Late last year we learned AMC’s The Walking Dead was going to lose its second showrunner, Glen Mazzara. While everyone was dying to know why someone creating a successful show for the network would leave (or told to leave), Mazzara was fairly tight-lipped on the subject. To fans it made no sense and perhaps that’s why he was asked about it at a National Association of Television Program Executives panel with Damon Lindelof. Read on for what he had to say about his departure as well as how Lindelof could relate. 

When negotiations between Henry Selick (Coraline, James and the Giant Peach, The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Disney broke down last year, after numerous delays on his unnamed feature stop-motion-animated film project, the exact status of The Graveyard Book adaptation was left uncertain. Selick seemed like a shoe-in to adapt another spooky Neil Gaiman young adult novel for kids after his Oscar nominated Coraline. In fact, the production kind of dropped off the map for a while, until today.

We know (though some choose to ignore) that there’s some heavy-duty gender inequality going on behind the scenes in movies and TV. But a new study conducted by the Sundance Film Institute and Women in Film Los Angeles has found that female filmmakers have it better in the world of indie film than in Hollywood. Not great, mind you. But better.

It was only a matter of time. Vulture is reporting that Warner Bros. is trying their damnedest to get the reboot rights for ’80s classic Gremlins, because if there’s anything Hollywood’s been crying out for it’s a Gremlins remake, clearly.

I’m feeling kind of chipper and awake this morning, and I think it’s because the Oscar nominations were announced. As much as I believe they’re just a meaningless mutual appreciation society for Hollywood types, every year around this time I get unspeakably excited about them. I think the Academy might be beaming radio signals into my head or something.

Like them or not, Natalie Portman and Kristen Stewart have one good thing going for them, at least as far as the production side of making movies is concerned: According to Forbes’ annual list of “Hollywood’s Best Actors For The Buck,” they’re the two most bankable stars around.

The team at NextMovie has made a video that calls out the worst films of the year by using their own dialogue. It’s a clever idea, though I’m wincing at the thought that the people who put this together had to watch all these movies to pick out the perfect lines.

In a somewhat a related note, I was at the movies yesterday and one of the trailers was for Gangster Squad. The final seconds had Sean Penn‘s character saying “You’re gonna be begging for a bullet before it’s over.” It made me laugh. A bit of an awkward quote to advertise your movie with, methinks?

(via: A.V. Club)

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The latest trailer for Baz Luhrmann‘s The Great Gatsby makes it look like a technicolor booze-fueled crime thriller. Which… well, I’m kind of OK with that. It’s a Baz Luhrmann movie. No one expects to see a 100% faithful adaptation. I’m still not sold on Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby, and though I realize it’s completely unfair my instinctual reaction to Tobey Maguire starring in a movie is to wince. It takes a long time to wash away the mental trauma of Spider-Man 3, OK?

If I’m being honest, I’ll probably see it. Because Joel Edgerton. Not that I need to justify myself to anyone!

For more ’20s glitz and glamor, check out recently released character posters for Tom (Edgerton), Myrtle (Isla Fisher), Nick (Maguire), and Jordan (Elizabeth Debicki).

(via: Movies.com)

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With Salt 2 still in script stages, Maleficent well on its way, and a bit of voice work in Kung Fu Panda 3 at some indeterminate place on the horizon, it’s no wonder Angelina Jolie is lining up something to keep herself busy. According to The Wrap, the actress/director is in talks to helm the adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand‘s Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption for Universal Pictures.

Looks like that’s game, set, and match to Warner Bros. A few months back we got word that A) a company called The Asylum was producing a Lord of the Rings ripoff called Age of the Hobbits and B) Warner Bros. subsidiary New Line Cinema, which is producing The Hobbit trilogy, was planning to sue the pants off them. Now it appears that Warner Bros. has secured their victory, as Asylum has changed the name of of the film (which co-stars Christopher Judge, aka Teal’c from Stargate, interestingly enough) to the non-copyright-infringing Clash of the Empires.