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WB & Akiva Goldsman Snag High Concept Drama 'Dark Moon'

As Michael Bay sets his sights on our lunar satellite with the blockbuster sequel Transformers: The Dark of the Moon, Warner Bros. and Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road production banner have picked up a different moon-centric story with Dark Moon. The spec script drama from writer/director Olatunde Osunsanmi (The Fourth Kind) focuses on the concept that manned moon missions did not stop with Apollo 17 in 1972. Taking a "found footage" route, the film reveals a black ops post-Apollo mission sent to the moon to explore previously classified discoveries and its unintended and disturbing consequences. Sounds pretty kick-ass.

⥤ Posted October 18 in Movie News, Opinions | 15 Comments

Disney Starts Distributing Marvel on The Avengers & Iron Man 3

By Alex Billington

Big news on the distribution side of things today. Disney officially announced via press release that they've reached an agreement with Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios and will be taking over the release of Marvel's The Avengers, out on May 4th 2012, and Iron Man 3. As we all know, late last year The Walt Disney Company bought comics publisher Marvel for $4 billion in what was a massive, unprecedented deal that changed many things in the entertainment world. Its taken a little while for everything to roll over to Disney, and that includes who has the distribution duties on movies. Now the transition point has been set.

⥤ Posted October 18 in Hype, Movie News, Opinions | 14 Comments

Magnet Releasing Picks Up Fun Norwegian Doc The Troll Hunter

By Alex Billington

Great news to report! Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Mark Cuban's Magnolia Pictures, has acquired distribution rights to the Norwegian mockumentary called Troll Hunter, or Trolljegeren, written/directed by André Ovredal. We've been following this film ever since we found the first teaser, then it premiered at Fantastic Fest, where Jeremy saw it and loved it. It's damn good to hear that Magnet will be bringing this to theaters. "A thrilling and wildly entertaining film, The Troll Hunter delivers truly fantastic images of giant trolls wreaking havoc on the countryside, with darkly funny adherence to the original Norwegian folklore."

⥤ Posted October 18 in Indies, Movie News, Opinions | 7 Comments

Bruce Willis Looking to Retire John McClane After 'Die Hard 6'

By Ethan Anderton

Throughout this year we've reported intermittent updates on yet another action romp with Bruce Willis as Det. John McClane in a sequel that may or may not be called Die Hard 24/7. Though the title and details on the plot are unknown, Willis is definitely coming back for another Die Hard with writer Skip Woods (The A-Team) behind the story. Though some people think Live Free or Die Hard forced John McClane to jump the shark like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, ShowbizSpy (via Screen Crave) reveals that he'll do another sequel after the fifth Die Hard film, but the sixth film in the series will likely be his last.

⥤ Posted October 18 in Movie News, Opinions | 17 Comments

Mel Gibson Comeback Begins with a Cameo in The Hangover 2?

By Ethan Anderton

After losing agency representation a few months back for some racist and threatening remarks, Mel Gibson and his career in this industry certainly seemed to be in jeopardy. However, it looks like the once-respected actor and filmmaker is looking to get his groove back in a hurry and he may have found the role to start his uphill battle to get on everyone's good side again. The New York Post reports Gibson has landed a cameo in the anticipated comedy sequel The Hangover 2 which was recently confirmed to take place in Thailand. While this seems like just a rumor, it does jive with some information revealed over the weekend. Read on!

⥤ Posted October 18 in Casting, Movie News, Opinions, Rumors | 31 Comments

Jean Francois-Richet Replacing John Hillcoat on The Revenant?

By Ethan Anderton

Over the past few months, we've heard about various projects that director John Hillcoat would potentially helm to follow his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road. However, it looks like Hillcoat has since separated himself from one of the potential directing gigs. Back in May we heard the director may helm The Revenant, period action/revenge film that might star Christian Bale. Though there's no further word on casting, Pajiba has reported via Twitter that Hillcoat is no longer attached to the project and Jean Francois-Richet (above), director of the two-part crime thriller Mesrine and Assault on Precinct 13, may be replacing him.

⥤ Posted October 18 in Movie News, Opinions | No Comments Yet

Casting Tidbits: Keith Richards, Megan Fox and Johnny Galecki

By Ethan Anderton

All right, Hunt. Enough is enough. You have bribed, cajoled, and killed, and you have done it using Casting Tidbits on the inside. You want to shake hands with the devil, that's fine with me. I just want to make sure that you do it in hell! First up, in an interview with Reuters to promote his forthcoming autobiography, it was revealed that The Rolling Stones iconic guitarist Keith Richards would reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow's father, Captain Teague for the franchise sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. It's not clear if his role will be more than a cameo, but Richards was already shooting at the time of the interview.

⥤ Posted October 18 in Casting, Casting Tidbits, Movie News, Opinions | 6 Comments

Must Watch: Awesome Teaser Trailer for Greg Mottola's 'Paul'!

By Alex Billington

Is everyone finally ready to meet "Paul"? Universal has just debuted the first UK teaser trailer on MSN (via Pegg's Twitter) for Greg Mottola's Paul, the sci-fi comedy re-teaming of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. You may have heard about descriptions from Comic-Con, but now you get to actually see what Seth Rogen as a pot smoking little green alien looks like. This wacky sci-fi action(!) comedy is about these two British comic book geeks who, after a road trip to Comic-Con, come across this extraterrestrial who escaped from Area 51. This looks totally frickin' awesome, like maybe one of the best action-comedies of next year. Check this out!

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⥤ Posted October 18 in Hype, To Watch, Trailers | 37 Comments

Check This Out: 'Green Lantern' Movie's Power Battery Revealed

By Alex Billington

If you're a hardcore Green Lantern fan, we've got quite a treat for you today. The SpikeTV Scream Awards ceremony was held last night, and the event included a bit of Green Lantern marketing with Ryan Reynolds standing in front of a gigantic version of a Power Battery (see photos here). The Daily BLAM! (via SHH) also got a shot of the actual Power Battery from the Green Lantern universe that shows up and will be used in the movie and it's a big reveal for those who already know what exactly this is. Now if you don't know what it is, we'll explain beneath the photo. But for everyone else, take a better look at this glowing green prop piece.

⥤ Posted October 18 in First Look, Hype, Photos | 30 Comments

Darren Aronofsky Set to Direct 'Wolverine 2' Starting in March

By Ethan Anderton

After being shortlisted to potentially direct The Man of Steel before the job went to Zack Snyder, director Darren Aronofsky had quite the decision to make. We heard the filmmaker had been offered Tales from the Gangster Squad as a consolation prize from Warner Bros, but apparently 20th Century Fox was quick to offer him another superhero in the form of the sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Though it has been up in the air for the past couple weeks, Deadline has word that while Aronofsky's deal isn't totally official yet, negotiations are to the point that it's a guarantee that he'll be working with Hugh Jackman again for the comic book sequel.

⥤ Posted October 18 in Hype, Movie News, Opinions | 25 Comments

McG Attached to Direct a 300-Style Christopher Columbus Film

By Ethan Anderton

With quite a billion dollar empire including Virgin Records, Virgin Mobile, Virgin Atlantic Airways, the still developing commercial space travel company Virgin Galactic Airways, and so much more, entrepreneur Richard Branson is now throwing his hat into the motion picture industry. Deadline reports that the businessman launched Virgin Produced this passed summer in association with Relativity Media and the banner is making its first acquisition with Columbus, a 300 style film following Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America with McG (Terminator Salvation, Charlie's Angels) set to direct the project.

⥤ Posted October 18 in Movie News, Opinions | 19 Comments

Must Watch: Great Awards-Focused TV Trailer for 'The Fighter'

By Alex Billington

Whoa! After watching this new spot, I'm pretty damn sure Christian Bale is going to win Best Supporting Actor next year for this. During tonight's season finale of AMC's "Mad Men" (which everyone in the industry watches), Paramount aired this fantastic new two-minute TV trailer for David O. Russell's The Fighter, the new boxing drama out in December starring Bale and Mark Wahlberg, as well as Amy Adams and Melissa Leo. The embed is from Deadline, who exclusively debuted this awards-focused spot online. In comparison to the first official trailer, which I already thought looked incredible, this makes it look even better. Enjoy!

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⥤ Posted October 17 in Hype, To Watch, Trailers, TV Spots | 18 Comments

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