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Robert Rodriguez Puts Charlie Sheen In The White House For ‘Machete Kills’; First Set Photos Released By Angie Han/June 22, 2012 6:00 am EST Robert Rodriguez sure seems to have a soft spot for PR-challenged celebs. 2010’s Machete saw him working with a notoriously troubled Lindsay Lohan, and for its sequel Machete Kills, Rodriguez is upping the ante with not one but two recovering trainwrecks.Mel Gibson has been signed on to play a “Bond-style villain” since April, and now Charlie Sheen has signed on to play one of the apparent good guys — specifically, the president of the United States....

Superhero Bits: Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Gotham, Iron Man, Ant-Man, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. By Germain Lussier/Jan. 14, 2014 4:30 pm EST Why are Loki, Sinestro and Mandarin in the same place? How will this year’s Oscar broadcast tie in with superheroes? Is Captain America: The Winter Soldier still filming? Is there a way to watch Hans Zimmer score The Amazing Spider-Man 2? Just how big is the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron?...

Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Batman V Superman, Flash, Spider-Man 2 By Germain Lussier/Aug. 27, 2014 4:30 pm EST What Marvel movie does Robert Downey Jr. think is the best of the bunch? Were the Russo Brothers worried about Captain America 3 showing down with Batman v Superman? Want to see the Gotham City jail from that film? How much did Action Comics #1 sell for on eBay?...

Tarsem Singh To Direct Sci-Fi Thriller ‘The Panopticon’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 9, 2013 10:24 am EST When is a panopticon not a panopticon? When it is the new movie from Immortals and Mirror Mirror director Tarsem Singh. The filmmaker has signed to direct a film called The Panopticon, called an “original action-thriller featuring sci-fi elements” and scripted by Craig Rosenberg (After the Sunset). The Wrap reports that the plot follows “a seemingly ordinary man who receives a mysterious package containing a pre-recorded message from himself, warning that the world is about to end and only he can save it....

Teresa Palmer Cast In ‘Point Break’ Remake By Russ Fischer/June 16, 2014 1:00 pm EST The remake of Point Break may have been delayed slightly when Gerard Butler dropped out, but it is quickly gathering steam once more. And the cast, at least, is shaping up to be interesting. Édgar Ramírez, Luke Bracey and Ray Winstone have been announced in the past few weeks. Now Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies) has signed on to play the lead female role....

VOTD: Real-Life Harry Potter Searches NYC’s Penn Station For Platform 9 3/4 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 20, 2013 3:00 pm EST Improv Anywhere has been taking to the streets of New York City to recreate famous movies in public places. Over the past weeks we’ve featured their attempts to recreate Back to the Future in a Manhattan plaza and Jurassic Park in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. This week they posted a video chronicling the reaction to an 11-year-old actor dressed as Harry Potter searching for Platform 9 3/4 in New York’s Pennsylvania Station....

Watch Robin Williams Learn Hand-Drawn Animation In Disney’s ‘Back To Neverland’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2014 6:00 am EST When Disney opened MGM Studios (now “Disney’s Hollywood Studios”) in Orlando Florida, one of the attractions was The Magic of Disney Animation, a Feature Animation pavilion where park visitors toured four connected experiences which explored the legacy of Disney’s hand-drawn animation. I remember visiting the park shortly after it opened as a kid, and one of the highlights was being able to peer through a window into a room of animators who were hard at work on an animated feature film....

Wes Anderson’s James Bond Movie Idea Is Very Wes Anderson-Y By Angie Han/Feb. 28, 2014 8:00 am EST Wes Anderson, James Bond director? Yeah, that’s never going to happen — but the filmmaker is still more than happy to share some thoughts on what might ensue if it did. During a lengthy recent interview, Anderson revealed that he actually does have an idea for a 007 called Mission: Deferred, which involves a purposeless Bond, a busy M, and a really fancy coffee machine....

‘Calvin And Hobbes’ Creator Bill Watterson Draws Poster For Cartooning Doc ‘Stripped’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 26, 2014 8:44 pm EST Here’s a huge and very pleasant surprise: Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin & Hobbes, who retired that strip in 1995 and has not published a cartoon in the years since, has drawn a movie poster. The image is for the documentary Stripped, which is about the art and business of newspaper comic strips....

‘Ghostbusters’ Getting Theatrical Re-Release, New Blu-Rays By Germain Lussier/June 5, 2014 11:30 am EST Briefly: Everything is turning up Ghostbusters recently. Art shows, Lego sets, it’s a fitting tribute to the second highest grossing film of 1984, which will celebrate its 30th anniversary this weekend. (It opened June 8, 1984.) That celebration will continue through the summer as well, with more art shows and then the crown jewel – a 700 screen, digitally remastered theatrical re-release....

‘McCanick’ Trailer: Cory Monteith’s Final Role Couldn’t Be Further From ‘Glee’ By Angie Han/Aug. 14, 2013 7:23 pm EST Before his tragic death last month, Glee star Cory Monteith had wrapped two indies to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The trailer for one of these, Josh C. Waller’s McCanick, has just hit the web. In it, Monteith plays Simon Weeks, who’s fresh off a stint in prison and in possession of a very dangerous secret....

By Germain Lussier/Dec. 24, 2013 1:00 pm EST The Bergen Record has the full story. In Out of the Furnace, Woody Harrelson plays a character named Harlan DeGroat, an evil man who runs an isolated drug empire and bare-knuckle boxing club in the Ramapo mountains. The film calls his people “inbred” once and perpetuates some generally negative connotations about them, but never refers to any Indians. In fact it makes several attempts to separate DeGroat’s people from any actual reality, referring to the film’s version of the mountains as “another world....

‘Sinister’ Director Scott Derrickson To Make ‘Deus Ex’ For CBS Films By Russ Fischer/Nov. 15, 2012 1:17 pm EST Watching Sinister, I never would have guessed that the creators — director Scott Derrickson and co-writer C. Robert Cargill (aka Massawyrm at AICN) – would move on to tackle one of the most popular video game hits of the past twenty years. The game series in question is Deus Ex, a set of first-person shooters that factors in many stealth and role-playing character elements as it drops players into a world characterized by giant corporations and extensive cybernetic body modification....

‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Trailer: For Vengeance, Kirk Risks His Craft And Crew By Russ Fischer/April 16, 2013 9:12 am EST Here’s the last big trailer for JJ Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness before the film opens in May. This one gives more plot hints, as Kirk (Chris Pine) dashes off on a vengeful mission against the John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch) only to learn he is massively outgunned. There are a lot of familiar elements here, particularly Kirk’s headstrong nature, his will to overcome all obstacles, and the near-destruction of the Enterprise....

‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’: Green Goblin Close-Up Photo Revealed By Angie Han/March 26, 2014 12:30 pm EST Dane DeHaan is a good-looking dude, and consequently so is The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s Harry Osborn. But as revealed in a new still, his villainous alter ego is… not. The latest picture from the movie is a close-up of Osborn after his Green Goblin transformation, and he’s quite a nightmare to behold. Why supervillainy should fry one’s hair and rot one’s teeth is beyond me, but his maniacal leer is the scariest part of all....

Ben Affleck The Accountant Ben Affleck In Talks To Star In ‘The Accountant’ From ‘Warrior’ Director By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2014 3:30 pm EST (For a bit of context, previous directors to flirt with the script include Mel Gibson and Ethan and Joel Coen. In 2013 Will Smith was also considering the film as a star vehicle, but that clearly didn’t happen, either.) And O’Connor still has Jane Got a Gun coming out, which he directed after Lynne Ramsay walked away....

Darren Aronofsky To Adapt ‘MaddAddam’ Book Trilogy For HBO By Germain Lussier/June 4, 2014 3:15 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The series is by Margaret Atwood and is called the MaddAddam trilogy. It centers on a futuristic world where corporations rule and a “waterless flood” wipes out most of humanity. Deadline broke the news of the deal, which is the first of the first look deal Aronofsky’s company, Protozoa Pictures, signed with HBO in January....

Despite Persistent Rumors, Emma Watson Laughs Off ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ By Angie Han/March 18, 2013 2:30 pm EST Ever since Universal picked up E.L. James’ erotic bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey last year, it seems like every other actress in Hollywood has been rumored for the female lead. Sometimes the gossip is based on an offhand remark made by the actress herself, but more often it seems to be inspired by nothing more than wishful thinking....

First Look: Taylor Swift As Rapunzel In A Live Action ‘Tangled’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 23, 2013 10:00 am EST Don’t worry, Disney isn’t developing a live-action adaptation of Tangled, or at least not yet. This is just the latest photo in Disney’s Disney Dreams portrait series featuring live-action reenactments of classic Walt Disney Animated classics using some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. The first batch included Rachel Weisz as Snow White, Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella, Beyonce as Alice in Wonderland....

By Angie Han/March 21, 2014 11:26 am EST [via Coming Soon] This version of Selina Kyle looks like a kid coming off of a Hot Topic shopping spree… which, seeing as she’s supposed to be a teen thief, sounds about right. Nice touch with the not-quite cat ears there, too. The Daily Mail has many more photos of Bicondova and her co-stars in action. Gotham centers around a young Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie), back when he was just a rookie detective and Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) was just a heartbroken pre-teen....