Happy Super Bowl Sunday! Did the Giants win yet? While you’re all downing all of the beer, pigs in a blanket and football you can, I’m here to make sure you’ve got your weekly dose of movies news here waiting for you when you’re ready. Let’s face it, there’s just so long the Super Bowl will sustain a conversation at school or work this week. Well, unless the Giants really do win and you’re from New York like myself. Anyway, on the table this week is the return of James Wan’s Insidious as well as some casting updates for the remake of Evil Dead. Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain and Joel…

I guess this is really the first Movie News Cheat Sheet of the year. Sure, we ran one on January 1st, but considering that edition was packed with the top stories of 2011, this is your first taste of the best of the best in movie news for 2012. There’s a couple big casting updates to report from Joel Edgerton signing on to lead Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama bin Laden feature to Spike Lee losing another villain option for his remake of Oldboy. Then, of course, awards season nominations continue to come in and this time around, it’s the Writers Guild and Producers Guild pinpointing the finest films of last year….

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Well, for some of us. With the end of the year fast approaching, the awards nods are rolling in and this past week a big list was revealed – the Golden Globe nominations. Generally the right films snagged the honors – The Artist, The Descendants, The Help – but we did have a few upsets, namely the lack of Steven Spielberg’s name on the Best Director list for his work on War Horse. Brendan Meyer will certainly be having a very merry Christmas. The young actor was just cast as Stilson in Ender’s Game while Spike Lee turned to Clive Owen for…

We’re going into high-profile overdrive this week. We’ve got some major casting news regarding a number of highly anticipated productions including Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, Spike Lee’s Oldboy, Stephenie Meyer’s next book-to-film adaptation The Host and more. In non-casting news, of course, we’ve got the details on the Academy Awards producer/host shuffle and an update on the upcoming Justice League movie from Warner Bros. as well as a little sneak peek at the xnew Toy Story short film set to play ahead of the November 23rd release, The Muppets. So, want the goods? They’re all right here in your weekly Movie News Cheat Sheet. 1. Sacha Baron Cohen May Join…

’30 Minutes or Less’ director Ruben Fleischer has begun filming his new period crime drama ‘The Gangster Squad’ in Los Angeles, Collider is reporting. The principal photography began on September 6 on the Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures film, which stars Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. ‘The Gangster Squad’ follows real-life mob king Mickey Cohen, played by Penn, who runs the business in 1949 L.A. He has control of the city’s drugs, guns and prostitution profits, and he’s aiming for control of every wire bet placed west of Chicago. Mickey is protected by not only his bodyguards, but also the police and politicians who…

You know what’s great about this week’s Movie News Cheat Sheet? Instead of using the information for office or school conversation-starters, you can take it to your Labor Day celebrations. Let’s just hope your holiday weekend is better than Apollo 18 and Shark Night 3D‘s. While The Help continues its box office domination, those two prove that the majority of moviegoers know the difference between campy horror fun and sheer garbage. In other troublesome news, both Napoleon Dynamite and The Hangover Part II are in the midst of courtroom battles, the Napoleon Dynamite production company duking it out with Fox Searchlight and Warner Bros. facing a lawsuit from an injured…

Happy Sunday! Or should I say, happy Harry Potter week? After seven days of madness courtesy of the grand finale of the eight-film franchise, the web world is drenched in Potter news, discussion pieces, lists, photos and more. It’s a wonder there was room for any non-HP news. However, we did get quite a bit of information on some other highly anticipated upcoming projects, particularly in the image department. Not only did we get a look at The Amazing Spider-Man and Underworld: Awakenings, but Total Recall and The Hobbit, too. It was also a busy week for trailers as far too many debuted to even squeeze into this Cheat Sheet….

The “Oldboy” news seems to be coming fast now that the news of Spike Lee directing has been released. Now, according to CinemaBlend via Twitch Film, Josh Brolin has been the first name rumored to be attached to the project. According to the article, Mandate Films list of potential leads has Brolin right at the tippy-top. He’s a great actor, so I’m sure he could do what is required of him and then some. In any case, he could get butts in seats and keep the people attached to those butts highly entertained. Keep in mind, though, that this is a rumor–it’s not a fact. And, as said earlier, Spike…

The Coen Brothers’ latest masterpiece “True Grit” has been released on DVD, digital download and Blu-ray today, June 7. The film is about a girl named Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) who is seeking revenge for her father’s murder by asking a crackshot Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to kill her father’s killer (Josh Brolin). The special features include the following, according to Amazon: Mattie’s True Grit HD From Bustles to Buckskin – Dressing for the 1880s HD Colts, Winchesters & Remingtons: The Guns of a Post-Civil War Western HD Re-Creating Fort Smith HD The Cast HD Charles Portis – The Greatest Writer You’ve Never Heard Of… HD The Cinematography of True…

If you’re directly involved in it, the day and night surrounding the Oscars must be loads of fun. You would figure that between the ridiculous amounts of celebrities, awards, food and drinks that you get at the after parties, that specific Sunday out of the year must be absolutely wonderful. Perhaps it’s even a pinch more so for actor Josh Brolin. He wasn’t nominated this year for an Academy Award, but he came up and presented in a funky-looking tuxedo. You figure he worked his magic with that outfit or gave one great pitch, because now his next project happens to be “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Brolin is developing…