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Natalie Portman Being Courted By The Wachowskis For ‘Jupiter Ascending’ Black SwanstarNatalie Portmanwas hotter than hot coming out of last year’s Oscar season, a freshly minted Best Actress winner with one just-released film (No Strings Attached) and two more (Your HighnessandThor) lined up for the next few months. Since then, however, she’s been laying low, with no new projects on her upcoming slate. No, it wasn’t the supposedOscar curseat work — Portman’s hiatus came courtesy of her son Aleph, who was born in June....

New ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Trailer Looks Charming And Lovely And Full Of Typical Pixar Goodness Its production may have been plagued bybehind-the-scenes problems, but you wouldn’t know it from the latestThe Good Dinosaurtrailer, which looks as confident and gorgeous as anythingPixarhas produced so far. Like so many of the beloved animation studio’s movies, this film seems to take a wild high concept and inject it with heart and pathos. You know, the typical “come for the dinosaurs, stay for the sobbing” approach....

On Set Interview: Jesse Eisenberg Talks ‘30 Minutes Or Less’ Back in August of last year, I was flown out (along with a number of other press members) to Grand Rapids, Michigan to spend a day on the set of30 Minutes or Lessand talk with directorRuben Fleischer(Zomebieland) and cast membersJesse Eisenberg,Aziz Ansari,Danny McBride,Nick Swardson, andDilshad Vadsaria. you may learn all about the experiencehere, and if you haven’t yet, be sure to check outthe film’s red band trailerto see what all the fuss is about....

Phil Lord And Chris Miller Developing ‘Son Of Zahn’ Live-Action / Animation Hybrid Comedy For Fox Phil LordandChris Millerhave made a career out of unexpected choices, but even by those standards their latest project sounds pretty weird. The pair are developingSon of Zahn, a new comedy for Fox about an animated barbarian who returns to his live-action family.Johnny Pembertonis already set to star. Get all the Phil Lord Chris MillerSon of Zahnproject details after the jump....

Ruben Fleischer To Direct Chris Evans In ‘Jekyll’ Having spent the past five years playing Marvel’s nicest superhero,Chris Evansabout to get in touch with his dark side.Zombieland’sRuben Fleischerhas just been set to direct Evans inJekyll, based on the 2007 BBC One miniseries about a modern-day descendant ofRobert Louis Stevenson’s classic split-personality character. Deadlinereports Fleischer’sJekyllmovie already has a script byAnthony BagarozziandCharles Mondry. It sounds like Fleischer will work with the writers to take another pass at the screenplay....

Rumor: ‘The Avengers’ Has Another Villain The Avengersis shooting now, and we know a few things about the film. The official roster of heroes has been known since Comic Con last year (Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Nick Fury, and the Hulk) and we know that Loki (Tom Hiddleston), adopted brother of Thor, will be one of the prime antagonists. There’s a bit more that we know, but I’ll keep that after the break....

Sequel Bits: ‘Piranha 3DD’ Trailer, ‘Men In Black 3’ And ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Posters, ‘The Strangers 2’, ‘Rambo 5’, Lots Of ‘Star Trek 2’ J.J. Abrams’Star Trek 2(or whatever they end up calling it) is really the center of attention in this Sequel Bits, thanks to some fresh set photos, shooting info for the Bay Area, and news about a potential cameo. Also after the jump: Piranha 3DDwill tear into the box officeJune 1stin the U....

Sequel Bits: ‘Taken 2’ Picked Up By Fox, ‘Godfather’ Prequel Novel Coming One franchise moves forward and another moves backwards inthis edition of Sequel Bits. 20th Century Fox, who released the surprise 2009 hitTaken, has just signed on to distribute its sequel,Taken 2, which willonce again starLiam Neeson, Maggie Graceand be directed byOlivier Megaton(Transporter 3, the upcomingColombiana,whose trailer came out today). AlsoMario Puzo, who not only wrote the novel that was the basis for theThe Godfatherfilms, but won Oscars along with Francis Ford Coppola for their screenplays, apparently wrote an unproduced prequel script to the series calledThe Family Corleone....

Sequel Casting Bits: Donald Faison In ‘Kick-Ass 2’, Mary Elizabeth Winstead In ‘A Good Day To Die Hard’, Bruno Gunn In ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ WithJohn Leguizamo’s Javier and theas-yet-uncast Mother Russiaon board to help out the villainous Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) inKick-Ass 2, it seems only fair that Kick-Ass (Aaron Johnson) start picking up some allies as well.ScrubsstarDonald Faisonhas just entered talks to play Dr. Gravity, a Columbia University student by day and a mask-donning, baseball bat-wielding crimefighter by night....

Seth Rogen Explains Why The Boys Movie Never Happened, But The TV Show Did “The Boys” is gearing up for itsthird seasonon Amazon Prime Video this summer, and one of the show’s stars, Jack Quaid, has teased that it’s"even more messed up"than the first two seasons. The violent anti-superhero series, based on the comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, counts Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg among its executive producers, with Eric Kripke serving as the show’s creative developer....

Six More Green Lantern Photos Arrive Update:Two more images have been added to this post bringing the total up to six photos. New images include Hector Hammond before his alien encounter and Hector in a bunker with the corpse of alien Abin Sur. Earlier today we had thefirst lookatRyan Reynoldsin costume asGreen Lantern, thanks to the cover of Entertainment Weekly. Now some pics from the mag’s coverage have been scanned, and while there isn’t another big image of the character in costume, we see Reynolds,Blake Lively,Tim RobbinsandAngela Bassettas they’ll appear in the film....

Superhero Bits: Man Of Steel, The Wolverine, Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, The Avengers What isMad Magazinedoing to celebrateMan of Steel? See our exclusive cover. DoesHugh Jackmanwant to be part ofThe Avengers? HasBryan Singermade a major reveal in regards toX-Men: Days of Future Past? Want to watch a video ripping apart theGreen Lanternmovie? How wouldMan of Steellook like in the world of Minecraft? DidArrested Developmenttalk about superheroes in the latest season?...

Superhero Bits: The Avengers, The Wolverine, Dark Knight Rises, Amazing Spider-Man, Man Of Steel Want to see some new promo images fromThe Dark Knight Rises, The AvengersandAmazing Spider-Man? What surprises can be found on the newDC Comicswebsite? Which new scenes pop into the GermanAvengerstrailer? Has someone started making fan posters forThe Wolverine? Where can you go to read some massive spoilers fromThe Avengers? What’s the connection betweenCommunityandThe Dark Knight Rises? And has the bestIron Mancosplay ever finally been created?...