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Joe Wright Courted To Direct ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ [Updated] By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2013 2:15 pm EST For months now Universal’s division Focus Features has been developing a film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey, the runaway bestseller that began as Twilight fan fiction and grew into a sensation that turned every supermarket into a purveyor of bondage fantasies. The story follows the kinky romantic and sexual relationship between 27-year-old billionaire Christian Grey and naive college student Anastasia Steele....

Jonah Hill’s 21 Jump Street Has A Part For Johnny Depp By Hunter Stephenson/May 17, 2008 7:25 pm EST Chris Penn’s funnay brother from another, Jonah Hill, talked up his upcoming reincarnation of 21 Jump Street to MTV, mentioning that the flick has a part open for the show’s original cover boy Johnny Depp. Seeing Hill and Depp cutting up togeths on screen would not be un-rad in my estimation…...

Kevin Smith Could Become AMC’s Late Night Host By Germain Lussier/March 26, 2014 2:00 pm EST Kevin Smith, a late night host? AMC has asked the Clerks director to film a pilot of his Hollywood Babble-On podcast with Ralph Garman to potentially become a weekly late night talk show program. The company has also renewed Smith’s Comic Book Men for a fourth season and is developing a new show around one of that show’s frequent guests, collector Robert Bruce....

Nicolas Winding Refn Might Make Tokyo-Set ‘Valhalla Rising’ Sequel By Germain Lussier/June 21, 2013 9:20 am EST While most people know Nicolas Winding Refn for Bronson or Drive, sandwiched in-between the two was a film called Valhalla Rising. It follows a mute, imprisoned warrior in 1000 AD named One-Eye (Casino Royale’s Mads Mikkelsen) who breaks out of prison with the help of a young boy. Together, the pair board a Viking ship and end up in a mysterious land....

Oz Or Wonderland? Disney Really Wants Us To Equate Sam Raimi’s Latest With Tim Burton’s Fantasy Hit By Russ Fischer/Nov. 13, 2012 5:45 pm EST Briefly: Earlier today we ran the completed banner created to advertise Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great and Powerful. Since the first footage of the film premiered this past summer at Comic Con, we’ve talked about the degree to which it looks like Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which was a monster hit for Disney....

Page 2: Ghostbusters 3, Star Trek, Gremlins, Bill Murray, Muppets, Banksy, Stanley Kubrick, Back To The Future, Goonies, Bourne Legacy, Abduction, Star Wars, Futurama, Invisible Man By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2011 1:00 pm EST Darin Shock has released the second in the “Greatest Side Characters in Cinematic History” series. “Carl” is an 18×24?, 3 color screen print and is a limited edition of 50. Only $25. The first footage from Hunger Games will debut at the MTV Video Music Awards this Sunday at 9 p....

Page 2: Godzilla, Little Mermaid, Star Wars, Donnie Darko, Indiana Jones, Star Trek, Gremlins 2 By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2014 4:00 pm EST Header Photo: Godzilla Is 100% Better In Defense Of ‘Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom’, The Best Indiana Jones Movie15 Facts About ‘Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade’ So Fascinating They Belong In A Damn Museum Guy Goes All In With This Little Mermaid Chest Tattoo...

Page 2: Jolie And Eastwood, Borat Censored, 300 On NES, An Inconvenienced Superman And More By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2007 4:21 am EST What if Zack Snyder’s 300 were a NES video game? It would probably look and sound something like this. What do you get when you mash up Superman Returns and Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth? You get An Inconvenienced Superman, a short trailer for a movie that will never be....

Page 2: Predator, Frozen, Vacation, Mars Attacks, Transformers, Bambi, Star Wars, The Killing, PotA, Blade Runner, GoT By Peter Sciretta/June 26, 2014 1:30 pm EST Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Superhero Bits: Sin City 2, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Fantastic Four, The Dark Knight, Ant-Man By Germain Lussier/June 19, 2014 4:30 pm EST Want to see a new clip from Sin City: A Dame to Kill For? Has Robert Downey Jr. finished filming Avengers: Age of Ultron? Want to read a bunch of rumors from Age of Ultron as well as Ant-Man? What’s happening on the set of Fantastic Four? What characters might have DLC in Batman: Arkham Knight?...

The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 47 - The Metamorphic Man By David Chen/May 20, 2011 4:18 pm EST Everyone says change may be the key to the future. Is it possible that it is also the key to the past? The Tobolowsky Files is a podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky....

The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 8 - A Wager With Freddie By David Chen/Dec. 18, 2009 7:27 pm EST The Tobolowsky Files is a new podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky. In this episode, Stephen tells stories from the set of Night Visitors and makes an interesting wager with an unforgettable bar companion....

Three New Character Posters For ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 30, 2014 10:30 am EST With a $4 million Super Bowl spot coming in four days, Marvel is beginning to really push Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Peter visited the set and, in his interview with star Chris Evans, you can see a bunch of new images from the film. Three new character posters have also gone online....

By Germain Lussier/Oct. 11, 0057 12:30 pm EST It’s not everyday /Film posts clips from Dancing With the Stars, but when one of the dancers recreates an iconic moment in Nineties pop culture, it’s worth a look. Elizabeth Berkley and her partner, Val Chmerkovskiy, recreated the iconic Saved by the Bell caffeine pills scene complete with badly acted preamble, props, sets and of course the song “I’m So Excited.” Check it out below....

VOTD: TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX Renovation Time Lapse Video; Plus Facts On The New Theatre By Germain Lussier/Sept. 9, 2013 4:00 pm EST What does it look like when you take the most famous movie theater in the world and convert it into the largest IMAX theater in the world? Probably something like this. IMAX has just released a time lapse video showing the renovation of Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA into the brand new TCL IMAX Chinese Theatre....

Watch: 20-Minute ‘X-Men’ Interview With Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, And Michael Fassbender By Russ Fischer/April 16, 2014 5:00 am EST You’ve seen the most recent (and supposedly final) trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past. To complement it, stars Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, and Michael Fassbender took part in a 20-minute question and answer session in which they fielded inquiries about the new movie. But this isn’t the place where Fox’s well-oiled marketing machine suddenly breaks down and all manner of secrets are revealed....

Watch Katniss Demand Attention In New ‘Hunger Games’ Clip; Listen To Arcade Fire’s Closing Credits Tune “Abraham’s Daughter” By Angie Han/March 2, 2012 11:30 am EST Given how well Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games is tracking, it’s obvious the film’s having no trouble at all getting people’s attention. But Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is still struggling to make an impression in this new clip from the movie, which shows her trying to show off her talents to a distracted panel of Gamemakers led by Seneca Crane (Wes Bentley)....

‘24: Live Another Day’ Trailer: A Traitor And A Psychopath By Angie Han/March 10, 2014 3:14 pm EST The first 24: Live Another Day trailer was released during the Super Bowl last month. But the first 24: Live Another Day trailer featuring actual footage from the series was revealed this weekend. In it, CIA head Steve Harris (Benjamin Bratt) spots Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) for the first time in years. Like us in the audience, he seems excited to see Jack; unlike us, it’s because he thinks Jack is a bad guy....

‘Alcatraz’ Trailer: J.J. Abrams’ New Mystery Show Welcomes Us To Prison By Russ Fischer/Nov. 28, 2011 4:00 pm EST The show charts the mystery of hundreds of men, guards and prisoners, who disappeared from Alcatraz in 1963, and who are starting to reappear in our timeline now. After some trials and tribulations, the show is set for a January premiere, and you can check out a trailer for it below. Just so that there is no confusion about what’s going on, star Sam Neill is heard explaining “the worst criminals this country has ever known are coming back,” before actually welcoming us all to the island....

‘Catfish’ Filmmakers Set For YA Property ‘Nerve’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2014 2:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A high-stakes online game of dares turns deadly. When Vee is picked to be a player in NERVE, an anonymous game of dares broadcast live online, she discovers that the game knows her. They tempt her with prizes taken from her ThisIsMe page and team her up with the perfect boy, sizzling-hot Ian....