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Casting Bits: Jamie Campbell Bower In ‘The Mortal Instruments;’ Dania Ramirez In ‘American Reunion;’ Jackson Rathbone In ‘Live At The Foxes Den’ After some dithering among several pretty young blond boy actors, Screen Gems and directorScott Stewart(Priest,Legion) have chosenJamie Campbell Bowerto play Jace Wayland in the adaptation ofCity of Bones,Cassandra Clare’s firstThe Mortal Instrumentsnovel. Alex Pettyfer was once in the running butbowed out. Jaime Campbell Bower almost certainly has to be a better choice, anyway, though I haven’t seen enough of his work to say that with certainty....

Celebrate Veteran’s Day With ‘The Finest Hours’ Trailer; Chris Pine Talks Romance And Real-Life Inspiration Jack Ryan,Star Trek, and nowWonder WomanstarChris Pineis no stranger to hero roles, but there’s something a little different about his next one.The Finest Hoursstars Pine as real-life figure Bernie Webber, who on a bitterly cold winter day in 1952 led one of the greatest rescues in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard. And that’s without the aid of sci-fi gadgets, superpowered buddies, or a novelist’s imagination, mind you....

Choose Or Die: Release Date, Cast, And More What if a classic text adventure had deadly consequences? That’s the idea behind"Choose or Die,“the upcoming new Netflix horror movie that puts a lethal spin on the idea of choosing your own adventure. We all remember the classic video games — titles such as “Zork” and “Deadline” that kept us hammering away at our keyboards as kids.Tom Hankseven encountered one in the 1988 family film, “Big....

Colin Firth And Julie Walters Explore Marc Munden’s ‘The Secret Garden’ Remake The Secret Gardenwill bloom once again.The Secret Gardenremake is in the works, withMarc Munden(Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams) helming the “fantastical reimagining” ofFrances Hodgson Burnett’s classic children’s novel. And it already has the perfect, quintessentially British cast led byColin FirthandJulie Walters. Firth and Walters are set to star inThe Secret Gardenremake for Studiocanal and Heyday Films, according toDeadline.David Heyman, who is best known for steering theHarry Potterfranchise, is producing....

Comic-Con 2015: Everything We Learned About ‘Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Justice’ The big reveal forBatman v. Superman: Dawn of Justiceat Comic-Con was a brand new trailer, showing off the first big screen meeting of The Dark Knight and Man of Steel. You can watch the extended peek of the movie right here, but there was also a whole panel for fans to soak up where some interesting tidbits were revealed, especially aboutMetropolisandGotham City....

Cool Stuff: Andy Fairhurst’s ‘Back To The Future’ Trilogy Print Set Goes Back In Time There are countless art prints forBack to the Futureout there in the world, many of them for the original movie that introduced us to Marty McFly, Doc Brown and the time traveling DeLorean. But as a fan of the whole trilogy from directorRobert Zemeckis, what I really like is when an artist creates a set of posters that represents the entire franchise with unifying imagery....

Eddie Murphy Will Play Parliament-Funkadelic Leader George Clinton Eddie Murphyis in early talks to take on the role of Parliament-Funkadelic’s George Clinton, according toDeadline. He’ll serve as a producer along with John Davis and Catherine Davis through their Davis Entertainment. The rights are reportedly being negotiated with Clinton, after which writers will be sought. Murphy is, of course, a movie and comedy icon with roles in films like “The Nutty Professor,” “Coming to America,” “Beverly Hills Cop,” “48 Hours,” and the “Shrek” movies in which he voiced Donkey....

Exclusive: Watch Hayao Miyazaki Animate Final Shot Of ‘The Wind Rises’ In Documentary Clip Tuesday December 9 is a great day to be a fan of Studio Ghibli. It’s the dayMami Sunada’s documentary,The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, hits all your big digital VOD platforms: iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Google Play, Playstation, Xbox, and Vudu. That means you can sit back and be a fly on the wall of one of the world’s most incredible and influential animation studios asHayao MiyazakiandIsao Takahatawork to finishThe Wind RisesandThe Tale of The Princess Kaguya....

First Look: Christian Bale In ‘The 13 Women Of Nanjing,’ Aka ‘Nanjing Heroes’ Christian Balehas a little movie to make with Christopher Nolan this summer, but before he suits up in Pittsburgh forThe Dark Knight Rises, he’ll finish a stint in China working withZhang Yimou. The director ismakinga film calledThe 13 Women of Nanjing, known previously asNanjing Heroes, which is the latest Chinese film version of the infamous 1937 incident called the Nanjing Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, in which Japanese soldiers killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and soldiers, and raped thousands of women after the capture of the city of Nanjing....

Former WWF Champion Mick Foley Endorses The Wrestler One of the first things most people notice aboutDarren Aronofsky’sThe Wrestleris the authenticity of the the situations and the performance of the main character Randy “The Ram” Robinson, played by Mickey Rourke. Having had a background of involvement in the behind the scenes during the second pro wrestling boom (Austin, The Rock..etc), I was amazed at the authenticity of the pro-wrestling subculture. From the fanny packs to the locker room before an indie show, the film has the most realistic depiction of the business that I’ve ever seen (aside from maybe the documentary Beyond the Mat, which is also wonderful and you should seek out)....

Fox Cuts Scene From ‘The Predator’ After Actor Found To Be Registered Sex Offender [Updated] Update: Following this morning’s reports,The Predatordirector Shane Black has released another statement apologizing for casting Steven Wilder Striegel. The full statement can be found at the bottom of this original story. 20th Century Fox has cut a scene fromThe Predatorfeaturing actorSteven Wilder Striegelfollowing revelations that Striegel is a registered sex offender. Striegel, who was cast in the sci-fi horror film by his longtime friendShane Black, shared a three-page scene with starOlivia Munnin which he repeatedly hit on her character while jogging in a park....

Free Monty Python Videos On Youtube Lead To 23,000% DVD Sale Increase Following up on our previous news regardingMonty Python material on iTunes, Mashable isnow reportingon a staggering increase of Monty Python DVDs sold on Amazon soon after the Python crew made some of their their more popular materialfree on Youtube. And by staggering, I mean23,000% worth. Mashable notes that Monty Python’s DVDs climbed to the #2 spot on Amazon’s Movie’s and TV Bestseller List, and you don’t have to be a genius to follow that the sales wereprobablyinfluenced by the Amazon links found on all of their Youtube clips....

Guillermo Del Toro Says Modern Cinema Is ‘Not Sustainable’ - And He’s Right Guillermo del Toro didn’t bring a new movie to the 2022 Cannes Film Festival this month, but that didn’t stop him from bringing some serious rhetorical ruckus about the future of movies. Speaking at a symposiumabout the purpose and survival of cinema in a pandemic world (alongside visionaries like Lynne Ramsay, Gaspar Noé and Paolo Sorrentino), the Academy Award-winning director of “The Shape of Water” sounded a dire warning about the future of the medium....