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A few weeks ago we decided to read a Whodunnit for June. In a short, intense bit of voting, all y’all picked the Umberto Eco classic, The Name of the Rose. It may not be a traditional mystery, nor quite fit the profile of light, summer reading, but then,…

  Looper is one loopy movie. JGL and Bruce Willis playing the same character and time travel and all sorts of mayhem that comes in between. Time travel never works out as intended, just as Bruce Willis who’s done this before in 12 monkeys….

Marvel fans have already had a pretty damn good summer with the release of The Avengers in theaters and Avengers vs. X-Men in comic book shops. Now they have some more awesome stuff to covet. Reebok has teamed with the comic book publisher to release…

Before making the movie that became Killing Them Softly, The Assassination of Jesse James director Andrew Dominik was developing a biopic of Marilyn Monroe. Actually, Blonde is not quite a biopic — it is an account of the screen icon’s life,…

The Hunger Games launched Jennifer Lawrence into a whole new level career-wise, and she’s got no shortage of promising new projects due out over the next couple of years. She’s already finished shooting David O. Russell’s The Silver…

At this point there isn’t much of a science to selling Steven Soderbergh‘s new film Magic Mike. It has a bunch of good-looking guys, led by Channing Tatum, taking their clothes off in a story that is thinly based on Tatum’s own experiences…

Briefly: Guy Ritchie and Warner Bros. have done well together with the Sherlock Holmes films, and the studio has now set the director to tackle Treasure Island. Lionel Wigram, the producer who set up Sherlock, has been developing Treasure Island for some…

So much to get to today. After the jump read about: Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse are all very close to signing for Kick Ass 2. Never fear, Christina Applegate will return as Veronica Corningstone in Anchorman: The Legend Continues….

Having established himself as an in-demand actor, writer, and producer, Seth Rogen is now moving into directing. Or co-directing, to be more exact, with frequent collaborator Evan Goldberg. The pair recently began shooting their first directorial effort…

Audiences might not know where we go from here but there’s one undeniable truth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Phase One is complete. Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger lead to The Avengers….

Last week, DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio made headlines when he revealed that a character previously established as straight would be coming out as gay in the rebooted New 52 universe. Comic book fans immediately began speculating as to the identity…

Deep below the surface of Coruscant, a lethal bounty hunter hunts down targets while exploring a whole new side to the Star Wars universe. LucasFilm has just revealed, as expected, they’re developing a new game called Star Wars 1313, a third person,…

Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage It’s been 100 years since the Titanic sank but less than a year since a TV event that kicked off with that very disaster, Downton Abbey, took the Emmy Awards by storm last September. Relatively…

FRIDAY 9 PM, 3RD UPDATE: My sources now say Universal’s PG-13 Snow White And The Huntsman (3,773 theaters) will climb to $21M for today and $55+M for this domestic weekend. That result is better than expected for the 2D original fantasy actioner…

This trailer for Branded looks more than a little creepy with echoes of David Cronenberg, John Carpenter and even David Fincher. The premise? Mind control and global domination via advertising with subliminal messages that trigger irresistible appetites…

UPDATED 7PM: The California Film Commission completed its production tax credits lottery this afternoon and of 322 projects submitted today, 28 were selected to receive credits before this year’s $100 million total allocation runs out. Other qualified…

Exactly two years after Lost bowed out with one of the most talked-about finales in TV history, the series’ co-creator/co-showrunner Damon Lindelof is returning to the TV island after treading feature waters for the past two years. Lindelof is finalizing…

Saturday Night Live star Andy Samberg today ended months of speculations that he would be leaving the veteran NBC sketch comedy show. He confirmed his exit through his publicist. Samberg, Kristen Wiig and Jason Sudeikis are the three SNL cast members…

Emmy voters received official ballots in the mail today with instructions that they must be returned by 5 PM on June 28. However, voting can’t actually take place until ballot listings are posted at a secure Emmy address online after 6 PM Monday,…

EXCLUSIVE: Ray Lewis of the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens has signed with WME. The Super Bowl XXXV MVP will be repped by the agency for all off-field opportunities including public appearances, speaking engagements, TV, film and books. Lewis will continue…

The idea is starting to catch on, and is sure to be front and center next week in New York at BookExpo America, the largest book industry event in North America. The thinking is that it’s relatively easy for studios to turn publishing into a useful…

We Came From Them. They Will Come For Us. The epic tagline to end it all. Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is already playing in the UK and most of Europe, but will finally arrive in US theaters next weekend, on June 8th. It will be playing at midnight in IMAX…

There’s only so much you can do with the Piranha franchise. It wasn’t exactly rocket science to begin with, but 2009’s Piranha 3D still ended up a scuzzy but entertaining gorefest. It wasn’t so awful you couldn’t have a good time with it, and additions…

Late last year a promo trailer surfaced for the new comedy from Broken Lizard called Babymakers from troupe member and director Jay Chandrasekhar, but the video was quickly taken down. Now the official trailer has arrived with Olivia Munn (“Perfect Couples”)and…

If you’re a producer and your first five films are E.T., Poltergeist, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Gremlins, chances are pretty good you’re going to have a solid career. As Steven Spielberg’s producing partner, Kathleen…

After having so much success bringing the iconic detective Sherlock Holmes back to the big screen with Robert Downey Jr., Warner Bros is keen on having director Guy Ritchie bring some more classic literature to the big screen. Deadline reports Ritchie…

The first trailer for the new horror film The House at the End of the Street didn’t do much to impress horror fans, and honestly the new trailer doesn’t really bring anything new to the table to change that. Jennifer Lawrence, with plenty more star power…

Do you think you have what it takes to inspire Quentin Tarantino? The Weinstein Co. has partnered with Red Bull to launch a new contest around Tarantino’s upcoming spaghetti western Django Unchained. Contestants will have two weeks (starting June 15th)…

The core of the Channel 4 News Team is already confirmed to return for Anchorman: The Legend Continues with Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner all reprising their roles. But what about some of the other supporting cast members? Well,…

Welcome back to another edition of Kickstart This, FirstShowing’s weekly column dedicated to spreading the word about cool indie projects around the web that need your help to become a reality. This week we’ve got three interesting projects we want to…

Face Your Future. Fight Your Past. Excellent tagline. A brand new UK quad poster for Rian Johnson’s sci-fi Looper, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, has arrived via IGN. Unlike the the first US teaser poster, this design doesn’t feature…

The producers of the Lee Childs adaptation, starring Tom Cruise, forgot one rule. Films named after characters usually perform anonymously at the box office So far, Tom Cruise has played his re-entry from the wilderness remarkably well. Tropic Thunder…

Jason Bourne was an athletic modern riposte to the suaveness and gadgetry of Bond. Jeremy Renner as Not-Bourne throws genetically altered chromosomes into the bargain Who’s better, Bond or Bourne? It’s a question that’s been posed ever since Matt Damon…

Reviewers have praised Ridley Scott’s latest venture into Alien territory, though some wonder if it lacks a sense of direction Those who have dared to believe that Ridley Scott is still capable of adding something to the Alien canon can breathe a sigh…

Singin’ In The Rain (1952) Lights! Camera! Action! Silent movie star Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly), working on his first talkie, The Duelling Cavalier. Trouble On Set: Cumbersome sound equipment and the shrieking voice of co-star Lina Lamont (Jean…

Motherly Love The Movie: The Brood (1979) The Moment: Nola welcomes another member to her murderous brood, ripping open her external womb to welcome her latest delivery into the world. Possibly the most upsetting birth scene ever committed to celluloid…

Steven Soderbergh The Breakthrough: Still in his twenties, Soderbergh wins the Palme D’Or in 1989 for his debut sex, lies and videotape, against stiff competition from Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing.  Post-Cannes: Cursed with expectation…

Chestburster The Moment: Poor old Kane recovers from his ordeal with the facehugger by shakily getting to his feet and joining the rest of the crew for a celebratory dinner in the mess hall. All appears to be fine until Kane starts to develop a bit of…

Alien 5 The last thing the Alien franchise needed was another sequel. Or, for that matter, another mandible-crunching clash with a Predator. Still, after 1997’s divisive Alien: Resurrection, rumours of an Alien 5 were more persistent than a Facehugger…

Lars The Nazi The Moment: The press conference for Melancholia goes awry when Lars Von Trier digs himself into a massive hole by claiming he admires Adolf Hitler and jokingly claiming to be a Nazi, to the obvious discomfort of his star Kirsten Dunst….

Superman 3 (1983) A low point for superhero movies and threequels alike, the Man of Steel’s third outing takes a turn for the comic, with laughable results. As soon as the risible opening sequence kicks in, complete with wind-up penguins, you know that…

Final Curtain The Moment: Rushmore comes to a close in spectacular style as Max finally gets to share a dance with Miss Cross, stepping on to the dancefloor in slow motion just before the final curtain falls. The Music: Ooh La La by The Faces, possibly…

Only 28 projects are picked from lottery to get funding. Meanwhile, an effort to extend the program is slowly working its way through the legislature in Sacramento.read more

The week’s biggest stories in the world of fanboy entertainment.read more

Ben Schwartz will co-star with Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake and the Brad Furman-directed drama. read more

The Fox tentpole is rolling out in 15 international markets a week ahead of its U.S. opening on June 8.read more

The “Lost” co-creator and “Prometheus” scribe is close to a three-year pact to create new series for the studio.read more

The latest retelling of the venerable fairy tale attracted $1.38 million at midnight screenings.read more

He and partner Gerald Gardner worked on “Get Smart,” “The Monkees” and “Gilligan’s Island.”read more

Melissa Rauch is joining Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis and Amy Poehler in the romantic dramedy.read more

The AFM decries the Disney-owned studio’s decision to “run to Europe” for post-production scoring.read more

The director of this summer’s “Total Recall” remake will produce the adaptation but is not expected to direct. read more