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First Look: Nicolas Cage In The Hungry Rabbit Jumps By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 24, 2009 6:00 am EST [No photo]Janice Wong caught a photo of Nicolas Cage filming a scene for his new film The Hungry Rabbit Jumps. The dramatic thriller tells the story of “a man whose wife is the victim of a brutal crime” and “subsequently becomes entangled with an underground vigilante organization.” Roger Donaldson (Thirteen Days, The Bounty, The Bank Job) is directing, while January Jones and Guy Pearce co-star....

Magnolia Acquires ‘Steve Jobs: The Last Interview’ For U.S. Release; Watch The New Trailer By Angie Han/May 3, 2012 9:30 am EST Before Ashton Kutcher gets a chance to do his Steve Jobs impression for Hollywood, audiences will get to see the actual Jobs up on the big screen thanks to Magnolia Pictures. The company has picked up the U.S. rights to Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, with plans to give it a limited theatrical release May 11 before rolling it out onto DVD and VOD later this summer....

Marvel Comics Will Kill Popular Character; Kevin Feige Talks Significance Of MCU Deaths By Germain Lussier/April 25, 2014 1:30 pm EST Twenty years ago, when a character died in comic books, it was a big deal. Now, it’s pretty obvious very few people in comic books who are killed stay dead. DC Comics was never going to get rid of Superman. Captain America isn’t going the way of the dodo. And Marvel’s latest plan surely won’t stick either....

By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 5, 2011 8:00 am EST What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If you have any interesting items that we might’ve missed that you think should go in /Film’s Page 2 – email us!...

Paul Thomas Anderson Has Completely Changed The ‘Inherent Vice’ Ending By Angie Han/Sept. 26, 2014 8:30 am EST There’s been a lot of back and forth over whether David Fincher changed Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl ending, but maybe all this time we should have been fretting over a different auteur-driven literary adaptation. Paul Thomas Anderson has reportedly written an entirely new conclusion for Inherent Vice, based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel....

Paul Walker’s ‘Brick Mansions’ Opens In April By Russ Fischer/Feb. 7, 2014 12:45 pm EST Brick Mansions, one of the final films to feature the late Paul Walker, was once tentatively scheduled to open this month. But Relativity Media has now pushed the movie to April 25. The movie is a remake of Banlieue 13, released in the US as District 13. This also sheds additional light on the recent move of Earth to Echo into July, as Brick Mansions now has the date originally occupied by Earth to Echo....

Ricky Gervais Plans ‘The Office’ Spin-Off Movie ‘Life On The Road’ By Angie Han/Aug. 5, 2014 9:30 am EST David Brent hasn’t made it as a rock star quite yet, but he is about to become a movie star. BBC Films has announced a feature film spin-off of The Office titled Life on the Road, with Ricky Gervais set to reprise his role as the former Wernham Hogg manager. Hit the jump for more details on The Office spin-off movie....

VOTD: Lena Dunham And Jimmy Fallon Talk ‘The Man In The Moon’ And Video Store Jobs By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2014 10:32 am EST Earlier this week, Girls creator/star Lena Dunham appeared on The Tonight Show where she and Jimmy Fallon discussed the fact that they both used to work at video rental stores in New York. Lena Dunham and Jimmy Fallon have a fun discussion about video rental store clerks and also a long discussion about their love for the 1991 coming-of-age “classic” Man in the Moon starring Reese Witherspoon and is it Jeremy or Jason London (its actually Jason)....

Warner Bros. Gave Up ‘Friday The 13th’ And ‘South Park’ Rights For Piece Of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ By Germain Lussier/June 5, 2013 9:25 am EST Almost like a kid trading baseball cards, Warner Bros. reportedly swapped Jason Voorhees and Eric Cartman for Christopher Nolan. Nolan’s next film, Interstellar, is set up at Paramount Pictures and will be co-produced by Warner Bros. Some insiders wondered how the rival studios came to an agreement over this massive movie and now, The Hollywood Reporter has the answer....

‘300: Rise Of An Empire’ International Trailer: One Minute Of Action By Russ Fischer/Aug. 15, 2013 9:00 am EST Studios have been experimenting with trailer lengths of late; we’ve seen long three-minute trailers and we’re seeing short one-minute looks at new films, too. This latest international trailer for 300: Rise of an Empire is a one-minute blast of stylized action peppered with very serious proclamations of doom. It barely bothers to set out any sense of the story, which features the machinations of Persian naval commander Artemesia (Eva Green) as she pushes Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) into vengeful fury, pitting Persian forces against Greek general Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) and his army....

‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ Review: A Modest But Powerful Modern Western [Sundance 2013] By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2013 9:30 am EST The best way to revitalize a well-worn story concept is often to approach it openly and honestly, but from an unusual angle. That’s what writer/director David Lowery does with the ages-old conflict between an outlaw, a lawman, and the woman between them, in the exceptional modern western Ain’t Them Bodies Saints....

‘Batman Vs. Superman’ Will Film In Michigan By Germain Lussier/Aug. 29, 2013 8:45 am EST Detroit residents woke up to some pretty exciting news Thursday morning. Batman and Superman are coming to town. The Michigan Film Office confirmed the July 17, 2015 sequel Batman vs. Superman, directed by Zack Snyder, starring Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck, has been approved for $35 million in state tax incentives. It’ll shoot in Detroit, Michigan, and some surrounding areas in the state, during the first quarter of 2014....

‘Dracula Untold’ Now Fits Into The Universal Monsters Reboot Series By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2014 3:00 pm EST We know that Universal is putting together a new set of Universal Monsters movies, with Alex Kurtzman and Fast and Furious screenwriter Chris Morgan as architects of the franchise series reboot. The first movie out of the gate will be a new version of The Mummy, directed by Kurtzman. Before that plan was fully in place, however, Universal had Dracula Untold ready to go....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season Four Trailer: Live In Daenerys’ New World, Or Die In The Old One By Russ Fischer/Jan. 12, 2014 9:19 pm EST While the Golden Globes were going on over at one of the major networks, HBO used this evening to bow its new series True Detective, and for the return of Lena Dunham’s Girls. While the pay cable fave has those big debuts now, the biggest season return won’t take place until the spring, when Game of Thrones returns for its fourth season....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Concept Art Shows Off Stunning Xandarian Vistas By Angie Han/Sept. 8, 2014 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. But this summer’s Guardians of the Galaxy was the first Marvel movie to take place almost entirely off-Earth, and that meant Marvel had to create entirely new worlds from scratch. Naturally, the creative team ran with the opportunity, providing us with some truly stunning settings....

‘Housebound’ Trailer: House Arrest In A Haunted Home By Russ Fischer/Sept. 11, 2014 1:30 pm EST Somehow we’ve missed posting the trailer for Housebound, and that’s a huge oversight. The New Zealand film stormed SXSW when it debuted there this past March, and is open in NZ now. The film also hits Fantastic Fest in the next couple weeks, and opens in the US in October. It’s easy to see why people at tests have loved the film, as this trailer makes Housebound out to be a hell of a ride....

‘Jurassic World’ Writer Scripting Horror Comedy For Robert Downey, Jr. By Russ Fischer/May 2, 2014 5:00 am EST Briefly: Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey have spent years developing films, some for Downey to star in. Now they’ve cooked up a new story, called Cloaked, with writer Derek Connolly. The scribe’s name is one you should know, as he’s the co-writer (with director Colin Trevorrow) on Jurassic World. (He also did a rewrite of the Paramount film Monster Trucks that we’ve been trying to ignore as it casts up....

‘Kite’ Trailer And Clips: Samuel L. Jackson Mentors Another Killer Teen By Angie Han/Jan. 6, 2014 8:00 am EST Late last week, we got our first peek at Barely Lethal, starring Samuel L. Jackson as the mentor to a teen assassin played by Hailee Steinfeld. Today, we have our first peek at Kite, starring Samuel L. Jackson as mentor to a teen assassin played by India Eisley. The difference is that this time around, we’re looking at a gritty, anime-based actioner, rather than a Mean Girls-esque comedy....

‘Machete Kills’ Teaser Trailer: President Charlie Sheen Needs Machete’s Help By Angie Han/May 30, 2013 9:23 am EST Subtlety and restraint have their place in cinema, but Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills isn’t it. The sequel to Rodriguez’s 2010 action thriller features deadly broads, weaponized boobs, a cackling madman, President Charlie Sheen (or President Carlos Estevez, rather), and a Machete (Danny Trejo) who’s just been pulled back from the brink of death....

‘Movie 43’ Red-Band Trailer: Daring Stars To Be Dirty By Russ Fischer/Oct. 3, 2012 10:47 am EST Do you want to see a couple generations of today’s stars — Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Halle Berry, Emma Stone, and many more — spouting dirty jokes? Then Movie 43, masterminded by Peter “One Half of the Farrelly Brothers” Farrelly, probably has something for you. The red-band trailer has turned into an essential component in marketing the R-rated comedy, and when the comedy is promised as a collection of particularly dirty, foul-mouthed sketches, nothing but the red-band will do....