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‘Star Wars Underworld’ Would Have Explained Han Solo’s Backstory By Germain Lussier/June 10, 2014 4:30 pm EST For years, we heard rumblings and rumors about a live-action Star Wars TV show from creator George Lucas. We’d heard there were hundreds of scripts written or at least outlined, but it was simply too expensive to produce for television. The project was referred to as Star Wars: Underworld. When Disney bought Lucasfilm, those scripts, hours and hours of new Star Wars content, were part of the package....

‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Sequel Greenlit; Scheduled For Release June 2016 By Germain Lussier/Aug. 10, 2014 10:10 am EST Buzz be dammed, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ruled the box office this weekend. The reboot earned an estimated $65 million and Paramount quickly jumped into action. Sunday morning, the studio greenlit the sequel and already set a release date: June 3, 2016. Screenwriters Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec will once again write with Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes team once again producing....

‘Testament Of Youth’ Trailer: Alicia Vikander Struggles Through WWI By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2014 5:00 am EST Since making the transition to English-language films, Alicia Vikander has been building a solid CV, or at least one dotted with big films. There’s The Fifth Estate, Anna Karenina, and forthcoming films The Man From UNCLE, Seventh Son, and Derek Cianfrance’s Light Between Oceans, just to name a few. More specifically, she’s got the WWI drama Testament of Youth, which shot this past spring with James Kent directing and co-stars Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West, Emily Watson, Hayley Atwell, and Anna Chancellor....

‘The Apparition’ Trailer: “Once You Believe, You Die” By Germain Lussier/May 24, 2012 3:00 pm EST Late August usually brings a bunch of studio horror movies and 2012 is no exception. A trailer has just arrived for one of them, The Apparition, starring Ashley Greene (Twilight), Tom Felton (Harry Potter) and Sebastian Stan (Captain America: The First Avenger). The film is about a group of people who set out to test the theory that ghosts and goblins only exist because people believe in them....

‘The Lone Ranger’ International Trailer: There’s No Stopping This Train By Angie Han/April 18, 2013 1:53 pm EST In conjunction with yesterday’s new domestic trailer for Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger, a new international trailer has also hit the web. While this one gets into the plot a little bit — Tonto’s (Johnny Depp) reaction to meeting the Lone Ranger (Armie Hammer) is a highlight — its focus is really on the action....

‘The Summit’ Review: What Exactly Happened To 11 Climbers Who Died In One Day On K2? [Sundance 2013] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 23, 2013 12:00 pm EST You may remember the news stories from late in the summer of 2008. Eleven climbers died trying to climb the second tallest, and most treacherous mountain in the world: K2. The specific details of the tragedy were never made public, mostly because the survivors all had different stories to tell....

‘Trance’ Trailer: Danny Boyle Thriller Fractures James McAvoy’s Mind By Russ Fischer/Jan. 10, 2013 6:40 am EST Danny Boyle looks like he’s having fun again. Let me clarify that, actually: Danny Boyle’s films always look like the product of a director who is having fun, but this time the movie seems like a pure genre exercise where his exuberance is going to be the dominant note. Before Boyle dealt with the big decisions for last summer’s Olympic opening ceremony, he shot a movie called Trance, starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel....

‘Troll Hunter’ US Trailer By Russ Fischer/April 25, 2011 11:00 am EST Magnet is getting Troll Hunter out to some US festivals — Tribeca, the Atlanta Film Festival and more — and now has a new short trailer for the movie about a student documentary team that seeks and finds trolls in the Norwegian countryside. The new trailer is brief but fast-paced, with a little rock and roll and a little operatic flair....

‘Tron: Legacy’ Producer And ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Writer Team For Disney’s ‘Terra Incognita’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2012 2:20 pm EST Briefly: The only thing constant in Hollywood is change. A few years ago it was looking like we were going to see little from major studios but big-name tentpole movies based on existing properties. And while those films are still being produced, there’s a strong trend now towards tentpoles that are either original or based on more hardcore properties as well....

‘Tusk’ Featurette Explores The Film’s Podcast Roots By Russ Fischer/Sept. 18, 2014 10:00 am EST In Tusk, Justin Long plays a douchebag podcaster who travels to Canada in search of a story, and gets a hell of a lot more than he bargained for. The film is nuts, because it veers from horror to comedy in broad strokes. The end credits of the film (no spoiler) actually play some of the audio from the podcast that spawned the film, and that’s kind of the rosetta stone for deciphering the film’s disparate tones....

David Fincher And ‘Gone Girl’ Author Gillian Flynn Adapt UK Series ‘Utopia’ For HBO By Russ Fischer/Feb. 12, 2014 12:10 pm EST Adapting a UK show for television worked out well for David Fincher, who with Beau Willimon and a host of other talents adapted House of Cards for Netflix. Just a day before that show’s second season hits the streaming service, Fincher is taking on another UK show adaptation....

Eva Green And Julia Garner Join ‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’ By Angie Han/Jan. 29, 2013 3:00 pm EST Cameras have been rolling on Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For for some time now, but either he’s only just gotten around to casting one of its major characters, or publicists have waited to announce the casting until late in the game. Eva Green has just been announced as part of the project in the role of Ava Lord, the femme fatale who features prominently in the titular plotline....

Final ‘Expendables 3’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/July 31, 2014 3:00 pm EST I’m just going to assume that you didn’t download the leak of The Expendables 3, and that if you’re waiting to see the film you can hang on for two more weeks. Here’s one final Expendables 3 trailer to make the wait easier, and this clip has plenty of action from Patrick Hughes’ sequel. Sylvester Stallone returns as the leader of a paramilitary gang, and this time the crew stares down a one-time comrade turned arms dealer played by Mel Gibson....

Final ‘Oz: The Great And Powerful’ Poster And Triptych Banner Place Main Characters Front And Center By Angie Han/Nov. 13, 2012 12:00 pm EST The Oz: The Great and Powerful poster released last week was nothing short of a disaster, but thankfully it seems like that was the exception, not the rule. The stills revealed earlier this week were all quite pretty, and this new poster featuring the leads (James Franco, Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams, and Rachel Weisz) isn’t looking so bad either....

First Look: Christian Bale In The Fighter By Russ Fischer/July 14, 2009 7:57 am EST [No photo]David O. Russell’s The Fighter, the project he inherited from Darren Aronofsky, just started shooting and JustJared has the first shots of co-star Christian Bale on set. Mark Wahlberg plays the boxer “Irish” Micky Ward, who hails from Lowell, MA, where the film is shooting. Bale plays his half-brother Dicky Eklund, Ward’s sometime trainer and small-time criminal....

First Look: Harrison Ford Scolds Asa Butterfield In ‘Ender’s Game’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 5, 2012 9:00 am EST Very soon, lists of anticipated films coming in 2013 will start being posted on the internet and – spoiler alert – this one is going to be on mine. Ender’s Game, based on the classic sci-fi novel by Orson Scott Card, is scheduled for release November 1. Directed by Gavin Hood, it stars Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Abigail Breslin and Viola Davis....

How Ben Affleck Was Cast As Batman By Germain Lussier/Aug. 23, 2013 3:51 pm EST After the stunned reaction to Thursday night’s news of Ben Affleck being cast as the new Batman, everyone was filled with questions. Plenty about the film itself, of course, including Affleck as well as director Zack Snyder’s take on the character, but the behind the scenes stuff too. Like how did Warner Bros. keep a bombshell like this so quiet?...

Jake Gyllenhaal And Amy Adams Starring In Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Supernatural Thriller By Russ Fischer/Jan. 31, 2014 5:57 pm EST Briefly: Philip Seymour Hoffman is about to make his second feature as a director, and he has lined up Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams to star. The film is Ezekiel Moss, a supernatural thriller and a “Depression-era ghost story.” The film has been coming together slowly, after first being announced in fall 2012....

LOL: Jerry O’Connell Plagurizes Shia LaBeouf With #IAMSORRYTOO By Germain Lussier/Feb. 12, 2014 2:20 pm EST The instant you enter the second space, a figure one assumes is O’Connell in a paper bag saying “Super Famous” immediately started apologizing. “I’m sowwy, I’m sowwy” he said in his best baby voice. For a second, it seemed that was the whole gimmick. I asked if he was sorry for the Blu-ray in my hand....

Matt Damon And Paul Greengrass May Return To ‘Bourne’ Series [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Aug. 26, 2013 11:47 am EST The first three Bourne films, starring Matt Damon, were the first stage of what Universal would like to be an ongoing and continually lucrative series. The fourth film, written and directed by Tony Gilroy and starring Jeremy Renner as another chemically engineered super-spy (chems? Chems. CHEMS!) moved the story forward a bit, but wasn’t a runaway hit....