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SUNDAY AM,  4TH UPDATE: Younger males used to be Hollywood’s target audience. But as I’ve been pointing out recently, they’re just not consistently (and indiscriminately) going to the movies anymore. The reason is either financial or too many other entertainment choices. That was the gist of internal conversations…

Deadline Comic-Con film correspondent Luke Y Thompson files: If Comic-Cons can be said to have a theme, this year’s which began Wednesday is "free-for-all." Usually, there is one property that is expected to dominate (IRON MAN and TRON LEGACY have been there, done that) and one that upsets (300, SIN CITY). This year…

Here’s the new trailer for DreamWorks Pictures’ sci-fi actioner Real Steel, based on Richard Matheson’s short story. The robot-boxing tale is directed by Shawn Levy and stars Hugh Jackman and is set for an Oct. 7 release via <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/disney/" id="auto-tag_disney"…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney doesn’t release Real Steel until Oct. 7, but already DreamWorks is getting the machinery moving on a sequel to the Shawn Levy-directed drama that stars Hugh Jackman. I’m told the studio has commissioned John Gatins, who scripted the first film, to start on the second installment. It’s unusual to see…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox has acquired an untitled action adventure pitch that will be scripted by Lost‘s Carlton Cuse for Hugh Jackman to star in and Shawn Levy to direct. Levy’s 21 Laps Entertainment banner will produce. While Cuse has done uncredited writing on two Lethal Weapon sequels and Indiana Jones and the L…

DreamWorks has just released a trailer for Real Steel, the Shawn Levy-directed Hugh Jackman-starrer that will be released through Touchstone Pictures October 7…

DreamWorks is moving Steven Spielberg’s War Horse from August to December 28 of 2011. Stacey Snider said today that after screening footage, the studio decided that it felt “like a holiday movie.” In other DreamWorks moves, The Help, starring Emma Stone and Bryce Dallas Howard, has been dated for August 12, and Shawn…