Happy Madison And Sony Developing Feature Based On Short Film ‘Pixels: Retro Gamers’ Just a month agowe featured the shortPixels: Retro Gamers, which depicted a bunch of classic gaming characters and icons attacking New York City.Patrick Jean’s short had a lot of style and no shortage of technique. But the idea was a pretty self-contained one. A short featuring attacking game icons is great, but how about a feature, where there would also be the neccessity for character and story?...

HBO’s ‘Ballers’ Is Making Its Final Touchdown With Season 5 Ballersis nearing the endzone now. The upcoming fifth season of the HBO football comedy will be its last, according to star and executive producerDwayne Johnson. The fifth and final season will debut this Sunday on HBO. Dwayne Johnson announced thatBallerswill end with its upcoming season 5on Instagram, sharing, “My heart is full of gratitude to all of you for rockin' with us every season....

Kristen Wiig To Direct, Write, And Star In Female Friendship Comedy Like so many actors before her,Kristin Wiigis making the leap into directing. Her first feature will be an untitled comedy for TriStar, which she’ll pen withBridesmaidsco-writerAnnie Mumolo. And as if they didn’t have enough to do already, Wiig and Mumolo are also set to star. Hit the jump for more details on the new project. That premise sounds just perfect for Wiig and Mumolo, who proved withBridesmaidsthat they know all about the intricacies of female friendship — and what’s more, that they could explore those themes in a crowd-pleasing fashion....

Limited Edition ‘Avengers’ Posters: Mondo Reveals Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, And Captain America Art; IMAX Handing Out One-Sheets At Midnight Screening If you’re already holding a ticket for your local IMAX 3D midnight screening ofThe Avengers, odds are you don’t need yet another reason to get pumped for the movie. But here’s something else to look forward to anyway: Fans who attend the 12:01 show will each receive a special limited-edition poster, which you can see after the jump....

Luke Skywalker’s First Star Wars Costume Had A Surprisingly Simple Piece Of Clothing Costume design is an indispensable — though typically inconspicuous — aspect of storytelling through film. Like production design, costuming helps to immerse the audience in the world of a film, offering a sense of place, time, and most of all: who the characters are. In some cases, it’s necessary for a character’s costume to blend seamlessly into the background — but in the case of a world like “Star Wars,” it’s hard to extricate the wardrobe from the characters who inhabit them....

Many Captain America And Avengers Possibilities Leak Out Of Comic Con So much info comes out of Comic Con about comic-related projects that it sometimes takes a couple days to filter through.ColliderandCHUDhave posted interview bites with Marvel Studios prezKevin Feige, who reveals some interesting things about both theThe First Avenger: Captain AmericaandAvengersfilms. First up is the roster forThe Avengers, not that it really takes rocket science to figure it out. Feige says:...

Michael Keaton, Eva Mendes, And Damon Wayans Jr. Join Will Ferrell’s The Other Guys Filming onThe Other Guys,the ‘10 cop comedy from writer/directorAdam McKay(Step Brothers, Anchorman) rollsthis month in New York, and today sees three new additions to the cast. Formerly entitledThe B Team, I’m curious to see what McKay has up his twisted sleeve, because the buddy-cop formula isn’t just asthmatic, it’s cliche to the point of surreality, and he’ll also haveHot Fuzzto contend with....

MPAA Rates Terminator Salvation Director’s Cut R For ‘Some Violence And Brief Nudity’ That manMcGseems to change his story an awful lot. I can’t even unravel all of the threads of argument about the rating forTerminator Salvation(something… about… pizza?) but I do recall that, at various times, it was either fully intentional or fully unintentional thatMoon Bloodgood’s infamous breast-baring not be part of the final cut. And how much violence or gore was snipped from the picture to get it into theatres with a tween-friendly rating?...

Netflix’s ‘The Get Down’ Budget Keeps Ballooning, Now Costs $16 Million Per Episode The Get Downis a lavish production and looks like one, but even fans ofBaz Luhrmann’s opulent style may be surprised to learn justhowexpensive it is. A new report claims the 1970s hip-hop drama costs something like $16 million per episode, meaning the entire 12-episode first season will come out to a total of around $190 million. Making matters worse, viewership estimates indicateThe Get Downmay be a rare flop for the streaming service....

New ‘Hulk’ Standalone Movie Wouldn’t Be Until After ‘The Avengers 2,’ But A Possible Plot Could Hint At ‘Avengers 3’ After two semi-successful attempts at bringing Bruce Banner’sThe Hulkto the big screen, most everyone agreed Joss Whedon finally got it right inThe Avengers. However, the argument was maybe it worked this time because Hulk was a supporting character instead of the star. Marvel Studios PresidentKevin Feigedidn’t agree with that and threw around the idea of possibly makinganother standalone Hulk movie in the future, this one starringMark Ruffalowho is under a multi-picture contract with Marvel....

New ‘Jurassic World’ Dinosaur Protection Group Video Argues For Dinosaur Preservation We’re a couple weeks out fromJurassic World: Fallen Kingdomhitting theaters in the United States. In order to hold us over without giving away much more footage (since we’ve seen plenty in the most recent trailer for the movie), another viral video from theDinosaur Protection Grouphas emerged. Led byBryce Dallas Howardas formerJurassic Worldexecutive Claire Dearing, the organization aims to keep dinosaurs alive and safe, like any other animal on this planet....

Oscar-Winning ‘Hair Love’ Producer Lion Forge Signs Animation Deal With China’s Starlight Media It’s a classic Hollywood underdog story: a rising animation studio produces an animated short that goes viral, and which goes on to win the Oscar for Best Animated Short.Lion Forge Animationhas had a banner year with the Oscar win of the acclaimed animated shortHair Love, and they’re continuing that streak with a new multipicture deal with China’sStarlight Media, the company behindCrazy Rich Asians....

Rod Roddenberry On Star Trek Boldly Going Into 4K And The Moving Target Of His Father’s Vision [Interview] The “Star Trek” franchise turns 55 tomorrow. That’s 55 years of Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, of Jean-Luc Picard and Benjamin Sisko, of Klingons and Romulans and Gorn and Borg. Over a half-century of a universe so complex that you’re able to get lost in it, but so approachable that anyone can enjoy it....