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Hugh Jackman OUT, Who Should Host The Oscars This Year Instead? By Devindra Hardawar/Oct. 29, 2009 9:49 pm EST Those of you anxiously awaiting for Hugh Jackman to commit to another Oscar ceremony should probably line up for Broadway tickets, because you won’t be seeing him on the Oscar stage this year. Sources say Jackman has declined the job over the past few weeks, and while he won’t rule out hosting future ceremonies, he didn’t want to do it two years in a row....

Ian McDiarmid Is Okay After Suspected Heart Attack By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 24, 2008 4:47 am EST Ian McDiarmid, probably best known as The Emperor in the Star Wars films, suffered a suspected heart attack while on stage in London. The actor continued the opening night performance until the play’s final curtain call, refusing to go to the hospital until after the performance. McDiarmid is said to be fine. But of course he’s fine, a heart attack can’t kill a Sith Lord....

Kate Beckinsale As Catwoman, Wonder Woman, Bond Girl? By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2007 11:53 am EST During the Whiteout panel at the 2007 Comic Con, Kate Beckinsale was asked if she had any interest in playing Catwoman in the next Batman movie. “Because I have a thing for black latex,” joked Beckinsale. “I think Michelle Pfeiffer was such an awesome Catwoman. I would be intimidated but I don’t know if my husband would talk to me if I turned it down....

Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” Video Features The Pussy Wagon From Kill Bill By Hunter Stephenson/March 12, 2010 10:58 am EST “Telephone,” the newly released and incredibly hyped music video from avant-garish pop star Lady Gaga, sees her teaming Thelma and Louise-style with Beyonce in the hot yellow Pussy Wagon from Kill Bill. Why? We guess it’s relative to Gaga’s appreciation for renegade female empowerment, something Quentin Tarantino’s bloody classic expresses like few films before or since....

Michael Myers Appears, Appears Again, Disappears Then Reappears By Brendon Connelly/April 22, 2009 11:43 am EST Rob Zombie’s MySpace account handlers have been getting busy with the H2 image posting of late. This morning, not only did the MySpacemeisters post a new picture of Shape-looking Shatner-masked Mike Meyers lurking about in a basement, they also seemed to slip and slap up a second, altogether more interesting image of Myers in his tramp rags, coming face to face with a rather interesting young character…...

Music Video Of Dakota Fanning And Kristen Stewart Performing Cherry Bomb As The Runaways By Brendon Connelly/March 10, 2010 1:00 pm EST Just days after the full trailer for Floria Sigismondi’s The Runaways slipped out across the web, here comes a music video showcasing Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart as members of the titular band – you can see it for yourself after the break. I don’t know if I’ll like this film or not, but I’m thinking the cult of celebrity will help turn it into a monster hit....

New Image From Disney’s Rapunzel By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 30, 2009 9:49 am EST DisneyPixar.fr have a new photo from Disney Animation’s Rapunzel, scanned from French movie magazine Studio Cinelive. Check out the full uncropped image after the jump. Directed by Byron Howard & Nathan Greno (the co-director and head of story on Bolt respectively), this new telling of the classic fairy tale, will transport audiences “to a stunning CG fantasy world complete with the iconic tower, an evil witch, a gallant hero and, of course, the mysterious girl with the long golden tresses....

New Inglourious Basterds Footage And Behind The Scenes Clips By Brendon Connelly/April 15, 2009 9:09 am EST Nobody seems too happy about Quentin Tarantino being a guest mentor on American Idol last night, but me – I’m absolutely ecstatic. I’m not in The States, so I didn’t have to see the show but I can reap the rewards remotely. This morning, Film School Rejects have posted an Inglourious Basterds video that was supposed to air on Idol last night and, sort of, did....

Return To House On Haunted Hill To Feature 90 Different Versions? By Peter Sciretta/June 19, 2007 11:12 pm EST According to Warner Bros, the direct to DVD sequel Return to House on Haunted Hill will introduce “navigational cinema” technology that will allow viewers to interact with the storyline. The High Definition release will include seven “viewer choices leading to over 90 iterations of the storyline.” What that means, we don’t exactly know....

Rob Zombie’s Halloween Movie Poster Revealed By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2007 11:40 am EST Rob Zombie has revealed the OFFICIAL movie poster for his Halloween remake/start/prequel/whatever. I like the new poster because it works on a few different levels. It has so much going on but you don’t immediately see that because of the simple color scheme. As you know, the movie follows Michael Myers, a messed up 10-year-old child who is committed to a mental institution for 17 years....

Superman Returns 2 DELAYED, Bryan Singer To Film WWII Thriller Next By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2007 10:50 pm EST It looks like comic book fanboys might have to wait a little longer for another fix of the man and blue and red tights. Variety reports that United Artists have greenlit Bryan Singer’s next project. The yet-to-be-titled dramatic thriller is an ensemble mult-character story set in World War II. What is it about?...

The Dark Knight’s Entertainment Weekly Cover By Peter Sciretta/July 3, 2008 9:57 pm EST Next week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly features Batman and The Joker on the cover. You can read the whole Dark Knight cover story now on EW.com. The Dark Knight’s Entertainment Weekly Cover By Peter Sciretta/July 3, 2008 9:57 pm EST Next week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly features Batman and The Joker on the cover. You can read the whole Dark Knight cover story now on EW....

Two Live-Action Akira Films Greenlit, Leonardo DiCaprio Producing, Possibly Will Star By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 20, 2008 7:55 pm EST What a strange day for Warner Bros. First, rumors explode today that they’re giving the heave-ho to Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, and now word arrives that they’ve greenlit two ambitious live-action films based on the landmark Japanese manga and anime Akira, with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way producing. Mere rumor is he may star as the lead character, Kaneda, in the franchise, which will be set in New Manhattan, “a new metropolis rebuilt after being destroyed 31 years earlier....

VOTD: Live-Action Thundercats Movie By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2008 11:50 am EST WormyTV spent a year and a half creating this fan made movie trailer for a live-action Thundercats movie using clips from various movies. Starring Brad Pitt, Hugh Jackman and Vin Diesel. The San Francisco-based graphic artist added all the effects frame by frame in Photoshop. The footage was edited in Adobe Premiere. Pretty incredible and also really funny....

VOTD: Star Wars Video Game Retrospective Parts 1-8 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 23, 2008 12:00 am EST Star Wars Video Games Retrospecive by GameTrailers The Pitch: Part 8 of GameTrailers’ epic 10-part Star Wars video game retrospective is now online. We’ve written about this series in the past, but before we launched our Video of the Day feature. So we’ve included the first eight videos in this ten part series after the jump....

VOTD: The Twist Ending That Should’ve Happened - Garfield Never Existed By Peter Sciretta/March 16, 2010 3:00 pm EST What if Garfield was just a figment of Jon’s imagination? I mean, we’d all love to have a walking talking orange cat voiced by Bill Murray, but most of understand this is not a possibility. CollegeHumor has provided a new edit of the 2004 film Garfield: The Movie which reveals that Jon was just a schizophrenic....

Wanted Movie Trailer #2 By Hunter Stephenson/March 6, 2008 1:06 am EST The latest trailer for Wanted, starring a raccoon-eyed Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman (what happened to that bucket list), is truly terrible, even for a movie that missed The Matrix bus by nearly a decade! Like, the film’s first trailer wasn’t very promising, but this new one is bordering on the slo-mo inanity of Karate Dog (which starred Jolie’s dad, Jon Voight, Matrix-ing with a canine no less!...

Will Ferrell To Play George W. Bush In One-Man Broadway Show By David Chen/Jan. 18, 2009 7:36 am EST Over the past eight years, we’ve seen that there are essentially two types of George W. Bush impressions: Those that are skillfully layered (e.g. Josh Brolin’s in W.) and those that venture deep into caricature (e.g. James Adomian in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Side note: Check out the range in Adomian’s filmography)....

21 Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2007 5:52 pm EST I first read the book Bringing Down the House a couple years back, and knew instantly that Hollywood would make a movie about this real life tale of how six M.I.T. Students took Vegas for Millions. The feature film version is titled 21 and stars Across the Universe’s Jim Sturgess in the lead, Kevin Spacey as the teacher/leader, in addition to Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, and Aaron Yoo....

Blu-Ray Geek Deal: X-Men Trilogy And X-Men Origins: Wolverine For $51 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2010 11:11 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.