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Confirmed: Director Neill Blomkamp Would Probably Not Do A Halo Film, Even If Offered One By David Chen/July 24, 2009 1:48 am EST In 2006, it was announced that a film adaptation based on the insanely popular videogame series Halo would be helmed by a 26-year old first-time director named Neill Blomkamp. Blomkamp went so far as to create some Halo-inspired shorts, but after several months of development, the project ultimately fell apart....

Cool Stuff: Hot Toys’ Terminator 2: Judgment Day: 1/6th Scale T800 Collectible Figure By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2010 10:32 am EST Hot Toys will be releasing a 1/6th scale T800 collectible figure from the Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The T800 figure is specially crafted based on the image of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie, “highlighting the newly sculpted muscular body and detailed head.” The figure is expected to be released in April/May 2010....

Cool Stuff: Retro Up Posters By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 3, 2009 2:00 am EST Correction: Apparently Eric Tan did not create all these posters, I was wrong in that assumption. He created “Journey into the Wild” (with the dogs), Craig Foster did the SAA South American Air (with the Lama), Erik Evans did the “Paradise Falls” (with the bird), and Paul Conrad did the five remaining posters. To celebrate the November 10th DVD & Blu-ray Combo pack release of Pixar’s Up, Disney has released high resolution copies of Eric Tan’s awesome retro posters which were created during the development of the film for inspiration, and were hung in Pixar Animation Studios during production....

DGA And SAG Awards Announced By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 27, 2008 10:32 pm EST The award winners for the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild have been announced. DGA AWARDS Winner for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film 2007 Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - No Country For Old Men (Miramax Films/Paramount Vantage) Winner for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary 2007 Asger Leth – Ghosts of Cite Soleil (Sony BMG Feature Films)...

First Look: Snake Eyes From GI Joe - What Do You Think? By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2008 11:55 pm EST Update: We’ve updated this story with a second image (seen above), and a higher resolution version of the first image (below). Paramount has released the first photo of Ray Park as Snake Eyes from the upcoming live action G.I. Joe movie. So what do you guys think? Is the live action Snake Eyes as bad ass as you imagined?...

First Official Photo: Jake Gyllenhaal In Prince Of Persia By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2009 9:44 am EST Entertainment Weekly’s comic-con preview issue hits store shelves today, and features the above first official photo of Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan from Disney’s adaptation of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Paparazzi and leaked set photos had appeared online previously. And then there was that small bit of preview footage that aired in May....

Happy 100th Birthday To Animated Film By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 17, 2008 6:56 pm EST One hundred years ago today, the first animated film of all time was released to the public. Fantasmagorie was created over the course of four months by French caricature artist Émile Cohl, who became known as “The Father of the Animated Cartoon”. The short is made up of over 700 drawings, each of which was double-exposed, leading to a running time of almost two minutes....

Is ‘Cop Out’ The Title Of Kevin Smith’s Newest Film? Also, A New Inception Trailer For Christmas? By David Chen/Dec. 12, 2009 12:19 pm EST The other day, Kevin Smith revealed that after a very lengthy decision process beginning with Warner Brothers deciding to drop the title of his new film A Couple of Dicks, then deciding to keep it, in the end the film would lose its original, double-entendre-worthy title....

Jason Statham Up For Namor The Sub-Mariner By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 24, 2008 12:56 pm EST “Keys are under the mat, Flipper.” Will grizzled action vet Jason Statham put on a shiny fish-scale-sequined speedo to play the majestic, sea-dwelling Marvel superhero Namor the Sub-Mariner? Well, he’s taken a meeting for the role but he’s also exhibiting a little Vince Chase-like hesitation. IESB asked if there were any comic characters on his wish list…...

Lost Boys 2 DVD Cover Art By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2008 11:16 am EST Warner Premiere has released the DVD cover art for Lost Boys: The Tribe, which will be released on DVD and Blu-ray this summer. I love how they put Corey Feldman way in the background, and his title credit actually lists him “COREY FELDMAN AS EDGAR FROG”. Discuss: Will you buy The Tribe on DVD? Lost Boys 2 DVD Cover Art...

By Russ Fischer/Dec. 31, 2009 11:14 am EST On August 31, Marvel and Disney shocked the entertainment world with an announcement that Disney would purchase Marvel in a deal valued around $4 billion in cash and stock. One of the gates any deal like that must pass through is shareholder review, and Marvel’s stockholders have now approved the merger with Disney. Now said to be valued at about $4.3 billion, the deal will be based on the price of Disney’s stock at the end of the day yesterday, and should be done by the close of the New York Stock Exchange today....

Michael Caine Says We Probably Won’t See A Dark Knight Sequel Until 2012 By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2009 12:12 pm EST The public expectation has been that Christopher Nolan’s sequel to The Dark Knight to hit theaters in the Summer of 2011, but Michael Cain, who plays Alfred in the series, thinks it might take a little longer. “All I know is that Christopher Nolan, who writes and directs Batman is doing a picture called Inception, and I’m not in it....

Michael Sheen As Brian Clough In The Trailer For The Damned United By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 27, 2009 12:21 pm EST Michael Sheen is the nearest thing we here in boring old reality have to Scott Bakula’s character in Quantum Leap. Just like Dr. Sam Beckett, Sheen somehow leaps, film after film, into the body of a historical figure (sometimes from very recent history) and guides them through dramatically amusing moral dilemmas scenarios....

Netflix Adds Hundreds Of Indie Films To Watch Instantly By Devindra Hardawar/Feb. 3, 2010 1:26 am EST Thanks to a slew of new streaming deals with several independent film distributors, Netflix is adding about 300 indie titles to their Watch Instantly library. According to their press release, distributors include “The Criterion Collection, Gravitas Ventures, Kino Lorber, Music Box Films, Oscilloscope Laboratories and Regent Releasing.” For Criterion, the new films will be in addition to the 35 they brought to Watch Instantly in December....

New Avatar Clip: “You Should See Your Faces” By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2009 10:23 pm EST Yet-another-clip from James Cameron’s Avatar has shown up online, this time on the Fox-owned portal IGN. The new one-minute clip features Jake Sully’s first glimpse at Pandora, by air. Watch the clip now, embedded after the jump. In the epic action adventure AVATAR, James Cameron, the director of “Titanic,” takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination....

Official Defendor Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2010 5:13 pm EST Written and directed by Peter Stebbings, and starring Woody Harrelson and Kat Dennings, Defendor is a superhero dramedy which centers around three characters: an everyday guy who comes to believe he’s a superhero, his psychiatrist, and the teenager prostitute he befriends. It’s part Kick-Ass, part Sopranos, and part Kpax. I screened the film at the premiere at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and can tell you that it is not your typical superhero movie....

Olivia Wilde Joins Daniel Craig In Cowboys And Aliens By Devindra Hardawar/Feb. 2, 2010 12:41 am EST It seems like we’ve been writing about Jon Favreau’s Cowboys and Aliens forever, but now the project finally seems to be moving forward. We previously reported that Robert Downey Jr. is out (most likely because of Sherlock Holmes 2), and that Daniel Craig is replacing him as the lead gunslinger. Today we learned that Olivia Wilde (House, The O....

See Twelve Minutes Of Clips From The Road By Russ Fischer/Sept. 4, 2009 9:27 am EST John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road, starring Viggo Mortensen and Codi Smit-McPhee, is finally starting to be seen. The picture screened for some press in New York City earlier this week, and is now getting decidedly mixed critical notes out of the Venice Film Festival. Now five clips from the film are online, comprising about twelve minutes of footage....

Southland Tales Release Date To Be Announced Soon By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2007 11:57 pm EST In case you were wondering (because we certainly were), Southland Tales is still in post production, and will eventually see the light of day. Director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) says that they are about half way through completing all the new visual effects. “We have to deliver everything by the end of summer,” Kelly wrote on his blog....

Steven Soderbergh Shot A Secret Improvised Film In Australia Last Month By Russ Fischer/Jan. 5, 2010 2:37 pm EST Steven Soderbergh is a freakin’ machine. Just when it seems like he’s sick of the whole filmmaking game, he knocks out a little film right under everyone’s nose. Last month Soderberg directed a play called Tot Mom for Cate Blanchett’s theatre company in Sydney. Based on his own script, the play cast local actors in a drama based on the story of accused infanticide suspect Casey Anthony as presented by CourtTV and CNN personality Nancy Grace....