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Bored Action Star Bruce Willis To Star In Action Thriller ‘The Prince’ By Angie Han/Sept. 9, 2013 11:30 am EST Despite his declaration last month that he was “a bit bored” of action movies, Bruce Willis is apparently still eager to “earn lots of money” from the genre. The Die Hard star has signed on for The Prince, an action-thriller from Russian director Sarik Andreasyan. Emmet/Furla, who’ve recently worked with Willis on Lay the Favorite and Fire With Fire, will finance and produce....

Cool Stuff: Dave Perillo’s ‘Return Of The Jedi’ Poster From Acme Archives Completes The Trilogy By Germain Lussier/May 24, 2013 10:00 am EST Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and now Return of the Jedi. On the eve of the film’s thirtieth anniversary, artist Dave Perillo has finally completed his trilogy of original Star Wars Trilogy posters for Acme Archives. Like the other two, Jedi is a 12 x 36 inch screenprint in an edition of 250 and it goes on sale next Friday, May 31....

Darren Aronofsky On Meth By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2007 7:10 am EST Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky directed a series of anti-drug advertisements for the Montana Meth Project. The new campaign takes a darkly ironic look at the dangers of Meth use to those closest to the users. In one of the ads, a girl praises her boyfriend for protecting her over scenes in which her lover allows a drug dealer to have sex with her in exchange for Meth....

Has The Alamo Drafthouse Finally Found Their Los Angeles Location? By Germain Lussier/April 10, 2013 4:30 pm EST Briefly: A Los Angeles blog is reporting that the Alamo Drafthouse is finally coming to the movie capital of the world. The location would be downtown, at the corner of 4th and Main Streets, and feature eight screens. “Plans call for the theater to be built into the hill with a rooftop garden,” the site says, and it would open sometime in 2014....

Horror Sequel Bits: Millennium Will Make ‘Texas Chainsaw 4;’ ‘Human Centipede 3’ Legal Issues Resolved; ‘Scream 5’ Still Seems Unlikely By Russ Fischer/Jan. 8, 2013 9:00 pm EST This past weekend, the success of Texas Chainsaw 3D, which stole box office victory from the grubby hands of The Hobbit, helped ensure that Millennium films would go back to Texas for another helping of cannibal stew. That wasn’t a given at the outset, as previous Chainsaw sequels haven’t always been big performers....

Lily James Will Be ‘Cinderella’ For Kenneth Branagh And Disney By Russ Fischer/April 30, 2013 1:15 pm EST Briefly: Disney’s live-action retelling of Cinderella has been coming together over the past couple months, with Kenneth Branagh stepping in to direct after Mark Romanek moved on, and Cate Blanchett cast as the wicked stepmother who makes Cinderella’s life a minor hell. Now, after a report that indicated Disney and Branagh were looking at Bella Heathcote, Lily James, and Margot Robbie as possible fits for the glass slipper, Downton Abbey actress Lily James has won the role....

Mad Max: Fury Road Poster: “What A Lovely Day” By Peter Sciretta/July 23, 2014 3:30 pm EST Warner Bros has released a new Mad Max: Fury Road poster just in time for 2014 San Diego Comic Con International. The Fury Road panel happens on Saturday in Hall H at 10am giving fans a preview of the latest installment in George Miller’s Mad Max series. The poster features Tom Hardy as the titular character peering out at the post apocalyptic desert wasteland....

Meet The Vertical Cinema Movement By Germain Lussier/Feb. 19, 2014 4:45 pm EST Vertical vs. horizontal is a huge debate in the online community. Due to YouTube aspect ratios, most people believe all videos should be shot with your phone on its side, creating the familiar horizontal image like you’d see in a movie theater. If you shoot the footage vertically and then upload to the web, there are huge black spaces on either side, making the footage look amateurish and small....

Michelle Rodriguez Goes To Jail, Will This Affect James Cameron’s Avatar? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2007 1:27 pm EST Lost and Girlfight star Michelle Rodriguez has been sentenced to 180 days in Los Angeles County Jail after admitting to violating her probation from several DUI-related charges. I know you’re probably thinking to yourself “Who cares.” And normally you’d probably be right on, but this might seriously effect James Cameron’s follow-up to Titanic....

More ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Set Photos Reveal Two Iconic Ships By Germain Lussier/June 3, 2014 8:23 am EST It figures it would come to this. TMZ is now the leading Star Wars spy in the world. One day after releasing some very interesting photos from the Abu Dhabi set, the gossip website has come upon twenty new photos taken inside J.J. Abrams’ secret soundstages. Inside those buildings a few massive sets are under construction, including what’s unmistakably the Millennium Falcon and an X-Wing Fighter....

MTV Greenlights ‘Scream’ TV Series; Wes Craven In Talks To Direct By Angie Han/April 25, 2013 3:08 pm EST Do you like scary movies? How about TV shows based on scary movies? MTV has given the green light to a pilot based on Scream, the horror film series launched by Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson in 1996. If all goes well, the drama would debut on the network next summer. More info after the jump....

Nicolas Cage To Lead Paul Schrader’s ‘The Dying Of The Light’ By Angie Han/July 30, 2013 1:30 pm EST A few years back, we wrote about the intriguing prospect of Nicolas Winding Refn teaming up with Harrison Ford for The Dying of the Light, a script by Paul Schrader. Sadly, that iteration of the project fell apart soon after when Ford decided to pull out, and Refn went on to make Drive instead....

Page 2: Green Lantern, Doctor Who, X-Men: First Class, Walt Disney, Transformers, Godfather, Star Trek, Super 8, Firefly, E.T., Back To The Future, Captain America, Damon Lindelof, The Avengers By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2011 8:00 am EST Watch Sam Fuller’s screen test for the role of Hyman Roth in The Godfather Part 2. Artgerm created these pieces for DC’s licensing dept for the Green Lantern movie.Spike lists the Top 10 Wimpiest Leading Men....

Page 2: Star Trek, Doctor Who, Star Wars, GoT, Godzilla, Ghostbusters, Kubrick, True Detective, Harry Potter By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2014 12:00 pm EST Header Photo: Star T-Rex t-shirt The Secret to Seth Rogen’s Success: Make it Cheap, Make it Dirty and Ignore the Studio5 Reasons Nicolas Cage’s New Film Will Be Crazier Than UsualDisney’s Doctor WhoFive Best Streaming Set-Top Boxes ‘2001’ and beyond: Neil deGrasse Tyson names his top 10 sci-fi films...

Page 2: Wreck It Ralph, Bill Murray, Jim Carrey, Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Hobbit, Back To The Future, Frankenweenie, Doctor Who, Indiana Jones, Wes Anderson, Morgan Freeman, Willy Wonka, Die Hard By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 16, 2013 8:00 am EST Header Photo: Disney Gives 8-Bit Makeover to London Street for Wreck-it Ralph UK Debut Why certain color combinations drive your eyeballs crazyNordling’s 5 Best Theatrical Experiences!Pick A Bill Murray10 WTF moments from the Golden GlobesWhy Ultra HD won’t be taking the world by stormThe Evolution of Jim CarreyThe Master: A Love Song13 Movies You Have to See at Sundance...

Ridley Scott Jumping On YA Bandwagon, Producing ‘Fae’ By Angie Han/Dec. 9, 2013 3:00 pm EST Just as no young male actor seems to get anywhere these days without toplining his own comic book franchise, few directors at the moment seem immune to the allure of YA adaptations. The latest to jump on the angsty-teen wagon is Ridley Scott, who’s just optioned the fantasy novel Fae. Hit the jump for more details on the story....

Sequel Bits: ‘Men In Black 3’, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, ‘Star Trek 2’, ‘Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2’, ‘Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea Of Monsters’, ‘Friday 4’ By Angie Han/March 1, 2012 6:00 am EST Rick Baker, who also worked on the film, chimed in as well. We knew starting the movie that we didn’t have a finished second or third act. Was it responsible? The answer is, if this movie does as well as I think it will, it was genius....

Seth Gordon Will Direct Video Game Adaptation ‘Uncharted’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 4, 2014 5:11 pm EST The core truth about Hollywood is that execs and other decision-makers tend to think in patterns. Find success in one genre or role, and you’ll be bound to that thing for years to come. And what of those who do manage to break out? The time can come in which an early success proves to be just the resume item needed to get a big job....

Superhero Bits: Iron Man 3, Man Of Steel, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, R.I.P.D., The Avengers By Germain Lussier/June 6, 2013 10:30 am EST Would Joss Whedon make The Avengers 2 without Robert Downey Jr.? Want to see a steelbook for the Iron Man 3 Blu-ray? When will Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. start filming again? Where can you read more about Thor’s activities in The Avengers? Which Superman world record was recently set?...

Uma Thurman Is The Latest To Join Lars Von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 10, 2012 9:00 am EST Briefly: With seemingly everyone and their mother (particularly the mothers) fascinated by the “supermarket smut” of Fifty Shades of Grey, it’s as good a time as we’ve seen in years for attention-getting erotic fiction. Which is what Lars von Trier’s new film(s) Nymphomaniac seems to be, at least on the surface. The two-part story will be released as four films in various markets, with some markets getting the softcore version of the “wild and poetic story of a woman’s erotic journey from birth to the age of 50,” while other markets get the hardcore version....