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Steve Martin Returns To His First Job At Disneyland In Disney’s ‘Magic Camp’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 22, 2014 4:00 pm EST Steve Martin is in final negotiations to star in Disney’s feature film Magic Camp. Martin, whose first job was working at the Main Street Magic Shop at Disneyland, co-wrote the most recent draft of the script with A.C.O.D. writer/director Stu Zicherman, based on a first draft by Diary of a Wimpy Kid scribes Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah....

Superhero Bits: Avengers Age Of Ultron, Disney Infinity, Batman V Superman, Dr. Strange, Iron Man 4 By Germain Lussier/June 10, 2014 5:00 pm EST What happens in the first twenty minutes of Avengers: Age of Ultron? Who read the Edgar Wright Ant-Man script? Want to see some designs from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? Which Marvel heroes are the latest to join the new Disney Infinity? Does Jon Favreau think Robert Downey Jr....

TV Bits: ‘HitRECord,’ ‘Geek Out,’ ‘Fargo,’ ‘Zombieland,’ ‘Once Upon A Time’ And ‘Pretty Little Liars’ Spinoffs By Germain Lussier/April 3, 2013 10:11 am EST After an incredibly successful few years on the big screen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is coming back to the small screen. He’ll host and produce a new show called HitRECord on TV! featuring content created by fans. It will air on the new Pivot network. Read more here or watch this video....

Watch Inspirational Screenwriter Scott Lew Write A Movie Without Typing Or Talking By Germain Lussier/April 9, 2013 8:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Writing a movie is difficult enough. Imagine writing it from a wheelchair without the ability to speak or move. That’s the unbelievable truth of what Scott Lew did for his new film, Sexy Evil Genius. In 2004, Lew was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, which has since left the writer a mute pentaplegic....

‘24’ Movie “Not Happening,” Says Director Antoine Fuqua By Angie Han/March 12, 2013 8:00 am EST Now we’re in spring 2013, and there still doesn’t seem to have been a whole lot of progress. So it’s unsurprising, if a little disappointing, that director Antoine Fuqua is saying it’s “not happening” at all, or any rate not with him. Hit the jump for more. The word last year was that the shoot had been delayed due to budgeting and scheduling issues....

‘Borgman’ Trailer: The Bastard Child Of Luis Buñuel And Michael Haneke By Russ Fischer/April 8, 2014 5:16 pm EST There are some wizards cutting trailers for Drafthouse Films, and this new Borgman trailer is quite good, and very chilling. The film is something of an enigma: a man fleeing a strange persecution turns up on the doorstep of a bourgeois family, and soon ingratiates himself into the family’s life, if not without a few difficulties along the way....

‘Expendables 3’ Director In Talks To Helm Remake Of ‘The Raid’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 20, 2014 3:15 pm EST Briefly: Sure, you could say that Dredd already remade The Raid, but those two films were concurrent, really. There is a legit remake of Gareth Evans’ The Raid coming, however, and now we know who’ll probably call the shots. Patrick Hughes, who went from the Austalian thriller Red Hill to the director’s chair of The Expendables 3, is in talks to oversee the Raid remake....

‘Joe’ Trailer: David Gordon Green Returns To Drama With Nicolas Cage By Angie Han/Jan. 28, 2014 9:07 am EST Having spent most of the past decade overacting in one cheapie thriller after another, Nicolas Cage sometimes draws more jeers than applause these days, even though his fanbase is probably bigger than ever. And on the all-too-rare occasion that he finds a project worthy of his talents, it becomes clear that he can still bring it when he wants to....

‘Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return’ Trailer By Angie Han/Feb. 28, 2014 5:00 pm EST 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of MGM’s The Wizard of Oz, and the folks behind a new animated sequel are hoping you’ll want to celebrate with a return trip. The new Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return trailer promises more action and adventure, as the plucky Kansan heroine (voiced by Lea Michele) is whisked back to the Emerald City once more....

‘Terra Nova’ Trailer Offers Better Look At Series’ Old And New Worlds By Angie Han/May 3, 2011 11:00 am EST [via Film School Rejects] I know the series is set over a century in the future, but have none of their historians or scholars seen Jurassic Park? I could’ve told them that their “living among the dinosaurs” experiment would end up being a bad idea. The new spot does nothing to dispel the impression that Terra Nova is Avatar meets Lost meets Jurassic Park....

‘The Death Of ‘Superman Lives’; What Happened?’ Trailer #2: Documentary On The Failed Tim Burton Film By Germain Lussier/Aug. 19, 2014 11:00 am EST Superman Lives is one of the biggest mysteries in modern film history. After making the blockbuster superhero film Batman, filmmaker Tim Burton decided he would try to do something similar for Superman. Kevin Smith wrote a script, Burton cast Nicolas Cage in the lead role and got deep in to pre-production....

‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay’ Posters Introduce The Resistance By Angie Han/Aug. 27, 2014 1:00 pm EST The residents of District 13 seem to have a thing for grey, but the warriors of District 13 are all about the color black. All the better to look badass, I guess. A new batch of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay posters introduce the resistance fighters, including Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and Cressida (Natalie Dormer). Check out the new The Hunger Games Mockingjay posters after the jump....

‘The LEGO Movie’ Trailer Spoofs ‘Man Of Steel’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 31, 2014 5:00 am EST We’ve seen a lot from The Lego Movie already — a couple of trailers, a load of clips, and many posters — but the latest trailer might be the best. That’s because it is a spoof of the Man of Steel trailer, complete with a Lego-made Warner Bros. shield. Check out the spot below. The Lego Movie opens on February 7....

‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Adds Adan Canto; See First Pics Of Halle Berry As Storm By Angie Han/April 22, 2013 2:30 pm EST A decade after X2, Bryan Singer is busy directing superpowered mutants once again. X-Men: Days of Future Past entered production about a week ago, and thanks to Twitter we’ve received a steady stream of updates on the project. This weekend, we learned that the already crowded cast had added one more star in the form of Adan Canto, a Mexican actor best known for playing Paul Torres on Fox’s The Following....

Alamo Drafthouse Reveals Their 100 Favorite Films; Screening Series Set For 2014 By Germain Lussier/Dec. 13, 2013 1:19 pm EST We all love a good top ten list, but the Alamo Drafthouse has gone ten times better. They’ve taken the end of 2013 as an opportunity to create the “Alamo 100,” the 100 favorite films of all time according to the theater’s programming team. These films, which predictably run the gamut from undeniable classics to super-specific genre gems, will begin screening at Alamo locations nationwide in the new year....

Artist Tim Doyle Bids Farewell To ‘The Simpsons’ With Open Edition Poster By Germain Lussier/Feb. 28, 2014 3:15 pm EST Austin-based artist Tim Doyle has been making posters of The Simpsons for years. Most of them are part of his three Unreal Estate exhibits. Today, he’s released what could potentially be his final look at the legendary show. He and Spoke Art have released “Springfield,” an 18 x 24 inch screenprint available either in either a regular or glow in the dark edition....

Beyond Comedy And Drama: Netflix Has 76,897 Unique Microgenres By Angie Han/Jan. 2, 2014 3:01 pm EST Among the Netflix faithful, the service’s hyper-specificity is something of an affectionate joke. Just about any movie database will differentiate between, say, drama and comedy, but Netflix comes up with categories like “Critically-acclaimed Witty Independent Comedies” or “Imaginative Time Travel Movies from the 1980s.” Just as you’d imagine, those microgenres add up — to 76,897 unique descriptors, as counted by one journalist....

Christopher Nolan Reveals New ‘Interstellar’ Trailer At Comic Con 2014 By Russ Fischer/July 24, 2014 5:53 pm EST We’ve told you about the Comic Con debut of Matthew McConaughey and Christopher Nolan, who took the stage in Hall H today to discuss their upcoming film Interstellar. While seeing Nolan field a few questions was a treat, the two also brought along a new Interstellar trailer. We don’t have that trailer to embed, as it won’t be shown to the general public for a while yet....

Cool Stuff: ‘Star Wars: Frames’ Book By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2013 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After George Lucas finished work on Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, he wanted to look back on the Star Wars saga with an entirely new point of view: isolating stills, or frames, from each of the six Star Wars films, focusing on them intensely as works of photography and design, and reproducing them in a book....

Cool Stuff: Ton Of Cool Additional ‘Pacific Rim’ Art From Mondo, Odd City And Chogrin By Germain Lussier/July 15, 2013 2:30 pm EST Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim is now in theaters and for the past few weeks, one thing has been made abundantly clear. No film in recent memory has sparked the imaginations of graphic artists quite like this one. We’ve posted multiple articles featuring gorgeous art inspired by the film and now there’s even more to behold....