Lily Collins drops out of Evil Dead remake

Bad news for those of you hoping to see a Phil Collins cameo as a big, bald Deadite in the upcoming Evil Dead reboot, as his daughter Lily has dropped out of the film's leading role.Collins had signed on to play recovering drug-addict Mia, whose attempts to wean herself off the narcotics are set to be complicated by the soul-sucking nastiest released by the Necronomicon.However, scheduling clashes with other projects have meant Collins has been forced to step down from the role. Variety's Jeff Sneider broke the news with the following Tweet: "Again, in case you missed it, LILY COLLINS is OUT of THE EVIL DEAD reboot due to a scheduling issue. Agents, start your engines..."The new film, directed by Fede Alvarez from a script worked on (in part) by Diablo Cody will maintain the basic set-up of the original (kids go to a creepy woodland cabin) whilst also taking it in some new directions.The official synopsis explains the differences as follows: "Mia and David, estranged siblings who have recently lost their mother (Mia's taking it the hardest being that she's the one who spent most days at the hospital watching her mother deteriorate) have reunited, along with some old friends and his David's fiancee, for an intervention at THAT old cabin. It's here that the near rehabilitated Mia will also toss the last of her drugs down the well and finally go cold turkey."The Evil Dead is set for a US release date of 13 April 2013, so plenty of time for a replacement to be found for Collins. As long as there's room for a Bruce Campbell cameo, we'll be happy...

Cinema Libre in zen zone on 'Pass'

'The Highest Pass'Cinema Libre Studio has acquired rights to Jon Fitzgerald's documentary "The Highest Pass," the story of seven seekers who follow a yogi on a motorcycle journey of self-discovery up through the highest pass of the Indian Himalayas. Cinema Libre acquired "Pass" at the Topanga Film Festival and plans a theatrical release in April in Los Angeles and NY. All rights except for foreign TV were acquired by Cinema Libre. Film centers on a modern yogi and guru, Anand Mehrotra, who bears the burden of a Vedic prophecy that predicts he will die in his late 20s in an accident. Adam Schomer, who organized the ride, produced and wrote. It's the second documentary for Fitzgerald following "The Back Nine." He's a former festival director of the American Film Institute, Santa Barbara Intl. Film Festival and Abu Dhabi Film Festival and one of the founders of the Slamdance Film Festival and recently launched Cinecause.com to connect socially relevant films to related causes. "My first film was turned down by Sundance, which is one of the reasons why Slamdance was founded," Fitzgerald said. "Recognizing that there is often a great value for niche films to play smaller festivals, we developed our fest strategy around specific regional events hoping to connect with the audiences. Finding a distributor at Topanga was icing on the cake." "Pass" won the Spotlight Award at Topanga and received the audience award at the San Diego Film Festival and the jury prize for Documentary at the Naples Intl. Film Festival. Schomer's documentary "When the Dust Settles," a look into the effects of nuclear testing on the children of Kazakhstan, is in post-production. Cinema Libre has released more than 100 titles, including "Fuel," "The End of Poverty?," "London River" and "South of the Border" and is developing "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" into a feature. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

Virgin America flies to 'Philadelphia'

Virgin AmericaAfter formerly pairing track of HBO's "Entourage" to produce a brand new path to Vegas, Virgin America has reserved FX's "It's Sunny in Philadelphia" to advertise its new flight to Philadelphia.The Bay Area-based air travel began selling tickets to Philadelphia Intl Airport terminal Tuesday after presenting its next route on its Facebook page with the aid of "Sunny's" mysterious "Greenman," who made an appearance inside a video around the social networking.The air travel and Forex are offering an opportunity to win roundtrip plane tickets and what they are calling "the best 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' fan pack" composed from the first six seasons from the show on DVD, a Paddy's Pub T-shirt, the series' official game and helpful tips for the characters' favorite haunts.The promo should help hype "Sunny's" eighth season that begins this fall the way in which Virgin also marketed DreamWorks' "Real Steel" last fall, via a tie-in and marketing partnership with Disney, which distributed the film through its Touchstone banner.The company loves to tout its entertainment options, using its Red-colored in-flight entertainment system offering 35 films, live TV, videogames, musicvids, along with a 3,000 song library. Virgin Created also uses the air travel to advertise its slate of photos, including "Immortals."Virgin America will fly three daily non-stop plane tickets from La Intl Airport terminal to Philadelphia beginning April 4, and 2 from Bay Area Intl Airport terminal on April 10.The air travel, which lately began flying to Palm Springs, Chicago and Mexico's Cabo San Lucas and Cancun, is starting Philadelphia as 50% of vacationers flying from Philadelphia to L.A. use hooking up plane tickets (it's 45% to Bay Area). Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com

New DVD Releases: Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012

Justified Justified Season 2 Timothy Olyphant is back as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in this three-disc set featuring all 13 episodes from the second season. Available on both DVD and Blu-ray, the set includes two featurettes, deleted scenes, outtakes, and a Blu-ray exclusive feature, "Talking Shop: Roundtable Discussion." (Buy the DVD)(Buy the Blu-ray) Mildred PierceBased on the James M. Cain's 1941 book, HBO's latest renowned five-episode miniseries starring Kate Winslet is availableas a two-disc DVD set, or a four-disc combo Blu-ray/DVD set. Bonus material includes commentary tracks, a menu-based "series index," previews of all five parts, and Blu-ray exclusives that include "Inside the Episode" pieces, and "The Making of Mildred Pierce." (Buy the DVD) (Buy the Blu-ray) Royal Pains Season 3, Volume 1This two-disc set includes the first 10 episodes from the third season, just in time for the midseason premiere on Jan. 18. Featuringsuch great guests as Henry Winkler, Matt Lauer and Wilmer Valderrama, the set also includes a commentary track, deleted scenes, and a gag reel. (Buy the DVD) View the complete list of releases for January 3 at TVShowsOnDVD.com.

The Cast of 1 Tree Hill Shares Their All-Time Favorite Episodes

Bethany Pleasure Galeotti and James Lafferty During the last eight seasons, One Tree Hill has already established its great amount of drama, heartbreak, dying and crazy plotlines (your dog ate Dan's new heart!). Once we prepare to leave behind the lengthy-running CW series, TVGuide.com swept up using the cast because they distributed to us their most favorite episodes. Click the link to determine Chad Michael Murray, Bethany Pleasure Galleoti, Sophia Rose bush yet others think back. What's your preferred One Tree Hill episode? Tell us below!

Five 'Sherlock Holmes' Tales That Should Be Modified Next

Generally, the An Online DetectiveInch movies certainly are a more-or-less faithful adaptation of Mister Arthur Conan Doyles sharp-eyed sleuth, however with a couple of slo-mo bareknuckle boxing thrown in permanently measure. Theres Holmes, cracking wise theres Watson, searching perturbed. Also would you like? As you have seen in this particular lately released clip, hardly any. Watch a distinctive "An Online DetectiveInch clip! But theres more to think about from Doyles original tales when compared to a character sketch together with an environment. Doyles tales were filled with twists, turns, and various plots developed and found the final outcome in many pages. No ones saying the film art galleries need to adapt these tales exactly theyre firmly rooted inside the social attitudes of occasions, and can appear somewhat stilted. Still, theres plenty of concepts and lines and wrinkles to lift for nearly any future An Online DetectiveInch movies. Below, heres five tales we feel might have the preferred effect. 1. The expertise of Red-colored-colored-Headed League: Large movies need minor villains, and theres none quirkier in comparison to self-hired Red-colored-colored-Headed League. The villains were some thieves who contrived to invent a distinctive organization for red-colored-colored-headed males, beneath the guise of defrauding the males who switched as much as use. Getting a few changes, they might be a genuine organization of evil gingers, though that could not play perfectly inside the United kingdom. It may be just bizarre enough to use, and basically irrelevant allowing Holmes to wash them offered by relative ease. Jackie Earle Haley could star since the most dubious red-colored-colored-mind! 2. 5 Orange Pips: Similarly speaking, 5 Orange Pips" finds the Ku Klux Klan terrorizing a close Englishman. In Doyles story, the Klan are treated a great deal a lot more like a mysterious cult in comparison to historic artifact theyre trained as today. Showing them just like a minor presence might be suitable for the time-frame theyd also instantly register just like a villain because of, yknow, the racism. 3. The Hound in the Baskervilles: This really is really the granddaddy of Holmes tales, an entire-length novel while using detectives finest mystery. Its a murder story showing up just like a ghost tale, as Holmes and Watson are classified as towards the and surrounding suburbs to analyze some mysterious deaths within the ft in the so-referred to as Hound. With Holmes and Watson weaving their way through twisted genealogy and double-speaking villagers, theyve arrived at deduce when the Hound is real, which isn't solved prior to the storys climax. It may be a fearsome image on-screen, and packed with tension. Furthermore frightening when compared to a giant ghost dog who eats people? 4. The Knowledge in the Speckled Band: This is often a fairly conventional mystery -- a dying credited for the speckled band," which calculates to become lizard if you do clever sleuthing. But that thought just uses a great chunk of misdirection plus much more deaths, as well as the delivery system -- the lizard crawls using a ventilator after being triggered having a whistle -- is ingenious enough to use. If you want to visualise a dying on-screen, it normally will not convey more jarring than an adder jumping from the vent onto somebody's throat. 5. The Symbol of some: Robert Downey Junior.s had his great deal of issue with substance abuse, which explains why some novelty helmet-eyed bloggers pointed to Tony Starks alcoholism as a bit of meta-casting on Marvels part. This problem might rear its mind in Iron Guy 3," or it will not. But An Online Detective may also be a drug abuser -- inside the original tales, hes quite verbal about the love of cocaine, which wasnt a substantial globally maligned drug inside the 1800s. Inside The Symbol of some,In . Doyle addresses Holmes drug problem quite clearly while he tries to foil a dubious plot such as the Indian Rebellion of 1857, stolen treasure, and secret contracts within the wazoo. The flicks have completely abandoned Holmes addiction, but another movie might hint at his growing mania in a little more dark terms than, Oh, that Holmes, he so crazy." Clearly, that may be a measure too serious of those generally light-hearted adaptations. The essential plot of 4Inch would serve as well since the backbone for just about any third movie, without participating in heady territory. Which "An Online DetectiveInch tales do you want to see modified next? Reveal inside the comments section and also on Twitter!

Abe Lincoln subsequently: Vampire Hunter Posters

Fanged fiends beware!Because of horror genre mash-up specialist Seth Grahame Cruz, now that we know that America's 16th Leader, Abraham Lincoln subsequently, was fighting the vampire menace the majority of his existence, a fight which was just like vital that you him because the Civil War. With producer Tim Burton and director Timur Bekmambetov pushing that idea onto the screen, the marketing gremlins for Abraham Lincoln subsequently: Vampire Hunter have finally presented two posters, which you should check out within the gallery below, thanks to IGN.The film finds Benjamin Master as Abe, a guy haunted through the murder of his mother, a victim from the fanged threat. Driven by vengeance, he swears to eliminate the vampires of the underworld, but requires a little training as a result of useful undead type Henry Sturgess (Dominic Cooper). We obtain to follow along with his, existence, including his marriage to Mary Todd Lincoln subsequently (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and the conflict using the evil Adam (Rufus Sewell) because he attempts to take lower the double threat of slavery and nasty, toothy bastards.Lincoln subsequently: Vampire Hunter PostersAbraham Lincoln subsequently: Vampire Hunter is going to be on August 2, 2012 and that we hear Steven Spielberg is even today anxiously spinning portions of their own version from the man's existence, Lincoln subsequently to incorporate moments of Daniel Day-Lewis kicking serious ass. Okay, he isn't, but that would be fun?