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Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Work In ‘The Hunger Games: MockingJay Part 2’ Will Be Finished Digitially By Germain Lussier/Feb. 7, 2014 10:30 am EST The New York Post reported this development, citing “sources from the flick.” Hoffman, who passed away earlier this week due to an apparent drug overdose, was in the midst of filming scenes for the two part finale of the Hunger Games series. He had one crucial scene left to do for the second film, and producers were looking at various ways to figure out how to move forward....

Rachel McAdams Offered ‘True Detective’ Lead By Russ Fischer/Sept. 25, 2014 11:00 am EST With Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn locked as the two primary leads for True Detective season two, Nic Pizzolatto and the rest of the show’s producers at HBO are starting to set the rest of the cast. We’ve heard quite a few names for the many female roles in the show, and now Rachel McAdams has been offered the female lead in True Detective season two....

Rumor: ‘Star Wars Land’ Coming To Walt Disney World In 2018 By Germain Lussier/June 14, 2013 9:40 am EST A new rumor is circulating saying that Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida is planning a major expansion in the next five years. That expansion would include an east coast Cars Land and – wait for it – the first ever Star Wars Land. The report comes from Theme Park Insider, which cites “multiple insider sources....

Scott Rudin And ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Writer Reviving ‘Good Times’ As Feature Film By Russ Fischer/March 12, 2013 2:30 pm EST A set of ’70s sitcoms produced or developed by Norman Lear managed to change the tone of American television. All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude all addressed social and political issues to varying degrees through the basic structure of the sitcom....

See A Full Floor Plan Of Upcoming Academy Movie Museum In Los Angeles By Germain Lussier/Jan. 28, 2014 12:30 pm EST Almost a year has passed since we heard an update on the ambitious museum the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has planned for Los Angeles. It’s called The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the world’s biggest movie museum, and it’s scheduled to open in 2017. Ground will be broken later this year, but the designers have released a huge update on the space in the form of a 30 page PDF that takes the reader on a floor-by-floor tour of the massive museum, including glimpses at some of the memorabilia that’ll be housed in the space....

Theme Park Bits: ‘Hunger Games’ Exhibit Is Precursor To Theme Park; Plus The Purge, Harry Potter, Despicable Me By Germain Lussier/May 30, 2014 5:30 pm EST Katniss Everdeen proved herself in the arena, but could she be getting her own theme park? It’s possible, based on the success of a new traveling Hunger Games exhibit Lionsgate just announced. Read more about that, and the following, in this edition of Theme Park Bits....

Ubisoft’s ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Adaptation Hires Playwright Michael Lesslie By Angie Han/Jan. 15, 2013 7:00 am EST The Assassin’s Creed adaptation suddenly got a lot more interesting when Michael Fassbender was cast as the lead, and now it’s adding some intriguing talent behind the scenes as well. New Regency and Ubisoft have hired Michael Lesslie to pen the screenplay. If Lesslie’s name doesn’t seem familiar, that’s probably because he’s relatively unknown as a screenwriter....

/Film Interview: Michael Fassbender Chats ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’, Plus James McAvoy And Patrick Stewart By Angie Han/May 23, 2014 3:00 pm EST James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender had huge shoes to fill when they joined 2011’s X-Men: First Class. Not only were they tackling beloved characters, they were taking them over from iconic actors Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. Nevertheless, they managed to make the roles their own in that film — only to face their predecessors in the new sequel, X-Men: Days of Future Past....

‘Oldboy’ Featurette Shows Josh Brolin’s Physical Transformations By Russ Fischer/Oct. 23, 2013 2:00 pm EST At the risk of limiting the audience for this article, I’d say that the featurette below is really best for those who have seen Park Chan-wook’s original Oldboy. Fortunately, that’s probably most of our readers. This piece is about the stuff Josh Brolin went through to play the role — rapid weight gain and weight loss, and the physical work — but it also shows some footage we haven’t seen before, of the prison in which his character is held captive for 20 years, and of the film’s violence....

‘Sinister Six’ Villains Not Decided Yet, Despite ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Tease By Angie Han/April 30, 2014 10:30 am EST Sony has promised that fans who Shazam the end credits song of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will get “a look into the sinister future” of the franchise. But apparently, that future isn’t set in stone just yet. According to a new report, although the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Rhino, Vulture, Kraven the Hunter, and Mysterio are the ones teased in the special sequence, they aren’t necessarily locked in as the Sinister Six villains....

‘The Conjuring’ Trailer #2: James Wan’s Horror Film That Is “Too Scary” For PG-13 By Germain Lussier/April 2, 2013 11:45 am EST Saw, Dead Silence, Insidious and now The Conjuring. It would be very easy to assume the latest horror film from director James Wan to be another in a long string of scary films right in the director’s wheelhouse. However as this new trailer shows, and as Wan said at WonderCon this past weekend, he doesn’t feel he has anything more to prove in the genre....

‘The Humbling’ Trailer: Al Pacino Embraces The Chaos Of Aging By Russ Fischer/Sept. 3, 2014 2:00 pm EST Al Pacino shows up in two big festival films this year: David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn, and The Humbling from Barry Levinson. Here’s a first The Humbling trailer, in which Pacino plays an aging actor who embarks upon an affair with a younger woman (Greta Gerwig) after he has a minor breakdown. OK, maybe not such a minor one....

‘Veronica Mars’ Gets Digital Spinoff From The CW [Updated] By Angie Han/Jan. 16, 2014 6:30 am EST “The Veronica Mars movie got it going,” The CW President Mark Pedowitz said at the Television Critics Association presentation. “Rob Thomas is very excited about doing this at CW Seed.” However, the project is still in the early stages. Pedowitz added that though Thomas has some ideas, “he hasn’t committed to any concept or characters yet....

A ‘Cats’ Movie Is Coming, According To Andrew Lloyd Webber By Angie Han/Dec. 5, 2013 5:00 am EST Of the five longest-running musicals in Broadway history, one (The Lion King) was based on a film, and three others (The Phantom of the Opera, Chicago, and Les Misérables) have had movies made of them. Now it may be Cats’ time to shine on the silver screen. Andrew Lloyd Webber revealed in a recent interview that Universal is working on a cinematic adaptation of the feline musical, and that we have the success of last year’s Les Mis to thank for it....

David Fincher And James Ellroy Devising A ’50s Noir Series For HBO By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2014 2:00 pm EST Director David Fincher and author James Ellroy have shared interests as they’ve both chronicles characters with grim, all-encompassing obsessions. In fact, the two men have an association that goes back years, to when Fincher considered filming Ellroy’s novel The Black Dahlia. That didn’t happen (Brian De Palma made the film instead) but Fincher and Ellroy have stayed in touch....

Disney Keeping Marvel’s May Release Dates; Ranks ‘Frozen’ As Top 5 Franchise By Germain Lussier/May 6, 2014 5:00 pm EST Besides the Star Wars spin off news, Disney CEO Bob Iger dropped a few other very interesting tidbits during Tuesday’s Walt Disney Company quarterly earning stockholders call. First up, when asked about May 6, 2016, the day Disney will release Captain America 3 and Warner Bros. has Batman vs. Superman, Iger said Marvel will be keeping the date....

Empire Debuts Four New Stills From ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 30, 2013 10:00 am EST Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World have passed, so it’s time to bring on the Captain. Captain America: The Winter Soldier with be the first of two Marvel Studios films released in 2014. Four new stills have just been released thanks to Empire Magazine. In them, you’ll see Cap himself, played by Chris Evans, as well as Nick Fury (Samuel L....

First Look: Ben Kingsley In ‘Ender’s Game’ By Russ Fischer/May 1, 2013 11:55 am EST This weekend people will be talking about Ben Kingsley, whose work in Iron Man 3 gives the film some of its most surprising and entertaining moments. (No spoilers in the comments, please.) After that, the actor will be seen in writer/director Gavin Hood’s much anticipated adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi novel Ender’s Game. The first trailer for the film will be released next week, and presumably that will outline how the young boy Andrew “Ender” Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) is trained at Battle School to become a possible leader in humanity’s last-ditch effort to repel alien attackers....

By Angie Han/Nov. 21, 2013 7:29 pm EST The studio has just set David Gleeson to script a biopic of author J.R.R. Tolkien, which for now is simply being called Tolkien. Peter Chernin (The Heat) will produce. Hit the jump for more details on the project. Tolkien was born in South Africa in 1892, and moved to England as a small child following the death of his father. As a young adult, he received a degree from Exeter College at the University of Oxford and served in World War I....

Huge News Day 2007 UPDATED By Peter Sciretta/April 1, 2007 11:06 am EST I look forward to this day for the biggest announcements and craziest happenings of the year. Let’s take a look around the web:/Film: Transformers suffers major setbacks after the Hollywood Hills Fire of 2007 destorys the studio’s main editing facility. Michael Bay will replace the lost footage with computer graphics.FilmIck reports that Disney plans to rerelease Treasure Planet and other animated classics in 3D....