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No Dark Knight Release For China By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 24, 2008 9:19 pm EST It seems that Warner Brothers has given up fighting Chinese censors for a theatrical release of The Dark Knight. Instead, WB is going to skip the film’s release altogether. In a statement on Tuesday, the studio disclosed the following: “Based on a number of pre-release conditions that are being attached to ‘The Dark Knight’ as well as cultural sensitivities to some elements of the film, we have opted to forego a theatrical release of the film in China....

NOT TRUE: The Dark Knight Trailer Attached To Harry Potter By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2007 2:09 pm EST AICN and many other sites around the web are reporting that a teaser trailer for the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight, will premiere before Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Unfortunately we have received word from a VERY GOOD SOURCE that this is completely 100% untrue. So mark this rumor as killed....

Pan’s Labyrinth Expands To Over 1,000 Screens This Weekend By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2007 7:57 am EST Ever wonder what an Academy Award nomination can mean to a film? Up until January 18th, the critically acclaimed Pan’s Labyrinth was only being shown on just under 200 screens nationwide. With six nominations, the film will expand to over 1,000 screens on Friday. This is one of the must see movies of last year....

Peter Iliff To Write American Gladiators Movie, Will It Be 3D? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 19, 2009 10:28 pm EST In May we told you that Hollywood was going to develop a movie based on the television show American Gladiators. I had hoped it would be one of those projects that would slip into nothingness, never to be heard from again. Not so… Patriot Games/Varsity Blues scribe Peter Iliff will write a screenplay based on an idea by former Legendary Pictures chief marketing officer Scott Mednickis (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) who is producing the feature....

Promo Reel For The Samurai Western The Warrior’s Way By Brendon Connelly/June 10, 2009 10:13 am EST When Sngmoo Lee’s debut film was initially announced, the title was Laundry Warrior. Now that far more distinctive title has been ditched for the less provocative, perhaps even less mysterious, The Warrior’s Way. A promo reel for the Wuxia Western – think Samurai swordplay on the old West frontier – has appeared to leak online, via YouTube where it was discovered by 24fps....

Rian Johnson’s “The Brothers Bloom” Pushed Back To Limited Release In December 2008, Wide In January 2009 By David Chen/Sept. 2, 2008 5:49 am EST After Rian Johnson’s audacious debut, Brick (a film that fans of Miller’s Crossing should give a try, as it contains significant similarities in style and substance), I started to get psyched for his follow-up, The Brothers Bloom. Bloom features a plot about millionaire grifters and stars Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, and Mark Ruffalo....

Special Episode Of Bones To Be Heavy With Avatar Product Placement By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 20, 2009 12:26 pm EST So, let’s watch this clip and then count the references to Avatar together. What did I miss? I’m going to resist a certain online slang word for Avatar fans. I wish I could coin another – Savantars, maybe? Okay, didn’t work. Via Cinematical

Star Trek IMAX Poster Doesn’t Even Try; Plus Seven New Photos By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2009 12:55 pm EST Paramount didn’t even really try in their attempt to create a poster for the IMAX release of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek. The IMAX poster (left) is basically just an inverted version of the final theatrical one sheet (right).Also, DVDForum has gotten their hands on seven new photos from the film, which I have included after the jump....

SXSW Movie Trailers: One Minute To Nine, Up With Me, My Effortless Brilliance By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2008 6:10 pm EST I’m not too impressed with this batch, but I’m positive this is not an indicative of what the rest of the festival will offer. You can also check out the last batch of SXSW trailers (Reformat the Planet, Second Skin and New Orleans Mon Amour) at this link. My Effortless Brilliance...

The Internet Birthed: Tropic Thunder LOLcat By Hunter Stephenson/July 17, 2008 2:49 pm EST One wonders how much moolah DreamWorks dropped on this new promotional Tropic Thunder LOLcat featuring Ben Stiller’s Tugg Speedman. I’m not the one. Rather than take on Hollywood’s cause du jour, Global Warming, Speedman’s preferred charity is Pandas. Mmm/blech, Panda Express. This week also witnessed the unmasking of Speedman’s Tom Cruise-biting website, leaving many (employed) bloggers to declare Cruise’s IRL site victorious....

Three New Cloverfield Photos By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2007 2:07 am EST The official Cloverfield trailer is playing in front of Beowulf in a theater near you (and there is that pesky crappy pirated version floating around the internet), but we have even more to fill your 1-18-08 fix. Cloverfield star Lizzy Caplan was interviewed by Black Book Magazine, and Paramount gave them three new photos (one shown above) from the upcoming JJ Abrams-produced monster movie....

TV Tidbits: Ray Bradbury Developing Six-Hour Miniseries, SyFy Launching Comedy Series Outer Space Astronauts, Current TV Gets Dumbed Down By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 12, 2009 3:00 am EST Even though legendary sci-fi author Ray Bradbury is ready to say “To hell with the Internet!”, it appears he’s willing to give television a bit more leeway. The author has signed on to develop a six-hour miniseries which will feature six of his short stories, each by a different director....

Voiceover Master Don LaFontaine Has Died At 68 By David Chen/Sept. 1, 2008 10:34 pm EST Everyone reading this post has heard Don LaFontaine’s voice, but many of you probably don’t know his name. Don LaFontaine is a voiceover legend, whose voice has graced over 5,000 movie trailers and nearly 350,000 (!) commercials. He has generally been thought of as the person who coined the phrase “In a world…” He has helped to stoke excitement for such varied shows and films as Terminator 2, Cast Away, 24 and Arrested Development among countless others....

VOTD: Delorean Time Machine In Kanye West’s Good Morning By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 25, 2008 10:49 pm EST Delorean Time Machine in Kanye West’s Good Morning The Pitch: The Back to the Future Delorean time machine makes a cameo appearance in the new Kanye West music video Good Morning. In the video, a little bear version of Kanye is having a very bad morning, which includes his car, the delorean, crapping out on him....

Wolverine Director Gavin Hood Books Alaskan Adventure Movie With Walden Media By Russ Fischer/Jan. 26, 2010 1:35 pm EST THR reports on the film, which was written by Sean O’Keefe and Will Staples based on Gay and Laney Salisbury’s book. The Alaska-set story is currently untitled. Others have tried to make this movie before; it was last in development at Miramax, where it was called Ice Bound. Walden Media wants to start the film this summer....

Angelica Huston Joins Sam Rockwell In Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2007 10:48 am EST In May we told you that Sam Rockwell was set to star in a big screen adaptation of Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke. Well now it seems official because the trades are reporting the story as fact, and we now have new confirmed details. Angelica Huston will play Victor Mancini’s (Rockwell) mother who is in a private mental hospital....

By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 21, 2008 12:56 am EST Discuss: What should the Arrested Development movie be about? source: THR

Christopher Nolan Has Still Not Signed For Batman 3 By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2009 1:00 am EST An update over at Batman-On-Film has begun to circulate around the interwebs scaring fanboys around the globe. Christopher Nolan has yet to commit to a third Batman film, and at this point he still isn’t interested in making another installment in the Batman series. GASP. I know that might come as a shock to some of you....

By Russ Fischer/March 10, 2010 10:47 pm EST Just days ago we told you about a proposed biopic of original FBI director J. Edgar Hoover that is being written by Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black. Now the film has a director attached, and it isn’t who I expected to hear signing on. Clint Eastwood is now attached as the film looks for a studio home.THR reports that, while Black wrote the screenplay for Ron Howard and Brian Grazer at Imagine Entertainment under the auspices of a deal with Universal, that studio put the film into turnaround....

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 8, 2010 1:31 pm EST Why did the hardcore/metal band Converge print up a shirt featuring Robocop? I have no idea, but I bought it the moment I saw it. The band’s most recent record, Axe to Fall, has been topping year-end lists aimed at fans of extreme music, and seemingly as if to celebrate they released a bunch of new merch. None of their other new stuff has the movie geek appeal of the RoboCon shirt, but when you’ve got this guy on your side, who cares?...