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Images And Info On Relativity’s Navy SEAL Movie ‘Act Of Valor,’ Starring Real Navy SEALs By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2011 11:00 am EST [No photo] The Navy SEALs got a massive PR boost when the killing of Osama Bin Laden was announced. Not that the special forces team really needed a boost, given that the SEALs are one of the most highly-regarded military teams in the world. But the boost came regardless, and one of the aftereffects is that quite a few companies want to make movies or TV about the team and the operations it undertakes....

J.J. Abrams Endorses Rupert Wyatt For ‘Star Trek 3’ And Offers Development Update By Germain Lussier/Sept. 11, 2013 1:45 pm EST The team behind the new Star Trek films has not yet selected a director for the part three. J.J. Abrams, who directed Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness, can’t return because of his commitment to Star Wars Episode VII. That leaves the door open for someone new to come in....

Lupita Nyong’o Will Produce And Star In ‘Americanah’ By Russ Fischer/June 6, 2014 12:35 pm EST Lupita Nyong’o only just arrived as a feature actress, via her tremendous Oscar-winning performance in 12 Years a Slave. Now, after completing a role in Non-Stop and booking a gig in Star Wars Episode VII, she’s making a step that takes some actors a very long time to achieve. Rather than waiting for her ideal role to come around, she is producing an adaptation of the novel Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie....

Marvel Called J.J. Abrams For Help With First ‘Iron Man’ [UPDATE] By Germain Lussier/March 6, 2013 1:30 pm EST Is there anything J.J. Abrams isn’t doing? Star Trek? Check. Star Wars? Check. Television shows? Check. Video games? Maybe. And now, it seems he even might have had a minor influence on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In a new interview with Robert Downey Jr. (not ours, that’ll be up Thursday) Downey revealed that, in the same way he and director Jon Favreau talked to Shane Black for some help in the first Iron Man film, the group contacted also Abrams for some suggestions on the third act of the original Iron Man....

Marvel Developing Package Of New TV Series By Russ Fischer/Oct. 14, 2013 11:06 pm EST Now the cat is partially out of the bag about Marvel’s next plan for television. (Is this phase two, or the second half of phase one?) The company has several new shows in development, and while we don’t know much about any one of them, we’ll pass along the first info below. Hint: these probably won’t be on ABC....

Mondo Celebrates Alfred Hitchcock’s Birthday With Posters For ‘Psycho’ And ‘Vertigo’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 12, 2013 4:30 pm EST Legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899. That’s makes tomorrow his birthday and though the director passed away 33 years ago, his legacy can still be felt today. To celebrate the Master of Suspense’s birth, Mondo is revealing brand new posters for two of his most well-regarded films....

Movie Trailer: ‘The Eagle,’ Formerly ‘The Eagle Of The Ninth’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 10, 2010 10:59 am EST There is now a trailer for The Eagle, formerly The Eagle of the Ninth, from director Kevin Macdonald (State of Play, The Last King of Scotland, One Day in September). The film trods similar ground to Neil Marshall’s Centurion in that both films are about the fabled Ninth Roman Legion, which disappeared in the mists of Scotland....

New ‘Noah’ Images Tease Russell Crowe And The Supporting Players By Russ Fischer/June 27, 2013 2:45 pm EST Darren Aronofsky’s telling of the great Biblical flood, which will hit theater screens as Noah, has gone quiet in the past few months. The film shot last year, with Russell Crowe in the lead, and Emma Watson, Jennifer Connelly, Logan Lerman, Ray Winstone and Anthony Hopkins rounding out the primary supporting cast....

Noah Emmerich Rounds Out ‘Jane Got A Gun’ Cast By Angie Han/April 10, 2013 12:38 pm EST For the past several weeks, the casting of Jane Got a Gun has played like an extra-handsome version of musical chairs. First Michael Fassbender and Joel Edgerton were in, then Fassbender departed and Edgerton took his place. Jude Law was brought in to take Edgerton’s old slot, but then he left too. Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Jeff Bridges were eyed as potential replacements for Law, before Bradley Cooper finally booked the part....

Ron Howard To Direct ’80s-Set Drug-Smuggling Film ‘Mena’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 10, 2014 9:43 am EST Universal spent $1 million to purchase a spec script this weekend and has already set marquee director Ron Howard to helm it. The script is called Mena and was written by Gary Spinelli. It tells the true story of Barry Seal, a 300-pound pilot who illegally transported guns, drugs and other contraband for both the CIA and multiple drug cartels....

Set Visit Preview: Kenneth Branagh Promises ‘Jack Ryan’ Will Have No Dutch Angles By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 7, 2013 9:00 am EST On October 25th 2012 I found myself sitting in The White Horse pub watching a monitor showing Chris Pine run through the misty rain into a financial building. While the sequence in Jack Ryan is supposed to take place in the brand-new financial center in Moscow, Russia (a clue to the film’s antagonist) it was being filmed in Liverpool, England....

Stephen Daldry’s Trash Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2014 5:00 am EST Universal Pictures Brazil has released the first Trash trailer, a film by Stephen Daldry which is likely to hit theaters this fall during the Fall 2014 film festival season. Trash tells the story of “three boys in a third world country who scrape a living by picking through trash. One day they find a leather bag, the contents of which plunge them into a terrifying adventure, pitting their wits against corruption and authority to right a wrong....

Superhero Bits: Iron Man 3, Wonder Woman, Kick-Ass 2, Stan Lee, Avengers Assemble, Deadpool By Germain Lussier/March 8, 2013 4:30 pm EST Want to see Tony Stark’s car in Iron Man 3? Which company is making Iron Man sneakers? When might we see the Kick-Ass 2 trailer? Has Disney XD set release dates for Marvel’s Avengers Assemble and Hulk And The Agents S.M.A.S.H.? How does Joss Whedon looking back at his Wonder Woman movie?...

The /Filmcast: Bonus Ep. - The 85th Annual Academy Awards By David Chen/Feb. 24, 2013 10:55 pm EST Dave, Devindra, Germain, and Russ chat about their thoughts on this year’s Academy Awards. How funny and offensive was Seth MacFarlane? Who still remembers Chicago? What the hell were Paul Rudd and Melissa McCarthy doing up there? Tune in and find out! You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....

VOTD: Patton Oswalt Pitches Epic ‘Star Wars’ Plot In ‘Parks & Rec’ Outtake By Angie Han/April 17, 2013 12:45 pm EST Star Wars Episode VII already has a writer in Michael Arndt, but on this week’s Parks & Recreation Patton Oswalt will make a good case for ditching Arndt and turning the scripting duties over to him instead. In the episode, the comedian-writer plays a Pawnee citizen attempting to filibuster a city council vote....

‘Deliver Us From Evil’ International Trailer: Primary Evil By Angie Han/April 10, 2014 11:00 am EST In the hottest, stickiest days of summer, Scott Derrickson (Sinister) will be trying his best to give you the chills. Sony’s big release this Fourth of July weekend is Derrickson’s Deliver Us From Evil, and a new international trailer has been served up to show you what it’s all about. Inspired by a true story (because of course it is), Deliver Us From Evil centers around NYPD cop Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana), who teams with an unconventional priest (Édgar Ramírez) to investigate a series of disturbing crimes....

‘Jurassic World’ Is The New ‘Jurassic Park’ Sequel Title; Dated For Summer 2015 By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2013 6:08 pm EST Briefly: The new Jurassic Park movie has a final title: Jurassic World. With that the delayed release, once meant to hit screens in 2014, also has a new release date. The film will now open on June 12, 2015. Various outlets reported the short press release, but we’ll give the photo finish to Borys at THR:...

‘Key & Peele’ Duo Teaming With Judd Apatow For Universal Pictures By Angie Han/Nov. 13, 2013 1:30 pm EST Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are experts at riffing on other people’s movies for their Comedy Central show Key & Peele, whether they’re playing valets obsessed with “Liam Neesons,” satirizing Django Unchained’s fight scenes, or singing over each other in homage to Les Mis. But soon, they’ll get the chance to make a film of their own....

‘The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug’ Gets 25 New Minutes On Extended Edition Blu By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2014 12:30 pm EST The inevitable extended edition of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug hits blu-ray in November, and it will have 25 minutes added to the film. The second chapter in Peter Jackson’s three-film adaptation of The Hobbit (with some other Tolkien material added) will feature quite a few extended scenes, and a host of behind the scenes documentaries, and commentaries from Jackson and writer Philippa Boyens....

‘The Truth About Emanuel’ Trailer: Jessica Biel Becomes A Strange Surrogate Mother By Russ Fischer/Nov. 6, 2013 12:30 pm EST When this film premiered at Sundance this year, it was called Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes, and we even saw a trailer under that title. For regular release, however, the title has been streamlined a bit, to the more conventional The Truth About Emanuel. Jessica Biel stars as a woman whose young neighbor neighbor thinks Biel looks a lot like her dead mother....