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Producer Says Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ Shoots In May, Will Be Post-Converted To 3D There was a great bit of buzz last year aboutAlfonso Cuarón’s upcoming filmGravity. The casting process was intricately detailed in the press as a search for an actress to lead the film finally led toSandra Bullockbeing cast.Robert Downey, Jr.was set for a small role for some time, but the film’s schedule was pushed multiple times, leading to hisdepartureand eventualreplacementbyGeorge Clooney....

Robert Downey Jr. Joins ‘Captain America 3’ For Civil War Storyline Well, now we know what all ofRobert Downey Jr.’s vague promises of"plans" and “other stuff” with Marvelwere about. The actor is reportedly in final negotiations to joinChris Evans' titular hero inCaptain America 3. Even more exciting is what he’ll be doing there: Going head to head with Cap in an adaptation of the Civil War storyline from the comic books....

Ron Howard And Tom Hanks Will Shoot ‘Inferno’ In April WithRon Howard’s ever-busy schedule, many fans surely wondered when he was going to shootInferno. Based on the best-seller byDan Brown, the film will mark the third time he and Oscar-winnerTom Hanksbring Brown’s work to life. Last summerSony set a December 18, 2015release date for the film and have since kept that plan firm. Howardhas been attachedtoat leastthreeor fourprojectssince, however, and with no movement onInferno,plusanother major film openingthat day, precisely whenInfernowould happen was the subject of questions....

Rumor: ‘Deadpool’ Movie Now Happening Because It’s PG-13 One of the most surprising news stories of the past week had to be the factFoxfinallygreenlitaDeadpoolmovie. The film had been in development for years. DirectorTim Millerwas attached, a script byRhett ReeseandPaul Wernickhad been floating around the internet for years, and rumors swirled of test footage shot with starRyan Reynolds.Finally, that footage leaked, showing a confident, vulgar Deadpool joyfully killing a group of men driving in an SUV....

Sam Mendes To Direct Preacher Good news for comic book fans. It looks likePreachermight finally make its way to the big screen. Columbia Pictures has picked up the rights to adapt the series into a feature film, with American Beauty/Road to Perdition directorSam Mendesattached to helm the project. Preacher has a long history of false starts, despite having a loyal following among geek filmmakers. Originally set-up at Kevin Smith’s View Askew with a $25 million budget and James Marsden attached as the title character, the project fell into limbo and later found light as an HBO television series helmed byMark Steven Johnson(fans were not happy about this one)....

Sean Connery’s Legendary Bravado Helped Save Michael Bay While Filming The Rock WhenSean Connery passed awayin October of 2020, there was an outpouring of affection for the actor’s decades of work. Connery rarely played timid or soft-spoken characters, largely because the man was so forthright and outspoken himself; there’s a reason he became so indelible as James Bond in the 1960s and 1970s. By the 1990s, Connery’s legend had already been cemented, and his confidence on set was notoriously helpful to a 30-year-oldMichael Bay, the filmmaker who was, at the time, working on his second feature film....

Sequel Bits: ‘Jurassic Park 4;’ ‘Gremlins’ 3/Remake; And ‘Zombieland 2’ Summer time is sequel time. For the purposes of this particular article, it’s the time for sequels that don’t exist yet and, for all we know, may never exist. ButZombieland 2,Jurassic Park 4andGremlins 3are all films that come up in conversation with filmmakers on a semi-regular basis. We’ve got the latest updates on all three below. A hint: don’t warm up the popcorn just yet....

Shia LaBeouf On Spielberg’s Indiana Jones 5 Pitch: “It Sounds Crazy” In June of 2009,Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skullco-starShia LaBeouftold reportersthat Steven Spielberg had “cracked” the story forIndiana Jones 5and that he believed “they’re gearing that up.” But as far as I can tell, no screenwriter has been hired to turn that idea into a script.Indiana JonesstarHarrison Fordreiterated the first part of Shia’s previous statement, telling theBBCin March of this year that “Steven [Spielberg] and George [Lucas] and I are sort of agreed on a germ of an idea and we’re seeing what comes of it....

Snowpiercer Season 3 Trailer: We Keep Everyone As Alive As Possible, Minus An Arm Or Two It’s almost time for “Snowpiercer” season 3, and if your eyes are as wide as Daveed Diggs' in this picture, you’ll be happy to know that there is a new trailer out from TNT.We had one a month agothat revealed some secrets about the Earth healing and a mystery about a survivor, and this new one expands on those ideas....

Star Wars Bits: Trailer Records, Leonard Maltin, Nien Nunb, Force Awakens Comic & More As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed. Now witness the firepower of the fully armed and operationalStar Wars Bits! This edition of news from a galaxy far, far away includes: According toVariety, the final trailer forStar Wars: The Force Awakensjust barely missed breaking the record for highest YouTube view count in 24 hours....

Superhero Bits: Ant-Man, Arrow, Man Of Steel, Supergirl, The Flash, Queer Villains We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Why doesDavid GoyerdefendSupermankillingGeneral ZodinMan of Steel? Who are the best queer villains in comic book history? Does a new shirt offer a glimpse of the newCaptain Americasuit inCivil War? Is there reason to believeDoctor Strangewill be the best film in Marvel’s Phase Three? How doesSam Raimifeel aboutSpider-Man 3eight years later?...

Superhero Bits: Kevin Smith Bids Farewell To ‘Supergirl’, ‘The Boys’ Season 3 Rumors & More What do you think of these photorealistic versions ofSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Versecharacters? How did French comic publishers keep printingBatmaneven after Nazis banned American comics during World War II? Which characters might be getting set up for Phase 5 of theMarvel Cinematic Universe? Want to see a DeepFake ofGal Gadotin the classicWonder WomanTV series? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....

The Biggest Snubs And Surprises Of The 2022 Oscar Nominations Ah, the Oscars. How we like to celebrate when they get things right. And how we like to mutter under our breath all manner of foul curses when they get things wrong. This morning’s nominations for the 94th annual Academy Awardswere no different. As usual, the Academy got some stuff very right, some stuff very wrong, and left the /Film team equally elated, angry, and confused....