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Gale Anne Hurd Producing ‘Area 51’ TV Show Gale Anne Hurd, the producer who started her career with Roger Corman and whose resume includesThe Terminator,Aliens,ArmageddonandThe Walking Dead, is going to Area 51. Hurd’s company, Valhalla Entertainment, has optioned theAnnie JacobsenbookArea 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Baseto develop as a TV series.Karl Gajdusek(Dead Like Me, the Nic Cage filmTrespass,Oblivion) will script and act as showrunner.Deadlinesays the series will follow “two men working on the base who are thrust into danger when they uncover secrets that the government will protect at any cost....

Interview With Emma Stone On The Set Of Zombieland Back in March, Columbia Pictures invited /Film and a few select other online sites to the set ofZombieland, short film and commercial directorRuben Fleischer’s feature film debut — a zombie buddy comedy roadtrip adventure film. We posted a video blog set visit report on Tuesday morning and will be following with a series of roundtable interviews we conducted on set over the course of our visit....

John Travolta, Uma Thurman And Blake Lively Join Oliver Stone’s ‘Savages’ Jennifer Lawrence was closing in on a starring role inOliver Stone’sSavages— an adaptation ofDon Winslow’s novel of the same name, in which the polyamorous gal playmate of two pot-dealing buddies is kidnapped and held ransom by a drug cartel — but that fell apart when she got swept off to compete inThe Hunger Games. Many nameswere in the mixto take over the role, butBlake Livelybecame the frontrunner....

Jon Stewart Will Take Summer Vacation From ‘The Daily Show’ To Direct A Movie, ‘Rosewater’ Jon Stewartis taking the summer off fromThe Daily Show, leaving the comedy newscast in the capable hands of John Oliver for eight of the twelve weeks Stewart will be away. There’s good reason for the host’s break from the show, however: he’s doing to direct his first feature film. In 2011 Stewartannouncedon the show that he had optionedMaziar Bahari’s bookThen They Came For Me, which tells of Bahari’s capture and imprisonment in Iran, where he was jailed and interrogated for 118 days in 2009....

Jose Padilha’s ‘RoboCop’ Won’t Be A Carbon Copy Of Paul Verhoeven’s Original The idea of Darren Aronofsky directing a new version ofRoboCopwas pretty great, but I have to admit thathiringElite SquaddirectorJose Padilhato make the film in Aronofsky’s stead could be the best idea MGM has had in recent months. It is almost certainly the most creative idea the company has floated. Films by the Brazilian director have had an immediacy and a raw power that could make hisRoboCopsomething special....

Kevin Costner And Kevin Reynolds Move Forward With Learning Italian Hey, look,Kevin Costneris ramping up his output. He’s gotCompany Mencoming out this year. He’s directing (at some point) a film calledA Little War of Our Own,announced just a couple weeks back. And now his slowly simmering new team-up withKevin Reynolds, who has directed Costner three times before, is partially funded and moving forward. Their latest film will beLearning Italian, which was discussed last summer, but has yet to really kick into gear....

Kumail Nanjiani On Acting In A Star Wars TV Show: ‘It’s F***ing Obi-Wan’ Kumail Nanjiani will be joining one of the largest IPs out there — the Marvel Cinematic Universe — when Chloé Zhao’s “Eternals” premieres next month. The MCU isn’t the only major IP, however, that Nanjiani will be part of in the near future. The comedian is also playing a major role in the Disney+ series “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” a “Star Wars” show where Ewan McGregor will reprise his role as Obi-Wan for the first time since 2005’s “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith....

Legendary Wants To Make Movies And TV Shows With Your Favorite Image Comics Creators For anyone who’s been paying attention to the world of comic books for the past couple of decades, people likeBrian K. Vaughan,Kelly Sue DeConnick, andMatt Fractionare rockstars. Now all three of them have deals with Legendary to produce original content and adapt some of their beloved comic properties into movies and TV shows. Could this mean that aSagaTV series or aSex Criminalsmovie could be in our future?...

Marvel Superheroes Say You Should Get F**king Vaccinated In New Comic In an ideal world, everyone would listen to science and respect the advice of their doctors — particularly when it comes to holding up our end of the bargain on an individual basis and behaving responsibly in the midst of a pandemic. That’s sadly not the reality we live in (maybethere’s an alternate universe out there where we all safely moved past this by, I don’t know, summer of 2020?...

Matt Berry Thought Toast Of London Would Be The End Of His Voice Acting Career When it comes to comedy, we Brits have a special place in our hearts for utter bastards. We love our pompous jobsworths, self-deluded nincompoops, misanthropic braggarts, our incompetent blowhards. We can’t get enough of self-important little men like Captain Mainwaring in “Dad’s Army,” or the impotent tyranny of Basil Fawlty in “Fawlty Towers,” or bootlicking careerists like Arnold Rimmer in “Red Dwarf....

Natalie Portman Now Negotiating For Lead In Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ One step forward. After Angelina Jolie passed twice on the role,Alfonso Cuaróndecided toofferthe lead role in his space-set thrillerGravitytoNatalie Portman. Now the actress is reportedly in active negotiations to take the role of a woman who is trying to negotiate her way back to safety after she’s stranded in space during a routine repair mission. Cuarón reportedly wanted Portman thanks in large part to her work inBlack Swan, and put the offer out to her for the picture in early September....

Post-Apocalypse Now! Ranking Cinematic Post-Apocalypses From Tolerable To Awful Hollywood loves a good apocalypse. Post-apocalyptic films continue to flourish, and with the way current events seem to be headed, these movies are becoming even more relevant. Be it exciting adventure films or bleak existential reflections, the end of the world is big business for show business. After all, whodoesn’twant to see the human race meet its demise at this point?This week, those damn dirty apes are back forWar For the Planet of the Apes, the latest film in the surprisingly excellent reboot of thePlanet of the Apesfranchise....

Rick Moranis Turned Down Ghostbusters Cameo, May Return To Acting Rick Moranisfans, rejoice! Well, maybe not just yet, but there’s hope for the future. The 62-year-old actor, known for his splendid work inParenthood,Ghostbusters,Spaceballs,Little Shop of Horrors,My Blue Heaven,Streets of Fire,andStrange Brew, isn’t opposed to coming out of retirement. But don’t expect to see a Rick Moranis Ghostbusters cameo in Paul Feig’s upcoming franchise reboot. In 1997, after Moranis' wife tragically passed away from breast cancer, he took a hiatus from acting, to take care of his kids....