Source: The Dark Knight Rises Official Website | FirstShowing.net | Posted By: Dan Geer

Today, the official website for Christopher Nolan’s highly-anticipated film, The Dark Knight Rises finally launched, delivering quite an odd viral campaign for the film. If you go to the website, it takes you to a black page with an audio clip of strange chanting playing in the background. If you’re much, much smarter than I am, you’ll figure out that the audio file can lead you to a Twitter feed called @TheFireRises that sends out replies to users putting the hashtag #TheFireRises in a status update, which in turn takes user avatars to compose a mosaic that will eventually reveal an image of Tom Hardy as Bane. Whew!

While the Twitter feed is still sending out replies as of right now, thankfully someone got their timing screwed up and already posted the photo on The Dark Knight Rises Facebook page. Hit the jump to check it out!

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Source: THR | Posted By: Dan Geer

Last week, some reports appeared online claiming that the Universal-Imagine-NBC film/TV adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower book series hit some snags and that the project was in turnaround (meaning it might not happen or could move to another studio home).

Yesterday, Universal stated that they are in fact keeping the project, but that the “snags” that were reported had to do with budgetary concerns the studio has. As of right now, producers Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Akiva Goldsman are working on trying to bring the budget down. Read on for more info and speculation on what this could mean for Universal’s epic project.

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Source: TheForce.net | StarWars.com | Posted By: Dan Geer

In correspondence to May 4th being “Star Wars Day” (May the 4th be with you! Get it?), Lucasfilm has released a more detailed press release regarding the upcoming Star Wars Saga Blu-ray set!

Lucasfilm used a creative way to get the details out by launching a teaser site for the release where users could “share” a link to the site via Twitter and Facebook, which would in turn reveal more and more information until Lucasfilm’s quota of shares was reached. Since it has reached 100%, all details have now been revealed! Read on to see what goodies await!

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Source: Peter Jackson Facebook | Posted By: Dan Geer

Last week, Peter Jackson delivered the sad news that Rob Kazinsky, who was originally cast as Fili the dwarf in The Hobbit films, had to drop out of the project for personal reasons. Today, Jackson announced that Kiwi actor Dean O’Gorman (The Almighty Johnsons) will serve as Kazinsky‘s replacement, and also revealed that Lee Pace (The Fall) will play the Elven King Thrandruil! Read on to check out the official announcement!

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Source: Alex Winter Twitter | /Film | Posted By: Dan Geer

A couple of weeks ago, Keanu Reeves gave MTV an update on the script for Bill & Ted 3, saying that it was six weeks away from being completed by writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, who also wrote Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.

Now, Alex Winter, who played Bill in the previous two installments, has revealed via Twitter that the script is already finished! Read on for more!

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Source: Peter Jackson Facebook | Posted By: Dan Geer

While answering the question of who was narrating Bilbo Baggins at the end of his first video blog (it was actually Martin Freeman), Peter Jackson inadvertently confirmed in a recent update on his Facebook page that Ian Holm will be reprising the role of old Bilbo Baggins in the films.

Not only that, but today he says that Rob Kazinsky, who was initially cast as Fili the dwarf, is now having to leave the production due to personal reasons, which means a replacement must be found to fill the role. Read on for the updates!

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Source: Deadline | Posted By: Dan Geer

Zack Snyder, you sly one, you!

Originally, it was reported that General Zod would be the main villain in Zack Snyder‘s upcoming Superman reboot, now simply titled Man of Steel. Then, Snyder shot down those rumors saying that those reports were “just wrong” and that “the internet has no idea what’s going on.”

Well, apparently the internet does know what’s going on after all, because today Warner Brothers announced that actor Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire, Vanilla Sky) will in fact be portraying Zod in the film. Read on for the official press release!

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Source: Plan 9 Movie | Screen Rant | The Mary Sue | Posted By: Dan Geer

This is the first time I have heard about this, but apparently there have been plans to remake Ed Wood‘s infamous Plan 9 from Outer Space (known for being “the worst film ever made”) for quite some time now.

Darkstone Entertainment, primarily known for making extremely low-budget independent horror films, announced some time in 2008 that director John Johnson would be remaking the film, simply titled Plan 9. It was originally slated for release on 9/9/2009 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the original film, but that never happened. Now, it looks like production has in fact finally started on the film, according to The Mary Sue. You can even watch a teaser trailer for the “serious-minded” remake after the jump!

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Source: Comic Book Movie | /Film | Posted By: Dan Geer

20th Century Fox’s upcoming Planet of the Apes prequel, Rise of the Apes, has gone through quite a few different titles. First, it was Caesar, in reference to the main Ape character from Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. Later on, it was retitled to Caesar: Rise of the Apes. Then, it was changed yet again to simply Rise of the Apes.

Now, Comic Book Movie has learned that the title has been officially changed to Rise of the Planet of the Apes to help the movie tie in more with the original films (hopefully this is the last time they change it). Read on for more info!

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Source: MTV Movies Blog | Posted By: Dan Geer

Actors Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves, stars of the Bill and Ted movies, have both publicly discussed the possibility of a third film in the last year or so, claiming that a script is currently in the works by the original writers of the first two movies. While many found this difficult to believe, Reeves recently told MTV that the writers are about six weeks away from turning it in!

Could Bill and Ted 3 really happen? Hit the jump to watch the interview!

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