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New Director Short List For ‘Masters Of The Universe’ Revealed By Germain Lussier/Feb. 26, 2014 3:37 pm EST Jon C. Chu’s recent departure from the latest live-action adaptation of Masters of the Universe left Sony without a director. New screenwriter Terry Rossio has now had a few months to work on the script and finally, by the power of Grayskull, three names have emerged as front runners. They are Mike Cahill (Another Earth), Chris McKay (The Lego Movie) and Harald Zwart (The Karate Kid)....

Posters: ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ Gets Seventeen Character Onesheets, ‘Les Misérables’ Couples Cozy Up By Angie Han/Nov. 2, 2012 4:00 pm EST Individual character posters are practically de rigeur when marketing a big franchise tentpole, but it’s a strategy that works way better when the film in question has, say, four to ten main characters. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey features no fewer than seventeen characters that Warner Bros.’ marketing team has deemed onesheet-worthy, which just seems like overkill no matter how important each of them are....

Quentin Tarantino Directing ‘The Hateful Eight’… On Stage, For One Night Only By Russ Fischer/April 3, 2014 11:15 am EST As a film, Quentin Tarantino’s western The Hateful Eight is dead. (Or it may not be, but don’t queue up for tickets any time soon.) The script, however, will come to life on stage at LACMA thanks to Film Independent. That’s the same outfit that promotes Jason Reitman’s Live Read series, which we’ve covered many times in the past....

See Stan Lee’s Deleted ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Cameo By Germain Lussier/Sept. 4, 2014 7:00 am EST Stan Lee has inspired the lives of so many collectors, it would have made sense for The Collector himself to have Stan Lee. That was the original plan in Guardians of the Galaxy. Over the weekend, writer/director James Gunn revealed his first idea for Lee’s cameo was to be a piece The Collector’s Museum....

Soundtrack Bits: Philip Glass On ‘Stoker,’ James Newton Howard On ‘Maleficent’ & ‘Catching Fire, Hans Zimmer Across The Universe By Germain Lussier/Oct. 30, 2012 5:00 am EST Music links the four pieces of news found after the jump in this article. There you’ll read about: Philip Glass will contribute music to Park Chan-wook’s Stoker. James Newton Howard is doing the scores for Maleficent and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Hans Zimmer’s Inception score is remixed to show the scope of the universe....

Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy, Ant-Man, Gotham, Iron Man 3, Batman V Superman, Aquaman By Germain Lussier/July 14, 2014 5:00 pm EST New Iron Man 3 suit from Hot Toys. This one is called Bones. Marvel is announcing something on The View Tuesday afternoon. It’s comic book related. Some new images from Max Steel via Superhero Hype, which will be out in 2015. Badass Digest got their hands on an early Amazing Spider-Man 2 script and list 10 changes....

Video: ‘Fact Or Fictional’ Tackles The Science Of ‘Breaking Bad’ By Angie Han/Aug. 23, 2013 5:00 pm EST Walter White considers himself to be a damn brilliant chemist on Breaking Bad, but does his science hold up under real-life scrutiny? That’s the question posed by the latest episode of Fact or Fictional, the web series hosted by Veronica Belmont. Guest expert Dr. Jovana J. Grbic, who holds a PhD in chemistry, examines Walt’s fulminated mercury trick, his use of methylamine to cook drugs, and his solution to the dead RV battery (which was not a robot, to Jesse’s eternal disappointment)....

Watch: Tywin And Pycelle Go Fishing In ‘Game Of Thrones’ Deleted Scene By Angie Han/Aug. 16, 2013 10:45 am EST Game of Thrones isn’t due to return for another seven or eight months, which means at this point we have to take our glimpses of Westeros where we can get ’em. Today, our little slice of the Seven Kingdoms comes courtesy of HBO itself, which has just posted a fun deleted scene from Season 3....

WTF: Does Robert Downey Jr. Want Mel Gibson In ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron?’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 2, 2014 4:30 pm EST In the past twenty years, Robert Downey Jr. and Mel Gibson have all but switched places. Back then Gibson was one of the biggest stars in the world and Downey Jr. was known for being a partying troublemaker. Fast forward to now, and thanks to Marvel, Downey is one of the biggest box office stars on the planet while Gibson is persona non grata thanks to his anti-Semitic rants and other bouts of anger....

Zack Snyder Suggests Lex Luthor Appears In ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ As Kevin Smith Praises New Batman Suit By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2013 9:51 am EST Kevin Smith moderated a chat with Zack Snyder over the weekend to promote the blu-ray release of Man of Steel, and while there wasn’t a lot of big overt news about the film, a couple of small things did end up online. One was in the fan Q&A itself, in which Snyder dropped a small reference to Lex Luthor, in a way that suggests Luthor will be in Batman vs....

‘Armada’ From ‘Ready Player One’ Author Ernie Cline In Development At Universal [Updated] By Germain Lussier/Dec. 6, 2012 4:45 pm EST Update: Today Variety reports that Universal has picked up rights to Armada, and is developing a film with Scott Stuber’s Bluegrass Films (Ted, Safe House) and Dan Farah’s Farah Films. The Hollywood Reporter then offers the following, Last Starfighter-esque details on the plot: “ARMADA centers on a group of MMO players who play a game titled Armada that are recruited by a govt agency to use their unique skills, honed by playing the game, to fight a larger threat....

‘Paradise’ Trailer: Julianne Hough Is The Sweetest Little Girl In Las Vegas By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2013 10:25 am EST In Paradise, Julianne Hough stars as a young woman who renounces her faith after a plane crash leaves her scarred. She travels to Las Vegas to indulge in all the behaviors that sh has avoided in life, and runs across characters played by Russell Brand, Octavia Spencer and Nick Offerman. The film is written by Diablo Cody (Juno, Young Adult), who also makes her directorial debut....

‘The Way Way Back’ UK Trailer By Russ Fischer/July 5, 2013 11:00 am EST The Descendants writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash take a turn directing with the coming of age summer story The Way Way Back. The film finds teen Duncan (Liam James of The Killing) on summer vacation with his mother (Toni Collette) and her somewhat dickish boyfriend (Steve Carell), and his daughter Steph (Zoe Levin). Duncan and his would-be stepfather don’t have the easiest relationship, but the introverted Duncan doesn’t have easy relationships with many people....

Alan Cumming Also Returning For ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’, Says James McAvoy [UPDATED] By Angie Han/March 12, 2013 2:00 pm EST [UPDATE: Coming Soon has now verified that Alan Cumming will not, in fact, return for X-Men: Days of Future Past. It’s unclear who they spoke with, but since Cumming was never 100% confirmed for the film this shouldn’t come as too much of a shocker. Original story follows.]...

Emmy Rossum Reports From The Sand Dunes Set Of Dragonball By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 24, 2008 6:49 pm EST Emmy Rossum has posted a new update from the sand dunes set of Dragonball (the big screen live action Dragonball-Z movie). Rossum describes the set located outside Dunas de Bilbao as “a sand dune desert.” “I’ve been riding the motorcycle in 4-foot sand drifts since sunrise to get the shot just right. The wonderful, kind and talented Chow Yun Fat is hanging on for dear life in back....

First Look: Benedict Cumberbatch As Alan Turing In ‘The Imitation Game’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 26, 2013 5:52 pm EST Alan Turing served his country during WWII, when he helped develop one of Enland’s most significant machines to break German codes. He served mankind by doing other research and design that paved the way for future ideas in computer science and AI. And he was gay, for which led to criminal prosecution in 1952....

Geek Deal: The Hannibal Lecter Blu-Ray Collection For Only $14.99 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 29, 2012 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

How Did Disney Animate Such Beautiful Snow For ‘Frozen’? By Russ Fischer/Nov. 27, 2013 7:00 am EST Some people who just wants to enjoy the beauty of falling snow, without knowing much about it; they might not be interested in knowing about the ways that temperature, humidity, and other factors conspire to create specific types of snow. But that information is so cool, I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t want to know more....

James Mangold Tweets Ten Inspirations For ‘The Wolverine’ By Germain Lussier/March 4, 2013 11:09 am EST Everything we’ve heard about The Wolverine has sold it as a very unique superhero movie. Star Hugh Jackman and director James Mangold have repeatedly explained how, though this is an X-Men movie, it’s much more character-based and emotional than most films derived from comic books. The foreign setting and international cast also lends a feel that is different from the average tentpole....

Joel Silver Suggests ‘Escape From New York’ Remake Would Be At Center Of New Trilogy By Germain Lussier/Feb. 10, 2014 11:45 am EST So is a remake of Escape From New York actually happening? Producer Joel Silver hopes so. It’s a project that’s been in development for almost a decade, most recently switching rights between studios. Even with the struggles, the producer behind The Matrix, Lethal Weapon and Die Hard has a very strong vision of how Snake Plissken can once again flourish on the big screen....