The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Star Trek Sequel coming to IMAX and both shooting with IMAX cameras

IMAX, Paramount Pictures and Lionsgate Films have announced that The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the second film in the popular Hunger Games franchise, will be released in the immersive IMAX format on November 22, 2013. Additionally, the as-yet-untitled-sequel to J.J. Abrams’ 2009 blockbuster Star Trek will be released in IMAX 3D on May 17, 2013. ….

Check out this Paramount anniversary photo with Tom Cruise, Chris Rock, Sean Penn, Mark Wahlberg, David Fincher, Leonardo DiCaprio, Steven Spielberg and 110 more

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Paramount Pictures. Founded in 1912 as the Famous Players Film Company, it more than lived up to its billing, claiming silent greats such as Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson, and Rudolph Valentino, not to mention Cecil B. DeMille, who made all his biblical epics for the studio. ….

New poster and images from Dredd film adaptation

Lionsgate has revealed a new poster and images from their upcoming Dredd film adaptation. Based on the famed John Wagner/Carlos Ezquerra comics series, the futuristic thriller Dredd stars Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby and Lena Headey. The film centers on a powerful law enforcement officer (Karl Urban) caught in a high-stakes drug war with his rookie ….

Horror icon Clive Barker tapped by Amazon’s film studio to rewrite Zombies vs. Gladiators

It looks like Amazon.com is serious about getting into production of movies. Today the DVD (and everything else under the sun) retailer announced that Hellraiser creator and prolific horror and fantasy writer Clive Barker will rewrite the action horror project, Zombies vs. Gladiators, for its own Amazon Studios. Based in ancient Rome, Zombies vs. Gladiators ….