Just over the transom at Movieline comes word from Lionsgate that Paz de la Huerta has been cast as the lead in Nurse 3D, a psycho sexual thriller about a sinister caretaker from director Doug Aarniokoski. Click ahead for more project details and your first look at the sultry actress covered by blood -- and not much else!
Don't think Woody Allen is pausing to celebrate the pending coronation of Midnight in Paris as his biggest box office hit ever (the summer art house sensation will top Hannah and Her Sisters sometime this week). The Oscar winner is busy filming Bop Decameron in Italy this summer, and here's a first look at the Woodman doing his best to direct Penelope Cruz and her fire engine-red dress on the set. Help Movieline caption this one after the jump.
If you're into sword-wielding dwarves with windblown hair, brooding stares and a hook-up to Middle-earth, does Peter Jackson have the men for you! After releasing photos of his epic film's Company of Dwarves (Dori, Nori, Ori, Óin and Glóin) last week, the New Zealand director introduces fans to another dwarf duo today. Meet Kíli and Fíli.
As soon as Movieline heard that Mad Men's Jared Harris would be playing Sherlock Holmes's archenemy Moriarty in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock sequel A Game of Shadows, we were intrigued. After all, how would the Sterling Cooper taskmaster stack up against the long line of actors who have played Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's criminal mastermind -- including Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Henry Daniell, Paul Freeman and Vincent D'Donofrio? We may not have the answer just yet but we do have the first image of Harris as the "Napoleon of Crime."
As promised last week, teaser materials for Chris Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises have begun to hit the web, starting with your first look at the threequel's first teaser poster -- a nifty upward shot of Gotham City crumbling to reveal a bat shape in the sky. Hit the jump for a full look at the poster and keep an eye out for the also-reported first teaser trailer allegedly hitting this week.
Unofficial Hobbit Dwarf Week continues! Yesterday, Peter Jackson gave us our first glimpse of brothers Dori, Nori and Ori (played by Mark Hadlow, Jed Brophy and Adam Brown), and today we're treated to a photo of the other set of brothers in his Company of Dwarves, Óin and Glóin (played by John Callen and Peter Hambleton). If you weren't scared off by me declaring it Hobbit Dwarf Week, you're brave enough to click through.
As production continues on Peter Jackson's two-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Hobbit, the director continues to leak photos of his epic adventure. Last week, he teased audiences with images of Bilbo and Gandalf (played by Martin Freeman and Sir Ian McKellen) and now the New Zealand visionary has unveiled the first still of The Hobbit's bickering dwarf trio of Dori, Ori and Nori.
It's bad when images from a movie directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson call to mind those crudely animated Empire carpet commercials, but such is life for The Adventures of Tintin. The motion-capture spectacle (with Jamie Bell voicing the titular adventurer) arrives in theaters this Christmas, and looks about as comfortable in the uncanny valley as The Polar Express. This is not a good thing. Still, cute dog! Click through for another look at Tintin and his trusty canine companion, Snowy.
You may have seen the trailer and stills for Pixar's first fairy tale Brave but that doesn't mean that you know anything more about the film than when it was first announced. A new image of Princess Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) doesn't do much to clear that mystery up... but it is gorgeous. Check it out ahead.
Steven Soderbergh is retiring. Eventually. Of course, before he does ride off into the sunset the Oscar winning director will release five films: Contagion (recently moved up to early September), Haywire, Magic Mike, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Liberace. In other words: there's plenty of Soderbergh left, cinephiles! The second of his final five films to hit theaters is Haywire, and a first image from the action thriller has hit the Internet. Say hello to MMA fighter Gina Carano... and her Uzi.
Pixar watchers and action fans alike were waiting to see what Oscar-winning animation veteran Brad Bird might do with the reins to the Mission: Impossible franchise, and the first wave of promo materials offers an answer: Pretty much what anyone would do with a slick, globe-trotting, high-octane Tom Cruise vehicle. Can we find greater detail in the first batch of stills from Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol?
Thanks to a couple of new stills in Empire magazine, the latest pictures of Ian McKellen and Martin Freeman's sepia-hued prestige in The Hobbit are upon us! And they look... so shadowy. Like a Middle-earth version of There Will Be Blood, where Martin Freeman plays H.W. and McKellen plays a post-apocalyptic version of Daniel Plainview (whose Pringles mustache is replaced with a fibrous beard). Get a load of "young" Gandalf and a new quote from Peter Jackson.
If you follow Parks and Recreation star Chris Pratt on Twitter, you know that he's been spending some time in New York this summer. That likely has to do with the fact that Pratt's wife, Anna Faris, is filming The Dictator around the five boroughs -- a role she apparently got a pretty major makeover for. The first picture of Faris on the set of the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy has arrived online, and it's shows a darker side of the House Bunny star. Click through for a look.
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