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Paranormal Activity 2 - What Did You Think? By David Chen/Oct. 22, 2010 7:49 pm EST Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity (2007) was one of the most financially profitable films of all time, costing only $15,000, yet taking in over $190 million worldwide. Its runaway success conjured up memories of The Blair Witch Project, which was somewhat similar in subject matter, style, and return-on-investment. Thus, when the inevitable sequel was announced, I wondered whether we’d be getting another Blair Watch 2, a disaster of a film that entirely missed what made the original work....

See Storyboards For A Roman Epic From 11 Year Old Martin Scorsese By Russ Fischer/July 30, 2014 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Many of us, in our preteen years, conceived stories in crayon and pencil, but most of us did not grow up to be among the most significant directors to work in the medium of film. Martin Scorsese did, of course, and that makes his preteen doodles a bit more interesting than most others....

Star Wars Bits: Chewbacca Meets The Boss, George Lucas In Love, Casting Rumors, Legos By Germain Lussier/May 5, 2014 4:30 pm EST That’s not an official image, it’s an awesome fan made poster for Star Wars Episode VII. See the full thing below and read about the following in this edition of Star Wars Bits: Watch famous musicians audition for the Star Wars Cantina Band. Read a potential Episode VII casting call....

The Sound Of ‘How To Train Your Dragon 2’ By Germain Lussier/July 1, 2014 6:00 am EST How to Train Your Dragon 2 is so awesome. It’s everything you want in a big summer blockbuster. Action, romance, surprises, suspense, yet for some reason it hasn’t struck a cultural chord like many people expected it to. However, it’s not over yet for Hiccup and Toothless. In its second week at the box office, the film crossed $100 million domestic and will pass $200 worldwide later in its third week....

Ving Rhames Returns For ‘Mission: Impossible 5’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 18, 2014 10:15 am EST Ving Rhames had only a cameo in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, but he’s back for real in the fifth film in the series. Christopher McQuarrie is directing this new episode, which once again stars Tom Cruise and also finds Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg returning to the Impossible Mission Force. Given the manner of the announcement of Rhames being back with the IMF, we can probably expect him to have more to do in this fifth film....

Will Ferrell May Play Russ Meyer In ‘Russ & Roger Go Beyond’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 1, 2014 12:30 pm EST Naturally, the story of its creation is going to be a movie, called Russ & Roger Go Beyond. Will Ferrell is looking like the actor who will play Russ Meyer in a project that doesn’t yet have any other creative talent attached.Deadline reports on the film. It’s actually an indie, rather than a studio production....

Xavier Samuel To Play Modern-Day Frankenstein Monster By Russ Fischer/Sept. 25, 2014 7:00 am EST Later this year, Xavier Samuel will be seen as part of David Ayer’s Fury, a film which features giant man-made machines. Now, for one of his next films, Samuel will be a man-made monster, as he’s set to play a contemporary version of Frankenstein’s monster in a film that updates Mary Shelley’s classic tale. What more we know about this upcoming Xavier Samuel Frankenstein project is below....

‘Avengers 2’ Bits: Hawkeye And Hulk Bulk Up, Script Not Being Changed, Falcon Won’t Appear, Vision By Germain Lussier/March 13, 2014 3:26 pm EST First up, in my interview with Kevin Feige we talked about a huge scope of topics, many of which are major spoilers for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. We’ll run those closer to release, but once you see the film you’ll probably be asking, “Where’s Hawkeye?” Considering it deals heavily with S....

‘Crystal Fairy’ Poster Debut: Michael Cera Treasures His Psychoactive Cactus By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2013 9:37 am EST The weirdest double-feature at Sundance this year was the pair of films from Sebastián Silva and Michael Cera. While in a holding pattern waiting to shoot one film, Magic Magic (see a trailer for that movie here) they improvised a second film, Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus. IFC picked up Crystal Fairy during the fest, and while we don’t yet have a trailer, we can show you the first poster for the film now....

‘Google And The World Brain’ Trailer: Sundance 2013 Documentary On Google’s Attempt At Accumulating All The World’s Books By Germain Lussier/Jan. 9, 2013 7:00 am EST The 2013 Sundance Film Festival begins next week and Russ Fischer, Peter Sciretta (for a bit), and I will be on the ground to bring you info on all of the movies to look out for throughout the rest of 2013. One of the many selections that jumps out when reading about the program at Sundance is Google and the World Brain....

‘Rio 2’ Cast And Plot Details Announced By Angie Han/Feb. 22, 2013 1:05 pm EST We don’t know yet just whom the new actors will be voicing, but here’s a summary of the plot via Coming Soon: The conflict doesn’t sound so different from the last film, in which Blu (Eisenberg) had to learn to embrace his wild side. But the formula worked pretty well last time, so I suppose it makes sense to revisit it....

‘Smallville’ Star Michael Rosenbaum Also Reading For ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ By Angie Han/Jan. 3, 2013 2:03 pm EST Rosenbaum himself broke the news via Twitter: Read for my pal @JamesGunn GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY for PETER QUILL. What a treat! Thanks Jimmy. @Marvel — Michael Rosenbaum (@michaelrosenbum) January 3, 2013 Rosenbaum stands apart from the other actors for a few reasons. At 40, he’s among the oldest of the contenders; with the exception of the 38-year-old Edgerton, the rest we’ve heard about hover around the early 30s....

‘Soul Surfer’ Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 12, 2011 3:00 pm EST Sony has released a teaser trailer for Soul Surfer, a drama about young, teenage surfer girl (played by Bridge To Terabithia/Race To Witch Mountain’s AnnaSophia Robb) who “summons the courage to go back into the ocean after losing an arm in a shark attack.” Written and directed by Sean McNamara (Bring it On: Fight To The Finish, Into The Blue 2: The Reef, Bratz, 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain), the film co-starring Dennis Quaid, Helen Hunt, Carrie Underwood, and Kevin Sorbo....

‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ IMAX Poster Is Bigger Than The Enterprise By Germain Lussier/April 30, 2013 3:30 pm EST No doubt about it: you need to see J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness in IMAX. It’s only the fifth major studio release (behind The Dark Knight, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol and The Dark Knight Rises) to be filmed with real IMAX cameras. It will have about 30 minutes of its run time in full screen, massive 70mm IMAX....

‘The Following’ Trailer: Kevin Williamson’s New Serial Killer Hunt TV Show With Kevin Bacon By Germain Lussier/May 16, 2012 8:00 am EST So how could it be in trouble? Williamson’s career has followed a pattern of huge hit followed by big disappointment ever since he first broke into the business. There were the first two Scream movies, then there was The Faculty and Teaching Mrs. Tingle. Dawson’s Creek was a huge success, but Hidden Palms wasn’t....

‘True Detective’ Teaser: Harrelson And McConaughey Slowly Track A Killer By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2013 2:22 pm EST The show stars Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey as detectives on the trail of a killer in Louisiana. Fukunaga directs the eight episodes of the first season, which hits on 2014. Nic Pizzolatto scripted. The first teaser trailer is below. It doesn’t give up much about the two detectives and their decade-plus case....

Ben Affleck’s Batman Will Be “Tired And Weary” By Germain Lussier/Sept. 12, 2013 8:20 pm EST Zack Snyder’s choice of teasing text from The Dark Knight Returns, as well as casting Ben Affleck, both offer huge hints of what we can expect July 17, 2015. That’s when Snyder’s DC expanding follow up to Man of Steel, likely titled Batman vs. Superman, will be released. Affleck is older than any other new Batman ever cast and in The Dark Knight Returns, Bruce Wayne is an older gentleman who has retired from crime fighting....

Colin Trevorrow Talks ‘Jurassic World’ Timeline By Germain Lussier/Nov. 29, 2013 10:17 am EST 2015’s Jurassic World is the third sequel to Jurassic Park. That much we know. What we don’t exactly know is how it fits into that world. Will the same characters, events and consequences be at stake? Will it be a wholly new story? Are there dinosaurs? Well, we know the last one, and have a few good ideas about the other two, but director Colin Trevorrow felt generous on Twitter earlier this week and revealed a bit more about Jurassic World than we knew before....

Cool Stuff: Glow In The Dark Pop Art Show Featuring ‘2001,’ ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ And Much More By Germain Lussier/April 10, 2013 1:00 pm EST Glow in the dark inks on a poster can be hit or miss. In the best cases, they act as almost a night light, revealing a beautiful second image that’s invisible in the day time. On the other hand, some are so subtle and light, it’s almost as if they don’t glow in the dark at all....

Disney Closes LucasArts Game Studio By Russ Fischer/April 3, 2013 12:06 pm EST When Disney bought LucasFilm, questions about what changes would be wrought at Lucas’ various divisions were easy to miss thanks to the wave of interest in the new Star Wars film quickly announced during the merger. But then the popular Clone Wars animated TV series was canceled, causing grumblings among the fanbase. Now Disney has shuttered LucasArts as an active development studio....