Ready for your last Movie News Cheat Sheet of July 2011? Just as we’re heading into the home stretch of the summer season, a slew of films are priming to snag the spotlight as their big debuts are on the horizon. Not only do we have a ton of images from a selection of Toronto International Film Festival participants like the Jason Segel starrer Jeff Who Lives at Home and Francis Ford Coppola’s supernatural horror thriller Twixt, but Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and Judge Dredd, too. Entertainment Weekly also gave us our very first look at Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson all decked out in their Gale and Peeta…

Relativity Media has released the first looks of their new film “Machine Gun Preacher” starring Gerard Butler and directed by Marc Forster. You can see the first images from the film below the post. According to the press release, the film is based on a true story about a man who goes from drug-dealing to saving kidnapped and orphaned children in East Africa: In this inspirational true story, “Machine Gun Preacher” is about Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children. Gerard Butler (“300″) delivers a searing performance as Childers, the impassioned…

Recently, ShockYa reported on the official poster from this year’s soon-to-be Oscar contender “The Whistleblower.” Well, today, Samuel Goldwyn Films has released some clips from the film today. The clip, “Not Safe,” shows Weisz and David Strathairn as their characters Kathyrn Bolkovac and Peter Ward who are trying to hash out how Bolkovac can stick a case of corruption to the higher-ups she works for. From the film, you can see that it’s filmed in the “real-cam” type of fashion in order to give the film more realism, especially since it’s based on a real story. There are also some new stills from the film as well, which can be…

If you are a fan of BBC/Masterpiece Mystery’s “Sherlock” and want to remain unspoiled for the upcoming second season, PLEASE LEAVE THIS ARTICLE as there is sensitive spoiler material below. For those who remained, here’s the information. According to the Daily Mail, some set pictures from “Sherlock” show Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes on a stretcher, bloodied and seemingly unconscious. The pictures are from the first episode “A Scandal in Belgravia,” which is a play on the story “A Scandal in Bohemia” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the story, Sherlock and John Watson (played by Martin Freeman in the show) help the King of Bohemia track down a scandalous…

IGN.com has debuted the official red-band trailer of FilmDistrict’s “Drive,” starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan. The trailer can be viewed here. The film, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, is a tight action triller about a stunt driver who wheels getaway cars in his off time: Ryan Gosling stars as a Los Angeles wheelman for hire, stunt driving for movie productions by day and steering getaway vehicles for armed heists by night. Though a loner by nature, Driver can’t help falling in love with his beautiful neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan), a vulnerable young mother dragged into a dangerous underworld by the return of her ex-convict husband Standard (Oscar Isaac). After…

Fans of the primetime soap opera “Dallas” can either breathe a sigh of relief or a sigh of sadness; TNT has greenlit a reboot of the popular cult classic, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This version of “Dallas” will star original “Dallas” stars Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray and “J.R.” himself, Larry Hagman. The show will also star Josh Henderson, Jesse Metcalfe, Jordana Brewster, Julie Gonzalo, and Brenda Strong. TNT has ordered 10 episodes of the show, which is slated to premiere in summer 2012. The network will also show viewers a sneak peek of “Dallas” on Monday during the season premieres of “The Closer,” which starts at 9 p.m. ET/PT…

How about three stills to go with that brand new trailer for 50/50? After months of wondering whether or not cancer can actually be funny, based on the film’s trailer, we now know there’s a possibility. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as 27-year old Adam who’s shocked to find out he’s got cancer. Also along for what looks to be an emotionally hilarious ride are Seth Rogen as Adam’s best bud, Anna Kendrick as his therapist and Anjelica Huston as his mother. The trio of new images features one of the trailer’s funniest moments, Adam shaving his head with a razor Rogen’s character uses for other areas. There’s also a…

Principal photography has taken place on the set of “Gambit”, starring Cameron Diaz(“The Green Hornet”), Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech”), Alan Rickman (“Harry Potter” series), Stanley Tucci (“Julie and Julia”), and Cloris Leachman. The film, based on a screenplay by the Coen Brothers(“No Country for Old Men”, “True Grit”), is directed by Michael Hoffman (“The Last Station”). The film is shooting in London and Mexico. Here’s the official synopsis: …[T]he story centers on British art curator Harry Deane (Firth) who devises a finely-crafted scheme to con England’s richest man and avid art collector, Lionel Shabandar, (Rickman) into purchasing a fake Monet painting. In order to bait his buyer, he recruits…

It is finally official! The pre-production for the next season of BBC’s hit show “Sherlock” is finally happening! The evidence stems from some tweets co-writer and co-creator Mark Gatiss wrote on his Twitter account. The first tweet from Gatiss read, “Production meeting done now #Sherlock read-through tomorrow! Looking forward to the 221b reunion.” The second tweet read, “The best and the wisest men whom I have ever known. Sort of. #Sherlock”. The men he was referring to are the actors who play John and Sherlock, Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch. There was also a picture that went along with the tweet, showing the two actors having fun while doing the…

Yesterday, Shockya reported on a bounty of “Amazing Spider-Man” set photos. Today, another photo has been posted on CinemaBlend, which shows a close-up of the lizard skin on Dr. Curt Connors’ (Rhys Ifans) neck. As you can see in the picture below, the skin is very subtle, possibly showing the tone this film will take to differentiate itself from the Sam Raimi “Spider-Man” films. This film must be going for something a bit more realistic instead of the comic book-y way everything was presented in Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” film series. Overall, the effect of the lizard skin is impressive and shows that the lizard transformation is going to be a…