F rom director Tim Burton and writer Linda Woolverton comes a magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time. This week several new photos from Tim Burton s Alice in Wonderland have been released and they feature The White Queen, Bayard, Bandersnatch, and Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Alice in Wonderland stars Australian actress Mia Wasikowska in the title role and is based on a combination of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the unofficial sequel, Through the Looking Glass. (Read More...)

I nteract by visiting MySpace Trailer Park to choose a weapon from the film's characters including Kick-Ass, Hit-Girl, Big Daddy, and Red Mist. Lionsgate has released a new red-band trailer for Kick-Ass, a big screen adaptation based on the comic book of the same name. Kick-Ass tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. (Read More...)

N ow Deadline Hollywood has the details on what might be their first project together, and the people of Boston are not going to be happy to hear about this one. I wonder how Yankees fans might feel about a couple of die-hard Red Sox fans working on a film about two 70s NY Yankees players. Ben Affleck is now attached to direct and possibly star in The Trade, a film about the scandal that broke open in 1973 when two Yankees players revealed that they'd swapped wives. (Read More...)

I n a few weeks Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin will take the stage in Hollywood to host the 2010 Academy Awards. Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic, the producers of the upcoming 82nd annual Academy Awards, think way outside the box. The pairing of showbiz veterans Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin seemed plenty safe enough when they were announced as this year's Oscars co-hosts. (Read More...)

S hutter Island marks the fourth collaboration between director Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio, a teaming which has proven successful time and time again. It's difficult to talk about a film like SHUTTER ISLAND in any great length, because, for the most part, the film works masterfully. The direction of SHUTTER ISLAND, to say the very least, isn't the problem with the film. (Read More...)

H idden in an LA Times article profiling horror director Wes Craven is the following mention: Craven recently finished "My Soul to Take," which is scheduled for release sometime this year. In an interview with LA Times' Hero Complex the now 70 year-old Wes Craven discussed his past, present, and future, including what his next project is after just finishing "Soul To Take". The LA Times blog wrote a piece on legendary horror director Wes Craven, and right before the article ends, said publication drops the bomb - production for Scream 4 will begin in May. (Read More...)

E wan McGregor lands an interesting role as the Ghost to former British PM Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), hired to revise Lang's memoires. After being accused of war crimes, Lang takes refuge in America with his wife, Ruth (Olivia Williams) and executive assistant-slash-booty call, Amelia (Kim Cattrall). Watching the film, I was convinced that had a "blind" screening been arranged-wherein a cinema-savvy audience was not aware of the director's identity-hardly anyone would claim this a work by a masterful filmmaker. (Read More...)

W hat will Steven Spilerberg s Tintin look like? The motion-capture work for his adaptation of Herge's classic comic character was shot last year, with Peter Jackson and WETA now working on post-production. We have yet to see a single design that shows off what the character will look like when the film appears in theaters next year. Except he uses millions of his own money to make the toys, create a demand and then sell the toys for a gigantic profit.

W alt Disney Pictures has released a new featurette for the big screen adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Titled "Creating an Epic", the three-minute video takes a look at the huge locations with grueling conditions, large set creations, large cast of extras, enormous scope, and "amazing" visual effects. Executive Producers: Mike Stenson, Chad Oman, John August, Jordan Mechner, Patrick McCormick, Eric McLeod. (Read More...)

S ometimes fandom brings pain, and in the case of Owen Wilson, that pain comes in the form of a large and slobbering great dane. But if that whole Marmaduke thing just turns you off (as well as that Meet the Fockers sequel), and Fantastic Mr. Fox wasn't enough to comfort your hurt Wilson fandom, this next bit of news should please you. According to THR's Risky Business, Owen Wilson has been cast in Woody Allen's next film, which will shoot in Paris this summer. (Read More...)

W arner Bros. Pictures has released six new clips and six wallpapers for the Kevin Smith -directed action-comedy Cop Out. Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Cop Out stars Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Jason Lee, Michelle Trachtenberg, Adam Brody, Seann William Scott, Kevin Pollak and Mark Consuelos. (Read More...)

A fter a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, the men wake up, heads pounding, in the year 1986. This is their chance to kick some past and change their futures - one will find a new love life, one will learn to stand up for himself with the ladies, one will find his mojo, and one will make sure he still exists. Hot Tube Time Machine is directed by Steve Pink (Accepted) and hits theaters on March 19, 2010 (Read More...)

T he National Science Foundation and the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts have launched a partnership aimed at improving the relationship between science and showbiz. The USC School of Cinematic Arts is partnering with the National Science Foundation's Office of Legislative and Public Affairs to launch the Creative Science Studio, which will open its doors on the USC campus in the fall. Dubbed CS2, the program is designed to bring NSF-supported researchers together with entertainment scholars and professionals with the goal of spreading scientific information and concepts to a broad public audience.

T he trio are all going in the same direction, but quickly find their relationships forging and changing in many ways. At the press day for the film, Kristen Stewart talked about what drew her to this smaller, independent film. If the role is bigger, that's just more to chew on, and that's always good. (Read More...)

O scar-winning actor Sean Penn was slapped with criminal charges on Friday after allegedly attacking a photographer in Los Angeles last year, city prosecutors said. Penn, who is alleged to have kicked his victim in the leg, is to be arraigned on March 22. If convicted of the misdemeanor counts, Penn faces a maximum of 18 months in jail, according to a spokesman for the attorney's office. (Read More...)

H is latest, the virus outbreak thriller "Contagion" has already signed on Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow, and now word is that Laurence Fishburne, Morpheus himself, may also join up if his schedule permits. The film will have most of the big names playing doctors who are called to duty by the Centers for Disease Control when a major viral outbreak starts killing people around the world. No specific plot details, but the action-thriller takes place over four continents and centers on a terrifying deadly virus outbreak.

D isney Parks has confirmed that the Francis Ford Coppola -directed/ George Lucas -produced Michael Jackson sci-fi action 3D musical short film Captain EO will return to Disneyland's Tomorrowland beginning on Tuesday, February 23rd 2010. As a tribute to the magic, music and messages of "Captain EO," the 3-D musical adventure is returning to the Tomorrowland theater in which it debuted. In a way, the wave of 3D movies youre being wowed by now started there, in Walt Disney Worlds Center, with a 3D film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, co-written by George Lucas, and starring a pre-creepy Michael Jackson.

P erhaps his work on The Wire, or his roles in movies such as The Lovely Bones, 2012 or Duplicity (those are his most recent). He co-wrote Pixar s Oscar-nominated Up and wrote and directed The Visitor, the 2007 film that earned Richard Jenkins an Oscar nom. We have already written a little bit about Win Win, the next project from The Visitor director Tom McCarthy, which will be about high school wrestlers in New Jersey, among other things. (Read More...)

I n some ways or another, the tragedy and triumph behind Walt Disney Animation studios, a place synonymous for magical wonderment and quality storytelling, is just as suspenseful as the animated films they create itself. Its hard to imagine that before the Disney Renaissance era when the studio was at its very top of the game was once in danger of shutting down and thus denied us a string of animated classics like The Lion King. The film tracks the interesting tale is the story behind the creation of those films, and the growing power struggle between Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Eisner and Roy Disney.

L eonardo DiCaprio is moving from one thriller, the recently released Shutter Island, to another, the upcoming Aaron Guzikowski-scripted drama Prisoners. The film has been making the rounds for a while - at one point Antoine Fuqua was set to direct, but has since moved on. According to Deadline Hollywood, the film follows "a small-town carpenter who takes matters into his own hands when is daughter and her friend are kidnapped". (Read More...)

T he film, which recently made its world premiere at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, stars Luke Wilson, James Caan, Giovanni Ribisi and Gabriel Macht. In their film fest review, Variety called it "Boogie Nights' meets Goodfellas'" and called the film "a sleazy but undeniably intriguing tour of the bottom-feeding netherworld where porn and organized crime do their mutual bump-and-grind". Paramount made a ton of money when they picked up Paranormal Activity for pennies, and bless them, they're trying to recreate the same formula. (Read More...)

T his time however, he will be joining the CBS sitcom based on the popular Twitter account Shit My Dad Says, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The online project of Justin Halpern has been optioned by the network after his Twitter profile (shitmydadsays) accumulated over 1.17 million followers between August and the present. In early August, Halpern, 29, had moved back in with his parents in San Diego and decided to begin chronicling the interesting statements made daily by his 73-year old father. (Read More...)