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Alexandre Desplat Scoring Gareth Edwards’ ‘Godzilla’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 30, 2013 11:08 am EST The composer who worked on two recent Best Picture winners is taking a monstrous leap. Alexandre Desplat, the composer of scores for The King’s Speech and Argo, as well as for Moonrise Kingdom and both Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows among others, will be writing the music for next year’s big budget remake of Godzilla.Film School Reporter (via First Showing) revealed the news....

Behind The Scenes Videos: ‘Game Of Thrones’ And ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 24, 2014 11:15 am EST Few things can brighten up a film fan’s day like behind the scenes footage. Film sets are some of the most isolated, protected working environments out there so to catch a glimpse of any set, let alone something that’s become a huge part of popular culture, really is a delight....

Find Out Why Stan Lee Won’t Have A Cameo In Marvel’s ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 22, 2014 3:30 pm EST Stan Lee is the father of many of the great Marvel comic book superheroes we now watch every year on the big screen. Its hard not to notice Stan’s cameo appearances — I think even non-geeks recognize Lee. Stan has appeared in a lot of the Marvel movies: X-Men, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Hulk, Fantastic Four, X-Men 3: The Last Stand, Spider-Man 3, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man 3, and Thor: The Dark World....

Help Get This ‘Ghostbusters’ Lego Set Made By Germain Lussier/July 29, 2013 11:00 am EST If Back to the Future can have a Lego set, why not Ghostbusters? A Lego Cuusoo project to celebrate the upcoming 30th anniversary of the classic comedy is currently about halfway to the 10,000 votes it needs to go before the Lego approval board. If it does, you may soon be able to purchase a Lego Ecto-1....

Hulk And Hawkeye Get The Spotlight In New ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Images By Angie Han/Aug. 27, 2014 10:20 am EST If we had any complaint about the first Avengers, it was that there wasn’t nearly enough of Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk or Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye. Fortunately, Kevin Feige has already promised to remedy that lack in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and the latest batch of images indicate that he plans to deliver....

Joe Wright To Direct Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Ocean At The End Of The Lane’ By Angie Han/Feb. 28, 2013 6:22 pm EST Joe Wright certainly has a thing for literary adaptations, as evidenced by his films Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and Anna Karenina. Now he’s looking to direct yet another book-inspired movie, but this one moves him back to the present day and into a whole other genre. Wright has just been attached to direct Focus Features’ The Ocean at the End of the Lane, based on an upcoming novel by Neil Gaiman...

Key And Peele To Produce ‘Police Academy’ Remake By Germain Lussier/April 4, 2014 5:16 pm EST The Police Academy remake has just been given new life thanks to Key and Peele. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, best known for their Comedy Central sketch comedy show Key and Peele, have just been attached to produce a remake of the goofball Eighties franchise about misfits training to become police officers. The Hollywood Reporter first expanded on the Police Academy remake news, but the Tracking Board reported it first....

Legendary Is Making A ‘Dead Rising’ Movie By Russ Fischer/June 20, 2014 6:00 am EST Capcom’s zombie-fighting video game series Dead Rising was a debut title on the Xbox 360; that first game and the titles released since all bear a great deal of influence from zombie movies. (Dead Rising 3 debuted with the Xbox One last fall.) But while the games are already heavily film-influenced, it’s no surprise that Capcom wants to complete the circle with a Dead Rising movie....

Marc Webb Gives Some Vague ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Sound Bites, Interested In What Villains “Bring Out In Peter” By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2012 7:00 am EST Big Spider-Man news hit this week when Jamie Foxx was announced as the cast choice to play the main villain Electro in Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The casting of Foxx might be a great choice; he’s a versatile, intense, and nuanced actor....

New Info On Developing ‘Nightbreed’ TV Series By Russ Fischer/July 3, 2014 9:00 am EST Morgan Creek backed the 1990 film Nightbreed, written and directed by Clive Barker based on his own novella Cabal. The company didn’t entirely support the film at that point, but is starting to see the value in the story of an underground city populated by freaks and outcasts. Now, just as the extended Nightbreed director’s cut is about to hit Blu-ray for the first time, Morgan Creek is taking additional steps to develop a Nightbreed TV series....

Page 2: Doctor Who, William Shatner, Lord Of The Rings, Pee Wee Herman, Rocky, Scarface, Star Wars, Cars, Star Trek, Finding Nemo, Drive, Game Of Thrones, James Bond, Family Guy By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 12, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: How Jedis Hold Their Cups The Playlist lists the Most Anticipated Foreign-Language Films Of 2012 TARDIS Skins For Your iPad, Kindle, iPhone Rejects lists 39 Things We Learned From ‘The Boondock Saints’ CommentaryLord of the Rings pin-up tattoo....

Platinum Dunes Producing Remake Of The Monster Squad By Russ Fischer/March 18, 2010 7:37 pm EST Fred Dekker’s 1987 movie The Monster Squad, written by Dekker and Shane Black, is a film that couldn’t be made today. Not because it was groundbreaking, but because it has a blend of enthusiastic naivite, fun effects, and young actors that don’t look like they were cloned from the same attractive DNA and grown in a vat hidden in Santa Monica....

Quentin Tarantino Calls Israeli Thriller ‘Big Bad Wolves’ The “Best Film Of The Year” By Russ Fischer/Oct. 14, 2013 1:00 pm EST A couple weeks ago at Fantastic Fest, a lot of people were talking about the Isreali revenge film Big Bad Wolves. Written and directed by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, the film follows a detective (Lior Ashkenazi) who is hot on the heels of a the man he believes to be a murderer of children (Rotem Keinan)....

Racial ‘Fantastic Four’ Backlash: Michael B. Jordan Comments [VIDEO] By Germain Lussier/March 7, 2014 1:22 pm EST The Human Torch is a young, cocky, and charismatic superhero who can turn his whole body into flames. Actor Michael B. Jordan is young and can play cocky and charismatic with the best of them. So why are some people so mad director Josh Trank cast him in the 2015 reboot of Fantastic Four?...

Ron Burgundy’s Memoir To Hit Shelves This Fall By Angie Han/Aug. 14, 2013 9:11 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As he would be only too happy to tell you, Ron Burgundy is kind of a big deal. It’s not just anyone who can boast of having survived a bear pit, a news anchor melee, and a glass cage of emotion. And that’s just in the first film....

Rumor: Universal And Tolkien Estate Planning Middle-Earth Theme Park? By Angie Han/Jan. 3, 2013 11:28 am EST Dying to set foot in Middle-earth, but don’t have the cash to shell out for a ticket to New Zealand’s Hobbiton? If a new rumor is to be believed, Universal Studios could be planning a new Middle-earth theme park that’d presumably be much closer to home for American fans. According to an anonymous source, Universal and Warner Bros....

See How Bryan Cranston, Hugh Jackman And Matt Smith Went In Disguise To Walk Comic Con By Peter Sciretta/July 22, 2013 11:30 am EST This year, Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston, Doctor Who’s eleventh doctor Matt Smith and The Wolverine star Hugh Jackman are among the actors we know who donned a disguise and walked the show floor this year. After the jump you can see how they did it....

Sequel To ‘The Raid’ Picks Up Right After The Conclusion Of The Original By Russ Fischer/Jan. 3, 2013 3:38 pm EST Even for people who aren’t predisposed to love action films, Gareth Evans’ The Raid earned a spot on many a 2012 top ten list. When Sony Pictures Classics picked up the film, the company also grabbed distribution rights to the planned sequel, The Raid: Berandal. Casting details for the sequel hit before the new year, with Iko Uwais, star of the first film, set to appear again, alongside Julie Estelle (Macabre) as Hammer Girl, and Alex Abbad, Marsha Timothy, and silat fighter Cecep Arif Rahman playing an unknown but reportedly significant role....

VOTD: Everything Wrong With Michael Bay’s Armageddon By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 28, 2014 7:00 am EST The guys at CinemaSins have returned with a new Everything Wrong With… video essay. This time the video takes a look at Michael Bay’s 1998 feature film Armageddon. Some people seem to hate these videos, but it seems like few can resist from clicking through and hitting the play button. I’m sure we’ll see fewer complaints in the comments this time, with a 14-minute video making fun of a Michael Bay movie....

VOTD: Teleportation Device Created To Promote ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 12, 2013 12:00 pm EST To promote the release of Star Trek Into Darkness on UK streaming service Blinkbox, illusionist Scott Penrose was hired to create an experience which would “prank” shoppers into thinking they had created a teleportation device as seen in the movie and tv series. The illusion is a fun bit of out-of-box real-world marketing created with magic....