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Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross Will Score David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 21, 2014 11:20 am EST Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have provided two memorable scores for David Fincher’s recent films: the Oscar-winning music for The Social Network, and the equally good if less-rewarded score for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. The two musicians will contribute to Fincher’s upcoming Gone Girl, too, as confirmed by Reznor today on Twitter:...

Video: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Remembers The Dearly Departed [Comic-Con 2013] By Angie Han/July 22, 2013 5:00 pm EST “George, you heartless bastard.” Those were the first words spoken by moderator Elvis Mitchell to author George R.R. Martin at Friday’s Game of Thrones panel, which opened with an “In Memoriam” video saluting the many, many fallen characters of the HBO drama. Check it out after the jump. Video: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Remembers The Dearly Departed [Comic-Con 2013]...

VOTD: The Math Of Pixar’s Movies Revealed In TED Talk And Presto Animation System Demo By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2014 10:30 am EST What did we really learn from our high school math classes, and how much have we used those learned skills in the real world? While I haven’t used much of my advanced math education in my film blogging career, the movies we watch couldn’t exist without these calculations....

WTF: Kenny Powers Becomes CEO Of Shoemaker K-Swiss [Video] By Russ Fischer/July 11, 2011 2:30 pm EST In Eastbound and Down, Kenny Powers has stood atop the worlds of baseball and pure assholery. (If that wasn’t a word, it is now.) His latest achievement is to land as king of the hill in the business of sports apparel. Kenny Powers is now the CEO of K-Swiss, and he’s going to destroy the world of product marketing and branding, the better to rebuild it in his own image....

Zac Efron To Star In And Produce John Grisham’s ‘The Associate’ By Germain Lussier/April 2, 2014 3:27 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Back in 2008, an adaptation was set up at Paramount with Shia LaBeouf in the lead role. William Monahan wrote the script and Tony Scott was in talks to direct. It was gearing up to be a big one, but it never worked out....

‘Kung Fury’ Trailer: Kung Fu, Robots, Nazis, Dinosaurs, Vikings, Mutants And Gods In One Movie By Germain Lussier/Dec. 26, 2013 5:00 pm EST Think of your favorite crazy, low-budget off the wall genre movie. Imagine that as “normal,” and maybe you can understand the madness that is Kung Fury. Directed by David Sandberg, it’s the story of a renegade kung-fu cop who travels back in time to kill Adolf Hitler. I know what you’re thinking: “Been there done that....

‘Legend Of The Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen’ Trailer By Germain Lussier/March 3, 2011 4:00 pm EST From Andrew Lau, the director of Infernal Affairs (which was remade into Best Picture winner The Departed), comes a brand new martial epic starring the legendary Donnie Yen. Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen is set to open April 22 and features pretty much anything you’d want in a martial arts film: huge battles and fast action wrapped around a period war story about mistaken identity and national pride....

‘Life Of Pi’ Writer David Magee To Script ‘The Chronicles Narnia: The Silver Chair’ By Angie Han/Dec. 5, 2013 12:07 pm EST In an era when most major film franchises are pushing out a film a year — or even more, in the case of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — The Chronicles of Narnia has gone at a remarkably relaxed pace. The first film, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, was released in 2005, followed three years later by Prince Caspian and then two years after that by The Voyage of the Dawn Treader....

‘Rush’ Featurette: Go Behind The Scenes Of Ron Howard’s Racing Drama By Germain Lussier/June 14, 2013 7:55 am EST Once the summer movie season is over, one of the first entries of the fall awards season will be Ron Howard’s true-life sports drama Rush. Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and Daniel Brühl (Inglourious Basterds) star as legendary Formula One drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, two men who had a bitter rivalry in the 1970s until Lauda was in a brutal accident that elevated both their mutual respect and intensity of racing....

‘The Starving Games’ Trailer: ‘The Hunger Games’ Gets The ‘Scary Movie’ Treatment By Angie Han/Oct. 8, 2013 2:29 pm EST If you watched The Hunger Games and thought to yourself, “Man, this movie would be so much better if it were more like Scary Movie,” then have we got a trailer for you. The Starving Games is exactly what it sounds like — a Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer parody in the vein of Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, and the (slightly) more creatively titled Meet the Spartans and Vampires Suck....

Academy Awards Vegas Odds: Little Miss Sunshine To Win Best Picture By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2007 5:51 am EST Yesterday we reported that movie critic Roger Ebert was spreading a rumor that Little Miss Sunshine would cause a major upset at the 2007 Academy Awards. Well it looks like Vegas visited the same rumor mill. Right now Little Miss Sunshine is the odds on favorite to win according to Bodog.com. The film is currently in the lead with 5/6 odds, followed by The Departed with 3/2 odds....

Anne Rice Vampire Movies Coming From Brian Grazer, Alex Kurtzman, And Roberto Orci By Russ Fischer/Aug. 7, 2014 4:30 pm EST It’s been 20 years since Neil Jordan’s film version of Interview With the Vampire saw Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt sucking blood, and now Universal is getting back into monsters in a big way. Not only are Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan spearheading a relaunch of the old Universal Monsters line, beginning with a new Mummy movie, the studio has snapped up rights to all of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles books....

Bruce Willis Says ‘Die Hard 6’ Is In Development By Russ Fischer/Feb. 6, 2013 2:15 pm EST

Bryan Singer Hypothetically Recasts ‘The Usual Suspects’ For 2013 By Germain Lussier/Oct. 28, 2013 11:40 am EST Briefly: Monday, director Bryan Singer took a few minutes out of a busy schedule editing his latest film X-Men: Days of Future Past to answer some questions on Twitter. While most of it was pretty vanilla (the trailer will be out Tuesday, and there’s not much to say until then), Singer dug deep when he was asked about his first film, the multiple Oscar-winning The Usual Suspects....

Cool Stuff: Personalized Olly Moss Cast And Crew ‘Thor: The Dark World’ Posters By Germain Lussier/April 23, 2013 1:50 pm EST Back in 2010, Marvel hired artist Olly Moss to make a special poster for the cast and crew of Thor. The resulting image, never available for public purchase, blended a bunch of iconic imagery from the film into the outline of Mjolnir. Last year Moss was asked to do similar work for the sequel, Thor: The Dark World....

Frank Grillo To Lead ‘The Purge 2’ By Angie Han/Dec. 11, 2013 4:20 pm EST Behind the camera, the team for The Purge 2 won’t differ too much from the one for the original Purge, at least based on what we’ve heard so far. Jason DeMonaco is once again writing and directing, with Jason Blum, Michael Bay, Sébastien K. Lemercier, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form all returning as producers. To go in front of the camera, however, the filmmakers are adding some fresh blood in the form of Frank Grillo....

Jason Statham In Death Race 3000 By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2007 10:28 pm EST Crank and Transporter star Jason Statham has officially signed on to star in a remake of Roger Corman’s cult classic film Death Race 2000 for Universal. The new film, titled Death Race 3000 will go into production in August or September 2007. The original 1975 film starred David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone in a brutal cross-country race from New York to Los Angeles set in a dystopian future where pedestrians are run down for points....

Kevin Smith Reveals Plans For ‘True North Trilogy’ Beginning With ‘Tusk’ [Comic Con 2014] By Germain Lussier/July 25, 2014 10:36 pm EST On his panel, Smith also revealed Tusk is the first film in what he hopes will be a trilogy of films he called “The True North Trilogy.” Likely a reference to a similar Canadian setting, Tusk would be followed by Yoga Hosers (which Smith wants to make next, and be PG-13) and a new movie called Moose Jaws which he described as “Jaws, with a moose....

More Highlights From Mondo’s Universal Monsters Gallery Show Featuring Rick Baker, Martin Ansin, Kevin Tong And Others By Germain Lussier/Oct. 22, 2012 5:00 am EST Over the weekend, Mondo opened their fourth gallery show in Austin, Texas and it was without a doubt their biggest yet. The theme was Universal Monsters and it featured not only brand new work by the legendary Drew Struzan, but all new screenprints and art from the likes of Martin Ansin, Kevin Tong, Scott Campbell, Mike Mitchell, JC Richard and others....

Nicolas Cage In Talks For More “Mainstream” ‘Left Behind’ Reboot [UPDATE: Vic Armstrong To Direct] By Angie Han/Oct. 19, 2012 2:01 pm EST [UPDATE: THR reports that legendary stunt coordinator and second unit director Vic Armstrong is now in negotiations to direct. Armstrong’s previous director credits include episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and the Dolph Lundgren movie Army of One.] That Biblical epic trend sweeping over Hollywood isn’t stopping at the Old Testament, apparently....