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Zac Efron And Robert De Niro Team Up For Raunchy Comedy ‘Driving Dick Kelly’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 5, 2014 9:30 am EST He’s definitely not Morgan Freeman, but soon Zac Efron will be Driving Dick Kelly. The Neighbors star has just signed on to star in the raunchy comedy with the legendary Robert De Niro. Formerly titled “Dirty Grandpa,” the film is about a recently widowed Army vet (De Niro) who convinces his lame grandson (Efron) to bring him to Spring Break....

‘3 Days To Kill’ Trailer And Poster: Kevin Costner Would Kill To Bond With His Kid By Angie Han/Dec. 17, 2013 9:45 am EST Reconnecting with an estranged teenage daughter isn’t an easy task in any circumstance, but in 3 Days to Kill, Kevin Costner finds his attempts at familial bonding complicated even further by the discovery that he’s suffering from a terminal illness. If this were a Nicholas Sparks adaptation, that’d mean we had a lot of weeping and hugging to look forward to....

By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2013 11:48 am EST Briefly: The talk of a Gremlins sequel has turned to talk of a remake, and now we’ve got one person who is reportedly shepherding the film through the Warner Bros. machine. Seth Grahame-Smith, creator of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and the screenwriter of Dark Shadows, has been given the reigns to the remake.Bloody Disgusting reports that Grahame-Smith is working alongside David Katzenberg....

‘Maniac’ Remake Red-Band Trailer: You’ve Never Seen Elijah Wood So Creepy By Russ Fischer/May 17, 2012 12:30 pm EST William Lustig’s Maniac, released in 1980, is not a nice movie. It is an exploitation classic; a weird, super-creepy story of a very damaged man (originally played by Joe Spinell) who kills women as a way to articulate rage towards his deceased mother. It is dirty but effective, and A Maniac remake shot recently with Elijah Wood in the lead role, and it doesn’t look like a nice movie, either....

‘Star Wars’ Script Complete; J.J. Abrams Confirms Jesse Plemons In Talks By Angie Han/Jan. 19, 2014 7:40 pm EST We heard last month that Disney was expecting J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan to turn in a Star Wars Episode VII script in January, and it looks like they’ve met their deadline. Abrams confirmed at a recent event that the script was indeed complete, and that they were “deep” into pre-production....

‘The Wolverine’ Sequel Will Be Based On An Existing Comic Book Plotline By Angie Han/Nov. 22, 2013 2:45 pm EST James Mangold and Hugh Jackman have been pretty vague so far about the “really cool ideas” they’re considering for the upcoming sequel to The Wolverine, especially because they haven’t settled on any one concept just yet. But one thing we now know for certain is that it’ll be based on an existing comic book storyline....

‘Two Days, One Night’ Trailer: Marion Cotillard Stars For ‘The Kid With A Bike’ Directors By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2014 2:00 pm EST The Kid With a Bike, the last film from sibling directors Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, was one of the best films of 2011, and will probably end up standing as one of the best films of the decade. So we’d be excited at the prospect of any new film from the brothers....

Arnold Schwarzenegger To Return For Terminator 4? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 28, 2007 9:20 pm EST When MGM first announced Terminator 4, they warned fans that the movie would feature an all new cast, which includes an all new Terminator. Many people speculated that because of his political career, Arnold would be absent. “We did have to think about a new franchise character. He couldn’t carry the movies anymore. So that caused us to have, I think, a pretty novel approach about what the new terminator would be like,” screenwriter John Brancato said....

Brett Ratner In Talks To Direct Remake Of The Incredible Shrinking Man For Universal By Hunter Stephenson/April 18, 2008 9:58 pm EST “Mayonaise. Nom nom nom.” Pssssssst, put your ear up to the monitor. Here that? That’s the sound of so many strikes at a bowling alley. Brett Ratner and Eddie Murphy: together at last for a presumably plastic potty-humored family comedy! Ratner is in talks to helm a remake of the 1957 movie The Incredible Shrinking Man for Universal, with Murphy circling the lead....

Cameron Crowe Teams With J.J. Abrams For Showtime’s ‘Roadies’ [UPDATED] By Angie Han/June 18, 2014 1:45 pm EST UPDATE: The LAT reports that Showtime has officially greenlit the Roadies pilot. It’s not a series pickup, but the odds of us seeing the show someday just got a little bit better. Plus, read a new comment from Crowe about the show after the jump.Cameron Crowe’s next release, a romcom set in Hawaii, sounds like quintessential Cameron Crowe....

Cool Stuff: Art Posters For ‘Casablanca’ And ‘The Usual Suspects’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 18, 2013 11:30 am EST In the world of pop culture art, there are a handful of titles that are explored ad-nauseum. Films like The Thing, Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Halloween etc. are so revered, there are literally dozens of different interpretations by different artists. Today, however, we have posters for two multiple Oscar-winning classics that rarely get the pop culture treatment: Casablanca and The Usual Suspects....

Cool Stuff: Artistic ‘X-Men Days Of Future Past’ Posters By Germain Lussier/March 5, 2014 9:39 am EST These X-Men Days of Future Past posters highlight one thing: the film is one of the biggest and most varied wild cards of the upcoming summer movie season. Normally, any X-Men movie would be a home run, but director Bryan Singer has really swung for the fences this time, attempting to link the new “First Class” continuity with the original storyline in a massive multiple-timeline action film featuring several dozen mutants, some at two different ages....

Disney Chief Insists ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ Will Arrive In 2015; No New Info Coming From D23 By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2013 10:53 am EST Disney’s live-action panel is under way at the company’s D23 expo in Anaheim CA right now, and Disney chief Alan Horn didn’t waste time getting right to what everyone wants to hear about : Star Wars. But the short news is that there’s no news. Horn basically recapped the info we know: Michael Arndt is scripting, J....

Drew Struzan Rumored To Return For ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ By Russ Fischer/May 19, 2014 4:44 pm EST Poster artist Drew Struzan may have “retired” not long ago, but he still does the odd piece of work here and there. Some of Struzan’s most famous posters are for the Star Wars films, and with Star Wars Episode VII in production there has been plenty of reason to assume he’ll do a new one-sheet for the JJ Abrams continuation of George Lucas’ saga....

Greta Gerwig To Lead ‘How I Met Your Dad’ By Angie Han/Feb. 11, 2014 7:40 pm EST Greta Gerwig is the new Josh Radnor. The Frances Ha actress has just been cast as the lead in How I Met Your Dad, CBS’ upcoming sorta-spinoff of How I Met Your Mother. Like the original series, the new show will follow a young(ish) single person trying to find love in New York....

J.K. Rowling Says Hermione Should Have Ended Up With Harry Potter By Angie Han/Feb. 3, 2014 9:30 am EST In the Harry Potter books and films, there’s never much question that Hermione will end up with Ron instead of Harry. Although she and Harry share a warm friendship, they never seem to see each other in a romantic way, whereas she and Ron spend years bickering and flirting and getting jealous before finally ending up together in the last volume....

LOL: Nick Kroll Explains How To Cope With Post Comic-Con Stress Disorder By Angie Han/July 17, 2013 5:00 pm EST Each year, we at /Film look forward to the madness that is Comic-Con: the buzzy Hall H panels, the boozy after-parties, the eye-popping cosplayers, the extravagant booths, the exclusive collectibles, all of it. It’s sensory overload at its geekiest, and though we’re typically bone-tired by the end, we’d also be lying if we said we weren’t excited to do it all again next year....

LOL: Shaquille O’Neal Crowdfunding ‘Shaq Fu 2’ Video Game By Germain Lussier/March 6, 2014 4:00 pm EST Shaquille O’Neal wants to make a video game. Scratch that. He wants to make another video game. The star of the 1994 fighting game Shaq-Fu has taken to IndieGoGo to raise funds for a reboot of that title, called Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn. Check out the pitch video, teaser and more below. The full IndieGoGo can be accessed here, but here’s a teaser of the game....

New ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ TV Spot And Beautiful Fan Art By Germain Lussier/June 5, 2014 12:20 pm EST According to writer/director James Gunn, Thursday night’s NBA Finals game will include both 30- and 60-second commercials for his upcoming Marvel adventure, Guardians of the Galaxy. No need to wait for Lebron James and Tony Parker to suit up, though, as the first spot has already appeared online. It has a few awesome new shots including a few of Lee Pace as Ronan the Accuser (he’s the hooded guy at the beginning) and Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) affirming the badassness of the Guardians....

New ‘Noah’ Set Photos Reveal Costumes, Logan Lerman And The Ark Itself By Germain Lussier/Aug. 31, 2012 2:30 pm EST NO PHOTOS Coming off the Oscar-winning Black Swan, director Darren Aronofsky could have done anything, so after dropping The Wolverine, he decided to build an ark. He’s currently shooting Noah, the Biblical tale of a man who builds an ark to save life on Earth after receiving a message from God....