Exclusive Kick-Ass movie poster revealed

Right on the heels of the Kick-Ass movie trailer release (SEE HERE), MySpace has exclusively revealed the first theatrical one-sheet for the comic-based film. Kick-Ass hits theaters on April 16, 2010, and stars Aaron Johnson, Chloë Moretz, Nicolas Cage, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, Xander Berkeley, Tamer Hassan, Clark Duke, Lyndsy Fonseca, Omari Hardwick, Michael Rispoli, ….

Mad Men star joins Nicolas Cage in vigilante thriller

January Jones – best known for playing seductive suburban mother Betty Draper on Mad Men – has been cast to play the female lead opposite Nicolas Cage in the vigilante thriller The Hungry Rabbit Jumps. ‘Hungry Rabbit’ is scheduled to start shooting in early December, with James Stern and Tobey Maguire among the producers, along ….

Columbia grabs jail-set action horror film script Supermax

Columbia has nabbed a spec script titled Supermax from actors-turned-writers Mitch Rouse and Christopher Nelson, according to THR. Todd Garner is producing the project. Supermax is an action horror set inside a maximum-security prison for the supernatural, focused on a skilled prison guard who is re-assigned to the facility. After a riot erupts, he must ….

Major film studios bidding for the right to Kick-Ass

Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass is close to securing a distributor, according to THR’s Risky Business blog. Three studios, including Lionsgate, Paramount and Universal, are currently eyeing the brutal comic-book adaptation. According to the report, the winner will have to pony up a high seven-figure sum, plus back-end residuals. Heavy interest was apparently sparked after the film’s ….

Kick-Ass movie updates: director Matthew Vaughn, Nicolas Cage & footage at Comic-Con, new images and animated sequences

New facts and images are popping up for John Romita Jr. and Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass movie adaptation, which is being directed by Matthew Vaughn. To begin with, Romita opened up during an interview with Comic Book Resources about how the source material and adaptation will likely differ. Apparently, he’s resolved to the fact that what ….