When I first discovered Twilight, I wrote a post called “Is Twilight the New Harry Potter?”. I was bashed by all kinds of angry Twilight fans, Twilight Moms and even Twilight Dads for trying to compare the two series. But now that Twilight has moved into the release date that was once occupied by Harry [...]

Fox Searchlight has released a couple clips from Clark Gregg’s big screen adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Choke. Sex addict and colonial theme park worker, Victor Mancini, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mom’s hospital bills while she suffers from an Alzheimer’s disease that hides the truth about his childhood. He pretends [...]

Warner Bros has released a new behind the scenes shot for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Director David Yates and crew watch Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore film a scene. Yesterday, Warner President and Chief Operating Officer Alan Horn offered a statement to the many upset fans explaining why the film had been [...]

After Knowing, Alex Proyas will begin adapting Robert Heinlein’s novela The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag. The Dark City director will write and helm the $40 - $50 million psychological thriller for Phoenix Pictures. Heinlein is probably best known to today’s moviegoers as the author of Starship Troopers. Originally published in a 1942 edition of [...]

Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro have announced that writing has begun on The Hobbit and the announced Hobbit sequel. Jackson partner Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens have also been revealed as part of the writing team. Both Walsh and Boyens were part of the creative team behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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A new television spot for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button aired during the Olympics on Sunday night. A crappy version has shown up online and is embedded below.

I’m excited to see this movie, but I’ve been hearing all sorts of troubling things coming out of the post production of the project. Most movie [...]

Summit Entertainment has announced that the anticipated big screen adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s teen vamp novel Twilight will be coming out a month earlier. The film has been moved from December 12th to November 21st, the now vacant release date for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This is a huge score for Twilight, as [...]

Warner Bros has sent us five new high res photos from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which appeared in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly. We have also included four more photos, standard resolution, thanks to our friends at Blogwarts. Check them out after the jump.

/Film reader Jerry K sent us photos from SIGGRAPH of miniatures on display from Henry Selick’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. As always, click to enlarge.

Warner Bros has just announced that they are moving Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from November 21st 2008, back to July 17th 2009. The reasons given are that the summer season is a more ideal window for for a family tent pole release, and that the writers strike left a big gap in [...]

Rumblings of a new Conan movie have been ongoing for two years now, and today Lionsgate announced a fresh pair of screenwriters for its $100 million, R-rated tent pole. Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain will rework the former script. The duo previously wrote Outlander, the vikings-versus-alien movie currently growing moss over at The Weinstein Co. [...]

20th Century Fox has hired Zak Penn to write and produce (along with John Davis) a big screen adaptation of the classic Greek tale of The Argonauts. In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of sailing heroes ,who accompanied by Jason to Colchis in his quest for the Golden Fleece. The story has [...]

ABC is developing a small screen adaptation of John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick. You might remember that George Miller brought the book to the big screen in 1987, with Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer. Warner Bros TV has been trying to bring the franchise to the small screen for almost [...]

Rotten Tomatoes got their hands on a behind the scenes featurette for Henry Selick’s big screen 3D adaptation of Coraline. Based on Neil Gaiman’s short children’s novel of the same name, Coraline is a young bored girl who discovers that bricked-up wall behind a door in her house leads to another dimension, where she [...]

Dimension Films has released new production photos for John Hillcoat’s upcoming adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road in USA Today.

Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen, Academy Award winners Robert Duvall and Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and 12-year-old Kodi Smit McPhee star in the the story of a man (Mortensen) and his young [...]