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Superman In Handcuffs Goes Viral As Studio Quietly Unveils ‘Man Of Steel’ One-Sheet

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday December 4, 2012 @ 3:18am PSTTags: Henry Cavill, Man of Steel, Warner Bros, Zack Snyder

Warner Bros did not officially release to the media its new poster for next summer’s Man Of Steel. It didn’t have to. I’m told the one-sheet simply showed up on Facebook and immediately went viral. “Thank you to all of the fans who helped unlock this exclusive Man Of Steel reward in anticipation of The Dark Knight Rises December 4th release on DVD and Blu-ray.” Now the debate intensifies if this Superman reboot will be a big win or epic fail (contd):

Certainly the poster’s anti-hero vibe with Henry Cavill in puny handcuffs below huge biceps surprised fanboys. Military types appear to escort him somewhere sinister. And the trademark suit looks noirish but that’s just the way it’s lit. “The man who fights for truth, justice, and the American way — a criminal?” asked one media outlet. It’s all in keeping with what’s being called Zack Snyder‘s “seemingly art-film aspirations” seen in the teaser trailer under Christopher Nolan’s guidance. Though the pic doesn’t open until June 14th, its 2nd trailer will be attached to Peter Jackson’s return to Middle Earth in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opening December 14th from MGM and Warner Bros. Also previewing will be 9 minutes of Paramount’s Star Trek Into Darkness in IMAX 3D as well as the first full trailer in front of conventional theatrical showings.

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Hot Teaser Trailers: ‘Man Of Steel’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday July 21, 2012 @ 11:51am PDTTags: Henry Cavill, Kevin Costner, Man of Steel, Russell Crowe, Zack Snyder

Here are a pair of teaser trailers for Zack Snyder‘s Man Of Steel starring Henry Cavill as the title character. They’re pretty much the same but each has different narration. This one is “Pa Kent” (Kevin Costner):

This one is “Jor-El” (Russell Crowe):

Watch the teasers on YouTube: … Read More »

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After Getting Close On Several Big Jobs, Director Bryan Barber’s Taking His Next Meetings With ‘Gigantor’ In His Corner

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 20, 2011 @ 4:27pm PDTTags: Frank Darabont, Rob Reiner, Tate Taylor, Tom Cruise, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

As fewer movies get made these days, the hardest thing for a director or a writer is just getting hired. Bryan Barber, who went from helming videos for bands like Outkast to making his feature debut with  the stars of that group on the 2006 Prohibition Era musical Idlewild, grew so tired of getting close and losing out on big directing jobs that he hunted and secured a film-centric property to improve his odds. After the lengthy courtship of an 86-year old voiceover artist who controlled the rights, Barber will go to his next studio meeting flanked by Gigantor, the giant flying robot star of the 60s Japanese cartoon import with a catchy theme song and a family-friendly premise. Barber controls the movie, merchandise and videogame rights, and will shop a $60 million live action film he calls Transformers meets Goonies. And guess who’ll be attached as director?

Considering that robots remain hot—Hasbro told shareholders this week that another Transformers is in the offing and a Real Steel sequel is also a possibility—Barber figures there should be interest in this story of a 12-year old boy who ends up with the controls to the giant weaponized world-saving robot. Barber hopes to take the same proactive route that allowed Tate Taylor to direct the summer sleeper hit The Help (he optioned the book before it had a publisher) and years ago got Frank Darabont his directing debut on The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont had written a superb script and controlled the book, and refused to step aside even when Rob Reiner and Tom Cruise were ready to re-team after A Few Good Men). Read More »

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Ayelet Zurer Replacing Julia Ormond As Superman’s Krypton Mom

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday September 25, 2011 @ 3:54pm PDTTags: Amy Adams, Charles Roven, Chris Nolan, Diane Keaton, Diane Lane, Dianne Wiest, Emma Thomas, Henry Cavill, Julia Ormond, Kevin Costner, Lara Lor-Van, Lawrence Kasdan, Man of Steel, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe, Superman, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Superman is getting a new mom. Ayelet Zurer, the Israeli actress who starred in Angels & Demons and who played the wife of Avner (Eric Bana) in Munich, has been set to play the role of Lara Lor-Van, Superman’s … Read More »

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First Look At Henry Cavill As ‘Man Of Steel’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 4, 2011 @ 8:44am PDTTags: Amy Adams, Antje Traue, Chris Meloni, Diane Lane, Henry Cavill, Julia Ormond, Kevin Costner, Laurence Fishburne, Man of Steel, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe, Superman, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

Warner Bros today released a first photo of British actor Henry Cavill as Superman in Man of Steel, the franchise reboot that’s being directed by Zack Snyder and produced by Christopher Nolan. Cavill stars with Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Michael Shannon, Antje Traue, Julia Ormond, Russell Crowe, Chris Meloni, … Read More »

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Superman Won’t Soar Again Until Summer 2013

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 1:56pm PDTTags: Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Henry Cavill, Kevin Costner, Man of Steel, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe, Superman, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

Warner Bros has pulled The Man of Steel from a planned late 2012 release date and has slotted it to open wide on June 14, 2013 release. The Zack Snyder-directed reboot of the Superman franchise feels like a summer film … Read More »

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‘Xerxes’ Pic Down To Noam Murro And Jaume Collet-Serra For ’300′ Spinoff

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 27, 2011 @ 4:34pm PDTTags: 300, Alex Proyas, Bradley Cooper, Charlie Hunnam, Guillermo Del Toro, Idris Elba, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kurt Johnstad, Noam Murro, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The producers of the 300 spinoff known as Xerxes have retitled their film 300: Battle of Artemisia, and they have also narrowed their focus of potential directors to two: Noam Murro and Jaume Collet-Serra. The film, a spinoff to 300, is one that the film’s original director Zack Snyder was going to direct. That was until Warner Bros and producer Chris Nolan offered him Man of Steel, and Snyder and wife and producing partner Debra Snyder put Xerxes aside and moved on to rebooting the Superman franchise because Warner Bros needed it. The Snyders have been all over this director selection process. Snyder had written a script with his 300 cohort Kurt Johnstad. Like 300, it is based on a Frank Miller graphic novel that will be shot with the kind of stylized period green-screen action visuals that became the signature of 300 and helped the film gross $456 million worldwide. Xerxes was the Persian leader seen in 300. Miller’s graphic novel told the story of how Xerxes became this peculiar god-like entity. That mythology goes back to the death of his father, Darius, from injuries sustained at the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. Darius had told his son not to attack the Greeks because they can only be punished by a god, and so Xerxes tried to transform himself into a deity to gain revenge. The new pic’s produced by the Snyders, Mark Canton, Gianni Nunnari, Thomas Tull and Bernie Goldmann. The prime mover on the film has been Legendary Pictures, which made the original with Warner Bros and has taken the lead on several big-ticket pictures since Tull recapitalized his producing/financing company. That includes the Guillermo del Toro-directed Pacific Rim with Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba and the Alex Proyas-directed Paradise Lost with Bradley Cooper. Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Immortals’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 27, 2011 @ 6:55am PDTTags: Chris Nolan, Henry Cavill, Immortals, Movie Trailer, Relativity Media, Tarsem Singh, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

Months ago, Relativity Media released a teaser trailer for Immortals, the big-budget Tarsem Singh-directed pic that stars Henry Cavill, who subsequently was chosen by Warner Bros, Zack Snyder and Chris Nolan to be Superman in Man of Steel. Deadline’s comment contingent beat up on that teaser pretty good. Now, Relativity … Read More »

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Julia Ormond In Talks To Play Superman’s Mom

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 11:56am PDTTags: Diane Lane, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson, Henry Cavill, Julia Ormond, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Costner, Lara Lor-Van, Man of Steel, Michelle Williams, Russell Crowe, Simon Curtis, Superman, Warner Bros, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and Zack Snyder are in talks with Julia Ormond to play Superman’s Kryptonian mother, Lara Lor-Van, in Man of Steel. I expect the deal to make shortly. Russell Crowe has been offered the role of  Jor-El, the … Read More »

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Superman Close To Landing His Villainess?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 27, 2011 @ 11:31am PDTTags: Antje Traue, Man of Steel, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that German actress Antje Traue is the frontrunner to join Michael Shannon as the major villains of the Zack Snyder-directed Superman film Man of Steel. Since Shannon is playing General Zod, might Traue be playing his accomplice, … Read More »

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CAA Signs Vanessa Hudgens From WME

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 25, 2011 @ 6:19pm PDTTags: CAA, Vanessa Hudgens, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

CAA has signed Vanessa Hudgens, who graduated from the High School Musical films to star in the features Bandslam, the Zack Snyder-directed Sucker Punch and the CBS Films fairy tale Beastly. She just finished shooting Journey 2: The Mysterious Island … Read More »

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Sean Penn, Christian Bale Circle ‘The Last Photograph’ Along With Dark Castle

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 12, 2011 @ 1:47pm PDTTags: Andrew Rona, Christian Bale, Deborah Snyder, Gianni Nunnari, Joel Silver, Kurt Johnstad, Liam Neeson, Niels Arden Oplev, Sean Penn, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Penn is circling The Last Photograph, and I’m told he plans to join Christian Bale in the Kurt Johnstad-scripted drama that will be directed by Niels Arden Oplev, director of the Swedish The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The film is moving from Warner Bros, and is in negotiations to move to Dark Castle, whose Joel Silver and Andrew Rona would board the project as producers and put up the financing. Zack and Deborah Snyder are producing with Hollywood Gang’s Gianni Nunnari.

The film came from an idea by Snyder, who set it up  at Warner Bros with his wife and Nunnari after they all worked together on 300. Set in Afghanistan, it is a timely drama that has elements of The Searchers and Taken. Bale plays a war correspondent who witnesses and is the only survivor of an attack on a group of Americans. Penn is circling the role of a retired ex-special ops soldier who comes to the scene determined to free a family member who has been kidnapped. The journalist agrees to help identify the kidnappers and travel the rough terrain to find them, in exchange for the story. The road brings them in confrontation with tribal regions of Afghanistan, and none of the diplomats will help. Read More »

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Michael Shannon Tells How He Got The General Zod Job In ‘Man Of Steel’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 12, 2011 @ 3:51am PDTTags: General Zod, Man of Steel, Michael Shannon, Movies, Superman, Video, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

Speaking to an audience at RiverRun, Michael Shannon describes the trippy ordeal that went into winning the villain job General Zod in Warner Bros’ Superman film Man of Steel. Deadline was first to reveal that Shannon was wanted for bad guy duty, but clearly a lot goes into figuring not … Read More »

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‘World War Z’ With Brad Pitt And Marc Forster Regroups; Can It Beat Imminent Zombie Pic Infestation?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 29, 2011 @ 11:53am PDTTags: Brad Pitt, Danny Boyle, David Ellison, Jonah Hill, Marc Forster, Max Brooks, Michael Bay, Nicholas Hoult, Paramount Pictures, Robert Schwentke, Ryan Reynolds, Seth Grahame-Smith, Skydance, World War Z, Zach Galifianakis, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

While there have been reports that Paramount might kill World War Z because of a $125 million budget and no partners, I’m hearing that hot and heavy talks are going on with David Ellison’s Skydance and as many as two … Read More »

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Zack Snyder Chooses Amy Adams To Play Lois Lane in ‘Superman’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday March 27, 2011 @ 12:29pm PDTTags: Amy Adams, Superman, Zack Snyder

The director revealed the news in an interview with a Los Angeles Times blog today from Paris, where he was publicizing Sucker Punch. Zach Snyder phoned the 36-year-old three-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams with the news today. “There was a big, … Read More »

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Kevin Costner Set For ‘Superman: Man Of Steel’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 17, 2011 @ 5:11pm PDTTags: Diane Lane, Henry Cavill, Kevin Costner, Legendary Pictures, Superman: Man of Steel, Warner Bros, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: It’s all over but the press release! Almost a month after Deadline revealed that Kevin Costner was in early talks for a lead role in Superman: Man of Steel, I hear that he has closed a deal to … Read More »

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Warner Bros Sets Diane Lane For Superman’s Adopted Mother, Martha Kent

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 2, 2011 @ 7:22pm PSTTags: Diane Lane, Henry Cavill, Movie Deals, Movies, Superman, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

BURBANK, CA, March 2, 2011 – Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures announced today that Oscar®-nominated actress Diane Lane will play Martha Kent, the only mother Clark Kent has ever known, in the new Superman movie to be directed

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Kevin Costner Up, Up And Away For ‘Superman’ Role?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 21, 2011 @ 11:21am PSTTags: Charles Roven, Chris Nolan, David S. Goyer, Deborah Snyder, Emma Thomas, Henry Cavill, John Wells, Kevin Costner, Movie Deals, Movies, Superman, Superman Franchise Reboot, Thomas Tull, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that there is heightened interest in Kevin Costner for a key role in the Superman reboot that is being directed by Zack Snyder for Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures. Henry Cavill was recently set in the Man … Read More »

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SCOOP: Zack Snyder Directing ‘Superman’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 4, 2010 @ 2:49pm PDTTags: Chris Nolan, David Goyer, Emma Thomas, Legendary Pictures, Movies, Superman Director, Warner Bros Superman, Zach Snyder Sucker Punch, Zach Snyder Superman, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

UPDATE & EXCLUSIVE: I just spoke with Zack Snyder, who confirms that as soon as he completes post on Sucker Punch, he’ll move right into Warner Bros’ long awaited next Man of Steel movie in development with Chris … Read More »

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