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Original Japanese Cut Of ‘Godzilla’ Will Roar Into Theaters; Watch The Trailer By Angie Han/Feb. 19, 2014 2:00 pm EST Hit the jump to watch the trailer and find out when it’s coming to a theater near you. Rialto plans to debut Godzilla on April 12 at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, followed by a limited run at New York’s Film Forum on April 18-24. It’ll roll out to other theaters across the country from there; check the distributor’s website to find out when it’s coming to your town....

Robert Zemeckis Says ‘Roger Rabbit’ Sequel Still Ready, Wants 2D Animation Done “With 3D Tools” By Russ Fischer/Nov. 30, 2012 4:15 pm EST What will it take for Disney to pull the trigger on a Roger Rabbit sequel? The possiblity that such a thing could happen has been discussed quite a bit over the past few years, but the studio isn’t moving forward with it for reasons that haven’t been made clear....

Rumor: ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Testing Multiple Subtitles By Germain Lussier/Oct. 11, 2013 3:45 pm EST For his movie titles, Sam Raimi went with simple numbers. Then Marc Webb looked to the comics and used “The Amazing” in his own, with plan to use numbering to differentiate his sequels. Now, however, it seems Sony Pictures is thinking about adding a subtitle to The Amazing Spider-Man 2. A Comic Book Movie reader wrote into the site and said that at a recent Mall of America screening of Captain Phillips, Sony reps were polling audience members on three different subtitles for May 2014 sequel....

Rumor: Jack Huston Up For Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange’ By Angie Han/Aug. 25, 2014 5:00 pm EST Back in July, it was widely reported that Joaquin Phoenix was in talks for the lead role in Marvel’s Doctor Strange. However, nothing’s come of those talks since then, and that means it’s time for another round of Doctor Strange casting rumors. The latest one is that Jack Huston is now in the running for the role....

Star Wars Bits: ‘Rebels’ Concept Art, Official Tumblr Launched, Star Wars Weekends 2014, ‘Mythbusters’ And More By Germain Lussier/Dec. 20, 2013 4:30 pm EST This edition of Star Wars Bits is all over the map. Below read about the following: Star Wars joins Tumblr… …and reveals some new Star Wars Rebels concept art. Disney announces the 2014 dates for Star Wars Weekends. Mythbusters is doing a Star Wars themed episode, watch a trailer....

Star Wars Bits: Star Wars Battlefront, Hot Toys, Hot Wheels, Simon Pegg, Lego, Robot Chicken By Germain Lussier/July 24, 2014 12:00 pm EST Lots and lots of awesome in this edition of Star Wars Bits. Below, read about the following: Rumor has it one of Marvel’s first Star Wars comics will be Princess Leia. Star Wars Battlefront could come out alongside Star Wars Episode VII. If John Boyega is a Stormtrooper in Episode VII, does he appear in Star Wars Rebels?...

TV Bits: ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Archer’, ‘Dexter’, ‘Bates Motel’, ‘Tron: Uprising’, ‘Shameless’, Wonder Woman, Sam Mendes, Stephen King, And More By Angie Han/Jan. 14, 2013 5:00 pm EST Despite that fanciful-sounding premise, Showtime president of entertainment David Nevins explains that the tone will be “very realistic and very grounded, not Bela Lugosi. All exist in human form in turn-of-century London.” Logan is set to write every episode of the series, as well as executive produce with Mendes....

VOTD: ‘A Timeline Of World Cinema’ Web Series Presents More Than A Century Of History By Russ Fischer/April 21, 2014 2:30 pm EST A Timeline of World Cinema is a great way to spend an hour. You probably know a lot about one or two time periods in film. There’s always a lot to learn about all decades of cinema history, however. The last hundred years, from the late 1800s right up to the present, are full of stories....

VOTD: ‘The Pixar Theory’ Explores A Possible Connection Between The Studio’s Films By Russ Fischer/Sept. 29, 2014 1:30 pm EST The films of Pixar seem as if they are primarily separate stories. (With the exception of the obvious relationship between sequels.) One theory, however, posits an elaborate timeline in which the advanced technology seen in Wall-E is developed over the course of hundreds of years, with a starting point seen in Up and the Toy Story films, and which explains the stars of Cars and the ever-evolving intelligence of animals....

VOTD: President Obama Learns Mo-Cap From ‘How To Train Your Dragon 2’ Director By Germain Lussier/Nov. 27, 2013 11:00 am EST A current U.S. President on a motion capture stage. That’s not something you see every day. But it happened Tuesday when President Barack Obama visited DreamWorks Animation to talk to the company (which is headed by major Obama contributor and fundraiser Jeffrey Katzenberg). The President called the entertainment industry “one of the bright spots of our economy” and got a tour of the facility....

Watch The 25 Minute Documentary ‘A Day In The Life Of John Lasseter’ By Peter Sciretta/July 13, 2011 6:00 am EST Walt Disney Animation Studios has released a 25 minute documentary titled A Day in the Life of John Lasseter, which follows Pixar Animation Studios as Chief Creative Officer and director of Cars 2 from the moment he wakes up through the end of his work day. The documentary short was shot on March 23rd 2011, at the tail end of production on Cars 2....

Watch The First Episode Of Showtime’s ‘Ray Donovan’ Online By Angie Han/June 18, 2013 2:30 pm EST As antiheroes go, it’s tough to find one more “anti” than Dexter Morgan. He’s a serial killer, for God’s sake. But he can’t stick around Showtime forever, so this summer, he’ll help usher another shady character into the channel’s lineup. Following Dexter on Sunday nights this month will be Ray Donovan, starring Liev Schreiber as a fixer of problems who — wait for it — can’t seem to fix his own problems....

Watch Videos From The Smashed-Up Set Of ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 17, 2014 1:45 pm EST The road to the end of Phase Two started last week when production began on Avengers: Age of Ultron. We previously reported the crew, without the major cast members, had traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa to film a sequence that would comprise the first 10 minutes of the film. Whether that meant we’d see Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch or Baron Von Strucker, we weren’t sure....

Zach Braff Kickstarting ‘Garden State’ Follow-Up By Angie Han/April 24, 2013 7:44 am EST Creators of brilliant-but-cancelled TV series aren’t the only ones who’ve been inspired by Veronica Mars’ Kickstarter success. Zach Braff has taken note, and now he’s taking a similar route to fund his next movie. Braff made quite a splash with his 2004 feature directing debut Garden State, but as he explains it, the difficulty of finding financing has kept him from making a follow-up....

‘Ant-Man’ Comic Con Poster Revealed By Germain Lussier/July 23, 2014 5:08 pm EST San Diego Comic-Con opens in mere minutes and Marvel has just jumped the gun and revealed their Ant-Man Comic Con poster. Check it out below. Thanks to Entertainment Weekly. This will be available at the Marvel booth at Comic Con. Ant Man Comic Con According to the article, this is a piece of “Pre-Production Concept Art” by Andy Park....

‘Crossbones’ Trailer: John Malkovich Is NBC’s Blackbeard By Angie Han/April 22, 2014 3:00 pm EST As we’ve seen over the past few years, Disney’s had some trouble getting a new Pirates of the Caribbean movie off the ground. In the meantime, though, TV’s been more than happy to fill that watery niche — first with Starz’s Black Sails, and now with NBC’s Crossbones. The Peacock has just released the first Crossbones trailer, which stars John Malkovich as the legendary pirate Blackbeard....

‘Greetings From Tim Buckley’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2013 2:26 pm EST The first trailer we saw for Greetings From Tim Buckley, in which Penn Badgley acts and sings as the late musician Jeff Buckley, came in the wake of the film’s TIFF premiere, and has since gone offline. Good thing there’s now an official US trailer for you to check out. Here, again, you can see Badgley’s solid take on the role, as he seeks to capture the point in Buckley’s life when he takes part in a benefit concert honoring his late father, Tim Buckley....

‘Han Shot First,’ A ‘Star Wars’ Art Exhibit Hits Seattle’s Ltd Art Gallery This Week By Germain Lussier/Dec. 12, 2012 3:44 pm EST Even when there’s nothing new about Star Wars, people care about Star Wars. In the years between Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace, Star Wars certainly wasn’t a daily topic of discussion. Yet its legions of fans made it omnipresent and lent it cultural influence. Once Revenge of the Sith ended, we thought we’d enter another dark time too, but the Clone Wars cartoon, rabid fan films and more consistently kept the franchise in the public eye....

‘Hannibal’ TV Trailer: Break Out The Chianti By Angie Han/Feb. 18, 2013 1:00 pm EST Bryan Fuller’s Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane didn’t quite work out as planned, but luckily for his fans NBC has another macabre project from him ready to go.Hannibal follows Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) in their early days — back before the FBI profiler knew that the famed psychiatrist was actually a cannibalistic killer....

‘Iron Man 3’ Deleted Scene Features The Mandarin Commenting On Bomb Explosion; Plus Robert Downey Jr. Gag Reel By Germain Lussier/Aug. 13, 2013 10:00 am EST Briefly: The year’s biggest hit, Iron Man 3, is coming to Blu-ray September 24 and the first of several deleted scenes has just hit the net. In it, the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) hints at a reveal to come later as he offer some brief comments on the explosion at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood....