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Casting Notes: Coogan For My Idiot Brother

Here's the latest casting new coming out of Hollywood. The Paul Rudd indie comedy My Idiot Brother is taking on an increasingly British dimension, as only last week Hugh...

Lee Pace Joining Twilight: Breaking Dawn?

Although Summit Entertainment, the company behind the Twilight films, is keeping schtum, EW reports that Pushing Daisies actor Lee Pace is in final negotiations to join Breaking Dawn, the two-part finale...

Zach Galifianakis Hits Reply All

It's easy to understand why an actor like Zach Galifianakis would jump on every cool sounding project following his breakout with The Hangover, but if he keeps signing up for films at this rate, we'll all end up with severe...

Guillermo Del Toro To Direct The Mountain Of Madness

Guillermo Del Toro said at Comic-Con that he'd be announcing his next directing project soon, but few expected news of it to come so soon after the San Diego event...

Streep & Fey Up For Mommy & Me

For a while now, there have been rumours floating around that Tina Fey and Meryl Streep were keen to do a comedy together called Mommy & Me, with Stanley Tucci directing. Well, not only have those rumours...

Cillian Murphy To Star In Retreat

Back in February it was revealed that David Tennant and Thandie Newton were due to star in the thriller Retreat, and at the time it seemed Jason Isaacs was set to join them. However Deadline now reports that Isaacs...

A Contract With God To Get Adaptation

Often described as the first graphic novel (technically it wasn't, but it was one that helped spur interest in the idea), Will Eisner's A Contract With God, first published in 1978, is seen as a bit of a seminal work...

The Spider-man Movie That Could Have Been...

While the role of the new Peter Parker/Spider-man eventually went to Andrew Garfield, it seems short-listed actor Josh Hutcherson was so keen on bagging the part that he even went to a gym with a few other guys...

First Look At Penelope Cruz In Pirates 4

Hollywood productions tend to like to keep filming as quiet as possible, not letting anyone on the set who might take unofficial photos that'll go online. However if you're filming on the beaches of Hawaii, it's...

Steve Carell Gets Raised By Wolfs

It's official, after much speculation, Steve Carell is leaving The Office. For months the rumour mill has been working, suggesting he was getting slightly frustrated that while he was having film success, The Office...

Michael Bay Plans An Alien Invasion

Despite the number of alien invasion movies we've had over the years, little green men have still failed to arrive on Earth and take over, but that's not going to stop Hollywood suggesting they might. Now THR reports...

Twilight's Edi Gathegi Joins X-Men: First Class

Edi Gathergi may not be a household name, but he'll be recognisable to Twilight fans as Laurent, the vampire who travelled with the evil Victoria and James, but who later attempted to be less unpleasant...

Tom Hardy Steps Into this Means War!

Ever since his star shot into the stratosphere, Sam Worthington has attached himself to so many movies, it was inevitable some would have to fall by the wayside. One of those is This Means War, the long-gestating...

Brett Ratner Looks Into The Unknowns

Variety is reporting that Brett Ratner's production company, Rat Entertainment, has picked up the feature rights to the comic series, The Unknowns. However, don't worry, this doesn't mean Ratner is going to direct...

First Yogi Bear Poster Unveiled

Now that Comic-Con is over, we can get back to some genuinely exciting news, such as the first poster for the live-action/CG hybrid Yogi Bear movie being unveiled! The film went before the cameras several...

Sam Worthington Is A Man On A Ledge!

I still don't quite understand how Sam Worthington can have gone from being unknown, to landing the lead roles in three of the biggest movies of the last year, seemingly with no intermediate stage. Normally you get...

Zac Efron Is The Lucky One

Every time a new film comes along that Zac Efron is attached to star in, I say it looks like a deliberate attempt to break away from his teen heart-throb image and show he's now a...

Joseph Kosinski Prepares For Oblivion

Long before Joseph Kosinski became a hugely hot propert in Hollywood because of Tron Legacy (which doesn't arrive in cinemas until December, but already looks like it could be one of the biggest hits of the year)...

Daniel Craig Signs On For Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Back at the beginning of last month, rumours surfaced that Daniel Craig was in talks to play Mikael Blomkvist in the US version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which...

Rihanna Plans To Sink Battleship

Every pop star's got to do it at least once, and now it seems it's the turn of Rihanna to have a go at trying to make the transition from music to film. And she's not just dipping her toe in either, as she's scored a...

First Trailer And New Poster For Sucker Punch

Just take a long, hard look at the branks new Sucker Punch poster above that Warner has released. Go on, just look at it and tell me it doesn't seem as if Zach Snyder's film will be utterly bizarre. While the character banners...

Green Lantern Character Posters Debut

The mopping up operation from Comic-Con is still ongoing, with studios attempting to ride the buzz for a little longer, and see if they can do anything extra to ensure their film is the one people remember...

UK Film Council Set To Be Scrapped

The Department Of Culture Media and Sports has announced today that UK Film Council is to be scrapped. The organisation was aware its head might have been on the chopping block, as even before the new...

The Gathering Plans The Ultimate Horror Line-Up

The people behind The Gathering seem to ben planning a horror fan's dream by gathering together an impressive bunch of splatter flick luminaries for a portmanteau flick...

First Red State Casting News

It's taken a long time for Kevin Smith to get the film Red State to the point where it's actually going to be shot. He wrote the script in 2007, but couldn't find anyone who wanted to fund it. The reason is because it's...

First Look At The US Godzilla Reboot

While most of the reports coming out of Comic-Con over the weekend were about the various panels, now the event has drawn to a close, news has emerged about some of the interesting things going on on...

Loki Or Thanos To Be The Avengers Villain(s)?

Although over the weekend Marvel's official announcements about The Avengers didn't amount to much more than lining the cast up on stage (read more about that here), a couple of other titbits emerged...

Tony Scott And Matt Reeves Top Choices For Wolverine 2

Although it's only a rumour at the moment, The Playlist is reporting that a very reliable source has revealed to them that Fox has narrowed down its choices for the man...

Del Toro's Pinocchio To Have A Nick Cave Soundtrack

Now that he's no longer directing the Hobbit, Guillermo Del Toro is busy looking into all sorts of possibilities for new films, as well as those he'd put on the back burner while...

Inception Tops The US Box Office Again

Normally the question isn't which film will top the box office each weekend, but exactly how much they'll make. However this weekend was slightly different as most analysts felt that both Inception and the new...

First Official Cowboys & Aliens Pic

While much of the excitement at Comic-Con on Saturday was reserved for the Marvel panel, which had the first footage from Thor and Captain America, as well as the Avengers cast lining up, there were...

Avengers Cast Confirmed

As expected, Marvel did the big Avengers reveal at their Comic-Con panel, lining all the main actors up on stage for the world to see. The big news was that, as rumoured, Mark Ruffalo will be taking over...

Warner Bros. Officially Signs On For Dan Dare

Several months ago a rumour floated onto the internet that Sam Worthington was going to play Dan Dare: Pilot Of The Future in a film adaptation of the classic British comic books. At the time it wasn't...

It's Kind Of A Funny Story Gets World's Most Generic Poster

I'd like you to do something for me. Take a look at the first poster for the Zach Galifianakis film It's King Of A Funny Story below, which has debuted over...

Sucker Punch Posters Reveal The Ladies

Zach Snyder's Sucker Punch is definitely an intriguing proposition. Described as 'Alice In Wonderland' with guns, the film sees Emily Browning's Baby Doll confined to a mental institution, and from there retreating...

Let Me In Comic-Con Poster Debuts

While there was a lot of huffing anf puffing from fans of the Scandinavian teen vampire thriller Let The Right One In, when it was announced there was going to be an English-language remake, the companies behind...

First Look At Skyline

They seem to be doing things in a rather strange way for Skyline, as usually from the moment a big sci-fi film is announced, studios are busy trying to get people to talk about it and anticipate it like it was the Second...

First Pics From Battle: Los Angeles

While the title has always struck me as a bit naff, the concept behind Battle: Los Angeles is definitely intriguing - a real time alien invasion movie, in which the full force of the US miltary is brought to bear against...

Joss Whedon Makes His Avengers Gig Official

Believe it or not, but while it's been a several months since it became clear and generaly accepted that Joss Whedon was the man who had been hired to direct the Avengers, neither he nor Marvel have actually...

New Tron: Legacy Image and Trailer

Comic-Con officially opened yesterday and one of the biggest events of the day was the Tron: Legacy panel, and to help up the hype, Disney also released a new image (which you can see above) and a new...

Guilermo Del Toro Taking On Disney's Haunted Mansion

While reboots and remakes are definitely getting made a lot closer to the original that they used to be, it's only seven years since Disney tried and failed to turn their...

First Images From Black Swan

There's been a lot of interest in Black Swan, largely because it's the first from from the always intriguing Darren Aronofsky since The Wrestler. Now USA Today has premiered the first images from the film, as well...

First Look At Drive Angry

Ahead of its Comic-Con panel on Friday, the makers of the Nic Cage film Drive Angry have released the first images from the film, in the hopes of getting some excitement going around the movie. It's probably not...

Comic-Con Lines Up The Poster Previews

Yesterday was arrivals day at the San Diego Comic-Con, which largely means a lot of people running around the exhibition halls, looking for previously unseen artwork and cool things they can take photos...

Halle Berry To Star In Shoe Addicts Anonymous

Things have been fairly quiet on the Halle Berry front in the last couple of years, almost as if having a young daughter to raise is an excuse not to make an endless string of movies. However she's now lined herself up...

David Gordon Green Takes On The Barefoot Bandit

The tale of the just-caught Barefoot Bandit has captured the attention of many in America, and now it's set to be made into a movie, which 20th Century Fox is currently developing...

Brad Pitt To Star In World War Z

Although not exactly a big surprise, seeing as his Plan B productions has been developing the film adaptation of Max Brook's xombie pandemic novel World War Z, but Bleeding Cool and MTV have the scoop that...

Kark Urban To Play The New Judge Dredd?

For quite a long time now there have been rumours about a new Judge Dredd movie, which were confirmed earlier this year with the news that 28 Days Later... scribe Alex Garland is on scripting duties, Pete Travis...

Hugh Dancy Joins My Idiot Brother

Last month we reported that Paul Rudd was set to play the lead in the indie comedy My Idiot Brother, with Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer as his sisters. Well now the film has added a few more...

More Evidence Of The Riddler In Batman 3

In the last couple of months there's been a lot of reports and a speculation that The Riddler would be the villain (or at least one of the villains) in the third Batman movie, and more recently rumours emerged...