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Pixar’s next will be based around Dia de los Muertos, Toy Story 3’s Lee Unkrich attached to direct

Posted 14 years ago

During Disney’s CinemaCon presentation today, Pixar’s Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter announced the studio’s next big feature project: a film based around the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos (a.k.a. Day of the Dead). According to Lasseter, TOY STORY 3...

The Dark Knight Rises will feature over an hour of IMAX footage, plus new trailer in front of The Avengers!

Posted 14 years ago

While THE AVENGERS is the current talk of the town as its release fast approaches and press have finally had a chance to see it (and the word is that it’s great), Christopher Nolan’s THE DARK KNIGHT RISES appears to...

Christopher Nolan talks film vs. digital, his take on CGI, his disinterest in 3D, and much more in insightful DGA interview

Posted 14 years ago

Many judge Christopher Nolan (THE DARK KNIGHT RISES) to be one of the more intelligent filmmakers working in the business today. It’s not hard to see why, as there’s always been clarity of intent, vision, and ideas in every one...

Woody Harrelson in talks to play the villain opposite Christian Bale in Out of the Furnace

Posted 14 years ago

CRAZY HEART director Scott Cooper’s crime drama OUT OF THE FURNACE has been assembling itself a pretty interesting cast thus far, with names like Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, and Sam Shepard already confirmed for the project. Now we...

Tom Hanks in talks to play Walt Disney in a film called Saving Mr. Banks

Posted 14 years ago

After much shuckin’ and jivin’ about the possibility of Ryan Gosling playing Walt Disney, it turns out he’ll actually be played by Tom Hanks! The film, called SAVING MR. BANKS, however, is not a biopic on the iconic man, but...

Amy Ryan, Vincent D’Onofrio, Vinnie Jones and 50 Cent join Schwarzenegger and Stallone in The Tomb

Posted 14 years ago

The cast for the Stallone/Schwarzenegger prison break action film THE TOMB continues to round out somewhat impressively. In February, we learned that Jim Caviezel (THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST) would be playing the film’s main baddie, that of a warden....

Taylor Lautner to flex acting muscles opposite Adam Sandler in Grown Ups 2

Posted 14 years ago

With the TWILIGHT series finally coming to a close this year (that is, of course, not counting its fan fiction which actually got optioned by Universal… idiots), all eyes are on Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner to see...

First look at a beefy Mark Wahlberg on the set of Michael Bay’s Pain and Gain

Posted 14 years ago

PAIN AND GAIN is a meathead comedy, so it’s only right that Mark Wahlberg look the part (and yet will likely still be completely dwarfed by co-star Dwayne Johnson)! Coming Soon has picked up on some new photos taken from...

New trailer for Rock of Ages is big and flamboyant

Posted 14 years ago

So, basically, ROCK OF AGES is what happens when a bunch of millionaires get together to make a giant karaoke movie. And judging from this brand new trailer for the Adam Shankman-directed film, it quite literally looks like big, flashy...

Ted is a naughty little bear in this red-band trailer for Seth MacFarlane’s latest

Posted 14 years ago

With “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane’s feature film debut TED inching closer and closer to release, a brand new red-band trailer for the comedy starring a swearing, pot-smoking teddy bear confirms what most of us probably already suspected: it’s basically...

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