A promo trailer for director Simon West's The Mechanic has come online and can be watched using the player below. The film, a remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson action classic, stars Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland and Christa Campbell.
More | TalkExcitement is still at a high here at ShoWest from yesterday's premiere of a work-in-progress version of Disney/Pixar Animation's Toy Story 3 , which you can read about here , but also yesterday, Disney secretly put up a giant standee for the new movie in the lobby leading to the exhibitors' convention.
More | TalkEntertainment Weekly is reporting that Hank Azaria ("The Simpsons") will voice evil sorcerer Gargamel in Sony's The Smurfs . The magazine also says that Jayma Mays ("Glee") will play the pregnant wife to Neil Patrick Harris' character.
More | TalkIan McKellen, who is returning as Gandalf in the two films based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit , has posted an update on the production on his official website .
More | TalkChris Evans ("Fantastic Four" films, upcoming The Losers ) will play the lead role in the Kassen brothers' drama Puncture . Adam and Mark Kassen are shooting the indie film in Houston from a script by Chris Lopta.
More | TalkA promo trailer for writer/director Galt Niederhoffer's The Romantics has come online and can be watched using the player below. The dramedy stars Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin, Josh Duhamel, Malin Akerman, Adam Brody, Elijah Wood and Candice Bergen.
More | TalkOne of the big selling points for the 2010 ShoWest was the fact that Pixar Animation would be debuting a work-in-progress version of Lee Unkrich's Toy Story 3 months before its release on June 18.
More | TalkEntertainment Weekly reports that Summit Entertainment has reached out to at least three directors, including Sofia Coppola ( Lost in Translation ), Gus Van Sant ( Milk ) and Bill Condon ( Dreamgirls ) to gauge their interest in The Twilight Saga:
More | TalkTwentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment today announced that it will launch director James Cameron's history-making motion picture Avatar on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on Thursday, April 22.
More | TalkSummit Entertainment has acquired the pitch The Last Witch Hunter from Cory Goodman.
More | TalkComingSoon.net's The Weekend Warrior offers a (limited) preview of the new releases opening on Friday, March 19, including the movie based on the popular kid's book Diary of Wimpy Kid (20th Century Fox), the Jennifer Aniston-Gerard Butler comedy The Bounty Hunter (Sony), and the Jude Law-Forest Whitaker sci-fi thriller Repo Men (Universal).
More | TalkComingSoon.net talks with director Niels Arden Oplev and actress Noomi Rapace, the duo who have turned the Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's bestselling novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo into an international phenomenon.
More | TalkComingSoon.net has an exclusive interview with actor Forest Whitaker, one of the stars (along with Jude Law) of Miguel Sapochnik's new sci-fi thriller Repo Men , talking about the movie as well as other projects both past and future.
More | TalkAt ShoWest 2010, Dolby Laboratories, Inc. announced it is working with Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios to deliver a new audio format, Dolby Surround 7.1. Disney and Pixar have stated that Dolby Surround 7.1 will be launched in select theaters with the release of Toy Story 3 in 3D this June.
More | TalkRose McGowan has joined Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Bob Sapp, Leo Howard, Ron Perlman and Said Taghmaoui in director Marcus Nispel's Conan .
More | TalkUniversal has launched the first teaser poster for Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World at the 2010 ShoWest , and ComingSoon.net has some of the first pictures of it.
More | TalkAt the Opening Ceremony for the 2010 ShoWest Convention , Adam Fogelson, the new Chairman of Universal Pictures, premiered the first full-length trailer for Universals 3D animated family comedy Despicable Me .
More | TalkComingSoon.net talks to director Toni Myers and astronaut and Hubble Mission Specialist Dr. Michael Massimino about Hubble 3D , the fantastic new IMAX 3D film that takes you on the very last shuttle mission to maintain the Hubble Telescope twenty years after it was launched into orbit.
More | TalkAmanda Seyfried and Jonathan Rhys Meyers have joined the cast of Rodrigo Garcia's Albert Nobbs which sees Glenn Close reprise her award-winning stage role as a woman who must pass as a man to survive life in 19th century Ireland.
More | TalkIn addition to Sir Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen, Martin Scorsese has also cast Asa Butterfield and Chloe Moretz ( Kick-Ass , Let Me In ) in The Invention of Hugo Cabret .
More | TalkComingSoon.net gets an update from Disney Animation exec and documentarian Don Hahn ( Waking Sleeping Beauty ) on the status of the 3D conversion of Beauty and the Beast , the possibility of more Disney 2D animated movies being converted, and confirmation that Tim Burton's Frankenweenie will be in 3D as well.
More | TalkSummit Entertainment has acquired the pitch Puzzle Palace via a competitive auction among several studios. The screenplay will be written by burgeoning screenwriter David Guggenheim. The film will be produced by Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen via their Temple Hill Entertainment banner.
More | TalkThe 1970's all-female rock band The Runaways launched lead guitarist Joan Jett into stardom and forever changed the way people saw women musicians. While the rebellious Southern California teen group may have been short-lived, the stories from that time in music continue to live on and will now be told in The Runaways .
More | TalkSony will want a role in the James Bond movies once the sale or restructuring of MGM is complete, Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Lynton told Bloomberg .
More | TalkSigourney Weaver ( Avatar ) will play a vampire queen in writer/director Amy Heckerling's romantic horror-comedy Vamps .
More | TalkUSA Today has published this first look at Dwayne Johnson in director George Tillman Jr.'s thriller Faster , opening in theaters on November 19.
More | TalkWithin hours of its world premiere at South by South West, Gareth Edward's first feature Monsters was sold to the Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing (genre arm of Magnolia Pictures) for North America and Mexico.
More | TalkShockTillYouDrop.com is reporting that Akiva Goldsman is the frontrunner to direct Paramount Pictures' Paranormal Activity 2 , which is still scheduled to open in theaters on October 22nd.
More | TalkParamount has picked up the film rights to Image comic book "Existence 2.0," with Miles Millar and Alfred Gough attached to adapt.
More | TalkHe's been attached as screenwriter for Disney's upcoming The Greatest Muppet Movie of All Time , but now Jason Segel has also signed to star as the human lead in the film.
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