Get ready Twilight fans! The first trailer for “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” movie is going to premiere tomorrow at 6:00 am PST via satellite. The trailer that runs 90 seconds is being kept under secrecy until its debut, but we’ve found a 10 second clip of it. The full trailer can also be seen in [...]

Can we all catch our collective breath now?
As if the world of film criticism isn’t in enough turmoil (Variety fired its veteran film critic Todd McCarthy this week), now comes word that New York-based critic Armond White was banned–and then reinstated–from attending an early press screening of director Noah Baumbach’s new Focus Features’ film, [...]

“The Runaways” starring Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart has officially unveiled the official poster for the movie when it hits the theaters March 19. The flick directed by Floria Sigismondi got many people talking at its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. The official poster features a still of the movie that [...]

News that Variety is laying off its longtime film critic Todd McCarthy is another sign of the rapid decline of print journalism.
In the last couple of years, dozens of film critics at magazines and newspapers both big and small have been given pink slips as the economy soured and publications began shedding salaried employees [...]

ABC has picked up the first broadcast rights to Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” set to hit tv’s beginning in 2012. The film just finished a record-setting $210 worldwide three-day opening and it is certainly the talk of the town. ABC Cable Network’s Grou’s executive vice president of program acquisitions & scheduling said, “Alice’s” “captivating [...]

BY TODD GILCHRIST
On March 26, Disney is releasing one of their unlikeliest films in the history of the studio: Waking Sleeping Beauty, a tell-all about the fall, rise and eventual fracturing of Disney animation between 1984 and 1994. Director Don Hanh, who produced several of Disney’s biggest hits, including Beauty and the Beast and The [...]

By Sean O’Connell
‘Alice In Wonderland’ (*** out of 4)
Tim Burton might be running out of noteworthy things to say – five of his last seven pictures are remakes or adaptations of familiar materials, after all – yet to his credit, he’s still finding creative ways to converse with his loyal audience.
Take Burton’s latest, [...]

Selena Gomez is set to replace Nicole Kidman in the upcoming film “Monte Carlo.” Producers have stated that they wanted to make the film have a younger film, which is why they went with Gomez over Kidman. Gomez will be playing a student who ditches a boat trip to Paris with her two friends as [...]

BY KEVIN CRUST
Variety reported that Warner Bros. and Alliance are working on a big screen version of the 1960s TV series “Gilligan’s Island.” The Los Angeles Times weighs in by nominating the “Big Bang Theory’s” Johnny Galecki as Gilligan and Lindsay Lohan as Ginger, while the New York Times reports that producers are eyeing Michael [...]

Industry insiders say Disney has again performed brilliantly in marketing a movie – this time director Tim Burton’s visual feast “Alice in Wonderland” starring Johnny Depp.
But while the film is expected to open way above $60 million in North America this weekend, the critics haven’t been too kind.
The Rotten Tomatoes website notes that [...]

Yesterday, we reported that Sony Pictures Classics picked up Woody Allen’s new drama, “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.” Today, we have more news about Allen’s next comedy.
The auteur is eyeing Rachel McAdams to star opposite Owen Wilson and Marion Cotillard in an untitled movie scheduled to shoot in the summer, the Hollywood [...]

According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood 411 Blog, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” is ready to start shooting in January. Hugh Jackman has stated that he will be focusing his time in Japan, which leaves it unclear whether he will be back for this. The only problem is the only thing that is finished is Christopher McQuarrie’s [...]

BY KEVIN CRUST
Undeterred by the performance of “Whatever Works,” Sony Pictures Classics is taking another chance on Woody Allen by picking up his latest drama, “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” for a fall release. Shot and set in London, the film stars Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto and Naomi Watts. [...]

Robert Rodriguez will bring “Predators” to the SXSW Film Festival.
He and director Nimród Antal will present a “First Look” at their upcoming picture on March 12 at the Alamo Ritz Theater in downtown Austin. The movie stars Adrien Brody as a mercenary whose team is being hunted by the title characters. Predators opens wide on [...]

BY KEVIN CRUST
New York magazine’s Vulture is reporting that music-journalist-turned-filmmaker Cameron Crowe may be directing “We Bought a Zoo” in the near future. It’s an adaptation of a memoir by British writer Benjamin Mee and “The Devil Wears Prada” screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna has penned a script, but Crowe is likely to do some rewriting. [...]

Justin Timberlake has joined the cast of Columbia Pictures’ comedy Bad Teacher starring along with Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, and Lucy Punch, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures. Eric Stonestreet from “Modern Family” and Molly Shannon have also joined the cast of the comedy, which [...]

Universal Pictures announced today that “MacGruber,” the comedy based on Will Forte’s recurring “Saturday Night Live” character, will open one month later than planned: Friday, May 21, as opposed to Friday, April 23. This pits “MacGruber” against Paramount’s “Shrek Forever After,” which already had claimed that weekend. 
 
In “MacGruber,” Forte plays a clueless soldier of fortune [...]

Given the weird and wonderful worlds that director Tim Burton regularly builds within his films, one might expect that Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, one of the books upon which Burton’s new film is based, would have been a favorite text for years. But the director told reporters that he was actually largely unfamiliar with [...]

History was made when Christian Berger, AAC, Alar Kivilo, ASC, CSC and Eagle Egilsson claimed top honors in the three competitive categories during the 24th Annual American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration in Los Angeles last Saturday. It was the first time that none of the winners in the feature film, [...]

The Tribeca Film Festival and DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. today announced that “Shrek Forever After” will open the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by American Express. “Shrek Forever After” is the final chapter in the adventures of the beloved ogre, Shrek, and the first of the series to be presented in 3D. It [...]

BY STAFF
“Shutter Island” still tops at box office. It led the North American box office for a second consecutive weekend on Sunday. Here is a look at the top ten: “Shutter Island” ($22.2m), “Cop Out” ($18.6m), “The Crazies” ($16.5m), “Avatar” ($14.0m),“Percy Jackson and the Olympians” ($9.8m),“Valentine’s Day” ($9.5m),“Dear John” ($5.0m),“The Wolfman” ($4.1m),“The Tooth Fairy” ($3.5m), [...]

BY TODD GILCHRIST
On Thursday, February 25, Quentin Tarantino hosted a below-the-line panel for crew members of Inglourious Basterds who were nominated for Academy Awards. Among the participants were Sally Menke, Tarantino’s longtime editor; cinematographer Robert Richardson; visual effects designer John Dykstra; Supervising sound editor Wylie Stateman; and sound re-recording mixers Michael Minkler and Tony Lamberti. [...]

BY SEAN O’CONNELL
Hollywood is a busy town. Movers bump into shakers on their way to the next power meeting. You have to move quickly if you want to keep up.
HollywoodNews.com is here to help. Our interview feature, “Hollywood In Five,” showcases the creative individuals responsible for the movies we love, and corners them for five [...]

BY LUIS CAMONIS
On 23 February 2010 principal photography began on GK Films’ romantic thriller “The Tourist,” directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. “The Tourist” is being produced by Academy-Award-winner Graham King and will shoot in Paris and Venice. Sony Pictures will distribute the film.
“The Tourist” is [...]

BY ROBERT W. WELKOS
The invitation came from the “Pierce County Gazette” and read:
Dear Friend,
“I received your message and am relieved to hear you will be meeting me at 4401 Sunset Boulevard on Wednesday, February 24th, to witness THE CRAZIES.”
For security reasons, people receiving the invitation were told to arrive between 6:30 p.m. [...]

BY STAFF
Sports Illustrated cover model Brooklyn Decker has been added to the cast of Columbia Pictures romantic comedy “Just Go With It,” already starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston. In the model’s first movie role, shewill play opposite Sandler as the young girl he falls for. The plot is being kept under wraps, [...]

What’s in store for Superman?
On Wednesday. Latino Review posted the first news about a possible next installment in the long-running Superman film series. Specifically, they reported that Blade, Batman Begins and Dark Knight scribe David Goyer was hired to write a follow-up to director Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, entitled Man of Steel. According to writer [...]

BY STAFF
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg showed up for the premiere of their new HBO mini-series “The Pacific.” Hanks and Speilberg both are executive producers of the show which runs in 10 installments following the story of three U.S. Marines who find themselves making their way across the Pacific Theater in the middle of the [...]

BY LUIS CAMONIS
Last week we reported that “Alice in Wonderland” had been cut from Odeon cinemas, but it now has developed that they have reached an agreement. The decision was made on the same day the film premiered in London with Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, the Prince of Wales, and the Duchess of Cronwall all [...]

BY TODD GILCHRIST
Following the successful screening in 2008 of test footage for a potential Tron sequel, Walt Disney Studios slowly but effectively launched a campaign to promote Tron: Legacy, a follow-up some 28 years in the making. Initially this involved short clips and images – typical promotional material – shown at places like San Diego [...]