South Korea’s Park Chanwook, creator of films like Old Boy and Lady Vengeance , has rightfully earned a reputation as one of the sickest and most twisted filmmakers this side of Takashi Miike.

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Exclusive: Park Chan-wook Has a Thirst

Last year, Heather Newgen visited the Downey, California set of Stephen Sommer’s upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra , based on the popular Hasbro toys and subsequent comic books and cartoons, and she has provided ComingSoon.net/Superhero Hype with an extensive report of what she saw: 27 years ago, Hasbro Toys produced an extensive cast of military themed characters known as G.I

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On the Set of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

ComingSoon.net’s horror-related site ShockTillYouDrop.com attended the Comic-Con press conference for New Line’s upcoming relaunch of A Nightmare on Elm Street with Jackie Earle Haley taking on the role of Freddie Krueger. In attendance were Haley himself, director Samuel Bayer and producers Andrew Forma and Brad Fuller from Platinum Dunes: **** The dream stalker invades Comic-Con! It was a big year at the annual San Diego expo for A Nightmare on Elm Street and iconic horror legend Freddy Krueger. He’s got a new film.

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SDCC Press Conference: A Nightmare on Elm Street

Just one week after ComingSoon.net broke the news that Walt Disney Pictures is hoping to get the cameras rolling on the 4th “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie in April or May of next year, Variety is reporting that director Rob Marshall ( Chicago , Memoirs of a Geisha and the upcoming musical Nine ) is in talks with Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer to helm the fourth chapter in the adventures of Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow. It makes sense that they would actively be looking for a director if they plan to start shooting next spring, especially with Gore Verbinski still being noncommittal about possibly returning for the fourth go-round. While the contracts have yet to be signed, look for more news on the yet-to-be-titled PIrates of the Caribbean 4 as soon as it…

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Is Rob Marshall Dancing His Way into Directing Pirates 4 ?

Having directed three movies based on existing properties–whether it’s the remake of Dawn of the Dead or the adaptation of two graphic novel–filmmaker Zack Snyder is getting a lot of interest for his next live action project Sucker Punch! , being that it’s his first movie based on an original idea of his own. It’s also his first movie featuring a predominantly female ensemble cast, and even more interest comes from his casting of Vanessa Hudgens, the co-star of Disney’s kid-friendly “High School Musical” franchise, in a true tough girl gun-wielding role

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Exclusive: Hudgens Throwing the Fans a Sucker Punch ?

Universal Pictures apparently wants to follow the enormous success of their ABBA musical Mamma Mia! by reviving Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s early hit musical Jesus Christ Superstar with (500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb at the helm, this according to the Risky Biz Blog . The original musical, which typified the music and lifestyles of the early ’70s, first hit the big screen in 1973 in a well-known adaptation by director Norman Jewison, which Universal and producer Marc Platt are now in active development to remake and presumably update for modern audiences. (Besides his successful debut, Webb spent many years directing music videos for the likes of Green Day and others.) You can read Steven Zeitchek’s full assessment of this interesting development over…

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Universal Resuscitating Jesus Christ Superstar ?

Just a week after Hideo Miyazaki’s triumphant first appearance at Comic-Con in San DIego, Walt Disney PIctures has released a second trailer for his latest animated fantasy Ponyo , which gets a nationwide release on August 14. It’s the story of a young and overeager goldfish named Ponyo (voiced by Noah Cyrus) and her quest to become human

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Here’s Another Trailer for Miyazaki’s Ponyo !

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has picked up the rights to the IDW graphic novel World War Robot written and drawn by artist Ashley Wood as a war diary written by the participants in a battle between humans and robots that takes place on Earth, the moon and Mars. Variety reports that the deal was closed during last week’s Comic-Con, following on the heels of the IDW comic 30 Days of Night having been turned into a film by Sony which grossed $40 million. The story reports that IDW is currently the third largest publisher behind Marvel and DC thanks to comics based on licensed titles such as “Star Trek,” “24,” “CSI” and others.

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Bruckheimer Launches World War Robot

No, that image above is not a part of the new poster (you have to read on to see what it looks like)! I just love the marketing for this movie. Whoever has been designing the posters for Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! deserves some kind of award for the craziest, kookiest, most amusing posters of the year. The first one that debuted with the trailer featured a goofy looking Matt Damon and the word “Unbelievable!” across the entire thing.

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Kooky New Poster for Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant!

I’m not going to lie – I am probably more excited for Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air than I am any other movie the rest of this year. I love Jason Reitman, I love the cast, I love the story, everything about it sounds amazing

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Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air Premiering at the Toronto Film Fest