Universal Pictures has released the first TV spot for Robert Schwentke‘s comedic horror project R.I.P.D.Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds star as two Rest In Peace Department officers, who protect and serve the living from a group of unruly souls, who refuse to move peacefully to the other side. This first look shows the rookie officer meeting his new veteran partner for the first time.

R.I.P.D. TV Spot

R.I.P.D. comes to theaters July 19th, 2013 and stars Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Bacon, Jeff Bridges, Devin Ratray, Mary-Louise Parker, Robert Knepper, Stephanie Szostak, James Hong. The film is directed by Robert Schwentke.

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Bingbing Li has joined the cast of Michael Bay‘s upcoming sci-fi sequel Transformers 4.

The addition marks the first Chinese actor to join the project with numerous more to follow. She will soon be joined by other famous actors as well as a number of newcomers being recruited from a scouting competition.

Bingbing Li is best known for playing Ada Wong in Paul W.S. Anderson‘s Resident Evil: Retribution. She will also be seen as Blink in Bryan Singer‘s X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Production is slated to begin later in the year

Transformers 4 comes to theaters June 27th, 2014 and stars Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Sophia Myles. The film is directed by Michael Bay.

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Antonio Banderas is set to star in Patricia Riggen‘s upcoming dramatization of the 2010 Chilean mine cave-in The 33.

The miners spent 69 days trapped underground, while workers on the surface worked around-the-clock the rescue them. Antonio Banderas will be portraying Mario Sepulveda, the charismatic miner also known as Super Mario. Martin Sheen and Rodrigo Santoro are also attached to star.

Patricia Riggen is directing from a script by Mikko Alanne and Jose Rivera. Mike Medavoy, who announced the casting Sunday at Cannes, is producing alongside Edward McGurn.

Antonio Banderas will next be seen in Robert Rodriguez‘s sequel Machete Kills.

Production is scheduled to begin in the fall in Chile.

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J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot banner had a prosperous pilot season in setting up two big dramas, Fox’s “Almost Human” and NBC’s “Believe.” So did Bill Lawrence’s Doozer banner, with comedies on Fox (“Surviving Jack”) and NBC (“Undateable”), not to mention a newbie ordered by TBS last week (“Ground Floor”). See also: Studios Score as Series… Read more

The first new face rumored to join ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ is Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors) and he has history with director J.J. Abrams.

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An enticing blockbuster concept gets a lackluster execution from Japanese genre director Takashi Miike.

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Production on Marc Webb superhero sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has hit day 73 and the director has shared yet another photo from the set. This inside look features a mysterious looking laboratory door with a gun and holster lying on the floor. Addtionally, two other photos have surfaced showing Spiderman (Andrew Garfield) taking a ride on the front of a pickup truck while fighting The Rhino (Paul Giamatti).

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— Marc Webb (@MarcW) May 19, 2013

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 comes to theaters May 2nd, 2014 and stars Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Shailene Woodley, Sally Field, Dane DeHaan, Andrew Garfield, Martin Sheen, Felicity Jones. The film is directed by Marc Webb.

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The Dubai Intl. Film Festival is launching a Cinematic Innovation Summit in tandem with its 10th edition, with Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith, Lava Bear Films topper David Linde and Avatar thesp Stephen Lang among those expected to attend. The event, which will take place in Dubai on Dec. 5 and 6, is being described… Read more

The first teaser trailer has been released for Greg Mottola’s HBO film, Clear History, which stars an unrecognizable Larry David as “Nathan, a hipster marketing exec who sells all his shares at a start-up over a fight with his boss (Jon Hamm), only to miss out on billions when the company’s new product—an electric car—becomes a smashing success.”  The movie was largely improvised, and also stars Bill Hader, Kate Hudson, Eva Mendes, Danny McBride, Michael Keaton, Phillip Michael Hall, JB Smoove, and Amy Ryan.  Mottola tells EW the movie picks up ten years after Nathan’s disastrous mistake, and he has changed his name and gone incognito.  The Superbad director adds that the character is loosely based off an employee mentioned in Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer and first image.  Clear History premieres on HBO in August.

Image via EW.

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Novelist, screenwriter and cinematographer S. Craig Zahler will make his directorial debut with the film which stars Jennifer Carpenter and Timothy Olyphant; Magnolia takes U.S. rights.

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