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‘Homefront’ Trailer: Sylvester Stallone Pits Jason Statham Against James Franco By Angie Han/Sept. 12, 2013 1:15 pm EST In most respects, Gary Fleder’s Homefront sounds like a pretty typical action thriller. Jason Statham stars as a retired DEA agent, who moves to a small, quiet town for the sake of his young daughter. Once there, however, he quickly gets entangled with the local villain, a drug lord played by… James Franco....

‘Luther’ Creator Neil Cross Hopes To Make A Prequel Movie Next Year By Germain Lussier/Aug. 28, 2013 11:00 am EST It amazes me that there are so many fans of great TV, and so many fans of Idris Elba, yet so few people have heard of or watched Luther. The BBC show, created by Neil Cross, follows a dangerously determined police detective who gets much too involved in his investigations. Eventually his already questionable morality reaches a breaking point when he’s forced to work with a woman he knows, but can’t prove, is a killer....

‘Monsters University’ Review: A Hilarious, Heartfelt Return To The Monsters Universe By Germain Lussier/June 10, 2013 12:26 pm EST Monsters University features all the entertainment and heart you’ve come to expect from Pixar, and then some. We meet Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sulley (John Goodman) during their college years, as the company’s first prequel is set years before the events of 2001’s Monsters Inc. Director Dan Scanlon turns that simple story idea into a great, fast paced college comedy with an intriguing blend of emotional highs and lows....

‘Step Brothers’ Reunion Alert: Will Ferrell And John C. Reilly Board ‘Devil’s Night’ By Angie Han/Oct. 11, 2013 3:19 pm EST If we’re not getting a Step Brothers sequel in the near future, at least we can look forward to a Step Brothers reunion. Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly have signed up to star in Devil’s Night, which as the title suggests is set during the unofficial holiday of pre-Halloween mischief....

‘The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari’ Restoration Trailer By Russ Fischer/June 6, 2014 1:30 pm EST One of the landmark works of genre film — hell, of film, period — has received what looks to be a brilliant new restoration. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was a sensation upon release in 1920, and has remained a sensation for almost one hundred years, thanks to its intense atmosphere and stunning sense of design....

‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Will Conclude ‘First Class’ Trilogy; Plus Timeline Clarity And New Characters By Germain Lussier/Sept. 26, 2014 2:00 pm EST Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg and the whole team are hard at work in pre-production on X-Men: Apocalypse. Filming starts this April up in Montreal for a summer 2016 release. The film will be set in the ’80s, following the old timeline from the end of X-Men: Days of Future Past with the stars of that movie returning: Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy and more....

‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Blends ‘X-Men’ And ‘Terminator’ Says Mark Millar; Plus ‘Deadpool’ Update By Germain Lussier/Oct. 19, 2012 3:30 pm EST Millar spoke to SFX Magazine about the film and called it “X-Men” meets “The Terminator,” confirming that it has robots in it. Can you say Sentinels? Also, another Marvel property in development at Fox, Deadpool, gets a brief update from its director, Tim Miller. Read about all of this after the jump....

A ‘True Blood’ Musical Is In The Works By Angie Han/June 18, 2014 2:00 pm EST HBO’s True Blood will end its run after the upcoming seventh season, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve seen the last of Bon Temps. Like the bloodsuckers it portrays, True Blood could just come back in an altered form. Composer Nathan Barr has revealed that there’s a True Blood musical in the works. While he cautions that “there’s no guarantees” about the project at this point, he has already gotten as far as pitching the show....

Cameron Crowe’s Untitled Hawaii Project Delayed Until 2015 By Germain Lussier/July 21, 2014 3:00 pm EST Briefly: Cameron Crowe’s upcoming movie, currently referred to as the Untitled Hawaii Project, has been delayed. Originally scheduled for a Christmas release, it’ll now hit theaters May 29, 2015. It stars Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray and others. “Once we saw the film, we knew that it would make a perfect summer release....

Cool Stuff: Odd City Celebrates ‘School Of Rock’ 10th Anniversary With Limited Edition Poster By Germain Lussier/Aug. 27, 2013 11:30 am EST Richard Linklater gets lots of love for his smaller movies like Dazed and Confused, Before Midnight, Bernie and Waking Life. Rightfully so. But one of his films that is sometimes overlooked is also, by far, the biggest grossing film of his career. That would be 2003’s School of Rock....

First Look: Ian McKellen As Sherlock Holmes In ‘Mr. Holmes’ By Russ Fischer/July 9, 2014 12:30 pm EST Sherlock Holmes continues to be an incredibly popular screen character. Even with two television versions in play now, in Sherlock and Elementary, there’s room for another Holmes. And this new Holmes is, in fact, rather old. Sir Ian McKellen stars as the detective in Mr. Holmes, directed by Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, The Fifth Estate) based on the novel A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin....

First Look: Shia LaBeouf In John Hillcoat’s ‘The Wettest County In The World’ By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2011 10:30 am EST One of the films I’m most excited about right now is John Hillcoat’s adaptation of the Prohibition-era novel The Wettest County in the World. The film had been picking up steam a year ago, then died, and now is coming back to life. Scratch that: it is alive! The film is shooting right now, and there are a couple set photos showing Shia LaBeouf in costume as one of the two leads....

Geek Deal: The Dark Knight Trilogy Blu-Ray Box Set For Only $23.99 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2013 2:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Gerard Butler To Play Half Of ‘Kane & Lynch,’ Producers Want Vin Diesel To Co-Star By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2013 3:51 pm EST Briefly: One video game adaptation that keeps restarting from save points is Kane & Lynch, which has had directors and potential cast members come and go over since shortly after the first game’s debut in 2007. The game series features the two title characters, two escaped death row inmates who find that they were broken out of prison only to be coerced into tracking down a giant cache of loot for a big criminal organization....

Guy Ritchie’s 3D King Arthur Set For Summer 2016 By Germain Lussier/April 11, 2014 6:00 am EST We haven’t even hit the summer of 2014 and the summer of 2016 is beginning to fill up. We know there will be two Marvel movies (one of which is Captain America 3), Batman vs. Superman, X-Men Apocalypse, The Amazing Spider-Man 3, Finding Dory, Independence Day 2 and now Guy Ritchie is getting in the fun with what could be the start of a whole new franchise....

Harmony Korine’s ‘Spring Breakers’ Pushes James Franco For Oscar With Qualifying December Release By Angie Han/Oct. 16, 2012 6:00 am EST Harmony Korine’s edgy oeuvre isn’t exactly typical awards bait, but his upcoming Spring Breakers is apparently gunning for at least one of those little gold men. The drama is getting an Oscar-qualifying year-end release to give star James Franco, who plays drug kingpin Alien, a shot at the Best Supporting Actor award....

It’s Official: Tom Cruise Returning For ‘Mission: Impossible 5’ By Germain Lussier/May 6, 2013 3:10 pm EST Briefly: Mission: Impossible 5 is a go. Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions just signed star Tom Cruise to return for the fifth film in the blockbuster franchise, confirming rumblings that began after 2011’s Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol was a massive hit. The studio has yet to officially announce a writer or director but all signs point to Christopher McQuarrie, who last directed Cruise in Jack Reacher....

Jake Gyllenhaal Is The Prince Of Persia By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2008 1:12 pm EST The Hollywood Reporter has just confirmed a story that was rumored on internet websites last month, Jake Gyllenhaal has been crowned the Prince of Persia in the big screen Disney live-action adaptation of the popular video game series. Prince of Persia is an action adventure video game which follows an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world....

James Franco Likely To Play Tommy Wiseau In ‘The Disaster Artist’ By Russ Fischer/May 8, 2014 5:30 pm EST A couple months ago James Franco optioned rights to Greg Sestero’s book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, about the making of Tommy Wiseau’s masterpiece of bad cinema, The Room. At that point Franco was set as producer and director, and roped in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to produce alongside him....

Joaquin Phoenix Won’t Be ‘Doctor Strange’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 2, 2014 11:45 am EST Back to the drawing board. Marvel Studios has been working to sign a deal with Joaquin Phoenix to put the actor in costume as Doctor Strange, but those talks have now ended with no deal made. We first started to hear rumblings of that casting choice over the summer, and there was a point where it seemed like Marvel might even be able to announce Phoenix as Strange at Comic Con....