For as long as the Jackass crew has been doing what they do, fans have had to assume it was only a matter of time before they just couldn’t handle that kind of damage anymore. Even so, after the success of Jackass: Number 2, it was all but guaranteed that if they could take the hits, there would be a third film eventually, and it appears that that time is now. Cinematical is reporting that a list of Paramount Pictures’ 2010 slate of movies includes not only a third movie in the franchise, but specifically a Jackass 3-D!

Since the last movie, the gang moved on to many different projects of their own. Bam Margera has had a few TV shows added to his resume with regulars like Ryan Dunn appearing often. Steve-O and Party Boy Chris Pontius had their show Wildboyz for a while, and Pontius has unexpectedly moved on to more serious acting roles, recently snagging a part in a future Sofia Coppola film. Johnny Knoxville hasn’t appeared in nearly as many movies as it looked like he was building toward, but he and some other members of the cast and crew have begun other TV shows like MTV’s Nitro Circus, which is just like Jackass, but with professionals, and just as entertaining if you’re into that kind of “humans doing incredibly stupid things” kind of humor. [...]

Gentle Giant will release a fully-loaded deluxe version of R2-D2 complete with eight accessories.

The ever-popular astromech droid from the Star Wars saga will come with a periscope scanner, mechanical gripper, utility saw, Luke’s Return of the Jedi lightsaber, and more, all of which can all be assembled into the statue’s exposed chest or dome panels.

The 7-inch-tall, 1/6th scale Poly Stone statue is hand painted and will be a limited edition.

This deluxe R2-D2 will be available Spring 2010. No word yet on price or pre-ordering [...]

In the same interview with the NY Post that revealed the possibility of a Call of Duty movie being made, Scottish actor Kevin McKidd also talked about HBO’s Rome and the rumored feature film that its producers are hoping to make of it.

Since Rome was canceled WAY too soon, not much has been spoken of it; but within the past year or so, Ray Stevenson began speaking of a possible movie that producer Bruno Heller wanted to make that would be based on the show. The very thought of this is immensely exciting for fans like myself who thirst for more of this merciless, graphic, semi-historically accurate series, but the situation would also be a tricky one as Rome was one of the most expensive shows ever made (the reason why HBO killed it so quickly), and most of its sets were destroyed (supposedly). Another tricky aspect would be the content — as I’ve said before: the content on HBO included countless things that you would NEVER see in a theatrical production, so it would be difficult indeed. [...]

Kevin McKidd is one of those actor who is incredible in all that he does, but isn’t really known among those who haven’t seen his works. The Scottish actor is best known as the main character of HBO’s Rome, Lucius Vorenus, but he’s been making a decent mark on more mainstream television series like Grey’s Anatomy and the canceled Journeyman. Next year, he will play Poseidon in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, but right now, he’s appearing in a less-visual role: Captain “Soap” MacTavish in the video game mega-hit Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Recently, McKidd spoke to the NY Post about his current prospective projects, and Call of Duty came up. He confessed that he had no idea that the game would be so popular, and that now they’re apparently toying with the idea of a movie based on the title. This comes as no surprise to anyone considering how popular the games are, and considering the genre, it could absolutely work well in movie form. [...]

Bloody-Disgusting is reporting that Stephen Susco (The Grudge) has been hired to write the script for Hack/Slash, the upcoming movie based on the Tim Seeley comic book. Back in April of 2008, the project had Justin Marks writing the script that was to be directed by Todd Lincoln. Lincoln was also replaced back in July when Fredrik Bond was brought in to helm the movie (Read: ‘Hack/Slash’ Gets A New Director In Fredrik Bond)

Hack/Slash follows Cassie Hack, a girl who never had it easy growing up. When her evil Lunch Lady mother — who was murdered after it was discovered that she had been killing children and processing them into the food — comes back from the dead and resumes her murderous habits, Cassie takes her own mother out. After that, she begins her life as a slayer of Slashers, the vicious living and dead beings who walk the Earth, slaughtering all who cross their paths. She is joined by a giant named Vlad who acts as her bodyguard and strength. [...]

Not much was known of the new Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea movie that was well on its way to us, but one might imagine that Disney had plans of bringing another massive water-filled adventure much like their Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. They had gotten so far as to hire Terminator Salvation director McG to helm the flick, and names like Will Smith were rumored for the role of Captain Nemo. None of this matters anymore now, as Disney has slammed the brakes on with force and stopped all forward progress on the project.

The movie was set to tell an origins tale of the fabled Captain Nemo and the building of his ship, the Nautilus. It was actually on the fast track at one point, but it appears that the controversial firing of popular chairman Dick Cook may have knocked it off its course for the time being. The original 1954 film starred Kirk Douglas and it was Disney’s very first live-action film production. [...]

Kenneth Branagh’s upcoming adaptation of the Norse god comic book superhero Thor is showing up in the news more and more often these days, and with each and every new morsel, the excitement for the movie builds up steadily. The latest news announcement from Marvel is that Thor’s Asgardian god friends the Warriors Three — Volstagg, Fandral, and Hogun — have now been cast!

Branagh has contracted the talents of Stuart Townsend to play the role of Fandral, Tadanobu Asano for Hogun, and the fantastic Ray Stevenson for the part of Volstagg. Townsend is best known for his work as the vampire Lestat in Queen of the Damned and as Dorian Gray in The League of Extraordinary Gentleman. Stevenson recently ended many lives in Punisher: Warzone, but is best used as a brutal warrior, as he has played in King Arthur and on HBO’s Rome. Asano is a Japanese actor who hasn’t done an American film yet, but he appeared in the Oscar nominated Mongol. [...]

The Warner Bros. Home Entertainment division announced today the launch of DVD2Blu.com, a site for consumers to upgrade their current WB DVDs to Blu-ray for a fee.

The DVD2Blu program currently offers an Blu-ray upgrade on 55 of the WB’s home entertainment DVDs for the price of $7.95 to $9.95.

To get the Blu-ray version, visit the site and select the movie(s) you want to trade in (there’s a limit of 1 DVD per title; up to 25 titles per order) and then mail the DVD disc (without case) with special pre-paid postage to WB’s processing center. In 4-5 weeks, you’ll receive that title in Blu-ray. If you spend more than $25 on your order, you’ll get free shipping (otherwise, it’s regularly $4.95 per order).

Some of the films up for swap are Pan’s Labyrinth, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and Superman II: Richard Donner Cut. Check out the site for all the available titles [...]

Well, Twifriends, we are one day closer to the premiere of The Twilight Saga: New Moon and I am one day closer to implosion…or possibly explosion…a little of both? Whatever, point is, I’m freakin’ EXCITED! And last night’s look at the stars on the red carpet for the LA Premiere only served to fuel the fire (believe me, it’s burning, like bad vamp James funeral pyre in Twilight). If you missed it, MTV has tons of great pics here of the Cullens, Wolf Pack, Volturi, and of course, the tasty humans. I for one, have a new appreciation for the Volturi…umm, hello Charlie Bewley, I’m talking to you…B I T E M E.

The New Moon cast is all over the tube in recent weeks, and last night was no exception. Jay Leno had the ab-tabulous Taylor Lautner on his couch last night (lucky, lucky man). Yet another New Moon clip was shared, this one highlighting Bella and Jacob at something of a turning point in their relationship…and let me just say, I’d plant a tree outside my bedroom window if I knew that’s what it would take for Taycob to pay me a little visit.

You can watch the interview here below, as well as the newly released clip. We’ve also embedded the video for Kristen Stewart’s appearance last night on the Tonight Show (more on that below) [...]

The latest Star Trek film was released today on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital download and a few videos from the release are now online.

A few weeks ago, a deleted scene — Prison Interrogation and Breakout — was posted online, as well as a few other clips (which Paramount promptly had taken down).

Now, watch here below 4-minute clip on Zachary Quinto as Spock, which is part of the DVD’s “Casting” featurette, as well as a video on Leonard Nimoy’s advice to Quinto on playing Spock.

The Blu-ray release is packed with extras, check out the list here below. For a guide to the release’s detail exclusives, check out the previously released list [...]

Recently we were treated by the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) himself to a brand new poster for Alice in Wonderland via his Disloyal Subjects of the Mad Hatter Facebook page. He promised that with 7,500 likes, he would release a second “treat,” which he did, and then promised a the third treat would come after 9,000 more likes. These final two posters have now been released and you can check them out right here. They didn’t exactly reach 9,000 to unlock the final poster, but as we said in the first post, the “likes” didn’t likely matter much, and these were being put out no matter what.

One of the posters features Alice and the White Rabbit at one of the Hatter’s lovely tea parties, while the other features the Hatter and the Caterpillar with a suspiciously familiar castle on the horizon. Looks just a little bit like the iconic Walt Disney castle, does it not?

Click on over to check out these new posters! [...]

OH HAPPY HAPPY DAY, TWIHARDS! IT’S NEW MOON PREMIERE DAY!

Me, I can’t seem to sit still or stop smiling and I just generally want to jump out of my skin because The Twilight Saga: New Moon is having its official premiere tonight in Los Angeles. Since we can’t all be at the premiere, you can watch the Red Carpet coverage beginning at 5 PM PST/8 PM EST at MySpace.

We’ve embedded the live stream and the chat room here below, so you can watch the coverage and chat about it right here!

If I could, I would totally be on the Red Carpet right now, awaiting the arrival of Rob Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, and the rest of the vamps and wolfies. Alas, real life prevents me from doing so, but I have been living vicariously through the many fans who have been camped out since as early as this past Thursday (now that’s devotion folks, I don’t think I’d do this unless, say, Rob was actually sleeping with me in my tent…with Taylor…and Kellan…um, I’d better stop now, the mind…it wanders to dark, dark places).

Oh, and after you’re done watching the live stream of the Red Carpet events, be sure to tune into the Jay Leno Show tonight at 10pm for Taylor Lautner’s appearance, where he’ll be debuting a new clip from New Moon! [...]

[Updated: The interview came and went, so if you missed it, watch it here below. It includes footage from Star Trek, including parts of some of the deleted scenes.]

The folks over at G4 gave us the heads up that Star Trek director JJ Abrams will be appearing on the cable network’s Attack of the Show tonight at 7pm ET/PT.

During tonight’s show, Alison Haislip will interview the director about the Star Trek DVD and Blu-ray, both of which will be released tomorrow, as well as the bonus features on the 3-disc Blu-ray edition. Abrams will also be talking about his favorite deleted scene from the film.

Abrams will also reveal what fans can look forward to in his planned sequel to Star Trek [...]

Over the weekend, head geek of Ain’t It Cool, Harry Knowles, posted to his Twitter account links to images of what he called “Jack Kirby’s Premiere ish of a 5-issue INGLOURIOUS BASTARDS mini-series from the 70s.”

While I saw the original tweets — one each for each of the five covers — I was waiting for a follow-up tweet or post on what exactly these covers are, but one never came. Like, where did these covers come from? And will there be a comic book adaptation of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds? One can only hope.

But for now, all we have are these five Jack Kirby-inspired covers to drool over. Check them out here below (click for full, larger view).

Oh, speaking of Inglourious Basterds, an awesome awesome movie, it will be released on DVD and Blu-ray, and as a digital download on December 15, 2009, and is available for pre-order now [...]

Broken Lizard became an instant legend amongst the 18-29 age range when their brilliant 2002 indie comedy Super Troopers was unleashed in 2001. Since then there have been many whispers of a possible sequel, but Broken Lizard moved on to movies like Club Dread and Beerfest — both of which continued their wacky comedy style, but never quite reached the Super Troopers plateau. It is safe to say that the team could never make a sequel and everyone would be okay with that, but you, you, and I all know we would take it in an instant!

While speaking to Movie Cultists about their brand new movie The Slammin’ Salmon, the gang was wooed into spilling some details on the possible Troopers sequel. To their surprise and to our very great joy, they shared that the movie was much further along than we were currently aware of! They confirmed that not only do they have multiple drafts of the script completed, but that they already have money in place and some cast ready and willing to return. [...]

R2-D2, it is you, it is you!

Gizmodo has discovered the location of the hidden R2-D2 in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek.

Check out the cropped image here above of an R2-D2 floating in space during one of the battles, and head over to Gizmodo to check out the full hi-res image.

George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic did the visual effects on Star Trek, which will be released on DVD/Blu-ray tomorrow, and they oftentimes like to insert the iconic Star Wars droid into their work. (They did it in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as well — see here.) It’s a cute little Easter Egg for us nerds [...]

Metal Queen Lita Ford broke her silence regarding the bio-pic about The Runaways, the bio-pic based on the 1970s all-girl band of the same name of which Ford was the lead guitarist.

“Most people would want to be in a movie, but I sure didn’t want anything to do with this one,” admits Ford about the film, which has the working title of The Runaways. “They’re using my name and that makes me nervous as some of the people involved have tried to destroy my career since 1980.”

The film, written and directed by Floria Sigismondi based on Runaways singer Cherie Currie’s memoirs, stars Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie, and Scout Taylor Compton as Lita Ford, and is scheduled for theatrical release in 2010

Apparently, Ford’s apprehension about The Runaways has changed a bit now that she’s actually met the 20-year-old actress who will portray her in the movie. Compton made a special trip out to Harrah’s in Lake Tahoe, Nevada last week to see Ford perform with Queensryche and to meet the musician. (See pictures from the meeting here.) [...]

A Christmas Carol
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Starring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman
Rated PG
Release date: November 6, 2009

It happens every year, almost without fail. Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift. You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it. Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it. Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement. Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited but you weren’t as excited and… ugh. Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation of the Charles Dickens story, A Christmas Carol is that present. So impatient is he to show off his gift to us that he’s overlooked the fact that it’s little more than a big turd in fancy wrapping.

The story is the same as it’s been for the past 165 years. On Christmas Eve night, Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future during which time he experiences a moment of clarity and eventual redemption. As a story Zemeckis plays it by the book (literally), but as a movie, this thing is all over the place [...]

The city of Boston has declared today Leonard Nimoy Day!

The Boston native is back in his hometown today as the headliner for New England Fan Experience for the convention’s Sci-Fi Experience.

The actor, famous for his role as the Vulcan Spock in Star Trek, will spend the day signing autographs and doing photo-ops with fans, as well as appearing at a Q&A panel.

Looking at the event’s schedule for today, it appears that Nimoy has already started some of the signing sessions, but there’s still more happening later. Tickets for today are still available at the door [...]

Schwarzenegger Collector’s Set
Directors: Walter Hill, Paul Michael Glaser, James Cameron, Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Laurence Fishburne, Peter Boyle, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jim Brown, Jesse Ventura, Richard Dawson, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
Lionsgate Home Video

You could make a case for Arnold Schwarzenegger as the greatest action movie superstars of all time. This is a case you would win every single time, because there is no one that tops this man when it comes to the genre. Regardless of what you think of him as a Governor, there is no arguing that his presence in movies has been missed for some years now; and thus, we retreat back to his best works to get our Schwarzenegger fix.

On the bright side, there’s sets like this one being released from time-to-time to help your binging needs. This particular set includes Red Heat, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Running Man, and Total Recall.

When I got the chance to review this new four-movie collector’s set of Schwarzenegger flicks, I jumped at the chance for a couple of reasons: One was because I shockingly had not seen two of them; and also because I even-more shockingly didn’t own any of them. [...]