At WonderCon 2012 in Anaheim, California on Saturday, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception) and director Rian Johnson (Brick) appeared to a packed Ballroom crowd to discuss their new time travel film Looper, which also stars Bruce Willis (Die Hard) and Emily Blunt (The Adjustment Bureau). 

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick had a chance to speak with both Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Rian Johnson before their panel on Saturday about their new film. The actor and director discussed the new movie, reuniting together after Brick, and working with Bruce Willis. 

Casting on Akira, Warner Bros' live action remake of the seminal 1988 manga, which director Katsuhiro Otomo adapted from his own sprawling manga series of the same name, would seem to be proceeding apace.  Since early in the project's development, under another director, fans have made no secret of their displeasure at the whitewashed casting, with originally Japanese characters being layed by Caucasian actors.  Garrett Hedlund of Tron: Legacy is in talks to star as Kaneda, Kristen Stewart has been offered the female lead of Kei, and both Gary Oldman and Helena Bonham Carter were offered roles.  It looks like there might just be a familiar Japanese actor in the mix, as Ken Watanabe has reportedly been offered a substantial supporting role.

With recognizable properties at an all-time premium amongst movie studios, it is in no way surprising that Warner Bros is looking to get a new theatrical The Twilight Zone up and running.  The would be revival of Rod Serling's classic television series that ran from 1959 to 1964 and featured fiercely intelligent, top-notch storytelling that often ended with a surprising conclusion upending the audience's notions of everything that preceded it.  For the new would-be movie, Warner Bros has sight their sights pretty high, as their wishlist for a potential The Twilight Zone director includes Christopher Nolan, Alfonso Cuaran, Rupert Wyatt, and Michael Bay.

Opening in theaters on September 9th is the new film from Miracle director Gavin O'Connor called Warrior, which takes place in the world of mix martial arts. The film stars Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises), Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom, The Thing), Jennifer Morrison (House, Star Trek), Frank Grillo (Prison Break, Edge of Darkness), Noah Emmerich (Frequency, Super 8), Kevin Dunn (Transformers, Unstoppable), and Nick Nolte (48 Hours, Cape Fear). 

IAR's managing editor Jami Philbrick recently had an opportunity to sit down with Warrior director Gavin O'Connor, as well as several members of the cast including Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Morrison, and Frank Grillo. They had a chance to discuss the new film; its themes of brotherhood and family, the complex characters, MMA fighting, Jennifer Morrison's audition, and Gavin O'Connor's dedication to detail. 

British actor Tom Hardy has come an awful long way and gained an awful lot of muscle mass since playing the skinny Shinzon, the equally bald and thoroughly villainous clone of Captain Picard in 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis.  Since earning no end of praise as the title character Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson, Hardy has lined up an impressive assemblage of noteworthy upcoming roles, including taking over for Mel Gibson as the eponymous postapocalyptic badass in George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road.  Right now, though, he's in Pittsburgh filming The Dark Knight Rises with his Inception director Christopher Nolan.  The forthright actor recently talked about playing the musclebound baddie Bane and may very well have spilled some spoilerific beans about the story.

Unlike, say, the Golden Globes, the annual MTV Movie Awards are in no way dressed up in self importance, pomp, or circumstance.  The fact that the awards themselves are cups of golden popcorn is a tacit admission of their irrelevance, and the awards-show trappings are really just a structure within which a lot of fun can be had.  This year's Movie Awards were hosted by Jason Sudeikis last night, and the big winner was definitely The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, taking five of the viewer-voted awards.  The film won every category in which it was nominated, but Chloe Grace Moretz, the pint-sized ass-kicker of Kick-Ass, also won two buckets of shiny popcorn. 

Back in the first week of May, The Dark Knight Rises began production with a few days on location in Jodhpur, India.  Since then, Christopher Nolan's conclusion to his rebooted Batman trilogy has moved on to London, but today Warner Bros officially announced that shooting is underway.  After The Dark Knight successfully utilized IMAX cameras for many sequences and shots, The Dark Knight Rises will include even more IMAX footage, though the entire film will not be super-sized. The announcement confirms the full battery of filming locations: Pittsburgh, New York, Los Angeles, England, and Scotland.  Read on, bat-fans.

Both Tom Hardy and Joel Edgarton are actors who aren't household names just yet, but seemingly every time there's a high profile action role, their names come up.  Hardy, a Brit, made a big impression in Bronson, and he'll next re-team with his Inception director Christopher Nolan to play Bane in The Dark Knight Rises.  Australian Edgarton had a small role in the last two Star Wars prequels, and he's starring in the upcoming The Thing prequel.  In the sports drama Warrior, the two actors will play estranged brothers who end up going toe-to-toe in a championship MMA match.  Check out the newly released trailer, which is also available in HD at Apple.

Rutger Hauer stars at the titular vagrant in Hobo with a Shotgun, and while that's definitely a memorable role, the actor is best known for playin Roy Batty, the poetically-inclined replicant pursued by Harrison Ford's Deckard throughout Blade Runner.  Recently, producers at Alcon Entertainment announced that they acquired the Blade Runner rights, and though they don't intend to remake the 1982 classic, a prequel or sequel is in the works.  Speaking to Hero Complex, Rutger Hauer revealed that unless his Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan is on board, he opposes the idea of any more Blade Runner films.

Just three weeks ago, Warner Bros unveiled a new movie rental platform: facebook.  To kick things off, the studio was offering just one title, the phenomenally successful Batman sequel The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan.  Well, the experiment is proceeding apace, as four films have been added to the social media's new rental service.  As of ten pm tonight, you'll be able to rent the first two films in the Harry Potter franchise, Yogi Bear, Life As We Know It, and Nolan's latest film, Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.