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The fun-loving monsters are back! Pixar is already in production on Monsters University, a prequel to Monsters Inc, directed by Dan Scanlon (Tracy). The animated odd couple, Mike Wazowski and James P. 'Sulley' Sullivan, are back at the University of Fear.  The film tells us how...

Read more: MONSTERS, INC 2 in Production

Cowboys & werewolves?  Not any time soon, as Disney has shown by nixing preproduction on producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s adaptation of The Lone Ranger. Just two months before shooting was to take place in New Mexico under the direction of Gore Verbinski...

Read more: Disney Shelves LONE RANGER Adaptation

This fall may actually bring the long-delayed release of The Rum Diary, an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s first, but long lost novel. Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean 4) once again pays ...

Read more: Depp's RUM DIARY Scheduled for October Release

The recent Hollywood "trend" of converting board game properties into movies seems to be waning a bit, even though it really never got completely off the ground. Of course Battleship is set to arrive in theaters next summer, and if the trailer for that film is ...

Read more: McG's OUIJA Adaptation Dropped; FRANKENSTEIN Developments - UPDATED

With or without Bill Murray's involvement, Ghostbusters 3 finally seems to be moving forward. At least that's what Dan Aykroyd says. We know it's getting kind of tiresome hearing about the on-again off-again nature of this production, but this latest bit ...

Read more: GHOSTBUSTERS 3 Finally Getting Underway?

Add another remake to the list!  Rumor has it that Paramount is developing a remake of the 1974 drama The Gambler.  Deadline is reporting that the product is possibly to be directed by Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island) and a screenplay written by William Monahan (The Departed)...

Read more: Scorcese Eyeing THE GAMBLER Remake

Fright Night. The Gambler. Footloose. What connects these films? They are all among Hollywood’s plight to remake anything and everything. So it’s no surprise that Columbia Pictures has a remake of Flatliners in the works, alongside Further Films who produced the ...

Read more: Flatliners Remake on the Way

The Coen-quirk continues as the dynamic duo reveal the subject and title of their next film.  Joel and Ethan Coen (A Serious Man) are creating a movie centered around 1960’s folk music scene in New York’s Greenwich Village entitled Inside Llewyn Davis ...

Read more: Subject, Title Revealed for Next Coen Brothers Project

While announcements and buzz about the upcoming Expendables sequel have the cast turning over more frequently than a Pillsbury pastry, one recent tidbit of casting news caught our eye.  Millennium Films had briefly updated the  ...

Read more: Van Damme and Norris for EXPENDABLES 2?

After stumbling out the gate with crippling bouts of ego posturing, casting dilemmas, and production delays, director Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby has finally gotten under way. Principal photography ...

Read more: GREAT GATSBY Production Gets Under Way in Australia

After much speculation, rumors, and hopeful optimism over the last few months, we have (almost) official word that J.J. Abrams is indeed boarding the Enterprise once again to bring us a sequel to his smash 2009 hit, Star Trek...

Read more: Abrams to Direct STAR TREK Sequel

It’s official: Hollywood is either out of ideas or simply won’t take a chance on any new ones. Remakes, re-imaginings and way-too-late sequels seem to be all the rage for the studios to bring money to them...

Read more: BEETLEJUICE 2: Should They or Shouldn't They?

We learned earlier this summer that the production on the Bonnie and Clyde legend called The Story of Bonnie and Clyde, was to get underway this fall with Limitless director Neil Burger taking the helm and Hilary Duff in the role ...

Read more: Lindsay Pulsipher to Tote Bonnie Parker's Machine Gun

Who knows if that boycott called for by the hardcore Star Wars fans did any good for those who had hoped to punish Lucas for his filthy molestation of a cinematic classic. If it did, it was minimal, because today Twentieth Century Fox said that the recently released ...

Read more: STAR WARS Boycott Has Little Effect on SAGA Blu-ray Sales

The scourge that is the recent rash of 3D movies is about to get worse... and even more expensive. That's because Sony Pictures Entertainment recently sent a letter to theater owners informing them that after May 1 of next year, the studio will ...

Read more: Sony Says "No" to Free 3D Glasses

Word came down today from Working Films that production has begun on Joe Wright's adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy classic, Anna Karenina. The film marks Wright's fourth film with Working title and his third collaboration with Keira Knightley who will star opposite ...

Read more: Production Underway on Joe Wright's ANNA KARENINA

Official hope has arrived!  It was announced on Sunday at The New Yorker Festival that an Arrested Development movie will happen after a new lead-in season on television.  Fans of the cult classic show have been waiting patiently for word of a movie since its ...

Read more: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT New Season and Movie on the Way

Finding itself a victim of its own success in the online streaming business, Netflix will continue to do battle with stingy content providers by funding original productions. In fact, Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer of Netflix sat down with Mike Lang at MIPCOM in Cannes this week to announce ...

Read more: Netflix Adds LILYHAMMER to Original Broadcast Slate

In a move that seems to have gone over well with investors today, Netflix said it will not separate its DVD-by-mail and online streaming services as it had previously announced back in September. "It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we ...

Read more: Netflix Reverses Course; Will Not Separate DVD and Online Delivery of Movies

Seems a poor box office showing isn't the only thing the distributors of the crime drama Drive are left to face after the film failed to catch traction with the general public following a scorching run on the international film circuit.  Now it must go up against the court system since one viewer didn't think the film was...

Read more: Movie Distributor Sued Because DRIVE Isn't Like FAST AND FURIOUS

There's a bit of good news coming out of Hollywood for anyone who prefers curling up on the couch to take in a new flick over schlepping to the nearest cineplex. Seems that universal is plowing forward with a controversial plan to ...

Read more: TOWER HEIST May Change How We Watch Movies - UPDATE

True Blood's Anna Paquin will join Twilight's Cam Giganet in Shana Sosin's indie production called Free Ride. Written and directed by Sosin, the drama is based on a true story in which an abused uneducated single mother (Paquin) struggles ...

Read more: Deals and Rumors Report: "Free Ride", "Avatar 2" and "Rentaghost"

Speaking at MIPCOM recently in Cannes, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos suggested his company looks at what people are pirating in different parts of the world to help figure out what titles to license for for that region. An ...

Read more: List of Top 10 Most Pirated and Top 10 Most Rented Movies

Less than stellar DVD sales have continued to drag the home video market down in 2011, but a strong showing from X-Men: First Class, Thor, and The Star Wars Saga on the blu-ray format, have prompted a 156% surge in  ...

Read more: STAR WARS SAGA, X-MEN, and THOR Spur Blu-ray Rebound

Mimicking the home video embargo strategy utilized for years by Disney whereby popular films are pulled from the market and placed in the Disney Vault, Reuters is reporting that Warner Bros. has announced it will remove all its Harry Potter DVDs and Blu-ray discs from ...

Read more: Warner to Vault HARRY POTTER Movies at End of Year

The attempted revival of 80s TV continues with the recent report that Stephen J. Cannell's series Wiseguy is coming back as a contemporary take on the disgraced former cop who cuts a deal to work undercover for time off his sentence. The series, ...

Read more: Deals and Rumors Report: '80s TV; DAMAGES; Sudeikis in DOG FIGHT

Ben Affleck (The Town) and Matt Damon (Contagion) are rumored to reunite for their first collaboration since their first feature film, Good Will Hunting. The duo are seeking to do a biopic on New England ganster Whitey Bulger, Boston’s most notorious ganster. The project is part of a new deal to revamp the team’s...

Read more: Affleck and Damon to Reteam for Gangster Biopic

Thanks to an increased appetite for HD - as well as a larger availability of cheaper Hi-def televisions - Americans spent about 5% more on home video during the third quarter over the same period last year. This represents the first increase since early 2008.Though the increase could be a ...

Read more: Rosy Days for Blu-ray. Hi-def Disc Sales Boost U.S. Home Video Spending

Bond is back for the 23rd installment of the franchise.  Sony/Columbia has Skyfall scheduled to be released in November 2012 coinciding with the series’ 50th anniversary.  Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (Away We Go) will be directing his first James Bond film, which starts...

Read more: Bond 23 Begins Filming: Titled SKYFALL

Though Walden Media is currently saying that Jennifer Lopez is only set to produce the Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? big screen adaptation, experience tells us it will only be a matter of days or weeks until the story is revised to report that Jenny from the Block will don ...

Read more: Jennifer Lopez Might Know Where in the World is Carmen San Diego

Although several The Man From U.N.C.L.E. adaptation attempts have come and gone through recent years, none was closer to coming to fruition than Steven Soderbergh's vision which was to begin taking shape in the form of a production schedule beginning in March of next year. But now, even this one has been officially mothballed due to ...

Read more: Deals and Rumors Report: Soderbergh; 20,000 Leagues; Tomb Raider

Though Tony Scott is no longer attached to the film, the folks over at 20th Century Fox are reportedly ready to pull the trigger on the oft-rumored 24 big screen adaptation. Rumors began popping up earlier this year about the return of Jack Bauer in a big theatrical tent-pole film version of the...

Read more: "24" Movie Finally Under Way?

The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, of which we are a proud member, voted the comedy-drama THE DESCENDANTS as the best film of 2011, according to the results of its 18th annual critics’ poll released today. Rounding out the ...

Read more: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Name DESCENDANTS Best Picture of 2011

NBC is reviving the classic '60s comedy The Munsters and will present it as a weekly comedy/drama. Bryan Fuller of Pushing Daisies fame has written the story loosely based on the original but with a modern twist, while Bryan Singer (Superman Returns) will produce and direct the pilot...

Read more: Deals and Rumors Report: THE MUNSTERS; LOST KEATON; and THOR 2

As the curtain falls on the 2011 movie season, it's not only time to reflect back upon all the salted pretzels eaten, the gallons of soda chugged, and the tubs of artery-clogging gelatinous goo (posing as hot butter) poured over calorie-loaded coconut-oil-cooked popcorn, but it's also the...

Read more: The Best Movies of 2011

Paramount Pictures had the best movies of 2011. That is, if big box office take equals "best." With a huge slate of financially successful films released throughout last year, including Michael Bay's mega-hit Transformers film, the relaunch of the Mission: Impossible franchise, and its first original ...

Read more: Paramount was Best of 2011; to Release PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 in 2012

Netflix's movement to become a legitimate playing in the original programming arena takes another step forward this February when its original series Lilyhammer will hit the internet. We first learned of Lilyhammer back in October when Chief Content Officer Ted Serandos sat down at MIPCOM and announced ...

Read more: Netflix Original Series LILYHAMMER Available February 6th

Yet another brilliant horror film of the past will succumb to the filthy Hollywood remake machine when the Brian DePalma/Sissy Spacek high school bullying classic Carrie gets a revisit, this time by MGM and Screen Gems. The Carrie project was first hinted at last Spring when it was reported...

Read more: Kimberly Pierce Tapped to Direct CARRIE Remake

This weekend marks the release of the long-gestating George Lucas passion project Red Tails, a biopic of sorts about the Tuskeegee airmen who battled racism to fly fighter planes for their country during WWII. The film itself has been through its own uphill battle to see the light of day in theaters...

Read more: The Future of Black Movies Rests on RED TAILS; and Lucas Calling it Quits

Sequels have always had a lot of pressure behind them.  To add to that pressure, it’s a sequel from a rebooted, iconic TV and movie franchise with an almost cult-like following.  That’s right, Star Trek 2 is on its way.  J.J. Abrams (Super 8) brought the Enterprise back to the final frontier over two years ago complete ...

Read more: Production Underway on Abrams' STAR TREK 2

Finally, the kind of movie sequel news we like to hear. Not typically a practitioner of the "discretion is the better part of valor" ideology, Hollywood is showing a bit of unexpected bravery with word coming down that Kristen Wiig et. al. are taking a pass on ...

Read more: Kristen Wiig on BRIDESMAIDS 2: "Not on My Watch"

Just one short day after settling the lawsuit that had held up production of the much talked about remake of The Crow, Relativity Media have announced that F. Javier Gutierrez has been brought on board to direct the ...

Read more: Deals and Rumors Report: THE CROW Reboot; LAST EXORCISM Sequel; Zeta-Joins Joins Soderbergh

Aardman Animations, the outfit behind many recent stop-motion "clay-mation" films such as Chicken Run, the Wallace & Gromit series, Flushed Away, and most recently, Arthur Christmas, is coming under fire for a scene from its upcoming animated 3D film...

Read more: Leprosy Groups Demand Lepper Joke Walk the Plank from Upcoming PIRATES Movie

Conventional wisdom holds that the growing world popularity of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing protocol since its inception in 2003, is the main culprit in the slumping U.S. movie box office. And that assumption, bolstered by the incessant harping from the movie studios about their struggle...

Read more: Study: BitTorrent Isn't Killing Hollywood. Something Else is..

If you haven't had a chance to catch The Adventures of Tintin yet (apparently most of you haven't), there's still a bit of time to see the Oscar nominated film as it finishes out its theatrical run in the States. Coming from the pages of Belgian artist ...

Read more: Peter Jackson to Direct ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 2

What could be more frightening to a parent than having to attend a crowded Puss in Boots screening chock full of sugar-fed, over-caffeinated children? Explaining to them that there's not really such a thing as a motorcycle rider whose head explodes into flames and that lady ...

Read more: Young Children Frightened by Horror Trailers in Front of PUSS IN BOOTS Screening

Sick and tired of outrageous movie snack prices? Apparently, so is Joshua Thompson, a Detroit area man who was so incensed at the $8 he had to shell out recently for a box of Goobers and cup of soda, that he decided to let the legal system take up ...

Read more: Man Sues Movie Theater Over High Priced Snacks

Looks like May 3rd is shaping up to be the Marvel Comics doomsday as AMC Theaters is cooking up the Ultimate Marvel Marathon in which the studio will screen six epic Marvel movies back-to-back leading up to the midnight screening of The Avengers 3D. The night won't be cheap though, with tickets ...

Read more: Marvel Geeks to Unite for May 3rd Ultimate Movie Marathon

Just in time to erin go a little braugh, Lionsgate and WWE (yes, that's the wrestling outfit) recently announced a movie production deal to share costs on a pair of movies, one of which is said to be a reboot of the Leprechaun franchise. Though we need ...

Read more: Lionsgate/WWE Deal Turns Up LEPRECHAUN Reboot

It appears Michael Bay has set off yet another explosion, but this time it's not of the incendiary type. Fans of the '80s inspired comic-book-to-TV-to-movie series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became incensed last week when word got out that the braintrust (led by producer Michael Bay) ...

Read more: Deals & Rumors Report: NINJA TURTLES and IRON MAN 3