Christian Bale In Talks To Play Travis McGee In ‘Deep Blue Good-By’ John D. MacDonald’s long-running character Travis McGee — the star of 21 novels — is moving back towards theaters thanks to a new adaptation of MacDonald’s first McGee novelTheDeep Blue Good-By.James Mangoldis directing, from a script byDennis Lehane, tracking the early days of a “salvage consultant” who helps people out so long as he gets to keep half the value of the Haul....

Comic Con: Dexter Season 3 Previewed I find one of the best shows on television today is Showtime’s serial killer dramaDexter. When I heard Comic-Con was going to have a panel featuring Dexter’s cast and crew, I just had to be in attendance. After waiting over an hour just to sit in the back of an auditorium, I was able to view the newest trailer for the third season. The trailer started off with Dexter getting up in the morning, brushing his teeth, taking a shower…everything that everybody normally does when the get up first get up from bed....

Comic-Con 2015: ‘Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2’ Has A Fond Farewell Panel After an hour ofBill Murray being a rock starin Hall H at Comic-Con in San Diego, things took a different turn when the Lionsgate panel began featuringThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. Four timpani drums were rolled out on the Hall H stage, and as the players banged the drums, a stream of additional drummers entered the hall through the crowd, hitting their instruments with vigor, getting louder and louder until suddenly it was time for a message from District 13....

Daniel Radcliffe Answers Kids' Questions About Magic, Monsters And Even ‘Swiss Army Man’ This weekend, you’re able to seeDaniel Radcliffein the strange but wonderful indieSwiss Army Man. Weloved the film at Sundance earlier this year, and now it’s in release nationwide, hopefully at a theater near you. It’s a far cry from his time spent asHarry Potterin the eight-film franchise, but just because he’s doing more adult films now doesn’t mean kids still don’t have plenty to ask the star....

Director David Lowery Calls ‘The Old Man And The Gun’ A Tribute To Robert Redford, Talks ‘Peter Pan’ The Old Man and the GunisDavid Lowery’s next project. TheAin’t Them Bodies SaintsandPete’s Dragondirectoris reuniting withCasey AffleckandRobert Redfordfor the movie, which is a remarkabletrue storyabout a man who spent much of his life in and out of jail and robbing banks, even when he was nearly 80 years old. Redford is playing that man, Forrest Tucker, in a film Lowery calls a tribute to Redford....

Fairview Trailer: Welcome To Fairview, A Place Of Freedom And Punching Stuff When there’s no more room in Hell, the IP will walk the earth. It’s all about look-backs and revivals these days. The slasher subgenre is enjoying resurgences of its “Scream,” “Texas Chainsaw,” “Candyman,” and “Halloween” franchises, while streaming services are banking on nostalgia with the ’80s-stylized “Stranger Things” and a revival of the iconic “Unsolved Mysteries” docuseries. Now, Comedy Central has followed suit with orders for several adult animated series amid a production-slowing pandemic, mostly throwbacks to another era: a “Ren & Stimpy” reboot is still on the table without the original series creator John Kricfalusi;Beavis and Butt-Headare set to return with a space carved out at Comedy Central rather than MTV (both under the ViacomCBS umbrella); and the angsty ’90s cartoon universe of MTV’s “Daria” expands to bring forth “Jodie,” starring Tracee Ellis Ross doing the voicework for the title role based on Daria’s high school friend from the original series....

Fantastic Fest 2011 Second Wave Announced; Includes ‘Extraterrestrial,’ ‘Melancholia,’ ‘Innkeepers,’ ‘You’re Next’ If you’re a fan of genre film, you’ve had September 22-29 circled on your calendar for months. That’s when one of the most fun, depraved and intimate film festivals in the country once again invades Austin, Texas. It’s calledFantastic Festand it features a huge blend of action, horror and sci-fi movies that most people haven’t heard of at the time, but we all hear about after....

Female ‘Cliffhanger’ Remake Coming From Ana Lily Amirpour Ana Lily Amirpour, director ofThe Bad BatchandA Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, is heading for the mountains with a female-drivenCliffhangerremake. Inspired by the 1993 Sylvester Stallone action film of the same name, this newCliffhangerhopes to tap “into the primal side of an action movie.” Here’s a remake we can totally get behind: Ana Lily Amirpour’sCliffhanger. Whatever you think of the Sylvester StalloneCliffhanger, you can’t argue that it’s an untouchable classic....

First Look: ‘Book Of Life’, From Fox Animation And Guillermo Del Toro Crimson Peakisn’t out until next fall, but we are getting anotherGuillermo del Torotreat in time for this Halloween. Fox Animation’sBook of Life, produced by del Toro and directed byJorge R. Gutierrez, is just getting started on its marketing campaign, and today we have our first look at images from the movie.Diego Lunaleads the voice cast as Manolo, a young romantic who wants to pursue his passion for music, much to his family’s dismay....

First Look: Sam Worthington In Clash Of The Titans Update #2:Warner Bros has provided us with high resolution copies of the photos that appeared inEntertainment Weeklyand Empire Magazine. Warner Bros has released the first two production photo fromLouis Leterrier’s remake ofClash of the Titans. The two stills featureSam Worthingtonas Perseus, “the mortal son of Zeus who was born a god but raised as a man.” Worthington was the best part of Terminator Salvation, and I have high hopes for him in Avatar....

First Look: Skydance Animation’s ‘Luck’ And ‘Spellbound’ Head To Apple In Film And TV Overall Deal Fresh off the debut of its critical darlingWolfwalkers, Apple TV+ is continuing to build out its animated catalogue. Apple has acquired Skydance Animation’s upcoming filmsLuckandSpellboundas part of an overall multi-year deal with the animation studio for feature films and TV. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, Apple and Skydance have struck a multi-year overall deal, in which the animation studio’s feature films and TV series will debut on the Apple TV+ streaming service....

GeekBomb: A Brief History Of Stop-Motion Animation Editor’s Note:This is the debut post by Kevin Kelly, who will be offering his expertise in geekdom in a new /Film daily blog feature called GeekBomb. Welcome Kevin to /Film! Neil Gaiman’sCoralineopens this weekend, and it’s directed by Henry Selick, one of the few modern masters of stop-motion animation. Although he was trained as a traditional animator, he really came to fame with stop-motion, having directedThe Nightmare Before Christmas,James and the Giant Peach, andMonkeybone....

Giovanni Ribisi Will Return For All Four ‘Avatar’ Sequels AsJames Cameroncontinues onward with production for his fourAvatarsequels, the cast has slowly been taking shape. Now another actor who appeared in the first film has been confirmed as returning for all four films.Giovanni Ribisiwill reprise his role as Parker Selfridge. The latestAvatarsequel casting news awaits you below. It’s hard to believe, but James Cameron is finally in production on his long-delayed sequels toAvatar....