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Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans Full Domestic Trailer If you’re interested in either of the two insane pieces of cinemaWerner Herzogcompleted this year, you’ve probably seen the crudely cut, sales-type trailer forBad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleansthat surfaced earlier this year. Now there’s a real, ‘meant for audiences’ trailer and, until the last few seconds when the iguanas and ‘dancing soul’ stuff hits, it almost looks…sane. Almost. Check it out after the break....

Ben Hibon, Director Of ‘Harry Potter’ Animated Sequence, To Helm ‘Pan’ One of the most striking and surprising aspects ofHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Iwas the third-act animated sequence that explains the backstory of the Deathly Hallows. It’s a stylish and appropriately ominous piece of film. Now the director of that sequence,Ben Hibon, is set to direct a “fantasy action thriller” reworking ofPeter Pancalled, appropriately,Pan. Varietyhas the news, reminding thatBen Magid’s original script was once intended for Guillermo del Toro to direct....

Box Office: Beowulf $10.4M Friday, Estimated $30M Opening Weekend The $150M-budgeted 3D spectacle Beowulf (Dreamworks/Paramount) has opened respectably, but its place in film history won’t be determined by box office alone. The motion-capture epic from Robert Zemeckis generated an estimated $10.4M on its opening day, and it will likely top out a tick over $30M for the weekend. Two thirds of the budget was provided by political activist Steve Bing’s Shangri-La Entertainment, so it’s a low-risk proposition for Dreamworks/Paramount and Warner Bros, which owns international distribution rights....

Captain Marvel’s New Look In ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Explained By The Russo Brothers When Carol Danvers steps into Avengers headquarters in the trailer forAvengers: Endgame, she looks a little…different. Gone are the loose waves of hair and bare face ofCaptain Marvel, in whichBrie Larsonmade her debut as the cosmically powered superhero just months ago. Instead, she rocked a smooth straight-ironed hairdo, red lipstick, and a full face of makeup. The hair could be explained away by the 10-year absence (it was a little ridiculous that her hair was so bouncy after getting blasted by so many aliens), but fans wondered when Carol would have had time to stop by a Sephora while the world was ending....

Casting Notes: Amanda Seyfried In Andrew Niccol’s Sci-Fi ‘I’m.mortal’; Chris Pratt In ‘Moneyball’; Haley Joel Osment In ‘Sex Ed’ After his movieThe Crossseemed to fall apart, writer/directorAndrew Niccoldiverted to a slightly more mainstream sci-fi approach:he’ll directthe ‘action love story’I’m.mortal, which now hasAmanda Seyfriedset up to star. The film is about a society in which aging stops at the age of 25, which is as good an excuse as any to cast a lot of attractive 20-somethings....

Cinematic TV Bits: Hulu And IFC Eyeing ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Mr. Ed’ Heads To Big Screen, ‘Universal Solider’ Coming To Small Screen In today’s extra-cinematic edition of TV Bits, a film franchise gets adapted into television series, a classic show turns into a movie, and a certain brilliant-but-cancelled television series that’s been trying to get a big-screen sequel off the ground looks increasingly likely to make a temporary return to the small-screen....

DC Entertainment Alters Its Cinematic Universe Plans If you’ve been paying attention to blockbuster movies over the past few years, chances are you’ve asked yourself this question:what the heck is going on with DC Entertainment? It turns out the answer is “quite a lot,” and thanks to a new profile, we’ve learned that DC and Warner Bros. are now rethinking the idea behind their interconnected DC cinematic universe. Could this be the course correction the embattled franchise needs?...

Despite Bob Hoskins' Retirement, The ‘Roger Rabbit’ Sequel Is Still Possible After years of working in the (self-imposed) motion-capture gulag,Robert Zemeckisreturns to live-action withFlight. He’s got other live-action work lined up, but one of his next projects may go back to his classic blend of live-action and animation,Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. ARoger Rabbitsequel has been talked up for years and years, but seemed to have a big roadblock thrown in front of it over this past summer whenBob Hoskins, the lead of the original movie, retired from acting....

Director Timur Bekmambetov Says ‘Dusk Watch’ Will Happen At Some Point It’s been a few years since we last heard aboutDusk Watch. For a variety of reasons, we still haven’t seen the third installment in the Russian series, despite previous installmentsNight WatchandDay Watchbeing considerable box office hits overseas. DirectorTimur Bekmambetovis a ratherbusyman these days, but he hasn’t forgotten aboutDusk Watch, and he says it will happen at some point. Loosely based on theSergei Lukyanenkonovels,Dusk Watchwas intended to complete a cinematic trilogy....

Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis Movie Will Be A Cubist Gangster Pic, Whatever That Means When we firstreportedon the impendingMiles Davisbiopic fromNotoriousdirectorGeorge Tillman Jr.this past fall, we wondered how that news might affect the other Davis picture, which actorDon Cheadlehas been developing for the past several years. As it turns out, Cheadle’s not too worried — because his story won’t be a straightforward biopic so much as a “cubist” “gangster pic” set in 1979, when the iconic American musician wasn’t even active in the music world....

Exclusive: Get Your First Look At The ‘Booksmart’ Vinyl Soundtrack And Hear A Track From The Score Booksmartis opening wide this weekend, and by all accounts, it’s a must-see. Early buzz forOlivia Wilde’s feature directorial debut has been overwhelmingly positive ever since SXSW, and now more audiences will have a chance to catch it. In anticipation of the impending release, we’re debuting an exclusive look at theBooksmartvinyl soundtrack, as well as a track from the score....

Flesh And Ink: A Century Of Live-Action/Animation Hybrids Mary Poppins Returnsisn’t just the return of a beloved character. The film is a throwback to filmmaking styles of yesteryear, where films could be frothy and whimsical excuses to simply have a nice time. But it’s also notable for its inclusion of a technique rarely seen today, and indeed across cinema: the blending of live-action footage with traditional animation.Incredibly, the earliest example of the live-action/animation hybrid is also the earliest example of animation ofanykind....

Good Luck Chuck Movie Poster Steals From Famous Rolling Stone Cover Lionsgate has sent us the official poster forGood Luck Chuck, the new comedy starring the very unfunny Dane Cook and Jessica Alba. The movie has an interesting premiese, but the trailer didn’t contain one laugh (not a good sign for a romantic comedy). The poster seems to be inspired (or copied) from the famous Rolling Stone magazine cover featuring Yoko Ono and John Lennon....