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Watch This: 70-Minute Video Review Of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2009 7:46 pm EST Chances are you probably didn’t like Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. You might be a Star Wars fan, or at least a fan of the original trilogy. After waiting in line for hours, days, weeks, you may have even written a mini 200-400 word review on an internet message board somewhere....

23 New Photos From Iron Man By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2008 11:37 pm EST Paramount has released a new batch of Iron Man production photos. We’ve included the 23 new photos after the jump. As always, click on the photos to see the images in high resolution. Enjoy. Official Plot Synopsis: Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment Present Marvel Studios’ soaring action-adventure “Iron Man,” the story of billionaire industrialist and genius inventor Tony Stark (ROBERT DOWNEY JR....

Casting National Treasure 2: Helen Mirren And Ed Harris By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2007 1:56 pm EST Ed Harris (A Beautiful Mind, The Abyss, The Rock) and Helen Mirren (The Queen, Calendar Girls, Excalibur) have been cast in National Treasure: Book of Secrets. According to JoBlo, Mirren will play Nicolas Cage’s mother, Emily Gates, who provides his family’s connection to John Wilkes Booth and the mysterious Knights of the Gold Circle....

Casting Notes: Christina Hendricks And Hayden Christensen Join New Projects By Russ Fischer/Aug. 27, 2009 10:34 am EST Here are two quick casting notes that, in a busier week, might normally just make Page 2. But hell, any excuse to post a photo of Christina Hendricks is a good one, so I’m going to run with this. Also, news on Brad Anderson’s (Session 9, The Machinist) new project, which just got Hayden Christensen in the lead....

Cool Stuff: Martin Ansin’s THX 1138 Poster By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2009 6:00 am EST South American artist Martin Ansin created this poster of George Lucas’ THX 1138 as the first in a series for a personal project chonicling the films he finds visually exciting. Check out the full print after the jump. “Here the key plot points of the film are presented in the design from bottom to top. In this way the audience is invited to relive the film experience by reading it’s events in ordr, leading ultimately to THX’s escape to the surface....

By Russ Fischer/Feb. 8, 2010 4:53 pm EST EW talked to the actor and ran the image you see above. Before I get to Rourke’s comments about Megan Fox, let’s cover what the film is about. We originally ran the following logline: The film is written and directed by Mitch Glazer, who wrote Scrooged and The Recruit. Rourke and Glazer went to high school together, and the director told Rourke about this story idea over a decade ago....

Four New Photos: Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2008 1:43 pm EST Four new photos from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull have been found online. Nothing really too exciting, as they’re all “character photos”, but you can check them out after the jump.  source: Filmz.ru Four New Photos: Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull...

By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 14, 2008 3:33 pm EST The Eddie Murphy family comedy Meet Dave (formerly titled “Starship Dave”) has been moved back from May 30th to July 11th. Dave was originally set to go head to head with Sex and the City: The Movie, and will now compete with Hellboy II: The Golden Army and Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D. Paramount’s Ben Stiller comedy Tropic Thunder was originally set to open on this July date, but was moved to August....

GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra - What Did You Think? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 7, 2009 12:46 am EST Stephen Sommers’ GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra hits theaters today. As more reviews come in, it is becoming more clear why Paramount was afraid to screen this film for critics. The Tomatoemeter rating on Rotten Tomatoes has drops even further with each new review tabulated. At 1:30am on Friday morning, it stands at 52%, and the US reviews won’t begin to be added into the mix until later today....

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Replaces James McAvoy In That Untitled Cancer Comedy By Russ Fischer/March 2, 2010 1:15 pm EST I’m not sure where the comment section trend of suggesting Joseph Gordon-Levitt for every available male role went from the spirit of genuine fandom to outright jokester parody, but here’s some fuel for the fire: James McAvoy has dropped out of the film formerly called I’m With Cancer, and will be replaced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt....

Kathryn Bigelow To Direct HBO Pilot, The Miraculous Year By Devindra Hardawar/Feb. 14, 2010 11:34 pm EST Today we’ve learned that Bigelow has another project on her plate. THR is reporting that she’s set to direct the pilot for The Miraculous Year — an upcoming HBO series by screenwriter John Logan (The Aviator, The Last Samurai). The show is described as “an examination of a New York family as seen through the lens of a charismatic, self-destructive Broadway composer....

KORE Concept Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2010 11:43 pm EST Poland-based commercial director and cinematographer who goes by the nickname Macgregor (real name, Miguel de Olaso) has released a teaser trailer for an upcoming independent aci-fi action film titled KORE. First discovered by Twitch, who compares the futuristic cityscape to “the world of Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner as filtered through the grime of Neill Blomkamp’s District 9.” There isn’t much more information on the project other than “coming some day”....

LOL: Todd McFarlane Wants Leonardo DiCaprio To Topline New Spawn Film By Russ Fischer/June 10, 2009 7:50 am EST The next sentence should be considered an open letter to Todd McFarlane. Todd, please don’t ever change; your massive ego and grandiose plans never fail to entertain us. According to MTV, McFarlane has Leonardo DiCaprio in mind to head up the cast of the new Spawn film. Not as Spawn, because that would just be ridiculous, but as the guy chasing Spawn....

Must Watch: Middle School Kids Interview Jason Reitman By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 4, 2008 10:31 pm EST A bunch of middle school kids interview Juno director Jason Reitman at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. One of the brats asks Reitman where he finds time to call his father (Ivan Reitman) when he needs to know where to put the camera. Another one of the kids follows up with a question asking “Since you really have no chance of winning the Academy Award, was it still fun being nominated?...

New W. Posters Show A Misunderestimated Movie By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2008 12:14 am EST FilmSchoolRejects found some new teaser posters for Oliver Stone’s George Bush biopic W. The posters were found downtown in Denver, Colorado, right next to the convention center, where not-so-coincidentally, the Democratic National Convention will be held later this month. The tagline on the poster reads “A Life Misunderestimated”. I know the teaser trailer was disappointing, but I really love these posters....

Religulous Movie Poster (For Canada, Of Course) By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 6, 2008 11:22 pm EST Ding, ding. via Hollywood Elsewhere Discuss: What do you think of the poster? Why didn’t Lionsgate use a poster like this in the U.S.? Also, anyone notice that grandparents really love Space Chimps? Religulous Movie Poster (For Canada, Of Course) By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 6, 2008 11:22 pm EST Ding, ding. via Hollywood Elsewhere Discuss: What do you think of the poster?...

Scott Frank’s Planet Of The Apes Prequel By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 1, 2008 1:18 pm EST The project is going under the working title “Caesar”. Fox’s Tom Rothman says that it is “a kind of prequel story before the first story, with a return to the social thematics that mark the first one, but with an entirely contemporary setting – Earth 2009.” The film won’t have talking monkeys and will not end with chimps taking over Earth....

Scott Pilgrim Gets A Release Date… Up Against The Expendables? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2010 11:31 am EST Universal Pictures has released their 2010 line-up, which finally includes a release date for Edgar Wright’s live-action adaptation of Brian Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. The film, which stars Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Anna Kendrick, Alison Pill, Brandon Routh, and Jason Schwartzman, will be released Summer 2010 on August 13th....

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Will End Differently Than The Graphic Novels By Peter Sciretta/May 22, 2009 1:01 am EST I’ve always assumed that Edgar Wright’s film adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World would end the same way as the graphic novels. Of course, Scott Pilgrim Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe was only recently released, and the sixth and probably final, volume is still being written. Creator, writer and artist Bryan Lee O’Malley reveals that the movie might end completely differently than the books....

Shia LaBeouf Talks Y: The Last Man; ‘Absolutely’ Still A Chance For The Film By Russ Fischer/June 22, 2009 10:00 am EST For the last couple years, director DJ Caruso and his Disturbia and Eagle Eye star Shia LaBeouf were talking about adapting Brian K Vaughn’s post-apocalyptic series Y: The Last Man. It was an ambitious plan, which could have led to multiple films tackling the bulk of the sixty-issue series....