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Nicole Kidman To Star In Tomas Alfredson’s The Danish Girl, His Follow-Up To Let The Right One In By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 15, 2009 12:26 pm EST If this post necessitated a lemon wedge on the side it would be The Kinks’ “Lola.” Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, responsible for one of the best films of last year, Let the Right One In, has decided to follow up with The Danish Girl. The project is an adaptation of the fictionalized book and account of the same name regarding Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe, who in 1931 received the first official sex change operation....

Olivia Thirlby To Star In Timur Bekmambetov-Produced Alien Invasion Movie The Darkest Hour By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2010 8:17 pm EST Many people I’ve talked to believed this now-23-year-old actress had the potential to be Hollywood’s next big thing (and I too was on the bandwagon). And not for a lack of trying, Thirlby was called in to audition for a role in George Miller’s scrapped Justice League movie and the role of Trixie in The Wachowski Brothers’ Speed Racer....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2009 12:05 am EST Warner Bros. has hired Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay to write Staycation, a comedy that Todd Phillips will produce. [variety] AICN has the cover art for Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘R Treat DVD/Blu-ray. Paramount will release Star Trek in a 3-Disc Blu-Ray. Lets hope its not one of those deals where the “third disc” is just a digital copy. [video business]...

Robert Downey Jr, Reese Witherspoon, And Timur Bekmambetov In Talks For The Days Before By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2009 11:11 pm EST Robert Downey Jr and Reese Witherspoon are in talks to star in Warner Bros’ The Days Before and Timur Bekmambetov is in negotiations to direct, according to Production Weekly. Produced by 300 producer Gianni Nunnari, the sci-fi action spec script was written by Chad St. John (who previously worked on the unproduced script The Further Adventures of Doc Holiday for Bruce Willis)....

Rumor: Brett Ratner In Talks To Direct Milli Vanilli Movie By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2009 10:59 pm EST The Daily Swarm is reporting a story from Hits Daily Double that hack director Brett Ratner is in talks to direct a movie based on the Milli Vanilli story for Universal. Rush Hour screenwriter Jeff Nathanson has written the screenplay about “one producer and two lip-syncing male models who sold millions of records and won a Grammy before their scam was revealed....

Slow Burn Movie Poster Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2007 5:20 am EST The Truth is Just a Trick of Light. Check out the new poster for Slow Burn. The movie follows a district attorney (played by Ray Liotta) who is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader (LL Cool J) and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney (Jolene Blalock) and a cryptic stranger....

Southland Tales Video Clip: God Is Dead By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2007 1:49 pm EST A little bird on my shoulder is telling me that the trailer for Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales will most likely hit the web tomorrow. In anticipation, we present you with this new clip [via: filmick] which we swear we’ve somehow seen before (so maybe it isn’t new? My memory fails me). The shot scene features The Rock, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Seann William Scott talking about a movie idea/script....

Sundance Movie Trailer: Goliath By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 16, 2008 11:35 pm EST Goliath will premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Shot in Austin, Texas, Goliath is a film, a comedy at that, about a cat and one man’s search for said cat. When the man got divorced, he got the cat, so he wants to find the cat. Did I mention that the man’s life is in shambles? Now it makes sense....

Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds Prequel? By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2009 11:08 pm EST Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds has yet to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, but the director is already planning another film in his potential world war 2 franchise. Apparently Tarantino had shelves a huge subplot involving African-American soldiers stuck behind enemy lines, which he hopes to make that part of a prequel, that is, if the first film is popular....

The Dark Knight: Batman’s New Suit By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2007 4:15 pm EST The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has a look at Batman’s new suit in The Dark Knight. Check out a scan of the photo to the right [via: shh]. Click on the photo to enlarge. It looks a lot more high tech and streamlined, which makes sense since this is essentially Batman: Year Two. I just wonder how much more advanced the suit will become in the inevitable third film....

The Ex Gets A New Date AGAIN By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 28, 2007 8:12 pm EST We just got word that the release date for Zach Braff’s new film The EX has been moved to May 11th 2007. The movie was originally titled Fast Track (hence the poster pictured right), and was scheduled for a December 29th 2006 bow. The name changed, the release date moved to March 9th, and then June 2007 TBA, and we’re being told that the May date is now final....

The Twilight Saga’s New Moon By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 19, 2009 7:40 pm EST MTV has a first look at the title and logo for the upcoming adaptation of the Twilight sequel New Moon. Officially titled The Twilight Saga’s New Moon, the logo is basically the same exact lowercase personable font that was used for the first film, but this time appears in a new oragneish color. Head on over to MTV to see it in higher resolution....

Trick ‘R Treat HD Movie Trailer By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 10, 2009 9:44 am EST It still blows my mind that Mike Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat is not being given a major theatrical release this October. Instead the flick, possibly the most praised horror movie of the last decade, will hit DVD on October 6th, with a few limited engagements likely placed in the bags of lucky cities. A new trailer in HD is below....

Watchmen Video Game Will Not Be An Afterthought By Adam Quigley/July 26, 2008 2:49 am EST Video game lovers will be pleased to know that, among all the other fascinating side projects that will complement the film, the game counterpart to Watchmen will not just be some half-assed cash grab. Zack Snyder has made sure that all these interconnecting elements building up this Watchmen universe won’t just be tossed out there without any foresight....

What Happened To Brad Bird’s 1906? By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2010 9:52 am EST News that Brad Bird might direct his first live-action film started to bubble up three years ago. The movie is 1906, an account of the San Francisco earthquake as recounted in James Dalessandro’s novel of the same name. It’s been quite some time since we heard anything at all about the film. Last update from Bird, director of The Iron Giant, The Incredibles and Ratatouille, was that he was still working on the script, possibly trying to scale it down from $200m status after suits at Warner Bros....

Attack The Block Roundup, Including Detailed Synopsis And Sales Art By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 20, 2010 12:06 pm EST Coming out of the European Film Market is our first piece of Attack the Block sales art – sampled above but revealed in its entirety and complete with tagline below the break – and an expanded synopsis for Joe Cornish’s film, “this year’s Shaun of the Dead”. There’s really not much spoiled by the new outline, but if you’re particularly keen to go into this movie knowing as little as possible, you may prefer to stick with the previous, less detailed synopsis, or perhaps just avoid them both outright....

Battlestar Galactica Composer Bear McCreary Scoring Capcom’s Dark Void By Devindra Hardawar/April 4, 2009 7:56 am EST As is usually the case when a great film or television project is over, I’ve taken an interest in following the key players of Battlestar Galactica to see what they’ll be up to next. If it’s anything like my years following Whedon alum, their involvement in future projects should at least be an indication that it’s worth paying attention to (though I’ll admit this doesn’t always work out, see Drive)....

Brilliant Where The Wild Things Are Poster By Brendon Connelly/March 17, 2009 12:45 pm EST The Spike Jonze Fan Blog have been mining in the pages of Nick Magazine, and have come up fist-first with a beautiful, beautiful nugget of gold – the first poster for Where the Wild Things Are. You can see the whole poster underneath the fold, but I’d recommend anybody interested in the film go over to the fan blog and have a good rummage there too....

Cinema 2009: 1 Year, 342 Movies, 12 Months Of Production, 7 Minutes By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2009 11:27 am EST Last year Kees van Dijkhuizen edited a video together of the movies of Cinema 2008, which we featured on the site. A year later he returns with a new video, Cinema 2009: 1 Year, 342 Movies, 12 Months of Production, 7 Minutes. 2009 proved that innovation is rewarded, and for that reason, I’ve decided no film should be left behind....

Cool Stuff: King Donkey Kong T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2008 2:20 am EST SplitReason has a cool new video game t-shirt which parodies the iconic image of King Kong on the Empire State Building. Instead of it being King Kong, it appears that Donkey Kong has escaped the elevator stage which is hidden inside that big skyscraper. Steve Wiebe must have somehow made it past the kill screen. Don’t worry Mario will save you the Princess, and Link is shooting arrows from the ground....