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James Brown Biopic Titled ‘Get On Up,’ Will Be Released October 2014 By Germain Lussier/Aug. 29, 2013 9:30 am EST Days after Chadwick Boseman took the lead in Tate Taylor’s biopic of the Godfather of Soul James Brown, that film has a title and release date. It’ll be called Get On Up and will be released October 17, 2014. Also of note: Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, who worked with Taylor on The Help, are being eyed for roles....

Jessica Chastain In Talks For Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ By Russ Fischer/May 2, 2013 5:28 pm EST Briefly: Christopher Nolan has one more actor for his hardcore sci-fi film Interstellar. Matthew McConaughey is the chief cast member of the film that features a wormhole and alternate dimensions, and we knew that he would be joined by Anne Hathaway on “a heroic interstellar voyage to the farthest borders of our scientific understanding.”...

JJ Abrams Talks Cloverfield 2 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2008 8:39 pm EST I’ve been told that a Cloverfield Sequel is pretty much dead for now (not to say it can’t eventually happen), but JJ Abrams was recently asked about the possibility and here is what he said. “There is an idea that has come up that… we’re exploring so we’ll see if it’s worth doing then hopefully we’ll get a chance to do it....

Joe Carnahan Drops ‘Death Wish’, Eyes Tony Scott’s ‘Narco Sub’ By Angie Han/Feb. 22, 2013 3:45 pm EST Joe Carnahan has been adding projects to his slate left and right since 2011’s The Grey, but he’s now dropped one of them from his schedule. The filmmaker has abruptly exited Death Wish, Paramount / MGM’s remake of the 1974 thriller starring Charles Bronson. That doesn’t mean his slate is getting any less crowded, though....

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Retitles Directorial Debut To ‘Don Jon,’ Releases New Images By Germain Lussier/March 8, 2013 4:00 pm EST Much like John Carter of Mars became John Carter, Don Jon’s Addiction is now officially Don Jon. Writer/director/star Joseph Gordon-Levitt took to Facebook Friday to reveal he decided to change the title of his hilarious online-porn comedy and, dropped a few news images on us as well. That’s one above and, after the jump, you can see more (including co-stars Scarlett Johansson and Tony Danza) plus read Gordon-Levitt’s reasons for the title change, updates on a trailer and more....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2008 4:44 pm EST Three new Romance-themed Russian WALL-E posters have been released. [filmz] Universal Studios has confirmed that the King Kong ride which was lost in the recent fire, will be replaced with “a new, compelling guest experience” Bruce Willis is in negotiations to star in Lionsgate’s big screen video game adaptation Kane & Lynch, that veteran stunt coordinator and second unit director Simon Crane will helm....

Page 2: Gravity, Spring Breakers, Chucky, GOT, Walking Dead, Stephen Colbert, Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2013 1:30 pm EST 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 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Peter Jackson’s Latest ‘Hobbit’ Video Blog Dives Deep Into ‘The Desolation Of Smaug’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 5, 2013 10:24 am EST Things are about to get all Hobbit up in here. A week from today, fans will be piling into theaters to watch the second film in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Reviews come out this weekend, interviews will be published, it’s all about to get nuts with the film so close to release....

Quentin Tarantino Says ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Spin-Off ‘Killer Crow’ Could Finish His Revisionist History Trilogy By Russ Fischer/Dec. 27, 2012 11:34 pm EST Quentin Tarantino’s two most recent films, Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, play with a blend of established history and fantasy in ways unlike the stories told in his previous movies. Basterds warps history by killing Hitler and most of the Nazi command long before the real end of the war, and Django allows one freed American slave the sort of vengeance that was never won by slaves in reality....

Sean Harris In Early Talks For ‘Mission: Impossible 5’ Villain By Russ Fischer/Sept. 5, 2014 9:00 am EST Director Christopher McQuarrie and star Tom Cruise are already shooting Mission: Impossible 5, but the film has yet to finalize the cast for its antagonist. At the moment, Paramount and Skydance are offering the bad guy role to Sean Harris, known for Prometheus, The Borgias, and other films such as the Red Riding series....

Sofia Coppola To Direct Live-Action ‘The Little Mermaid’ By Germain Lussier/March 18, 2014 11:30 am EST The trend of producing live-action adaptations of popular animated films continues. Sofia Coppola is in negotiations to direct The Little Mermaid, a live-action adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale Disney made into an Oscar-winning film in 1989. Universal Pictures will distribute. Frequent Tim Burton collaborator Caroline Thompson, who wrote Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride, is currently rewriting the script....

Superhero Bits: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Avengers, Wolverine, Superman, Iron Man 3, Hulk By Germain Lussier/Jan. 15, 2013 1:30 pm EST Is Scarlett Johansson excited for Captain America: The Winter Soldier? Did Mr. Rodgers visit The Incredible Hulk? Is Wolverine essential to all X-Men movies? Did Don Cheadle just drop a major Iron Man 3 spoiler? When does the DC fighting game, Injustice: Gods Among Us going to be released?...

Theme Park Bits: ‘Harry Potter’ Cast Shooting New Footage For Wizarding World Expansion, First Look At James Cameron Working With Imagineers On Disney’s ‘Avatar Land’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 12, 2012 6:00 am EST The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida (and soon Hollywood, CA) has upped the ante for what a movie themed theme park can be and they’re not stopping there. According to reports, actors from the Harry Potter franchise have been asked to reprise their roles from the films to shoot new footage for the currently under construction Wizarding World expansion in Florida....

Twelve Photos From ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Show Off The Incredible Cast By Germain Lussier/Oct. 25, 2013 8:33 am EST If X-Men: Days of Future Past wasn’t a simple summer comic book movie, people would probably be talking about it having one of the greatest casts ever assembled. Multiple Oscar-winners, Tony-winners, Emmy-winners, from top to bottom, Bryan Singer’s cast for the fifth X-Men film, out May 23, is simply insane....

Two Trailers For Zombie Romantic Comedy ‘Warm Bodies:’ “So Is He Your Boyfriend, Or Zombie Boyfriend?” By Russ Fischer/Nov. 8, 2012 11:33 am EST As a genre, the zombie film is pretty thoroughly mined at this point. There has even been a zombie romantic comedy (or zom-rom-com) that made a few fans. You’ve probably seen Shaun of the Dead four or five times by now. But Warm Bodies, from director Jonathan Levine (50/50, The Wackness, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) might not be as redundant as the idea of another zom-rom-com might seem....

VOTD: A Brief History Of Censorship In Film By Germain Lussier/Sept. 17, 2014 6:00 am EST Everyone knows about battles with the Motion Picture Association of America, in which directors and producers disagree with the board over a rating. The stories are plentiful, of being forced to cut a scene out of a film to get a lower rating, of a harsh rating given to a mild film, all that kind of stuff....

Watch ‘The Avengers’ Blooper Reel And Loki/Hawkeye Extended Scene By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 21, 2012 12:22 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Avengers won’t hit DVD and Blu-ray until late September but some of the special features are beginning to pop up online, including a must-see 4-minute long blooper/gag reel. After the jump you’ll also find a two minute extended scene between Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Selvig (Stellan Skarsgård) preparing and planning....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 4 Trailer: Pray For Vengeance By Angie Han/Feb. 17, 2014 8:00 am EST Given all the awful stuff that’s happened in the first three seasons of Game of Thrones, it shouldn’t be a surprise that some Westerosi are thirsty for revenge. Indeed, just about every character in the latest promo seems to be seeking vengeance for one wrong or another, from little Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) to Queen Cersei (Lena Headey) to newcomer Oberyn Martell (Pedro Pascal)....

Andy Serkis Will Direct ‘Jungle Book’ For Warner Bros. By Angie Han/March 20, 2014 8:31 pm EST Andy Serkis is going to go from playing CG animals to directing them. The acclaimed mo-cap actor is set to helm Warner Bros.’ live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book, based on Rudyard Kipling’s classic tales about an orphan boy raised in the jungle. Although Serkis has served as a second unit director on Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy, The Jungle Book marks his feature directorial debut....

Benedict Cumberbatch’s Reps Shoot Down ‘Star Wars’ Rumor By Angie Han/Sept. 3, 2013 1:21 pm EST Yesterday, Universal finally revealed the leads of Fifty Shades of Grey after months of speculation. But for sci-fi geeks, that was only the second biggest casting update to hit over the holiday weekend. An unconfirmed rumor made the rounds that Benedict Cumberbatch was circling Star Wars Episode VII, which would reunite him with his Star Trek Into Darkness director J....