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Sycamore Entertainment has released the first trailer for The Eye of the Storm, which will be released in theaters April 20. Click on the video player below for your first look at this drama starring Geoffrey Rush. You can also read the full press release announcing Sycamore Entertainment’s acquisition of the drama. Sycamore Entertainment Group Inc. is pleased to announce it has acquired US rights to the Fred Schepisi film The Eye of the Storm, starring Academy Award-winner Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech, Pirates of the Caribbean), Charlotte Rampling (Swimming Pool, Melancholia) and Golden Globe nominee Judy Davis (Barton Fink & Woody Allen’s upcoming Nero Fiddled)....

Director David Fincher is currently locking down his edit of the upcoming adaptation The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. While we know it will hit theaters on December 21, we don’t know how long the movie will be, because David Fincher and Sony Pictures have vastly different ideas about the runtime. David Fincher is said to have a three-hour cut of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but Sony wants the final cut to come in at two hours and twenty minutes....

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) announced today that it has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to Morgan Spurlock’s The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, a playful yet thought provoking documentary examining the world of product placement, marketing and advertising through a film financed entirely by product placement, marketing and advertising. Sony Pictures Classics will open the film in North America this April. The announcement was made today by SPWA President Steve Bersch....

Columbia Pictures has optioned the rights to the Green Hornet, the classic crime-fighting hero whose adventures were chronicled over the generations on radio, television, and in comic books. The studio will adapt The Green Hornet into a feature film produced by Neal H. Moritz and Original Film, it was announced today by Matt Tolmach and Doug Belgrad, presidents of production for Columbia Pictures. MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY Tolmach said, “We have an enormous amount of passion and commitment to this character and are looking forward to developing The Green Hornet into what we hope will be an amazing new franchise for the studio....

The Hunt is on March 20! Image Entertainment, Inc., a leading independent licensee, producer and distributor of home entertainment programming in North America, and Graymark Productions , an independent motion picture and television production company, today announced the March 20 North American DVD release of the feature film The Hunt. From director Fritz Kiersch (Stephen King’s Children of the Corn), The Hunt is an alarming and frightening film that combines elements of The Blair Witch Project and Predator....

The Little Mermaid is undoubtedly one of Disney’s most popular princess movies, and the one that turned millions of children around the world into mermaid fans. This production was written and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, the creative duo who also helmed such hits as Aladdin, The Princess and the Frog, and Moana. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, The Little Mermaid follows Ariel, a young mermaid who is obsessed with the human world and life out of the sea....

HBO Max’s The Menu took the world by storm, generating conversation among families and friends nationwide. The satirical thriller was unique, unexpected, and an overall hit by many counts, from the actions of Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) to how the ending played out. But, the Academy noticeably left the film out of their list of nominees, leaving many fans of the film wondering why that could be. There are several possibilities that could explain its lack of nominations....

The concept of a secret is fascinating; it can only exist if it is not brought into language, and can only be what it is if nobody mentions it. Jane Campion’s new film The Power of the Dog is a phenomenal exploration of this, of the power given to what cannot be named. The film is about many things it never actually verbalizes, insisting on themes without persisting with them. It’s about a gay relationship, but never speaks of it; it’s about a murder plot, but never addresses it as such; it’s about the Oedipal complex, but never mentions it; it’s about a man’s relationship with his mentor, but the mentor’s never seen....

Legendary filmmaker John Carpenter has further teased Blumhouse Productions’ reboot of beloved science fiction monster movie, The Thing…but sadly he is not allowed to talk about it. Asked by ComicBook.com whether there had been any updates on the upcoming remake, Carpenter confirmed that there have been updates, but he has been sworn to silence over what those updates are. The proposed reboot will reportedly be based on Frozen Hell, the unearthed expanded version of John W....

A new gallery with more than 70 photos has arrived from the upcoming drama The Tree of Life, which hits theaters nationwide on May 27. Take a look at the full photo gallery below, which features stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain. From Terrence Malick, the acclaimed director of such classic films as Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950’s....

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is premiering some exciting new movies this year in what will be a massive return after two years of Covid-19. For 10 days, from Sep. 8th to Sep. 18th, Toronto will be the home to some of the most anticipated films of the year in a wide range of genres. There’s a rich variety of biographical and historical films making a world premier at the festival, and these are the movies that are focusing on real lives and real stories across the globe....

Titans was renewed for its fourth season shortly before the third season ended. Now we’ll see the whole crew reunited after their battle to save Gotham city – and their friends – pushed them to their very limit. On the last day of New York Comic Con, the Titans season 4 panel gave us a release date, a teaser trailer, and first looks at some very cool costumes we’ll see in the future....

A wealthy Wall Street swindler gets his just desserts at the hands of the employees he stiffed in the year’s most uproarious action comedy, Tower Heist, coming to Blu-ray Combo-Pack with UltraViolet, as well as DVD, Digital Download and On Demand February 21, 2012 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy lead an all-star comedy cast in this hilarious tale of sweet, sweet revenge. The film’s stellar ensemble cast includes Casey Affleck (Ocean’s Eleven trilogy), Alan Alda (The Aviator), Matthew Broderick (The Producers), Stephen Henderson (Law & Order), Judd Hirsch (A Beautiful Mind), Téa Leoni (Fun with Dick and Jane), Michael Peña (Battle: Los Angeles) and Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)....

HBO announced today that the Season 6 Premiere of True Blood will air Sunday, June 16 at 9 PM ET. Here’s the brief statement issued by the network. New cast members set to appear in Bon Temps this season are Rutger Hauer as Macklyn, a shady character with ties to Sookie’s past, Robert Kazinsky as Ben, a new love interest for Sookie, Robert Patrick as the father of Joe Manganiello’s Alcide, Jurnee Smollett as Nicole, and Amelia Rose Blaire as Willa....

If you find yourself perusing Rotten Tomatoes this week, you will likely find something rather unexpected under New Releases, a movie rated higher than current critical darlings Moneyball, Contagion, Drive, Warrior, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. This movie currently (as of 9/25/11) stands at 100% on the TomatoMeter, a rare feat for a movie with 36 reviews, and possibly even rarer since it stars no big, bankable names and doesn’t even hail from a major studio....

Focus Features has released the official trailer for B.J. Novak’s upcoming film, Vengeance. Described as a “darkly comedic thriller,” Vengeance centers on a podcaster, Ben (Novak), who travels to West Texas from New York to offer his condolences after a girl he once dated dies of an overdose. But the girl’s family believes she was murdered. And to Ben’s surprise, the family also thinks the couple were in a serious relationship and draws him into a plot to avenge her death....

History unveiled a new look at Vikings season 6 during the Comic-Con@Home panel this afternoon. Cast members Travis Fimmel, Katheryn Winnick, Alex Ludwig, Clive Standen, Jordan Patrick Smith, and writer/creator Michael Hirst, discussed their favorite moments from the past six and a half seasons, along with their favorite fan interactions, and what makes Vikings so extraordinary. The panel was moderated by TV Guide’s Kate Hahn. History’s hit drama series Vikings returns for the second half of its sixth and final season this fall....

It’s been a year and a half since Westworld season 1 met its very violent end. So, what have the now unchained hosts been up to since then? It turns out, a whole lot of killing real, unsuspecting people. Oh, how the tables have turned. Remember when we thought the first season of this show was violent? That was cute, because Westworld season 2 has premiered and it kicks off with an ultraviolent, but intriguing and twisted bang....

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the latest entry in the Star Trek franchise, following the adventures of Captain Pike (Anson Mount) as the Captain of the USS Enterprise about ten years before the events of Star Trek: The Original Series when Captain James T. Kirk becomes Captain. The series has been praised for bringing the franchise back to its roots in a number of ways, from the colorful production design, hopeful optimism with high ideals, and episodic structure that skews closer to the original series than Star Trek: Discovery or Star Trek: Picard....

Welcome to MovieWeb’s daily DVD announcement column, The Daily Spin. Everyday at 9:00AM PST we compile a list of titles which have been recently announced by the studios and have been given or rumored with a release date. Click a title below to see the full press release info attached to the release. Enjoy and stay tuned to MovieWeb for the latest home video announcements, 9:00AM PST, on the dot, Monday through Friday....