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  • Paramount and Bad Robot Extend First Look Deal
    Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot Productions have jointly announced today an extension of their exclusive, first-look agreement through December 2015. Bad Robot's original first look deal with Paramount began in 2006. They are currently shooting the next installment of the studio’s Star Trek franchise. Once again, Abrams is directing and Bad Robot is producing the tent-pole, which will be released in 3D on May 17, 2013. “J.J. is a unique talent and a captivating storyteller,” said Brad Grey, Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures. “J.J., Bryan Burk and the whole Bad Robot team are an integral part of Paramount and we’re proud to continue our collaboration. Their pictures have extraordinary resonance around the world and we’re so pleased Paramount will be their home for...

  • Summit Entertainment to Open The Night Circus
    Summit Enterainment has plans to bring Erin Morgenstern's novel, The Night Circus , to the big screen. Deadline reports that Buffini, the screenwriter of the upcoming vampire tale Byzantium , will adapt the 2011 book, which is officially described as follows: The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is...

  • Warner Bros. to Adapt Manga Bleach
    Warner Bros. has plans to adapt Tite Kubo's manga series Bleach into a live-action feature, Variety reports. Peter Segal, who most recently directed Get Smart , will produce and potentially direct while Dan Mazeau ( Wrath of the Titans ) is attached to draft the screenplay. First published as a serial in "Weekly Shōmen Jump," Bleach tells the story of a young man, Ichigo Kurosaki, who has the power to see ghosts. His life is forever changed after a run-in with a woman named Rukia Kuchiki, who tracks evil spirits called Hollows. She transfers her powers to Ichigo and he takes up the mantle of Soul Reaper, strandind her in the mortal world. Bleach has previously been adapted in animated form for the small screen in a continuing anime series and, for the...

  • Director Sam Mendes' First Video Blog for Skyfall
    Columbia Pictures has released, through 007.com , director Sam Mendes' first video blog from the next James Bond adventure, Skyfall . Check it out in the player below as well as a behind-the-scenes photo! Set for release on November 9th, the film also stars Javier Bardem, Dame Judi Dench, Naomie Harris, Berenice Marlohe, Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney, Ben Whishaw, Helen McCrory and Ola Rapace. In Skyfall , Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

  • We're Giving Away Passes to a NYC Screening of The Snowtown Murders
    ComingSoon.net is giving away 6 pairs of tickets to a New York screening of The Snowtown Murders , Justin Kurzel's Grand Jury Prize winner at Cannes last year, on February 29 at the IFC Center. Based on horrifying crimes discovered in Snowtown, Australia in 1999, The Snowtown Murders is Kurzel's directorial debut, a stark journey into a brutal subculture of suspicion, addiction and violence. The film follows Elizabeth Harvey (Louise Harris), a mother raising her three boys in a poor suburb. After her latest boyfriend displays pedophilic tendencies, she takes up with a new man, hoping for security but instead welcoming an even more vicious predator into her home. John Bunting (Daniel Henshall) is the moral compass of a self-appointed neighborhood watch who, fueled by cigarettes...

  • The New Trailer for American Reunion !
    Universal Pictures has released the new trailer for American Reunion that you can watch using the player below! In the April 6 release, all the "American Pie" characters we met a little more than a decade ago are returning to East Great Falls for their high-school reunion. In one long-overdue weekend, they will discover what has changed, who hasn't and that time and distance can't break the bonds of friendship. It was summer 1999 when four small-town Michigan boys began a quest to lose their virginity. In the years that have passed, Jim and Michelle married while Kevin and Vicky said goodbye. Oz and Heather grew apart, but Finch still longs for Stifler's mom. Now these lifelong friends have come home as adults to reminisce about—and get inspired by—the hormonal teens...

  • Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Passes 5 Million DVD and Blu-ray Units Sold
    Lionsgate's Summit Entertainment announced today that the home entertainment release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 has sold over 5 million DVD and Blu-ray units in the first 11 days of release. DVD sales for the film, which became available at retail on February 11th, are approximately 13% ahead of sales of the third film in the franchise, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse , at the same point in its release. Digital sales of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 are also strong with over 74,000 electronic sell through transactions (53% ahead of "Eclipse" at the same time) and over 175,000 video on demand transactions (162% ahead of "Eclipse" at the same time). Steve Nickerson, Summit's President of Home Entertainment, stated, "The sales to...

  • Betty Teaser for Mad Men Season Five
    The Huffington Post has posted this new teaser for Season 5 of AMC's "Mad Men" featuring January Jones's Betty. The show will be back with a two-hour premiere on Sunday, March 25 at 9pm ET and will return to its regular timeslot on Sunday, April 1 at 10pm ET. Written by Matthew Weiner and directed by Jennifer Getzinger, the season premiere episode will also be available on amctv.com the Monday after air. "Mad Men" stars Golden Globe winner Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, Jones, John Slattery, Christina Hendricks, Jared Harris and Kiernan Shipka.

  • Check Out a New Photo From The Cabin in the Woods
    With less than two months to go before the long-awaited release of The Cabin in the Woods , Lionsgate has debuted a brand-new still at the film's official Facebook page. Check it out below! The film, directed by Drew Goddard ( Cloverfield ), features a script by Joss Whedon ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer," Marvel's The Avengers ) and Goddard and tells of five friends who go to a remote cabin in the woods and the bad things that happen. The film marks the first team-up between Whedon and Thor star Chris Hemsworth and also stars Kristen Connolly, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford. The Cabin in the Woods is scheduled to hit theaters on April 13.

  • Kathryn Bigelow's Bin Laden Film Adds Two
    Nash Edgerton and Jennifer Ehle have joined the cast of Kathryn Bigelow's still-untitled Osama bin Laden film , EW reports. The project, which reunites Bigelow with The Hurt Locker screenwriter Mark Boal, deals with a black ops SEAL team and was recently updated to include the successful operation that took down Osama bin Laden. Edgerton, who has worked primarily as a stuntman, joins his brother, Joel in the project. Ehle, meanwhile, is best known for appearing in films like The King's Speech and, last year, in The Ides of March and Contagion . (Photo Credit: Robert Wallace / Joseph Marzullo / WENN.com)

  • Jai Courtney to Play Jack McClane in A Good Day to Die Hard
    Following a global casting search spanning several months, Jai Courtney has nabbed the coveted role of John (Jack) McClane, Jr., the son of Bruce Willis' iconic action hero, in A Good Day to Die Hard . A Good Day to Die Hard puts McClane on an international stage -- truly a NYC fish out of water in Moscow -- and introduces his estranged son Jack. An apple that has not fallen far from the tree, Jack may even be more of a hardass than his father. Despite their differences, they must work together to keep each other alive – and the world safe for democracy. The film begins production this April, for a February 14, 2013 release. Courtney, studied drama at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), where he graduated in 2008. Following graduation Courtney...

  • Antje Traue Joins The Seventh Son
    Antje Traue, who will soon play the Kryptonian villainess Faora in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel , has joined the cast of Legendary Pictures' The Seventh Son , Variety reports. Already set to star Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington, The Seventh Son will be directed by Sergei Bodrov with a script from Matt Greenberg and Chuck Leavitt. The film is an adaptation of Joseph Delaney's children's book, "The Spook's Apprentice" about Thomas J. Ward, the seventh son of a seventh son, born in the 1700's with supernatural abilities and who furthers his training with the help of a learned "Spook." The novel is the first in a six-part series (known internationally as "The Wardstone Chronicles"). (Photo Credit:...

  • Ehren Kruger Plots Invertigo , and Disney Yeti Film
    Plot details are few, but variety is reporting that Sony Pictures has acquired a new script from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Transformers: Dark of the Moon writer Ehren Kruger. Titled Invertigo , the script was go-written with Bradley Cramp and will be produced by Neal Mortiz with Kruger and Daniel Bobker executive producing. UPDATE: The Hollywood Reporter now has word that Kruger is also involved in Walt Disney Pictures' upcoming mountain adventure project , formerly known as The Hill . Announced last year , the film was to have been based on Disneyland's Matterhorn ride, though the trade notes that the scope has since been widened. Jason Dean Hall was formerly attached as the project's screenwriter and newcomer Brian Beletic is still slated to direct.

  • New Kate Upton Photo From The Three Stooges Movie
    Twentieth Century Fox has released this new photo of Kate Upton in The Three Stooges on the film's official Facebook page with the following caption - "Sometimes clothing can be very distracting. Just LOOK at those shorts!" We have to agree. Upton, who recently landed the cover of the "2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition" (see below as well), co-stars with Chris Diamantopoulos, Will Sasso, Sean Hayes, Jane Lynch, Larry David, Stephen Collins, Sofia Vergara and Jennifer Hudson in the April 13 release. The comedy was directed by the Farrelly brothers. Click the photo for a bigger version!

  • New Ice Age: Continental Drift Video is a Play on The Artist
    Twentieth Century Fox has released a new video for Ice Age: Continental Drift that is a play on Oscar-nominated The Artist . The clip, which you can watch below, also reveals that the next trailer will debut on March 5th. In Ice Age: Continental Drift , Scrat's nutty pursuit of the cursed acorn, which he's been after since the dawn of time, has world-changing consequences -- a continental cataclysm that triggers the greatest adventure of all for Manny, Diego and Sid. In the wake of these earth-shattering upheavals, Sid reunites with his long lost family, and the gang encounters a ragtag menagerie of colorful new characters determined to stop them from returning home. The movie hits 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D theaters on July 13.

  • Games: PS Vita Launches in North America and Latin America
    Sony launched the PlayStation Vita today in North America and Latin America. Will you be getting one? Here is the announcement: Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC today announced the launch of the highly anticipated PlayStation®Vita (PS Vita), the next generation portable entertainment system, available now in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. PS Vita delivers new ways to play games that have never been seen on any device, coupled with rich social features to keep players connected to their gaming community. With the biggest and best launch lineup in PlayStation® history, PS Vita offers more than 25 titles on day one, plus a broad selection of accessories. PS Vita is also launching today in Europe and Australia. "Today marks a historic day for the...

  • Edgar Wright to Team with Johnny Depp for The Night Stalker
    Edgar Wright is now attached to direct Walt Disney Pictures' big-screen version of The Night Stalker , Deadline reports. Produced in conjunction with his Infinitum Nihil, Johnny Depp is already attached to star. The Night Stalker originally aired as a TV movie in 1972 and featured Darren McGavin as a Carl Kolchak, a reporter who, while tracking down a serial killer, finds that he's really going toe-to-toe with a vampire. A sequel, The Night Strangler , aired in 1973 with a television series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" airing the following year. While the "Night Stalker" of the title referred to the Vampire, the term became associated with protagonist instead. Coincidentally, the same is true of another upcoming Depp project, Rob Marshall's take on The...

  • John Carter to Offer Exclusive Mondo Poster
    With just over two weeks left before Edgar Rice Burrough's classic sci-fi hero, John Carter , arrives in theaters, The LA Times has announced a that fans who attend IMAX 3D midnight screenings on March 9th (the night of March 8th) will receive the below exclusive Mondo poster, designed by J.C. Richard. Directed by Andrew Stanton, the film features a cast that includes Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, Dominic West, James Purefoy, Daryl Sabara, Polly Walker, Bryan Cranston, Thomas Hayden Church and Willem Dafoe. John Carter tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants...

  • Go Behind the Scenes of Taylor Swift's Video for The Hunger Games
    Late last year, Taylor Swift revealed her song, "Safe & Sound," for Lionsgate's highly-anticipated The Hunger Games . Today, iTunes Movie Trailers has debuted a behind-the-scenes look at what went into the making of her music video. Check it out in the player below! Based on the best-selling book series by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games is directed by Gary Ross and features a cast that includes Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Wes Bentley, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz, Toby Jones and many more. You can catch it in theaters on March 23rd!

  • Adrien Brody and Christina Hendricks in an Exclusive Detachment Clip
    Detachment , the new movie from American History X director Tony Kaye, is a dramatic look at being a teacher in the New York public school system and how it wears down on people trying to make a difference with kids who just don't care about learning anymore. It stars Adrien Brody as substitute teacher Henry Barthes, trying to navigate a particularly difficult school while also dealing with a dying father and a runaway teen prostitute he takes in. Tribeca Film has provided ComingSoon.net with an exclusive clip called "Ever Dread Going Home," featuring Adrien Brody and Christina Hendricks in which Brody's character bonds with a fellow teacher who has been through quite a few ordeals while trying to help her students. You can't really tell from the short clip, but...

  • Disney•Pixar's Brave Debuts a New Poster
    A new poster for Disney•Pixar's Brave is now online, courtesy of iTunes Movie Trailers , and you can check it out below! Directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman, the animated adventure features the voices of Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Julie Walters, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson and Robbie Coltrane. In the film, opening in 3D and 2D theaters on June 22, Merida (Macdonald) is a skilled archer and impetuous daughter of King Fergus (Connolly) and Queen Elinor (Thompson). Determined to carve her own path in life, Merida defies an age-old custom sacred to the uproarious lords of the land: massive Lord MacGuffin (McKidd), surly Lord Macintosh (Ferguson) and cantankerous Lord Dingwall (Coltrane). Merida's actions inadvertently unleash chaos and fury in the...

  • Jeffrey Nachmanoff to Helm American Assassin
    Although Ed Zwick was attached last June , The Hollywood Reporter now has word that Traitor direct Jeffrey Nachmanoff will direct the Vince Flynn novel American Assassin . Set up at CBS films, the project is officially described as follows: 'American Assassin' tells the story of legendary CIA agent Mitch Rapp. Long before he began hunting terrorists, Rapp was a gifted college scholar/athlete. Then, tragedy struck and Rapp was recruited into the nation’s most elite covert operations program. After completing training designed to teach the kind of lethal skills necessary to target our most dangerous enemies, here and abroad, he is a man reborn with a mission of retribution. Zwick adapted the screenplay alongside Marshall Herskovitz ( The Last Samurai ), but recently left...

  • CS Video: The Cast and Crew of Wanderlust
    From writer/director David Wain and writer/actor Ken Marino (the duo responsible for films like Role Models and Wet Hot American Summer ) comes Wanderlust , a new comedy starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston. George (Rudd) and Linda (Aniston) are a married Manhattan couple coping with the mounting pressures of modern life. When George loses his job, they decide to abandon the Big Apple and move in with George's brother (Marino) in Atlanta. En route, they happen upon Elysium, an "intentional community" that preaches shared living and free love and eschews wealth and possessions (and, in some cases, clothing). Sensing that Elysium may be the solution to their troubles, George and Linda decide to give the place a shot. ComingSoon.net sat down to speak with Rudd,...

  • Frank Darabont's L.A. Noir Adds Milo Ventimiglia
    Milo Ventimiglia, best known for his role as Peter Petrelli on "Heroes", has signed on for Frank Darabont's upcoming period crime drama "L.A. Noir", Deadline reports. The pilot episode will be written and directed by Darabont and is being planned to become a regular series on TNT. The official synopsis is as follows: L.A. Noir is the true story of a decades-long conflict between the Los Angeles Police Department, under the determined leadership of Police Chief William Parker, and ruthless criminal elements led by Mickey Cohen, a one-time boxer who rose to the top of L.A.’s criminal world. The series is a fast-paced crime drama set in Los Angeles during the 1940s and '50s. It's a world of glamorous movie stars, powerful studio heads, returning war heroes, a...

  • Box Office: Act of Valor REALLY Means War
    So far, this has been a great year for movies, but after neither of last week's new movies were able to dethrone the previous week's returning movies, we have to wonder whether things are going to slow down a bit going into March. One of the more interesting films in a year in which we already have two found footage movies trying to portray realism is the Bandito Brothers' Act of Valor (Relativity Media), a modern military action movie starring real "Active-Duty Navy SEALs" which has generated quite a bit of controversy since it was announced, mainly because it seemed to be trying to glom onto the interest in the SEALs after their involvement in the killing of Osama bin Laden. Although the film may be seen politically by some, it's generally been well-marketed to the...

  • TV Spot for the Re-Release of Titanic in 3D
    Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox have started airing this new TV spot for the 3D re-release of James Cameron's Titanic . The second-biggest blockbuster of all time will hit 3D, 2D and IMAX theaters on April 4th. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet light up the screen as Jack and Rose, the young lovers who find one another on the maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" R.M.S. Titanic. But when the doomed luxury liner collides with an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic their passionate love affair becomes a thrilling race for survival. Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton, Bernard Hill, David Warner, Victor Garber, Jonathan Hyde and Suzy Amis co-star.

  • New Poster for Men in Black 3 Online
    Thanks to 'RIMMK7', here is a look at a new poster for Men in Black 3 , opening in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D theaters on May 25. In Men in Black 3 , Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back... in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him -- secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K (Josh Brolin) to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.

  • Hi-Res Version of the New Avengers Image
    We posted a scan of this image yesterday, but not Walt Disney Pictures has sent us the photo featuring Captain America (Chris Evans), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) in Marvel's The Avengers . In the May 4th release, they are joined by Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson. Joss Whedon wrote and directed the highly-anticipated action adventure. Click the image for a much bigger version!

  • International Poster for Battleship Hits
    Following the international trailer that was released earlier today, the French poster for Universal's Battleship has also come online and can be viewed below. Peter Berg ( Hancock ) produces and directs Battleship , an epic action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. Based on Hasbro's classic naval combat game, the film stars Taylor Kitsch ( John Carter ) as Hopper, a Naval officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones; Brooklyn Decker as Sam, a physical therapist and Hopper's fiancée; Alexander Skarsgård as Hopper's older brother, Commanding Officer Stone of the USS Samson; Rihanna as Lt. Raikes, Hopper's crewmate and a weapons specialist on the USS John Paul Jones; and international...

  • Paul Walker to Star in Universal's Skyscraper
    Actor and producer Paul Walker has signed a two-year, first-look production deal with Universal Pictures to house his Laguna Ridge Pictures, the studio announced today. The first project under this agreement is the action-thriller Skyscraper , based on an original idea by Mike Sobel. Walker will executive produce and star, with Neal Moritz's Original Films producing. Walker's most recent film with the studio, Fast Five , grossed over $630 million dollars at the worldwide box office, making it one of the biggest films in Universal's history. This spring, Walker will start production on Fast & Furious 6 , opening in theaters on May 24, 2013. Walker is also attached to star in and executive produce Hours , alongside producer Peter Safran's, Safran Company. The thriller,...