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Michael Giacchino Will Score Brad Bird’s ‘Tomorrowland’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 1, 2013 11:10 am EST Briefly: No surprise here. Director Brad Bird revealed on Twitter that Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino will compose the music for his 2014 Disney film, Tomorrowland. This marks Giacchino’s fourth straight collaboration with Bird. The pair worked together on The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol.Tomorrowland, starring George Clooney and Hugh Laurie, opens December 12, 2014....

Mondo Reveals Two Vinyl Releases Of John Williams’ ‘Jurassic Park’ Score By Germain Lussier/April 29, 2014 10:30 am EST John Williams has written multiple iconic scores in his time, and one of the best is getting the Mondo Vinyl treatment. Mondo just revealed they’ll release two different versions of Jurassic Park, one featuring artwork by JC Richard and another by Dan McCarthy. Both editions, limited to 500 a pieces, will cost $35 and go on sale June 11, almost exactly one year out from the release of Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World....

Ridley Scott’s ‘The Martian,’ Not ‘Prometheus 2,’ Opens November 2015 By Germain Lussier/Aug. 1, 2014 2:15 pm EST Back in March, news broke that an untitled Ridley Scott film would open in March 2016. Rumors quickly suggested that film would be Prometheus 2, especially since the script for that was reportedly done. Well, the movie in that slot has now been moved up, to November 25, 2015. And it’s not Prometheus 2....

Robert Rodriguez Posts Images Of Josh Brolin In ‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 15, 2013 5:16 pm EST Much as Marc Webb is currently doing, Robert Rodriguez has begun to tweet photos from the set of his comic book sequel. Rodriguez’s movie, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, is well into production in Texas aiming at an October 4 release date. It stars Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Jaime King, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stacy Keach, Christopher Meloni, Dennis Haysbert, Ray Liotta, Juno Temple, Jeremy Piven and Jamie Chung, among others in an adaptation of the Frank Miller comic....

See Rick Baker’s Alien Designs For Steven Spielberg’s Abandoned Film ‘Night Skies’ By Russ Fischer/May 26, 2014 2:57 pm EST After Close Encounters of the Third Kind became a hit, Columbia Pictures wanted a sequel. Director Steven Spielberg did not, but the one thing he wanted less than a sequel was for Columbia to make one without him. So he set about developing a much darker, horror-tinged film that would act as a follow-up to Close Encounters....

Sequel Bits: ‘Terminator 5’ And ‘Ghostbusters 3’ Casting Rumors; ‘Sin City 2’ Title Change By Germain Lussier/Nov. 8, 2013 6:00 am EST Three major films have some not so major updates: two sets of casting rumors and a small title change. After the jump, read about the following: A few names, including Emilia Clarke and Garrett Hedlund have been mentioned to possibly be up for Sarah and John Connor in Terminator 5....

Watch ‘iSteve,’ The First Long-Form Funny Or Die Project By Russ Fischer/April 17, 2013 10:30 am EST There’s something great about producer Allison Hord and writer/director Ryan Perez admitting that iSteve, their “feature film” about Steve Jobs that was written in three days and filmed in five, is really just sourced from Jobs’ WikiPedia page. The biopic is a particular film structure that is suspect at best and often totally full of hot air....

Watch A Clip From The ‘Thor: The Dark World’ Gag Reel By Germain Lussier/Jan. 30, 2014 11:30 am EST At times it can seem like there’s little point to actually buying Blu-ray discs. Sure, there’s the little matter of the superior sound and picture, but these days you can legally download the film (usually a few weeks before the disc release) and watch almost all the extras early as the company disperses them across the internet before discs are on shelves....

Watch The Trailer For Nickelodeon’s ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Animated Series By Angie Han/June 21, 2012 11:30 am EST Michael Bay’s live-action movie version of the Ninja Turtles may be on hold for now, but a small-screen iteration of the heroes in a half-shell are just around the corner — and this one even keeps their “Teenage Mutant” roots, so I bet a lot of you already like it better than you do Bay’s movie....

Watch Wes Anderson’s New Short Film Starring Jason Schwartzman, And A Kumar Pallana Tribute By Germain Lussier/Nov. 13, 2013 11:30 am EST Right now, this moment, from where you are sitting, you can watch a new movie by Wes Anderson starring Jason Schwartzman. It’s called Castello Cavalcanti and stars the Rushmore actor as a famous race car driver who crashes in 1955 Italy. All the trademark Anderson charm is here. Tracking shots, beautiful production design, lyrical music, and that specific, quirky humor....

‘50/50’ Team Of Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt And Jonathan Levine Reunite For Christmas Film By Russ Fischer/Feb. 11, 2014 8:00 am EST Briefly: There’s no title yet for this new project, but the 50/50 team of writer/director Jonathan Levine and actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen are coming together once more for a Christmas comedy. Sony bought in over the weekend and has fast-tracked it for production this summer. (How this will affect Rogen’s work on Preacher is impossible to tell at this point....

‘Cabin In The Woods’ Maze Coming To Universal Orlando This Fall By Angie Han/July 1, 2013 5:28 pm EST The characters of Cabin in the Woods would’ve done anything to get out of the titular house of horrors, but Universal Orlando hopes that fans of Cabin in the Woods will be equally eager to get in. The theme park has announced a maze based on the movie, which will open this fall for Halloween Horror Nights 23 celebration....

‘Django Unchained’ Set Photos May Give ‘Deadwood’ Fans Deja Vu By Angie Han/Feb. 1, 2012 4:00 pm EST Those plans for David Milch’s beloved Deadwood to live on in the form of a TV movie will likely never come to fruition, but fans may yet get an opportunity to revisit the Western town when Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained hits theaters at the end of this year. Actor Garret Dillahunt, who played Francis Wolcott on the HBO series, recently paid a visit to the set of Tarantino’s “Southern-fried spaghetti Western” and couldn’t help but notice that the setting looked awfully familiar....

‘Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes’ Review: A Dark And Surprising Tale Of Loss, Family And Recovery [Sundance 2013] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 25, 2013 6:00 pm EST There’s a moment about 15 minutes into Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes where writer/director Francesca Gregorini hooks you in. At the start you meet Emanuel (Kaya Scodelario), a beautiful, damaged girl with a super sharp wit. Then Linda (Jessica Biel) moves in next door....

‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Finds A New Christian Grey In Jamie Dornan By Angie Han/Oct. 23, 2013 6:24 pm EST Less than two weeks after Charlie Hunnam dropped out of Fifty Shades of Grey, the Sam Taylor-Johnson-directed romance has found a new leading man. Irish actor Jamie Dornan has just been cast in the lead role of Christian Grey, the billionaire playboy with a BDSM fetish. Dakota Johnson remains attached as the object of his affections, naive college student Anastasia Steele....

‘Grand Piano’ Spanish Trailer: Elijah Wood Plays On Pain Of Death By Russ Fischer/Sept. 17, 2013 10:57 am EST Elijah Wood has spent the last couple years doing new stuff. He toplined the gruesome and controversial remake of Maniac, and this year is in two thrillers from Spanish directors. We just saw the trailer for the first, Nacho Vigalondo’s Open Windows, and now here’s a look at the other.Grand Piano is directed by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia), and sees Wood as a skilled concert pianist who is performing under threat of death....

‘Pacific Rim’ Extended TV Spot: Once More Into The Breach By Russ Fischer/June 25, 2013 9:00 am EST At this point we’ve seen a lot from Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim, but with a couple weeks left before the film opens, why not one more trailer? (Here’s why: the film needs more of a guaranteed audience than it already has, and so Warner Bros. and Legendary are trying to show people what this one is....

‘Terra Nova’ Full-Length Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 16, 2011 4:00 pm EST Official Information: From executive producers Steven Spielberg, Peter Chernin, Brannon Braga, René Echevarria and Aaron Kaplan comes an epic family adventure 85 million years in the making. TERRA NOVA follows an ordinary family on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149, the world is dying....

Antoine Fuqua Eyed For ‘Equalizer 2’, ‘Magnificent Seven’, And ‘Narco Sub’ By Angie Han/May 29, 2014 6:00 am EST Which is pretty good news for Fuqua in itself, but that’s not all. He’s apparently also eyeing the former Tony Scott project Narco Sub at Fox, and The Equalizer 2 at Sony. Hit the jump for the latest on all three potential projects. Finally, there’s Magnificent Seven, which once had Tom Cruise attached to star....

Cool Stuff: ‘Imagined Worlds,’ Art Based On The Films Of Del Toro, Gilliam, Kubrick, Lynch And Scott By Germain Lussier/Jan. 17, 2014 11:00 am EST When you think of filmmakers who build unique, vast worlds, five that certainly come to mind are Guillermo del Toro, Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch and Ridley Scott. Which is why the Hero Complex Gallery chose those five men as the subjects of Imagined Worlds, their latest exhibit at the Los Angeles based art gallery....