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‘Arbitrage’ Trailer - Richard Gere Makes A Huge Mistake By Angie Han/June 26, 2012 3:00 pm EST Sundance was several months ago, but for those of us who didn’t attend, these next few months are going to be a good time to catch up on this year’s crop of Sundance hits. Safety Not Guaranteed has already landed theaters in some cities, Beasts of the Southern Wild is hitting tomorrow, The Queen of Versailles is due out next month, and Robot and Frank is slotted for August....

‘Better Living Through Chemistry’ Trailer: Sex, Drugs, And Olivia Wilde By Angie Han/Jan. 22, 2014 1:00 pm EST Sam Rockwell is currently at Sundance promoting his new comedy Laggies, but in the meantime another of his projects is nearing a theatrical release. Geoff Moore and David Posamentier’s Better Living Through Chemistry was picked up by Samuel Goldwyn Films earlier this month, and is now slated to hit theaters in March....

‘Cars’ Spin-Off ‘Planes’ Flying Into Theaters Next Summer By Angie Han/Dec. 21, 2012 3:00 pm EST Grownup fans will argue til the cows come home about which Pixar movie is the best (it’s Ratatouille, FYI), but when it comes to the studio’s worst film, there’s a strong consensus that Cars 2 is the studio’s low point. Even the original Cars was beloved more by kids than their parents, and the sequel has the dubious distinction of being the first Pixar movie to ever get a “Rotten” critical score....

‘Doctor Who’ Star Karen Gillan To Play Villain In ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ By Germain Lussier/May 31, 2013 5:19 pm EST Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon, Drax, Gamorra and Groot may have met their match in the form of the good Doctor’s assistant. Karen Gillan, who played Amy Pond for several years on the popular show Doctor Who, has just been cast in James Gunn’s cosmic Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy. Details on exactly who the actress is playing are scarce, but it’s believed she the primary female villain....

‘Dragon’ Trailer: Donnie Yen Fights His Way Through Gangsters And Government Cronies By Russ Fischer/Oct. 17, 2012 2:15 pm EST The beginning of the trailer for Dragon shows something Donnie Yen fans might find pretty unlikely: Yen, crouching behind a counter, hiding from the violence unfolding on the other side. But then Yen’s anger rises and he leaps into at ion, which also kicks this trailer into gear. Yen is a small-town guy who kicks the ass of a couple gangsters, attracting the interest of men on both sides of the law....

‘Exodus: Gods And Kings’ Trailer: Christian Bale Is The Chosen One By Angie Han/Oct. 1, 2014 7:33 am EST Let it never be said that Ridley Scott works too slowly. This winter brings the release of Exodus: Gods and Kings, his fourth film in five years. This one stars Christian Bale as Moses and Joel Edgerton as Ramses, and if you’ve ever been to Sunday School or caught The Ten Commandments on TV over Easter weekend, you’ll know exactly how dramatically the adopted brothers’ relationship goes awry....

‘Fast And The Furious 7’ Production Faces Grief And Indefinite Delay By Russ Fischer/Dec. 2, 2013 10:17 am EST Prior to the car crash that claimed the life of Paul Walker this past weekend, production on Fast and the Furious 7 was set to resume this week in Atlanta after a break for the Thanksgiving holiday. Now the production team faces not only the tremendous grief for their friend, but the fact that he was part of a huge undertaking that a giant corporation sees as a key element of its fiscal success for 2014....

‘Looper’ International Trailer: Rian Johnson’s Sci-Fi Story Is Revealed By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2012 9:00 am EST The first trailer for Rian Johnson’s upcoming sci-fi action film Looper gave a great sense of the time traveling world the writer/director has created. Now a second trailer has come online and it takes that and builds upon it with more story, character, action and pure awesome. Check out the international trailer for Looper, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Jeff Daniels, Emily Blunt and more....

‘Oldboy’ Clip: A Tense Confrontation Between Josh Brolin And Elizabeth Olsen By Russ Fischer/Oct. 11, 2013 3:30 pm EST We know a good bit about Oldboy, from Spike Lee. It’s a remake, after all, so the story is pretty well set in the minds of many potential audience members. The film stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlo Copley, and Samuel L. Jackson, and presents a story of deep-seated offenses and elaborate revenge....

‘Prince Avalanche’ Trailer: Emile Hirsch And Paul Rudd Spar In Texas Heat By Russ Fischer/June 24, 2013 11:00 am EST David Gordon Green goes back to super-low budget stories with Prince Avalanche, which features Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as two guys painting lines on a highway in Texas. The film got a great response at Sundance (regrettably, I missed it there and at SXSW) and will hit theaters in August courtesy of Magnolia....

‘Star Wars Rebels’ Villain Revealed: The Imperial Inquisitor [Video] By Russ Fischer/Oct. 12, 2013 1:54 pm EST The mean-looking gut seen on the right above is the just-revealed villain on Disney XD’s new Star Wars animated series, Star Wars Rebels. The show will premiere in 2014, at which point we’ll see how this guy is “tasked by Darth Vader to hunt down the remaining Jedi Knights.” That quote comes from Rebels executive producer Dave Filoni, who introduced the character today at a panel during the New York Comic Con....

‘Tangled’ Co-Director And Jason Bateman Partner On New Disney Animated Film By Russ Fischer/May 6, 2013 10:30 am EST Briefly: Somehow, Jason Bateman has had scant gigs in feature animation. (While he has voiced a few animated characters on TV, his main feature role was in the English dub of Arthur and the Invisibles.) That’s going to change with the new film from Tangled co-director Byron Howard, who is setting up a new animated project at Disney....

‘The Monuments Men’ Trailer: What If Oceans Eleven Met In World War II? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 8, 2013 8:19 am EST Here’s the first trailer from The Monuments Men, the new film from director George Clooney. It’s based on a true story, and features Clooney and Matt Damon as two members of a team that ran through the battlefields of World War II trying to save art from destruction by various war machines....

‘This Must Be The Place’ Trailer: Sad, Eyelinered Sean Penn Goes Nazi Hunting By Angie Han/Sept. 3, 2012 6:00 am EST There’s a lot going on in Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be the Place: Sean Penn plays a washed-up former rock star named Cheyenne… who has serious issues with his dying father… who was on the hunt for a Nazi who once tortured him… so naturally Cheyenne takes it upon himself to pick up where his dad left off....

Alex Proyas Set To Direct ‘Amped,’ From ‘Robopocalypse’ Author By Russ Fischer/Nov. 7, 2012 1:30 pm EST Briefly: Author Daniel H. Wilson is in a great position: his early books such as How to Survive a Robot Uprising, and How to Build a Robot Army, lead to the novel Robopocalpyse, which was immediately developed as a directorial effort for Steven Spielberg. (It’s Spielberg’s next film, following Lincoln.) Now Wilson has another novel winding through development: the thriller Amped is part of a deal with Working Title Films....

Ang Lee To Follow ‘Life Of Pi’ With Pilot For FX Show ‘Tyrant’ By Russ Fischer/March 14, 2013 3:00 pm EST Once, the notion that someone would do a TV pilot after winning the Best Director Oscar would have seemed crazy. But Ang Lee has just been announced as the director and executive producer of the pilot for the FX show Tyrant. The project was developed by Homeland exec producer Howard Gordon, and Gideon Raff, who created Homeland’s inspiration, the Israeli show Hatufim (Prisoners of War)....

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Despicable Me Mini-Movies: “Banana,” “Home Makeover” And “Orientation Day” By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 16, 2010 5:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur Movie Finds Its Guinevere By Angie Han/Sept. 18, 2014 5:30 pm EST Guy Ritchie’s Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur has crowned its queen. Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, best known in the U.S. for playing mermaid Syrena in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, is set to play Guinevere in the fantasy adventure. She joins previously cast stars Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba. Get all the details after the jump....

Hammer Films Remaking ‘The Abominable Snowman’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 21, 2013 5:00 pm EST The classic genre movie studio, Hammer Films, is dipping back into its history for a chilling upcoming film. They’ve decided to remake their 1957 film The Abominable Snowman about the mythical creature called the Yeti who lives in the Himalayas. In the original film, a group of scientists traveled into the mountains looking for the creature, but this modern take will have a slightly different spin with more horror elements....