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‘Tim’s Vermeer’ Trailer: One Of Peter’s Top Movies Of The Year By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 26, 2013 12:00 pm EST You may have seen all the Oscar bait December releases, but here is a best of the year candidate that probably isn’t on your radar. Tim’s Vermeer is one of 2013’s best films – A funny, maddening & inspiring journey that may even change art history. The film, crafted by Magician duo Penn & Teller, has nothing to do with magic or magicians at all (at least in the obvious sense)....

‘Transformers: Age Of Extinction’ - What Did You Think? By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2014 4:00 pm EST Transformers: Age of Extinction, the eleventh film by Michael Bay, is now in theaters. Looking back it’s kind of funny that Bay, so promising and exciting as a filmmaker in the late Nineties, has now made four Transformers movies. Bay’s first few movies were all so different, but grew bigger and bigger with each time out....

‘Transformers: Age Of Extinction’ Poster Promises Giant-Scale Effects By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2014 3:00 pm EST Paramount Pictures has released a new poster for Transformers: Age of Extinction. The new one-sheet seems to promise giant scale effects for the upcoming Michael Bay-directed sequel/reboot. Check out the Transformers Age of Extinction poster in full after the jump. Transformers Age of Extinction Poster Transformers: Age of Extinction will tell the story of an automobile mechanic (Mark Wahlberg) and his daughter (Nicola Peltz) who “make a discovery that brings down the Autobots and Decepticons – and a paranoid government official – on them....

‘True Detective:’ See The Six-Minute Long Take And New Mondo Poster By Germain Lussier/Feb. 12, 2014 11:03 am EST Twitter absolutely exploded Sunday night when the fourth episode of True Detective aired. It ended with a six minute long take, which is about 5 minutes and 45 seconds longer than 99.9% of the shots on television. Apparently, it was breathtaking. I wouldn’t know because I haven’t watched it yet, but now you can as the shot has made it online....

Benedict Cumberbatch On J.J. Abrams’ Khan Comment: “What A D*ckhead” By Angie Han/Dec. 5, 2013 8:00 am EST Earlier this week, J.J. Abrams finally admitted what so many Star Trek Into Darkness viewers had been thinking: that refusing to reveal the villain’s true identity in the run-up to the release was a big mistake. But of course, Abrams wasn’t the only person affected by the decision to keep Khan’s name under wraps....

Eli Roth Directing WEtv Demon Hunter Drama ‘South Of Hell’ By Angie Han/May 22, 2014 1:30 pm EST Last year, Eli Roth returned to feature filmmaking for the first time since 2007 with The Green Inferno. And he’s now finishing up his next movie beyond that, the Keanu Reeves-starrer Knock Knock. But after that, it looks like he’s headed back to the small screen. Roth is set to executive produce and direct South of Hell, a WEtv horror series about a demon hunter struggling with a demon of her own....

Kevin Feige And Gwyneth Paltrow Drop Some ‘Iron Man 3’ Spoilers By Germain Lussier/March 21, 2013 1:50 pm EST What’s going on with Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, the Iron Patriot and Extremis in Iron Man 3? Marvel and Disney recently released a new series of interviews to help promote the film and, in them, producer Kevin Feige and star Gwyneth Paltrow were more than happy to talk about specific scenes and motivations in Shane Black’s upcoming superhero film....

Listen To Dan Trachtenberg’s Discussion Of ‘Y The Last Man’ From 2006 By Germain Lussier/Jan. 10, 2013 9:15 am EST Briefly: One of the biggest news stories Wednesday was that short film director Dan Trachtenberg was hired to direct the long-gestating film adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man. Many fans were immediately worried about such a beloved property being in the hands of a filmmaker without a feature film under his belt and, frankly, that makes sense....

By Germain Lussier/Feb. 10, 2014 11:00 am EST Thanks to Uproxx for the heads up: Philip Lord, one of the film’s co-directors, took to Twitter to discuss the clip with several fans, and here’s just one of his responses. @JackGi this is amazing. They are actually confusing one another — Phil Lord (@philiplord) February 8, 2014 Film is an art and art, by definition, has any number of interpretations. Each is valid because we view it through out own experiences....

LOL: Wayne And Garth’s 2011 Academy Awards Picks By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2011 10:00 am EST Dana Carvey hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend, which included a surprise appearance by Mike Myers, allowing the duo to reprise their roles as Wayne and Garth. In the latest edition of their community access television show Wayne’s World, Wayne and Garth take a look at this year’s Academy Award nominees. Watch the clip embedded after the jump....

Marvel Finally Announces A ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Dancing Groot Toy By Angie Han/Aug. 22, 2014 4:30 pm EST We asked for it, and now we got it. Well, sort of. Marvel Studios has finally revealed its plans to release the Guardians of the Galaxy dancing Groot toy we’ve all been waiting for… except it isn’t really the Guardians of the Galaxy dancing Groot toy we’ve all been waiting for. Instead, it’s a Funko bobblehead....

Official Image Of Josh Brolin As Thanos In ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 1, 2014 9:41 am EST When Josh Brolin took the stage at San Diego Comic-Con wearing an Infinity Gauntlet, it wasn’t a surprise. Though Marvel had been very coy as to the identity of the actor who now plays the “mad titan” Thanos, the news broke a few months earlier. Plus, once you see Guardians of the Galaxy, he’s right there on screen, pulling the strings....

Power Outage Causes ‘South Park’ To Miss First Episode Delivery In 17 Seasons By Russ Fischer/Oct. 16, 2013 3:10 pm EST Among the many unique qualities of Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s long-running show South Park is that the two and their crew create each episode on a very tight schedule; for years each one has gone into production only a week before it airs. This means that South Park is always current, and can react very quickly to events in politics and pop culture....

Superhero Bits: The Amazing Spider-Man, R.I.P.D., The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers By Germain Lussier/Nov. 3, 2011 6:00 pm EST How much did a near perfect copy of The Avengers #1 sell for? Where is The Amazing Spider-Man filming once again? Is an X-Men: First Class sequel being written? How much did Sony sell the Spider-Man merchandise rights for? Want to see an awesome car crash on the set of R....

The Moment When ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Transcended The Summer Blockbuster By David Chen/July 11, 2014 6:00 am EST Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is out in theaters this weekend (click here to see our site’s coverage of it thus far), and you should go see it. It’s a tense, action-packed meditation on the intractability of tribalism, a summer blockbuster that actually has characters you care about and a story that will make you think....

Watch Andrew Garfield And Emma Stone’s ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ Screen Test; Marc Webb Hints At Possible IMAX-Exclusive Cut For Sequel By Angie Han/Nov. 8, 2012 5:22 pm EST There was no shortage of things to love about Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man, but perhaps the highlight was the budding romance between Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) and Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). The actors shared the kind of crackling chemistry that’s tough to fake, comfortable and sexy in all the right measures....

Watch Every Movie Reference In The First Ten Seasons Of ‘The Simpsons’ By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2013 2:00 pm EST NextMovie has spent a lot of time going through the first ten seasons of The Simpsons and creating a supercut with every single movie reference in that first ten years of the series. The two resulting videos add up to over 40 minutes of video, almost the size of two Simpsons episodes (minus commercials)....

WTF: Disney’s ‘Planes’ Gets An Asylum-Style Knockoff, ‘Wings’ By Russ Fischer/July 25, 2013 5:26 pm EST When Disney took a long look at the DisneyToon studios film Planes, which acts as a spin-off from Pixar’s Cars films, the decision was made to give it a theatrical run of its own. Once intended as a direct-to-disc moneymaker, the movie once knocked as a cash-in knockoff of Pixar’s work hit the big time....

‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Early Reaction And Video Blog By Russ Fischer/June 28, 2014 9:28 am EST Reaction to Dawn of the Planet of the Apes by Peter Sciretta: If you liked Rise of the Planet of the Apes than you’ll love Dawn — it improves on the previous film in every single way. Dawn is to Empire Strikes Back as Rise is to A New Hope. It’s a darker film with more gravity....

‘Happy Feet Two’ Trailer – CGI Penguins Bring Sexy Back By Angie Han/July 27, 2011 10:35 am EST A new trailer has been released for Happy Feet Two, the sequel to 2006’s dancing-CGI-penguin hit. Featuring the vocal talents of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, and many others, Happy Feet Two tells the theoretically adorable tale of a young penguin who just wants to fly. The film is directed by George Miller, whose previous work includes the Mad Max movies, Lorenzo’s Oil, and the two Babe films....