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Rooney Mara Boards Fact-Based Kidnapping Drama ‘A House In The Sky’ By Angie Han/June 25, 2014 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Based on Amanda Lindhout’s autobiographical memoir of the same title, A House in the Sky will chronicle the Canadian journalist’s abduction by terrorists in Somalia and her subsequent fifteen-month imprisonment. Hit the jump for more details. Lindhout and several members of her entourage were kidnapped in 2008 in Mogadishu, Somalia, by the terrorist group Hizbul Islam....

Second ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Poster Has ‘Mission: Impossible’ Feel By Germain Lussier/March 21, 2013 8:37 am EST Here’s the actual second poster for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness. If you’re having flashbacks to Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol while looking at it, you aren’t alone. In color scheme and composition, the posters are incredibly similar. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though. Ghost Protocol was a fantastic sequel and if Into Darkness lives up to that, we’re going to be very happy come May 17....

Star Wars Bits: Producer Talks Episode VII Canon, 3D Blu-Ray Rumor Plus Books, Boba Fett And Breakfast By Germain Lussier/April 22, 2014 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. At WonderCon this weekend, producer Simon Kinberg talked to IGN about Star Wars. Kinberg is of course writing a Star Wars spin-off, producing Episode VII as well as Rebels so he’s got a lot on his plate....

Superhero Bits: X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Man Of Steel, Thor: The Dark World, Stan Lee By Germain Lussier/Nov. 4, 2013 5:00 pm EST Did Thor: The Dark World do well at the international box office? Want to learn about the Man of Steel Blu-ray extras? How is Marvel redefining the franchise? Want to see Chris Pratt talk about Vin Diesel in Guardians of the Galaxy? Is Michael Fassbender going to use a new accent in X-Men: Days of Future Past?...

Three Actors On Short List To Team With Colin Firth In ‘The Secret Service’ By Germain Lussier/June 28, 2013 7:00 am EST Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming film, an adaptation of the Mark Millar story The Secret Service, is currently casting its second lead. Oscar-winner Colin Firth has already secured one role, that of an experienced secret agent who is in charge of mentoring a new recruit. Now the production is searching for his counterpart....

Tina Fey And Amy Poehler Team Up For ‘The Nest’ By Angie Han/April 9, 2014 9:45 am EST Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are famously close friends, and now they’re going to be sisters as well. On the big screen, anyway. The former Weekend Update co-anchors and Golden Globes co-hosts are set to star together in The Nest, a Universal comedy being directed by Pitch Perfect’s Jason Moore. Get plot details and more after the jump....

Tom Cruise Circling Guy Ritchie’s ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ By Angie Han/March 18, 2013 5:12 pm EST Warner Bros. is not giving up The Man From U.N.C.L.E. The spy thriller has been kicking around for several years at the studio, going through Matthew Vaughn, David Dobkin, and Steven Soderbergh before finally landing with Guy Ritchie in 2011. The project’s been pretty quiet sinc then, but now it may be about to take a big step forward....

The Grand Budapest Hotel Lego Again, the actual building will be in person at The Grove in Los Angeles from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. June 15 and 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 15. The Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson, hits Blu-ray June 17. I think it’s an absolute stunner of a film. Read my review here and check back over the weekend for detailed photos of the Lego hotel....

Watch The ‘Enormous’ Pilot: Humans Can Be As Threatening As Giant Monsters By Russ Fischer/March 20, 2014 5:00 pm EST It’s a good time for fans of giant monsters. There are the big guys on movie screens, in Pacific Rim and the upcoming Godzilla. But there are more monsters stalking the internet. The Enormous pilot, based on the graphic novel by Tim Daniel and Mehdi Cheggour, finds a small group of altruistic human survivors in the streets of Phoenix a year after the one-two punch of giant monster attacks and a viral outbreak decimated society....

Watch This: ‘The Raid’ Director Gareth Evans List His Top 5 Action Scenes By David Chen/April 22, 2014 7:10 am EST In the past five years, director Gareth Evans has seen has status grow from relative unknown to one of the best action directors alive. His film, Merantau, introduced the Indonesian martial arts form of Pencak Silat to the wider world, and his two follow-ups, The Raid and The Raid 2: Berandal (out in theaters right now), expanded on Silat’s usage and featured some of the most creatively shot and choreographed action/fight scenes in recent memory....

Watching ‘Parker’ At The Playboy Mansion Isn’t The Best Idea By Germain Lussier/Jan. 25, 2013 2:00 pm EST Last week, I was invited to the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles to see Parker. The film, directed by Oscar-nominee Taylor Hackford and starring Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez, is about a career criminal who vows revenge on a crew that left him for dead. That right there sounds like a film you’d want to see, but seeing at the Playboy Mansion just put it over the top....

Which Former X-Men Star Is Making A Cameo In ‘The Wolverine’? By Angie Han/Oct. 22, 2012 9:15 am EST The news comes shortly after the actress made coy comments regarding her possible return to the X-Men universe. When MTV brought up the subject during an interview for Taken 2, Janssen responded, “One never knows. Jean Grey, the Phoenix. She finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.” Janssen isn’t the only former X-Men star coming back to the franchise, either....

‘Beautiful Mind’ Writer Akiva Goldsman To Pen ‘Divergent’ Sequel ‘Insurgent’ By Angie Han/Jan. 28, 2014 5:30 am EST Divergent won’t hit theaters for another couple of months, but with the sequel due out just a little over a year from now, Summit has no time to waste. The studio is busily getting the pieces together for Insurgent, and has just hired Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind) to work on the script....

‘Kick-Ass 2’ Red-Band Trailer: Ready To Go Again? By Russ Fischer/March 13, 2013 9:22 am EST Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse return as young costumed heroes (and a villain) in Kick-Ass 2, which sees the characters from Matthew Vaughn’s film grown up a bit, but still getting into high school-style turf wars. Problem is, there are super-sized egos involved, and the public appearance of Kick-Ass and Hit Girl has inspired a new wave of costumed vigilantes....

‘Reality Bites’ TV Show Coming To NBC; Ben Stiller To Executive Produce By Angie Han/Aug. 23, 2013 3:00 pm EST Even as strong early buzz suggests The Secret Life of Walter Mitty could usher Ben Stiller’s filmmaking career to a whole new level, Stiller is looking back at his very first feature directing effort. NBC is developing a half-hour comedy based on Stiller’s Gen X classic Reality Bites, nearly two decades after the film hit theaters....

‘The Place Beyond The Pines’ Review: Ryan Gosling And Bradley Cooper Highlight Generational Drama By Germain Lussier/March 21, 2013 5:00 pm EST The Place Beyond the Pines is not the movie you think it is. That’s a good thing. Derek Cianfrance has created an epic generational drama that uses police and crime movie tropes as background to tell a bigger story about the consequences of action.Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes and Dane DeHaan star in roles that each challenge our perceptions of the character types, and Cianfrance’s script (co-written with Ben Coccio and Darius Marder) unfolds at a methodical pace....

‘Twin Peaks’ To Be Reborn In Third Series? Producer Mark Frost Dismisses The Rumor By Russ Fischer/Jan. 3, 2013 10:11 am EST Every once in a while a strong rumor surfaces about the possible return of Twin Peaks, which was a TV smash in 1990 and then fizzled out in a truncated, unresolved second season the following year. Despite the fact that David Lynch seems more interested in music than anything else of late, recent comments from his Peaks co-producer Mark Frost vaguely suggested a possible return for the show....

‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ - What Did You Think? By Germain Lussier/May 23, 2014 5:00 pm EST The X-Men franchise is back in this weekend’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Director Bryan Singer’s return to the franchise combines the original cast from Singer’s first two films and Brett Ratner’s third, and new cast of Matthew Vaughn’s First Class. The result is a tight, exciting, time-travelling sequel. The time travel story allows Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen to share the screen with Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and so many more....

Chloe Bennet Joins ‘Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D.’ As The Sixth Regular By Germain Lussier/Dec. 19, 2012 1:30 pm EST The final member of the S.H.I.E.L.D.team has been selected and she’s straight from Nashville. Actress Chloe Bennet, who plays a record company assistant on the hit ABC show Nashville, has moved across the network to the Marvel themed show, Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D., as the sixth and final regular. She’ll be playing Skye, “a confident woman who is slightly obsessed with superhero culture and the shadow organizations that exist within it....

Clive Barker To Write ‘Hellraiser’ Remake, Doug Bradley Expected To Return By Angie Han/Oct. 24, 2013 6:31 pm EST Dimension Films spent a few years trying to make a Hellraiser remake happen before throwing up their hands in 2010, but now they’re gearing up to try again. And this time, they’re enlisting the help of the folks who made the original. Writer/director Clive Barker has announced that not only does he plan to write the script, he’s also gotten the Weinsteins to agree to bring back Doug Bradley as villain Pinhead....