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Brad Bird Fighting For ‘The Iron Giant’ Blu-Ray Release By Germain Lussier/April 23, 2014 1:30 pm EST These days, it’s easy to say you love Brad Bird. After The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t like his work. But many of us were on board from the beginning with The Iron Giant. In the summer of 1999, Bird was just another untapped talent from The Simpsons who went to college with lots of famous people....

Commercial Director Spotlight: Adam Berg By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 22, 2012 4:06 pm EST We’ve been writing about Swedish commercial director Adam Berg’s career for years now. Its amazing that its taken this long for Berg to land a Hollywood feature film. A couple years back, Berg was rumored to be in line for Fox’s adaptation of Marvel’s Deadpool, and today it was revealed that Universal hired Berg to direct a remake of David Cronenberg’s classic Videodrome....

Cool Stuff: ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Spaceship And Action Scene Revealed In Lego By Germain Lussier/Feb. 14, 2014 11:45 am EST Even before their hit movies, if you said the names “Iron Man,” “Thor” or “Captain America” to your mom, she probably knew what they looked like. They’re just recognizable, iconic characters with roots firmly planted in popular culture. Now try the same thing with the Guardians of the Galaxy. Spoiler alert: it won’t work....

Don’t Totally Give Up Hope For That ‘Dredd’ Film Sequel By Russ Fischer/Feb. 25, 2014 3:03 pm EST Briefly: Want to see a film sequel to Dredd, rather than a comic book sequel? You’re not alone, and some of the people who want to see a sequel film are the people who are in the position to make it. We’ve heard before that talks have taken place about a possible sequel, and star Karl Urban says “conversations are taking place between the studio, the director and writer Alex Garland....

Dwayne Johnson Will Be Lost At Sea In ‘Not Without Hope’ By Angie Han/Nov. 14, 2013 8:45 am EST Are “lost at sea” pics the trend of the moment? Ang Lee won an Oscar earlier this year for stranding Suraj Sharma in the middle of the Pacific, and J.C. Chandor and Robert Redford put out All Is Lost just last month. Plus, even as we speak, Angelina Jolie is shooting the World War II survival drama Unbroken and Ron Howard is plowing on with the Moby Dick-inspired In the Heart of the Sea....

First Poster For Wes Anderson’s ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel;’ Trailer On Thursday By Germain Lussier/Oct. 14, 2013 11:15 am EST What’s better than the first poster for a highly anticipated film? The first poster for a highly anticipated film directed by Wes Anderson. The Grand Budapest Hotel will open for business in 2014, featuring what’s possibly Anderson’s most star-studded cast yet: Ralph Fiennes, Edward Norton, Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Saoirse Ronan, Tom Wilkinson, Mathieu Amalric, F....

Jessica Alba Stars In Horror Remakes By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 19, 2008 1:49 pm EST No, Jessica Alba isn’t starring in a remake of Scream. The photo above is part of a pictorial Alba did for Latina magazine, where she recreated some famous horror scenes. The other horror films Alba attempts to recreate includes Psycho, The Birds, Rosemary’s Baby, and even The Ring. Check out some of the other photos after the jump....

Johnny Depp To Play Whitey Bulger In Crime Biopic ‘Black Mass’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 4, 2013 12:15 pm EST The Boston-area criminal has captured the interest of Boston-area filmmakers Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as well, and the two have planned a Bulger film for a couple years now. Looks like the will be beat to the punch, however, by Barry Levinson. The director is attached to Black Mass, a film based on Dick Lehr and Gerald O’Neill’s 2001 book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob....

LOL: Lego ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Short Pokes Fun At Star-Lord’s Cassette Tape By Germain Lussier/Sept. 5, 2014 1:30 pm EST Nitpick a movie all you want but if it works, it works. Take Guardians of the Galaxy for example. Of course Star-Lord’s cassette tape would never have survived nearly 30 years of non-stop repeated listening. That’s not how that technology works. But James Gunn’s film integrates it so well, and the music is so good, that you can (hopefully) push that aside and just enjoy it....

Movie Trailer #2: Ron Howard’s ‘The Dilemma’; GLAAD Gets Universal To Pull Original Trailer By Adam Quigley/Oct. 10, 2010 8:00 am EST “Ladies and gentlemen, electric cars… are gay. I mean, not ‘homosexual’ gay, but, you know, ‘my parents are chaperoning the dance’ gay.” Offensive, or just offensively unfunny? The former, according to GLAAD, and the latter, according to me. This is the line that opens the first trailer for Ron Howard’s upcoming comedy The Dilemma, and it’s caused some controversy amongst those trying to fight against the use of the word ‘gay’ as an openly accepted pejorative....

New ‘Thor The Dark World’ Images Show Malekith, Asgard, Loki, Heimdall, Frigga And Jane By Germain Lussier/Aug. 23, 2013 11:30 am EST I don’t know about you, but I’m getting pretty excited to see Thor: The Dark World. Where I felt the first Thor was just okay, after the character’s emergence in The Avengers, along with the blossoming of his evil brother Loki, the prospect of seeing them both on the big screen again is quite exciting....

Photos: National Treasure 2 Shoots At The White House By Peter Sciretta/March 29, 2007 10:46 am EST Yesterday we told you that Ed Harris and Helen Mirren have joined the cast of Disney’s National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Well now we have some photos from the set – The White House. That’s right, Nicolas Cage, Jon Noight, Diane Kruger, and Justin Bartha were shooting some scenes on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue....

Quentin Tarantino Says ‘Kill Bill Volume 3’ Is “Probably Not” Happening By Angie Han/Dec. 11, 2012 10:00 am EST Is Kill Bill Volume 3 ever coming down the pipeline? Don’t count on it. Although Quentin Tarantino’s been floating the possibility for a long time, he seems far less enthusiastic about the project these days. The news shouldn’t come as too much of a shocker. Tarantino’s notorious for talking up projects that never get made, and there’s been little progress on Kill Bill 3 over the past several years....

Rewrite Your Most Anticipated Lists: ‘Paul Blart’ Sequel Moves Forward By Russ Fischer/Jan. 7, 2014 3:30 pm EST Briefly: The Kevin James comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop may have been a punchline for anyone who wanted to tear down a dumb comedy, but the movie made money. Plenty of it, in fact. (Almost $200m globally against a $26m budget, and that’s before ancillary earnings.) With James continuing to be a draw in stuff like the Grown Ups films, you can’t be surprised that Sony thinks a Paul Blart sequel is still a good idea....

Rian Johnson To Write And Direct ‘Star Wars Episode VIII’ By Germain Lussier/June 20, 2014 11:25 am EST As J.J. Abrams continues to work on Star Wars Episode VII, it seems his successor is about to get to work on the next major chapter in the ongoing Star Wars series. Looper writer/director Rian Johnson is expected to be announced as the writer and director of Star Wars Episode VIII. Initial reports said he was going to direct Star Wars Episode IX as well, but that doesn’t seem to be the case....

Rumor: Mel Gibson The Villain In ‘The Expendables 3’ By Germain Lussier/June 7, 2013 11:30 am EST The Expendables 3 is going full steam ahead. It’s got directorPatrick Hughes, a release date of August 2014, and a slew of brand new stars likely to join. They include Jackie Chan, Wesley Snipes, Nicolas Cage and Milla Jovovich. But who could be powerful enough, or evil enough to tackle that string of stars along with returning players Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Terry Crews, Dolph Lundgren, and Randy Couture?...

Sequel Bits: ‘Transformers 4’, ‘Hangover III’, ‘Monsters University’, ‘Sin City’, ‘The Muppets’ By Angie Han/May 1, 2013 11:18 am EST It’s been nearly a decade since Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, but Colin Firth says we still have a ways to go before we’ll see the third installment of the romcom series. Oh well. In the meantime, I highly recommend The Lizzie Bennet Diaries for any Austen fans in need of a fix....

Showtime’s CIA Thriller ‘Homeland’ Gets Early Debut Online By Angie Han/Sept. 19, 2011 1:30 pm EST A few months ago we showed you a clip from Showtime’s buzzy new series Homeland, a CIA thriller by 24 executive producers Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon. Based on the Israeli series Prisoner of War by Gideon Raff (who’s also an exec producer here), the story centers around agent Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes), who comes to suspect that recently returned POW Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) isn’t everything he seems....

The Giants Are Revealed In Five New Posters For ‘Jack The Giant Slayer’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 10, 2013 4:06 pm EST Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Slayer has been done for so long, the director is already hard at work on pre-production on his next film. Something with “X” in the title. But while the fairy tale film, a heroic spin on Jack and the Beanstalk, has had release date shifts and its title changed, it will finally hit the big screen on March 1 with human stars Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy and Ewan McGregor....

The Joker, Lex Luthor, The Riddler To Appear In David Goyer’s Supermax? By Hunter Stephenson/May 20, 2008 5:18 pm EST Get your most asinine soap joke ready in the comments, because it seems that Green Arrow will be joined behind bars by a vast and infamous stable of DC villains in David Goyer’s Supermax. Latino Review took a look at the script by Goyer (Batman Begins, X-Men Origins: Magneto) and Justin Marks (that new Street Fighter) and reports that The Joker, Lex Luthor and The Riddler all make sweet cameos inside the script’s titular prison alongside a laundry list of other DC derelicts including: Blockbuster, Shock Trauma, Gemini, Cascade, Tattooed Man, Multiplex, Djinn, Merlyn, Pied Piper, Latarian Milton, Iron Cross & Heatmonger & Backlash (Aryan Nation), Calculator (yes!...