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NBC To Air ‘Mockingbird Lane’ As Halloween Special? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 11, 2012 12:30 pm EST I’m not sure how interested people really were in a revamped modern version of The Munsters, but the story around the debut (or not) of the show has become interesting. The short form is that Bryan Fuller and NBC worked together for a couple years to develop a new take on The Munsters, which eventually became Mockingbird Lane, starring Jerry O’Connell as Herman Munster, Portia de Rossi as Lily Munster, and Eddie Izzard as Grandpa, directed by Bryan Singer....

Rob Zombie’s Halloween Movie Trailer Revealed By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2007 11:13 pm EST The teaser trailer for Rob Zombie’s re-imagining of the horror classic Halloween is now online. Check it out at Yahoo! Movies. The teaser gives us a good indication of what the film will be like. I like how it’s more about the early years and psychological origin of the character. It doesn’t look like the a strait out slasher....

Rupert Wyatt To Direct Noir Thriller ‘Night Film’ By Angie Han/April 17, 2013 7:00 am EST Rupert Wyatt got some positive notice after the his debut feature, The Escapist, but it was his next film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, that introduced him to a broader audience. And although he decided to bow out of that franchise before the sequel started shooting, he’s apparently happy to re-team with the people behind it....

Russell Crowe Talks Up The “Supersonic” Superman In ‘Man Of Steel’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 16, 2013 9:46 am EST There’s a lot we don’t know about Man of Steel. Taking cues from producer Christopher Nolan, Zack Snyder and the team at Warner Bros. have kept details of the film hidden to the greatest degree possible. The teaser and trailer give us a few clues — this seems to be an action movie wrapped in a melancholy outer shell....

Simon Kinberg Will Rewrite Josh Trank’s ‘Fantastic Four’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 1, 2013 5:39 pm EST Kinberg has been part of Fox’s Marvel Universe for a while. He wrote X-Men: The Last Stand, co-wrote X-Men: Days of Future Past and produced X-Men First Class. On those last two films, Kinberg also worked extensively with Matthew Vaughn, who is producing Fantastic Four. Outside of Fox, he’s a co-producer on Star Wars Episode VII and is writing a Star Wars spinoff....

Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’ Moved Back To December Release By Germain Lussier/Aug. 14, 2013 6:00 am EST Briefly: Bad news Spike Jonze fans. Warner Bros. has bumped the release of the director’s upcoming film, Her, from November 20 to December 18. The good news is this limited release is aimed to attract awards voters, which bodes well for the film’s quality. It’ll then be released wide on January 10. Check out the trailer here....

Star Wars Bits: ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Script Problems Mirror ‘Episode VII,’ Plus eBooks, Trailers And Posters By Germain Lussier/Oct. 25, 2013 11:44 am EST Thursday brought some very interesting, official news on the Star Wars front, but it’s far from all that’s out there. In this edition of Star Wars Bits we’ve got even more official information – mostly about books – and some cool non-official stuff too. After the jump, read about the following....

Steven Spielberg Says ‘Robopocalypse’ Merely Delayed, Not Dead By Russ Fischer/Jan. 10, 2013 1:45 pm EST One of the big stories this week was that Robopocalypse, believed to be the next film from Steven Spielberg, had been put on indefinite hold. Problems with cracking the story, based on the novel by Daniel Wilson and scripted by Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, The Cabin in the Woods) had led to the delay, and the wording of the report made the film appear to be not only delayed, but potentially dead....

Sundance Buys: ‘Before Midnight,’ ‘S-VHS,’ ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,’ ‘Mother Of George,’ ‘Milkshake’ And More By Germain Lussier/Jan. 28, 2013 4:00 pm EST Even though the Sundance Film Festival is over, the movie deals continue. Over the last few days of the event, several films acquired distribution assuring you’ll have a shot at seeing them soon. Many of the bigger films, including Fruitvale, Don Jon’s Addiction, The Way Way Back, and The Spectacular Now, were picked up early in the festival....

Superhero Bits: Batman Vs. Superman, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Loki, Thor: The Dark World, Amazing Spider-Man 2 By Germain Lussier/Sept. 2, 2013 12:41 pm EST What did Bryan Cranston have to say about those Batman vs. Superman rumors? Which superhero does Tom Hiddleston think Loki needs to confront in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Want to see the best look yet at Malekith the Accursed from Thor: The Dark World? When might we see the trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2?...

Watch Cinematographers Roundtable With Barry Ackroyd, Sean Bobbitt, Bruno Delbonnel, Phedon Papamichael, And Stuart Dryburgh By Russ Fischer/Nov. 18, 2013 5:15 pm EST The latest in the Hollywood Reporter’s series of filmmaker roundtables may be the most valuable to film fans interested in the nuts and bolts of filmmaking. For this talk, the trade brought together five cinematographers whose names are on significant movies in 2013: Barry Ackroyd (Captain Phillips), Sean Bobbitt (12 Years a Slave), Bruno Delbonnel (Inside Llewyn Davis), Phedon Papamichael (Nebraska) and Stuart Dryburgh (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)....

By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 27, 2014 11:00 am EST Here is the new clip which features Sam Kindseth, as Dustin Diamond, on his first day on the Disney Channel show Good Morning, Miss Bliss:

Watch This: Scarecrow Video: An Inside Look At The World’s Biggest Independent Video Store By David Chen/Dec. 11, 2013 12:30 pm EST What is the place of the video store in modern society? For decades, video stores were our sole way of accessing thousands of movies, from the newest releases to foreign classics. If you were lucky, you lived near a video store with a great selection and knowledgeable clerks. Driving to the video store, wandering through the aisles, evaluating the box art, and reading plot descriptions became its own experience, perhaps even a communal one....

‘23 Jump Street’ Gets ‘22 Jump Street’ Writer; Phil Lord And Chris Miller To Produce By Angie Han/Sept. 9, 2014 2:30 pm EST One of the best jokes in 22 Jump Street was an extended montage about the rash of sequels sure to follow. But considering that 22 Jump Street wound up making six times its budget at the box office, it may not be long before that gag becomes reality....

‘Breaking Bad’ Announces August Return And New Talk Show [Updated With Cast And Crew Panel Video] By Angie Han/April 17, 2013 11:01 am EST Walter White’s end is nigh, or at least the end of his story is. AMC has announced a late summer return date for the second half of the fifth and final season of Breaking Bad. And because the network knows just how much fans love to pick apart Walt’s latest diabolical dealings, they’ve also revealed plans to debut a post-episode discussion show called Talking Bad, along the same lines as The Walking Dead’s Talking Dead....

/Film Interview: ‘Man Of Steel’ Producer Charles Roven Discusses Morality, Visual Effects And Christopher Nolan By Germain Lussier/June 17, 2013 5:00 pm EST We sat down with the producer (center, with director Zack Snyder and producer Deborah Snyder) on the occasion of the Man of Steel release to talk about the film’s moral dilemmas, the level of destruction, challenges in effects, what the name “Christopher Nolan” meant to the marketing, as well as updates on films he’s attached to from Warcraft to Voltron and Uncharted....

‘Godzilla’ Writer Max Borenstein To Script ‘Godzilla 2’ By Angie Han/Sept. 19, 2014 7:30 am EST Godzilla 2 will re-team Borenstein with Gareth Edwards, who helmed the first Godzilla and is now returning for the sequel. The director has said that the next film will be tonally similar to the last one, so it seems he’ll be keeping things relatively restrained again. But hey, it’s what he does with those eight minutes that counts....

‘Gotham’ Will Also Feature Hugo Strange And Two-Face By Angie Han/July 22, 2014 11:45 am EST Fox’s Gotham isn’t short on budding supervillains, but showrunner Bruce Heller wants to bring even more baddies into the fold. In a recent interview, he confirmed that Hugo Strange and Harvey Dent (a.k.a. Two-Face) would also be making appearances on the series. But one iconic Batman character who’ll be taking his sweet time showing himself is the Joker....

‘Merry Friggin’ Christmas’ Clips Tease One Of Robin Williams’ Last Performances Even after his passing, Robin Williams is managing to bring a little levity into our lives. A clips has just been released for his indie comedy Merry Friggin’ Christmas, the first of four unreleased films he left behind. In the film, Boyd, played by Joel McHale, realizes he’s accidentally left all of his son’s gifts back home. So he and his dad strike out on an eight-hour round-trip journey to retrieve them in time for Christmas morning....

‘Project X’ Beats ‘Avengers’, ‘Dark Knight Rises’ As 2012’s Most Pirated Film By Angie Han/Dec. 27, 2012 6:41 pm EST Next to the $1B+ grosses for The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises, Project X’s respectable $100M worldwide take seems like spare change. But there is one arena in which the Todd Phillips-produced raunchfest is king: illegal downloads. Project X has emerged as the single most pirated film of 2012 — as well as the lowest grossing of the top 10, which also includes both of the aforementioned box office smashes....