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First footage from Robert Zemekis’ A Christmas Carol & will there be a Roger Rabbit sequel?

I just watched the first official clips from A Christmas Carol. Someone just asked director Robert Zemekis if he’ll ever do a sequel to Who Framed Robert Rabbit? He said “I can’t officially confirm or deny anything right now, I can say that we would leave the main character 2D.” About the footage? The first ….

Leonardo DiCaprio’s new Twilight Zone film gets new writer

Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way have taken a step closer to creating a film based on the cult classic TV show The Twilight Zone, by contracting TV series Life show creator Rand Ravich to write a screenplay for the project. Aside from creating Life, Ravich directed The Astronaut’s Wife and produced ….

Star Wars: The Clone Wars – The Complete Season One coming to DVD and Blu-ray in November

Star Wars: The Clone Wars – The Complete Season One is coming to DVD and high-definition Blu-ray Disc on November 3, 2009 from Lucasfilm and Warner Home Video. Live the adventures again and again, and dig deeper into the first season of The Clone Wars with a comprehensive look behind-the-scenes of the popular animated series. ….

Check out these two new character posters for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Two sweet new posters for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time have been posted at Empire. The one-sheets feature Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton character close-ups, upping the ante of this film to historical epic status. Based on the popular series of videogames, the story revolves around a rogue prince named Dastan (Gyllenhaal) and ….

Kelly LeBrock, ‘The Woman in Red’, to make first-ever Comic Con appearance to promote spicy new tell-all book

Kelly LeBrock, mega model and iconic star of the cult classics comedies Weird Science and The Woman in Red, will be appearing at Catastrophic Comics booth #2109 to sign autographs Friday July 24th, from 12PM to 3PM. LeBrock, who has enjoyed a long and successful acting career, was also a hugely popular model, appearing on ….

The Hills will Run Red at Comic-Con ’09 plus DVD art for the horror

The new trailer for the horror film The Hills Run Red will premiere as part of Warner Brothers’ Trick or Treat panel on Thursday, July 24. Director Dave Parker and producer Robert Meyer Burnett will also be signing movie posters from the film at the Warner booth from 5:30pm-6:15pm on Friday, July 24th. The Hills ….

Morgan Freeman may join espionage comic adaptation Red

Morgan Freeman is currently in negotiations to star opposite Bruce Willis in Summit Entertainment’s espionage thriller Red, to be based on the three-book WildStorm/DC comic series, according to Variety. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian are producing the film, with DC’s Gregory Noveck on board as executive producer. Erich and Jon Hoeber are writing the ….

Will Mesrine be the French Scarface? Watch these clips and decide for yourself

Jacques Mesrine, last of the great French gangsters, was declared France’s Public Enemy Number One during his lifetime. He regularly finished on top among the list of newsmakers in opinion polls. His spectacular death, shot full of holes by police at close range at the center of Paris in 1979, put the crowning touch on ….

Michael Jackson film on the way, based on concert rehearsal footage

Sony Pictures is closing in on a deal to release a feature film on Michael Jackson, working primarily from the 80 hours of rehearsal footage shot for the concerts Jackson was preparing to perform in London, according to Variety. The film will feature at least three videos, including an alternative version of Jackson’s Thriller, which ….

New images from Twilight Saga: New Moon released by Summit Entertainment

Summit Entertainment has released a group of images for The Twilight Saga: New Moon, featuring a few new ones, including a behind-the-scenes shot of director Chris Weitz on the set with star Kristen Stewart. Click on the image of Taylor Lautner below to view the entire set at Sci-Fi Wire. New Moon will be previewed ….

Check out this Saw VI motion poster ahead of the first trailer this week

Check out this motion poster that Yahoo! Movies just posted on their website. It’s quite a departure from traditional Saw posters, which usually have a much darker tone and feature nurses or a pig head in blood. In the sequel, Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to ….

Still time to win free tickets to the District 9 screening at Comic-Con ’09

Yahoo is running a giveaway promotion for the District 9 screening at Comic-Con, on their Twitter page @yahoomovies. But hurry, the contest ends tonight at midnight! The total giveaway includes 14 pairs of District 9 screening passes for this Thursday, July 23rd at 7:00pm at the Horton Plaza Theater in San Diego, CA. Here are ….