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Michael Bay Says Transformers 2 Will Be Bigger And Darker By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 10, 2009 1:02 am EST Collider got a chance to talk to director Michael Bay on the red carpet, and the director talked about his highly anticipated Transformers sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Here are the six things I learned: “It’s bigger, and It’s not just trying to be bigger to be bigger” … “This one is Epic in scale” – After seeing the huge constructicon in the teaser trailer, we kinda expected this....

Michael Fassbender Cast In Inglorious Bastards By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2008 12:47 am EST Michael Fassbender, who played Stelios in 300, is now in talks for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming World War II film Inglorious Bastards. Fassbander is German and speaks the language fluently. So lets recap: Brad Pitt is signed on to star. Mike Myers and Eli Roth are also on board, and Nastassja Kinski, David Krumholtz and B.J. Novak are still in talks to join the cast....

Mr. Pricklepants Revealed In New Toy Story 3 Mini-Featurette By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 1, 2010 6:28 am EST While there’s very little new material in the new Toy Story 3 featurette Drawn to Animation, what little there is has premium fan value. Finally, we’re given our first look at Mr. Pricklepants, the pretentious thespian stuffed-toy Hedgehog who seems set to be one of the major additions to the cast. Of course, we still have no idea at all what role he actually plays in the story....

Netflix Watch Instantly Now Available For Mac Users By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 2, 2008 10:35 am EST Netflix Watch Instantly is now available for Mac users like myself. Last night I watched the first 10 episodes of 30 Rock while I did some last minute web work before my trip to London. I know the service doesn’t have a lot of movies, or even a lot of good movies, but I definitely see the potential....

New Photos: Franco As Ginsberg; Kristen Stewart The Stripper; More Harry Potter And Nightmare On Elm St. By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2009 8:26 am EST With the announcement of the Sundance 2010 lineup, it’s time to start seeing images from some of the invited films. Until now, for example, all we’ve seen of James Franco as poet Allen Ginsberg in Howl has been one photo released back in June. Now here’s a new one, and it’s very quintessential ‘beat poet....

Ruben Fleischer To Direct 30 Minutes Or Less. Danny McBride To Co-Star? Update On Eastbound & Down Season 2 By Hunter Stephenson/April 7, 2010 5:01 am EST Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer is evidently now locked to follow-up his aforementioned hit horror-com with 30 Minutes or Less, a most-likely R-rated comedy about a slacker pizza delivery man facing an explosive ultimatum at the instruction of a pair of goons. It was previously one of several projects being mentioned online for the director, alongside an original buddy cop flick and Mission: Impossible 4....

Screenwriter Hired To Uncode The Da Vinci Code Sequel The Lost Symbol By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2010 10:31 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The third adventure is a 12-hour race to the finish quest set in Washington, DC, following mystery-solving Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon unravel Freemason conspiracy theories using hidden codes. The film franchise already accounts for over $1.24 billion in worldwide box office....

Shia Returns To Transformers 2 Set Tomorrow? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2008 11:08 pm EST Last week it was reported that Shia LaBeouf’s hand injury would put the first unit of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen out of production for a month. Rejects passes along word that Shia might actually be returning to the set tomorrow, this according to Entertainment Tonight’s sources. If true, this news must come as a relief for the many crew members involved in the first unit production of the Michael Bay sequel....

The Princess And The Frog Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 8, 2009 4:13 pm EST Walt Disney Animation Studios has released a second trailer (the theatrical trailer) for The Princess and the Frog. This is Disney’s return to hand-drawn animation, a new take on E.D. Baker’s novel The Frog Princess (which was actually the original title of the film). If you haven’t seen the teaser trailer, check that out here....

The Rise Of Movie Theater Popcorn Prices Over The Last 80 Years By Peter Sciretta/March 14, 2009 4:03 pm EST I’ve heard people complain about the increasing cost of movie theater tickets, but it’s really the cost of popcorn that people should be complaining about. Gizmodo has an interesting article about the rising cost of movie theater popcorn over the last 80 years, and how the price increase is extremely disproportionate in comparison to the average cost of a movie theater ticket....

The Smurfs: Character Design Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2010 9:15 pm EST The first real character design image from Columbia Pictures’ big screen adaptation of The Smurfs has leaked on UGO. The film, which is a CGI/live action hybrid, is being helmed by Raja Gosnell (Scooby Doo and Beverly Hills Chihuahua). Head on over to UGO to see the full photo of the supossed leaked design. What do you think?...

UFC’s Quinton Rampage Jackson Up For B.A. Baracus In The A-Team By Hunter Stephenson/June 6, 2008 12:54 pm EST Are UFC leg-tanglers brawlers the new rapper actors (or “raptors” as coined by Vulture)? Last night, Ultimate Fighting champ, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, was on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where it was announced that he’s a contender for the role of B.A. Baracus in John Singleton’s upcoming A-Team movie. You can watch the clip here to get a feeling for his mannerisms, and I’ve included a requisite photo with digital flames to the right....

Wall Street 2 Delayed Until The Fall By Brendon Connelly/March 10, 2010 11:51 am EST I was surprised to enjoy the trailer for this Wall Street 2 so much because, frankly, I haven’t reall liked an Oliver Stone picture in a very long time. There were a good few laughs in this promo though, and I was looking forward to an interesting cast biting into Allan Loeb’s apparently snappy screenplay. I guess that my looking will just have to extend even further forward now....

William Hurt Cast In Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2009 9:33 pm EST William Hurt has joined the cast of Ridley Scott’s untitled Robin Hood film. Hurt will play the Earl of Pembroke, William Marshall, a man who served four kings: Henry II, Richard the Lionheart, John and Henry III. Marshall was a servant to the Plantagenet kings, who grew to become one of the most powerful men in Europe....

59 New Terminator Salvation Photos By Peter Sciretta/May 8, 2009 8:40 pm EST Warner Bros has released 59 photos from Terminator Salvation, some of which you have seen before, but most (like the photo above) of which you haven’t. Check out the photos after the jump. As always, click to enlarge. 59 New Terminator Salvation Photos By Peter Sciretta/May 8, 2009 8:40 pm EST Warner Bros has released 59 photos from Terminator Salvation, some of which you have seen before, but most (like the photo above) of which you haven’t....

Box Office Tracking: 10,000 B.C. Headed For $40M+; Bank Job A Dud! By Steve Mason/March 6, 2008 8:23 pm EST 10,000 B.C. has very strong Total Awareness of 83%, compared to a nearly-identical 82% for 300 last year, but the Emmerich-directed prehistoric epic has better Definite Interest 57%-52%, although 300 scored better with Males Under 25 (78%-57%) and Males 25 Plus (59%-49%). The 2 films have identical 24% First Choice numbers at the same stage of their marketing cycles....

Bruce McDonald Wants You To Fund His Film By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 29, 2009 11:21 am EST I’ve just been tempted by something very exciting over at Twitch. For a thousand dollars, one can become be an Executive Producer on Bruce McDonald’s upcoming musical romance, A Love Supreme. Inspired by Chris Marker’s La Jetee, this won’t be “filmed” in the traditional sense, but instead be constructed from a series of around 20,000 still photographs....

Bryce Dallas Howard Joins Seth Rogen’s Untitled Cancer Dramedy; Summit Will Distribute By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2010 2:01 pm EST Writing about films that don’t have a real title can be confusing, so I’ll try to make this clear. I’m With Cancer was once the title of a comedy / drama that will star Seth Rogen, James McAvoy and Anna Kendrick. That title has been abandoned for some time, so for the time being it’s just the Seth Rogen Untitled Cancer Dramedy, which isn’t really the way to pull in an audience....

Cool Stuff: Chop Shop’s undeadWe T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 20, 2009 10:07 am EST We’ve featured many of the Chopping Block’s t-shirts in past editions of Cool Stuff. The designs usually feature a collection of themed people, creatures, objects, or things from popular movies/books/video games. The latest and last addition to their Horror/Fantasy collection is the UndeadWe t-shirt, which “packs in 51 zombies, ghosts, mummies, spirits and other boo-tiful members of the living dead....

Dark Knight Pirater Sentenced To Two Years In Jail By David Chen/Feb. 21, 2010 7:26 am EST In the summer of 2008, Robert Henderson of Grandview, Missouri used a digital camcorder in a theater to record a video of The Dark Knight. His plan was to use that recording to sell DVDs, but he was apprehended as part of an MPAA investigation. We’ve now learned (via The Wrap) that Henderson was recently sentenced for illegally trafficking in counterfit DVDs [PDF]....