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Paramount Refunds Moviegoer After Complaint About Misleading ‘Jack Reacher’ Trailer By Angie Han/April 4, 2013 12:00 pm EST Ostensibly, trailers are supposed to tell audiences what a movie is about. In practice, though, some are more successful at that task than others. Trailers can be too revealing or not revealing enough, and in some cases can even be downright misleading. What counts as “misleading,” though, is fairly subjective. A New Zealand man identified only as J....

PlayStation’s ‘Powers’ Adds Eddie Izzard And More By Angie Han/Aug. 15, 2014 4:15 pm EST Powers will be the first-ever TV series from the PlayStation Network, but so far it seems like the company knows what it’s doing. After picking up Susan Heyward as its female lead last month, the comic book adaptation has just added three intriguing new cast members: Eddie Izzard, Noah Taylor, and Olesya Rulin. Find out whom they’re playing after the jump....

Roger Ebert Releases Photo Of His New Look By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2007 1:30 pm EST Roger Ebert released a new statement today on the Chicago Sun-Times website. The statement included two new photos of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic, one of which can be seen above. The article is basically Ebert’s coming out party. “We spend too much time hiding illness. There is an assumption that I must always look the same....

Rumor: ‘Jurassic Park IV’ To Shoot In Louisiana This Summer? By Angie Han/March 13, 2013 12:00 pm EST Despite a scheduled summer 2014 opening, Jurassic Park IV still has a ways to go before it can enter production. There’s still no director or star attached, though writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver turned in a new draft of the script earlier this year. But things could start falling into place very quickly if a new rumor is to be believed....

Studio Ghibli Moving To Television With ‘Ronia The Robber’s Daughter’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 3, 2014 3:15 pm EST Briefly: The output of Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli has been aimed primarily at movie theaters, but the company is aiming at television for its next project. In August, a television series based on Astrid Lindgren’s novel Ronia the Robber’s Daughter, will air in Japan. The book has been turned into a film in Sweden, as well as a stage play and musical....

Superhero Bits: Batman V Superman, The Atom On Arrow, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Gotham, Flash By Germain Lussier/July 7, 2014 1:30 pm EST Want to see a better image of the Superman costume in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? Which material is the new Batsuit made out of? Has a former Superman actor joined the CW show, Arrow? Did Guy Pearce almost turn down Iron Man 3? Was Andrew Garfield actually on the Avengers: Age of Ultron set?...

The Maze Runner Sequel The Scorch Trials Concept Art Revealed [Comic Con 2014] By Peter Sciretta/July 25, 2014 5:15 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Maze Runner is the first book in a young-adult post-apocalyptic science fiction trilogy of books by James Dashner. The story follows a group of teenagers who are stuck in the Glade, a living space that lies in the middle of a maze....

The Ones Who Knock S5E09 - Blood Money By David Chen/Aug. 12, 2013 10:44 pm EST Joanna and Dave discuss Season 5, Episode 9 of Breaking Bad, “Blood Money.” Be sure to read the Vulture interview with Vince Gilligan, the case against Breaking Bad, as well as Alan Sepinwall’s recap. E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at theoneswhoknock@gmail.com. You can find every episode of the show at theoneswhoknock....

TV Bits: ‘The Killing’, ‘Portlandia’, ‘Parks & Recreation’, ‘The Kennedys’, ‘The Carrie Diaries’, Benjamin Walker, Keri Russell By Angie Han/Nov. 9, 2012 12:36 pm EST … And judging by the big smile on his face, he seems likely to warm up to Leslie pretty quick. Uh, should Ben be worried? [EW] In other political(ish) news, ReelzChannel and Muse Entertainment are cooking up a sequel to the eight-episode miniseries The Kennedys. Despite some early negative buzz following the History Channel’s decision to drop it, as well as the tepid critical response when it finally aired, the show was a solid ratings performer and earned four Emmy nominations....

Video: Remembering The Fun Times With Roger Ebert, Siskel And Roeper By Peter Sciretta/April 4, 2013 1:51 pm EST Right now I want to remember Roger Ebert by posting a series of video compilations featuring some of the best moments from the Pulitzer-winning film critic’s television reviewing days, which he shared alongside Gene Siskel and Richard Roeper. The videos were compiled by Clement’s Corner, and posted on youtube a few years back....

Watch Hugh Jackman’s ‘The Wolverine’ Twitter Q&A Session By Germain Lussier/May 3, 2013 6:00 am EST Generally, doing a Q&A on Twitter is futile. With only 140 characters total, accurately conveying the question and answer in a single tweet is a challenge. The other option, spreading the answers over several tweets, just looks bad. It’s one of the reasons why Reddit AMAs have become more of the go-to for the interative, online question and answer session with the fans....

‘A Long Way Down’ Trailer: Nick Hornby Has Aaron Paul Contemplating Suicide By Angie Han/Jan. 27, 2014 8:37 am EST Nick Hornby’s books have long been popular with filmmakers. To date, his bibliography has inspired Stephen Frears’ High Fidelity, two Fever Pitch movies, one About a Boy film, one failed About a Boy TV show, and one upcoming About a Boy TV show. Now the latest of his novels to get adapted is A Long Way Down, a heartwarming tale that begins with four attempted suicides....

‘Birdman’ International Trailer: Michael Keaton Was A Superhero By Angie Han/July 31, 2014 8:45 am EST Forget Guardians of the Galaxy — this year’s most unusual superhero movie has got to be Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman. Though to be fair, it’s not so much a superhero movie as it is a superhero movie movie. Former Batman Michael Keaton plays a washed-up actor who got famous years ago playing an iconic superhero....

‘Hannibal’ Trailer: A New Vision Of A Familiar Story By Russ Fischer/Feb. 28, 2013 1:49 pm EST What does it take to generate new interest in a property as well-worn as the Hannibal Lecter story sequence from novelist Thomas Harris? For the new TV show Hannibal, in which producer Bryan Fuller charts the early days of the working relationship between FBI profiler Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and Lecter, a few things are obvious parts of the approach....

‘Happy Feet Two’ Teaser Trailer By Russ Fischer/May 26, 2011 12:00 pm EST In 2006 Warner Bros. released Happy Feet, the animated singing/dancing penguin movie that was then the latest step in George Miller’s strange career. (Mad Max –> Babe –> Happy Feet.) Now he’s back with a sequel, Happy Feet Two, and the first teaser is out. The animation looks good, but if you aren’t looking for a penguin-performed pop music mixtape, then best give this one a pass....

‘Ice Age 5’ Coming In 2016, ‘Anubis’ Pushed To 2018 By Angie Han/Dec. 21, 2013 10:00 am EST The Ice Age films have been faring worse and worse with critics over the past four installments, but it remains popular with kids and their families. The four films have grossed over $2.8 billion to date, with each new film doing better than the last. No plot details have been released for Ice Age 5....

‘The Bling Ring’ Teaser: Emma Watson Gets Wild By Angie Han/March 8, 2013 8:50 am EST With the release of Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers just around the corner, we now have the first teaser for A24’s other sweet-starlets-gone-bad movie, Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring. Based on true events, the film features Emma Watson playing against type as one of a group of teens who rob the homes of celebs like Paris Hilton....

‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Gets Four Entertainment Weekly Covers And An IMAX Featurette By Angie Han/Oct. 1, 2013 11:30 am EST It’s not too early to start making plans for the Quarter Quell. Tickets for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire went on sale today, though the film won’t open for another several weeks. To mark the occasion, IMAX released a new trailer encouraging audiences to see it big, while Entertainment Weekly unveiled not one but four different covers devoted to the film, featuring stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, and Sam Claflin....

11 New Photos From ‘The Simpsons’ Lego Episode By Germain Lussier/April 22, 2014 3:45 pm EST I think a great many people who gave up on The Simpsons years ago might tune in on May 4. That’s when the long-in-development Lego episode of The Simpsons — called Brick Like Me – premieres. In the episode, Homer wakes up in a Springfield where everyone is Lego. He has to figure out what’s going on....

Bruce Campbell And ‘Evil Dead’ Director Fede Alvarez Would Love To Merge Original And Remake Storylines By Russ Fischer/March 30, 2013 5:31 pm EST In my review of Evil Dead, this year’s remake of Sam Raimi’s career-making 1981 film, I mentioned that this movie might actually exist in the same timeline as Raimi’s movies. It isn’t locked down in the film that such a thing is the case, but it is suggested....