This is awesome news! Pajiba is reporting that The Daily Show host/political comedian extraordinaire Jon Stewart has bought the “life rights” of Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari to adapt into a feature film, although no writer and director is on-board yet. Didn’t think Stewart was into feature films? Neither did I. Apparently he helps run a [...]

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We’ve only heard a few details about James L. Brooks upcoming film How Do You Know, as it has now been officially titled, as well as brief snippets of information in various casting updates. All we know is that the film focuses on a love triangle between Paul Rudd, a white collar exec and Owen [...]

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We thought we would never hear about this again, because it sounded like it was never going to happen. And we thought the $18.2 million opening of Cop Out wasn’t a good thing. But apparently we were wrong. Kevin Smith has announced, via his Twitter, that his political horror film Red State will start shooting [...]

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A couple of movie bloggers, myself included, are currently in London today and are hosting another meet-up tonight similar to our meet-up late last year. We’ll be meeting at Fitzroy Tavern located at 16A Charlotte Street (Google Maps link) at 19:30 (7:30PM) tonight and will be there for most of the night. I will be [...]

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It looks like it will be two weeks in a row with a less than stellar line-up of new releases on Netflix Instant this week. Don’t worry though because they’re not slowing down adding titles, but it rather looks like they’re gearing up for a huge influx of new titles being added the last week [...]

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I’m sorry for mentioning 300 twice in our headline, but there really is twice the 300 news in this one post! SuperHeroHype spoke with director Zack Snyder last week at ShoWest and got an interesting update out of him about the 300 prequel that we know Frank Miller is writing titled Xerxes and also about [...]

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Casting Tidbits never say die! First up, along with her last appearance in our Tidbits when she picked up a pivotal role in Crazy, Stupid Love, Deadline also reports that Emma Stone has also landed the lead role in The Help, an adaptation of the Kathryn Stockett novel of the same name about African-American [...]

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Late last year, we wrote about former Marvel exec Avi Arad picking up the rights to bring Popeye to the big screen. Although it’s not much of an update, Variety has confirmed that Sony Pictures Animation will be animating and bringing the spinach-eating sailor Popeye to the big screen in an all-CGI animated movie. Mike [...]

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Finally after endless speculation and rumors it looks like the search is over as Heat Vision has followed up their initial scoop and confirmed with several sources that Chris Evans is officially The First Avenger: Captain America. Apparently the deal moved super fast over the weekend and the trade blog says now it’s “all about [...]

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Plenty of young adult novels make their way to the big screen attempting to duplicate the success of Harry Potter, but none have come to close to resembling the caliber of that series, let alone having such a mature level of subject matter. However, that may change as THR reports Angryfilms has optioned Little Brother, [...]

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