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WTF: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ghostbusters Comic Crossover Coming By Germain Lussier/July 16, 2014 2:30 pm EST Briefly: Yes, that’s a real thing. Announced yesterday, IDW Publishing is doing a comic book crossover in October called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters. It’s a four issue run with the following description: “When a new invention goes haywire, the Turtles are sent to a whole new type of New York City. One with a whole lot more ghosts… and Ghostbusters!...

‘American Horror Story’ Season 4 Will Head To The Carnival By Angie Han/March 17, 2014 3:00 pm EST The setting for American Horror Story Season 4 has finally been revealed. According to writer and co-executive producer Douglas Petrie, the next season of the spooky FX series will be set at a carnival. Which seems kind of perfect. Carnivals, like covens, asylums, and murder houses, hardly need any help at all in looking creepy as hell....

‘Coffee Town’ Trailer: Now CollegeHumor Is Making Feature Films By Angie Han/June 4, 2013 10:08 am EST CollegeHumor’s silly videos have entertained many a procrastinator for five- or ten-minute chunks, but now the site’s looking to command people’s attentions for a whole lot longer. The self-proclaimed “comedy leaders” are making their first foray into features this summer with the 87-minute VOD release Coffee Town. The film features quite an array of TV talents, including director Brad Copeland (Arrested Development) and stars Glenn Howerton (It’s Always Sunny), Steve Little (Eastbound & Down), Ben Schwartz (Parks & Recreation), Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights), Jake Johnson (New Girl) and, um, Josh Groban....

‘Google And The World Brain’ Review: Tech-Based Documentary Makes Your Favorite Search Engine Into The Enemy [Sundance 2013] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 21, 2013 3:00 pm EST We’ve all heard tales of huge online companies trying to use our knowledge for profit. We scoff at Facebook or Instagram when they update their privacy settings and get creeped out when Gmail gives us ads for things we’re discussing with our friends. Google and the World Brain, a new documentary by Ben Lewis, is about that but on an even more frightening scale....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Trailer Teaser [UPDATED With More New Footage] By Germain Lussier/May 16, 2014 8:09 pm EST The full trailer for James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy comes online Monday morning. Can’t wait that long? Disney and Marvel have released a tease of that trailer. It’s short, but it’s awesome and has a bunch of new footage. Check it out below. UPDATE: Marvel has revealed another brief teaser in advance of the trailer’s premiere....

‘Paradise Now’ Director To Remake ‘Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 12, 2013 1:02 pm EST Hany Abu-Assad, whose 2006 film Paradise Now was nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar, and who just won the Jury Prize at Cannes this year for his new effort, Omar, will be the latest to attempt a remake of Park Chan-Wook’s first “vengeance” film, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. The remake rights have been in the hands of a few companies over the past decade....

‘Shoot The Moon’ Documentary Trailer: Building An Elevator To Space By Angie Han/Sept. 25, 2014 2:00 pm EST For all the movies we watch about attractive heroes zipping around between planets, the number of actual people who’ve been to outer space is quite small. But that could change if Michael Laine has anything to do with it. For the past several years, Laine and his team at LiftPort have been working to try and make a space elevator a reality....

‘The Boxtrolls’ Behind-The-Scenes Trailer: Laika’s Got The Whole World In Their Hands By Angie Han/Nov. 26, 2013 11:16 am EST Laika’s The Boxtrolls may celebrate a pretty unconventional family, but it’s brought to life using some classic, time-tested methods. Focus Features has just unveiled a behind-the-scenes video from the stop-motion feature, which shows off the painstaking work that went into creating this intricate universe. Check it out after the jump....

‘Westworld’ Cast Adds Miranda Otto To Impressive Lineup By Russ Fischer/Aug. 15, 2014 5:00 pm EST Not long ago, the announcement of a TV series that adapts or jumps off from a noted film would have elicited nothing but eyerolls. After shows like Fargo and Hannibal, however, even the most skeptical onlooker must realize that it’s better to keep an open mind. And when HBO is involved? The “benefit of the doubt” requirement goes way up....

‘Words And Pictures’ Trailer: Clive Owen Woos Juliette Binoche By Angie Han/March 27, 2014 9:30 am EST Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche might not be the last people you’d expect to star in a cutesy romcom together, but they certainly aren’t the first. And yet, here they are in the new Words and Pictures trailer, engaging in an adorable verbal war over whether the pen is mightier than the paintbrush....

Billy Bob Thornton Cast As Lead Baddie In ‘Fargo’ TV Series By Russ Fischer/Aug. 2, 2013 10:32 am EST Briefly: FX is moving into the limited series market with Fargo, inspired by the Joel and Ethan Coen movie of the same name. Fargo was the film that really put the Coens on the mainstream map almost 20 years ago, and this is the second time the film has been used as the basis for a TV show....

Bryan Cranston And Aaron Paul Likely To Cameo On ‘Breaking Bad’ Spin-Off ‘Better Call Saul’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 16, 2013 11:18 am EST Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan likes the world he and the show’s producers, cast, and writers created so much that he doesn’t want to leave. So he’s just like a lot of viewers, who also want to spend some more time in the show’s slightly tweaked version of Albuquerque, New Mexico....

Did You Know: John Hughes And Seth Rogen Wrote Drillbit Taylor?! By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2008 6:43 pm EST What if I told you that the hottest comedy producer in Hollywood today, Judd Apatow, was making a movie written by 80’s pop-directing legend John Hughes and Seth Rogen? I’d say it’s in theaters, and you didn’t even care to go see it. Drillbit Taylor actually began as a story from John Hughes....

Edgar Wright’s ‘Ant-Man’ Homework Hints At Multiple Ant-Men By Angie Han/Jan. 6, 2014 11:30 am EST Last month, we finally learned after months of rumor and speculation that Ant-Man would be played by none other than Paul Rudd in Edgar Wright’s movie. What we did not find out was whom Rudd would actually be playing. There are multiple Ant-Men in the Marvel Comics canon, and so far there’s been no official confirmation about which version of the character we’re getting....

Fifth ‘Bourne’ Film Further Crowds Summer 2015 By Germain Lussier/Dec. 2, 2013 12:45 pm EST Can you believe it? Yet another franchise sequel has been set for the summer of 2015. This time it’s the as-yet-untitled fifth Bourne film, directed by Justin Lin and starring Jeremy Renner. Universal also dated Luc Besson’s thriller, Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson as a trained killer; read more about both below. Here are the official descriptions and dates for these two upcoming films....

First ‘Selma’ Images Reveal David Oyelowo As Martin Luther King Jr. By Angie Han/Aug. 22, 2014 6:00 am EST The summer movie season is just about wrapped up now, which means it’s time to look ahead to the prestige dramas of fall and winter. One of the most intriguing titles coming our way in the next few months is Selma, about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965....

First Look: Christian Turns His Back In ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Poster By Russ Fischer/Jan. 24, 2014 8:17 pm EST That’s a glimpse, above, at the first official look at Christian Grey in the film adaptation of the novel Fifty Shades of Grey. The movie is now under way with Sam Taylor-Johnson directing Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan as Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey, respectively. Film Music Reporter recently reported that Danny Elfman will do the score, which could add a tone of odd pleasure (ahem) to the picture....

Help Kickstart A Documentary About ‘Arrested Development’ By Angie Han/March 22, 2013 8:00 am EST It’s been a long, strange ride for Arrested Development fans. The show suffered from painfully low ratings the whole time it was actually airing on Fox, but since its cancellation in 2006 has become popular enough to inspire Netflix to bring the series back from the dead. Now we’re just a couple of months away from the fourth season, which is pretty crazy if you think about it....

Lego “Brickumentary” Aimed At Early 2014 Release By Germain Lussier/Sept. 18, 2013 7:51 am EST 2014 is looking like the year of the Brick. Not only is there the Chris Miller and Phil Lord animated film, The Lego Movie, set for release in February; now the toy company is turning the camera inwards, too. They’re producing a film called Beyond The Brick: A LEGO Brickumentary, which will look at the cultural impact and global fandom surrounding the classic building blocks....

Lonely Island Sell Music Comedy To Universal With Producer Judd Apatow By Germain Lussier/Aug. 7, 2014 5:02 pm EST They’ve put their D’s in a box, had some lazy sundays, been on a few boats and now they sold another movie. The musical comedy trio Lonely Island - Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone – just sold an untitled comedy pitch to Universal set in the world of music. Judd Apatow will produce and Schaffer and Taccone will co-direct....