Jonah Hill To Play A Hollywood Fixer In A Series Created By ‘The Departed’ Writer William Monahan Jonah Hillis heading back to television. After doing a brief cameo in an episode ofCurb Your Enthusiasmlast year, Hill has taken a starring role in an untitled series fromWilliam Monahan, the Oscar-winning screenwriter ofThe Departed. Hill will play real-life Hollywood fixer Sidney Korshak, who had strong ties to the Chicago mob and deep connections in the entertainment industry – including Lew Wasserman, one of the most powerful studio executives in history....

Kathleen Kennedy Explains How She Got J.J. Abrams To Direct ‘Star Wars Episode VII;’ Admits 2015 Release Not Set In Stone Sincelast week’s announcementthatJ.J. Abramswould be directing the hotly anticipated filmStar Wars Episode VII, everyone’s been wondering, “What happened?” After the film was first revealed, Abrams was asked if he’d be interested in helming andhe said “No.“Fast forward a few weeks and now the director ofStar Trekis heading to a galaxy far, far away....

Michael Mann Plans Enzo Ferrari Biopic As Next Film We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Blackhatwas not one ofMichael Mann’s best films. Indeed, by some accounts, it was among his worst. Thankfully, though, it seems he’s as eager as we are to move on to his next project. Mann is preparing to direct a biopic ofEnzo Ferrari, based onBrock Yates' 1991 bookEnzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races....

Michael Mann Wants To Do 3D, Martin Scorsese Praises Blu-Ray (And Why That Praise Is Short-Lived) Two film tech tidbits for you: First up, we’vecaught wordfrom the Italy-based blog screenWEEK thatMichael Mannis apparently very interested in doing a 3D feature at some point. In a recent event with Mann regardingPublic Enemies, someone in the crowd asks him about shooting in 3D. Mann responds: Yes! I’d love to shoot a 3D movie, it’s something that fascinates me!...

Netflix Is Making A CG-Animated ‘Ultraman’ Movie Ultramanis one of the biggest superheroes in Japan, though you’d be hard pressed to find people who know of it outside of the country’s borders, or outside of the tokusatsu/anime community. ButNetflixis looking to change that. Netflix is setting up a CG-animatedUltramanmovie with the help of Industrial Light and Magic, the VFX company founded by George Lucas. And it wants this animatedUltramanmovie to boost the character’s global popularity to the likes of Godzilla or Pokémon....

Nicolas Cage Is Superman In The ‘Teen Titans GO!’ Movie Teen Titans GO! to the Movies, a new animated film featuring everyone’s favorite teen superheroes engaging in some fart jokes, won’t just feature the Teen Titans – adult superheroes will be popping up in the movie as well. And best of all:Nicolas Cagewill play Superman. Cage and two others have joined theTeen Titansmovie cast. Nicolas Cage will finally have a chance to play the Man of Steel....

One-Week Forrest Gump IMAX Release Announced To Celebrate 20th Anniversary Paramount Pictures has announced they will be releasingForrest Gumpin IMAX theaters for a one-week run to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary. The film has been digitally re-mastered for the IMAX format and released domestically starting September 5th 2014. Later in the month, the film will hit home video in a special Diamond Luxe Blu-ray release from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on September 30th....

Other ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Co-Creator Says Michael Bay’s Take Is “Awesome” At the start of this week,Michael Baypissed offTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtleslovers everywhere byrevealingthat the new Turtles film, which he’s producing, will see the central characters reimagined as aliens rather than mutants. Predictably, a firestorm ensued, and even more predictably, Bayrespondedto the the outrage by stating that “fans need to take a breath, and chill.” “Our team is working closely with one of the original creators of Ninja Turtles to help expand and give a more complex back story,” he assured them....

Rumor: Will DJ Caruso Direct ‘Preacher’? [Update:Kevin Smith has corrected some of our history regardingPreacher’sdevelopment. See below for details. Original article follows.] It has been a while since we’ve gotten a solid update on the big screen adaptation of the beloved Vertigo comic book seriesPreacher. A couple years back, Columbia Pictures picked up the rights andhiredAmerican Beauty/Road to PerditiondirectorSam Mendesto helm the project, but the filmmaker dropped out to pursue Bond....

Scott C’s The Great, Great Showdowns Hunt - Day 2 [Updated With Winner] Los Angeles, the hunt is on for free, original paintings like the one above by the one and onlyScott Campbell. In fact, exactly like the one above. But you’re going to have to be quick, smart and pop culture savvy. Starting right now, and repeating each day until the Friday opening of his latest exhibit atGallery 1988, Campbell is hiding an original painting from a famous film at the location where the scene was shot....

Sony Pictures Also Skipping San Diego Comic-Con With Warner Bros. Pictures And Universal Even though there will be plenty of TV shows for San Diego Comic-Con attendees to sink their teeth into next month, the feature film side of things won’t have much going on. Sony Pictures is the latest major movie studio to confirm that they’re sitting out the annual pop culture convention. They join Warner Bros. Pictures and Universal Pictures in skipping the event, meaning the studio won’t have any panels in Hall H this year....

Superhero Bits 800: Deadpool, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Kingsman, Spider-Man, Agents Of SHIELD Welcome to the 800th edition of Superhero Bits. Thank you so much for taking this ride with me and I’m hoping to keep doing it for 800 more. So what’s in this edition? How would you like to seeAvengers: Age of UltronwithRobert Downey Jr.? What did the writer of theCivil Warcomics have to say about the movie? Just how funny isAnt-Man, really?...

Superhero Bits: Hellboy Joins Injustice 2, Mark Hamill Meets The Joker And Trickster & More What happens whenMark Hamillgets kidnapped byThe JokerandTrickster? Are you ready to play asHellboyinInjustice 2? What didJoss Whedonhave to say aboutThor: Ragnarok? CouldJeffrey Dean Morganever playFlashpoint Batmanin the DCEU? Want to get your hands on someJustice Leaguecoins? How doesSouth ParkmockMarvelin their new video game? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits. A new video forInjustice 2teases the arrival ofHellboyin the game, and he’s got quite the sweet set of moves....