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‘Charlie Countryman’ Trailer: Shia LaBeouf Woos Evan Rachel Wood, Fights Mads Mikkelsen By Angie Han/Oct. 8, 2013 6:00 pm EST Whether you adore Shia LaBeouf or despise him, you’ll find something to enjoy in the new trailer for Charlie Countryman. He’s the title character and gets to make out with Evan Rachel Wood and hang out with Ron Weasley Rupert Grint, so his fans can be happy about that. He also gets beat up — and kicked, and cut, and suffocated — by Til Schweiger and Mads Mikkelsen, for the haters who’d rather see him suffer....

‘Frozen’ Concept Art Sets Heroes In An Icy Landscape; More Story Details Revealed By Angie Han/Dec. 13, 2012 4:28 pm EST We’ve had an eye on Disney’s adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen for years now, as it stopped and started and stopped again and got reworked into the CG adventure Frozen. So it’s exciting to realize that its release date is finally just under a year away. Today, the studio unveiled our best look yet at the upcoming film, in the form of a colorful bit of concept art....

‘Insidious Chapter 3’ Is A Prequel; Here’s Your First Look And Chance To Visit The Set By Germain Lussier/July 22, 2014 12:45 pm EST Leigh Whannel is currently filming Insidious Chapter 3 and not only do we have our first look at the film, we’ve got new plot information and a chance for fans to visit the set. The film, which features new characters played Dermot Mulroney and Stefanie Scott as well as returning characters played by Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson and Whannell himself, opens May 29, 2015, It will show events that “predate” what happens in the first two films....

By Germain Lussier/March 1, 2013 12:00 pm EST Filled with references to Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back, Clerks, Batman movies and much more, the trailer for Jay and Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie is here. It’s the hard R-rated (if it was rated) animated return of everyone’s favorite New Jersey slackers, which will tour the country Red State-style along with Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes. They provided voices and produced the flick, which is directed by Steve Stark....

‘Jurassic World’ Adds Vincent D’Onofrio And Irrfan Khan By Germain Lussier/Feb. 28, 2014 11:46 am EST Director Colin Trevorrow has just added two actors to his highly anticipated film Jurassic World. Vincent D’Onofrio, best known for his work on Law and Order: Criminal Intent and in Full Metal Jacket, has been cast as the bad guy in the film. Also, Irrfan Khan (Life of Pi, Amazing Spider-Man and Slumdog Millionaire) has joined the cast....

‘Riddick’ Teaser: You’re Not Afraid Of The Dark, Are You? By Angie Han/March 22, 2013 3:45 pm EST It took Vin Diesel and David Twohy years to get their third Chronicles of Riddick movie off the ground, but their perseverance has paid off. As of today, we’re just months away from the release of Riddick, which sees the titular hero stranded on an apparently abandoned planet with bounty hunters clamoring for his head....

‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’ Trailer: Enjoy Nick Offerman’s Dry, Sarcastic Charm By Russ Fischer/Jan. 30, 2013 3:00 pm EST This trailer made me laugh. In Somebody Up There Likes Me, which originally premiered last year at SXSW, Nick Offerman of Parks & Rec. plays an ascerbic but good-natured guy who… well, it’s possible that he doesn’t actually do a whole lot other than comment drily on things taking place around him....

Dennis Haysbert Books ‘Dead Rising’ And ‘Ted 2’ By Angie Han/Sept. 18, 2014 11:00 am EST Dennis Haysbert has been all over the place in 2014, and now he’s taking steps to ensure he’ll be everywhere in 2015 as well. He’s just booked two very different projects: the zombie video game adaptation Dead Rising, and the raunchy comedy Ted 2. Hit the jump for more on both roles.Tim Carter wrote the Dead Rising movie script and Lorenzo di Bonaventura is executive producing....

Exclusive Poster Debut For ‘Folk Hero & Funny Guy,’ KickStarter Comedy Starring Alex Karpovsky By Germain Lussier/Oct. 30, 2013 8:30 am EST A comedian and a folk singer go on a tour. One’s a success, the other is not, but they’re friends and, no, this isn’t the setup for a joke. It’s the plot of Folk Hero & Funny Guy, a new Kickstarter project that just went online. It’ll star Alex Karpovsky, who you know from Girls, Sleepwalk With Me and Inside Llewyn Davis as the “Funny Guy” and is written by eventual director Jeff Grace, who produced and starred in It’s A Disaster....

First Look: Tom Cruise Dons A Robot Suit For Doug Liman’s ‘All You Need Is Kill’ [Updated With High-Res] By Angie Han/Nov. 9, 2012 9:01 am EST Tom Cruise has worked in just about every genre you could think of over the course of his three-decade career, but lately he seems to be on something of a sci-fi kick. He recently attached himself to Our Name is Adam, and has Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion and Doug Liman’s All You Need is Kill both due out next year....

Full ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Concept Art Poster Revealed [Comic Con 2014] By Russ Fischer/July 26, 2014 8:50 am EST Update from editor Peter Sciretta: Marvel has released the final two character posters, completing the image and bringing the total up to eight. One of these new ones features a character we haven’t seen yet: Vision. He’s not front and center in the poster that does feature him, but we see enough to know that it is a pretty classic rendition of the character’s look....

LOL: ‘The Walking Dead’ Bad Lip Reading By Germain Lussier/Sept. 26, 2014 1:00 pm EST The Internet has created a lot of terrible things but Bad Lip Readings aren’t one of them. It’s one of the few online video trends that takes a lot of skill and can have absolutely hilarious, memorable and quotable results. Plus they have a very broad appeal. The first ones I remember seeing were of political figures saying the most off-the-wall, heinous and crazy things....

Matthew Vaughn Out As ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Director; Bryan Singer Could Take Over By Germain Lussier/Oct. 25, 2012 12:52 pm EST The film already has a release date of July 18, 2014. There’s more below. Deadline first reported this news, which will be upsetting for First Class fans. They don’t give a reason for Vaughn’s departure, just that “he is pretty picky on projects that he directs.” He famously bowed out of Thor, as well as First Class, before changing his mind on the latter....

Meet The Robinsons Music Video Ruins Classic 1980’s Song By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2007 11:22 am EST Okay, if you want to see some new footage from Disney’s Meet The Robinsons, you’re gonna have to sit through a horrible modern pop remake of the classic 80’s tune Kids in America, now titled “Kids in the Future” argh (and I usually love covers and remakes – I’ll take Letters to Cleo’ version of I Want You To Want Me, off of the 10 Things I hate About You Soundtrack, over Cheap Trick’s anyday)....

Mondo Offers Posters For ‘Frozen,’ ‘American Hustle,’ And ‘The Hidden Fortress’ By Russ Fischer/March 17, 2014 5:30 pm EST There’s no more unrelated group of films than Disney’s Frozen, David O. Russell’s American Hustle, and Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress. But all three hit Blu-ray this week and Mondo is tying them together in another way by announcing posters for all three at the same time. Below, check out Tom Whalen’s Frozen, Matt Taylor’s American Hustle, and The Hidden Fortress by Vania Zouravliov....

Relativity Plans ‘November Man’ Sequel In Advance Of ‘November Man’ Premiere By Angie Han/Aug. 20, 2014 8:30 am EST It looks like former 007 Pierce Brosnan has another action franchise on his hands. Relativity has just announced that it is moving forward with a sequel to Brosnan’s The November Man, several days before the film’s debut. Hit the jump for more details. Although the studio states that it plans to enter pre-production “soon,” how quickly the project moves — or indeed whether it moves at all — will surely depend on how The November Man fares at the box office when it opens next weekend....

Shailene Woodley Confirmed For ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2,’ And Probably ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 3’ Too By Germain Lussier/Oct. 19, 2012 10:15 am EST Buried in the news of Shailene Woodley’s latest piece of casting was a major piece of news about her participation in The Amazing Spider-Man franchise. Marc Webb is back to direct The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Woodley has now been confirmed to play Mary Jane Watson, a role previously played by Kirsten Dunst in the Sam Raimi films....

Steven Spielberg And Tom Hanks Secure Source Material For Their Third World War II-Set HBO Miniseries By Angie Han/Jan. 18, 2013 7:19 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Spielberg and Hanks will executive produce on the new series, as they did on Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Hanks’ Playtone partner Gary Goetzman, who was a co-executive producer on Band of Brothers and an executive producer on The Pacific, will return as well....

Superhero Bits: Amazing Spider-Man 2, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. By Germain Lussier/March 7, 2014 4:30 pm EST How can you hear James Gunn, Chris Pratt and Kevin Feige talk Guardians of the Galaxy this weekend? When can you see a Captain America double feature? What’s revealed in three new clips from The Amazing Spider-Man 2? Want to learn more about Black Widow in a Captain America: The Winter Soldier featurette?...

Superhero Bits: Batman Arkham Origins, Ant-Man, Spider-Man, Man Of Steel, Iron Man 3 By Germain Lussier/April 9, 2013 12:10 pm EST When is the new Batman Arkham Origins game hitting the shelves? How is Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn screwing with his fans? Want to see some concept art from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 4? How did the head of Legendary Pictures describe Man of Steel? What is Iron Man 3 rated?...