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Finally Confirmed: George Miller To Direct Justice League Of America By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 20, 2007 2:01 pm EST Variety has finally confirmed that George Miller (Happy Feet) will direct a big screen adaptation of The Justice League of America. Yeah, we know, this news leaked onto the internet on August 1st, but the trade papers are slow, and Warner Bros took a while to make an official announcement. Justice League will likely feature the characters of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash and Aquaman....

First Look: Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2007 3:29 pm EST Entertainment Weekly has released the first photos from Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited. The Rushmore director is telling fans “You can’t trust what you read on the internet” in response to a plot description which has been circulating the web for months. According to the web description, the story follows three brothers who trek through India to find an albino tiger that’s actually their reincarnated father....

Funny People: Adam Sandler In Re-Do By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2009 12:17 am EST In Judd Aptow’s Funny People, Adam Sandler’s character George Simmons is a successful stand-up comic turned comedy star who has appeared in many shitty but successful movies. Apatow was forced to create some of the character’s earlier big screen hits. Some of the films appear as posters or whatnot in the background, while others actually feature prominently on screen....

Gilliamwatch: Johnny Depp Definitely Not Joining The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, New Philip K. Dick Adaptation And More By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 6, 2009 10:30 am EST Despite there still being no public announcement of a US distribution deal for The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Terry Gilliam is still very busy with publicity for the film as well as planning for next year’s second attempt at The Man Who Killed Don Quixote....

Is Social Networking The Future Of On Demand Cinema? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 28, 2008 2:03 pm EST I’ve always said that digital movie theaters will lead to a social cinema revolution where the audience decides the movies. But apparently it is already happening in Brazil. MovieMobz has been doing for a few months now. BBC describes the company as “Part social network, part digital content aggregator,” but basically the concept is this: You join the website, pick your favorite local movie theaters, and create a wish list of films you would like to see shown there....

James Newton Howard To Score The Last Airbender By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 19, 2008 4:17 pm EST M Night Shyamalan has found himself under attack for the casting choices in the upcoming big screen live action adaptation of Avatar, titled The Last Airbender (almost 500 angry comments on our previous news story). I have a big of good news for Avatar fans: The Gorfaine-Schwartz Agency has confirmed that seven-time Academy Award-nominated composer James Newton Howard has signed on to compose the film’s score....

Jason Priestley Options Death Of A Freerider; Cycling Subgenre Explodes! By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2009 10:30 am EST Suddenly, cycling movies are everywhere! OK, maybe not everywhere. But having two cycling-related films announced in the same day is enough to get any fixed-gear freak (and you are freaks, all of you) to pedal a little faster. There’s David Koepp doing Premium Rush, a bike messenger action flick that hopes it can be as awesome as Kevin Bacon’s seminal bike messenger movie Quicksilver....

Jennifer’s Body Photo Reveals Megan Fox’s Bloody Bite By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2009 10:52 pm EST After the red band trailer, you might have thought that you had a pretty good idea of what Jennifer’s Body is about. But this new photo, published over at Fangoria, proves that we haven’t seen everything yet. Written by Academy Award winner Diablo Cody and directed by Karyn Kusama, the film tells the story of a small-town high school hottie Jennifer (Megan Fox) who is possessed by a hungry demon and begins eating boys....

Kevin Lima’s Tom Thumb By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 7, 2008 11:53 pm EST How does a big screen adaptation of Tom Thumb sound to you? Yeah, not too exciting. What if I told you that Kevin Lima, the guy who directed Disney’s Enchanted is attached? Still not sold? What if I told you that Saving Private Ryan scribe Robert Rodat has been hired to write the script? Sounding a little better?...

Let The Right One In: Release Dates, DVD And English Remake By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 21, 2008 5:28 pm EST Yesterday I wrote about an incredible film called Let The Right One In (read here). A lot of readers have written in to share their love for this film festival favorite. And among the responses, Reamwe also received some noteworthy updates. Neoufo51 called Magnet Releasing and found out the film will be released on DVD on March 10th 2009....

MacGruber Green-Band Trailer By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 21, 2010 12:05 am EST We brought you the red-band trailer for the upcoming MacGruber film just a few days ago, and now the studio has released a safer green-band version to lure unsuspecting families into its R-rated den of sin. The film is an adaptation of the SNL sketches featuring Will Forte as the titular MacGuyver spoof. In addition to Forte, the cast also includes Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer, Powers Boothe, and Maya Rudolph....

New Domestic Speed Racer Trailer - What Do You Think?! By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2008 12:04 am EST When The Wachowski Brothers announced they would be making a live action cartoon-looking adaptation of the classic anime series Speed Racer, I was all for it. When it was revealed that the film would be Rated G, because the brothers wanted to make a family film, I was still on board. But when the first teaser trailer hit, that was when I fell off the tracks, down a hill, and into a lake in another state....

New Hellboy II: The Golden Army TV Spot By Peter Sciretta/May 22, 2008 1:30 pm EST A new television advertisement for Hellboy II: The Golden Army aired during the finale of American Idol last night. Watch it embedded below or in High Definition (1080p) on the Hellboy website. Enjoy! [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/hellboy2tvspot.flv 470 264] Hellboy II: The Golden Army hits theaters on July 11th. New Hellboy II: The Golden Army TV Spot...

New Source Confirms Black Cat For Spider-Man 4, More Story Details Revealed? By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 10, 2009 7:00 pm EST According to new information, however, it would seem beyond doubt and now a dead cert that Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat, is in. Better still, there’s some basic information about her story arc bubbling up… I’ve verified with Hey U Guys that their sources are 100% legit, and am pleased to confirm that they’ve passed the sniff test easily....

New York Comic-Con - Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder Video Review By David Chen/Feb. 7, 2009 12:07 am EST /Film is on the scene at the 2009 New York Comic-Con! Although the NYCC (held at the Javits Center) is not nearly as overpopulated and out of control as its San Diego counterpart, there will still be some neat footage and panels this weekend that me and Devindra Hardawar will be covering for the site over the next 48 hours....

Saw 4 Teaser Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 31, 2007 1:03 pm EST Lionsgate has finally released a teaser trailer for SAW IV. And like any good teaser, it shows us very little, while making us want more. I’m still amazed at how little we’ve seen or know about this film, at this late stage of the game (two months before release). I’m still very unsure if this one will be any good....

Sean Penn, Jim Carrey And Benicio Del Toro Are The Three Stooges By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2009 10:36 am EST Casting is finally being announced for the Farrelly Brothers’ The Three Stooges, and the only real surprise is that Jim Carrey is in talks to play Curly. Carrey is planning to gain 40 pounds for the role so that he can more closely match the physical look of Jerome “Curly” Howard....

Sony Classics Buys Venice Winner Lebanon, A ‘Hurt Locker-Style War Film’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 21, 2009 9:40 am EST UPDATE: Sony Classics is on a roll today. The company also picked up the Robert Duvall movie Get Low, about which I wrote last week. Original article follows. I’ve been meaning to write about Lebanon since it recently won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. The Israeli war film, directed by Samuel Maoz, takes place inside a tank and is an account of a rescue attempt that hopes to free a paratrooper squad that is besieged by Syrian troops....

Teaser Image For Terry Gilliam’s Imaganarium Of Doctor Parnassus By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 6, 2008 11:33 pm EST An image for Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has appeared online; actually, only half of the image, as the other half will apparently be conjoined on the film’s official site this weekend. A source close to the film purportedly told Quick Stop that the massive influx of web traffic caused its site to crash earlier today....

The Baader Meinhof Complex Movie Trailer By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 16, 2008 2:45 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The underlying message in this enticing teaser trailer for The Baader Meinhof Complex seems to be that young idealists who cross the chasm into full-blown terrorism are undeniably sexy. So, rest assured that many German critics feel the film doesn’t glorify sexy terrorism. Moreover, they have selected the movie for Best Foreign Film consideration in this year’s Oscar race....