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‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Website Offers Galactic Travel Tips By Russ Fischer/July 3, 2014 1:00 pm EST “Some of the most beautiful destinations on Earth look like **** compared to the rest of the galaxy.” A new website advertising Guardians of the Galaxy is guised as a galactic travel service, and it’s a company that has deep confidence in the appeal of its services. Galaxy Getaways promises a dream vacation, and the company’s website offers the chance to use street view to explore a couple of Guardians locations....

‘Leprechaun: Origins’ Trailer: WWE Studios Reinvents A Horror Franchise By Germain Lussier/June 9, 2014 10:30 am EST Growing up, few characters scared me from the video box alone more than the Leprechaun. Much like Chucky, there was something terrifying about seeing such a familiar, even lovable icon twisted into a new, frightening form. After a bunch of sequels though, the Leprechaun of my youth became a joke. As horror icons often do....

‘Mandela’ Trailer: Come For The New U2 Song, Stay For The Freedom Fighting By Angie Han/Oct. 17, 2013 5:27 pm EST It can be tough for a biopic to stand out in the fall, when the theaters are thick with Oscar-baity prestige movies based on true stories. But the latest trailer for Justin Chadwick’s Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom has a musical secret weapon. The new video is set to the tune “Ordinary Love” by U2, the band’s first new song in three years....

‘Poltergeist’ Remake Moving Ahead At MGM And Fox By Germain Lussier/June 20, 2013 8:47 am EST Deadline broke the news of the greenlight. While the official press release (pasted below) makes the plot sound like an almost beat for beat remake of the original film, we recently heard it would have some sequel elements too. The rumor was some of the props from the original film would appear in the movie, making the ominous suggestion the haunting has happened before....

‘The Counselor’ Domestic Trailer: “Have You Been Bad?” By Angie Han/July 19, 2013 9:32 am EST Looking back at Season 1 of Breaking Bad, it’s funny to remember how unassuming Walter White was in the very beginning. Meth-making was just something he turned to in a desperate attempt to support his family. But getting into that world is easier than getting out of it, and at this point there’s really no possibility he’ll get a happy ending when the show returns next month....

‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ Used In Air New Zealand Safety Video By Germain Lussier/Oct. 31, 2012 5:28 pm EST If ever a country has fully embraced a film series, it’s New Zealand and The Lord of the Rings. Since the release of The Fellowship of the Ring over ten years ago, the country has used the Peter Jackson-directed films as both a point of national pride and major selling point for tourism....

‘This Is The End’ Red-Band Trailer #2: Michael Cera Gets Saucy With Rihanna And McLovin By Germain Lussier/April 1, 2013 6:06 pm EST Put James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson in a room together and there’s no telling what’s going to happen. They might make a sequel to Pineapple Express, they might try and perform an exorcism, or they might just rip each other to shreds verbally for each other’s enjoyment....

By Angie Han/March 13, 2013 6:00 pm EST Update from Editor Peter Sciretta: In less than 12 hours from launching the kickstarter, Rob Thomas has raised over $2,000,000 for the Veronica Mars movie, hitting the goal of the project. Of course, they have 30 days left to go, and will still need the fans to help raise more money to allow them to do more in the story. $2 million might sound like a lot to many of you, but consider they lose an estimated $400,000 to Kickstarter fees and taxes....

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Trailer: “He Is One Of The Disappeared Ones” By Russ Fischer/Oct. 11, 2012 4:00 pm EST The ad campaign for Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, which chronicles the mission that led to the killing of Osama Bin Laden by a Navy SEAL team, has been pretty low-key so far. But then, the studio hasn’t had to do much, as there has been a fair amount of publicity for the movie thanks to accusations that the original October release date was meant to remind audiences of President Obama’s role in the mission, just before the Presidential election takes place....

Ben Affleck In Early Development On Africa-Set Geopolitical Thriller By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2013 3:15 pm EST But Affleck has other stuff in the pipeline, too, and the latest is a new, currently untitled story that is “an examination of the moral ambiguities of how philanthropy and foreign assistance veers into modern day neocolonialism.” In case that sounds too heady, it’s also an action movie. Deadline reports that Will Staples is scripting, based on an original story idea by Affleck....

Details On New ‘Transformers’ TV Show Revealed; Plus Chinese Poster For ‘Age Of Extinction’ By Germain Lussier/June 13, 2014 3:30 pm EST No matter how successful Transformers: Age of Extinction is at the box office later this month, the Transformers are here to stay. More details on a brand-new animated series have just been revealed. It will air on The Hub in 2015. The show is officially called Transformers: Robots in Disguise, and will center on Bumblebee who returns to Earth to help fight a new batch of Decipticons....

Disney Already Prepping Follow-Up To ‘Oz The Great And Powerful’ By Germain Lussier/March 7, 2013 5:07 pm EST Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful opens Friday and, so far, buzz has been generally good. The industry tracking has been even better, with some outlets projecting a near $100 million opening weekend. So it should come as no surprise that Disney has just signed Mitchell Kapner, who co-wrote the first film with David Lindsay-Abaire, to get to work on a sequel....

Early Buzz: ‘Transformers: Age Of Extinction’ Is More Of The Same By Angie Han/June 23, 2014 10:45 am EST Though it picks up after the events Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Transformers: Age of Extinction isn’t just a sequel but also a quasi-reboot. It introduces a new cast of human characters and is intended to jumpstart a fresh trilogy. But for everything that’s changed about the series, more things have stayed the same — at least if the first reviews are to be believed....

First Look: Steve Carell And Ryan Gosling In ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love;’ Jonah Hill In David Gordon Green’s ‘The Sitter’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 22, 2010 10:30 am EST Ok, I know, this isn’t the most exciting image post ever. In fact, as things go, the images are pretty dull. But take this as a reminder that these two films exist (or will exist) and move forward with the hope that there will be much more stimulating stuff to be seen from each one....

First Look: Tom Hardy And Jason Clarke In ‘The Wettest County In The World’ By Russ Fischer/April 26, 2011 4:00 am EST The Georgia shoot for John Hillcoat’s The Wettest County in the World has wrapped, and just in time to commemorate that milestone, producer Cassian Elwes has revealed a few new low-res looks at the film. The primary photo he sent out shows Jason Clarke, Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf as the three lead characters, the Bondurant brothers, as introduced in Matt Bondurant’s book that inspired the film....

Is Uwe Boll’s Career Over? By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 14, 2008 7:14 pm EST That might be the first time I’ve ever heard a distribution head publicly apologize for a director’s rep, outside of the porn industry. Hilarious! All cherries are popped sooner or later, I guess. The usually unflappable Boll, whose filmography includes videogame flicks like Bloodrayne 1 & 2 and Alone in the Dark, even sounds like he knows his number is up....

Nate Silver Predicts The Oscars With Odds On ‘Argo’ Winning Best Picture By Angie Han/Feb. 22, 2013 10:13 am EST Nate Silver is worshipped in political circles for his uncanny ability to predict election outcomes, and now he’s seeing whether his methods can be applied to the Oscar race as well. The statistics whiz has offered his predictions on who’ll take the big prizes come Sunday night. If you haven’t already resigned yourself to the inevitability of Argo’s Best Picture win, you might as well do it now — that result is as close to a sure bet as anything Silver found in his numbers....

New ‘RoboCop’ Images Announce New Trailer In Three Days By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2013 12:56 pm EST Things have gone pretty quiet around the reboot of RoboCop since the premiere of the first trailer a couple months ago. That might be a smart move; rather than inundating people with info and images, the marketing campaign has been low-key, feeding the interest and curiosity people have for the film. That trailer was among the most-viewed we’ve posted in the latter half of this year....

New Photos: Official Shots From ‘The Lone Ranger’ And Comedy Anthology ‘Movie 43’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2012 5:08 pm EST There are two big batches of official images to pass along this afternoon. One is for Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger, and while the pics are technically new, they don’t show off much we haven’t seen. That is, Johnny Depp’s Tonto looks intense and more than a bit weird; Armie Hammer looks heroic and idealistic, and their world is one well-known to followers of classic Westerns....

Robert Zemeckis Attached To Direct ‘The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 31, 2013 8:30 am EST After making Flight, Robert Zemeckis recently was set to make a dramatic adaptation of the 2010 documentary Marwencol. But that’s not the only thing he’s got percolating. The director is now attached to an adaptation of a book that New Line has been trying to film for seven years. Kate DiCamillo’s 2006 novel The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is about the adventures of a porcelain rabbit, with the tale starting in the ’30s, then following the rabbit as it changes owners over a period of time....