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Infographic: How Do IMDb User Scores Compare To Metacritic Scores Across Trilogies? By Angie Han/Jan. 10, 2014 9:00 am EST It will shock absolutely no one to hear that critical consensus and audience reaction often fail to match up. The divide between those opinions is why, every couple of months or so, we get another wave of thinkpieces wondering whether reviewers are out of touch and asking whether they even matter anymore....

JJ Abrams To Produce Adaptation Of Apartment Featured In New York Times By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2008 5:29 pm EST Paramount has purchased the rights to an article which ran in the New York Times on June 12th called Mystery on Fifth Avenue. JJ Abrams will produce a feature film based on the article which describes a 14th-floor apartment on upper Fifth Avenue which contains a Rube Goldberg maze of systems and contraptions conceived by a young architectural designer named Eric Clough....

Kristen Wiig Joins ‘Anchorman: The Legend Continues’ By Angie Han/Feb. 5, 2013 9:30 am EST With Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, David Koechner, and Christina Applegate in the lead roles, plus a slew of their famous friends in supporting and cameo parts, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy certainly had no shortage of big comic talents. But in typical sequel fashion, Anchorman: The Legend Continues plans to go even bigger with a veritable “murderer’s row of day players,” according to co-writer/director Adam McKay....

Kristen Wiig To Direct, Write, And Star In Female Friendship Comedy By Angie Han/June 11, 2014 5:00 pm EST Like so many actors before her, Kristin Wiig is making the leap into directing. Her first feature will be an untitled comedy for TriStar, which she’ll pen with Bridesmaids co-writer Annie Mumolo. And as if they didn’t have enough to do already, Wiig and Mumolo are also set to star. Hit the jump for more details on the new project....

LOL: Where Do Walt’s Coordinates On ‘Breaking Bad’ Lead? By Angie Han/Aug. 19, 2013 3:30 pm EST (Some spoilers for the most recent episode of Breaking Bad follow.) Walt may have been desperate to keep the location of his cash a secret on Sunday night’s episode of Breaking Bad, but we at home got to see exactly where he buried it. Heck, we even got to know the exact coordinates: +34° 59’ 20....

New ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ TV Spot And Posters Herald Final Trailer By Russ Fischer/April 14, 2013 7:15 pm EST We’ll see a final Star Trek Into Darkness trailer on Tuesday, but in the meantime you can check out a few stopgap marketing materials. There are four new character posters, for Uhura, Spock, Kirk, and the villain John Harrison, and a teaser clip that gives a good idea of what’ll be in the final trailer....

New Footage Abounds In ‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Commercial By Germain Lussier/June 17, 2011 3:00 pm EST So what do you think? The clip also shows several new shots of the WETA motion capture that Andy Serkis did playing Caesar and it’s looking increasingly impressive. Obviously, it looks digital – it’s impossible to drop a big batch of ones and zeros into reality and make it totally seamless – but there’s no doubting that Caesar’s emotions are well-defined and come across....

Page 2: Star Wars, Star Trek, Hobbit, ET, Pacific Rim, Indiana Jones, Schwarzenegger, Breaking Bad By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2013 3:30 pm EST Header Photo: Monsters University Concept Artwork by Chris Sasaki 20 Ways White House Down Was Not Exactly Like Die HardInside Hollywood’s blockbuster assembly line Grumpy Vader Tattoo Why Hollywood Is Setting Movie Release Dates 5 Years in AdvanceWhy ‘The Phantom Menace’ is one of the best movie trailers of all timeThe Onion: New Michael Bay Romantic Comedy To Focus On Love Story Between 2 Explosions10 Ridiculously Great Movies You May Have Already Missed In 2013...

Peter O’Toole Has Passed Away By Germain Lussier/Dec. 15, 2013 12:21 pm EST One of the greatest actors of any generation, Peter O’Toole, passed away Saturday at the age of 81. The eight-time Oscar nominee had an incredibly eclectic and memorable career, with signature roles ranging from Lawrence of Arabia and The Lion in Winter, to newer work like Ratatouille and The Tutors. Even in his later years, few could blend into a role with such incredibly grace and presence....

Quentin Tarantino Sues Gawker By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2014 9:34 am EST Last week Quentin Tarantino made headlines when he bailed on making the western The Hateful Eight after a first draft of the script leaked. The leak was originally fairly small, with copies of Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West distributed as a fake version of The Hateful Eight. But the Tarantino script soon started to pop up all over the internet, with Gawker site Defamer eventually offering a download link for anyone who wanted it....

Robert Redford’s The Conspirator Has A Great Cast; First Images And Video Surface By Russ Fischer/Oct. 16, 2009 9:58 am EST [No photo] It didn’t take long at all for Robert Redford’s The Conspirator to get off the ground. The film, which hinges on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, was announced only months ago and is already shooting in Savannah, GA. We knew some of the cast prior to the shoot’s start, but now we’ve got a host of good names to throw your way, in addition to some pics and video....

Spy Photos From The Set Of J.J. Abrams’ ‘Super 8’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 20, 2010 7:27 am EST Since May, when the trailer for the J.J. Abrams directed, Steven Spielberg film Super 8 was released with Iron Man 2, the whole movie blogosphere has been clamoring for additional information. Last week, news broke that Kyle Chandler and Elle Fanning had been cast in the film and today, spy photos have surfaced from Marland Heights area of Weirton, West Virginia that will be posing for Lillian, Ohio circa 1979 when the film stars shooting this week....

Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy, Arrow, Ant-Man, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Sinister Six, Batman By Germain Lussier/April 15, 2014 3:30 pm EST When can you see new footage from Guardians of the Galaxy? Want to see Deathstroke in Arrow? How is Paul Rudd bulking up for Ant-Man? What religion does Andrew Garfield think Spider-Man is? Is Elizabeth Olsen intimidated by the Avengers: Age of Ultron secrecy? When can you get a brand new Jock Batman poster?...

The Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures Opens In 2017; See Photos And Plans By Germain Lussier/April 12, 2013 5:00 pm EST After Thursday’s news that the legendary Hollywood landmark, TCL (formerly Grauman’s) Chinese Theater was getting an IMAX upgrade, another Los Angeles movie destination has been revealed. A few years back the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced plans to create a movie-themed museum. Now, we know what it will look like, and what’ll be in it....

The Entire Run Of Jon Favreau’s ‘Dinner For Five’ Is On YouTube By Germain Lussier/Jan. 9, 2013 4:44 pm EST Before the days of Twitter, which allows access to the daily opinions of some of our favorite filmmakers on an immediate basis, many of us relied on Jon Favreau for connection to one part of the film world. Several years ago Favreau was still an indie darling, almost a decade away from the Marvel Universe, and he hosted a show on IFC called Dinner for Five....

The Top 10 Moments From ‘Game Of Thrones: Season 4’ By David Chen/June 20, 2014 8:00 am EST It’s been a pretty great season of Game of Thrones, with plenty of new characters (and plenty of killing off of old/new characters) to keep us busy on “A Cast of Kings.” As each season wraps up with several consequential episodes, it’s often easy to forget how much insane stuff happened during the earlier episodes....

Watch A Long ‘True Detective’ Deleted Scene By Russ Fischer/March 13, 2014 8:30 am EST True Detective is over, and no matter what you thought of the finale there’s a good chance you want more. The show’s grim atmosphere and stark philosophical musings are addictive, and the rhythms of Nic Pizzolatto’s dialogue stick in the back of the brain. Trouble is, we don’t know when the second season will premiere, and no matter the air date, the next episodes won’t continue the story of Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) and Rustin Cohle (Matthew McConaughey)....

Watch Martin Scorsese’s Commencement Speech To The 2014 NYU Tisch School Of The Arts By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 19, 2014 6:00 am EST Martin Scorsese gave the commencement address to the 1,275 members of the 2014 graduating class of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts during a ceremony at Radio City Music Hall on May 23rd, 2014. Tisch School of the Arts recently put the whole Martin Scorsese commencement speech online for everyone to watch....

Watch This: David’s Top 10 Films Of 2013 By David Chen/Dec. 31, 2013 10:00 am EST It’s been an amazing year for films, possibly the best one since I started writing/talking about film seriously back in 2007. Devindra and I had a spirited discussion of our top 10 films of the year, but for those who prefer a shorter, 9-minute long version of that podcast episode, you can find a video version of my top 10 films of 2013 after the jump....

‘Hitchcock’ Writer/Producer Team Preparing Johnny Carson Biopic By Angie Han/Nov. 13, 2012 4:47 pm EST Having tackled one iconic entertainment industry figure in Hitchcock, writer John McLaughlin and producer Tom Thayer are moving on to another. The pair have struck a deal with the estate of Johnny Carson for a biopic about the late Tonight Show host, based on the Bill Zehme biography Carson The Magnificent: An Intimate Portrait. Even longtime fans of Carson may find that the film reveals a side of him they never knew....