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‘Ping Pong Summer’ Trailer: A Love Letter To Eighties Pop Culture By Germain Lussier/April 22, 2014 11:00 am EST The Ping Pong Summer trailer is here. Writer/director Michael Tully’s charming love letter to the Eighties, coming of age films and summer vacation premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival to solid reviews. It was picked up for distribution soon after. It’ll finally hit theaters and VOD on June 6 and now you can check out the full trailer below....

‘The Legend Of Conan’ Might Start Filming Spring 2015 By Germain Lussier/Aug. 5, 2014 11:30 am EST There’s a new Arnold Schwarzenegger film coming out next week, and next summer the action star will be back in one of his iconic roles for the new Terminator movie. If producers have their way, however, by that time Schwarzenegger will have already played Conan once more. Producers of The Legend of Conan, the long rumored sequel to the iconic ’80s sword and sandal epics, believe filming will begin in Spring 2015....

‘The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones’ Trailer: Mundane People In A Mundane World By Angie Han/June 17, 2013 9:38 am EST The combined powers of Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games have opened the floodgates for a tidal wave of sci-fi / fantasy YA adaptations — it seems like a new potential franchise goes into development every week. As with any genre, though, not all of these films are created equal....

‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Deleted Scene Features Unused Fourth Game: ‘Extreme Easy Living 2’ By Germain Lussier/June 3, 2013 11:31 am EST During pre-production on Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph, the film’s director Rich Moore had four games in mind for the film: Fix-It Felix Jr., Hero’s Duty, Sugar Rush and Extreme Easy Living 2. The final game, sort of The Sims meets Grand Theft Auto, was deemed superfluous and shelved, possibly for a sequel or possibly forever....

‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Is A Satisfying Summer Thrill Ride [Video] By David Chen/May 23, 2014 7:13 am EST Fourteen years and six movies after the first X-Men hit theaters, Bryan Singer returns to the X-Men universe to try and breathe new life into a waning franchise. The task that Singer and writer Simon Kinberg created for themselves is challenging: to unify two separate timelines through a time travel conceit, and to make it feel as coherent and grand as possible....

2014 Golden Globe Nominees Include ‘12 Years A Slave’, ‘American Hustle’ By Angie Han/Dec. 12, 2013 5:38 am EST 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle led the film nominations, with an impressive seven each. The latter didn’t get nearly as much recognition at yesterday’s SAG awards announcement, but the former is crystallizing its status as the one to beat this year. Nebraska also came in strong with five nominations, while Captain Phillips and Gravity picked up four apiece....

Anthony And Joe Russo Directing ‘Captain America 3’ By Angie Han/Jan. 28, 2014 11:24 am EST Captain America: The Winter Soldier won’t open for another several weeks, and a Captain America 3 hasn’t even been greenlit. Nevertheless, as the Winter Soldier release approaches, Marvel Studios is feeling confident enough that they’re getting the plans in place for the patriotic hero’s next solo outing. A new report indicates that Anthony and Joe Russo will return to direct the third installment, and that the pair are already working on the story....

Colin Farrell And Paula Patton May Fight In ‘Warcraft’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2013 8:18 am EST Briefly: Legendary may have showed off some proof of concept footage for Duncan Jones’ upcoming Warcraft at Comic Con, but the film isn’t actually cast and shooting just yet. Production is expected to kick off for real early in 2014, and so the movie is starting to hit the casting process now. The first report we’ve got about possible actors for the film says that Paula Patton is in talks for one lead role and that another has been offered to Colin Farrell....

Heath Ledger’s Death Ruled Accidental Overdose By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 6, 2008 1:38 pm EST Lesson: be careful with the prescription pills. Ending weeks of speculation with official closure and a bit of universal health advice, actor Heath Ledger’s death on January 22nd has been attributed to an “acute intoxication” of several prescription medications. A New York medical examiner said that toxicology reports show that a lethal combination of anxiety medications (Xanax, Valium), sleeping aids (Restoril, Unisom) and pain killers (Vicodin, OxyContin) were found in his system at the time of death....

Jason Reitman Adapting Walter Kirn’s Up In The Air By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2008 11:28 am EST Jason Reitman will be making a big screen adaptation of Walter Kirn’s Up in the Air, which tells the story of Ryan Bingham, a guy with a simple goal: to accumulate one million miles in his frequent flyer account. “Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselorâ€"he fires peopleâ€"has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls “Airworld,” finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and a wardrobe of wrinkle-free slacks....

Lionsgate Teams With NASCAR For ‘A League Of Their Own’ Style Story ‘Spitfire’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 15, 2013 7:00 am EST NASCAR is one of the biggest sports in the country that some of us know very little about. Hollywood is hoping to change that in the years ahead as Lionsgate and Odd Lot Entertainment have just bought Spitfire, a pitch by Grant Thompson. The film, which will be executive produced by NASCAR, will tell the true story of the sport’s origins....

Aaron Sorkin’s The Foodroom Here is Aaron Sorkin’s The Foodroom television parody from Inside Amy Schumer: Among the many Sorkin-isms tackled in this parody is the accusations of sexism. Maureen Ryan and Jace Lacob have a good discussion about The Newsroom’s problems with women characters in an 2012 article from the Huffington Post: One of the bigger problems with “The Newsroom” (and it has a few) is that so many scenes involve men setting women straight, men supervising women, a man teaching a woman how to use email (and the woman getting it spectacularly wrong regardless), a hapless woman seesawing between two different men, etc....

Michael Bay Developing ‘Ghost Recon’ For Warner Bros. And Ubisoft By Russ Fischer/June 11, 2013 12:31 pm EST Variety reports that Ubi and Platinum Dunes will be pulling in a screenwriter over the next couple weeks, and that Bay’s decision to direct will be based on the script. This follows on a report from earlier this year that Ubisoft was starting development efforts. Jean Julien Baronnet, CEO of Ubisoft Motion Pictures, wanted to work with Bay because he sees the director as “a master at action movies....

New Images And Video From Recent ‘Captain America’ Epilogue Shoot By Russ Fischer/April 25, 2011 9:30 am EST On Saturday, Joe Johnston and his crew took to the streets of New York City to shoot a scene with Chris Evans and another actor for Captain America: The First Avenger. The shoot appears to be from the end or epilogue of the film — we know that Captain America climaxes with Cap being frozen, and that he’ll be thawed in the ‘current’ timeline to prepare him for The Avengers....

VOTD: ‘Glorgon’s Girl’ Trailer, In Which A Girl Falls For An Alien By Russ Fischer/Sept. 17, 2013 2:00 pm EST Director Emily Hagins likes classic teen movies, Halloween and horror. So, perhaps naturally, she has made a trailer for a film that combines the two. Glorgon’s Girl isn’t actually a feature, but here’s the trailer you’d see if the movie was real. The concept is pretty simple. What if, instead of pining after a handsome jock, the cute girl in school fell for a gross alien?...

VOTD: Fan-Made ‘Man Of Steel’ Credits Sequence By Germain Lussier/April 26, 2013 1:30 pm EST Credits sequences in Superman movies have almost always been amazing. Usually, John Williams’ iconic score plays a large part in that but with Man of Steel, Zack Snyder doesn’t have his music to fall back on. There’s a lot to live up to, in many ways. For the credits sequence, though, maybe Snyder will take a hint from the design company Will & Tale....

‘Angry Birds’ Movie Adds ‘Simpsons’ Screenwriter By Angie Han/May 20, 2013 3:00 pm EST “I’m thrilled to have Jon and Catherine joining the project,” Cohen said of the new hires. “Jon is one of the funniest writers I know, and we’re looking forward to working with him to bring the birds and pigs to life on the big screen. Catherine is a fantastic producer, with over 20 years of film and television experience, and I’m very excited to have her as a part of our filmmaking team....

Édgar Ramírez Has Been “Talking” About ‘Doctor Strange’ By Angie Han/June 23, 2014 3:53 pm EST Another day, another Doctor Strange casting rumor. This time, the spotlight is on Édgar Ramírez. I know, I know — at this point, you’re wondering who hasn’t been rumored for the project. However, this story actually started with Ramírez himself, who confirms that he’s been “talking” to Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson. Meanwhile, one of the other Doctor Strange rumors has just taken an interesting twist....

‘Helix’ Promos: Ron Moore’s New Show Promises There’s A Price For Playing God By Russ Fischer/Dec. 27, 2013 2:00 pm EST Battlestar Galactica revival mastermind Ron Moore has a new sci-fi show coming in 2014. Helix follows a group from the Centers for Disease Control that travels to the Arctic to research the outbreak of a disease. There, they find that things are really much worse and more life-threatening than they thought....

‘House M.D.’ Spoofs ‘Pulp Fiction’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 23, 2011 6:30 pm EST