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Superhero Bits: Iron Man 3, Dark Knight Rises, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Sin City 2, Joker, The Wolverine By Germain Lussier/Dec. 18, 2012 1:30 pm EST How is it possible for Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger’s Jokers to get together? When is The Wolverine opening all across the world? Which two supervillains are about to team up in the Batman comic books? What did Jack Huston have to say about his Guardians of the Galaxy screentest?...

Tom Cruise Is Really On A Sci-Fi Kick, Eyes ‘Our Name Is Adam’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 17, 2012 10:30 am EST Briefly: While Tom Cruise will next be seen in Jack Reacher (a new trailer for which hit today) he’s following that film with two big sci-fi movies: Oblivion, from Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski, and the “Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day” action film All You Need is Kill, from Doug Liman....

Trivia: See Behind The Scenes Of Tim Burton’s Brief 1992 Cameo In ‘Hoffa’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 8, 2012 10:00 am EST In 1992 Danny DeVito released his third directorial effort, Hoffa. That summer, he also appeared in Tim Burton’s Batman Returns as a sludgy, grotesque version of the Penguin. What many people don’t realize is that the films connect through a talent beyond DeVito, as Burton was recruited for a very small cameo in Hoffa....

TV Bits: ‘Dexter’, ‘Boardwalk Empire’, ‘Homeland’, ‘The Office’, ‘Veep’, ‘House Of Cards’, ‘The Newsroom’ By Angie Han/April 15, 2013 3:30 pm EST Duffy already knows a thing or two about reprising old roles. Last year, he stepped back into the part of Bobby Ewing for TNT’s Dallas continuation, twenty years after the original series went off the air. [THR] The criminal underworld of Boardwalk Empire will have a new force to reckon with next season....

VOTD: Singer Jon Marco Chases A Girl Though Classic ’80s Movies By Germain Lussier/June 10, 2013 11:11 am EST So many people with musical talent are out in the world looking for their big break. The trick is doing something to stand out and get the attention of the masses. Singer Jon Marco he did that by creating a music video where he chases his dream girl through a slew of classic Eighties films....

Watch The Short ‘Glory At Sea,’ From ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Director Benh Zeitlin By Russ Fischer/Jan. 25, 2012 10:30 am EST As I’ve started to read about the Sundance film Beasts of the Southern Wild (check our review here), what keeps coming to mind is something like the early films of David Gordon Green filtered through the sensibility of author China Mieville. The film shows us the world through the eyes of a six-year old girl, but that world isn’t quite ‘real....

Watch The Trailer For ‘Spook Central,’ A Documentary Analyzing ‘Ghostbusters’ By Germain Lussier/June 10, 2013 4:18 pm EST Whether it’s about a real movie, like the documentary Room 237, or a fake movie, like in Robert Altman’s The Player, there’s a lot of potential in making a movie about another movie. There’s just something special about taking the post-movie experience of analyzing and sharing opinions and moving it from the lobby into the theater....

‘Anchorman: The Legend Continues’ Trailer: Hold On To The Feelin’… By Angie Han/June 18, 2013 11:07 pm EST When the first Anchorman hit theaters, we were smack in the middle of the ’00s. Lost and Veronica Mars had yet to hit the airwaves. The Janet Jackson Super Bowl controversy was still kind of a thing. John Kerry looked like a viable option for the presidency. It was a crazy time....

‘Coming Home’ Trailer: Zhang Yimou’s Cannes Pic Looks Gorgeous By Angie Han/April 17, 2014 2:30 pm EST You can always count on the Cannes Film Festival to showcase the most intriguing releases from around the world. This year, that includes Coming Home, the latest from director Zhang Yimou. Gong Li (Raise the Red Lantern) and Chen Daoming (Hero) lead the sweeping romantic drama, which has already been scooped up by Sony Pictures Classics for U....

‘Mama’ Trailer #2: Jessica Chastain Battles A Monster Matriarch With The Help Of Guillermo Del Toro By Germain Lussier/Oct. 19, 2012 1:30 pm EST Next week you’re going to learn a lot about Mama, Andy Muschietti’s adaptation of his short film starring Jessica Chastain and produced by Guillermo Del Toro. I was lucky enough to be on the set of the creepy film and you’ll be able to read all about it on Tuesday....

‘Muppets Most Wanted’ Awards TV Spot Skewers Inane Online Comments By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2014 12:45 pm EST The marketing team working on Muppets Most Wanted is having just as much fun with the film for this ad campaign as they did with the one for 2011’s The Muppets. Instead of cutting ads that parody trailers for other films, the object of amusement this time is online comments and the act of using random tweets as ad fodder....

‘Nymphomaniac’ Clip: Uma Thurman Teaches Her Kids An Awkward Lesson By Angie Han/Aug. 30, 2013 2:30 pm EST In the first clip from Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, two bored young women turned sex into a game. The latest snippet, however, warns that sleeping around can have its downsides. Pulled from a segment titled “Mrs. H,” it shows Joe (played as a young woman by Stacy Martin and as a grownup by Charlotte Gainsbourg) dealing with the consequences of sleeping with a married man (Hugo Speer)....

‘Oblivion’ Trailer And Posters: Tom Cruise Has A New Home By Angie Han/Feb. 28, 2013 3:20 pm EST Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them in the form of a beautiful mysterious woman in a downed spacecraft. In Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion, Tom Cruise and Andrea Riseborough play two members of a lonely crew mopping up what’s left of Earth decades after a devastating alien attack....

‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Deleted Scenes Reveal Some Trailer Shots, Not Much More By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2012 10:15 am EST Much was made over the footage cut from Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man. The trailers featured shots that didn’t make the finished film, which isn’t all that unusual, but those shots were part of a plotline that tied Peter Parker’s father to the superhero Peter eventually becomes. That’s a relatively new thing for the Spidey mythos that made up “the untold story” promised in the early marketing....

‘The Master’ Teaser #2 - Philip Seymour Hoffman Is A Hopelessly Inquisitive Man By Angie Han/June 19, 2012 9:00 am EST That There Will Be Blood helmer Paul Thomas Anderson is back with a new feature after five long years is exciting enough. Toss in the fact that his latest reunites him with frequent collaborator Philip Seymour Hoffman, and it’s no wonder The Master is one of our most highly anticipated movies of the year....

‘The Wolverine’ Motion Poster: Washing Away Memories Of ‘X-Men Origins’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 12, 2012 10:02 pm EST We’ve got more stopgap marketing points between the announcement of a film and the first trailer than ever before. One is the motion poster — essentially an animated GIF that still doesn’t manage to say very much about a movie, but sometimes looks pretty cool. For a film like The Hunger Games it works well, because those flaming mockingjay pins are great little icons....

‘Warcraft’ Movie Weapons And Logo Revealed Including The Doomhammer [Comic Con 2014] By Germain Lussier/July 23, 2014 8:18 pm EST In advance of their panel on Saturday, Legendary revealed a few small glimpses into the world of Warcraft. Directed by Duncan Jones, the film hits theaters March 11 2016. Above, you can see the logo. Below, check out some of the Warcraft movie weapons on display from the film including one of the most famous: the Doomhammer....

Christopher Walken Makes Five Dollars A Day By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2007 11:27 pm EST Christopher Walken and Alessandro Nivola have signed on to star in Nigel Cole’s (Calendar Girls, Saving Grace, A Lot Like Love) road-trip caper film Five Dollars a Day. The film actually has an interesting premise: Walken will play a conman proud of living like a king on $5 a day who reunited with his son Nivola, who had been jailed for one of his father’s crimes....

Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’ To Open In 3D - But Only Outside The U.S. By Angie Han/Feb. 5, 2014 8:35 pm EST Darren Aronofsky’s Biblical epic Noah will be sweeping across the screen in 3D this year — but only if you’re watching from outside the U.S. Paramount is prepping an upconverted version of the film to be released exclusively in foreign markets, in an attempt to lure audiences with snazzy effects....

First Look: Ben Foster Races Ahead As Lance Armstrong In Stephen Frears’ Biopic By Angie Han/Oct. 22, 2013 1:45 pm EST With seemingly half of Hollywood racing to bring a Lance Armstrong biopic to the big screen, the first one to reach the starting line is Stephen Frears. His untitled picture began shooting a few days ago, with Ben Foster in the lead role of the disgraced cyclist. A first-look image has just hit the web, and you can check it out after the jump....