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By Russ Fischer/Dec. 2, 2012 1:05 pm EST Last night, the first screening of Quentin Tarantino’s new film Django Unchained took place for an audience sponsored by the Directors Guild of America (DGA). The DGA screening was, technically, a guild affair, but a few members of the press managed to attend as well. While we don’t have any reviews for the film just yet, many of those who attended took to Twitter afterwards, and their comments are almost unanimously enthusiastic....

First Look: Christian Bale And Woody Harrelson In ‘Out Of The Furnace’ By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2013 10:31 am EST Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper is finally getting close to finishing his follow-up feature. The new film is called Out of the Furnace, and features Christian Bale as Russell, a man whose younger brother is drawn deep into crime after Russell goes to prison. After his release, Bale’s character seeks justice for his brother, and winds up facing Woody Harrelson, as a powerful local criminal....

First Look: Ralph Fiennes’ Modern Take On Shakespeare’s Coriolanus By Russ Fischer/April 7, 2010 11:55 am EST NO PHOTO We’ve reported briefly on Coriolanus before — that’s Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut, and an update of Shakespeare’s play about a Roman general who attacked Rome after being exiled from the city. Now we’ve got the first images from the film, and even though an updating of a story about men of war would necessitate seeing the cast in full battle dress, I’m still oddly surprised to see Fiennes kitted out for the war in the Middle East....

George A. Romero Explains Why He Won’t Do ‘The Walking Dead’ By Angie Han/Nov. 14, 2013 7:00 am EST George A. Romero gave birth to the modern zombie with 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, and at present the most popular example of that horror subgenre is The Walking Dead. A Romero-directed episode of the AMC series, then, seems like a natural fit. But sorry, gore junkies, Romero just isn’t interested....

Jason Dohring Officially Confirmed For ‘Veronica Mars’ Movie Sequel By Angie Han/April 3, 2013 1:15 pm EST With coffers stuffed by more than double its initial $2 million Kickstarter fundraising goal, the Veronica Mars movie project has finally begun casting characters other than, well, Veronica Mars. Jason Dohring has officially signed on to reprise the role of wealthy bad boy Logan Echolls, becoming the second returning actor (after lead Kristen Bell) to join the project....

Jason Momoa In Talks For ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 9, 2013 5:40 pm EST Briefly: We don’t know who he’ll play (Doomsday might be a safe bet) but Jason Momoa (Conan, Game of Thrones) is in talks to join the cast of Zack Snyder’s Batman vs. Superman. He joins Henry Cavill as Superman, Ben Affleck as Batman and the most recent addition Gal Godot as Wonder Woman. With that roster of three heroes, and the supposed involvement of the Flash, speculation is rampant that this is really turning into a Justice League movie....

Judy Davis Quits ‘24: Live Another Day’ By Angie Han/Feb. 5, 2014 9:30 am EST Fox’s event miniseries 24: Live Another Day has amassed quite an intriguing mix of old and new characters. There are Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Kim Raver, and William Devane, all reprising their roles from the original drama series, plus franchise newcomers Yvonne Strahovski, Stephen Fry, and John Boyega. But one that’s fallen off that list, unfortunately, is Judy Davis....

Kevin Feige Praises ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’, Disses ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’ By Angie Han/Aug. 27, 2014 8:00 am EST Hit the jump to read the Kevin Feige X-Men: Days of Future Past comments. Of course, it’s easy enough for Feige to be magnanimous when his Marvel Cinematic Universe is running circles around everyone else’s comic book franchises. But he’s not wrong — it was a very good movie, and hopefully the start of a new chapter in the long-running series....

LOL: What If Disney Produced A VHS Version Of ‘Frozen’? Watch The VHS Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2014 11:30 am EST The above photo of a Frozen VHS started making the rounds around the internet earlier this week, and took me back. I’m sure one universal memory most people who grew up during the 1980’s or early 1990’s has is opening up one of those large plastic clamshell cases, popping a Disney animated film into the VHS player and waiting for the magic to begin....

Matthew McConaughey Confirmed For ‘Interstellar’ By Russ Fischer/April 3, 2013 8:43 am EST Briefly: Two words from Matthew McConaughey, “I’m confirming,” are all we need to go forward with the knowledge that he’s playing the lead role in Christopher Nolan’s next film, Interstellar. The actor said as much to the Star Tribune (via Chud) in a phone interview, when asked if he could confirm that he’s taking the gig. Other than that, all we know about Interstellar is that it was originally inspired by the theories of theoretical physicist, gravitational physicist and astrophysicist Kip Thorne....

Page 2: Star Wars, Breaking Bad, Ghostbusters, Star Trek, Die Hard, Saw, Spielberg, Pacific Rim By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 18, 2013 12:30 pm EST Header Photo: Star Wars ‘Merica Five Tips on How to Make a Good Stephen King Movie Adaptation Butter Your Movie Popcorn More Completely With a Simple Hack The Most Adorable “Breaking Bad” Cosplay Ever Is Aaron Paul Approved Why Reality-Based Films are Flooding the Oscar RaceDiablo Cody Hates Directing: Why the Oscar-winning screenwriter’s first self-made film may be her lastBreaking Bad Characters Drawn in the Style of ‘The Simpsons’...

Page 2: Star Wars, Godzilla, Simpsons, Maleficent, GoT, RoboCop, Totoro By Peter Sciretta/May 28, 2014 5:00 pm EST Header Photo: Now This Is What You Call A Spoiler Spoiler 26 Huge Editing Errors You Didn’t Notice in Famous MoviesThe 40 Best Opening Sequences in Movie History These Inflatable Godzilla Costumes Are Both Brilliant And Terrifying 5 ‘Mad Men’ Spinoffs We Would Totally Watch 10 Successful TV Shows That Had Summer PremieresStar Wars Boba Fett One-Piece JumpsuitHow Disney learned to stop worrying and love copyright infringementWhy Mad Men Ended Its Season With a Lie...

Rumor: ‘Agents Of SHIELD’ And ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Will Connect By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2013 12:23 pm EST Last week, when Kevin Feige was asked how Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would interact with the films from Marvel Studios, he said “part of the fun they’re having with that show is that it inhabits the same universe, so if there’s a big event, there’ll be ripples.” One of the “ripples” we heard about soon afterwards was a promo crossover between Thor: The Dark World and the TV show....

Seth Rogen And Evan Goldberg’s ‘This Is The End’ Returns To Theaters Next Month By Angie Han/Aug. 30, 2013 5:34 pm EST Just one week after Edgar Wright’s The World’s End hit theaters, Sony Pictures has announced that it will bring this summer’s other big apocalypse comedy back to cinemas for another round. This Is the End, the directorial debut of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, will return to the big screen next month....

Spot The Changes In A (Slightly) Revised Trailer For ‘The Great Gatsby’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 18, 2012 9:30 am EST Warner Bros. pushed back the release of Baz Luhrmann’s new version of The Great Gatsby from December to May 10, 2013, exiting this year’s crowded awards race and giving Luhrmann more time to tinker with the film’s soundtrack and big-ticket special effects. Now there’s a new trailer for the film — or, to be specific, a revised version of the trailer that hit months ago....

Steven Soderbergh Will Direct All Of ‘The Knick’ Season 2 By Russ Fischer/July 11, 2014 8:00 am EST I love Steven Soderbergh’s “retirement,” and we haven’t even seen much of it yet. The Knick, the ten-episode Cinemax show directed by Soderbergh, doesn’t premiere until August 8. When it premieres, we’ll see Clive Owen as a surgeon, or what passed for a surgeon in 1900, when the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York was a barrier of sorts between life and death....

Theme Park Bits: ‘The Simpsons’ Springfield Expanding, Interactive ‘Transformers,’ Real ‘Resident Evil Plus ‘Mickey And The Magical Map’ By Germain Lussier/May 28, 2013 11:02 am EST Universal theme parks all over the globe have some impressive improvements happening soon, plus Disneyland reveals a brand new stage show. Read about the following in this edition of Theme Park Bits. Universal Orlando is expanding its Springfield area around The Simpsons Ride with several iconic locations....

VOTD: “Great Scott” - ‘Back To The Future’ As A Broadway Musical By Germain Lussier/Oct. 9, 2013 3:00 pm EST Are you a Back to the Future fan who doesn’t have a song stuck in their head yet today? Well, CineFix is happy to fill that void. They just posted a video called “Great Scott,” which reimagines the climax of Back to the Future as a Broadway musical in the style of Les Miserables....

VOTD: ‘Pitch Perfect’ Reunion At MTV Movie Awards 2013 By Germain Lussier/April 14, 2013 7:00 pm EST As usual, the MTV Movie Awards this year were pretty uneventful. The best bit happened right at the beginning when host Rebel Wilson got the majority of her Pitch Perfect co-stars to do an a capella opening. Yup, that’s right, the Barden Bellas and Treblemakers hit the MTV stage Sunday night to sing a medley of popular hits including Macklemore’s Thrift Shop, Eminem’s Lose Yourself and more....

Weinstein Company Picks Up Rights To Former Tom Hanks/Gus Van Sant Project ‘How Starbucks Saved My Life’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 16, 2012 10:42 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Hanks and Van Sant have, apparently, let the rights to the book lapse, but the project is far from dead. The Weinstein Company has now purchased the rights with an eye on making it with a new creative team....