Don’t Expect To See A Talky Superhero Movie From Jay And Mark Duplass We shouldn’t expect to see a superhero movie fromJayandMark Duplass. The writers and directors ofCyrus,The Puffy Chair, andJeff, Who Lives at Homehave no interest in making “products,” as they put it. After the jump, learn why we won’t see a Jay and Mark Duplass superhero movie. The directors are at home making small-budget movies they have complete control over....

Dwayne Johnson Set To Play Country Legend Charley Pride Dwayne Johnsonis not the name that immediately springs to mind when I think about pending biopics of country music legends. The Rock has been an action icon and a fill-in for family comedy, but for an earnest portrayal of a singer, I’d probably go elsewhere. So the news that he is planning to playCharley Prideis…unexpected. But this particular case isn’t so strange, because Charley Pride, was an athlete early in his career was a baseball player, and had a strong physical presence, if one that is a lot more restrained than The Rock’s....

Editors Blog: Blame The iPhone! It was Friday afternoon, and I was half way through my Ratatouille review when I started to look at my rss feeds. Not the movie news items, but my tech feeds. For those of you who were stuck in a hole, Friday was iPhone day. What you are about to read is a long explanation of lack of news posts on /Film in the last 48 hours, and a mini review of Apple’s new iPhone....

First Look: AstroBoy Imagi Animation Studios, the guys responsible for the recent computer animated TMNT film, are making a big screen computer animated adaptation of AstroBoy and Gatchaman. I know, I know – this is not anything new, but today the folks at Imagi have released a cool high resolution still from the upcoming AstroBoy movie. Our friends atFirstShowinggot their hands on the still, seen above. It originated as a manga in 1951 by Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka, who is often reputed as the “god of manga” The manga spawned an anime television show which was first broadcast in Japan from 1963 to 1966....

Garth Jennings Updates On His Two Current Movie Projects There’s more strings toGarth Jennings' bow than to a life sized Harp lager logo. Along with producer Nick Goldsmith and (sometimes) editor Dom Leung, Jennings is one part ofHammer and Tongs, creators of world-beating music videos and commercials; he’s part of Squid Vicar, a Tongs offshoot musical… thing that has played a fair sized handful of gigs and released an album of telephone hold music; he’s the best presenter thatThe Adam and Joe Showon 6 Music doesn’t always have; he directedThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GalaxyandSon of Rambow; and he’s particularly good at telling Mark Kermode to “F*** off” on TV....

Guillermo Del Toro To Direct Champions, 3993 Update Guillermo del Toro(Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth) has signed on to write, direct and produceChampionsfor United Artists. The sci-fi action film will be based on 1968-69 British television seriesThe Champions, which starred Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, and William Gaunt as a trio of agents for a Geneva-based United Nations law enforcement organization called “Nemesis”. During a mission, their plane crashed in the Himalayas and they were rescued by an advanced civilization who saved their lives and gave them superhuman powers....

Halo Episode 4 Takes Master Chief On A Trip Down Memory Lane When “Combat Evolved” first arrived on the scene over two decades ago, very few gamers (if any) found themselves overly concerned about potentially murky backstories involving, uh, child kidnapping or state-sanctioned reprogramming in the super-soldiers creation. All we needed to know was that the Master Chief owned a kick-ass suit of armor, he was apparently the last of his kind, and had the fate of humanity resting on his shoulders....

Here Is The Poster For Stephen Tobolowsky Concert Film ‘The Primary Instinct’ “Making a Movie” is a series of columns that chronicles our attempt tomake, market, and distribute a film with Stephen Tobolowsky. First things first: The World Premiere ofThe Primary Instinctwill happen in late May. But in the meantime, starStephen Tobolowskyand I will be at theIndependent Film Festival of Bostonfor a one-off Special Screening this Sunday, April 26th, at 7:30 PM....

Is ‘The Room’ Director Tommy Wiseau Making A Big Shark Movie Called ‘Big Shark’? Hey, what do you thinkTommy Wiseauhas been up to? If you guessed “Making a shark movie,” you are correct. The auteur behindThe Roomhas revealed a look at his new movie, which is called, appropriately enough,Big Shark. The film is set in New Orleans, and focuses on three firefighters trying to save the world…from a big shark....

Jordan Peele Could Host The New ‘Twilight Zone’ Reboot Submitted for your approval: aTwilight Zoneremake not only produced byJordan Peele, but also featuring him as on-screen host. The originalTwilight Zonekicked off each episode with creator Rod Serling stepping before the camera to introduce the story we were about to watch. As Peele works on his new take onThe Twilight Zone, he hasn’t ruled out the option of following Serling’s lead....

Kevin Smith Explains Why Studios Are Afraid Of Red State Kevin Smithappeared on theCinemablendpodcast and listed off some of the reasons that studios might be afraid to greenlight his next film,Red State: The Movie is ““decidedly non-commercial, it’s really fuckin bleak and dark, so bleak that it makes The Dark Knight look like Strawberry Shortcake.” “There’s no character to root for.” … “It’s a series of insane, bad choices based on moral or immoral quandaries....

Liam Neeson Doesn’t Think Very Highly Of His Schindler’s List Performance Some would say “Schindler’s List” is Liam Neeson’s best movie. It’s not a knock against any of Neeson’s other movies; it’s just to say that “Schindler’s List” isone of the 20th century’s greatest films,and it’s rather hard to top that. On the American Film Institute’s list of the100 greatest American movies of all time, only seven titles ranked ahead of “Schindler’s List....

Luca Guadagnino To Adapt Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood On The Tracks’ Album Into A Movie Luca Guadagninois about to giveBob Dylananother turn on the big screen. Hot off the heels of his acclaimed dramaCall Me By Your Nameand the divisive horror remakeSuspiria, the filmmaker is taking on another unique project: an adaptation ofDylan’s 1975 albumBlood on The Tracks. According to aNew Yorkerprofile about Guadagnino ahead of the release ofSuspiria, Guadagino andThe Fisher KingwriterRichard LaGraveneseare currently developing a feature film based onBlood on the Tracks....