Right now you can see Russell Crowe in action as Jor-El, father of the last son of Krypton in Man of Steel, but soon enough the Australian actor will take post behind the camera. Deadline has word that Crowe is currently in talks to make his directorial debut with The Water Diviner, a period drama scripted by Australian television writing duo Andrew Knight and Andrew Anastasios. The story follows an Australian patriarch who journeys to Turkey in order to find his two sons who went missing aft the battle of Gallipoli in 1919. However, Crowe will not stay behind the camera as he is also looking to star in the drama. Read on! ›››

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Back in March, director Robert Rodriguez announced a cool short film project called Two Scoops starring Electra Avellan and Elise Avellan, the sultry twin actresses from Machete and Grindhouse, as "ice cream scoopers by day, danger seekers by night." What made this project truly cool was Rodriguez asked fans to shoot footage of themselves with a chance to collaborate with Rodriguez and finish the film. At the time, there was plenty in the teaser for the film that needed to be finished, including the creation of the monster. Now the film is finished, and you can see what Rodriguez and his fans came up with below. Watch! ›››

Continue reading Watch: Robert Rodriguez's Fan-Completed Action Short 'Two Scoops'

The Hunger Games director Gary Ross and Hanna director Joe Wright have flirted with Houdini, a film based on the popular book The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero, but neither came through to finalize a deal. Now Deadline reports a new director has stepped up to the plate with Galaxy Quest and RED 2 director Dean Parisot now in talks to take over the project which Summit Entertainment has been developing for years. Rather that simply focusing on Harry Houdini, the legendary master illusionist, and his career as a magician, the film dives into the secret life of the renaissance man. ›››

Continue reading 'Galaxy Quest' and 'RED 2' Director Might Get Magical with 'Houdini'

At least we have a name! Some will remember we've been covering news on a sci-fi project that visual effects legend Douglas Trumbull is developing - a "big space adventure movie." Our last update was in February 2012, but an article in THR (found via The Film Stage) picks up again with Trumbull covering details on a project titled UFOTOG. It's just an acronym of UFO and photographer, which is also what it's about. Even though this experiment runs only 10 minutes long, it was indeed shot in 4K 3D and at 120FPS (aka HFR) on Canon C500 cameras meaning it will look incredible, but is there anything to it? Or is it all just a tease? ›››

Continue reading Doug Trumbull Begins Divulging Odd Details About 'UFOTOG' Sci-Fi

Tomorrow a brand new trailer for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues will arrive, and this one should actually have footage from the movie as opposed to the hilarious teasers featuring Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner talking to the audience. But in the meantime, Paramount Pictures has decided to keep the hype going with the first teaser poster for the film. The film doesn't even need the entire face of Ferrell to sell the film. Hell, it doesn't even need the film's title. All we get is Ron Burgundy's signature mustache, and the familiar quote turned tagline "It's kind of a big deal." We can't wait! ›››

Continue reading Poster for 'Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues' is Kind of a Big Deal

Finally some major progress on the long-awaited Logan's Run remake. Warner Bros has been developing a reboot of the sci-fi classic Logan's Run, based on the 1967 novel turned into a 1976 movie. It initially had Nicolas Winding Refn attached for years, but he's no longer on-board and seemed pessimistic when I asked him about it in my interview. Deadline is reporting they've lined up a big name from the video game world to write a new script for the sci-fi remake - Ken Levine, the creative director and co-founder of Irrational Games, behind the incredible BioShock series. Levine was named one of the "Storytellers of the Decade" by Game Informer. His career began as a screenwriter and playwright and he's venturing back for this project. ›››

Continue reading Bioshock Creator Ken Levine Writing the Latest 'Logan's Run' Script

Sad news for fans eagerly awaiting another sequel in the Jurassic Park franchise arrived at the beginning of the summer when Universal Pictures announced: "In coordination with filmmakers, [we've] decided to release Jurassic Park 4 at a later date giving the studio and filmmakers adequate time to bring audiences the best possible version of the fourth installment in Universal's beloved franchise." We were left wondering just when the film might arrive, and now we have a window for release. ComingSoon is attending the 2013 Licensing Expo in Las Vegas where they spotted a big Jurassic Park banner touting "2015" for the release. ›››

Continue reading Universal Plots 'Jurassic Park 4' for 2015 Release + Shooting in 3D

We've already seen a couple of trailers from across the pond for the British romantic comedy I Give It a Year, the directorial debut of Brüno and Borat writer Dan Mazer, which he also wrote himself. Now the film is poised to debut in the United States later this summer, and a new trailer has arrived. Rose Byrne (Bridesmaids) and Rafe Spall (Prometheus) play an unlikely couple who are inexplicably happy, embarking on a new chapter of their life by getting married. But their friends and family don't think it will last, and their exes, played by Anna Faris and Simon Baker, might make their predictions come true. ›››

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Open your heart. Find your voice. If you're looking for something on the lighter side, stop by and check this out. The Weinstein Co recently debuted a trailer for a film called Unfinished Song, written & directed by Paul Andrew Williams. The British charmer stars Gemma Arterton (Prince of Persia, Byzantium, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) as the director of a local singing group who befriends a grumpy old man, played by Terence Stamp. The cast includes Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Eccleston, Anne Reid. This looks to be another uplifting charmer in the vein of Quartet. Can Tamina tame cranky Zod through singing? ›››

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Unsurprisingly, Man of Steel, the superhero franchise reboot from producer Christopher Nolan and director Zack Snyder, took the box office by storm this past weekend opening with just over $201 million worldwide. And now there's rampant discussion about the film from a subtle set up for Justice League to the developing sequel bringing back Snyder and writer David S. Goyer. But even more prominent than either of those possibilities is what actually happens on the big screen at the end of Man of Steel. If you haven't seen the film yet, then you definitely won't want to read on, because what follows is discussion of spoilers. ›››

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Back in the fall of 2011, director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (Intruders, 28 Weeks Later) was hired to direct Summit Entertainment's film reboot of the fan favorite franchise Highlander. Since then, Ryan Reynolds became attached to lead the film, but late last year Fresnadillo fell away from the project, and now The Wrap reports the film is without a leading man as well. The Green Lantern star has reportedly backed out of the production as well, leaving producers Neal Moritz and Peter Davis to start all over. Reynolds' departure comes after Summit wasn't able to find a replacement for Fresnadillo quickly enough. ›››

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What an oddly amusing first look. Disney has unveiled the very first teaser trailer for their new animated musical Frozen, starring the voice of Kristen Bell as Anna in a "Snow Queen"-inspired story. However, instead of actually showing footage, the teaser takes a cue from Ice Age and is just a comical short featuring a goofy snowman and a reindeer hungry for a carrot. At the least, it seems like that might be (the lead guy) Kristoff's reindeer, but they don't show any other main characters or even give us a sound of the voices or music. That said, this may work well marketed to families but I still wish it had some real footage. Have fun! ›››

Continue reading Watch: Fun Teaser Trailer for Disney's New Animated Movie 'Frozen'

Briefly: Surprise, surprise - the Sin City sequel has been delayed yet again. Shooting just started earlier this year, initially making us question whether they'd be able to make the original October 2013 release date they had set a few years back. Now word from ERCBoxoffice on Twitter is that Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is being pushed back all the way to summer 2014. The new release date: August 22nd, 2014, or late summer right after Comic-Con 2014. Rodriguez does have a cast lined up: Josh Brolin, Eva Green, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jaime King, Jamie Chung and most from the first. I really do hope this is finished eventually and it doesn't get stuck midway through, but now we have over a year to find out. ›››

Continue reading Rodriguez's 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For' Delayed Until Summer 2014

It's been just over a year since Prometheus hit the big screen last year, and the divisive Alien prequel from director Ridley Scott has a sequel that is finally making some progress. The Wrap reports that 20th Century Fox has just hired Jack Paglen to write Prometheus 2, though no details about where he will take the story are revealed. If Paglen's name doesn't sound familiar, that's because he's a relatively new writer on the scene. But you'll become familiar with his work soon enough since he wrote Transcendence, the sci-fi film starring Johnny Depp that will mark the directorial debut of cinematographer Wally Pfister. ›››

Continue reading 'Transcendence' Writer Hired to Script 'Prometheus' Sequel at Fox

Normally TV productions are outside of our wheelhouse, but when Steven Spielberg and his Amblin Entertainment banner round up some A-list talent to bring to life letters from around the world sent to Jackie Kennedy in the wake of the assassination of her husband and President of the United States of America, John F. Kennedy, we're inclined to pay attention. Letters to Jackie is a new TV documentary based on Ellen Fitzpatrick's book of the same name which looks at more than 800,000 letters, read by Jessica Chastain, Channing Tatum, Frances McDormand, Zooey Deschanel, Anne Hathaway and more. Now a trailer for the TV doc airing on TLC this fall has arrived, and it's really very touching. ›››

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This summer, Idris Elba sees summer blockbuster action in Pacific Rim, and he just landed a role alongside Javier Bardem and Sean Penn in The Gunman. But later this fall, Elba might be entering awards consideration territory with Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. The film from Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) has been in the works ever since Mandela himself granted the rights to his life story to producer Anant Singh fifteen years ago. The movie follows Mandela's life from his childhood in a small village all the way up to his inauguration as President of the South Africa, and now the teaser poster is here. ›››

Continue reading Idris Elba Makes Trouble on 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom' Poster

Back in the spring, we learned that Scarlett Johansson was going to kick some ass outside of the Marvel universe again with The Fifth Element and The Professional director Luc Besson for his latest action thriller Lucy. The film follows Johansson as the title character who is forced to become a drug mule. But rather than just carrying the drug, it enters her system and turns her into a lethal vixen who can absorb knowledge with ease, move things with her mind, see into the future, and doesn't feel any pain at all. Now The Wrap has learned Morgan Freeman is in talks to take a pivotal role in the action thriller. Read on! ›››

Continue reading Morgan Freeman Joining Scarlett Johansson in Luc Besson's 'Lucy'

Independence Day is just around the corner for Americans, and the holiday weekend preceding or following it usually turns out to be one of the biggest of the summer. This season it will be the western adventure The Lone Ranger fighting for #1 with Universal and Illumination Entertainment's animated sequel Despicable Me 2. The little yellow minions are a hit with the little tykes, and families have really taken to Steve Carell's loveable super villain Gru and his adopted daughters. Now Carell takes the spotlight in a new featurette for the film where he breaks down the film's plot. We also catch a glimpse of Eduardo (voiced by Benjamin Bratt at the last minute), the new super-criminal causing problems for The Anti-Villain League. ›››

Continue reading Steve Carell Sets Up the Plot of 'Despicable Me 2' in New Featurette

Last week we wrote about the Dolby Atmos next generation sound system being installed in theaters around the country, meaning theatrical experience is improving yet again. At the moment we're still waiting for laser projection to develop enough to be installed on a mass scale. One company we're watching is IMAX, who has been in development on a laser projector system for a while (we wrote about a Kodak partnership in 2011) but hasn't announced anything publicly just yet. Lasers to project films? Yes indeed. In an "in-depth" interview with TechRadar, IMAX CTO Brian Bonnick discusses why lasers will be the future of cinemas. ›››

Continue reading IMAX Continues to Hype Laser Projection as Future of Movie Theaters

Just after hearing a rumor about the villain plans for The Amazing Spider-Man 3, Sony Pictures has just announced the release dates for the third film in the wallcrawler's franchise reboot, and also the release date for The Amazing Spider-Man 4. It was originally though that this new series was planned for a trilogy initially, but maybe those plans have changed. Director Marc Webb is currently shooting The Amazing Spider-Man 2 with Andrew Garfield for a May 2nd, 2014 release to kick off next summer, but as of now we're not sure if Sony will bring him back for these sequels, or if the director will even want to return. ›››

Continue reading Sony Dates Two 'Amazing Spider-Man' Sequels for 2016 and 2018