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Casting Bits: Brendan Fraser In Neil Labute’s Next; Kevin James Re-Teams With ‘Zookeeper’ Director For MMA Film Years ago, the idea ofBrendan Fraserworking withNeil LaButewould have been appealing. In 1998 it would have been the guy fromGods & Monstersbeing directed by the firebrand behindYour Friends and Neighbors. Good stuff. Now, well, it’s the guy fromFurry Vengeancedirected by the guy behindThe Wicker Man. Not such an easy sell. Still, let optimism reign....

Craig Gillespe In Talks To Direct Jon Hamm In Real-Life Baseball Drama ‘Million Dollar Arm’ Fright Nightmay not have done massive business for Disney and DreamWorks, but it was good enough to keep the principals on board at Disney. Screenwriter Marti Noxon was just announced as part of a new Pixar project, and nowFright Nightremake directorCraig Gillespie, who also madeLars and the Real Girl, is in talks to make the baseball dramaMillion Dollar Arm....

December’s Box Office Battle: Avatar Versus Sherlock Holmes Warning: the following article is highly anecdotal.I do a lot of my writing in public: cafes, bars, etc. Working from home offers a lot of distractions, so I work among strangers. (Less distraction that way; go figure.) That leads to a lot of casual conversations about upcoming movies, what’s good and what people hope will be good. And while the data that comes out of all those conversations is completely unreliable in any real sense, it does lead to certain conclusions....

Does Twitter Predict Box Office Better Than Industry Analysts? For months new, industry analysts have wondered about"Twitter Effect." Does Twitter have the capacity to change people’s perceptions of films? Did it makeBrunofail at the box office? Did italter the outcomeof the Academy Awards? Whether or not any of that is true, some recently-released research byHP(viaMashable) purports to demonstrate that Twitter is better at predicting box office than currently-accepted methods. Hit the jump for some more details...

Edie Falco To Play Pete Davidson’s Mom In Peacock’s Biographical Comedy Series Bupkis Is there something wedidn’tknow about Pete Davidson’s life? If there is, that will be remedied soon, friends. At the NBC Universal Upfront presentation today, we learned from the Peacock segment that the role of Davidson’s mom has been cast for the upcoming autobiographical comedy “Bupkis.” What? You say you aren’t a writer, but you could probably pen a comedy about him because every third news story is about him and his personal life/tattoos/relationship?...

Frost/Nixon Movie Trailer And Photos Universal has released the official American trailer for Ron Howard’sFrost/Nixon. We also have some production photos and an official plot synopsis below. Based on a play of the same name, the film tells the story of the series of infamous post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost (Michael Sheen) and former president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella). As always, tell me what you think in the comments below!...

Halloween Ends Will ‘Make People Very Angry,’ Jamie Lee Curtis Teases Just a few weeks away from The Night He Came Home and on the eve of the release of David Gordon Green’s “Halloween Kills,” star Jamie Curtis is here to give everyone one last scare. “Kills” is Green’s second film in the resurrected, Blumhouse-backed “Halloween” franchise, a sequel to “Halloween” (2018). In it, Laurie Strode (Curtis) teams up with two other generations of Strode women to face down and give Michael Myers the sound defeat he’s been needing since John Carpenter and Debra Hill originally conjured him to the big screen in 1978....

Hide The Kids! ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Is Officially Rated R In 1978, Richard Donner’sSupermanfeatured the now-famous tagline, “You will believe a man can fly.” Now, more than 40 years later, here comesZack Snyder’s Justice League, a film that will make you believe Batman can say “f***.” Because the Snyder Cut, as all the kids call it, is officially rated R. Of course, this isn’t the first R-rated superhero movie – not by a long shot....

Hulu Will Exclusively Release 20th Century Studios And Searchlight Pictures Movies As Originals Without San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic-Con, Star Wars Celebration or any big media events, Disney was left to announce tons of news during their big livestreamed presentation for investors last night. That means some little tidbits got lost in the shuffle, such as Disney announcing their plans to make Hulu the exclusive streaming home to original movies from 20th Century Studios and Searchlight, the studios formerly known as 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight....

Jason Statham Up For Namor The Sub-Mariner “Keys are under the mat, Flipper.” Will grizzled action vetJason Stathamput on a shiny fish-scale-sequined speedo to play the majestic, sea-dwelling Marvel superheroNamor the Sub-Mariner? Well, he’s taken a meeting for the role but he’s also exhibiting a little Vince Chase-like hesitation.IESBasked if there were any comic characters on his wish list… “I took a meeting forSub-Mariner. I don’t know if I’d look right running around in a tight speedo with wings on my ankles but there’s so many cool fucking characters....

Joel Kinnaman To Replace Tom Hardy In ‘Suicide Squad’ Suicide Squadcurrently has aTom Hardy-shaped hole, and over the past few weeks it seems every 30something actor not currently attached to a superhero franchise has tried to fill it. (Or at least been rumored to be trying to fill it.) Now, at long last, it seems directorDavid Ayerhas finally found the right fit inJoel Kinnaman. More on theSuicide SquadJoel Kinnaman casting after the jump....

LOL: The Asylum’s ‘Age Of The Hobbits’ “Mockbuster” Slapped With A Restraining Order; Watch The Trailer Here It’s well established by now that studios are willing to pay a high premium for established brands — books, TV shows, board games, really anything that might sound remotely familiar to moviegoers. When the investment pays off, we get record-breaking gems likeThe Avengers. But when it doesn’t, studios and moviegoers lose hundreds of millions on stinkers likeBattleship....

New IMAX ‘Cloverfield’ Movie Announced For October 2017, ‘God Particle’ Removed From The Release Calendar Paramount Pictures has announced thatCLOVERFIELD MOVIE(IMAX)will be hitting theaters onOctober 27th, 2017. At the same time,God Particlewhich was originally set to hit theaters on February 24th, 2017 has been removed from the schedule.God Particlewas believed to be the next film in the Cloverfield anthology film franchise, following off of the success of this year’s10 Cloverfield Lane....