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‘Jobs’ Thinks Different (Slightly) With 15-Second Instagram Trailer By Angie Han/July 15, 2013 4:00 pm EST Steve Jobs didn’t get where he was by doing what everyone else did. He was so invested in coloring outside the lines, in fact, that he actually adopted “think different” as his corporate slogan. So it only makes sense that a movie about him would try to take a fresh approach, too. Open Road Films has just unveiled a new trailer for Joshua Michael Stern’s biopic Jobs, but in the spirit of the film’s subject, rather than releasing a traditional promo they’ve put out the first-ever Instagram trailer....

‘Kill Your Darlings’ Trailer: Daniel Radcliffe Grows Up And Gets Weird As Allen Ginsberg [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Sept. 4, 2013 12:30 pm EST A while ago we saw half the trailer for Kill Your Darlings, the minor Sundance hit in which Daniel Radcliffe plays a young Allen Ginsberg. The film charts the ways in which Ginsberg, newly arrived at school, falls into friendship with the seductive Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan) and how their circle of friends — the nucleus of the Beat movement — was broken when one of them ended up dead....

‘Listen Up Philip’ Teaser Trailer: Jason Schwartzman Does The Reclusive Writer Thing By Germain Lussier/Jan. 17, 2014 3:00 pm EST Jason Schwartzman’s latest film will premiere Monday at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and a teaser trailer has been released to celebrate the occasion. The film is called Listen Up, Philip and it’s written and directed by Alex Ross Perry. Schwartzman plays a successful writer fed up with busy city life who goes into seclusion....

‘Police Story 2013’ International Trailer: Jackie Chan Gets Grim By Russ Fischer/Oct. 29, 2013 3:00 pm EST Among Jackie Chan’s wonderful run of ’80s films, in that period when the writer/director/actor really became a superstar, some of the best are the first two Police Story movies. They’re brilliantly, gleefully anarchic when it comes to action, with Chan destroying shopping malls and shantytowns all for the benefit of the audience. But they can be sweet and almost naive from a character perspective, in a way that makes them feel like products of a time more removed than 25 years from now....

By Russ Fischer/July 2, 2014 7:25 am EST UPDATE: Martin Freeman was right. Deadline is reporting Sherlock will be back in 2015, starting with a special that’ll film early in January. Later, they’ll get to work on season four for a probable 2016 premiere. Head there for more details. Original article follows.Sherlock season three came and went all too fast. Each of the show’s tightly-scripted seasons is so easy to devour in a day or two....

‘We Are The Best!’ Trailer: Punks Make Their Own Way By Russ Fischer/April 7, 2014 3:00 pm EST A group of young Swedish girls keeps punk alive in Lukas Moodysson’s film We Are the Best! The story follows a couple of marginalized girls who deal with their social outcast status by starting a band. And while they’re pretty insistent that they are, indeed, the best, it looks like the band might mean a lot more to them than it does to anyone else....

Aaron Sorkin Drops Out Of Hugh Jackman’s Broadway Musical ‘Houdini’ By Angie Han/Jan. 30, 2013 5:01 pm EST Aaron Sorkin’s new career as a librettist has been cancelled, or at least postponed. The in-demand writer has backed out of Houdini, the Broadway musical production that has Hugh Jackman attached to star as the world-famous magician. (Cue the escape artist jokes.) Jackman, composer Steven Schwartz (Wicked), director Jack O’Brien (Hairspray), and producers Scott Sanders and David Rockwell remain on board....

Anna Nicole Smith DEAD By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2007 1:08 pm EST She was rushed to a hospital where here lawyers say she was unresponsive. “She checked in Monday at 8 p.m. as a guest. She was due to check out tomorrow,” said Danielle Giordaano, a spokeswoman for the hotel. “I can confirm that she is deceased. It’s as shocking to me as to you guys,” Smith’s attorney, Ronald Rale, told Reuters....

Bradley Cooper Is Rocket Raccoon In ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ [Updated] By Angie Han/Aug. 30, 2013 1:55 pm EST Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy already has its Star-Lord, its Gamora, its Drax, and its Groot. Now it may have found the final piece of its superhero puzzle. According to a new report, Bradley Cooper has been offered the role of Rocket Raccoon in the superhero flick. Whether he’ll accept, however, remains to be seen....

Could Tron Appear In The ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Sequel? By Angie Han/Feb. 5, 2013 11:00 am EST Bruce Boxleitner said last month that he wasn’t sure if he’d be back for Tron 3, but apparently there’s another sequel that’d be more than happy to have him. In a recent interview, director Rich Moore revealed that he had originally wanted a Tron cameo in Wreck-It Ralph. And while that didn’t pan out, he’s still got plans to work the character into a sequel....

Deceptive Marketing: Golden Globe Winners Announced In TV Ads? By Germain Lussier/Dec. 23, 2013 1:30 pm EST Hopefully by now you all know not to trust advertising. Movie advertising in particular can be extra sneaky, as studios who have a bad movie will go to any lengths to make audiences think it’s good. Some examples include editing a critic’s actual words to give them them a positive spin, or turning to Twitter to quote random viewers, passing the quote off like a published review....

Disney “Struggling” With ‘Captain America 3’ Release Date By Germain Lussier/April 22, 2014 9:00 am EST But no one in a million years thinks both Captain America 3 and Batman vs. Superman will open on the same date. Now, the chairman of Disney Studios said the company is “struggling” with the Captain America 3 release date. The quote came from a new interview with Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn, as recounted by Variety reporter Brent Lang....

Guillermo Del Toro’s Stop-Motion ‘Pinocchio’ Postponed By Russ Fischer/Jan. 31, 2013 4:00 pm EST Guillermo del Toro always has a big handful of projects in various stages of development. That means, unfortunately, that as certain things come to the fore, others fall away. Sometimes they’re due to his commitments to projects such as Pacific Rim and Crimson Peak. Others might go away due to various forces in the entertainment industry that help and hurt projects as part of the normal run of things....

Jack Black And Tim Robbins Head To ‘The Brink’ For HBO And Jay Roach By Angie Han/Nov. 15, 2013 2:00 pm EST After chronicling the 2000 Bush-Gore debacle with 2008’s Recount and John McCain’s failed 2008 presidential run with last year’s Game Change, Jay Roach is once again diving into the world of politics for HBO. But this time, the crisis being depicted is totally fictional. Roach has just cast Jack Black and Tim Robbins in the HBO comedy pilot The Brink, about three “disparate and desperate” men facing the possibility of World War III....

Jon Favreau Going Indie With ‘Chef’ By Angie Han/April 26, 2013 3:30 pm EST After directing a string of big-budget actioners — Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and Cowboys & Aliens — Jon Favreau will get back in touch with his indie roots with his next project. The filmmaker has signed on to direct in star in Chef, which he also wrote and will produce. In addition to Favreau, the cast will feature some solid talents including Sofia Vergara and Bobby Cannavale....

Marvel And Disney Tease Something “Weird” At D23 Expo By Angie Han/Aug. 12, 2013 1:30 pm EST A few days before D23 kicked off this past weekend, Marvel and Disney hinted at the announcement of a new mystery project. Attendees were urged to “ask for something WEIRD” at the Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion, which launched a whole bunch of theorizing about what that something might be. Now that the expo’s come and gone… well, we still don’t know that much more about the secretive endeavor, actually....

Matthew Vaughn’s ‘The Secret Service’ Casts Its Female Lead By Angie Han/Sept. 6, 2013 8:00 am EST Matthew Vaughn’s The Secret Service is loaded with big, established stars like Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, and Michael Caine. But when it comes to the film’s younger cast members it seems Vaughn prefers fresher faces. Relative newcomer Taron Egerton won one of the leads earlier this summer, and now the even lesser known Sophie Cookson has booked the female lead....

Page 2: Totoro, Breaking Bad, Big, Wes Anderson, Star Wars, Schwarzenegger, GdT By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2014 1:00 pm EST Header Photo: Totoro and Friends [Geek Art] Cosmos Chronicles How Knowledge Conquers Fear Have Severed Robot Head, Will Travel: 5 Ways a Prometheus Sequel Could Work The Walking Disney, Illustrations Reimagining Disney Characters as Survivors From ‘The Walking Dead’ The Brilliance of ‘Cosmos’ – Seth MacFarlane Uses His Power for GoodWhy Netflix Needs To Bring Back Expiration Dates...

Release Dates: David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’ And Daniel Radcliffe’s ‘Frankenstein’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 15, 2013 4:45 pm EST Briefly: Release dates have been given to two major films either currently in production, or about to start. The big one is David Fincher’s latest, Gone Girl, based on the best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn It stars Ben Affleck as a husband accused of killing his wife, played by Rosamund Pike. Fincher is currently shooting and the film will be released October 3, 2014....

Seemingly Innocuous ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Set Photos Hint At Film’s Finale By Russ Fischer/May 6, 2013 9:00 am EST Usually, set photos of a character’s street clothes aren’t that big a deal. People like to see pics of a hero’s costume when it’s our first look at a character, and maybe shots of regular old street clothes are good to demonstrate the period accuracy of a film. But these set pics from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 are a different story, because they suggest something very specific about a scene in the film....