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Worldwide rights for the new documentary from Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) and Participant Media have been acquired by Paramount Vantage, it was announced today by Adam Goodman, Paramount Film Group President and by Participant Media’s CEO Jim Berk. The documentary will have its world premiere tomorrow, January 22, at the Sundance Film Festival. Paramount Vantage will release the movie in the fall of 2010 in the U.S. with international release dates not yet determined....

The official trailer has arrived for Peter Five Eight, an all-new thriller starring Kevin Spacey. Looking for buyers at the Cannes market, the Peter Five Eight filmmakers released the first footage of the film after it was recently announced to be debuting at the prestigious festival. Spacey, the antagonist in the film, plays a rather violent and disturbed individual who’s not too far off from the serial killer he plays in Seven....

It was announced today that three-time Grammy Award winner and internationally renowned singer, songwriter, producer and designer Pharrell Williams will write original music for Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s upcoming 3-D CGI feature Despicable Me. This marks the first time The Neptunes and N.E.R.D. artist will compose music for a film. He is joined in the feature’s composition duties by Oscar winner Hans Zimmer and Heitor Pereira. Despicable Me, which stars the vocal talents of Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, Danny McBride, Miranda Cosgrove, Jack McBrayer, Mindy Kaling, Jemaine Clement and Julie Andrews, arrives in theaters on July 9, 2010....

Salt director Phillip Noyce told Moviehole he will not be directing the sequel to the Angelina Jolie-starring film: Phillip Noyce has a few new projects up his sleeve: Those 3 [alternate] Blu-ray cuts [of the film] represent just about everything I have to offer on Everlyn Salt", says the filmmaker. “If there ever is a sequel, better its directed by someone with a completely fresh take on what I believe could be a totally entertaining and complex series of stories....

Philip Seymour Hoffman is on board to produce the new TV drama Upstate, a project we exclusively broke the news on in January. While Philip Seymour Hoffman will executive produce the new HBO series, it isn’t clear if he will star in the project. The story centers on a prison guard named Roy who lands a new job, relocating his family to a town that has been built around a for-profit prison facility....

Class 5 Films and Olympus Pictures announced today that Alecia Moore (AKA Pink) has been brought on board to co-star in writer/director Stuart Blumberg’s dramedy Thanks for Sharing. Blumberg, who was previously nominated for a 2010 Academy Award for his The Kids Are All Right screenplay, will direct Moore in an ensemble cast that also includes Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joely Richardson, Patrick Fugit and Josh Gad. Principal photography for Thanks for Sharing began in New York City in late September, and Moore joins the cast today....

It seems that the second film in a line of George A. Romero-branded films is getting started before the first is even released. According to The Valley Independent, production has commenced on George A. Romero Presents Deadtime Stories 2 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania yesterday. The production is said to be the second in a trilogy of films, George A. Romero Presents Deadtime Stories, being the first, which will all be produced by the horror legend and will each feature Romero sitting in a chair at the beginning of the film, getting ready to tell his story....

Get ready to leap again this fall. NBC has unveiled its scheduled for the 2022-23 season, and with that comes a premiere date for the Quantum Leap reboot series. The series will premiere on Monday, Sept. 19, at 10 p.m. on NBC. The network will also debut the new sitcom Lopez vs. Lopez at 8 p.m. that evening ahead of Young Rock while The Voice will precede Quantum Leap. Raymond Lee stars in the new Quantum Leap, essentially taking the place of Dr....

Fear of Clowns is going to show us two very critical points of the entire concept of direct to video. One, you can have original and truly well designed storylines that’ll make you cringe from the suspense and leave you guessing up until the last few minutes. Two, you’ve got to be really, really careful. Chances are you do NOT have the budget to do anything really funky with your special effects, and so anyone who’s paying any kind of attention–coughTHECRITICALCOMMUNITYcough–is going to spot the wires real easily and that’s going to hurt your credibility in the long run....

The King and legend of the sport gets his first taste of Hollywood in the Disney/Pixar film In all my years of covering news, sports, and entertainment, there aren’t too many people who I admire and actually become fans when I meet them. Richard Petty is one of those people; when I found out I was going to have the chance to talk to ‘The King’ of NASCAR for the new Disney/Pixar film Cars, I kind of got a little giddy....

Syfy has finalized a deal with feature filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable) and television Executive Producer/Showrunner Marti Noxon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mad Men, Fright Night) to produce the scripted pilot project Proof, it was announced today by Mark Stern, President of Original Content, Syfy and Co-Head Original Content, Universal Cable Productions. Shyamalan and Noxon will co-write the project and serve as Executive Producers. Ashwin Rajan, who heads Shyamalan’s Blinding Edge label, will also serve as Executive Producer....

How do you up attendance at a local superhero film convention? Easy, you have legendary comic book creators Geoff Johns (who worked on this summer’s Green Lantern) and Jim Lee announce that they will be dropping a major bombshell while attending the Hero Complex Film Festival on June 11th concerning director Zack Snyder and his upcoming Man of Steel that will effect the entire movie world of the DC Entertainment Universe....

Mark Millar has made a name for himself in the graphic novel world, but now he wants to put his stamp on the movie world in a very big way, with a reboot of Superman. Empire recently talked to Millar, who created the graphic novels that Wanted and the forthcoming Kick-Ass are based on, has been pitching huge Superman reboot. Millar revealed that his version would be an 8-hour, three-film series, with the films to be released in consecutive years....

The actress plays the boss from hell and relishes it Meryl Streep delights as the bitchy boss from hell, Miranda Priestley, in the film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada. Meryl eats up the screen as the cutthroat fashion editor obsessed with perfection and terrorizing underlings. Meryl is anything but the sort in person. She is convivial and charming, much more relaxed and outgoing then you would think. This was the second round of interviews with Meryl in a month....

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest couldn’t make it four weeks in a row as the number one movie in America. Miami Vice opened strong this weekend with $25.2 million. The film is the film remake of the hit 1980’s TV show; the film is directed by Michael Mann. Pirates did come in second place raking in $20.5 million over the weekend. That brings the total for four weeks to a stupidly impressive amount of $358....

When AMC announced that there was going to be a big crossover with The Walking Dead and its spin-off Fear the Walking Dead, many believed it would be Abraham Ford returning, as played by Michael Cudlitz before he met his ugly demise at the end of Negan’s bat. The crossover didn’t play out the way some fans wanted it to, with Morgan the one to jump between the two shows. Now, Cudlitz is officially returning to the set of his former show....

Here’s more proof that death just means more life on Lost. Entertainment Weekly has confirmed that Michelle Rodriguez, whose Ana Lucia character was killed in Season 2, will be returning for one episode of Lost’s upcoming fifth season. While details of her resurrection are scarce, it would appear that her appearance would likely appear in flashback or possibly hallucination form. It is believed that she will appear in the season’s second episode, where Cheech Marin is also scheduled to guest star....

Another Netflix favorite is reaching the end of its road, as the hit series Money Heist will conclude with its upcoming fifth and final season. Production on the final episodes will begin on Monday in Denmark before later filming in Spain and Portugal. An international sensation, the Spanish-language series reached worldwide fame when it was acquired by Netflix in 2017 after originally debuting on the Spanish network Antena 3. Its fourth season premiered on the streaming service in April, and although it had been reported that Money Heist would return for a fifth season, it’s now clear that season 5 will serve as the end....

The Good This set is a nice time capsule from the 1980s. The Bad Extra listing is a bit misleading and confusing. This show really lost it toward the end. All things must come to an end and Moonlighting: Season Five - The Final Season certainly accomplishes that. Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) and David Addison (Bruce Willis) are on hand for 13 episodes spread out over 3 discs. The Blue Moon Detective Agency is where the hub of the action takes place and in this swan song season it is at it’s most zaniest....

There is still no release date but The Monster Squad DVD is sounding like it’s going to be a fan’s dream. In a story from Fangoria, they recently got to sit in with Red Shirt Productions president Michael Felsher, who is producing the eventual Monster Squad DVD. “The plan is to do a new transfer in the original 2.35:1 aspect ratio.” States Felsher. “It has never been presented that way in North America; it was transferred on high-definition a couple of years ago, and that looked great, but it was in 1....