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Hans Zimmer Replaces Jack White As ‘The Lone Ranger’ Composer The full-length trailer forGore Verbinski’sThe Lone Rangerreleased this week promised plenty of good stuff from the film: sweeping Western vistas, death-defying stunts, massive explosions, a banged-upArmie Hammer, and a weirdoJohnny Depp. One thing we won’t be getting, however, is a score fromJack White. The former White Stripes frontman signed on this spring for what would have been his first full movie score, but has since exited the project....

Here’s A Hint At What Marvel Has In Store For Hulk In Phase Three It’s a question we’ve been asking for several years. “How is Marvel going to use theHulkoutside ofThe Avengers?' The studio made a solo film starring Edward Norton some years back, itself a reboot of a less successful solo film by Ang Lee. But most felt the character wasn’t right until Joss Whedon’s version inThe Avengers. Now Phase Two is almost over, but we haven’t seen the return of the Hulk, and won’t until theAvengers: Age of Ultron....

How One Manga’s Death Led To The Birth Of Akira Katsuhiro Otomo is best known for his groundbreaking cyberpunk manga “Akira,” along with its 1988 feature film adaptation which he co-wrote and directed. “Akira” is not only amassive influence in the world of animation, but it also served as the foothold for anime in the United States. But the origins of “Akira” lie in another manga that Otomo wrote but never completed, and the experiences on that manga had a major influence on the artist’s vision for “Akira....

Jai Courtney On ‘Semper Fi’ And His Humbling Hollywood Journey [Interview] We all know the nameJai Courtney. The Australian actor first broke out on the Starz seriesSpartacusand later landed roles in a string of high-profile movies likeSuicide Squad,Terminator: GenisysandJack Reacher. Between those movies, he’s gravitated towards more grounded roles in dramas likeFelony,The Water Diviner, andUnbroken. He himself says it’s the intimate dramas that are more to his taste. Movies like director Henry Alex Rubin’sSemper Fiare right up his alley....

James Cameron Consulted On BP Oil Spill Cleanup Ideas If Kevin Costner won’t save our oceans, who will? How aboutJames Cameron? As if it isn’t enough thatKevin Costner’s water-therapy machine could be deployedto help clean up the BP oil spill along the Gulf coast, James Cameron has been ‘brainstorming’ with scientists about ways to contain the spill. Reutersreports that Cameron’s session with “scientists, academics and Washington officials " took place yesterday and was “part of the federal government’s ongoing efforts to hear from stakeholders, scientists and experts from academia, government and the private sector as we continue to respond to the BP oil spill....

Jason Statham Will Headbutt A Prehistoric Shark In ‘Meg’ Steve Alten’sMeg: A Novel of Deep Terrorwas first published in 1997 and the film adaptation has been in development for almost as long. Every few years, someone commits to a film adaptation of this tale of Man versus Giant Prehistoric Killer Shark and every few years, the whole thing falls apart. Now, nearly twenty years after the initial plans to make this movie, a new batch of names have become associated with the project....

Jim Gaffigan To Play Late Toronto Mayor Rob Ford In A New AMC Limited Series Jim Gaffiganis mostly know for his stand-up comedy antics and being a hilarious character actor. But he’s recently turned in some solid work in indie dramas and thrillers such asLight from Light, Them That Follow, andChappaquiddick. Soon he’ll stretch his dramatic chops with a little bit of dark comedy by leading his own limited series at AMC that will see him playing late, former Toronto MayorRob Ford, who was infamously caught smoking crack cocaine during his re-election campaign and had a reputation for being a substance abusing party guy....

Lee Daniels Directing Matthew McConaughey, Tobey Maguire, Sofia Vergara & Zac Efron In ‘The Paperboy’ Making a decision about his follow-up toPrecioushasn’t been a speedy process forLee Daniels. He was developingSelmafor some time, before lack of funding and complications with the Martin Luther King estate pushed that away. There is the Black List scriptThe Butler, which waslookinglike his next project (and may still be). There were other possibilities, too: the musicalThe Scottsboro Boys, a remake ofNights of Cabiria(please: no) andAnna in the Tropics....

LOL: ‘Key And Peele’ Reveals Ray Parker Jr. Songs For ‘Face/Off’ And ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Key and Peeleis gone; take a moment to reflect on the show’s passing. The show’s lead duo,Keegan-Michael KeyandJordan Peele, pulled the old Police move, quitting the show while it was on top and in so doing allowing the five-season series to go out on a high note. The last two episodes aired last night, with quite a few memorable sketches....

Matt Reeves Confirms Colin Farrell As The Penguin In ‘The Batman’ [Updated] Update 22-06-2025: Thus far, Farrell was one of the only major actors who had not been officially confirmed by Matt Reeves to be a part ofThe Batman’s cast. But that finally changed late this afternoon with the following tweet: Wait — is that you,#Oz? 🦇pic.twitter.com/xHj9m6OXhf — Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA)July 04, 2025 Our initial article from June 11, 2025 continues below....

More ‘Wonder Woman’ Rumors: Is It A ‘Batman V Superman’ Prequel? Wonder Womanis just a few weeks away from the start of production, and there still isn’t a whole lot we know about it. It’s confirmed thatGal GadotandChris Pinewill star for directorPatty Jenkins, and that it’s opening onJune 23, 2017. Warner Bros. has not said a peep about when it will take place, or what it will be about, or how it’ll fit in with the rest of the DCEU....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Obscure Horror Movies To Watch Before Halloween When we talk aboutHalloweenandFriday the 13thlaunching a wave of rip-offs, we’re talking about movies likeFinal Exam. It came out so soon afterFriday the 13ththat you’d think its similarities were coincidences, but the truth is that MPM Productions simply made the movie double quick. Six months from absolutely nothing to prints in theaters. They made it on the cheap and dirty, and it rips off all sorts of visuals, but it’s still good....

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy Teaser Trailer And Details WithJackie Earl Haileyhaving officially declawedRobert Englundand becomeFreddy Kruegerfor a new and possibly even-more-horrific decade, an extensive documentary on the franchise,A Nightmare on Elm Street,and the series' tremendous contribution to horroris both relevant and overdue. Thankfully,the director in charge of the task isDaniel Farrands, who previously helmed last year’s thorough, appreciative, and online-press-friendlyFriday the 13thdoc,His Name Was Jason. EntitledNever Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, and due for release in 2010, this time Farrands is directing alongsideAndrew KaschofDread Central....