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Justice League Of America Movie Begins Casting… In Canada? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2007 2:44 am EST ObsessedwithFilm is reporting that casting has begun on the Justice League of America movie in New York, Vancourver and Toronto. Warner Bros have hired casting directors Susan Shopmaker (The Holiday, Mean Girls), Michelle Allen (Dead Like Me) and RDC Casting (The Shipping News), and sides have been posted for multiple roles on an industry audition site Showfax....

Michael Cera Speaks: Arrested Development Movie Is More Hypothetical Than You Think By David Chen/Jan. 20, 2009 7:12 pm EST For awhile, it seemed like plans for an Arrested Development film might finally be a go. As far as us AD fans knew, Hurwitz was charging full speed ahead, with Michael Cera as the lone holdout from the cast who just couldn’t get with the picture (at least according to Mitch)....

Mystery Team Secret Screening In Los Angeles By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2009 9:42 pm EST Last week, we told you about a couple secret screenings of Derrick Comedy’s Mystery Team. From what I understand, people were lined up around the block, and enough people were turned away that they added another screening just for those who didn’t get in. But what about those of you who are not in New York City?...

New Footage From Knight & Day With Tom Cruise And Cameron Diaz By Hunter Stephenson/Nov. 19, 2009 2:30 pm EST This just in: Tom Cruise still does his own stunts and Mary Hart still thinks it’s goddamn amazing. Ever since Cruise’s romantic action comedy changed its title from the serious-sounding Wichita to the jump-out-a-castle-windowish, Knight & Day, I don’t think any of our readers have wondered, “How is that film going?...

New Monsters Vs. Aliens Featurette By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 7, 2008 3:18 pm EST WiReD Magazine has a new featurette for DreamWorks Animation’s Monsters vs. Aliens, which takes a look at all the crazy characters that are included in the film. Near the end of the clip you can see some of the new innovations that Dreamworks is bringing to 3D animated filmmaking. For example, the camera rig that allows them to virtually control a camera inside the 3D space within the virtual world....

New Posters: Synecdoche New York, Valkyrie, Quantum Of Solace And Changeling By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 25, 2008 4:01 pm EST A lot of new posters have hit the web in the last 24 hours. Cinematical has the final US poster for Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut Synecdoche, New York, which shows the life size replica of New York City that the main character builds in a warehouse. I think its cool but I actually prefer the international poster which featured Philip Seymour Hoffman in front of the tables of index cards....

New Terminator Trilogy Planned By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2007 12:48 am EST The Halcyon Co. has purchased rights to the Terminator franchise and plans on launching a new trilogy of films without Arnold Schwarzenegger or James Cameron. Terminator 4 (scripted by T3 scribes John Brancato and Michael Ferris) is being primed for a Summer 2009 release. The new owners want to reinvent the franchise with an entirely new cast. All we know about the story is that it will follow 30-comething year old John Connor, as he leads the human vs....

New Tron Legacy Poster Profiles The New Lightcycle By Russ Fischer/Jan. 20, 2010 12:50 pm EST Tron Legacy is still almost a year away, but Disney is already trickling out a stream of images. Take the new landscape-style poster excerpted above which, like the billboard art we ran a while back, shows off the new lightcycle in great detail. This time, it’s yellow! With the exception of the one still featuring Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde, all the material we’ve seen so far emphasizes simplicity and motion....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2009 4:00 am EST 20 news tidbits not fit for the front page, available after the jump. GameTrailers has the trailer for the video game version of Pixar’s Up, and it looks extremely bad. CHUD has a good article about why Star Trek works despite having a script full of plot holes.Hugh Jackman confirmed on Twitter that the Mexico City premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine will take place on May 26th: “I will bring Wolverine to Mexico City on May 26 to provide a moment of fun escapism and a treat for some of the loyal fans of the comic....

Rumor Of The Day: Olivia Wilde And Freida Pinto For Bond 23 By Russ Fischer/March 22, 2010 1:38 pm EST Olivia Wilde, meanwhile, I rumored to be courting an appearance as “a double-crossing UN worker based in Afghanistan,” but there is no substantiation to that one, either. This all seems like foolish talk because Bond 23 is in nascent stages. While we’ve heard that Sam Mendes has been tapped to direct the film, as we understand it there is no real movement at this point, thanks to the financial trouble currently clouding MGM’s future....

Six New Posters: The Simpsons Movie By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2007 10:47 am EST Our friends at FirstShowing have posted six new posters for The Simpsons Movie. The new posters show sequences from the film and have the tag-line: “See our family, and feel better about yours.” Check out the new posters after the jump. The Simpsons Movie hits theaters on July 27th 2007. Six New Posters: The Simpsons Movie...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2008 12:56 pm EST Warner Bros has released a new trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The trailer has a darker underlying tone, as the Clone wars were no doubt darker times in the Star Wars Galaxy. And I love some of the imagery, like the wide shot of R2, C3PO and Anikan walking with the duel sunset over the desert (seen above), a call back to A New Hope....

Stephen King’s Top 10 Films Of 2009 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 4, 2010 3:28 pm EST Author Stephen King has published his annual listing of the top 10 films of the year. This year King agreed with the mainstream critics in naming The Hurt Locker as the best film of the year, but the rest of his list is the opposite of conventional. His list for 2009 is bound to spawn as much debate and outrage as previous years (last year’s list included Death Race, Lakeview Terrace and The Ruins)....

Stephen Sommers’ Tarzan Will Be Pirates Of The Caribbean With Parkour… Wait, What? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2008 12:47 am EST Parkour seems to be the new hot buzz word in Hollywood. It’s kinda like how all the story pitches last year tried to compare themselves to Children of Men (“It’s Die Hard meets Children of Men”). Founded in France, the fast paced movement became the main focal point of the Luc Besson-produced 2004 action film District B13....

The Curious Case Of The Missing Benjamin Button Poster Art By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 10, 2008 12:48 am EST The film comes out in just a month and a half, and Paramount has not yet released a poster for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Not a teaser poster – NOTHING. In comparison, Watchmen comes out three months later and already has three different posters, not including the series of seven or eight character posters that were released at Comic Con 2008....

The Invasion: Final Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2007 10:02 am EST If The Invasion is anywhere as bad as the theatrical movie posters that have been released so far, than we have much to worry about. The film hits theaters in two weeks (August 17th), and the public awareness is very low. The production was troubled from the start, going through a series of re-shoots with a new director after The Wachowski Brothers were broguht on board to doctor the script....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Law Abiding Citizen, Black Dynamite, Cabin Fever 2, And More By Adam Quigley/Feb. 16, 2010 6:41 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Logic and subtlety are the last things viewers should expect from Law Abiding Citizen, an absurdly enjoyable B-movie thriller that critics made the mistake of trying to take seriously. The film is disposable low-brow entertainment, no question....

Two New Photos From Oliver Stone’s W. By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2008 7:00 am EST Liosngate has released a couple new production photos from Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic – W. The photo above shows George W. Bush (Josh Brolin, front) playing with his two dogs, Barney and Spot, on the White House lawn, as Karl Rove (Toby Jones) comes up with evil schemes on his blackberry (we can only assume)....

UPisode #3: Snipe Trap By Peter Sciretta/April 7, 2009 11:05 am EST Disney has released a third Upisode, a mini-computer animated short film starring the characters of Pixar’s Up on Moviefone. The first UPisode featured Carl and Russell encountering animals while the walk through the jungle. The second UPisode featured Russell attempting to give Carl first aid after he scraped his hand. The third UPisode is titled “Snipe Trap”, and is available after the jump....

Venn Diagram: The Difference Between Geek, Nerd, Dork And Dweeb By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2010 3:26 pm EST Even though /Film’s name clearly singles out movies/film, I’ve always considered /Film a site for visual non-interactive media geeks – be it television, short films, comic books, music videos, commercials, genre-focused books…etc. And you may have noticed from time to time we write about these other things. “Visual non-interactive” means we rarely cover video games, computers or music, unless they are associated with one of the previous topics....