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VOTD: ‘Tom Hanks: The Movie’ Supercut By Angie Han/Oct. 11, 2013 12:30 pm EST This weekend’s Captain Phillips doesn’t spend too much time dwelling on its protagonist’s history, but maybe that’s because it doesn’t need to. Maybe we’ve already spent the past twenty years watching it play out. A new supercut suggests that Tom Hanks has spent most of his career starring in one really long film called Tom Hanks: The Movie that follows its hero from college to the battlefield to outer space to the open seas....

VOTD: Cosplay Music Video From San Diego Comic Con 2013 By Peter Sciretta/July 25, 2013 2:00 pm EST SneakyZebra has put together a great UK-style music video showcasing some of the best cosplayers they came across at San Diego Comic Con International 2013. Watch the video embedded after the jump. VOTD: Cosplay Music Video From San Diego Comic Con 2013 By Peter Sciretta/July 25, 2013 2:00 pm EST SneakyZebra has put together a great UK-style music video showcasing some of the best cosplayers they came across at San Diego Comic Con International 2013....

VOTD: The Films Of Alfonso Cuaron By Germain Lussier/Sept. 22, 2014 5:00 am EST What Alfonso Cuaron lacks in quantity of films made, he damn sure makes up for in quality. He’s only made seven movies over almost 25 years but it’s as if he somehow gets exponentially better with each and ever one. I admit to not knowing much about his first feature, Love in the Time of Hysteria, but it allowed him to two whimsical crowd pleasers, A Little Princess and Great Expectations....

WTF: Guy Wearing ‘Breaking Bad’ Shirt Arrested For Cooking Meth By Germain Lussier/Feb. 27, 2014 10:44 am EST Breaking Bad was such a popular show, odds are some of the millions of viewers didn’t get it. Certainly, every week some viewers followed the adventures of Walter White seeing not a scary descent into evil, but a rise to financial independence. Yes, Vince Gilligan’s story showcased a middle-class man who used his own knowledge to become a multi-millionaire....

‘Crank’ Co-Director Mark Neveldine Signs For ‘The Vatican Tapes’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 12, 2013 8:58 am EST Mark Neveldine has been best known as the writing and directing partner of Brian Taylor. The two moved from commercials to the Crank films, and most recently released Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. It was a year ago that Mark Taylor was announced as the director of Sony’s Twisted Metal video game to film adaptation, and now Brian Neveldine is taking over The Vatican Tapes, a supernatural thriller that has been in development for a few years....

‘Derek’ TV Trailer: Ricky Gervais Gets Gentle By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2013 4:30 pm EST Ricky Gervais burst onto the comedy scene with the original UK version of The Office, and in the years since that show his comedy has veered towards the savage. His propensity to argue his position as an atheist, and a few gigs such as his biting Golden Globes hosting duties, have overshadowed some of his other comedy....

‘Dexter’ Season 8 Unveils Poster And Trailer; Showtime Exec Talks Spinoff Potential By Angie Han/April 19, 2013 4:32 pm EST Savor the next twelve episodes of Dexter, because they’ll be the last. The network announced earlier this week that the serial killer drama would end its run after the eighth season, which begins in June. To prepare fans for the big goodbye, they’ve revealed a new poster and trailer hinting at events to come....

‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Trailer: GTA Goes Back To Hollywood By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2011 12:15 pm EST Games are constantly trying to become more cinematic, but very few manage the trick. It takes a lot more than a widescreen aspect ratio and some lens flare to capture cinema in a gaming context, but the characters and deep storylines of the Grand Theft Auto games come closer than almost anyone else....

‘Marvel’s Agents Of SHIELD’: Patton Oswalt Signs On For An Episode By Russ Fischer/March 20, 2014 3:00 pm EST Marvel and ABC keep adding more players to its primary show. In Agents of SHIELD Patton Oswalt will be the the latest to take a guest turn on for an episode. He’ll play Agent Eric Koenig, a character who originally appeared in comics pages as part of Fury’s first World War II team of Howling Commandos....

‘Nymphomanic: Volume I’ Trailer: A Valentine’s Day Treat From Lars Von Trier By Germain Lussier/Feb. 13, 2014 5:12 pm EST Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Magnolia has released the U.S. trailer for Lars von Trier’s Nymphomanic: Volume I. The controversial film hits on demand March 6 and theaters March 21 sporting a very naked, very impressive cast including Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Uma Thurman, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Connie Nielsen and Udo Kier....

‘Paranormal Activity’ Director Oren Peli To Direct Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘Eliza Graves’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 8, 2010 11:30 am EST When Oren Peli shot the first Paranormal Activity in his own house over the course of a week, he never could have imagined how it would totally and utterly change his life. The film came out and was a runaway hit, he immediately signed on to produce a sequel and then directed his second movie called Area 51....

‘The Wedding Ringer’ Trailer: Kevin Hart Is Josh Gad’s BFF For Hire By Angie Han/Sept. 25, 2014 11:30 am EST Kevin Hart is angling to become the king of the January box office. His $41 million opening weekend for Ride Along earlier this year was the biggest ever for that month, and in fact was so impressive that a sequel has already been slotted for the same weekend in 2016. In between those is next year’s The Wedding Ringer, another buddy comedy....

‘Tron: Legacy’ Sequel Moves Forward With Writer Jesse Wigutow By Angie Han/Dec. 5, 2012 9:33 pm EST Disney’s high hopes for Tron: Legacy weren’t quite realized when the film opened in 2010. The sci-fi sequel earned just $172 million domestically, which doesn’t sound so impressive when you realize it had a production budget of $170 million. Still, it ultimately managed to draw $400 million worldwide — enough to get the studio moving, albeit not very quickly, on another installment....

Behind The Scenes: ‘The World’s End’ B-Roll And The VFX Of ‘Elysium’ By Angie Han/Aug. 26, 2013 7:00 am EST Whether you’re depicting an ugly urban dystopia, or merely the end of the world as we know it, a lot of work goes into crafting scenes worthy of splashy summer releases. Today, we have two videos that show just what that labor entails. A new featurette spotlights the special effects of Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, while 15 minutes of B-roll footage show what went on behind the scenes of Edgar Wright’s The World’s End....

Bryan Singer Directing Pilot Of Vince Gilligan Show ‘Battle Creek’ By Russ Fischer/March 4, 2014 5:00 am EST Bryan Singer will direct the pilot of Battle Creek, the new show from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan and House creator David Shore. The show follows an FBI agent and a local detective who team to clean up the streets of the Michigan city that gives the show its name. It’s not the only development for the series this week, as Dean Winters (Oz, 30 Rock, and Allstate’s mayhem) was recently announced as one of the show alongside Kal Penn, Janey McTeer, Aubrey Dollar and Edward Fordham Jr....

Cool Stuff: Mark Englert’s ‘Jurassic Park’ Inspired Poster, Available Now For 24 Hours By Germain Lussier/Feb. 20, 2013 10:00 am EST Fans who may have had trouble snagging one of Mondo’s Jurassic Park posters over the past few months can rest easy today. Rising artist Mark Englert, whose latest print for Django Unchained caused quite a stir over the weekend, is releasing a Jurassic Park-inspired print called It’s A Dinosaur for the next 24 hours....

Storytime: Joey Spiotto Gallery 1988 Pretty awesome stuff, right? Well here’s some more. Dan Portnoy posted this great profile on Spiotto, focusing on the show and his influences: Again, Storytime: A Little Gallery Show by Joey Spiotto opens from 7-10 p.m. August 1 at Gallery 1988 East, 7021 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles CA. It’ll remain on display through August 16 and prints will go on sale August 2 at www.gallery1988.com....

Electronic Arts Takes Over ‘Star Wars’ Video Games By Germain Lussier/May 6, 2013 4:30 pm EST Since Disney purchased Lucasfilm, most of their business-related activity has been in the subtraction column. They got rid of Lucasarts, cut employees at Industrial Light & Magic, and disbanded the animation department. Monday they made their biggest addition to date, hiring Electronic Arts to exclusively make Star Wars-themed video games in the future. Two of the company’s subdivisons, DICE (best known for the Battlefield franchise) and Visceral (the Dead Space franchise) will both make brand new games while BioWare (makers of Star Wars: The Old Republic) will also continue to make games....

FlashForward: Three To Five Seasons Planned, New Sneak Preview Released By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 31, 2009 9:44 pm EST For those of you who aren’t paying attention to the barrage or recent advertising and promotion, ABC will begin airing a new television series called FlashForward on September 24th at 8pm. Based on the 1999 novel by Robert J. Sawyer, the story involves a global event which causes everyone to simultaneously experience, for two minutes and seventeen seconds, his or her life six months in the future....

George Miller’s ‘Justice League’ Script Is Online By Germain Lussier/Oct. 8, 2013 10:30 am EST Many people forget that current effort are the second time Warner Bros. has tried to make a unified, DC universe on film. In 2007, before even the Marvel Cinematic Universe began with Iron Man, a Justice League movie was in the works. George Miller (Mad Max, Happy Feet) was set to direct the film, written by Kieran and Michele Mulroney (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows)....