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First Twilight Video Clip Revealed By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2008 4:44 pm EST We’ve kept quiet about Twilight for a couple weeks, but this demands a posting. MTV has premiered the first completed scene from the finished film. This scene is everything I feared/expected this movie would be. There is not a moment where the vampires don’t look like they are being swung around the set on wires. And the sound effects that come with these movements don’t help at all....

Freddy Returning For A New Nightmare? By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 5, 2008 11:38 pm EST Whenever New Line sees dark skies, as they no doubt have with The Golden Compass, they make sure to rub their golden poobah, Fred Krueger, and send him back down Elm Street. A Deep Throat inside New Line has whispered to Bloody Disgusting that plans for Freddy vs. Jason 2 are off, as is the A Nightmare on Elm Street prequel that had Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer’s John McNaughton attached to direct....

Gears Of War Movie To Be An Origin Story? Possibly Taking Place On Emergence Day By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 8, 2009 10:25 pm EST “Emergence Day” should be a term familiar to Gears of Wars fans already, and it looks like movie fans may become very familiar with it. The term refers to that day that the series’ subterranean villains, the Locusts, started to wage war against humanity. Making Of recently spoke with producer Wyck Godfrey, who spilled some details on their current plans for the Len Wiseman-directed Gears film....

George Nolfi To Write Fourth Jason Bourne Film By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 16, 2008 5:20 pm EST So what’s the latest on the fourth film in the Jason Bourne series? Last we heard, producer Frank Marshall was hoping to begin shooting next Summer for a 2010 release. Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon have already signed on, all they need now is a script. Today it was announced that Universal is serious about doing a fourth film, hiring George Nolfi to write the script....

Golden Globes Cancelled! By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 7, 2008 3:36 pm EST NBC is having a press conference this afternoon to announce they are canceling Sunday’s Golden Globe ceremonies. That’s right, the show won’t even go on un-televised, which is probably a good move (imagine how boring the untelevised version could have been). NBC instead plans to run a press conference announcing the winners intercut with clips of the stars at parties....

Jackass 3 Announced! By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 26, 2007 8:54 pm EST Jackass star Steve-O let it slip today on the Howard Stern Show that a third Jackass movie is in the works. No, we’re not talking about the Jackass 2.5 direct-to-DVD movie which is coming out later this year. I’m talking about Jackass: Number Three. “I was told to rest up for Jackass 3 which will start shooting in January,” said Steve-O....

Jason Bateman Joins Up In The Air By Peter Sciretta/March 2, 2009 1:44 am EST Bateman will play Clooney’s boss. Farmiga plays a businesswoman who develops a romantic relationship with Bingham through meetings in airports and hotels around the country, while Kendrick plays a new employee who invents a computer program which will allow Career Transition Counselors to work virtually from a central office (reducing the cost of travel expenses/time and downsizing the amount of jobs)....

Kevin Smith On Rosario Dawson’s Departure From Zack And Miri By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2007 2:51 pm EST Yesterday we told you that Rosario Dawson signed on to star alongside Shia LaBeouf in the D.J. Caruso thriller Eagle Eye. This however took Dawson out of the running for Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno, a romantic comedy that had been hand written for Dawson. And now Silent Bob finally speaks:...

Mattel Developing More Toys To Adapt Into Movies By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2010 7:00 am EST You thought that Hollywood was scraping the bottom of the barrel when they began greenlighting movie adaptations based on popular toy brands and board games. Now the toy manufacturers are developing new toy brands with the goal of simultaneously turning the properties into a big screen features, brining new meaning to the phrase “Toy Movie”....

Mel Gibson On The Edge Of Darkness In New Pic By Brendon Connelly/April 22, 2009 1:14 pm EST I’ve been picking up a vague idea that – and you know, tell me if you’ve sensed it too – that Empire are trying really hard at the moment. Be sure and stop by their site to at least give them something back in return, eh? Their latest scoop is an image from Edge of Darkness....

Mila Kunis Talks Aronosfky’s Black Swan By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2009 11:03 am EST Mila Kunis is out promoting her work in the new Mike Judge film Extract, and Collider got her to talk a bit about Black Swan, the Darren Aronofsky film in which she’ll co-star with Natalie Portman. Kunis wouldn’t reveal too much, as she claims the project is under total lock and key, but there are a few choice statements after the jump....

More Photos From The Lovely Bones By Brendon Connelly/April 25, 2009 2:12 am EST Those of you who stepped out and snapped up the 20th Anniversary issue of Empire will already have seen the latest – and indeed, greatest – images from Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones. For those of you no lucky enough to live ‘over here’, the good news is that some industrious souls have scanned those pages and posted them online....

Pegg And Frost Video Blog Real Details Of Paul By Russ Fischer/July 10, 2009 9:14 am EST We’ve told you what the movie Paul is about. That’s the road trip movie written by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, currently being directed by Adventureland’s Greg Mottola and starring a whole bunch of awesome people. But it’s much more fun to let Pegg and Frost tell you what it’s about, especially with the slightly smarmy haircut and goatee Pegg is now sporting....

Percy Jackson & The Olympians Trailer 2 By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 17, 2009 1:24 pm EST Though it settles into exactly the same groove as the previously released teaser trailer just half of the way through, the new, second trailer for Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief finally gives us a look at what we want to see – the name-actor stars of the film. There’s Pierce Brosnan, Rosario Dawson, Steve Coogan and Sean Bean in here, if rather briefly....

Possible First Look: Yogi Bear By Peter Sciretta/March 31, 2010 4:42 pm EST removed at request from WB /Film reader Dave BC sent over a link to some photos which claim to be from the hybrid live-action/computer animated feature adaptation Yogi Bear. I’m unable to verify if these are real or not, but they sure look like it. If you know anything, shoot me an email or comment below. They also look very faithful to the originally Hanna-Barbera creations....

Renny Harlin Takes Val Kilmer And Emmanuelle Chriqui To Georgia By Russ Fischer/Oct. 28, 2009 7:21 am EST We wrote a couple months ago about Renny Harlin’s upcoming film about the 2008 conflict between Georgia and Russia. Now, as then, I’m interested in the film to see if Harlin can take what made a few of his films really entertaining (I’m thinking of Cliffhanger, Deep Blue Sea and The Long Kiss Goodnight) and apply it to something that isn’t so flashy....

Rumor Killer: James Cameron On Avatar Concept Art By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 3, 2007 5:16 pm EST Last week conceptual artwork which was supposedly from James Cameron’s 3D sci-fi epic film Avatar “leaked” online. We hoped and prayed that it wasn’t real, as it wasn’t too impressive (actually it looked a lot like Angelina Jolie as Grendel’s mother in Beowulf). Well Cameron e-mailed the guys at AintItCool to clear the air and dispel the rumor:...

Six New Star Trek Photos Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 15, 2008 3:35 pm EST Paramount has begun to distribute the first production photos from JJ Abrams’ Star Trek around the web. Above is a first look at the crew on the Bridge of the USS Enterprise from MTV. Lindelof says that Kirk’s Black shirt is the Captain uniform, and that the red shirt crew member in the background is of no importance (ie Uhura probably replaces her after she dies early on)....

Sundance Review: Tyson By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 16, 2009 6:10 pm EST I don’t think I’ve been awake at 8:30 in the morning more than 7 days over the course of the last year. So getting up to see a documentary with an 8:30am start time isn’t easy. Thankfully it was at the racquet club, which is only a 2 minute walk from our blogger condo. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the uncensored expose that I naively believed it might be....

The Top Ten Films Of 2009, According To John Waters By Russ Fischer/Dec. 28, 2009 9:45 am EST I’m fairly sick of lists by this point every year, and this year, with all the roundups of the past decade, the listmania is way out of hand. But this is one I can get behind. I like it in part simply because it was penned by John Waters, the long-standing champion of bad taste....