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Andy Serkis’ ‘Jungle Book’ Sounds Dark And Gritty By Angie Han/March 28, 2014 4:00 pm EST Don’t expect Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book adaptation to be all friendly singing bears and idyllic jungle landscapes. While few specifics have been revealed about the plot so far, Serkis has teased that his take “doesn’t shy away” from the “darkness” of Rudyard Kipling’s source material. Seems like a pretty sharp contrast from the best-known cinematic interpretation of the stories, Disney’s 1967 animated classic....

Bryan Singer Confirmed For ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’, Simon Kinberg Teases Character Details By Angie Han/Sept. 22, 2014 12:57 pm EST It’s long been rumored, but now it’s official: Bryan Singer will be back to direct X-Men: Apocalypse. It’ll be his fourth contribution to the franchise as a director, following the original X-Men, its sequel X2, and this summer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Also returning is X-Men: Days of Future Past writer Simon Kinberg, who’ll pen the script....

Four Of The Fifty Biggest Box Office Bombs Are In Theaters Right Now By Angie Han/Aug. 22, 2013 9:00 am EST Summer 2013 is on track to become the best ever at the domestic box office, but you wouldn’t know it from the number of flops that have limped through theaters over the past few months. Indeed, by some measures, this season includes five of the fifty biggest flops of the past two decades....

Harrison Ford Open To Returning For ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 5, 2012 6:48 pm EST Few would argue that Han Solo was one of the best characters to come out of the Star Wars mythology. The scoundrel with swagger not only made a low hanging holster look cool, he turned a flying hamburger into an icon, made a simple acknowledgment a romantic mantra, saved the universe and got the girl....

Jason Reitman And Jim Carrey Team For Pierre Pierre By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2008 7:30 pm EST Pierre Pierre was ranked the 11th hottest screenplay in Hollywood in the Black List, an annual poll of 150 development executives and high-level assistants. Here is what I wrote about the project in December: Discuss: Jim Carrey as a self-indulgent French nihilist transporting a stolen painting? Does that even sound like a Jason Reitman movie?...

Page 2: Drive, Back To The Future, The Hobbit, SOPA, Game Of Thrones, Community, Star Wars, Dexter, Star Trek, John Carter, Wes Anderson, James Bond By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 18, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: Fake “For Your Consideration” ads. The Vanger family home in Stockholm from David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has been having trouble finding a buyer. Andy Helms created this poster for Back to the Future....

Paramount Sets Dates For Two More ‘Terminator’ Sequels By Russ Fischer/Sept. 5, 2014 6:08 pm EST We’ve seen almost nothing official from Terminator: Genisys at this point, but the new Terminator movie has two more siblings set to debut in 2017 and 2018. Paramount Pictures just set dates for two more Terminator sequels, inking a plan to put killer robots into theaters during three of the next four years. Terminator: Genisys, which stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, Jai Courtney, Dayo Okeniyi, Matt Smith, Byung-hun Lee and J....

Philip Seymour Hoffman Had One Major ‘Hunger Games’ Scene Left To Shoot By Angie Han/Feb. 4, 2014 7:38 am EST On Monday morning, we reported Philip Seymour Hoffman had shot enough of his The Hunger Games: Mockingjay role before his passing that the release dates for the two-parter have not shifted. But he still had seven days of filming left on Part 2 and, unsurprisingly, that’s leading to some complications....

Ridley Scott Tries To Explain Why The ‘Exodus: Gods And Kings’ Cast Is So White By Angie Han/Aug. 28, 2014 9:00 am EST Normally, Ridley Scott tapping Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton for the leads of his next movie would be cause for excitement. But in the case of Exodus: Gods and Kings, Scott’s choices have raised some eyebrows. You see, Exodus is a film set in ancient Egypt, about ancient Egyptians, specifically Moses and Ramses....

See ‘Machete’ Recapped In One Minute Of Claymation By Russ Fischer/Jan. 4, 2011 7:00 am EST Machete may not text, but he sure can sell some iced tea. A commercial for Lipton Brisk Iced Tea hit YouTube between Christmas and New Years, and it’s like a little last-minute gift for Danny Trejo fans. In one minute, the actor recaps the plot of Machete, complete with slicing guys in half, some lovemaking, and a lot of hand-washing....

Star Wars Bits: Joss Whedon Wouldn’t Bring Back Original Characters, Plus Lando, George Lucas Museum, Drew Struzan And More By Germain Lussier/March 12, 2013 7:00 am EST The biggest recent Star Wars news is in regards to its animated future, but there’s plenty more Star Wars to go around. After the jump, read about the following: Joss Whedon wouldn’t bring back the original characters if he did Star Wars Episode VII....

Superhero Bits: Arrow, Iron Man 3, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Avengers: Age Of Ultron By Germain Lussier/Sept. 16, 2013 4:15 pm EST EFX Collectibles is releasing this S.H.I.E.L.D. badge at New York Comic-Con.Comic Book pointed out a quote from a Warner Bros. executive where he called Zack Snyder’s new film Batman vs. Superman.Destination Vinylmation wrote about new Marvel Vinyls coming to Disney. TV Guide has your first look at Bronze Tiger (Michael Jai White) in Arrow....

Superhero Bits: Hellboy 3, Dredd 3D, The Wolverine, Iron Man 3, Superman, Injustice, Thor: The Dark World By Germain Lussier/April 12, 2013 2:00 pm EST Does Mike Mingola think a third Hellboy will ever happen? Where can you see a sequel to Dredd 3D? What happens when Wolverine meets some Wolverines? Want to see a new photo from the mutant sequel? Is Bryan Singer playing jokes in the X-Men: Days of Future Past offices?...

The Opening Scene Of Lost: Season Six Is Now Online By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 29, 2010 10:08 am EST ABC held a sweepstakes which resulted in 815 winners receiving an exclusive message in a bottle, with a digital key containing the opening scene to the final season premiere of LOST, days before it premieres on television. Sl-lost has photos of one of the winner’s bottle, and spoilerfiles has the actual 4-minute scene online, which I have embedded after the jump....

Trivia: Michael Keaton Wanted His Third Batman Film To Be A ‘Batman Begins’ Style Origin Story By Russ Fischer/Jan. 7, 2013 11:06 am EST Sometimes the only way to really get clarity on an old idea is to see someone else do it first. While Christopher Nolan directed Christian Bale in three Batman films that push a screen vision of the character that will likely be the defining one for some time, those movies would likely never have happened without Tim Burton and Michael Keaton....

VOTD: Patton Oswalt Plays The Penguin, Teaches Batman About Death By Russ Fischer/April 16, 2013 4:30 pm EST It’s got to be fun being Patton Oswalt. He’s got the sort of career that allows him, every once in a while, to take part in something that rides a great line between totally ridiculous and weirdly accurate. Case in point is this college humor video that takes shots at the Christopher Nolan version of Batman, and engages in the old conversation that Frank Miller attempted to silence with The Dark Knight Returns....

VOTD: Spencer Susser’s Eugene Short Film By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 25, 2014 1:00 pm EST In 2008, I discovered a great short film titled I Love Sarah Jane by commercial and music video director Spencer Susser (you can watch it here — and if you haven’t yet, you really need to). I was slightly disappointed by Susser’s feature directorial debut Hesher, which premiered at the 2010 Sundnace Film Festival. Since the festival, Susser has been trying to get a feature length version of I Love Sarah Jane into production and has also returned to his short film roots....

By Angie Han/April 19, 2013 5:06 pm EST Here’s the info on all fourteen pilots, via Deadline. Alpha House COMEDY PILOTS: Alpha House was written by Academy Award nominee and Pulitzer-Prize winner Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury, Tanner ‘88). Alpha House follows four senators who live together in a rented house in Washington DC. Browsers Written by 12-time Emmy-winning comedy writer David Javerbaum (The Daily Show), directed by Don Scardino (30 Rock) and produced by 3 Arts’ David Miner, Browsers is a musical comedy set in contemporary Manhattan that follows four young people as they start their first jobs at a news website....

‘Bears’ Trailer: Disney Cuddles Up To Nature By Angie Han/Aug. 14, 2013 11:40 am EST Bears have a dual reputation. On the one hand, there are few things more terrifying than an angry bear in the wild. On the other, they’re also really, really cute. Disneynature’s upcoming documentary Bears seems more inclined to emphasize the cuddly side of these ferocious creatures, at least if the first full-length trailer is any indication....

‘Book Of Life’ Trailer #2: He’s Just A Friend By Angie Han/Aug. 7, 2014 10:00 am EST Following her latest out-of-this-world role in Guardians of the Galaxy, Zoe Saldana is allowed to get a little more grounded in the new Book of Life trailer. But just a little. The Guillermo del Toro-produced epic starts out in our world, but then spills over into the land of the dead and the land of the forgotten....