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Directors Guild And AMPTP Make 3 Year Deal, AMPTP Invites WGA To Pick Up Talks By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 17, 2008 7:10 pm EST A couple of promising steps were taken this evening in regards to a possible end for the Writers’ Strike that began last November. The first is a tentative three year deal pertaining to new-media made between the Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that includes…...

Edgar Wright Says The ‘Ant-Man’ Script Is Complete By Germain Lussier/July 12, 2013 1:30 pm EST When we first entered the world of Marvel’s Ant-Man, Edgar Wright was on stage at San Diego Comic-Con 2012 with awesome test footage. Then a 2015 release date was locked in, making it the first post Avengers 2 Marvel movie and the kick-off to Phase Three. In the meantime the writer/director went off and finished the Cornetto Trilogy with The World’s End, which opens in the UK next week and in the US next month....

Edgar Wright To Direct ‘Grasshopper Jungle’ At Sony By Russ Fischer/July 25, 2014 4:52 pm EST While Edgar Wright is set to make the relatively mysterious Baby Driver as his next film, the director has also set up another project to develop as a potential Baby Driver follow-up. Wright has come on board Grasshopper Jungle, which will adapt the YA novel by Andrew Smith. The book centers on a teenage kid who somehow conjures up a plague that sets an army of six-foot-tall praying mantises on his town....

First Look: Futurama/Simpsons Crossover Episode Reveals Bender Vs. Homer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 4, 2014 4:10 pm EST Futurama will return to to the airwaves with Fry, Leela, Bender and company appearing in a special episode of The Simpsons airing on November 9th 2014. Hit the jump to see the first look at this Futurama Simpsons crossover episode. The Futurama Simpsons crossover episode was announced at Comic-Con 2013, Entertainment Weekly premiered the following first look image showing Homer’s encounter with Bender in the Futurama Simpsons crossover episode:...

First Look: Jessica Alba In The Eye By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2007 5:00 am EST The original 2002 film followed a blind girl who gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she starts seeing ghosts. She embarks on a journey to find the origins of her cornea and to reveal the history of the previous dead owner....

Leonardo DiCaprio As The Real James Bond? By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2008 12:31 pm EST Leonardo DiCaprio’s company Appian Way bought the rights to make Fleming, a film based on the life of British author Ian Fleming, best known as the creator of James Bond. The story follows Fleming, who fought as a Commander of Naval Intelligence in World War II while creating James Bond and the many characters from his books....

Listen To The Full ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Soundtrack Right Now By Germain Lussier/July 2, 2014 1:00 pm EST Personally, I don’t like to listen to a soundtrack before I see a movie. Music is one of the few aspects of a film that can be almost totally unspoiled because it’s added late in the process, often after the marketing is set. But, at a certain point a few weeks before release, it’s out there....

Make-A-Wish Will Turn San Francisco Into Gotham City So A Child Can Be Batman By Germain Lussier/Nov. 4, 2013 8:31 am EST Here’s a fantastic, feel-good story to star your week off right. Next week, the Make-A-Wish Foundation in San Francisco, CA is going above and beyond to grant the wish of a young boy named Miles. Miles is 5 years old and has leukemia. As a fan of superheroes, Miles’ one wish is to actually be Batman....

Republican Politician Rick Santorum Scores New Gig As Movie Studio Exec By Angie Han/June 25, 2013 6:00 am EST Rick Santorum may not be the president of the United States, but he’s about to become the king of Hollywood. Or a Dallas-based, Christian version of it, anyway. The former Pennsylvania senator has been named CEO of EchoLight Studios, a production company that aims to make “honest, uplifting content” like 2011’s Soul Surfer, only without “water[ing] down the truth....

Robert Rodriguez Working On ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ TV Series By Germain Lussier/May 14, 2013 2:45 pm EST Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Two brothers walk into a bar with a handful of hostages. Turns out, it’s a vampire bar, and they have to blast their way out. It began as a moderately successful movie, became a cult classic and now it’ll be a TV series. That’s right. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s 1996 film From Dusk To Dawn is being adapted for television....

Steven Spielberg And George Lucas Predict Hollywood “Implosion;” Look Towards TV By Germain Lussier/June 13, 2013 12:00 pm EST When two of the most successful and revered filmmakers of all time have trouble getting their movies made, you know the system is broken. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were among the speakers at a University of Southern California event this week and both addressed the sad state of business in Hollywood, with Spielberg predicting an inevitable “implosion....

The ‘Jurassic Park 3D’ IMAX Poster Is Closer Than It Appears By Germain Lussier/Feb. 13, 2013 1:45 pm EST Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park is filled with iconic, signature images. Ripples in a cup of water. Barbasol shaving cream. A falling banner, and so on. Universal, which is re-releasing Jurassic Park in 3D on April 5, is acknowledging one image in the poster for the limited, one-week IMAX run of the film....

Time-Travel Plotline Of ‘The Twilight Zone’ Revealed By Angie Han/Nov. 2, 2012 4:30 pm EST It’s been years since Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way put a new cinematic adaptation of The Twilight Zone in the works, but even as screenwriters have come and gone, concrete details on the film have been hard to come by. We’ve previously only been told that it would “feature elements from the ‘Twilight Zone’ universe made popular by Rod Serling’s classic TV series,” which is about as vague a plot description as has ever been written....

TV Trailers: ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 2 And ‘Entourage’ Season 8 By Angie Han/July 8, 2011 12:00 pm EST The new television season isn’t quite upon us yet, but the networks have definitely started gearing up. HBO’s just released an extended trailer for the eighth (and last) season of its escapist Hollywood fantasy Entourage, set to premiere in two weeks. [UPDATE: Sadly, it turns out that the Walking Dead video posted below is fan-made and not an official teaser....

Watch 11 Minutes Of ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ Behind The Scenes B-Roll By Russ Fischer/Dec. 20, 2013 7:00 am EST It’s a few more days before everyone gets to see Martin Scorsese’s wildly energetic new film The Wolf of Wall Street, but if you’ve taken in the trailers and still want to see more, here’s over ten minutes of behind the scenes B-roll footage. The nature of the footage, as B-roll tends to be, is all “fly on the wall” sorta shots, rather than any incisive look at the filmmaking process....

‘Captain America 2’ International Versions: How Are They Different? [UPDATED] By Angie Han/March 31, 2014 10:00 am EST Captain America may be the most American of superheroes — it’s right there in the name — but that doesn’t mean he can’t adapt to other cultures. While audiences around the globe flock to Captain America: The Winter Soldier, they’ll be getting ever-so-slightly different versions of the movie depending on what country they’re watching from....

‘Homeland’ Season 4 Trailer: “The People Must Know The Truth” By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2014 6:00 am EST Showtime has released another new trailer for Homeland Season 4. This new trailerreveals a bunch of new tidbits about the upcoming season. For instance, we learn that the story picks up after the CIA is trying to control the damage of a drone strike killed civilians in Pakistan (sounds like a subplot from the last season of 24: Live Another Day) and it also appears Saul and Carrie are friendly once again....

‘Horrible Bosses 2’ Adds ‘That’s My Boy’ Director Sean Anders By Angie Han/Sept. 4, 2013 10:30 am EST Horrible Bosses 2 hit a snag last month when director Seth Gordon dropped out due to scheduling conflicts, but they’re back on track now that they’ve hired a replacement.Sean Anders, director of That’s My Boy and Sex Drive, has signed on to helm. Also climbing aboard is Anders’ frequent collaborator John Morris, who’ll produce....

‘Son Of God’ Trailer: Like Fast-Forwarding To The Jesus Parts Of History Channel’s ‘The Bible’ By Angie Han/Nov. 26, 2013 9:00 am EST The feature is a reworking of History Channel’s miniseries The Bible. (Those of you who didn’t see it may best remember The Bible for its ridiculous Obama/Satan lookalike “controversy.”) The show was a massive hit, even inspiring NBC to start development on a sequel titled A.D.: Beyond the Bible....

‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Gets New App And Super Bowl Spot By Germain Lussier/Jan. 8, 2013 7:30 am EST Here’s the full press release on the app, which will be released at the end of the month in advance of the Super Bowl. Sign up to be notified at http://www.StarTrekMovie.com/CES.