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Rumors: Will ‘Transformers 4’ Feature Dinobots? Is Tony Stark Ultron’s Creator? By Angie Han/July 30, 2013 2:46 pm EST I feel for movie makers sometimes. It’s totally understandable that they’d want to keep certain juicy plot details under wraps, and it’s surely annoying to have to fend off prying fans who’d rather know everything right now. I don’t, however, feel bad enough for them to refrain from passing along some juicy hints when we get them....

Sophie Turner To Play ‘Frankenstein’ Author In ‘Mary Shelley’s Monster’ By Angie Han/Aug. 13, 2014 6:30 am EST Sophie Turner will go from being victimized by monsters to creating them. The Game of Thrones actress is set to star in Mary Shelley’s Monster, about the the life and times of the Frankenstein author. Jeremy Irvine and Taissa Farmiga are also on board. If all of this sounds oddly familiar, that’s probably because this is the second Shelley biopic we’ve heard about this month....

Speed Racer Movie To Be Shot Almost Entirely On Green Screen? By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2007 9:44 pm EST It looks like the Wachowski Brothers’ big screen adaptation of Speed Racer may be shot entirely on green screen. Apparently, John Mathieson (Gladiator, Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven) turned down an offer from the Wachowski Brothers to be director of Photography on the film. The cinematographer told students that he would rather make a Kylie Minogue video than shoot something entirely green screen, according to AICN....

Watch Cool Hovercars In These ‘Total Recall’ Set Videos By Germain Lussier/Sept. 1, 2011 2:30 pm EST [No photo] So many set videos have surfaced from The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises and Man of Steel it almost feels like they’re the only three movies currently in production. Obviously, that’s far from the case and another major 2012 event film has just been forced into the set video ring. That movie is Len Wiseman’s remake of Total Recall starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston and John Cho....

Watch Michael Bay Awkwardly Abandon Samsung’s CES Press Conference By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2014 2:39 pm EST Transformers director Michael Bay appeared at Samsung’s CES 2014 Press Conference (which is still going on at the time of this posting) to help introduce the company’s UHD curved television displays. But when the teleprompter stopped working, Bay gets flustered and awkwardly decides to ditch the presentation. Bay walks off the stage leaving Joe Stinziano, executive vice president of Samsung Electronics America, to recover from the technology failure....

Watch Video Of ScreenX, A “Horizontal IMAX” Format [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Oct. 17, 2013 3:20 pm EST Update: There is now a video showing ScreenX in Action, watch it embedded after the jump. Video of ScreenX in action (via movies): Original story follows: New cinema technologies are developed fairly often, but only some of them stick around long enough to become fixtures of the movigoing landscape. Many of those that do have staying power are kept around by a combination of genuine superiority to other formats and great marketing; IMAX is a good example there....

‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Footage Description [Comic Con 2014] By Germain Lussier/July 26, 2014 6:57 pm EST As expected, the cast of Avengers: Age of Ultron (minus an injured Joss Whedon) took the stage in Hall H during the Marvel Studios panel and presented the first footage anywhere from the highly anticipated sequel. The film opens May 1, 2015 and we heard the footage won’t be online for some time (probably like last year’s Guardians of the Galaxy reel which took months)....

‘Before Midnight’ Trailer: Ethan Hawke And Julie Delpy Grapple With The Reality Of Love By Russ Fischer/March 28, 2013 9:49 am EST Before Midnight is perhaps the most unlikely sequel you’ll see this year, and it is very much a film you should see. Director Richard Linklater reunited with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy to revisit the characters they created in Before Sunrise (1995) and to whom they first returned in Before Sunset (2004)....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Star Pedro Pascal Boards Netflix’s ‘Narcos’ By Angie Han/June 6, 2014 11:30 am EST After spending the past season on Game of Thrones trying to exact revenge for the death of his sister, Pedro Pascal is skipping over to Netflix to try and bring a different bad guy to justice. Pascal is set to star in Netflix’s Pablo Escobar drama Narcos, opposite Wagner Moura (Elysium). Jose Padilha (Robocop) is directing....

‘The Duke Of Burgundy’ Clip: ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ Director Returns By Russ Fischer/Oct. 3, 2014 2:30 pm EST Berberian Sound Studio director Peter Strickland returns with The Duke of Burgundy, but this film offers a fairly different sort of experience. There’s still a hazy, less-than-real aesthetic and sense of place, but this movie has a more focused and recognizable story at its core. The short synopsis of this movie is very simple: “Peter Strickland’s dark melodrama follows the intense relationship between two women....

‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ Trailer: Mira Nair Explores Post-9/11 Tensions By Angie Han/Feb. 20, 2013 5:00 pm EST The tensions that sprung up between America and the Middle East in the wake of 9/11 had wide-reaching political and economic ramifications, of course, but Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist takes a more intimate approach to the topic. Riz Ahmed (Four Lions) stars as Changez, a Pakistani man living the American dream in New York City with a plum Wall Street gig and a gorgeous girlfriend (Kate Hudson)....

‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ Trailer: Becoming A Legend By Russ Fischer/Oct. 29, 2013 4:40 pm EST The second trailer from Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street may not have the propulsive drive of the first, which was powered by Kanye West’s ‘Black Skinhead,’ but it does have a few oh-so-perfect shots of Leonardo DiCaprio reacting to the insane wealth and resulting lifestyle his character enjoys. It’s a gif wonderland, this trailer....

‘The Wolverine’ Deleted Scene Reveals Classic Costume By Russ Fischer/Nov. 8, 2013 4:30 pm EST We knew, thanks to one photo from a prop maker, that a version of Wolverine’s classic yellow and black costume was fabricated for James Mangold’s film The Wolverine. It was never seen in the film, but it was used in one shot. Now you can see how, thanks to a multi-touch eBook promo for the upcoming Blu-ray release of the film, which has an extended version of the film’s final scene....

Andrew Niccol And Ethan Hawke Reunite For Third Film, About Dissatisfied Drone Pilot By Russ Fischer/Oct. 23, 2013 4:15 pm EST Briefly: Writer/director Andrew Niccol and actor Ethan Hawke have done two memorable films together: the sci-fi trip Gattaca, in which Hawke played a lead role, and Lord of War, in which he appeared as an Interpol agent on the trail of Nic Cage’s weapons dealer. Now, after Niccol has stumbled somewhat with In Time and The Host, he’s poised to climb back up into fans’ hearts by making a third film with Hawke....

Brad Bird Writes About The Brilliance Of ‘Die Hard’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 21, 2013 10:00 am EST With the (not well reviewed) fifth installment in the Die Hard series now in theaters, many people have taken the opportunity to revisit the original 1988 film. Directed by John McTiernan, the movie depicting John McClane’s terrible night saving a Los Angeles office building from a bunch of thieves is widely considered one of the best action films ever made, if not the best....

Cancer Gets Lost Charity Auction Features Memorabilia From ‘Lost,’ ‘Doctor Who,’ ‘Breaking Bad’ And Many More By Germain Lussier/Sept. 17, 2014 7:00 am EST The only thing better than buying entertainment memorabilia, is if the proceeds go to a good cause. The 2014 Cancer Gets LOST Charity Auction is going on now and features a bevy of unique screen used props as well as cool collectibles from a massive selection of TV shows and movies....

Chuck Palahniuk Talks About The ‘Fight Club’ Sequel By Angie Han/July 21, 2014 4:05 pm EST Technically, the first and second rules of Fight Club are that you don’t talk about Fight Club. They don’t say anything about the Fight Club sequel, so Chuck Palahniuk isn’t breaking any vows by discussing his new project. Officially announced by Palahniuk earlier this year, Fight Club 2 is a ten-issue comic book series that picks up with the unnamed protagonist of Fight Club about ten years later....

Cool Stuff: Paul Shipper’s Walt Disney Art For Hero Complex Gallery’s ‘Award Legends’ Show By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2013 12:00 pm EST When I said we had a lot of art today, I wasn’t kidding. Right now we can exclusively debut a piece from one of /Film’s favorite artist, Paul Shipper. This piece is a portrait of Walt Disney, the Human being who has won and been nominated for the most oscars, ever....

Everything Wrong With ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2,’ And An Honest Trailer Too By Germain Lussier/Sept. 3, 2014 12:16 pm EST Anyone who has a problem with the “Everything Wrong With” or “Honest Trailers” series are about to get very confused. The teams behind those two popular web series’, CinemaSins and Screen Junkies, have swapped gimmicks on the occasion of the ripe-for-parody sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2. So ScreenJunkies did the “Everything Wrong With” video, CinemaSins did the “Honest Trailer....

Hulu Won’t Revive ‘Community’ [UPDATED] By Angie Han/June 24, 2014 10:30 am EST [UPDATE: There’s now a conflicting report from TheWrap, which reports that Hulu is still in talks with Sony Pictures TV. Their source does back up TVLine’s claim that another party has also shown in making Season 6.] When Community first premiered in 2009, it seemed doomed to become a one-and-done. But in defiance of all expectations, it stuck around for five whole seasons, coming tantalizingly close to fulfilling its “#sixseasonsandamovie” destiny....