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A Single Man Movie Trailer (Tom Ford Teams With Mad Men’s Production Designer) By Hunter Stephenson/Nov. 7, 2009 8:56 pm EST When Harvey Weinstein picked up the $2 million rights to A Single Man, he’s said to have personally guaranteed director (and former Gucci creative director) Tom Ford an Oscar for Best Director or Best Picture. And though a statuette for either category seems unlikely given ‘09’s ‘stiff competition, especially in light of the Coen Bros....

Beautiful New UK Poster For The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 14, 2009 3:16 pm EST The main UK poster for Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus falls somewhat short, I feel. There’s more than a hint of Harry Potter about it and a definite waft of The Golden Compass too. Thankfully, however, it isn’t any longer the only UK poster for the film and not only is the new one better, it’s actually pretty bloody amazing....

Casting Notes: Rene Russo Is Thor’s Mom; Tina Fey And Steve Carell Reunite By Russ Fischer/Dec. 17, 2009 9:29 am EST We haven’t seen Rene Russo in a feature film since Yours, Mine and Ours in 2005, and (as someone noted, but I don’t recall whom) we haven’t seen her do a decent movie since The Thomas Crown Affair, in 1999. But Russo’s turn in Wolfgang Peterson’s In the Line of Fire will never fade, so I’m happy to see her coming back to the screen as a Norse queen....

Casting Speed Racer: Susan Sarandon And John Goodman By Peter Sciretta/April 1, 2007 10:46 pm EST Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise, Dead Man Walking) and John Goodman (The Big Lebowski, The Flintstones) are in negotiations to co-star in The Wachowski Brothers’ big screen adaptation of Speed Racer. They would play the parents of Emile Hirsch, an eighteen-year-old who aspires to become a race car driver, but his father, automotive engineer “Pops” [Goodman] disapproves....

Christopher Nolan Is The Only Screenwriter Currently Attached To Next Batfilm By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 17, 2009 2:18 pm EST Let’s stop calling the next Batman film Batman 3, shall we? Let’s just call it the next Batman film – or TNBF, if you want. That’ll do. The Batman films didn’t start with Begins, you know. Not nearly. IGN have discovered a tiny crumb of info on TNBF that is bound to fuel speculation....

Cloverfield: Behind The Scenes Footage And Photos By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2007 3:27 pm EST Our friends at CloverfieldClues have pointed us to a video which appears to be the first behind the scenes footage from the JJ Abrams produced top secret monster flick Cloverfield. The footage, which can be seen after the jump, shows people running down a city street and military vehicles in action. In one of the shots you will notice a striped SEPHORA store....

Did John Hurt Replace Sean Connery In Indiana Jones 4? By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2007 4:11 pm EST For months George Lucas and Steven Spielberg promised that Sean Connery’s character (Dr. Henry Jones Sr.) was included in the script for Indiana Jones 4. So when the film went into production and Connery announced that he would not be back after-all, we cried fowl. I hope Conner’s part was very small, for their sake....

Errol Morris To Make Second Non-Documentary Film By Peter Sciretta/April 15, 2009 9:20 pm EST Update: I have been quickly corrected. This is not Errol’s first non documentary film. He directed a mystery film called The Dark Wind in 1991. One of the best documentarians in the history of cinema has announced that he will be making his first second fictional feature film, kinda. Errol Morris, who won an Academy Award for Fog of War in 2003, has signed on to direct the Untitled Cryonics Project for Mandate Pictures....

Fan Made Year One Super Bowl Trailer In 3D By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2009 11:08 pm EST You can now watch the Year One Super Bowl television advertisement in 3D. No, Year One wasn’t part of the 3D block of Super Bowl ads, and no, Columbia Pictures did not decide to re-render the trailer in 3-D. /Film Reader Demi Adejuyigbe decided to convert the advertisement into 3D himself. Here is the email from Demi to explain:...

By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 1, 2008 9:22 pm EST Discuss: Do you want to see another Speed movie with Keanu Reeves in the lead?

Geek Deals: Buffy Collectors Set For $70; Star Wars Vault For $25 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 21, 2008 12:25 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Next up, Woot.com has an incredible deal on a book that we once called “The Coolest Book of 2007!” — The Star Wars Vault. The huge hardcover book features a collection of “50 interactive, rare and some never-before-published memorabilia, including reproductions of Lucas’s own handwritten script pages, flip-through catalogs, swag, posters, T-shirt transfers, tattoos, stickers, blueprints, production notes, animation cells and much more!...

Genius Party Beyond Movie Trailer By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 6, 2008 2:02 am EST Set for release in Japan this October, the anime anthology film, Genius Party Beyond, from Studio 4°C features five stunning short films from the following directors: Wanwa the Puppy by Shinya Ohira (Kill Bill: Vol. 1)Gala by Mahiro Maeda (The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance)Moondrive by Koji Morimoto (The Animatrix)Tojin Kit by Tatsuyuki Tanaka (Digital Juice, worked on Akira)Dimension Bomb (above) by Kazuto Nakazawa (Parasite Dolls, The Animatrix)...

Grindhouse To Be Split Into 2 Movies? By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2007 5:21 pm EST So Grindhouse bombed at the box office, making only half of the targeted $25 million opening Easter weekend. The Weinstein Co head Harvey Weinstein told Nikki Finke that he is “very disappointed” with the results, and he is considering splitting the double feature into two separate films. “First of all, I’m incredibly disappointed. We tried to do something new and obviously we didn’t do it that well....

Indiana Jones 4 Shooting Begins, Video Update From Shia LaBeouf By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2007 3:22 pm EST Today is the first day of principal photography on Indiana Jones 4. The film’s official website has posted the following update: Today director Steven Spielberg will shout “Action!” marking the return of the character who redefined cinematic action as cameras roll on the first day of principal photography on the new Indiana Jones adventure....

J. Michael Straczynski To Write Forbidden Planet Remake By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 31, 2008 1:45 am EST Warner Bros has hired J. Michael Straczynski to write a remake of Forbidden Planet. The original saw a group of Earth scientists who are sent some 17 light years away to investigate what happened to a colony of settlers on Altair-4. They find a man with a secret and his daughter who somehow survived a hideous monster attack on their planet....

Max Makowski To Direct Voltron By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 28, 2008 5:39 pm EST Makowsi is currently attached to direct the revamp of Kung Fu, due in 2009, and he’s best known for the 2005 Sundance assassins flick, One Last Dance, co-starring Harvey Keitel. Haven’t seen it, neither has LR. IMDB: 6.0. Here’s the trailer. Other films he’s attached to, in a writing or directing capacity, include Shinobi and Hawaii Five-O....

Miller Talks Sin City 2 Delays And Sin City 3 Plans By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2007 10:59 am EST With Sin City 2 in some kind of delayed limbo — some people speculate that the film is stuck in the same place that Captain Jack found himself at the beginning of Pirates 3. So I’m not exactly sure how credible this is, but Frank Miller has told MTV that he is also planning to film Sin City 3....

Movie Trailer: Adam Sandler’s New Comedy Grown Ups By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 12, 2009 4:49 pm EST Columbia Pictures has released the teaser trailer for the new Adam Sandler comedy Grown Ups. The film stars Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Maria Bello, Gary Busey and David Spade, and is directed by Dennid Dugan, the filmmaker behind of some of Sandler’s earlier films like Happy Gilmore and Big Daddy, but who recently has been responsible for some comic clunkers like I Now Pronouce You Chuck & Larry, and You Don’t Mess with the Zohan....

Must Watch: Rocket Science Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2007 6:12 pm EST We’ve told you before how Rocket Science was not only one of our favorite films from Sundance, but one of our favorite films of the year. It’s a mixture of Election, Rushmore, and Squid and the Whale. If you liked any of the previously named films, you will love Rocket Science. Last week Picturehouse revealed the film’s movie poster (blah) and we posted two new video clips from the film....

New Line To Remake Escape From New York By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2007 10:01 pm EST New Line Cinema has won the bidding war for the Escape from New York remake starring Gerard Butler (300) which we told you about a couple days back. Butler will play Snake Plissken, the one-eyed convict who must rescue the President of the United States from an inescapable maximum security prison formerly known as Manhattan....