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Year One Loses MPAA Appeal; Still Rated R By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2009 12:16 am EST The Judd Apatow-produced biblical comedy Year One has been slapped with an R-Rating by the MPAA Classification and Rating Appeals Board for “some sexual content and language.“According to THR , Apatow and director/co-writer Harold Ramis appeared before the appeals board to argue for a PG-13 rating, but were ultimately unsuccessful in their attempts. At this point, Sony is forced to accept the rating, but still has the option of re-editing the film for resubmission....

/Film UK - Exclusive Tony Clip, Details Of A Movie Geek Meet-Up And Much More By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 5, 2010 7:53 am EST Empire got the exclusive first look at a UK quad poster for Kick-Ass. Here it is. Red Riding: 1974 director Julian Jarrold is moving on to a Boy George biopic. Broadcast reveal that Worried About the Boy will star Douglas Booth as Boy George and feature appearances from “Mathew Horne as Culture Club drummer Jon Moss, Marc Warren as Visage frontman Steve Strange and Mark Gatiss as music impresario Malcom McLaren....

24 Officially Canceled By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2010 2:50 pm EST Previously: News from the 24 set,the crew has been told that 24 has come to an end. There will b no season 9. Its been a great run, thanx all 4 watching Last month it was announced that Billy Ray had been hired to pen the screenplay for a big screen 24 movie. All we know about the planned story for the feature film is that it will be set in Europe....

Alex Winter To Write Howard Stern’s Rock ‘N’ Roll High School Remake By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2008 9:16 pm EST Howard Stern has hired Alex Winter, best known as Bill from Bill & Ted, to pen a remake of the 1979 cult film Rock ’n’ Roll High School. The original Roger Corman-produced musical comedy told the story of a group of rebellious students take over a high school with the help of The Ramones....

Anchorman 2? Not Likely, Says Will Ferrell By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2010 11:35 am EST UPDATE: The quotes in the story below have apparently been around for a while, so if you’re looking for the latest Anchorman 2 denial, this isn’t it. I’m leaving the story since obviously they’re new to some of us, but don’t take this as the final word on the film. Original article follows. You more or less had to figure this is the way things were going to end up, but just in case you were really holding out hope for another Anchorman movie, probably best to let it go....

Armie Hammer Is Batman By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2007 3:08 am EST Earlier today Megan Gale was confirmed as Wonder Woman, and now IESB has confirmed previous rumors that 21-year-old Armie Hammer has been cast as Batman in George Miller’s live-action Justice League of America. Hammer has the physical stats of the Dark Knight, standing 6 foot 5 inches tall. Hammer has had small roles in Veronica Mars and Desperate Housewives, and the films Flicka and Blackout....

Bee Movie Trailer #2 Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2007 6:05 am EST Yes, that’s Steven Spielberg talking to Jerry Seinfeld dressed in a Bee suit. Last year the first teaser trailer was released for Jerry Seinfeld’s computer animated film The Bee Movie. Many people were angry that the teaser was false advertising, as it was done in live action. A second trailer has finally been released, and it also contains live action footage, but cleverly transitions into the actual computer animation....

Big Directors Small Films: Martin Scorsese’s What’s A Nice Girl Like You Doing In A Place Like This By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 18, 2008 8:12 pm EST In this week’s edition of Big Directors Small Films, we take a look at one of Martin Scorsese’s first films, What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This. You can definitely see the early genius of his visual styling and editing choices....

Christoph Waltz To Direct German Romantic Comedy By Russ Fischer/March 19, 2010 5:12 am EST The story is about “a woman who is the ruthless host of a dating show competition. She finds herself in over her head when the show’s romantic story line bumps into her own feelings for a contestant.” Waltz may play a role, but that is not yet set. The film may not get a release outside Germany, though it isn’t difficult to imagine that if it does quite well there, a wider international release wouldn’t be out of the question....

Comic Con: Woah, The Wolfman Actually Looks Kinda Cool By Peter Sciretta/July 25, 2008 2:41 pm EST An exclusive Wolfman trailer premiered at Comic Con. The footage began with the Universal Logo. Cut to a guy walking through the woods. He comes across something, scared, he drops his lantern and runs away. Voice over states “25 years ago my father found him”. “He was tore to pieces and half eaten. Whatever did it was big, had claws” Village people see something and run away....

Confirmed: Star Trek 11 To Focus On Earliest Adventures Of Kirk And Spock By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2007 9:54 pm EST We have finally received official confirmation on the plot of Star Trek XI (kinda). In an article in Sunday’s NY Times, screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman revealed that the film focuses “on the earliest adventures of Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock.” Okay, so most of us already knew or assumed this, but I believe this is the first time it’s been officially confirmed....

Danny Boyle’s Next Confirmed To Be Tale Of Mountain Climber Aron Ralston; Film Is Now Titled 127 Hours By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2009 11:08 pm EST What it doesn’t have is a script and a star, but the former is expected to change in short order, and will likely have a massive influence on the latter. Boyle is likely teaming once again with Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy, who will script based on Boyle’s treatment....

First Look: Jude Law As Dr. Watson In Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 12, 2008 6:32 pm EST Last week the first photos of Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes appeared online. Now Just Jared has new photos from Guy Ritchie’s London set, giving us a first glimpse of Jude Law in costume as Dr. John H Watson, Holmes’ friend / assistant / biographer. Law’s look is pretty much what you would expect....

First Look: The Descent 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2008 5:20 pm EST The first photo of one of the cave crawlers from The Descent 2 has hit the webs. According to Fangoria, all the original cast of the first film have returned for the sequel (most of which appear in camcorder footage found deep inside the caves). The new film picks up where the first movie left off, and Shauna Macdonald returns as the lone survivor Sarah, or is she?...

George Lucas Bumming Everyone Out On The Crystal Skull By Hunter Stephenson/March 25, 2008 2:50 pm EST “Curb it, punks.” Can one of our commenters suit up as “The Internet” and have a wrastlin’ match with George Lucas already? The Star Wars poobah is back to his “let’s be realistic” and “most of you will probably hate it, but so what?” schtick, but this time he’s voicing his (non)concern about expectations for May’s Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull....

Ghostbusters 3 Video Game: Screenshots And Demo Footage By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2007 8:04 pm EST Yesterday we told you that Vivendi Games was making a Ghostbusters video game for PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Now a video with demo footage from the game in development has shown up online. Check it out after the jump along with a series of new screenshots. As always click on the images to enlarge....

Hugh Jackman Becomes A Ghostbuster In Ghostopolis By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2009 10:52 pm EST Disney has signed Hugh Jackman to star and produce a big screen adaptation of Doug TenNapel’s upcoming all-ages graphic novel Ghostopolis. TenNapel is the Eisner Award-winning artist best known for creating Earthworm Jim. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the book tells the story of a ghosthunter who works for the government’s Supernatural Immigration Task Force. His job is to trap ghosts and release them back to Ghostopolis (hence the title)....

Indiana Jones 4 Comic-Con Spy Photo By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2007 9:57 pm EST Someone just e-mailed us this photo. Apparently a spy snuck onto the show floor of Comic Con and captured this photo from (presumably) the Hasbro booth. It appears to be a miniature from this new film that is currently in production – Indiana Jones 4. Ever hear of it? The working title of the film is Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods....

Iron Man 2: Three New Photos Including Whiplash And His Cockatoo By Peter Sciretta/March 31, 2010 11:52 am EST Marketing for Iron Man 2 has ramped up this week: First we were greeted with an international movie poster, and a domestic version of the poster sans Mickey Rourke. Yesterday Marvel launched a viral website for the film promoting Tony Stark’s Stark Expo 2010. And last night we got a glimpse at the Black Widow character poster which will be exclusively available at WonderCon this weekend....

Iron Man 2’s War Machine Sort Of Revealed By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 28, 2009 6:08 am EST Typically, the likeness of a movie star face when sculpted into the dinky wee visage of an action figure is pretty darn poor. For one thing, the figure manufacturers might not have been granted the rights to use the actor’s face and for another, most of these things seem to be badly designed and very badly built....