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Anne Hathaway Added To The Possible List For Spider-Man 4 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2009 6:12 pm EST Nikki Finke, who in the past has proven to have sources deep within Marvel Entertainment, is now reporting that producers are very interested in casting Anne Hathaway in a “starring role” in Spider-Man 4. If you’ve been following the rumor mill for the last few days, then you’ve heard a bunch of different names supposedly in consideration for the new female lead role, rumored to be Black Cat, in the Spider-man fourquel including Rachel McAdams (who has since denied the reports), Romola Garai (who auditioned for the role), and Julia Stiles (who also met with casting directors)....

Atonement Director Joe Wright Looking For Action With Hanna By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 17, 2009 12:16 am EST Joe Wright may have faltered recently with The Soloist, but his Pride and Prejudice and Atonement were strong enough to convince me to follow his rising career. He was slated to take on Indian Summer with Cate Blanchett, but now that that project has been put on hold due to budgetary concerns, it seems that Wright is eying an action-adventure thriller, Hanna....

Burton And Bekmambetov Team Up To Produce Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter By Russ Fischer/March 2, 2010 2:33 pm EST Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, who together produced the animated film 9, are teaming up again to produce what could be a far more outrageous project: they’ll shepherd an adaption of the novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.Screen Daily reports the deal, but doesn’t have much additional detail....

Captured Movie Trailer By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 5, 2008 9:03 pm EST Street fight! Captured is a new NSFW documentary from directors, Ben Solomon and Dan Levin, that examines the historical work of Clayton Patterson, a man who captured New York’s Lower East Side fly-on-the-wall style for 30 years using photography and video. The NY Times once said of Patterson’s work: He has amassed a huge day-by-day visual history of the area, told mainly through …its myriad and diverse faces: tenement kids and homeless people, poets and politicians, drug dealers and drag queens, rabbis and santeros, beat cops, graffiti taggers, hookers, junkies, punks, anarchists, mystics and crackpots....

Cars 2: New Release Date, Story Details, Short Car-Toons By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 24, 2008 4:57 pm EST During the animation presentation of the Walt Disney Showcase, John Lasseter announced that Cars 2 would be pushed forward to the Summer of 2011, from the film’s previously announced 2012 release slot. He also revealed that the idea for a sequel came to him as he was traveling the world doing publicity for the original movie....

Charles De Lauzirika’s Crave Shooting Now With Ron Perlman By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 23, 2009 10:30 am EST The first feature film to be directed by Charles de Lauzirika is shooting right now, having successfully flown under the trade-announcement radar all the way to its Detroit location. It’s a psychological thriller called Crave and will star Josh Lawson, Emma Lung and Ron Perlman. What makes it particularly interesting, I think, is the director....

Clive Barker’s Twitter Feed Brings Hellraiser And Nightbreed News By Brendon Connelly/June 4, 2009 2:10 pm EST It seems that rasp-voiced cigar-hog Clive Barker has been posting to Twitter under the name RealCliveBarker, and posting good stuff too. In just the last few days, he’s managed to spark up two very interesting flames. First, the good news: It seems that all of the missing footage from Nightbreed has been tracked down, safe and sound, and a director’s cut is now a possibility....

Comic-Con: True Blood Q&A By Devindra Hardawar/July 26, 2009 10:50 am EST The True Blood panel at Comic-Con was one of the bigger ones. Many cast members showed up alongside writer/creator Alan Ball and Charleane Harris, author of the books that led to the show. They seemed grateful for all of the fan response and the packed room. Apparently their panel was in a much smaller space last year since nobody knew about the show....

Cool Stuff: Watchmen Vinyl Record By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 27, 2009 6:00 am EST /Film reader Adam A pre-ordered the limited edition 12" Watchmen Soundtrack single picture disc version of My Chemical Romance’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row”, and sent over some photos. The B-side is the instrumental track “Prison Fight” by Tyler Bates from the film. See a photo of the B-side after the jump. The vinyl record is available on MyChemicalRomance....

Disney Announces 2009 Release Schedule By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 20, 2008 6:08 pm EST The big screen adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, has been moved forward from mid-June to July 10th 2009. Michael Bay’s Transformers 2 hits theaters two weeks earlier on June 26th. Disney believes they will make more at the box office with the head start. The sci-fi adventure comedy sequel/remake Race to Witch Mountain starring The Rock will hit theaters on March 13th 2009, up against Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lovely Bones....

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Moved To Summer 2009 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 14, 2008 1:42 pm EST Warner Bros has just announced that they are moving Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from November 21st 2008, back to July 17th 2009. The reasons given are that the summer season is a more ideal window for for a family tent pole release, and that the writers strike left a big gap in the Summer calendar....

Is Nicolas Refn Looking To Harrison Ford To Star In The Dying Of The Light? By Russ Fischer/Jan. 29, 2010 2:20 pm EST This might be the first Harrison Ford news that has piqued my interest in quite a while. In a recent interview, Ford says that he’s developing a film with Nicolas Winding Refn, director of Bronson, Valhalla Rising and the Pusher films. The director has a few different films on his slate, but of all of them The Dying of the Light, scripted by Paul Schrader, seems like it’s the one that Ford would be referring to....

Jason Bourne 4 Now Aiming For Summer 2011 By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2009 7:27 pm EST Last we heard, Universal was trying to get a fourth film in the Jason Bourne series on track for a Summer 2010 release. Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass were signed on to return, all they needed was a screenplay and a shooting schedule that fit. But the tentatively discussed Summer 2009 shoot doesn’t seem to be on the horizon....

Joe Johnston Talks Captain America: Casting, Costumes, The Look, And The Villain By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2010 5:39 pm EST Again, check out Collider, The LA Times, Shock and AICN to see the full interviews and read the full quotes.

Kevin Smith’s Red State By Peter Sciretta/April 7, 2007 5:31 am EST Kevin Smith has finally spilled some details about his next project, a very different kind of horror movie. “To me there’s all kinds of horror, and killing someone’s not the absolute worst thing you could do to another human being. The death in a horror movie has always been the money shot in a very exploitative manner. Stabbing somebody and splashing blood all over them is the equivalent to some dude exploding over some broad’s face,” Smith told Rotten Tomatoes....

Kid Drinks Gasoline To Be More Like The Transformers By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2009 11:14 am EST This is one of those stories that gets passed from one friend to another by e-mail and twitter, and quickly spreads around offices. It almost sounds like something you’d read in The Onion, but the deeper you get into the story, the more serious it becomes. Who knows if its even true? The story is being reported by a bunch of international newspapers, which would lead you to believe so (but I’m still skeptical)....

LOL: Dangerous Wands Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2009 3:39 pm EST College Humor has created a movie trailer for Dangerous Wands, a mash-up which combines the films Dangerous Minds and the Harry Potter series. “It’s the Mudbloods vs. the Mud… Crips.” Watch the trailer now embedded below. LOL: Dangerous Wands Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2009 3:39 pm EST College Humor has created a movie trailer for Dangerous Wands, a mash-up which combines the films Dangerous Minds and the Harry Potter series....

MacGruber Red-Band Trailer And New Images By Russ Fischer/Jan. 19, 2010 10:17 am EST There have been rumors (sourced from where, exactly, I couldn’t tell you) that MacGruber is a crazy, envelope-pushing action movie. The feature-length adaptation of Will Forte’s Saturday Night Live sketches has a great cast (Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer, Powers Boothe, Maya Rudolph) and now has a pretty effective red-band trailer to show off most of the players....

Michael Moore’s Sicko: Third Biggest Documentary Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2007 12:49 am EST Congratulations to Michael Moore, whose movie Sicko has just become the third biggest documentary of all time, surpassing Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Check out the press release after the jump. Michael Moore’s ‘SiCKO’ Becomes the Third Highest Grossing Documentary of All Time Surpassing ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ NEW YORK, Sept. 9 — “SiCKO,” Michael Moore’s highly acclaimed and entertaining expose of the American health care system, has just become the third highest grossing documentary of all time grossing $24....

Movie Trailer: The Great Buck Howard By David Chen/Jan. 23, 2009 9:50 am EST After a series of schlocky small films, some of which went straight-to-DVD, it looks like writer/director Sean McGinly is ready for the big time. McGinly’s The Great Buck Howard debuted almost a year ago at Sundance 2008 and got fairly positive reviews (see Peter’s mini-review of the film here and some more reviews here). The film carries some pretty impressive star power, with John Malkovich playing Buck Howard, a mentalist who is just on this side of washed up, and Colin Hanks as Troy Gable, Howard’s road manager....