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First Look: Russell Brand As Arthur By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2010 4:24 pm EST NO PHOTO Splash News has gotten the first shot of a beardless Russell Brand in costume/make-up for the upcoming remake of the 1981 comedy Arthur. Production is currently under way in New York City. The original ’80s film focused on class, alcoholism and romance, and starred Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli. Brand is on board to play a wealthy drunk playboy who is set to “inherit a fortune if he marries an heiress his family thinks will make something out of him....

Jason Reitman Could Direct Adam Sandler In ‘Men, Women And Children’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 5, 2013 9:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner, Rosemary DeWitt and Cameron Diaz are all circling roles in the film, which is about parents of middle school kids who are beginning to discover sexuality in a world of social media and online pornography.Deadline broke the news of this potential deal, but was quick to say nothing is set in stone yet....

LOL: The Worst Movies Of 2012 Review Themselves By Germain Lussier/Dec. 24, 2012 1:00 pm EST Many fans consider 2012 to be one of the best years for film in a long time. We’ve had great popcorn movies, huge epics, mind-melting indies and new films from some of the best filmmakers around. But every year has some stinkers and as good as 2012 has been, it’s probably been equally as bad too....

McG Will Play In Hollywood’s Secretive Club For Magicians, The ‘Magic Castle’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 9, 2012 10:00 am EST Briefly: Hollywood’s Magic Castle — that private magic club that is home to Academy of Magical Arts — was recently revealed as the location for a new film. The movie has the working title Magic Castle (surprise!), but that’s just about all we’ve known of it, other than that the film was born out of a new representation deal the organization signed with CAA....

Milo Ventimiglia Cast In Gerard Butler’s Game By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2007 1:39 pm EST Heroes star (and Rocky Balboa’s son) Milo Ventimiglia has joined the cast of the currently untitled Gerard Butler action sci-fi movie (codenamed: Game). You know, the film from the two maniacs who brought us Crank. Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor were also the guys who wrote Milo’s last film Pathology, which we swear will get a firm release date one of these days....

Page 2: Star Wars, Maleficent, BTTF, True Detective, Ray Donovan, GoT, Breaking Bad By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2014 1:00 pm EST Header Photo: 7 Photos Of Harrison Ford’s Ankle In Its Prime Joe Swanberg’s Top 10 Criterion movies Movie Stars Have Become an Endangered Species Fantasy Flight announces the Fifth Wave of X-Wing Miniatures Starship Expansions Keanu Reeves to Replace Daniel Craig in Courtroom Drama THE WHOLE TRUTH Loved True Detective’s Six-Minute Tracking Shot?...

Scott Derrickson Directing ‘Dr. Strange’ For Marvel By Russ Fischer/June 3, 2014 2:50 pm EST Marvel’s next film announcement is Dr. Strange, and the film has a director. Scott Derrickson, who recently made Sinister, will direct Dr. Strange. Derrickson was mentioned as being a possible choice a few months ago. He has also directed The Exorcism of Emily Rose and the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. He has been in development on a film based on the video game series Deus Ex, but expect Dr....

Studio Ghibli’s 2014 Film, ‘When Marnie Was There,’ Based On English-Language Children’s Novel By Germain Lussier/Dec. 13, 2013 9:47 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Read more about the story below. Twitchfilm first reported on When Marnie Was There being on the 2014 release slate in Japan. There are currently no plans for a U.S. release. The blend of family values, friendship with the supernatural sounds right in Ghibli’s wheelhouse....

Superhero Bits: Ant-Man, Avengers Age Of Ultron, Gotham, Kingsman, Fantastic Four, Wonder Woman By Germain Lussier/July 28, 2014 5:00 pm EST Superhero Bits is back and it’s chock full of Comic-Con goodies! What up with that Deadpool footage that leaked recently? Have Peyton Reed and Edgar Wright exchanged e-mails about Ant-Man? Will Guillermo del Toro’s Dark Universe link with Batman v Superman? Want to watch new trailer for Gotham and The Flash?...

Superhero Bits: Deadpool, Guardians Of The Galaxy, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, The Dark Knight Trilogy By Germain Lussier/Sept. 25, 2014 5:00 pm EST Want to see over 100 new behind the scenes images from Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy? When is Guardians of the Galaxy coming to Blu-ray? Which awesome accessories come with the Deadpool Sixth Scale figure? How many copies of the Guardians soundtrack have sold? What is Quicksilver up to in some new viral videos for X-Men: Days of Future Past?...

Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy, Batman, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Constantine, Doctor Strange By Germain Lussier/March 5, 2014 5:00 pm EST Which Guardians of the Galaxy comics should you read before seeing the film? Did Mark Andrews comment on Doctor Strange rumors? Want to see an action-packed, 3 minute look at future episodes of Arrow? Was Batkid supposed to be at the Oscars? Is Bryan Singer a fan of X-Men: Days of Future Past fan art?...

This Week In Trailers: Day Is Done, Dunderland, Quiz, Smiley, The Tall Man By Christopher Stipp/Dec. 3, 2011 9:00 am EST I don’t purport to know what it is that Imbach is up to with this trailer, nor would I hazard a guess as I’m pretty sure I would be wrong, but what I see here is absolutely transfixing. I could not look away as this trailer looks to eschew the usual dog and pony parade for marketing a film....

Watch Five Short, Ominous Teasers For HBO Show ‘True Detective’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 11, 2013 12:00 pm EST The simple concept of HBO’s upcoming show True Detective is enough to make it a must-see: Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre, Jane Eyre) directs Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in a miniseries about a years-long investigation into murder and rural mystery. We’ve seen a teaser and a trailer that position the show as essential for fans of Zodiac, and which promise something a bit more than your typical cop procedural....

Watch Sam Raimi’s ‘Within The Woods’, The Precursor To ‘The Evil Dead’ By Angie Han/April 8, 2013 1:08 pm EST This weekend saw the release of Fede Alvarez’s The Evil Dead, an even grislier remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror flick. But did you know that the so-called “original” was a remake of sorts as well? Granted, Raimi’s film wasn’t a do-over of a beloved classic — rather, it was a feature-length retooling of a short “prototype” film he’d made himself a few years earlier under the title Within the Woods....

Writers Hired For Another ‘Island Of Dr. Moreau’ Remake By Germain Lussier/Sept. 6, 2013 7:00 am EST Briefly: Two writers have been hired to make yet another film adaptation of H.G. Wells’ 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau. Warner Bros. tapped Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy, producers on the Netflix show Hemlock Grove, to adapt the novel in a modern, socially conscious sci-fi film. The novel has already been made into numerous movies, such as the 1932 film Island of Lost Souls, a 1977 version starring Burt Lancaster, and most recently in 1996, starring Marlon Brando....

‘Beowulf’ TV Series In Development At SyFy By Russ Fischer/Nov. 14, 2013 7:30 am EST Briefly: One of the next big fantasy projects to hit TV screens is rooted in a story that is hundreds of years old. SyFy is developing a new Beowulf show, based on the epic poem that tells of a hero, Beowulf, who helps out the Danish king with a little monster problem. The monster, of course, is Grendel, and after his initial battles with Grendel, the beast’s mother also becomes a problem....

‘Boondock Saints 3’ Has A Plot And A Title By Angie Han/Sept. 2, 2014 3:30 pm EST 1999’s The Boondock Saints overcame bad reviews and an even worse box office performance to become a cult hit anyway, but The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day never achieved quite the same popularity as its predecessor. Put it this way: I’ve never heard a college kid declare the second Boondock Saints to be his favorite movie of all time....

‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’ Trailer #2 By Germain Lussier/June 8, 2012 6:30 am EST The trailer is in HD over on Apple but we’ve got an embed here. While Ice Age: Continental Drift will surely be a box office hit, I can’t say that trailer did anything to entice me – a non-fan – into seeing it. Outside of a few new characters, it looks almost completely interchangable with the last two films save for the fact that Nicki Minaj and Aziz Ansari do voices in this one and they weren’t popular in 2009 when Dawn of the Dinosaurs was released....

By Angie Han/Oct. 2, 2013 10:30 am EST 3D trailers are great if you’re watching them in a 3D movie theater with your 3D glasses on, but so-called 3D trailers on the Internet usually aren’t anything special. Since the effects don’t work on our computers, most “3D trailers” just turn out to be 2D trailers with action-packed scenes that we can sorta-kinda picture looking exciting in 3D. But leave it to Robert Rodriguez’s gleefully over-the-top Machete Kills to go over-the-top with its 3D Internet trailer....

‘Man Of Steel’ Officially Confirmed For IMAX And 3D Release By Angie Han/Nov. 7, 2012 4:05 pm EST It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s Superman, flying right at your face on a gigantic screen! Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have just announced that next summer’s Man of Steel will open in 3D and IMAX as well as, of course, plain old 2D. And if all this sounds familiar, it’s probably because we already reported the same thing back in July — only for IMAX to backtrack soon after....