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Confirmed: Cary Fukunaga In Talks Direct Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Napoleon’ For HBO By Jack Giroux/May 20, 2016 11:05 am EST Update From Editor Peter Sciretta: The Hollywood Reporter confirms the rumors that filmmaker Cary Fukunaga is in talks to direct Stanley Kubrick’s abandoned passion project Napoleon, with David Leland writing the miniseries for HBO. Jack Giroux’s original story from May 18th 2016 follows. “It’s impossible to tell you what I’m going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made,” director Stanely Kubrick once said of Napoleon, a passion project of his that was never made due to a variety of reasons....

Cool Stuff: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ And More Modern Movies Get Retro VHS Cover Art By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 21, 2015 7:00 am EST We’re on the verge of having an entire generation never know the exquisite joy of shuffling through a video rental store to pick out the movie you want to take home for the weekend. Sure, compared to DVD and eventually Blu-ray, the quality of VHS was abysmal. But there was still something special about going to the local video store and just walking the aisles and finding something for your viewing pleasure....

Gabz - Texas Chainsaw Massacre poster This totally could have been a theatrical one sheet, right? But at the same time, it’s a truly great and artistic pop culture poster. What a great blend. These are all 24 x 36 inch screenprints. The Regular edition (muted tan) is an edition of 150 and costs $50. The variant (brighter tan) is an edition of 100 and costs $65. Then there’s the foil variant, an edition of 75 which costs $115....

First Clip From ‘Dead Rising: Watchtower,’ Based On The Video Game Series By Germain Lussier/March 3, 2015 1:00 pm EST Every zombie story needs that scene, when the characters find out the world they know has changed forever. The scene when the dead rise from the grave or, at the very least, the characters see their first zombie. That familiarity makes this scene a good barometer to distinguish zombie projects and is probably why it was chosen as the first clip from Zach Lipovsky’s Dead Rising: Watchtower, the online adaptation of the popular zombie video game series....

Matt Damon Has Only 25 Lines Of Dialogue In ‘Jason Bourne’ By Jacob Hall/July 18, 2016 3:00 pm EST In 1991, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $15 million to star in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a movie where he only speaks 700 worlds in 137 minutes. That’s roughly $21,429 per word. Earlier this year, everyone slowly realized that Henry Cavill’s Superman had very little to say in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, even though his character’s name was in the title....

Neil deGrasse Tyson Imagines If The World Of ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Actually Existed By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 24, 2015 5:00 am EST Astrophysicist and cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson loves to debunk the science that goes into science fiction. Recently he’s questioned the science of movies such as Gravity and The Martian, and sometimes he gets a little too carried away with his realistic approach to the world of movies, ruining the fun for the rest of us....

See ‘Hong Kong Phooey’ And ‘Marvin The Martian’ Test Footage By Russ Fischer/Dec. 27, 2012 9:37 pm EST Director Alex Zamm (Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, the upcoming Little Rascals) was once set to make a live-action/CG hybrid Marvin the Martian movie, and in the past year was announced as the director for a similar hybrid revival of Hong Kong Phooey, with Eddie Murphy set to voice the kung-fu practicing dog of the title....

Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy 2, Batman V Superman, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Secret Wars, Daredevil By Germain Lussier/April 3, 2015 4:30 pm EST When and where will Guardians of the Galaxy 2 shoot? How did it feel for Jesse Eisenberg to shave his head for Batman v Superman? What character details are there in some new Avengers: Age of Ultron write ups? Want to see two new Daredevil trailers?...

The ‘Minecraft’ Director Is Rob McElhenney Of ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’ By Russ Fischer/July 21, 2015 1:00 pm EST I don’t think anyone would have said there was much of a link between the show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and the video game Minecraft, but Always Sunny star and co-creator Rob McElhenney has just built a bridge between them. He’ll direct the Warner Bros. film based on the insanely popular world-building video game....

The Lonely Island’s New ‘Popstar’ Music Video: A Song About Sexual Bliss & Osama Bin Laden By Ethan Anderton/May 23, 2016 6:30 am EST Not too long ago, a couple tracks from the soundtrack of this summer’s mockumentary comedy Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping debuted online, showcasing the latest tunes crafted by The Lonely Island. The rap trio formed by Andy Samberg, Akiva Shaffer and Jorma Taccone got their start on Saturday Night Live with signature tracks like “Lazy Sunday” and “I’m On a Boat....

‘Damien’ Trailer: Look At Me, A&E Network! It’s All For You! By Jacob Hall/Jan. 7, 2016 1:00 pm EST A&E is really going all in on this “television shows based on iconic horror movies” thing. The network found tremendous success by modernizing Psycho with Bates Motel, which has already been renewed for a fifth season before the fourth season has even aired. Now, they’re turning their attention away from creepy young men with unhealthy maternal obsessions and toward creepy young men who just so happen to be the antichrist....

‘Dying Of The Light’ Trailer: Nicolas Cage Wants To Do Something Worth Remembering By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2014 1:30 pm EST In Dying of the Light Nicolas Cage plays an intelligence agent who wants to do something worth remembering. Based on the Dying of the Light trailer, Nic Cage may not achieve the same thing in this movie. We’ve followed the film’s strange history for a while: scripted by Paul Schrader, Dying of the Light was originally going to be directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, with Harrison Ford in the lead....

‘Popstar’ Trailer: Andy Samberg Learns How Seal Got Those Scars By Ethan Anderton/May 18, 2016 11:30 am EST After delivering some of the best recorded content Saturday Night Live has ever had, The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Akiva Shaffer and Jorma Taccone) have collaborated on a feature film that feels like it could have been inspired by one of their SNL Digital Shorts. This summer brings the new comedy Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, a mockumentary following rapper Connor4Real (Samberg) as he releases his new album and goes on tour....

‘Spider-Man’: Donald Glover And Josh Hutcherson Respond To Casting Rumors By Angie Han/Feb. 26, 2015 10:00 am EST As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Sony’s on the hunt for a new Spider-Man to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And since the last round of Spider-Man casting was just a few years ago, some fans have wondered if some of the guys who didn’t make the cut the last time around could have better luck this time....

‘World Of Tomorrow’ Trailer: Don Hertzfeldt Shows Us The Future By Russ Fischer/Feb. 16, 2015 1:00 pm EST One of the best films I’ve seen so far this year — and, indeed, in quite a while — is only seventeen minutes long and relies on stick figures to depict its characters. Don Hertzfeldt’s short World of Tomorrow is dazzling, devastatingly effective science fiction which introduces the young Emily as she is confronted with her genetic descendent from the far future, who shows Emily how human existence has “evolved” over centuries of technological influence....

AMC’s ‘Preacher’ Pilot Gets Audio Commentary From Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg By Jack Giroux/May 27, 2016 8:00 am EST “We were very concerned about our budget on this show, and how good our visual effects would be,” co-director and executive producer Seth Rogen says at the start of the Preacher audio commentary, as he discusses the opening scene set in space. “We said, ‘Let’s not even try to make it look like good visual effects; let’s make it look like visual effects from 1967, so this is what we came up with....

Andy Fairhurst Back to the Future Prints All three prints are now on sale at bottleneckgallery.com. Act fast as I’m sure they will sell out quick and you don’t have a time machine. By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 9, 2015 10:04 am EST To celebrate it’s 30th anniversary of Back to the Future, Bottleneck Gallery has released Andy Fairhurst’s 88MPH, part of his “Nerd’s Eye View” series, as a set of poster prints....

Drew Goddard Wanted To Make A New ‘Daredevil’ Movie By Jack Giroux/Sept. 30, 2015 4:30 pm EST Read more about the decision to bring Daredevil to TV rather than theaters, after the jump. Goddard, due to scheduling issues, had to step down as Daredevil’s showrunner and director, and then Steven S. DeKnight (Spartacus) took over and helped to deliver the first satisfying depiction of the character. A few years ago, though, Goddard had a desire to make a new Daredevil movie, not a television show (source: IGN):...

Emily Blunt In Talks For Disney’s ‘Mary Poppins’ Sequel By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 18, 2016 3:30 pm EST UPDATE: After many months of rumors, Variety has finally confirmed that Emily Blunt is in talks for Mary Poppins. Original story from September 17, 2015 follows. Disney has already invested in Emily Blunt with a small role as Miss Piggy’s assistant in The Muppets and one of the lead roles in the Broadway musical adaptation of Into the Woods....

Even Jai Courtney Thinks It’s Time To Leave The ‘Terminator’ Franchise Alone By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 2, 2016 2:00 pm EST When an actor or actress joins a big blockbuster franchise, they’re pretty much on board for whatever the future holds, if only because it’s a near-guarantee for a few paychecks that they won’t have to fight for elsewhere. Therefore, if an actor thinks that it’s a better idea to not proceed with sequels in a given franchise, then things must be pretty hopeless....