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/Film LA: Hero Complex Film Festival Features ‘Dick Tracy’ With Warren Beatty, ‘Superman’ With Richard Donner, ‘Iron Man’ With Jon Favreau And More Dick Tracy, Iron Man, Captain Kirk, Superman and the Incredibles will all be represented at the upcomingHero Complex Film Festival. Presented by theLos Angeles TimesHero Complex, it’ll not only feature screenings but in depth Q&A’s with several important and influential filmmakers. The event runs from June 9-12 at the Chinese 6 Theater in Hollywood CA and kicks off with a screening ofDick Tracyfollowed by Q&A withWarren Beatty....

Aaron Paul Breaks From Jesse Pinkman And Takes The Wheel In ‘Need For Speed’ [Edit Bay Interview] What do you do after spending five years creating one of the lead characters on a TV show commonly cited as among the best to ever air? ForAaron Paul, whose breakout role as Jesse Pinkman onBreaking Badlaunched his career to new levels of popularity, the choice was simple: do something different. Asked if his lead role in the video game adaptation-turned-car action filmNeed for Speedwas intended as a break from the show, Paul said “Yes, absolutely....

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Is Killer Croc In ‘Suicide Squad,’ Timeline Revealed Batman maybe fighting Superman in the next DC Universe film, but after that they’re really adding to his Rogue’s Gallery. We already know that the Joker will appear inSuicide Squadalong side Harley Quinn, Enchantress, Captain Boomarang, Deadshot and Rick Flagg. Now, another major DC bad guy is joining the mix. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbajehas been cast as Killer Croc in theDavid Ayerdirected film....

Avatar 2 May Go Off Pandora, And Other Sequel Tidbits GivenAvatar’sstrong showing at the box office for the past few weekends, and that James Cameron and Fox have invested considerable amounts of blood and money in the film, you can rest assured that we’re going to get a sequel (and most likely a third film to complete the trilogy). The only question now is what those sequels will be about....

Big Mouth Season 5: Release Date, Cast, And More (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) “Big Mouth” has helped to cement Netflix as a destination for animation in recent years. Debuting in 2017, the adult animated comedy has become a true favorite for both critics and viewers alike....

Cool Stuff: Lou Romano’s Color Script For Pixar’s Up In High Resolution We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Earlier this monthwe featuredsome of Pixar artistLou Romano’s amazing color script for Pete Docter’s Up. But at the time it was very low res, a broad overview of the color board. Romano has now posted high resolution scans of all of the panels of the Up color script on his official blog....

Director Luc Besson On Putting ‘Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets’ Together Piece By Piece [Interview] When filmmakerLuc Bessonwas 10 years old, he was reading the comic book he’d adapt into a massive feature film 48 years later. Based onPierre Christinand artistJean-Claude Mézières' “Ambassador of Shadows,” published in 1975, Besson has brought their colorful, wacky world to to the big screen with his personal touch on every frame. From the complex, clever set pieces to the jokes to the colorful environments,Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planetsis pure Besson....

Here Comes An ‘Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind’ TV Series No One Asked For There are countless films being turned into TV shows right now. Some of the more recent projects in development include shows based onThe DepartedandLet The Right One In, and now one more revered film will be brought to the small screen. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mindis one of the best movies of the 21st century (not to mentionone of my favorites of all time) and now the film’s producer is in early development to turn the film into a TV series....

Interview: Spike Jonze Talks About His New Short Film We Were Once A Fairytale It was only a few weeks ago that I flew out to Los Angeles to talk with filmmakerSpike Jonzeabout his adaptation ofWhere The Wild Things Are. I really wasn’t expecting to hear back from Spike until the next film, probably a couple years down the line. Last week, Jonze’s new short filmWe Were Once a Fairytaleleaked online, and the filmmaker wanted to touch base again and talk about the new project....

Jeremy Renner To Co-Star With Tom Cruise In ‘Mission: Impossible 4’ There’s been a lot of talk about how Paramount would manageMission: Impossible 4after the not outrageously good box-office ofKnight and Day. (Which was also not outrageously disappointing, as the film has made twice in foreign markets what it pulled domestically.) The big idea was that the studio would expand the script a bit to be split more evenly betweenTom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt character and another operative....

Jurassic World 2: Colin Trevorrow And Frank Marshall Talk Future Of The Franchise Jurassic Worlddominated the box office this past weekend, raking in over $511 million worldwide making it the #1 global opening of all-time. And over the weekend we told you thatChris Prattis already signed on for the inevitableJurassic Worldsequels. We havea lot of cluesas to whatJurassic World 2might be about and who might be involved, and we knowJurassic WorlddirectorColin Trevorrowhas said that he won’t be back in the director’s chair....

Lexi Alexander To Direct ‘Crossface’ About Wrestler Turned Murderer Chris Benoit We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Green Street Hooligans/Punisher: War ZonedirectorLexi Alexanderhas signed on to direct a feature film about former professional wrestlerChris Benoit. The biographical thriller will be based onMatthew Randazzo V’s bookRing of Hell: The Story of Chris Benoit and the Fall of the Pro Wrestling Industry, and tell the story of the famous WWE (then WWF) pro wrestler who murdered his wife and 7-year-old son and then killed himself....

Lionsgate Plans ‘Action No.1,’ About Theft Of Nicolas Cage’s Superman Debut In 2000, theNicolas Cage-owned copy ofAction Comics No. 1, featuring the first appearance of Superman, was stolen from the actor. The mint-condition issue, worth upwards of $1.5m, was missing until 2011, when the comic wasfoundin an abandoned storage locker in the San Fernando Valley. Robert Ben GarantandThomas Lennon(Reno 911!,Night at the Museum) have scripted a film calledAction No. 1that covers the theft, or at least a fictionalized version of it....