Who knew bird watching was a suitable cornerstone for filmmakers? Apparently first-time director Rob Meyer did when he decided to make his award-winning short film Aquarium – now being developed for feature-length treatment into A Birder’s Guide to Everything. Subject matter aside, The Playlist is reporting via Production Weekly that the likes of Bryan Cranston and Ben Kingsley have been added to the film’s roster. Despite shooting as soon as this summer, The Playlist had little to report on Cranston and Kingsley’s roles in the film. However, they did note the synopsis as revolving around a teenager named David who goes in search of an extinct duck with three friends – learning life lessons and coming to terms with personal family issues along the way. Read the full story

Deadline is reporting that master director Martin Scorsese will cast Sacha Baron Cohen and Shutter Island‘s Ben Kingsley in his upcoming children’s film The Invention of Hugo Cabret, based on the Brian Selznick book. The film follows the “the 12-year old title character, an orphan who lives in the walls of a Paris train station in 1930.” Kingsley will play George Melies, the filmmaker who was known for his “magic” tricks through editing in his early silent films. Baron Cohen will take on the role of the station inspector. Read the full story

A new trailer has premiered on IGN for Mike Newell’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The summer blockbuster based on the popular videogame series stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina, and Ben Kingsley. It was recently announced the film would see a premiere over two months early at the annual ShoWest convention in Las Vegas this month. Check out the trailer below. Read the full story

Remember Cape Fear? Where Scorsese bombarded and frightened us with surreal images and a more-than-unsettling atmosphere? Shutter Island represents that side of Scorsese. It’s quite possibly his most tense film yet. While it’s difficult to label it as “scary”, it certainly knows how to make one feel consistently uneasy. This is a wonderfully crafted psychological horror film. Read the full story

IGN has debuted the first trailer for Mike Newell‘s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The summer blockbuster based on the popular videogame series stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina, and Ben Kingsley. Check out the trailer below and HD screencaps below.

Mike Newell‘s previous blockbuster, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was actually quite good. I loved the videogame series and this seems to have a lot of the same elements. The script looks like it could use the part, but coming from Disney and Bruckheimer this should be a fun summer flick. Check out some HD screencaps below (click for hi-res):

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Two posters for next summer’s video game movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time have debuted exclusively at Empire (via /Film) and they show the lead character, Prince Dastan, played by Jake Gyllenhaal (Jarhead, Zodiac), and the other shows Princess Tamina, played by Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace, RocknRolla).  One of the posters is shown below.

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Paramount Pictures has just released the first for Martin Scorsese upcoming film Shutter Island. Its an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel of the same name. The film follows two US Marshals named Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule who are assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston’s Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. While their they encounter riots, untrusting doctors, and a hurricane that keeps then stranded their. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, and Jackie Earle Haley. Shutter Island is set to be released on October 2nd, 2009. Check out the trailer after the jump.

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