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‘Ted 2’ Moved Into Crowded Summer 2015 By Germain Lussier/Oct. 2, 2013 11:00 am EST Briefly: Ted is coming later than we thought. Initially, writer director Seth MacFarlane announced a April 2015 release for Ted 2, the sequel to last year’s smash hit comedy. And while the follow-up hasn’t even begun production, that date has already changed.Ted 2, starring Mark Wahlberg, will now be released June 26, 2015. It’s a weekend in a super packed summer that no one had yet claimed and will mark Wahlberg’s second straight summer with a July 4 weekend release (Transformers: Age of Extinction is out June 27, 2014....

‘True Detective’ Season 2: Rachel McAdams Eyed For Female Lead By Angie Han/Sept. 8, 2014 2:30 pm EST Elisabeth Moss seemed pretty well suited to that True Detective Season 2 gig, not least because she pulled off a similar-sounding role to great acclaim in Top of the Lake. But just because she’s qualified doesn’t mean no one else is, and now it seems she has a little competition. According to a new report, Rachel McAdams is in the running for the same True Detective Season 2 part that Moss has been circling for the past few weeks....

Dennis Farina Has Died At Age 69 By Germain Lussier/July 22, 2013 11:12 am EST We’re sad to report that actor Dennis Farina, star of Law & Order, Snatch and Get Shorty, has passed away at the age of 69. Farina was one of those actors who brightened up anything he appeared in, with an uncanny ability to be equal parts intimidating and hilarious in the blink of an eye. He worked with some of the best in the business and never, ever disappointed in bringing an intangible life to a character....

Dwayne Johnson Is Black Adam In ‘Shazam’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 3, 2014 9:13 am EST Dwayne Johnson has confirmed the role he’ll play in Shazam, and it isn’t the good guy. The actor tweeted a photo of the villain Black Adam attacking Shazam, along with a quote and text that clearly puts the Rock in the costume of Black Adam. But he probably won’t be an out-and-out bad guy, as word is the film will follow the more recent conception of the character, which casts him as a militant and somewhat reformed anti-hero who struggles to clear his name from past villainous deeds....

First Look And Synopsis: Bradley Cooper, Jacki Weaver, And Robert De Niro In ‘The Silver Linings Playbook’ By Angie Han/Nov. 8, 2011 7:00 am EST Bradley Cooper first broke out playing a moneyed douchebag in Wedding Crashers, and then went on to cement that fame playing a somewhat less moneyed douchebag in the Hangover franchise. But he’s obviously been working on branching out, landing a string of interesting roles including the lead in David O....

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Adds ‘Catfish’ Movie/TV Show Definition By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2014 10:40 am EST When a little low budget documentary Catfish played at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, who would’ve thought the indie would change popular culture in the way that it has? Not only was the film was a critical and commercial success, but it spawned an MTV reality series that has been one of those shows that I rush to watch every week it airs — its surprisingly great....

Monsters: Dark Continent Trailer 2: “Goliath” By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 2, 2014 2:30 pm EST Vertigo Films has released another new Monsters: Dark Continent trailer, the sequel to Godzilla director Gareth Edwards’ 2010 low budget debut film Monsters. Ten years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have now spread worldwide. In the Middle East a new insurgency has begun. At the same time there has also been a proliferation of Monsters in that region....

New ‘Sucker Punch’ Short Films Fill In Imaginary Back Story By David Chen/March 24, 2011 6:32 am EST In preparation for the release of Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch, which hits theaters tomorrow, Warner Brothers has released several videos that fill in some of the “back story” from the film. I say “back story” in quotes because without giving too much away, much of the film takes place in imagined worlds. These short films help to supplement the movie’s world-building efforts in a really stylish and effective (if not a bit over-the-top) way....

Page 2: Ghostbusters, Scream, Sherlock, Orphan Black, Star Wars, Breaking Bad, Doctor Who By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2013 11:03 am EST Header Photo: Panthor And Skeletor: The Early Years Why ‘The Counselor’ Is One of Ridley Scott’s Best Films Why Die Hard Is A Halloween Movie In Defense Of THE COUNSELOR A History of Movie Trailers Reveals How Filmmakers Have Made Marketing Part of Their Art Mickey Mouse vs. Chernabog Pumpkin Carving...

Rumor: Who Is Holly Hunter Playing In ‘Batman Vs. Superman’? By Angie Han/April 8, 2014 3:30 pm EST So far, most of the Batman vs. Superman actors announced are playing very familiar roles. We’ve got Henry Cavill as Superman, of course, plus Ben Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, and Jeremy Irons as Alfred. But last week, a trio of names were added with no indications about which characters they’d be playing....

See Some Of The Coen Brothers’ ‘The Man Who Wasn’t There’ In Color [Video] By Russ Fischer/Dec. 4, 2013 3:00 pm EST The Coen Brothers’ new film is Inside Llewyn Davis, and this one is particularly special. It’s a beautiful, bleak picture. One of the characteristics of the movie is a silky, strangely luminous color palette that relies on subdued silvery grey and faded browns. It’s nearly black and white....

Superhero Bits: Batman Vs. Superman, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Arrow, Thor: The Dark World By Germain Lussier/Aug. 29, 2013 4:00 pm EST Is Stan Lee in the new Lego Marvel Super Heroes video game? Which Batman character does Justin Timberlake want to play? What did Loki have to say to Ultron about today’s Avengers: Age of Ultron casting? How big is a Guardians of the Galaxy spaceship set currently being built?...

Uh-Oh: ‘World War Z’ Going In For Seven Weeks Of Reshoots? By Angie Han/June 4, 2012 10:00 am EST World War Z had one rough development period, getting caught up for years in rewrites, almost-expired options, and budget troubles before finally making it in front of cameras last summer. But even though principal photography wrapped months ago, it seems the project’s troubles aren’t over. A new report indicates that the Marc Forster-directed zombie epic is now headed for seven weeks of reshoots — a troublingly long schedule that hints at major problems with the film....

Zooey Deschanel And Joseph Gordon Levitt In Talks To Star In Rom-Com 500 Days Of Summer By Hunter Stephenson/March 21, 2008 6:25 pm EST Deschanel is climbing the Tinseltown ranks in major upcoming flicks like M. Night’s The Happening and Jim Carrey’s Yes Man, and just released a cutesy folk album with M. Ward called She & Him. She was also eye-lash-battingly great on the third season of Weeds. Gordon-Levitt is currently cashing in on Stephen Sommers’s G....

‘A Christmas Story: The Musical!’ In Seattle By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 1, 2010 7:00 am EST The legacy of A Christmas Story won’t end with the Christmas-day “24 Hours of A Christmas Story marathon and the annual conventions and filming location house tour. Peter Billingsley, an actor who is probably best known as Ralphie Parker in A Christmas Story, is executive producing a musical adaptation of of the film for the Seattle stage....

‘After Earth’ Official Site Launched: Character Bios, New Photos And A Plan To Save Humanity By Germain Lussier/Dec. 21, 2012 6:00 am EST While we won’t know if the sci-fi film After Earth is a return to form for M. Night Shyamalan for a few months, we do know one thing. The world the filmmaker has created around the movie is incredibly rich and thoughtout. That much is obvious with the launch of the film’s official website....

‘Assassin’s Creed’ Starring Michael Fassbender Will Be Unleashed Summer 2015 By Germain Lussier/May 17, 2013 7:14 pm EST At this point, no other film is schedule on that date but, if Star Wars Episode VII comes out on its traditional Summer weekend, it’ll be going up against this film. Michael Lesslie is writing the screenplay. No director is attached but with a release date two years away from next weekend, you can expect that to change soon....

‘Frozen’ Trailer: Preview A New Song From Disney’s Winter Spectacle By Russ Fischer/Oct. 17, 2013 4:45 pm EST Here’s a trailer for Disney Animation’s Frozen that isn’t as squarely aimed at the kids as the previous ones we’ve seen. Here, there’s a more direct link to Hans Christian Anderson’s original fairy tale The Snow Queen, and also an explanation of the origin of Olaf, the little snow man that has been the focus of so much of the marketing so far....

‘Magic The Gathering’ Movie Adds ‘Game Of Thrones’ Writer By Germain Lussier/June 13, 2014 5:00 am EST Deadline broke the news of Cogman boarding the Magic the Gathering movie, which is being produced and shepherded by Simon Kinberg. The writer then confirmed the news on Twitter. Fans of Game of Thrones and Magic, where there’s probably a pretty heavy cross over, should be happy with this. Cogman’s episodes of Thrones are revered....

‘Phantasm V’ Trailer: Returning To The Weirdest Horror/Sci-Fi Franchise Of All By Russ Fischer/March 27, 2014 11:00 am EST Most surprising sequel reveal of the year so far goes to Phantasm V: Ravager, which was announced with a poster reveal on Monday. The last film in Don Coscarelli’s very odd horror/sci-fi series was released direct to video in 1998, but talk of a fifth film has persisted in the many years since....