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Quentin Tarantino On ‘Prometheus,’ And Possibly Making A Mini-Series Or Children’s Movie By Germain Lussier/Dec. 31, 2012 2:52 pm EST Quentin Tarantino always has the best answers for movie related questions, especially when they’re questions that don’t relate to his own movies. Two examples happened recently on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson as the host asked the director of Django Unchained about his moviegoing during 2012 and whether he’d be interested in making a kids movie....

Scarlett Johansson Replaces Samantha Morton In Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’ By Angie Han/June 21, 2013 3:00 pm EST Most of us don’t spend a lot of time considering the nuances of disembodied robot voices like Siri’s or the GPS navigator’s. But then most of us aren’t directing movies in which an operating system is one of the romantic leads. Scarlett Johansson has replaced Samantha Morton as the computerized love interest of Spike Jonze’s Her, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as a writer who falls for his operating system....

See Concept Art And Gameplay From Cancelled Snake Plissken Game And Anime Series By Germain Lussier/Oct. 1, 2013 3:30 pm EST Of all iconic characters Kurt Russell has played, one stands above the rest, on a mountain of bodies, smoking a cigarette and rocking an eyepatch. I refer, of course, to Snake Plissken, the central figure of John Carpenter films Escape from New York and Escape from LA. Russell’s portrayal of the criminal turned hero popped off the screen in a way that still resonates with fans today....

Superhero Bits: Batman V Superman, Deadpool, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Sin City 2, Black Widow, Gotham By Germain Lussier/Aug. 11, 2014 4:00 pm EST Want to see Ben Affleck run around on the set of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? How does Lady Gaga look in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For? What else is revealed about the Black Widow in Captain America: The Winter Soldier? How does the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song sound in a capella?...

The Film Before The Film: The Evolution Of Movie Opening Titles By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2014 5:00 am EST The Film Before The Film is a short documentary created by Nora Thoes and Damian Pérez, students at the BTK University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, that follows the evolution of movie opening titles. Here is the official description: If you’ve ever seen a movie, you’ve seen opening titles of some kind....

Theme Park Bits: A Jackie Chan Park, First Look At Disneyland Paris’ ‘Ratatouille’ Ride And Cinecitta World By Germain Lussier/Sept. 27, 2013 2:30 pm EST A theme park dedicated solely to Jackie Chan? It’s in the works. Read about that, and the following, in this edition of Theme Park Bits: The first images of the Ratatouille ride at Disneyland Paris have been revealed. Disney World’s Seven Dwarfs Mine Train had its first full test....

Theme Park Bits: Universal Horror Nights 2014 Features ‘Alien Vs. Predator,’ ‘Dracula Untold,’ ‘Face Off’ And Others By Germain Lussier/Aug. 14, 2014 5:00 am EST Halloween is nearly upon us and the annual Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights have begun to announce some of their high-end haunted mazes. Every year, famous properties get turned into interactive mazes aimed to scare park attendees both in Florida and California and this year, there will be mazes or areas based on An American Werewolf in London, The Walking Dead, From Dusk Till Dawn, Dracula Untold, Alien vs....

Trekkies 3 In The Works By Peter Sciretta/March 7, 2007 12:57 pm EST Roger Nygard’s Trekkies has to be the best geek documentary ever made. The second one was a little off the mark because it lacked the hilarious characters that made the first one so great. Instead it voyaged around the world to examine international trekkies (which, as it turns out, are more well adjusted than those based in the US)....

We Review ‘Maze Runner’ In Barco Escape’s Immersive 270 Degree Screen Format: “A Little Taste Of The Future” By Germain Lussier/Sept. 19, 2014 10:30 am EST At some point, movie theaters found themselves in the unfortunate position of playing catch up. Where theaters were once the epicenter for entertainment, rising ticket prices and the exponential improvement of home theater technology have all but pushed them to the endangered species list....

‘Better Call Saul’ Billboard And Voicemail Now Active By Germain Lussier/July 23, 2014 6:00 pm EST In trouble? Better Call Saul. Bob Odenkirk’s Breaking Bad character Saul Goodman, soon to get his own spinoff show Better Call Saul, got his start on a billboard. It’s one of the first places audiences were introduced to the character in the Emmy winning series. Now, the billboards that are a part of the spinoff have begun to pop up in Albuquerque....

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Heads To Netflix For Final Season By Angie Han/Feb. 13, 2014 6:49 am EST Star Wars: The Clone Wars is coming back. Netflix announced today that it has struck a deal for exclusive rights to the entire series, including a brand-new sixth season. Fans will be able to watch on the streaming service next month. Get plot details on the new season and more after the jump....

‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/April 28, 2011 2:45 pm EST With the exception of the look at the film given to a few invited writers, we haven’t seen any new footage from Michael Bay’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon since TV spots hit for the Super Bowl and Daytona 500. In fact, we haven’t seen very much footage at all in general. That changes now as the new, full theatrical trailer is here, and you can see it after the jump....

Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ Near Completion? MPAA Hands Sci-Fi Thriller PG-13 Rating By Angie Han/Oct. 24, 2012 2:30 pm EST Had all gone according to plan for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, we’d be eagerly talking up its Oscar potential in anticipation of its release next month. However, Cuarón’s effects-heavy sci-fi epic apparently needed a bit more time to come together than had originally been projected. In May, Warner Bros. announced it’d be pushing back the release to an unspecified date in 2013....

By Russ Fischer/Nov. 26, 2012 7:35 pm EST Dominik told The Playlist, “It’s about her whole life. It starts when she’s seven and it ends when she dies… It’s sort of a Polanski descent-into-madness-type movie. It’s about this orphan girl who gets lost in the woods.” That latter statement is interesting, especially since the film comes from Joyce Carol Oates’ book about Marilyn, but taking the eccentricities of Killing Them Softly into account, it isn’t all that surprising....

Celebrate Valentine’s Day With The ‘Get A Room’ Movie Romance Art Exhibit In Brooklyn By Germain Lussier/Feb. 13, 2013 5:30 pm EST This Valentine’s Day, while everyone else is buying disposable greeting cards, why not buy something a little more lasting, like a limited edition print for (500) Days of Summer? Get A Room is the latest show at the Bottleneck Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and it opens February 15. It’ll feature limited edition screenprints and original art, all created to immortalize some of the most enduring romances in pop culture....

D23 Video Blog Reactions: Big Hero 6, Inside Out And The Good Dinosaur By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2013 8:00 am EST Yesterday at the D23 Expo, Disney held a huge panel presenting information and footage from the company’s next few years of animated film projects. You can read about most of the news breaks elsewhere on the site. After the presentation, I got together with Germain Lussier to record a video blog giving our reactions to the main footage presentations: Disney Animation’s Big Hero 6, Pixar’s Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur....

Disney Is Making Changes To The ‘Into The Woods’ Movie By Russ Fischer/June 19, 2014 5:30 am EST In the mid-’80s Stephen Sondheim wrote Into the Woods, a musical that became immensely popular in part because it weaved together things that are familiar to everyone: fairy tales, sex, and death. There’s infidelity in the production, and some strange licentiousness, and at least one very familiar figure doesn’t make it out alive....

Exclusive: ‘Paranormal Activity’ Creators Have Planned An Ultimate Ending For The Series By Germain Lussier/Jan. 6, 2014 1:01 pm EST When Oren Peli released the first Paranormal Activity in 2007, no one would’ve guessed seven years later, we’d still be talking about it. But here we are in 2014, and the fifth film in the franchise, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, is now in theaters. Though the main storyline for this film is separate from the thread of the first four, the series’ overall mythology is expanded and changed significantly near the end, which is likely to leave audiences guessing as to what’s coming next....

Fifth ‘Terminator’ Kicks Off Rebooted, Stand Alone Trilogy On June 26, 2015 By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2013 4:22 pm EST Paramount, Skydance and Annapurna Pictures have just announced that Terminator 5, potentially starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, will be released June 26, 2015. It’s being framed as the first film in a new trilogy. The press release refers to the film as a “reboot” and says the trilogy will “stand alone” from the first four films....

First Look: ‘Dracula Untold’ Gives Vlad The ‘Batman Begins’ Treatment By Angie Han/June 16, 2014 8:00 am EST Luke Evans is one of those actors who constantly seems to be on the verge of breaking out, without quite getting there. He’s appeared in lots of high-profile projects (Clash of the Titans, The Three Musketeers, Immortals, The Raven) and even a couple of pretty good high-profile projects (The Hobbit, Fast & Furious 6), without achieving household name status....