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Page 2: Star Wars, Totoro, Alien, Die Hard, Matrix, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Back To The Future, Oz, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 13, 2013 8:00 am EST Header Photo: Katie Cook’s “I Know” Star Wars comic Robopocalypse author Daniel Wilson on The Two Stages of a Hollywood Soul-CrushingWhy “WarGames” Still Matters Spirit Fighter t-shirt Unlike Netflix Subscribers, HBO Viewers Aren’t Binge Viewers Why Netflix Has ‘No Motivation’ to Release Ratings for ‘House of Cards’...

Reese Witherspoon To Star In New Fairy Tale Comedy For Disney By Germain Lussier/Oct. 3, 2013 5:30 pm EST As much milage as Disney gets out of their princesses, the company still loves to subvert them. Films like Brave, Enchanted and the upcoming Maleficent are good examples of how Disney likes to take the classic fairy tale princess storyline and give it new twists. Which is exactly what they’ll do with Happily Ever After, a pitch just purchased for star Reese Witherspoon....

Roberto Orci Says ‘Star Trek 3’ Will Boldly Go Into Deep Space By Angie Han/June 27, 2014 10:30 am EST Expect Star Trek 3 to boldly go where J.J. Abrams’ earlier Star Trek movies did not. In a new interview, director Roberto Orci promised Star Trek 3 would take Kirk and his crew into deep space, in contrast to the Earth-centric storylines of the last two installments. And naturally, that means the team is about to encounter some new kinds of aliens....

Showtime Will Broadcast ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Concert By Russ Fischer/Sept. 25, 2013 11:00 am EST The new film from Joel and Ethan Coen is Inside Llewyn Davis, which stars Oscar Isaac as a singer/songwriter who finds his way through the folk music scene in Greenwich Village in the early ’60s. As happened with the Coens’ O Brother Where Art Thou?, which also featured a strong musical component, the music from the film is hitting a real-life stage....

Simon Crane Directing ‘Hot Wheels’ For Legendary By Russ Fischer/Oct. 18, 2013 7:00 am EST Universal has the Fast and Furious films, DreamWorks now has the Need for Speed video game adaptation, and Legendary is working on a high-octane film version of Hot Wheels. And by “film version of” I mean “movie branded with the same name” as there’s clearly no story to adapt from a long-running brand of little toy cars....

Superhero Bits: Man Of Steel, Doctor Strange, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Kick-Ass 2, Red 2, The Wolverine By Germain Lussier/July 4, 2013 11:00 am EST Everyone in America is celebrating the 4th of July but, if you’re reading this, maybe you want some Superhero Bits to go with your barbecue. We’re happy to oblige. Want to see a new July 4th centric Man of Steel commercial? Did that movie make it even harder to continue the DC Universe?...

The Best Movies About Musicians You Probably Haven’t Seen By Jordan Hoffman/June 1, 2012 12:00 pm EST There’s something wonderfully cinematic about a musician’s life. If they are any good, they are usually half in our world and half in their own. Yet they are fluent in another language. Plus, unless they are playing the ukelele, they look really cool. Here are eight of my favorite movies about musicians that aren’t as well-known as they should be....

Tom Hiddleston Replaces Benedict Cumberbatch In Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Crimson Peak’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 6, 2013 11:28 am EST Loki is taking over for Khan in Guillermo del Toro’s latest. Last week, Benedict Cumberbatch dropped out of del Toro’s upcoming haunted house film Crimson Peak for one of many possible reasons. He’s now been replaced by an actor that’s sure to please just as many, if not more fans. Tom Hiddleston will be taking over the role Cumberbatch vacated....

Two New Photos: Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2007 12:40 pm EST Two new photos from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix have appeared on HPANA.. The first image, seen above, shows the Weasley family, Ginny (Bonnie Wright), Ron (Rupert Grint), Fred (James Phelps) and George (Oliver Phelps), in what appears to be Dumbledore’s office. The second photo, seen below, shows Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton), Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis), Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) and Vincent Crabbe (Jamie Waylett) in Professor Umbridge’s office....

Watch The ‘Breaking Bad’ Premiere And ‘Mythbusters’ Special Online By Angie Han/Aug. 13, 2013 3:30 pm EST Unless you’ve been living under a rock that doesn’t get WiFi service, you no doubt already know that AMC’s Breaking Bad returned this past weekend for its final eight-episode stretch. The meth drama wasted no time, picking up just minutes, if not seconds, after last year’s “Gliding Over All” left off and barreling ahead through some major plot points....

Will Owen Wilson And Wes Anderson Ever Write A New Script Together? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 25, 2007 6:00 pm EST Wes Anderson is one of my favorite directors, but I more appreciate his earlier work: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore (especially) and of course, The Royal Tenenbaums. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was good but not great, and went on to become a box office failure. The film, which cost more than the budgets of this three previous films combined, went on to make only $24 million at the box office....

‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ International And Sweded Trailers By Angie Han/April 8, 2014 2:45 pm EST As Spidey prepares to swing back into theaters, two more trailers have dropped for The Amazing Spider-Man 2. One, the new international trailer, seems to contain a few new bits and pieces. But for my money, the more charming one is the one with no footage from the film, new or otherwise, at all. It’s the sweded trailer, and it’s short and sweet....

‘An American Mystery,’ A Whodunit Film About O.J. Simpson Murder Trial, Will Present New Facts By Germain Lussier/July 1, 2013 6:48 am EST The murder trial of O.J. Simpson was one of the most surreal and talked-about events of the ’90s, and one of the most heavily-reported criminal trials ever mounted in the US. A constant media frenzy surrounded the Hall of Fame football player accused of murdering his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman....

‘Fantastic Four’ Testing Actors Later This Month; Simon Kinberg Turns In Script By Angie Han/Jan. 21, 2014 2:00 pm EST Among those in contention for Richards are Miles Teller, who has been fanning the flames of rumor at Sundance, while Kate Mara and Saoirse Ronan are being eyed for Sue Storm. Hit the jump to see who else might make the cut. However, the promised announcement could very well involve another name, as Game of Thrones stars Kit Harington and Richard Madden are also being tested for the part....

‘Hannibal’ Season 2 Teaser And Promo Image: Hannibal Whips Up An Appetizer By Angie Han/Jan. 17, 2014 5:00 pm EST One of the best food shows of last year wasn’t really a food show at all. In fact, all of the food on it was stuff you’d never, ever want to eat. But the way Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) expertly crafts his meals and then plates them just so… our stomachs couldn’t help but rumble even as our disgusted brains were screaming “But that meal is made of people!...

‘I’m So Excited’ Teaser Trailer: Almodovar Calls In Cruz And Banderas For Cameos [Updated With Subtitles] By Russ Fischer/March 1, 2013 10:35 am EST At first, Pedro Almodovar’s new film I’m So Excited! seems to move away from the psycho-sexual weirdness of his last movie, The Skin I Live In and its predecessor Broken Embraces. The colors are bold, the energy is big, and the tone is defiantly upbeat, at least from what we’ve seen of the film to date....

‘Magic Mike’ Star Riley Keough Joins ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ TV Series By Angie Han/Sept. 23, 2014 4:30 pm EST The TV series version of The Girlfriend Experience won’t star Sasha Grey, but its lead should be familiar to Steven Soderbergh fans all the same. Riley Keough, memorably seen nuzzling a teacup pig in Soderbergh’s Magic Mike, is set to lead the 13-part half-hour series. Hit the jump for more on the Riley Keough Girlfriend Experience news....

‘Paranorman’ And ‘Coraline’ Studio Laika Announces A 2014 Release By Russ Fischer/Oct. 8, 2012 10:15 am EST I’ve heard a good number of people say that their favorite late summer film was Laika’s Paranorman, and so it may hearten that audience to know that Laika has another film coming. It just isn’t coming all that soon. The animation studio has set September 26, 2014 as the date for a film that is as yet untitled....

‘Sundowning:’ Details And Actors Revealed For M. Night Shyamalan’s Latest By Germain Lussier/March 21, 2014 5:00 pm EST Sundowning is M. Night Shyamalan’s return to the genre that made him a household name: the psychological thriller. The director has been filming in his home state of Pennsylvania for a few weeks and documenting the experience on Twitter. Now, a few more details about the film have been revealed. Kathryn Hahn (Step Brothers, Bad Words) and Ed Oxenbould (Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) play a mother and son in the film....

By David Chen/May 1, 2013 11:10 pm EST Joanna and Dave discuss the fifth episode of season 3 of Game of Thrones, “Kissed by Fire.” Be sure to read up on how Benioff and Weiss were inspired by book 3. E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at acastofkings@gmail.com. You can find every episode of the show at gameofthronespodcast.com. If you like the show, feel free to leave us a review on iTunes!...