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Watch Spider-Man Swing Into Times Square For The New Year’s Eve Ball Drop By Angie Han/Dec. 31, 2013 12:00 pm EST New York City is home to lots of costumed heroes, from Brooklyn boy Steve Rogers to Hell’s Kitchen fighter Matt Murdock to “Gotham City” (we all know what that’s a stand-in for) crusader Bruce Wayne. But there can only be one “Official Super Hero of Times Square 2014,” and this year, it’s our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man....

Zack Snyder’s ‘Batman V Superman’ Batmobile Fully Revealed In Official Photo By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2014 7:20 pm EST Zack Snyder has revealed the first official uncovered fully revealed photo of the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice batmobile. Hit the jump to see the new Batman vs. Superman batmobile professionally photographed and ready to go. Here is the new photo from Zack Snyder: Snyder’s tweet reads “Here’s a real picture of the #Batmobile....

‘Annie’ Trailer: Jamie Foxx Is Kinda Like Batman By Angie Han/May 29, 2014 12:36 pm EST Jamie Foxx got to play a supervillain in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 earlier this year, but in this winter’s Annie, he’ll be more like a superhero. Batman, to be specific. Or so his character claims in the new Annie trailer. Meanwhile, he also seems to think taking in Annie (Quvenzhané Wallis) will be kind of like owning a turtle....

‘Ant-Man’ Adds John Slattery, Judy Greer, Bobby Cannavale, And T.I. By Angie Han/Aug. 18, 2014 11:15 am EST Adding to Peyton Reed’s earlier announcement that Ant-Man had entered production, Marvel Studios has issued a press release confirming several more cast members for the superhero movie. Among those who’ll be joining Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, and Corey Stoll onscreen are Judy Greer, Bobby Cannavale, T.I., and John Slattery — the latter of whom is already part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, having played Howard Stark in Iron Man 2....

‘Dear White People’ Teaser Trailer Explains The Real Meaning Of ‘Gremlins’ By Russ Fischer/June 19, 2014 11:00 am EST Dear White People made a splash at Sundance as a well-liked, funny satire about race relations in modern America. The first Dear White People teaser trailer has just arrived, and you’ll see pretty quickly why Sundance audiences liked the movie. Writer/director Justin Simien makes his debut with the film, and he’s got a funny and frank voice, and is willing to poke at sensitive topics with humor and energy....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 3 Gets A New Poster And A Trailer For The Trailer By Angie Han/Feb. 22, 2013 5:00 pm EST Premium cable certainly has its advantages, like the ability to show nudity and gore, and the blessed lack of commercials. But one big drawback of their deviation from the traditional network model is that they’re not obligated to follow the normal fall-to-spring schedule — which means the waits in between seasons can be really, really long....

‘Homefront’ Red-Band Trailer: Jason Statham And James Franco Are At War By Angie Han/Oct. 18, 2013 2:42 pm EST James Franco got pretty weird in Spring Breakers earlier this year, but Alien is a big old teddy bear compared to the unhinged meth kingpin he plays in Homefront. He’s so scary, in fact, that Jason Statham may be the only man who can take him down. The Gary Fleder-directed, Sylvester Stallone-scripted thriller follows a former DEA agent who retires to a quiet rural community to start a new life with his daughter....

‘Need For Speed’ Movie Review: A Frivolous, Fun, High-Octane Action Film By Germain Lussier/March 12, 2014 7:00 am EST Movies based on video games usually suck. They frequently graft dense, stupid stories to the tropes of a given game. In doing so, the soul of the game is lost, and you don’t care about the story, either. Need for Speed, on the other hand, finds a near perfect balance. There’s a story, but it contains just the bare minimum amount of logic and drama to make two hours of near non-stop racing believable....

‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5’ Delayed From Summer 2015 By Germain Lussier/Sept. 10, 2013 3:30 pm EST Just as Disney moves one film into the crowded summer of 2015, another has been taken out. Pirates of the Caribbean 5, originally scheduled for release July 15, 2015, has been delayed. The move comes a day after Marvel’s Ant-Man moved into the same month. Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg have been tapped to direct the film, which is rumored to be called Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales....

By Germain Lussier/Nov. 2, 2013 10:14 am EST Briefly: Rumblings started a few months ago but now Deadline has made it official. Joe Cornish, director of Attack the Block and co-writer of Ant-Man, is now at the top of Paramount’s list to direct Star Trek 3. J.J. Abrams is producing, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are writing and they’re hopeful for a Summer 2014 shoot aimed at a potential Summer 2016 release....

‘The History Of Future Folk’ Trailer: Probably The Only Alien Folk Duo Sci-Fi Action Romance Comedy Movie Ever Made By Russ Fischer/May 1, 2013 6:09 pm EST One of my regrets from last year’s Fantastic Fest was that I never reviewed The History of Future Folk, a comedy/musical about a couple of aliens doing time as an NYC folk music duo as they try to make their way back home. As a long-time fan of the band Man… Or Astro-Man?...

‘The Incredibles 2’ And Another ‘Cars’ Sequel In Development At Pixar By Peter Sciretta/March 18, 2014 10:30 am EST Disney head Bob Iger dropped a big piece of news offhandedly during the Disney Investor’s Meeting today, stating that Brad Bird is working on the story for The Incredibles 2 and that Pixar is also working on a new Cars movie. No surprise with the Cars sequel; I’m sure they will continue that franchise until it runs out of gas and stops making them money in toy stores and at theme parks....

‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ Examined In 25-Minute Talk With Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, And Jonah Hill By Russ Fischer/Dec. 4, 2013 1:00 pm EST Only a few people have seen The Wolf of Wall Street, from Martin Scorsese — mostly guild members and Oscar pundits — but the word has been pretty enthusiastic. I’ve heard that the movie is funny and extraordinarily debauched; that NC-17 talk wasn’t idle chatter. (DiCaprio describes it as “a modern day Caligula....

‘The Zero Theorem’ Trailer: Terry Gilliam Proves That All Is Not For Nothing By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2014 12:02 pm EST Terry Gilliam’s latest film, The Zero Theorem, has had a long road to the screen. It premiered at festivals last year but has struggled to find US distribution — perhaps not because it isn’t any good, but because it isn’t particularly commercial. Christoph Waltz leads the cast as a data-entry drone wrestling with an impossible equation....

‘Upstream Color’ Teaser #2: Where Would We Go, How Do You Get There? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 13, 2012 10:26 am EST The second minute-long teaser for Shane Carruth’s second film Upstream Color is almost as enigmatic as the first. This one adds much more dialogue, to complement another spare bit of voiceover, and that helps ground the footage. It isn’t quite as outlandish and puzzling as the first teaser. But there’s still only the barest hint of what’s really going on....

Brad Bird And Damon Lindelof’s ‘1952’ Officially Titled ‘Tomorrowland’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 28, 2013 1:12 pm EST Brad Bird’s new film, written by Damon Lindelof and Bird, and developed at Disney, has been going under the working title 1952 for the past few months. That led to plenty of speculation about the nature of the story, but Bird and Lindelof have been tight-lipped rather than reveal any details. The biggest teaser we’ve had was a recent photo of a box of archive materials that the two revealed last week....

Bryan Fuller Of ‘Pushing Daisies’, Shawn Ryan Of ‘Terriers’, And Mike Royce Of ‘Men Of A Certain Age’ React To The Veronica Mars Kickstarter Model By Angie Han/March 15, 2013 12:30 pm EST Joss Whedon has already admitted that a Firefly Kickstarter campaign isn’t likely to take flight anytime soon, but some of his colleagues sound a little more eager to take advantage of the new studio / crowdfunding hybrid model introduced by Veronica Mars....

Cool Stuff: LEGO Star Wars Sandcrawler By Germain Lussier/March 10, 2014 9:42 am EST The LEGO Star Wars line just revealed its next monster set: The Jawa Sandcrawler. A 3,296 brick set will be available in May and features seven minifigures including Luke Skywalker, Uncle Owen, C-3PO, R2-D2 and several other droids. It’s a massive, beautiful, detailed LEGO Star Wars set and you can check out a bunch of images below....

First ‘Iron Man 3’ Trailer Will Debut October 23 By Germain Lussier/Oct. 3, 2012 1:00 pm EST Briefly: Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 will debut its first trailer online at 12:01 a.m. PST October 23. The first film of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe Phase Two is currently filming in Florida and premiered some early footage at San Diego Comic-Con. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Jon Favreau, Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, James Badge Dale, Ashley Hamilton and Rebecca Hall, Iron Man 3 opens May 3, 2013....

By Russ Fischer/June 11, 2013 1:46 pm EST The thing to take away from this is that there will potentially be a bunch of media properties bearing the Choose Your Own Adventure brand, but precisely what will be created is as yet unknown. Chances are we’ll see a big-budget family-friendly movie to act as sales pitch for the whole shebang. Now who will step up to buy the related Fighting Fantasy rights?...