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Universal Pictures has emerged as the front-runner to finance and distribute Oblivion , the Joseph Kosinski-directed sci-fi project that has Tom Cruise in early talks to star. The studio has entered into exclusive negotiations for a deal that would carry progress to production language, with a goal to begin shooting in October. The deal hinges on Kosinski's ability to bring in the film at around the $100 million mark. Cruise doesn't have a deal at this point, but they are talking. Deadline told you last week that Universal was among three studios chasing the film. The film was scripted by William Monahan, with Karl Gajdusek currently rewriting. Oblivion recently shook loose from Disney, where Kosinski made his feature directorial debut on Tron: Legacy. That film just hit the $400 million worldwide gross mark for Disney, and the studio has a Tron sequel and other projects with Kosinski. But the studio let the filmmaker shop it because the post-apocalyptic Oblivion premise d

It feels like it's taken a Westeros winter to get here, but we'll finally get to witness the spectacle and glory of George R.R. Martin's novel fantasy world come to life in HBO's Game of Thrones this Sunday night at 9 p.m. While all the trailers, previews and behind-the-scene featurettes have certainly teased audiences into an anticipatory frenzy, there are still plenty of concerns left in the minds of A Song of Ice and Fire readers as to whether even a 10-hour adaptation can really do justice to Martin's ambitious book series. In an exclusive interview, series showrunners and executive producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss answered some of the big questions still lingering in the air about their Game of Thrones adaptation and even offer a really beneficial life tip in the process. Isn't epic fantasy storytelling just not well suited to TV, even HBO? "No! We just think it's a grand and fantastic story. People will always be hungry for gran

Multiple sources say the studio has picked up movie rights to The Martian Chronicles , the classic short story collection by Ray Bradbury , one of the foremost names in 20th century science-fiction literature. John Davis will produce the adaptation of the book of short stories that Bradbury wrote in the late 1940s about humans trying colonize Mars. In three structures, the stories dealt with attempts to settle Mars and the Martians’ efforts to fight the humans off, the colonization of the red planet and a nuclear war that eventually forces most of the humans to return to Earth. In the aftermath of the war, humans become the new Martians. A TV miniseries was made in 1980 by NBC and the BBC that was written by Richard Matheson and saw Rock Hudson leading the cast. Universal acquired the feature rights in 1997, where Steven Spielberg and Davis, among other producers, tried to get a project off the ground. Michael Tolkin and John Orloff were some of the writers who worked on a scri

Finally the series has been unleashed. MORTAL KOMBAT: LEGACY is now online at Machinima’s YouTube channel . The ten-part web series sprang from director Kevin Tancharoen's concept trailer for Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, a gritty re-imagining of the franchise characters in a real-world police procedural setting. The series, written by Tancharoen and Spartacus: Blood and Sand writers Todd and Aaron Helbing and starring Michael Jai White, Jeri Ryan and Ian Anthony Dale (reprising their roles as Jax, Sonya Blade and Scorpion, respectively) mainly follows Scorpion, tasked by Jax and Sonya enter the underground tournament and bring down Shang Tsung, amidst his own personal vendetta against Sub-Zero. Watch the first episode after the Jump... Please Leave A Comment-

Michael Shannon as General Zod will face off against Henry Cavill’s Superman in director Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel . Warners Bros. announced Sunday that Shannon, who received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor for Revolutionary Road for his performance as a mentally-troubled man and who has also been seen as a stern federal agent in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, has been cast as Superman’s nemesis. "Zod is not only one of Superman's most formidable enemies, but one of the most significant because he has insights into Superman that others don't. Michael is a powerful actor who can project both the intelligence and the malice of the character, making him perfect for the role," Snyder said. Zod, like Superman, is from Krypton, where he commanded its armed forces. The character appeared in both 1978’s Superman and its 1980 sequel Superman II, where he was played by actor Terence Stamp. The developing cast of Man of Steel also includes Amy Adams as Lois La

Here is the trailer for the upcoming film Passion Play ,the film is written and directed by Mitch Glazer and stars Mickey Rourke, Bill Murray  and Megan Fox . Nate ( Mickey Rourke ), a small-time jazz musician, is clearly a hard-luck case. Caught trying to break into a car, he is taken off into the desert where his assailant puts a gun to his head. Game over? Not quite. Stumbling into a circus pitched amidst the vast expanses of the southwest desert, Nate finds himself drawn to the exotic beauty of Lily ( Megan Fox ), the Bird Woman. Watch the trailer after the Jump... Lily is cold and dismissive; socializing with customers is not her scene. But it dawns on her that this gentle giant may well be her way out of a life of eccentric exposition. Nate is protective and understanding, and to him her aquiline beauty is a magic part of her uniqueness. As their bond deepens, Nate finds that his dreams of bliss are about to be thwarted by Happy Shannon ( Bill Murray ), a cucumber-cool

You’re invited to check out an exclusive live look at RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES this Wednesday, April 13, at 2:30PM PDT . Be the first to see footage from the film - including a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the apes! WETA Digital, the Academy Award ® winning visual effects team behind films like Avatar and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, will host a livestream event on the official Facebook fan page for Avatar ( http://www.facebook.com/officialavatarmovie ) from their headquarters in Wellington, New Zealand. They will give viewers an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at their work on RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, a reality-based cautionary tale that blends science fiction and science fact. In anticipation of the event, be sure to check out a five-second preview of RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES on the film’s official Facebook page ( http://www.facebook.com/ApesWillRise ). The livestream event includes a fan Q&A session, so post your questions to the of

Here is the trailer for the upcoming film The Debt , this drama-thriller film directed by John Madden based on a screenplay written by Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan. The film is a remake of the 2007 Israeli film of the same name by Assaf Bernstein. It stars Sam Worthington, Helen Mirren, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson . Watch the trailer after the Jump... Three former Mossad agents are famous for the 1965 death of Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel, "The Surgeon of Birkenau," who was (according to the official story) shot by Rachel Singer (played by Helen Mirren, and Jessica Chastain in flashbacks) during an attempt to escape. However, 35 years later, a local paper in a small Ukrainian town publishes an article that the criminal is alive, willing to admit his crimes. When the agents, now in their late 60s, learn this news, they realize that their lie probably comes to light, because only they and Vogel remember how he managed to escape, and how they in

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The biggest box office headline of the weekend was overseas, where 20th Century Fox’s toon Rio opened to $55 million to score the top debut of 2011 for any title anywhere. In the U.S., Russell Brand’s new comedy Arthur lost badly to holdover family film Hop, which the British actor voices. If Rio maintains its momentum when opening domestically on April 15, it will be an important psychological win for the movie industry, which has been weathering the worst box office slump in years. The biggest three-day opening so far this year internationally was a tepid $28.7 million for Battle: Los Angeles; domestically, it was $38.1 million for Rango. “This is a fantastic start for a new franchise. With consistently stellar reviews and excellent word-of-mouth around the world -- as well as no significant family competition ahead -- we are well established to take advantage of the school holidays which begin in the coming weeks, including this week in the U.K. and Australia,” Fox Intl. co-pr