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Rumor: ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Director Bob Peterson Is Off The Film By Russ Fischer/Aug. 26, 2013 2:30 pm EST Pixar has a generally fantastic track record, and the studio’s approach to crafting films relies heavily upon continual editing and revision. Story and dialogue are examined in minute detail, and scenes are subjected to constant review to ensure everything has a place. That process of editing and examination can extend even to the personnel involved in the making of a film....

Rumor: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Power Play? By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2008 4:45 pm EST Rumor has it that Paul Thomas Anderson’s follow-up to There Will Be Blood might be an adaption of Peter Bart’s novella Power Play, which Paramount acquired in 1998 for producer Robert Evans to develop. Anderson’s official fan site cigarettes and redvines has now even picked up the rumor, which I heard from a source last week. Let me be completely clear: I have not gotten any official or even unofficial word that this is actually Anderson’s next project (ie for now take it for what it is – a rumor), but it does seem to have a history of truth....

Sacha Baron Cohen Developing ‘The Lesbian,’ Based On True Story By Germain Lussier/Oct. 4, 2012 3:06 pm EST For his next act, Sacha Baron Cohen is likely to play a super rich homophobe. The comedic star of Borat, Bruno and The Dictator has just signed a deal with Paramount to develop The Lesbian, a comedic spin on the true story of Cecil Chao, a Hong Kong billionaire who publicly offered $65 million to any man who could woo and marry his gay daughter....

See Pre-Vis And Polished Animation For Unfinished ‘Gatchaman’ Film By Russ Fischer/Oct. 4, 2013 10:15 am EST Years ago the animation studio Imagi, which created the last TMNT film, was working on a couple different project based on classic Japanese sci-fi and television. One was Gatchaman, which would have been a CG-animated update of the Japanese anime show about five “science ninjas” who wear bird-themed costumes and end up fighting to protect humanity from a terrorist organization led by “a shape-shifting mutant hermaphrodite who acts on the orders of an alien superior....

Set Photos: ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street,’ ‘Thor: The Dark World,’ And ‘Carrie’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 27, 2012 7:30 am EST NO PHOTOS As summer draws to a close we’re in a slow couple of news weeks. Things will pick up soon as the fall festival circuit begins in earnest, and with it the casting and sales deals that put in motion the films we’ll (hopefully) be seeing a year or so from now....

Study Suggests Online Piracy Helps Smaller Films; MPAA Begs To Differ By Angie Han/Aug. 29, 2013 7:00 am EST It’s generally accepted as fact that online piracy is bad for the movie business. Each illegal download means, theoretically, one fewer ticket or DVD sold, which means the cast, crew, and everyone else involved is being cheated out of fair pay for their hard work. Except, according to one recent study, that conventional logic may actually only apply to blockbusters....

Superhero Bits: The Flash, Constantine, Batman V Superman, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Sin City By Germain Lussier/June 25, 2014 9:00 am EST Could Batman appear in the CW DC Comics Universe? Can you still get the Batman 1966 Utility Belt Comic-Con exclusive? Will there be more football scenes filmed for Batman v Superman? What did Kevin Smith have to say about Aquaman joining the film? Do superhero movies have the staying power of the western?...

The ‘Gremlins’ Poster Easter Egg You Probably Never Noticed By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2014 12:00 pm EST The poster for Joe Dante’s Gremlins is classic. I use to even have a gigantic french version of the one-sheet on my wall in my old /Film office. Despite that, I never noticed this fun little easter egg on the poster painted by legendary poster artist John Alvin. /Film reader Paul Bullock alerted me to this hidden tribute to producer Steven Spielberg....

Trailer For Steven Spielberg’s Alien Invasion TV Show ‘Falling Skies,’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 27, 2010 1:00 pm EST If you caught True Grit or other films in theaters this past week you might have seen the first trailer for Falling Skies, the Steven Spielberg-produced alien invasion show that will air on TNT in June 2011. Now the trailer is online, so you can see a grizzled Noah Wylie fend off aliens that occupy Earth, after the break....

TV Bits: The Tonight Show, Hatfields And McCoys, Homeland, Dexter, Zorro, Smash, Justified, Glee, House Of Lies By Germain Lussier/Dec. 18, 2012 3:15 pm EST Just to get this out of the way, both TV Line and Entertainment Weekly have some quotes from the cast and crew of Homeland teasing what could happen in season 3. As I have yet to see season 2 (Free Showtime preview in January FTW!!) I’m just going to point you in that direction....

Two Best ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1’ Featurettes Yet By Germain Lussier/Nov. 2, 2010 1:00 pm EST We’re just over two weeks away from the first half of the final Harry Potter movie ever and anticipation is reaching fever pitch. I know Peter has been rewatching all the previous films in anticipation of this momentous event and that theaters all over are already selling out. Now, just in time to feed your Potter appetite, we’ve got two of the best looks yet at Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1....

By Hunter Stephenson/May 17, 2008 11:50 am EST Hope everyone is having a pleasant Saturday afternoon. Writing this latest Uwe Boll item poolside recalls the floater scene in Caddyshack, so let’s make it short and easy. Next weekend, Boll’s Postal, based on the “shocking” videogame, was set to open against Spielberg’s Indiana Jones, but its domestic theatrical roll-out has been greatly reduced from 1,500 screens to five (or less, depending on where you look)....

Video: Epcot’s Spaceship Earth Transformed Into Giant Mike Wazowski By Germain Lussier/April 26, 2013 7:00 am EST Walt Disney World is getting ready to launch a “Monstrous Summer” event to help promote the release of Pixar’s Monsters University and one intrepid fan caught an awesome tease of what’s to come. Inside the Magic posted a video of Epcot’s trademark ride, Spaceship Earth, transformed into Mike Wazowski via projection. Check it out below....

Watch The ‘Legend Of Zelda’ Movie Pitch Reel Nintendo Turned Down By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2013 8:11 am EST Nintendo has some of the most well-known video game characters in the world, and you’d think that the company would be happy to turn them into feature movie stars. But the company’s first major foray into the film world turned into quite an embarrassment. Super Mario Brothers really hurt the chances for other Nintendo characters to make the leap to the big screen....

‘Apollo 18’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 18, 2011 4:58 pm EST Dimension Films have released the movie trailer for Gonzalo López-Gallego’s sci-fi horror thrillerApollo 18, a film about “the real mission to space in the 1970’s that was canceled by NASA.” Produced by Night Watch/Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov, the subtitle on the movie poster is “There’s a Reason We’ve Never Gone Back To The Moon.” NASA insists that Apollo 18 never happened but some conspiracy theorists believe that the Department of Defense and NASA launched a covert mission to the moon in 1972....

“Barmageddon Begins” In Two New Posters For ‘The World’s End;’ Plus Edgar Wright Answers Twitter Questions By Germain Lussier/May 21, 2013 10:00 am EST The second trailer for Edgar Wright’s The World’s End will hit the Web on Wednesday. In anticipation of that event, two new posters have been released. One is another UK banner and the second is our first US one-sheet. Each are similar in that they show Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan mugging for the camera, but now Rosamund Pike’s character has joined the group....

‘Before Midnight’ Review: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy And Ethan Hawke Meet Impossible Expectations [Sundance 2013] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 21, 2013 10:00 am EST With Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, director Richard Linklater and stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy created two amazing films about love, romance, relationships and fate. Films that were exceedingly simple visually, but incredibly powerful and complex in character, dialogue and performance. The first began the tale of an American named Jesse (Hawke) and a French woman named Celine (Delpy) who met on a train and fell in love while spending a day together in Vienna....

By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2013 1:00 pm EST The two G.I. Joe films have been moneymakers for Paramount, and the studio is moving forward with the third installment, for which director Jon M. Chu is returning. Now Evan Daugherty, who kickstarted his studio career with the sale of Snow White and the Huntsman to Universal, is keeping up his relationship with Paramount by writing the third Joe film. Daugherty has already done a rewrite on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for Paramount and Platinum Dunes....

‘Gotham’ Villains Trailer: Spotlighting The Bad Eggs By Russ Fischer/June 18, 2014 5:30 pm EST Bruno Heller’s show (with a pilot directed by Danny Cannon) also features Ben McKenzie as James Gordon, Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock, and David Mazouz as a very young Bruce Wayne. But for now, the focus is mostly on the villains, with only a little time left over for the good guys. Watch below. Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon....

‘Midnight Rider’ Director And Producers Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter After Death Of Sarah Jones By Russ Fischer/July 3, 2014 12:45 pm EST After months of investigation, criminal charges have finally been filed related to the death of camera assistant Sarah Jones while filming the Gregg Allman biopic Midnight Rider. Jones was killed when a train traveled down the tracks upon which the Midnight Rider crew was working at the time. Now director Randall Miller and producers Jody Savin and Jay Sedrish have been charged with involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass in the Wayne County, Georgia superior court....