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Shia LaBeouf Is John Grisham’s The Associate By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 1, 2008 10:11 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. “It’s a deadly game of blackmail. And they’re making him play. Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation: he’s good looking, has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career and, possibly, his entire life....

Sundance Video Review: Teenage Paparazzo By David Chen/Jan. 24, 2010 6:00 am EST I didn’t have too much faith when I heard about Adrian Grenier’s film, a documentary called Teenage Paprazzo. Grenier’s acting has never impressed me on Entourage, and the idea of doing a documentary with a teenage paprazzo seemed like it might be a touch gimmicky. So did Grenier’s film impress? Teenage paparazzo Austin Visschedyk actually proves to be an incredibly fascinating individual and documentary subject....

SXSW Exclusive Clip: Leaves Of Grass (Watch Ed Norton And Ed Norton Get Stoned) By Hunter Stephenson/March 10, 2010 6:50 pm EST Over the years, we’ve come to expect the sight an actor playing twins or clones on screen to either be yanked for low-brow laffs and shenanigans (Multiplicity, Double Impact) or to spiral down a freaky reveal about the human condition (Dead Ringers, Moon, Big Love). The latest word on Leaves of Grass, starring the challenge-welcoming Ed Norton in roles as a longhaired drug dealer and his straight-and-narrow twin, is that it’s an original and scrappy mix of twin genres, with a healthy splash of violence....

The Duplass Brothers To Direct The Jason Reitman-Produced Comedy Jeff Who Lives At Home By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 18, 2010 5:52 pm EST Movieweb has scored exclusive news on the film, titled Jeff Who Lives at Home, which is described as a Sword in the Stone-style quest movie about a stoner’s search for some wood glue.

The Future Of Logan’s Run In Comic Books? By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2009 5:58 pm EST Bryan Singer was at one point attached to direct a remake of the sci-fi classic Logan’s Run, but got pulled away to direct Superman Returns. Commercial director Joseph Kosinski was then brough on board, with screenwriter Timothy J. Sexton working on a script. But Kosinski got sidetracked with a little side project for Disney called Tron 2....

Twilight’s Catherine Hardwicke And Speed Racer’s Emile Hirsch Teaming Up For Modern Day American Hamlet By Brendon Connelly/June 3, 2009 8:24 am EST Overture Films has announced a new, modernized version of Hamlet. This one is to star Emile Hirsch in the title role and be directed by his Lords of Dogtown collaborator, Catherine Hardwicke. The screenplay is being written by Ron Nyswaner who was previously a writer on Philadelphia, Smithereens and apparently, though without a credit, Jonathan Demme’s greatly undervalued Swing Shift....

1408 Photos And Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2007 6:52 am EST Today we bring you ten new photos from 1408, the latest big screen adaptation of a Stephen King story. There are a lot of Stephen King movie adaptations that aren’t very good, and this looks to be one of them. 1408 follows Mike Enslin, an author of two hit books focusing on supernatural phenomena. As research for his latest book, Enslin is determined to check out the notorious room 1408 in a New York City hotel by personally staying as a guest in the fabled room....

22-Minute Behind-The-Scenes Featurette On Creating Avatar’s World By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 21, 2010 1:27 am EST Watch the video after the break, or in HD over at Yahoo. [via Collider]

Akiva Goldsman Producing Family-Friendly Toxic Avenger Remake By Russ Fischer/April 6, 2010 8:30 pm EST Troma’s Toxic Avenger has long been one of the signature characters of Lloyd Kaufman’s low-budget, schlocky and gory stable of films. Since the first film in 1984, Toxie has both lampooned horror films and culture at large and offered up some silly, gory entertainment. Not that it’s ever been particularly sharp satire, but the movies are fun and sometimes memorable in their eagerness to shock....

Alexander Skarsgård Talks Straw Dogs And Thor By Russ Fischer/Dec. 22, 2009 5:37 pm EST This post is probably going to be a bit like kicking a beehive. Every time we run an article about the upcoming Thor movie, starring Chris Hemsworth as the Norse god of Marvel comics and legend, there is a flurry of comments reiterating the fan opinion that Alexander Skarsgård should have been the one cast. And, in a small interview, he says he very nearly was, and that he auditioned quite a few times....

Carl Erik Rinsch’s Short Film The Gift Spawns Bidding War For Feature Film Adaptation By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2010 10:19 am EST I’m working to find out more about this potential feature…

Casting Notes: Jennifer Hudson Is Winnie Mandela; Winnie The Pooh Voice Cast; Eric Dane In Burlesque; Stephen Root Gets Two Gigs By Russ Fischer/Nov. 18, 2009 7:41 am EST Jennifer Hudson made a splash on American Idol, then quickly went on to win an Oscar for her debut role in Dreamgirls, but we haven’t seen much of her onscreen since. Now she’s got a follow-up role to her big breakthrough: in Winnie, she’ll play Winnie Mandela, wife to South African president Nelson Mandela....

Christopher Lee, Danny Elfman And Eleanor Tomlinson Go To Burton’s Wonderland By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 26, 2008 2:19 pm EST Christopher Lee (Count Dooku in Star Wars, Saruman in Lord of the Rings) has been cast in Tim Burton’s 3D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. Lee’s role has not been disclosed, but I would guess that he is either The Caterpillar, King of Hearts, or The White Knight. Lee has worked with Burton several times: Sleepy Hallow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride....

Cool Stuff: Back To The Future Flux Capacitor Replica By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2007 5:16 am EST Without the Flux Capacitor, Time Travel would not be possible! Diamond Select has begun taking preorders for a officially licensed Back to the Future prop replica of the Flux Capacitor (DeLorean Time Machine Not Included) from the 1985 classic Back to the Future. All you need is 1.21 jigowatts of electricity and 88mph, and you too can go back in time like Marty McFly....

Danny Boyle Trash Talks Eli Roth By Peter Sciretta/July 6, 2007 12:58 am EST Danny Boyle (Sunshine, 28 Days Later) talked some trash about horror director Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) during a recent interview with the New York Daily News: “His movies aren’t even particularly well done,” Boyle said. “They’re not even scary. They’re horrible, but that’s not scary. It’s not suspense. And if you watch my films in detail, there’s actually not a lot of violence in them....

David Fincher’s Favorite Movies Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2008 11:35 pm EST In text after the jump. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Chinatown Dr. Strangelove Godfather 2 Taxi Driver Being There All The Jazz Alien Rear Window Zelig Cabaret Paper Moon Jaws Lawrence of Arabia All the Presidents Men 8 1/2 Citizen Kane Days of Heaven Animal House Road Warrior Year of Living Dangerously American Graffiti Terminator Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Exorcist The Graduate via: fincherfanatic...

Disney To Remake Flight Of The Navigator By Peter Sciretta/May 25, 2009 8:38 pm EST First Witch Mountain, now Flight of the Navigator, Disney is on a mission to ruin all the fun movies from my childhood. That’s right, Disney is remaking the 1986 sci-fi movie Flight of the Navigator. The good news is that Grounded for Life/My Name is Earl/Arrested Development writer Brad Copeland is writing the script. The bad news is that Copeland’s only feature film credit was the horrible middle America comedy Wild Hogs....

First Clip From Jason Reitman’s Up In The Air By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2009 10:10 am EST If you checked the Internet at all over the weekend, you saw that Jason Reitman’s third film, his adaptation of Walter Kirn’s novel Up in the Air, did exceptionally well as it debuted at Telluride. (Peter has thoughts on the movie via a video blog and proper review.) In anticipation of the first teaser trailer, which will be arriving soon, Apple has a clip from the film....

First Look: Matt Lucas In Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2009 9:08 am EST Last night the first promotional photos were revealed of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as The White Queen from Tim Burton’s 3D re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland. And now Movies.ie has come across this promo photo of Matt Lucas as both Tweedledee and Tweedledum....

First Review Of The Simpsons Movie By Peter Sciretta/July 23, 2007 1:08 am EST The good news is that Springfield Vermont correspondent James Bone says the film is “a postmodern parable about an environmental scare that is at the same time hilarious and horrifyingly poignant.” The four out of five star review claims the film boasts “the same sly cultural references and flashes of brilliance that have earned the television series a following that ranges from tots to comparative literature PhDs....