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Girls Play Games In First Clip From Lars Von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’ By Angie Han/June 28, 2013 8:02 am EST Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac doesn’t even have a U.S. release date yet, but Magnolia has already offered up a little morsel to whet our appetite for the film. The just-released clip comes from the first chapter of the film, called “The Compleat Angler.” Although Joe is the nymphomaniac of the film’s title, in this early scene she’s the naive one....

James Bond May Face Blofeld And SPECTRE On Film Once More By Russ Fischer/Nov. 15, 2013 4:00 pm EST For years, the world has been safe from Ernst Stavro Blofeld (above, played by Donald Pleasence in the first incarnation to show his face) and the evil SPECTRE organization, not because James Bond and his MI6 cohorts are just that good at their jobs, but because legal wrangling prevented recent Bond films from using the two villainous names....

Johnny Depp And David Koepp Reuniting For ‘Mortdecai’ By Russ Fischer/July 11, 2013 10:00 am EST Johnny Depp’s The Lone Ranger died at the box office last weekend, and looks likely to land as one of his films that finds particularly minor traction in the minds of audiences. In other words, most of the people who’ll remember The Lone Ranger in ten years are those who made and paid for it....

Michael Fassbender Joins ‘Trespass Against Us’; The Chemical Brothers To Score By Angie Han/Oct. 31, 2013 1:00 pm EST Many directors make their narrative feature debuts on small, making dirt-cheap indies with no-name leads. Not Adam Smith. The TV and music video helmer has set white-hot actor Michael Fassbender to star in his gangster pic Trespass Against Us, and The Chemical Brothers to score. The script, by Alastair Siddons, has Fassbender following the opposite trajectory of his The Counselor arc: Instead of sliding into a life of crime, Trespass Against Us’s protagonist will try to climb out of the one he was already born into....

New ‘Flash Gordon’ Movie Coming From ‘Star Trek 3’ Scribes By Angie Han/April 22, 2014 6:00 pm EST The property has remained popular through the ages, spawning three serial films in the late ’30s, a live-action series in the ’50s, a live-action movie in 1980, three different animated series between the late ’70s and the mid-’90s, and another live-action series in the mid-aughts. Payne and McKay have worked on a few high-profile projects, but none that have actually hit theaters yet....

Oliver Stone Wanted For Martin Luther King Biopic, Jamie Foxx May Star [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2013 4:40 pm EST Oliver Stone is going back to his favorite subject matter: influential American personalities, particularly those of the past middle century. He’s already chronicled JFK and Nixon (and George W. Bush) and now Stone is in early talks to make a film about Martin Luther King, Jr. This is one of a few different MLK films that have been in development recently, but the DreamWorks and Warner Bros....

Six New ‘Transformers 4’ Photos Reveal Upgraded Autobots Weapons; Plus New Poster By Germain Lussier/May 12, 2014 8:33 am EST Three new Transformers 4 photos have been released and they finally let us zoom in on the Autobots. In Transformers: Age of Extinction, the transformers are in hiding after the public perception of them turns. This will surely change, though, once the Decepticons start to unravel a dastardly plot and the robots in disguise are needed to save the world....

Superhero Bits: Legends Of The Knights, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Iron Man 3, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Hellboy, Wolverine By Germain Lussier/Feb. 21, 2013 3:30 pm EST Why is President Roosevelt in The Amazing Spider-Man 2? What’s the latest on direct-to-DVD superhero films Superman: Unbound and Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United? Want to see the trailer for upcoming Batman documentary Legends of the Knights? Who did Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn recently meet with?...

Thanks To You, Our Movie Was Fully Funded In 12 Days By David Chen/March 7, 2014 6:30 am EST Wow. It’s been a wild ride but you guys have taken our Kickstarter project from $0 to fully funded in about 12 days. Thanks so much to everyone in the /Film community for making this happen! After the jump, see a special, heartfelt thank you video from Stephen Tobolowsky himself. We are working to put together some cool stretch goals, but in the meantime, if you’re a fan of The Tobolowsky Files, there are still a couple of reward tiers you can still back us for in order to receive bonus episodes of the podcast....

Watch Disney’s Hand-Drawn / CG Hybrid Short ‘Paperman’ In Full By Angie Han/Jan. 30, 2013 10:30 am EST If you caught Wreck-It Ralph last fall — and considering its $182 million domestic box office gross, there’s a good chance you did — you’ve probably already seen Paperman, Disney’s buzzed-about 2D animated short. But if you missed it, or if you did see it but are just eager to relive the magic, you’re in luck....

‘Ant-Man’ Shortlist Is Down To Joseph Gordon-Levitt And Paul Rudd By Russ Fischer/Oct. 14, 2013 3:35 pm EST What sort of movie is Edgar Wright planning to make with Ant-Man, and who’ll he get to play the lead? Coming from Wright, whose films all feature a mix of action and comedy, and given his fun and energetic demo reel for the character, it’s no surprise to see that there’s likely a real comic slant to the film....

‘Blood Ties’ Trailer And Poster: Clive Owen And Billy Crudup As Morally Compromised Brothers By Russ Fischer/May 20, 2013 6:37 pm EST Another big Cannes premiere this year was the crime drama Blood Ties, co-written by Two Lovers director James Gray, and the first English-language film directed by Guillaume Canet (Tell No One). The film has quite a cast, and a period ’70s setting in Brooklyn, as it remakes the 2008 French thriller Les liens du sang by Jacques Maillot....

‘Frozen’ Honest Trailer: “From The Studio That Finally Learned To Make Pixar Movies” By Germain Lussier/March 14, 2014 7:00 am EST As usual, it’s hard to argue with the Frozen Honest Trailer. The team from Screen Junkies has taken the year’s biggest animated film, a multiple Oscar-winner, and expertly, hilariously dissected it. They point out some really funny parallels, the flaws in the songs, and how Frozen is more a Pixar movie than several new Pixar movies and much more....

Damon Lindelof Offers Update On ‘1952:’ Brad Bird Co-Writing, Hoping To Shoot In 2013 By Germain Lussier/Dec. 24, 2012 9:49 am EST Brad Bird’s next film 1952, also known as not Star Wars Episode VII despite early rumors to the contrary, has yet to be greenlit. Screenwriter Damon Lindelof is confident, however, that it will get made. In a new interview, the man who co-created Lost and co-wrote Prometheus, Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness, explains how he got Bird on board the project....

Director Bits: Jennifer Lee To Co-Direct Disney’s ‘Frozen;’ Gus Van Sant Writing Martial Arts Movie; ‘The Disappearance Of Alice Creed’ Helmer Spins ‘Wool’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 29, 2012 1:10 pm EST Now Lee has been named as co-director of Frozen, alongside Chris Buck (Tarzan director, Surf’s Up co-director). After the break, get the plot recap of Frozen, and read about how Gus Van Sant is writing a strange superhero movie, and The Disappearance of Alice Creed director is going post-apocalyptic....

Disney Splits With Jerry Bruckheimer [Update] By Germain Lussier/Sept. 20, 2013 10:30 am EST Update: Variety has since confirmed that Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer “will not seek to renew a first-look deal when it expires next year.” Original story from September 17th 2013 follows.Jerry Bruckheimer has been in the news a lot recently. The mega-producer was forced to delay the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie, and might head to Paramount once again to work on the Beverly Hills Cop franchise....

Edgar Wright Has An ‘Ant-Man’ Update By Angie Han/Feb. 6, 2013 1:30 pm EST But Wright says he had his reasons for taking his time, two of which were Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and The World’s End. Moreover, he points out, Ant-Man could ultimately benefit from the slow schedule, since he knows much more about special effects now than he did back in 2006. Read his latest comments about the long-awaited project after the jump....

Exclusive: New ‘True Romance’ Poster, With Detroit And Los Angeles-Themed Editions By Germain Lussier/Feb. 20, 2014 8:30 am EST Odd City Entertainment is making the best of their True Romance license, releasing a second poster from the iconic 1993 Tony Scott film. We’re proud to exclusively debut this poster by rising Polish star Gabz, which shows many of the film’s signature characters and moments wrapped in the true symbol of romance: Cupid....

Exclusive Sundance Poster Debut: Oscar-Nominated Animated Film ‘Ernest & Celestine’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 16, 2014 2:00 pm EST A newly minted Oscar-nominee for Best Animated Feature is premiering its English Language version at this week’s Sundance Film Festival and we’ve got your exclusive first look at the poster. The film is called Ernest & Celestine; it tells the story of a rivalry between mice and bears. Directed by Benjamin Renner, Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, the film was a festival darling and was recently named Best Animated Film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association....

First Look: Jason Segel As David Foster Wallace In ‘End Of The Tour’ By Angie Han/March 19, 2014 4:00 pm EST Much as we love Jason Segel, he seemed like an, um, unexpected choice when he was cast as late author David Foster Wallace in James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour. But now that shooting is underway, we have a much better idea of what Segel will look like in character… and the jury’s still out, I’d say....