Source: Deadline | Posted By: Dan Geer

Matt Reeves, director of Cloverfield and Let Me In, has been hired by Warner Brothers to direct the film version of The Twilight Zone that Appian Way, Leonardo Dicaprio’s film company, has been working to get off the ground for a few years now. Apparently, other well-known directors were on Warner Brothers’ shortlist to direct, such as Christopher Nolan and Alfonso Cuaron, but Reeves apparently ended up being their final choice. Dicaprio, as well as his Appian Way partners, Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Michael Ireland, are set to produce, with Warner Bros’ Matt Cherniss overseeing the project as executive producer. Read on for more info!

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Source: StarWars.com | EW | Posted By: Dan Geer

Last March, Lucasfilm announced that Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace would be converted to 3-D and released on February 10th, 2012 (providing that it proves successful enough at the box office, the remaining films will also be converted to 3-D and released some time later). Starting next week on October 21st, Star Wars fans can check out a glimpse of it in a new trailer attached to the 3-D release of Paul W.S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers!

Also, while it is not really news to people who watched Season 3 of Cartoon Network’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars, it has been made truly official that Darth Maul, the Sith apprentice that supposedly met his demise at the hand of Obi-Wan Kenobi in The Phantom Menace, will be resurrected for an appearance in The Clone Wars next spring! Hit the jump for details on his return, as well as a look at the new poster for Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 3-D!

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Source: Deadline | Posted By: Dan Geer

Last March, it was reported that Stuart Beattie (co-writer of 30 Days of Night and the Pirates of the Caribbean films) was chosen to direct the upcoming film adaptation of Underworld writer Kevin Grevioux‘s graphic novel, I, Frankenstein – which is set to start filming in January. At the time, one big question remained: Just who exactly would play the Frankenstein Monster?

Today, Deadline is reporting that Aaron Eckhart, who famously played Harvey Dent/Two-Face in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, has indeed landed the title role! Read on for more info!

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Source: Deadline | LA Times | Posted By: Dan Geer

It looks like director Kevin Tancharoen‘s Mortal Kombat web series has paid off. It appears that his first unauthorized short film, Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, as well as its corresponding web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy, inadvertently acted as a kind of audition for directing a feature film reboot of the franchise (which first started out as a video game series, followed by a couple of disappointing feature films in the 90s). News hit yesterday via Deadline that New Line Cinema loved what Kevin Tancharoen did with the series, and ended up recruiting him, along with the original writer of the short film and web series, Oren Uziel for a new feature film. Hit the jump for more info, and to watch the Episode 9 of Tancharoen‘s Mortal Kombat: Legacy featuring Cyrax and Sektor (which I somehow completely missed when it debuted online)!

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Source: THR | XFilesNews.com | EmmyTVLegends | Posted By: Dan Geer

This is a day I have been waiting for ever since FOX’s hit sci-fi series The X-Files ended its nine-year run back in 2002. THR is reporting that the show’s creator, Chris Carter, is finally returning to the small screen with a new “female-lead mystery police thriller” with a “supernatural element” to it titled Unique. No word on what network will pick up the show, which is being set up through Media Rights Capital, but my guess is that FOX will be fighting for this one.

Despite being an in-demand director and producer, Carter has pretty much been off the grid since The X-Files ended, with only a brief return to the big screen in 2008 with The X-Files: I Want to Believe, the franchise’s second (and hopefully not final) feature film. After developing such a widely popular TV series that put the FOX network on the map back in the 90s and redefined what could be accomplished on television, it was pretty much inevitable that Carter would return to the small screen.

For a great refresher on the career of Chris Carter, hit the jump to watch his extensive interview with the Archive of American Television!

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Source: AMC | Collider | Posted By: Dan Geer

AMC has announced that, starting October 3rd at 2PM EST, they will be hosting a new 6-episode web series on amctv.com for The Walking Dead leading up to the premiere of Season 2 on October 16th. The series will tell the back story of the “Bicycle Girl” zombie Rick Grimes (played by Andrew Lincoln) shot in the pilot episode of Season 1. Even though she was a very minor character in the show, her scene is also one of the most memorable, so this is sure to be an adequate way to hold us over until the second season premieres.

In other news, a new Season 2 trailer for The Walking Dead has hit the web. It contains some material we’ve seen before, but the majority of it is brand new. Check it out after the jump!

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Source: /Film | Posted By: Dan Geer

♫ So be good, for goodness sake. WHOOOA! Some movie’s comin’! Some movie’s comin’ to town… ♫

While we all wait to see whether or not Ghostbusters 3 will actually happen (I’ll believe it when I see it), it looks like many of us will be able to re-experience the original film in theaters this October! We’ve been hearing rumblings of the film’s return to the big screen for the last week or so, but now an official press release has been issued for the return of Ghostbusters, playing for three nights this October in select theaters in 2K digital with 5.1 surround sound! Read on for more info!

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Source: Back to Frank Black | Reflections of Film and Television | Posted By: Dan Geer

Yup, Fall is just around the corner. For many, this means enjoying cooler weather, taking in breathtaking colorful landscapes, going on hay rides, consuming cider and donuts in mass quantities, etc. The season definitely has its fair share of traditional “harvest-centric” activities. But, of course, Halloween is the Fall event people tend to look forward to the most – which, for movie fans, means watching as many horror films as humanly possible through October 31st.

In the spirit of the upcoming horror movie season, the guys from Millennium fan site Back to Frank Black have sent over a recommendation for a new book called Horror Films of the 1990s, written by their good friend and award-winning author John Kenneth Muir. The book is a followup to his other two horror movie books – Horror Films of the 1970s and Horror Films of the 1980s – consisting of 700 pages analyzing over 300 horror films between 1990 and 1999. If you want to brush up on your knowledge of the horror genre as it existed in the 90s, this is definitely the book to get. Read on to find out a bit more about the book and author John Kenneth Muir!

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Source: /Film | Cool Hunting | Posted By: Dan Geer

A little over a year ago, news broke that Nike would be developing the futuristic self-lacing sneakers that Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future Part II, but it was not known at the time when they’d be made available. Well, as of yesterday, the limited edition shoes, called the “Nike Mag” sneakers, officially went up for auction at nikemag.ebay.com to benefit The Michael J. Fox Foundation. However, while Nike filed the Automatic Lacing System patent back in 2009, it appears the current Nike Mag shoes do not actually lace themselves… yet.

Most likely, you won’t be able to afford them, as the price for them is well over $5,000 at this point. But, after the jump, you can read the official press release for the event, as well as watch a great Nike Mag promotional video directed by Back to the Future producer Frank Marshall – which stars NBA Basketball player Kevin Durant, SNL’s Bill Hader, and of course Christopher Lloyd reprising the role of Doctor Emmett L. Brown! The video hints that perhaps the self-lacing mechanism could be put into effect by 2015, which is, of course, when Marty McFly actually obtains the shoes in Back to the Future Part II.

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Source: Bleeding Cool | Posted By: Dan Geer

Fanboys around the world can whine all they want every time George Lucas tweaks his Star Wars films. Heck, even I whined a bit last week about Darth Vader’s new dialogue in Return of the Jedi. But, if you really do love Star Wars, is that really going to stop you from experiencing the Saga remastered in High Definition picture and sound in the comfort of your own home when it arrives on Blu-ray next week? Not likely. If you’re a fan, you’ll buy it. We all know you will.

Also, the mere fact that the Star Wars Saga Setcontains over 40 hours of great bonus features will make it even harder to resist. In order to whet your appetite even more, a full list of all 45 deleted scenes that will be included with the set (most of which have never been seen by the general public) has finally made its way online, and you can check it below!

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