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Mark Strong Reveals Sherlock Holmes Secrets By Brendon Connelly/March 4, 2009 12:05 pm EST Total Film have interviewed Mark Strong for their latest issue and he’s been happy enough to discuss not only his naughty, naughty character in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, but also how the film will climax. Strong’s villainous role is as Lord Blackwood, a Satanist who uses fear to manipulate and grasp power in a fashion not entirely dissimilar to that practiced by Alastair Crowley....

Matt Reeves’ Let The Right One In Remake Casting Rumors By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 23, 2009 8:43 am EST Update: Overture Films has informed us that Philip Seymour Hoffman has not been cast in Let Me In, but did not comment on the other cast names listed in the story. Apparently a press release announcing the full cast will hit later this week, so keep checking back. The original story follows below:...

Michael Moore’s Top 20 Movies Of 2009 And Why The Hurt Locker Is “Very Political” By Peter Sciretta/March 7, 2010 11:20 pm EST Moore went on to criticize those who praise the Best Picture/Director winner The Hurt Locker for being unbiased or taking no political sides: “I’m confident that, if you had had a chance to see it, you would likely agree with me that this is a brilliant film, a rare gem....

Mike Newell In Talks To Direct The Lone Ranger By Brendon Connelly/April 30, 2009 11:53 am EST Another great Tweetscoop from Production Weekly tells us that Mike Newell is “in talks to direct Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott’s big screen adaptation of The Lone Ranger at Disney.” I may have recently had trouble calling Newell’s surname to mind (ahem) but I’ve definitely enjoyed a good number of his films over the years....

New Line To Make Gears Of War Movie By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2007 12:45 pm EST New Line is on a roll. First they win the rights to the Escape from New York remake, and now a big screen adaptation of Microsoft’s popular video game Gears of War. Collateral and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl screenwriter Stuart Beattie is working on the script. No word on who will direct....

Nicole Kidman Out, Lucy Punch In - Woody Allen’s Got A New Hooker By Brendon Connelly/May 29, 2009 11:49 pm EST Woody Allen is working on his new movie to be filmed in London this Summer, and the cast he’s planned includes Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas, Naomi Watts and, until recently, also featured Nicole Kidman. She recently bowed out, however, when the schedule for Rabbit Hole was set and clashed with Woody’s plan....

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Michael Cunningham Writes Slasher Screenplay? By Brendon Connelly/June 13, 2009 8:00 am EST Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham, of the novel The Hours and the feature films Evening and A Home at the End of the World, has taken an unusual career detour into penning a slasher screenplay. Variety reports that Beautiful Girl was born of Cunningham’s love of scary genre pieces. He told them: While I was writing about Virginia Wolff, my mind was never far removed from the idea of girls in bikinis being hacked up by guys wearing hockey masks and I vowed that if I ever had a good idea, I would write one of these scary movies....

Scott Pilgrim Trailer This Friday… But Only In The UK? By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2010 5:42 pm EST The Good News: BleedingCool has learned that a 83-second teaser trailer for Edgar Wright’s big screen adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World will premiere this Friday. London /Film readers take note: the teaser trailer for Scott Pilgrim will be attached to prints of Kick-Ass, which hits theaters in the UK this Friday....

Soundwave Confirmed For Transformers 2 By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2008 1:18 am EST Good news for Transformers fans, Soundwave will appear in the Transformers sequel. When Michael Bay was developing Transformers, rumor had it that Soundwave would make an appearance (possibly as a modern day MP3 player). And while that never happened in the original film, screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have confirmed that Soundwave is included in the script for Transformers 2....

Southland Tales Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 20, 2007 12:10 pm EST Since the now infamous Cannes Film Festival screening which resulted in a wave of bad buzz like never seen before, Richard Kelly has been trying to do damage control on his sophomore effort, a follow-up his hit cult first film Donnie Darko. Southland Tales has been re-cut, enhanced with new special effects (which evident in the trailer are not too impressive), and is said to be a totally different movie....

Spidey Gearing Up To Fight… Swiss Miss? By Brendon Connelly/March 27, 2009 1:02 pm EST The NY Post’s Michael Riedel was a naughty wee boy and went sneaking into the sales launch of Julie Taymor’s new Broadway production Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, wherein no press were officially permitted. A slap on the wrist and a kiss on the cheek. Riedel’s report contains not only a glimpse at official artwork (see above) and some details of the special effects and set designs but also a list of the baddies due to appear – one of whom is a newbie, freshly created for the show....

Taylor Lautner Will Co-Star With Tom Cruise In Northern Lights By Russ Fischer/Jan. 6, 2010 9:46 am EST Seems premature to be giving Taylor Lautner multi-million paydays based only on New Moon, doesn’t it? The film did amazingly well, and he became an instant heartthrob, but how much of that was Lautner and how much was just Twilight? Impossible to tell until he’s in a non-Twilight film or two. Which is why he’s being courted left and right for new films, including Max Steel and Cancun....

Terminator Salvation Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2008 6:03 pm EST Earlier today a Japanese trailer leaked for Terminator Salvation. Well now Warner Bros has released the Official second domestic trailer for the film, and its an extremely different cut. We get a better look at the Moto-Terminator and the gigantic transformer-like Harvester. Even the detractors need to give McG some credit, this film is looking better and better....

The Incredible Hulk Movie Poster By Hunter Stephenson/April 14, 2008 3:29 pm EST Paramount just released this new one-sheet for The Incredible Hulk, the increasingly gossiped over Marvel Studios reboot opening June 13th. The first sentence in a recent NY Times article on the movie’s “desperate” need to become a hit was: “Bad Buzz.” Wow. This poster on the other hand, featuring a shoe-gazing, denim-loving Edward Norton/Bruce Banner and the looming back of The Hulk, is not bad, above average even....

Tron Evolution Trailer - That’s The Tie-In Videogame, Not Another Name Change By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 13, 2009 2:29 pm EST A trailer for a tie-in videogame is a lot more relevant when we’re discussing a Tron picture than would normally be the case. The most obvious reason is that Tron was, of course, set within a virtual world and as such shares a lot of aesthetic and even generic qualities with videogames....

Video Interviews: Steven Spielberg And George Lucas On Indiana Jones 4 By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2008 4:15 pm EST Steven Spielberg and George Lucas recorded video interviews for the EPK of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom for the Crystal Skull. You can watch the interviews below. Spielberg talks about the demand for a fourth film, casting Harrison Ford, Ford as an action hero, on setting the story in 1957, how Mutt enters the story, how he discovered Shia LaBeouf, casting Shia in Indy 4, Karren Allen as Marion Ravenwood, Cate Blanchett as the villain Spaiko, the style of the film, the iconic score by John Williams, and on how the film was made for the audience....

Warhammer 40k Feature Film Ultramarines Coming Our Way By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 1, 2009 1:27 pm EST Codex Pictures have announced production of Ultramarines, the first feature film to be based upon Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40k. If you don’t know what 40k is then it seems, somewhat surprisingly, that you aren’t quite as geeky as me. Simply put, it’s a tabletop wargame, as played with little miniature figurines and dice of many sides....

Warner Bros Hopes To Fill Harry Potter’s Void With DC Comics Movie Adaptations By Peter Sciretta/March 18, 2010 6:34 pm EST One of the other notable things Warner Bros head Alan Horn said at the ShoWest presentation today involved how the studio hopes to fill the void that will be left by the studio’s most successful franchise. After Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II hits theaters in July 2011, that will conclude the biggest box office franchise in cinema history....

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Box Office: Could Pineapple Express Beat The Dark Knight This Weekend? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 7, 2008 10:41 pm EST Pineapple Express premiered nationwide on Wednesday with $12.1 million, but dropped 50% on Thursday for an estimated $6.35 million. The Dark Knight has beaten Mamma Mia, Space Chimps, Step Brothers, X-Files 2, The Mummy 3, Swing Vote… but will the cape crusader be able to take down the Judd Apatow stoner comedy?...