lee Is Playing The Same Character In All His Marvel Cameos? By Angie Han/Sept. 30, 2014 6:00 am EST One of the staples of a Marvel movie is the Stan Lee cameo. He’s been in all the MCU movies to date, all five Spider-Mans, both Fantastic Fours, two X-Mens, Hulk, and Daredevil. But he never shows up as the same character twice… or so we thought. The Stan Lee theory posits that the Marvel legend has secretly been playing the same character all along –namely Uatu, the Watcher....

‘Alvin And The Chipmunks’ To Invade Your TV In 2015 By Angie Han/Aug. 22, 2013 10:00 am EST Alvin and the Chipmunks have been around since the ’50s, which means several generations’ worth of kids have grown up listening to their pipsqueaky voices. But while the franchise lives on today in the form of a live-action / CG hybrid film series, the little critters haven’t been a regular presence on the small screen since their last series ended in 1990....

‘Cosmopolis’ Clip: What, Exactly, Is Haunting The World? [Updated With Distribution Info] By Russ Fischer/May 3, 2012 12:30 pm EST David Cronenberg makes strange movies. I don’t mean that he makes movies about things that are strange, though he does that, too. What I mean is that his films depict a reality that is very specifically different from our own, no matter how closely his imagined spaces may resemble the real....

‘Crazy, Stupid, Love.’ Helmers To Tell The Crazy Story Of John McAfee By Angie Han/Jan. 11, 2013 5:28 pm EST According to the old saying, truth is stranger than fiction, but that never stops artists from trying to turn truth into fiction. This winter, Wired magazine published a piece titled “John McAfee’s Last Stand,” a riveting account of the McAfee Inc. founder’s crazy fall from a millionaire software engineer to a paranoid suspected murderer hiding out in Belize....

‘Fury’ Trailer: War Is The Best Job Brad Pitt Ever Had By Russ Fischer/June 25, 2014 12:38 am EST Hot on the heels of the great poster for David Ayer’s WWII movie comes the first full Fury trailer. Brad Pitt stars as the leader of a tank squad that has survived much of the war. But the squad finds itself facing down incredible odds in the final days of the war, as it is saddled with a green kid who has never seen the inside of a tank....

‘Grown Ups 2’ International Trailer: School’s Out Forever By Angie Han/May 22, 2013 2:16 pm EST The summer schedule is chock full of sequels we’re dying, or at least very curious to see. This weekend alone has Fast & Furious 6 going up against Before Midnight, for example. Monsters University and The Wolverine are due out in the following months. And so on. Today, however, we have a trailer for what may be the least-anticipated follow-up of the season....

‘I Give It A Year’ Trailer: Rose Byrne Finally Leads Her Own Comedy, For ‘Brüno’ Writer Dan Mazer By Angie Han/Nov. 21, 2012 12:42 pm EST One bit of advice that commonly gets doled out at weddings is the warning / reassurance that the first year of marriage is the toughest, since the couple are still adjusting to being shackled together for all eternity. That certainly seems to be the case in I Give It a Year, directed by Brüno scribe Dan Mazer....

‘Magic Mike 2’: Director And Title Revealed By Angie Han/March 28, 2014 2:30 pm EST According to a new report, the Magic Mike sequel has just acquired a new director in Gregory Jacobs, who served as Steven Soderbergh’s first assistant director on the first Magic Mike. In addition, the project has also picked up a new title: Magic Mike XXL. Because of course. Hit the jump for all the latest details....

‘Safe House’ Writer In Talks To Pen ‘Bad Boys 3’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 10, 2013 5:01 pm EST Briefly: People have wondered for years why all involved haven’t pulled the trigger on Bad Boys 3 — it seems like such an obvious move in a studio culture that is all about sequels. But this one has, in the past, required the willingness of two stars and a director. That complicates the process....

‘Sherlock’ Planned To Continue Into A Fourth Season By Russ Fischer/March 12, 2013 11:30 am EST Yesterday the news came out that the third season of BBC’s Sherlock is about to go into production, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman reprising their lead roles as modern day versions of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. There was some question as to whether the third season might be the show’s last. Scheduling the long shoot is difficult, as each of the three episodes per season is basically structured like a mini-movie, and Cumberbatch and Freeman are increasingly busy with movie careers....

‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Will Shoot From May Through September By Germain Lussier/Feb. 10, 2014 2:43 pm EST Just as writer director J.J. Abrams hinted at a few weeks back, filming of the new episode will begin in Mid-May and continue through September of this year, leaving about one year for post production. They site has also learned “most principal casting on the film is complete, with many announcements still to come....

Disney Will Release Miyazaki’s ‘The Wind Rises’ In The US By Russ Fischer/Aug. 27, 2013 2:30 pm EST Briefly: The flirtation between Japanese animation giant Studio Ghibli and a smaller distributor didn’t last long. For many years, Disney had the US distribution rights to all of Studio Ghibli’s movies. A couple years back that deal ended, however, and in 2011 rights to the Ghibli catalog went to the small company Gkids....

First-Time Directors Sign On For 2016 ‘Angry Birds’ Movie By Germain Lussier/Oct. 9, 2013 3:30 pm EST Two first-time directors have just been hired for Sony’s 2016 animated movie based on the popular mobile game Angry Birds. They are Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly. You may not yet know their names, but you definitely know their work. Kaytis is a long time Disney employee who recently served as the animation supervisor on Tangled, oversaw the end credits of Wreck-It Ralph and also worked on Frozen....

It’s Jai Courtney Vs. Boyd Holbrook For Final ‘Terminator: Genesis’ Lead By Germain Lussier/Feb. 10, 2014 3:30 pm EST Briefly: Most of the lead roles in Terminator: Genesis have been filled. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the lead cyborg, Emilia Clarke is Sarah Connor, Jason Clarke is John Connor and Alan Taylor is directing. That leaves one final piece to the puzzle, John Connor’s dad Kyle Reese, and reportedly it’s down to two actors: Boyd Holbrook, recently seen in Out of the Furnace and The Host, or Jai Courtney, star of Jack Reacher and A Good Day to Die Hard....

John Carpenter Returning To Theaters With L.A. Gothic By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 17, 2008 10:10 pm EST Whenever I meet someone who will go to the mat for John Carpenter, that to me is a qualifier for friendship. In my mind, Carpenter is like Stanley Kubrick with holes in his jeans, or a joint to a $15 cigar, or Pabst Blue Ribbon to Heineken if I can be Frank. From 1976’s Assault on Precinct 13 to 1988’s They Live, he had a ferocious run, tearing up social norms with irreverent style and quasi-populist humor while constantly entertaining audiences with a mad swirl of genres....

Justice League: Who Will Be Cast As Wonder Woman? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 18, 2007 11:47 am EST Australian actress Victoria Hill (December Boys) supposedly did a screen test audition in September. Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Final Destination 3, Live Free or Die Hard) and Teresa Palmer (December Boys) both auditioned for Miller earlier this week during the marathon casting sessions in Hollywood. Age 21 years of age, Palmer is the youngest of the bunch....

Lauren Bacall Has Died At Age 89 By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2014 6:25 pm EST Lauren Bacall, one of the great stars of classic Hollywood, a woman smarter and tougher than most of the actors she was paired with, died today of a massive stroke. She was 89. Bacall began her entertainment career as a model in her late teens, which led to discovery by Howard Hawks. The director was seeking a new talent; ideally, he wanted someone who could stand up to his male stars....

New ‘Pink Panther’ Movie Features An Animated Cat, Not Clouseau By Russ Fischer/March 31, 2014 2:00 pm EST There’s a new Pink Panther movie on the way, but it won’t feature yet another character related to or inspired by Peter Sellers’ bumbling Inspector Clouseau. The original series of caper comedy films opened with animated title sequences featuring a quirky pink panther… and those openings spawned a series of cartoon shorts by Friz Freleng and David De Patie that were funny and sometimes strange and impressionistic....

New ‘Terminator’ TV Series Takes Interesting Approach To Creating Expanded Universe By Russ Fischer/Dec. 6, 2013 11:16 am EST Let’s set aside the line of thought that suggests the Terminator storyline may have been strip-mined of good ideas at this point and examine this new wrinkle in the reboot process, because it is kind of perfect for the series. We know that Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures, with her brother’s Skydance Productions, is working on a new Terminator film reboot, with Alan Taylor possibly directing and Arnold Schwarzenegger set to return in some manner....

New Writer Hired To Get ‘Scarface’ Remake Ready To Cast And Shoot By Russ Fischer/Oct. 17, 2012 12:30 pm EST The popularity of Breaking Bad — a sort of alternate Scarface where a Regular American becomes a totally compromised drug trade figure — is probably all Universal needs as encouragement to make a new take on Scarface. Well, that and the enduring popularity of images related to the 1983 film directed by Brian De Palma starring Al Pacino....