Check out these 5 new stills of , Aziz Ansari, Michael Pena, Dilshad Vadsaria, Danny McBride and Nick Swardson in Columbia Pictures’ 30 MINUTES OR LESS.

Director Ruben Fleischer on the set. Check out his insightfully funny blog HERE.

Synopsis:

In the action-comedy 30 MINUTES OR LESS, Nick (Jesse Eisenberg) is a small town pizza delivery guy whose mundane life collides with the big plans of two wanna-be criminal masterminds (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson). The duo kidnaps Nick and forces him to rob a bank. With only a few hours to pull off the impossible task, Nick enlists the help of his ex-best friend, Chet (Aziz Ansari). As the clock ticks, the two must deal with the police, hired assassins, flamethrowers, and their own tumultuous relationship.

Directed by Ruben Fleischer (ZOMBIELAND), the screenplay is by Michael Diliberti with the story by Michael Diliberti & Matthew Sullivan. 30 MINUTES OR LESS stars Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari, Nick Swardson, Michael Peńa, with Fred Ward.

Visit the film’s official site HERE and “Like” it on Facebook HERE

Well according to the tweet from @Loopermovie, the picture above is PRIMER director, Shane Carruth, working on director Rian Johnson’s LOOPER…along with this declaration:

If you haven’t seen his film PRIMER, run don’t walk.

I totally agree with that! But exactly what Carruth is doing on this film is unknown.

According to the pre-production synopsis:

Joe is a hitman who is employed by mobsters who live in the future and send people back in time for him to assassinate. This ruthless scheme ultimately puts Joe in grave danger when he shows up to do a hit and the person who has been sent back in time to to be murdered is himself, but thirty years older. Unable to pull the trigger, Joe must track down the person who wants him dead before his employers find out that he didn’t fulfill his end of the bargain.

LOOPER will star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt and Paul Dano. The film is scheduled for a 2012 release.

More bad news (and a bad scene) from the set of Michael Bay’s TRANSFORMERS: THE DARK OF THE MOON

From Fox 5 News:

WASHINGTON – A D.C. Police SUV was involved in a wreck at the filming of “Transformers 3″ in Washington D.C.

While the movie was filming a car chase scene on 3rd Street and Maryland Ave in southwest D.C., the police SUV collides with a yellow Chevy Camaro, which in the movie series is known as the character Bumblebee.

The police SUV was not supposed to be there and the wreck itself was not scripted.

The police officer driving the SUV is a 25-year veteran senior explosive ordinance technician. He was taken to a local hospital and sustained minor injuries.

Law enforcement sources tell FOX 5 that he was driving to a call for a suspicious package incident nearby and was using a different radio channel than the police officers who were securing the perimeter for the movie.

Statement from the Metropolitan Police Department:

“Earlier today, a MPD marked cruiser responding to an emergency assignment, collided with a vehicle involved in the filming of a movie at Third Street and Maryland Avenue, SW. The officer sustained minor injuries and was transported to a local hospital. No civilian injuries have been reported.

The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the facts of the crash and filming of this movie on closed DC city streets has been suspended until safety procedures can be reviewed.”

Hat-tip goes to CinemaBlend for this first look at “Master of Horror” John Carpenter’s THE WARD. The 3 photos originally appeared on the Toronto International Film Festival’s website. Additional ones also appeared on the film’s Facebook page.

TIFF’s Description:

When an old farmhouse is set ablaze by Kristen (Amber Heard), a distraught young woman, she is taken by police to the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. She awakens in a special ward with four similarly unbalanced and wayward girls: Sarah, a flirty and sass-talking know it all; Iris, a sensitive and talented artist who tries to make her feel welcome; Emily, a reckless but playful outcast; and Zoey, who hides behind a childlike persona and her beloved stuffed bunny.

Kirsten’s therapist, Dr. Stringer (Jared Harris), tries to uncover the root cause of her breakdown, but despite his calm and understanding manner, she resists any attempts at help and rehabilitation.

Unfortunately, the hospital is not the sanctuary it seems to be. Kristen begins to have strange run-ins with a shadowy phantom who roams the halls when the ward is locked down at night. Persistent and inquisitive, she goes digging for information about former patients and soon becomes convinced that no one ever leaves the ward alive.

The Ward marks a resurgence in director John Carpenter’s celebrated stylistic mojo, with his trademark prowling camera, jump scares, and the sort of atmospherics that typified The Fog and Prince of Darkness.

Set in the sixties, the film’s tone and style have much in common with the works of one of horror’s great, under-recognized masters, Val Lewton, while also nodding in the direction of Samuel Fuller’s cult classic Shock Corridor. Led by previous Midnight Madness starlet Amber Heard, the titular lead from All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Carpenter’s cast of locked-up bad girls brings the picture to life.

THE WARD is Carpenter’s return to form after a decade-long absence, further proof that he deserves the mainstream critical respect and recognition of an American auteur.

From a screenplay by Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen, THE WARD will be shown at TIFF on September 13 and 19. For more on Carpenter’s film, like it on Facebook and visit the website here.

Thanks to Sasha Stone at Awards Daily, here’s a first look at Sean Penn in THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. Wow! Shooting on the indie for Indigo Films began in Ireland on August 16th and will continue for the next few weeks. This is the first English language film for Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (IL DIVO).

Plot summary from imdb:

Cheyenne, a wealthy former rock star (Penn), now bored and jaded in his retirement embarks on a quest to find his father’s persecutor, an ex-Nazi war criminal now hiding out in the U.S. Learning his father is close to death, he travels to New York in the hope of being reconciled with him during his final hours, only to arrive too late. Having been estranged for over 30 years, it is only now in death that he learns the true extent of his father’s humiliation in Auschwitz at the hands of former SS Officer Aloise Muller – an event he is determined to avenge. So begins a life-altering journey across the heartland of America to track down and confront his father’s nemesis. As his quest unfolds, Cheyenne is reawakened by the people he encounters and his journey is transformed into one of reconciliation and self discovery. As his date with destiny arrives and he tracks down Muller, Cheyenne must finally decide if it is redemption he seeks ….or revenge. Starring two time Academy Award winner Sean Penn and marking the much-anticipated English-language debut of acclaimed director Paolo Sorrentino, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is a gripping examination of a man on the precipice of obsession.

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Here’s a grouch-faced Sean Penn on the Dublin set of This Must Be The Place looking like someone just butt sneezed in his favorite red lipstick. Sean plays a retired rock star who puts on his Detective La Toya monocle to track down the Nazi war criminal responsible for torturing his father at Auschwitz. The Academy is already engraving Sean’s name on an Oscar statute just in case…

I know Sean is trying to give us “post-Biggest Loser Robert Smith” but dude looks more like the crazy cat lady from The Simpsons after sexing herself up for a hot date with a cardboard cutout of Moe.

All in a day’s work for Josh Duhamel. MichaelBay.com and AceShowbiz has posted these new set pics from next summer’s TRANSFORMERS 3.

Aceshowbiz.com is also reporting that:

Michael Bay has revealed the final scenes of the third “Transformers” film. Speaking to Chicago Sun-Times, the helmer says they are shooting in Chicago until the end of August and the footage filmed there will be featured as part of the closing sequence.

Swipe to reveal Inviso-text ahead [SPOILER ALERT!] The Chicago footage “is at the very end of the movie and the city is under alien attack, so it’s very critical and important to the film’s climax,” Bay explains. “Something very bad has happened to America – and this is at the very end of the movie.”

They had some additional news on Megan Fox’s replacement, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

She is only said to be new female lead but her specific role was not mentioned. TFW2005 recently visited the Chicago set of the film where the site found out that the character played by Rosie is named Carly. In the animated series, Carly is described as the one who will eventually become Sam Witwicky’s wife. Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura himself has confirmed that “Rosie will definitely be [Shia Labeouf's] love interest though.”

Ferrari 458 Italia (Parked on Rush St) on the set of TRANSFORMERS 3 in Chicago, IL

Shia LaBeouf with fans on Michigan Ave.

Tyrese Gibson on the set of TRANSFORMERS 3 in Chicago, IL

Lester Speight and Tyrese Gibson on the set of TRANSFORMERS 3.

Tyrese Gibson on the set of TRANSFORMERS 3.

Tyrese Gibson on the set of TRANSFORMERS 3 in Chicago, IL

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and Transformers Director Michael Bay.

The third installment stars Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, James Avery (Silverbolt), Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime), Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, and Ken Jeong. Directed by Bay, with a screenplay from Ehren Kruger, TRANSFORMERS 3 will be in theaters next summer in 3D on July 1, 2011.

Johnny Depp is back in Hawaii and on the set of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES in these new photos. Standing on either side of him in both pictures is actor Kevin McNally who’ll  be playing Gibbs once again.

Below is a set photo from Jerry Bruckheimer via Twitter. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES will be in theaters next summer on May 20, 2011.

Source: POPSUGAR

Director Jon Favreau tweeted this peek at the set of his new film COWBOYS & ALIENS, Dreamworks’ and Universal Pictures’ upcoming adaptation of Platinum Studios cross-genre comic. A source on the set told me it’s filled deep with a lot of extras and that shooting began on Thursday, June 10th in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Even one of the film’s stars, Olivia Wilde, tweeted “Its the coolest set ever.”

Favreau is directing Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Noah Ringer, Paul Dano, Clancy Brown, Adam Beach, and Ana De La Reguera in a film that crosses the classic Western with the alien-invasion movie in a blazingly original way. Joined by Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Damon Lindelof, Denis L. Stewart, and Dan Forcey, COWBOYS & ALIENS will be an action thriller that will take audiences into the Old West, where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror beyond our world.

The film’s synopsis:

1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don’t welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move onto its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). Its a town that lives in fear…But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one-by-one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known.

Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he’s been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents’ townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors, all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.

You can follow the movie’s progress on Twitter or Facebook. From DreamworksSKG and Universal Pictures, COWBOYS & ALIENS will be in theaters next summer on July 29, 2011.

Aliens just love to take out Los Angeles, don’t they?  It seems, in recent memory, anyway, they don’t have any problems taking out the land of milk and Hollywood honeys, either.  Well, they’ve never had to contend with a pissed off Aaron Eckhart, have they?  The guy pretty much wiped out the Mob single handedly, and he did it with half a face.  Imagine the kind of destruction he can cause to bad guys when his looks are intact.

io9 got these shots of the upcoming film BATTLE: LOS ANGELES.  Some of them, the ones with the giant e’splosion, were taken by a local Louisian-ian(?) who described the scene being filmed as a “Mushroom cloud of fire caused when production company explodes bus.”

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The film is currently filming in Louisiana under the direction of Jonathan Liebesman (DARKNESS FALLS and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING).  It is set for release on February 18th, 2011.

It’s always interesting to see A) what actors are willing to do in terms of stunts and B) what the financiers behind a film are willing to let their $20-million lead do for the sake of a stunt.  Here, courtesy of Splash News, we have our first look at Tom Cruise on the set of James Mangold new action comedy, ‘Wichita.’

Needless to say, this doesn’t look like it’s going to be much of a soft landing.

‘Wichita’ centers on a woman, played by Cameron Diaz, who, during a blind date, finds herself caught up in an adventure with a super spy, played by Cruise.  The film is set for release next Summer on July 2nd.

Yes, that is a stuffed beaver puppet Mel Gibson is cuddling in the shot you see above.   It comes to us today courtesy of Splash News who has a whole series of images from the early filming on ‘The Beaver.’

Directed by Jodie Foster, the film centers on a depressed CEO of a toy company who finds a ratty, old beaver puppet.   He begins using the puppet as a sort of avatar, wearing it constantly and communicating through it.

While the premise and the shots of the early filming would make you think this is going to be a slapstick-lovers dream, evidently the screenplay is very endearing.   This could be a return to form for Gibson, who hasn’t been in a starring since 2002′s ‘Signs.’

‘The Beaver’ is set for release in 2011.

Filming on Joe Carnahan’s big-screen adaptation of ‘The A-Team’ is just around the corner, and, today, we have our first shots of the famous, GMC van that will be used in the film.  From the looks of it, it’s just like on the show complete with red stripe, roof spoiler, and flood lights.  Splash News caught these shots on set while the crew was shooting a chase scene.

Check ‘em all out:

‘The A-Team’ is set for release on June 11th, 2010.

‘The Green Hornet’ has begun production, and you just knew it wouldn’t be very long before set pics started to roll in.  Today, we offer you the first looks from the set of the film courtesy of Splash News.  It seems most of the major players are already filming scenes, as we have shots of not only Jay Chou as Kato, but Seth Rogen as Britt Reid and Cameron Diaz as Lenore Case.

Special thanks to Super Hero Hype for the heads up.

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Of course, it still remains to be seen exactly what kind of movie this is.  Judging from that last shot, with Rogen seemingly crying like a little girl and shying away from cameras, it seems like it’s going to be more the comedy.  However, being a film based on a comic book, there is surely to be some high adventure.

We’ll all find out on December 17th, 2010 when the film sees release.

The ‘MacGruber’ film has begun filming in Albuquerque, and JustJared was on hand to snap up some set pics.   The scenes being shot feature Will Forte as the title character, Kristen Wiig as Vicki, MacGruber’s assistant, and Ryan Phillippe as an as-yet named character.

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While this looks like it’s going to be another in a long line of SNL skits stretched to 90-minute mind-melts, there is hope for the film, yet.   It’s boasting an R rating and bringing Val Kilmer on board as the villain is always going to be considered a plus in our book.

‘MacGruber’ is set for release on April 16th, 2010.

Personally, I have to give credit to any actor or actress who shoots a scene in which they are buried alive.   Being partially claustrophobic, I can’t say I’m super-excited to see ‘Buried,’ the new thriller starring Ryan Reynolds and directed by first-time feature film director, Rodrigo Cortes.   Even this new image, the first, from the film makes me want to look away from my monitor to get my bearings.

Reynolds plays a US contractor in Iraq, who, after an attack by Iraqi forces, finds himself buried alive.   With only a cell phone and a lighter, he tries to find a way out of his new predicament before his air gives out.   Judging from some of the script reviews out there, this one is both going to be intense and highly emotional, all the while spending much of its time inside the coffin with Reynolds’ character.

Along with the above shot from the movie, Twitch also released this behind-the-scenes still.

Judging from the battered state of Reynold’s forehead, I’m guessing he doesn’t spend the entire movie laying on his back hoping someone answers his the phone.

‘Buried’ is due for release sometime in 2010.

Production on ‘The Violent Kind,’ the new film from writer/directing team The Butcher Brothers (‘The Hamiltons’ and ‘April Fool’s Day’), began earlier this week in Northern California.   The film is being produced by Jeffrey Allard (2003′s ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’) and Michael Ferris Gibson (‘The Hamiltons’), along with producers Andy Gould (‘House of 1000 Corpses,’ ‘The Devil’s Rejects,’ and 2007′s ‘Halloween’), Malek Akkad (the ‘Halloween’ franchise), Jeremy Platt (‘The Haunted World of El Superbeasto’ and ‘Tyrannosaurus Rex’), and first-time feature film executive producer K’Dee Miller.

Here is the official synopsis from the film’s press release:

One night at a secluded farmhouse deep in the woods, a small group of hardened young biker hoodlums and their girlfriends are tormented when one of the women becomes demonically possessed. A few miles from them, “Missing Persons” signs displaying the faces of individuals not seen since the 1950s are spewed across a wall. The connection is met through a night of sex, booze, and inhuman personas.

Cody (Cory Knauf) and Q (Bret Roberts) are two young men caught in a legacy of crime and violence. Both born into a tough Northern California biker gang simply called “The Crew”, their lives have been a constant mix of admiration, hatred, love and fear of the criminal culture they’ve grown up in. When Cody’s mother has her 50^th birthday at an old secluded farmhouse in the woods – a hangout for The Crew for decades – the evening unites Cody with his cousin and Q’s girlfriend, Shade (Taylor Cole), Cody’s ex-girlfriend Michelle (Tiffany Shepis), and Megan (Christina Prousalis), the younger sister of Michelle who left the gang years ago to lead a cleaner life.

The party quickly turns wild with a typical biker mix of booze, drugs, and strippers, but shifts into something the likes of nothing they have ever known. As mysterious figures are glimpsed amongst the woods, ominous sounds heard, and friends found injured, an evening that begins with The Crew recanting the past quickly finds a bigger question looming: Who has joined them for this evening?

The machinations of THE VIOLENT KIND delve into an exploration of how the past, the present, and the future will impact the lives of several 20-somethings, each on their own path, but controlled by a history unbeknownst to them.

Filming began on Monday, and it has been nonstop.

Check out these set pics from the film’s Twitter page:

‘The Violent Kind’ stars Cory Knauf (‘The Hamiltons’ and ‘Godspeed’), Taylor Cole (“Heroes,” “Summerland”), Bret Roberts, Christina Prousalis, noted “princess of scream” Tiffany Shepis, Joseph McKelheer (‘The Hamiltons’ and ‘Godspeed’), Samuel Child (‘The Hamiltons), and Joe Egender (‘The Hamiltons,’ and Backstage West Garland Award winning Best Actor for “He Asked For It”.)

We’ll keep you updated as news and pics continue to stream from the film’s production.   You can also follow production on ‘The Violent Kind’ via the film’s Twitter account.

One of our faithful readers, and friend of our very own Michelle was kind enough to send us some photos from the set of ‘Deathly Hollows’, and you can see the Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour shell cottage. Check out the rest of the photos below, and enjoy!

‘Jonah Hex’ starring Josh Brolin as the former Confederate soldier turned bounty hunter is well into production.   Today, we bring you the first images of Brolin in his Jonah Hex getup, makeup and all.

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The makeup looks great, and Brolin looks like an awesome choice for this part.   The Western has been making a comeback of sorts over the past, few years, and mix that with the fact that this is based on a badass DC comic’s title makes it all the more anticipated.

‘Jonah Hex’ is set for release on August 6th, 2010.

Source: INF Daily

JoBlo scored some set photos from one of the first shoots of the ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ remake. You cant see a full on view of Jackie Earl Haley but at least we can see him wearing the hat and shirt in this profile shot:

and from further away:

From everything the mystery man named “moneyshot” could tell, this was a flashback scene so it seems more and more like this is going to be a full on legit origin story. I am freaking excited for this reboot because I absolutely love Jackie Earl Haley. There are a few more set photos up on their site, all of which are of the actual set and do not contain Mr Krueger.

Last Week, we brough you the first pic from ‘Iron Man 2,’ which you see above. Ă‚  Today, we off you the first pic of Robert Downey, Jr. in his Iron Man suit.

Check it out:

As with the first pic, this doesn’t really offer much in the way of eye-opening visuals from the set. Ă‚  However, just seeing these pics and knowing Favreau and crew are hard at work on the film gets the movie geeks excited for this film.

‘Iron Man 2′ is set for release on May 7th, 2010.

Source: People