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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Is Attracted To The Atypical Grand Scale Of ‘Sandman’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2014 9:55 am EST Why would Joseph Gordon-Levitt sign on to be involved with the Warner Bros. film based on Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman? The obvious overarching answer is that WB has been wanting to put the actor/filmmaker in an even bigger role than he had in The Dark Knight Rises, and with Sandman he gets to be one of the people calling the shots....

Page 2: Pixar, GoT, Star Wars, LEGO, Die Hard, Big Bang Theory, Seinfeld, House Of Cards, Full House By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 21, 2014 1:30 pm EST Header Photo: If PIXAR Characters Were In The Best Picture Nominated Films A ‘great’ year in movies? It’s a wobbly state of criticism, indeed Does Pixar Really Have a Technological Advantage?Chalk Version Of The Wall From “Game Of Thrones” Will Make You DizzyFrom Best To Worst: Ranking The Films Of Hayao Miyazaki...

Pee-Wee Herman Movie Is “Pretty Close,” Says Judd Apatow By Angie Han/March 21, 2014 3:45 pm EST For the past few years, we’ve been getting updates on the Pee-Wee Herman movie every so often. Mostly, they’ve just been reassurances that yes, the movie is still in the works. But the wait may be nearing an end. According to producer Judd Apatow, the feature is “pretty close” to coming together. Hit the jump for the latest dirt on the Pee-Wee Herman movie....

Samuel L. Jackson Confirms Elizabeth Olsen For ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron;’ Paul Giamatti Will Be In ‘Amazing Spider-Man 3’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 3, 2013 8:25 am EST Two big superhero assumptions were confirmed by actors today. First up, Nick Fury himself, Samuel L. Jackson, confirmed Elizabeth Olsen is joining him in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Second, Paul Giamatti, who makes a brief appearance as the Rhino in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, said he’s expected to come back for The Amazing Spider-Man 3 (which just got a trio of writers) but probably not The Amazing Spider-Man 4....

Simon West Wants To Make A ‘Con Air 2’ Set In Space By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2014 1:00 pm EST Con Air is a guilty pleasure of many film fans. The movie followed a former US Ranger/newly released ex-con (Nicholas Cage) who finds himself trapped on a prisoner transport plane as the passengers take control of the aircraft. The action film made $223 million worldwide when it was released in 1997, and who knows how much on home video and television airings (its on all the time)....

Steven Spielberg Considering ‘West Side Story’ Remake By Germain Lussier/March 5, 2014 10:03 am EST That process of making rights available is as far as it’s gone, though, according to Deadline, which broke the story. “No writer has been set yet and Spielberg hasn’t done anything more than register his interest,” they say. West Side Story, directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, was released in 1961 and won 10 Oscars in 1962, including Best Picture....

Tech Bits: New App Follows After Credits Scenes; Apple Trailers No Longer Allowing Downloading Or 1080p By Germain Lussier/May 30, 2013 7:00 am EST Here’s a story about some evolution and devolution of movie technology. On the one hand, there’s are now Apps for your phone that will tell you whether or not you need to stay after the credits in the film. It’s a fun reaction to Hollywood’s trend of adding new, pertinent information after the credits are rolling....

By Hunter Stephenson/April 30, 2008 11:45 am EST I wonder if they’ll film it on Duke’s campus. Gasp. The last time Tom Wolfe, the dainty literary dandy, had one of his novels adapted to the big screen it proved disastrous (1987’s The Bonfire of the Vanities), but THR reports that video director (U2, Avril Lavigne) Liz Friedlander will helm I Am Charlotte Simmons, Wolfe’s “shocking” depiction on the American college experience....

Trivia: Terry Gilliam Says Stanley Kubrick Wanted Him To Make A ‘Dr. Strangelove’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/Oct. 16, 2013 5:00 pm EST Imagine this: a sequel to Dr. Strangelove called Son of Strangelove, conceived by Stanley Kubrick, scripted by original Strangelove screenwriter Terry Southern, and directed by Terry Gilliam. That’s a pipe dream that might have been a reality, according to Gilliam. The director, now doing interviews for his new film The Zero Theorem, says that he only heard of this notion after Kubrick died, but the story he relates lines up with some details we know about the actual development of a sequel idea....

Tron Legacy Footage Discovered At Nokia Connection 2010 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2010 2:32 pm EST We don’t usually post video of footage recorded off monitors or big screens, but it seems like a couple new clips for Tron Legacy has appeared at the Nokia Connection 2010 convention in Singapore. The footage features a bit of new footage of Garrett Hedlund as Sam Flynn in the real world on his bike, and some extended looks at his apartment....

Warner Bros. Developing New Animated ‘Scooby Doo’ Feature By Russ Fischer/Aug. 27, 2013 10:45 am EST Briefly: The success of the Smurfs films may be part of the reason for this new development at Warner Bros. — a new animated Scooby Doo film is in the works. Atlas Entertainment is doing the heavy lifting, with Charles Roven and Richard Suckle — the same guys who prodded the live-action/CG hybrid films from the early ’00s — producing....

By Russ Fischer/Nov. 6, 2012 10:56 am EST This image is available from Regal Theaters (via FirstShowing), and likely other chains that will be presenting The Hobbit in HFR as well. Too bad this is mostly just marketing jargon, with the “why do it?” answer being particularly empty — there’s a chance there to really push the idea of HFR, but this sheet isn’t very convincing.

Young Ones Trailer: Michael Shannon And Elle Fanning Lead This Futuristic Western By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 21, 2014 2:30 pm EST “From writer/director Jake Paltrow comes a futuristic western, told in three chapters, which inventively layers Greek tragedy over an ethereal narrative that’s steeped deeply in the values of the American West.” I’m in. Did I mention that the film has a great cast? Michael Shannon, Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult and Kodi Smit-McPhee lead this story....

‘Back To 1942’ Trailer: Adrien Brody And Tim Robbins Combat Famine In China By Russ Fischer/Nov. 8, 2012 2:52 pm EST If you were perhaps looking for a companion piece to The Flowers of War, in which a big western star (Christian Bale) played in a film about Chinese history, then Back to 1942 might be it. Here Adrien Brody and Tim Robbins are two men caught up in social and political upheaval in China’s Henan province, which in the film’s timeline is enduring the worst famine in modern Chinese history....

‘Fast & Furious 7’ Set For Spring 2015 [Updated] By Angie Han/Dec. 22, 2013 8:13 pm EST Ever since Paul Walker’s tragic passing, it’s been a given that Universal’s Fast & Furious 7 would be pushed back. The only question was when it’d be pushed back to. Officially, the studio’s avoided saying anything concrete. But now, thanks to star Vin Diesel, we have the answer: Spring 2015. Hit the jump for more details....

‘Ghost Shark’ TV Trailer: From The Network That Brought You ‘Sharknado’ By Angie Han/July 30, 2013 8:30 am EST Syfy sees your enthusiasm for shark-related B-movies, and is doubling down with more of the same. Next on the cable channel’s schedule is Ghost Shark, which is exactly what it sounds like. The first clip offered but a tiny taste of this new monster’s fearsome abilities, but this new full-length trailer really shows off what he (she?...

‘The Last Stand’ Trailer: Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom! By Russ Fischer/Nov. 7, 2012 3:07 pm EST The first big film in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star comeback was The Expendables 2, which expanded on his appearance in The Expendables, but didn’t give Arnie a movie of his own to play with. He takes center stage, however, in The Last Stand, with South Korean director Kim Jee-woon (The Good, the Bad, the Weird; I Saw the Devil) making his English-language debut....

Actor Brad Renfro Dead At 25 By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 15, 2008 11:02 pm EST I haven’t seen The Client since its release in 1994, but I can still remember Brad Renfro’s debut performance in the John Grisham blockbuster. He was unlike most young Hollywood actors, from his genuine Nashville accent to the eyes that took in everything around them a little too deeply especially for a kid; and that’s because he wasn’t a Hollywood actor....

By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2014 3:30 pm EST Meanwhile, the new character Joe Blake is “an all-American guy living in New York who has joined the clandestine American Resistance.” It’s probably too much to ask that the series would really focus on the more quiet and bookish characters who populate the novel. (Some of the most prominent characters are trade officials, antiques forgers and traders, and industrialists.) We’ll be curious to see how the rest of the cast comes together, and what changes are made....

By Russ Fischer/Oct. 9, 2012 10:30 am EST Craig Schulz is also president of the Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, and he released a boilerplate quote saying,