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Sequel Bits: ‘Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind,’ ‘The X-Files 3,’ ‘The Raid 2,’ ‘Insidious: Chapter 2’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 26, 2013 6:00 pm EST In addition to those items, after the break you’ll find: We’ll start with Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Neon Genesis Evangelion director Hideaki Anno and Hayao Miyazaki have a relationship that goes back to animation of Nausicaa, to which Anno contributed. Anno has lobbied for a Nausicaa sequel for a long time, and Miyazaki recently said, “I have no interest in doing a sequel to Nausicaa, but these days I think if Anno really wants to do it, he should....

Steven Spielberg Returns To Video Games By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2007 7:10 pm EST  Steven Spielberg is making a return to video games. Newsweek reports that the legendary director has teamed with Mario designer Shigeru Miyamoto to create a new action-puzzle simulator for the Nintendo Wii. Code-named PQRS, the new game “neatly blends the creativity of the building-blocks game Jenga with the charm of a Saturday-morning cartoon. It runs on top of a physics program that lets you manipulate blocks with the Wii remote as if it were an extension of your hand....

Thomas Newman Scoring Pixar’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ By Russ Fischer/March 18, 2013 11:30 am EST Thomas Newman has worked with Pixar a couple times in the past on little films like Wall-E and Finding Nemo, and now he’s going to work with the animation giants once more. The film is The Good Dinosaur, which pixar has been developing for the past few years. The composer recently stated that The Good Dinosaur will be his next film, and we’ve got a few details below....

Trailer: The Coen Bros.’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’, Soundtrack Details By Angie Han/July 1, 2013 11:00 am EST Whereas some filmmakers prefer to stick with one mode or another, the Coen Bros. have shown an ability to leap from Depression-era Greek musical epic to ’90s stoner neo-noir comedy to violent Oscar-winning thriller. Their newest film, Inside Llewyn Davis, sees them dropping by ’60s New York for an intimate character study of a folk musician....

VOTD: ‘Let’s Go To The Movies With Patton Oswalt’ By Angie Han/May 22, 2014 1:00 pm EST Plenty of comedians reference pop culture, but few are better at actually talking about pop culture than Patton Oswalt. Whether he’s taking George Lucas to task or imagining a Star Wars / Marvel mega-crossover, his affection for all things geeky comes through loud and clear. Now, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is taking advantage of his film knowledge with a new web series called Let’s Go to the Movies with Patton Oswalt....

VOTD: The Simpsons Game Of Life Couch Gag By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2014 10:45 am EST The couch gag opening for the May 11th 2014 episode of The Simpsons (titled “Pay Pal”) is an amazing tribute to the classic board game, The Game of Life. The opening sequence features peg versions of The Simpsons, riding along in a plastic board game component car around the board of The Game of Life....

Watch 20 Minutes Of ‘Muppets Most Wanted’ Behind The Scenes Footage By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2014 11:30 am EST You all know how much I love watching behind the scenes footage. I’m the one often posting dumps of b-roll set footage on /Film. Well the only thing that beats behind the scenes set footage, and that is behind the scenes Muppets footage. After the jump you can watch 20 minutes of Muppets Most Wanted behind the scenes footage....

Will ‘Chronicle’ Writer Max Landis Make A Wonder Woman Movie? By Angie Han/Sept. 11, 2013 2:00 pm EST Later, when another participant wondered what reboot Landis would want to work on, he wrote back, “You’ll know sooner than you think.” Taken together, Landis’ comments suggest that a Wonder Woman project may be coming up for him soon. Whether that means he plans to direct, write, or both is not clear....

‘42’ Trailer And Featurette: America’s Racial History Is No Game By Russ Fischer/Jan. 10, 2013 11:53 am EST The story of Jackie Robinson is one of the most important stories in sports history, but it is also one of the most important social stories of the 20th century. As the first black ballplayer in Major League Baseball, Robinson became one of the focal points at an early stage in the ever-evolving shift in American race relations....

‘Atlantis’ Sci-Fi Book Trilogy Picked Up For Movie Adaptation By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2014 3:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of the acquisition. The Immari are good at keeping secrets. For 2,000 years, they’ve hidden the truth about human evolution. They’ve also searched for an ancient enemy–a threat that could wipe out the human race. Now the search is over....

‘Bad Milo’ Red Band Trailer: It Came From Ken Marino’s Butt By Angie Han/July 30, 2013 9:30 am EST Last week saw Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant’s Hell Baby hitting VOD. Next month, Ken Marino will be unleashing a demonic spawn of his own in Bad Milo. And yes, I do mean Ken Marino, not Gillian Jacobs, who plays his wife. Directed by Jacob Vaughan, the horror comedy takes the phrase “a pain in the ass” and makes it literal — and deadly....

‘Cuban Fury’ Trailer: Nick Frost Unleashes His Inner Dance Demon By Angie Han/Nov. 14, 2013 11:00 am EST Nick Frost has made a nice career of playing sidekicks and supporting characters, often alongside frequent collaborator Simon Pegg. But as his unexpected straight-man turn in The World’s End showed, the guy’s certainly got the chops to lead a movie of his own. In Cuban Fury, he gets the chance to do just that....

‘Cymbeline’ Trailer And Clip: Thou Art Poison To My Blood By Russ Fischer/Sept. 2, 2014 3:00 pm EST Michael Almereyda is the latest to tweak William Shakespeare’s work to suit his purposes. Almereyda’s Cymbeline sees him teaming one more with Ethan Hawke, who starred in the director’s Hamlet in 2000. Cymbeline envisions the original text as “an epic battle between dirty cops and a drug dealing biker gang set in a corruption-riddled America....

/Film: We’re Back! By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2007 9:46 am EST Our trip to Los Angeles was AWESOME, and you only read about the one hour I’m allowed to report on. Thanks to the ensemble cast of characters I met along my journey (you know who you are). And while the hotel I was staying at was first class all the way, they were having problems with the internet connection which limited my posts while on location....

‘Iron Man 3’ Co-Writer Scripting ‘Mission: Impossible 5,’ Christopher McQuarrie Still In Talks To Direct By Russ Fischer/May 15, 2013 6:00 am EST Briefly: We don’t know what Mission: Impossible 5 will be about, but we know who will write: Drew Pearce, who scripted Iron Man 3 with director Shane Black, has been hired to write the film. Tom Cruise returns to star, and the sequel will reportedly shoot in the fall of this year, after Cruise finishes The Man From U....

‘Jobs,’ Starring Ashton Kutcher As Apple Co-Founder, Delayed From April Opening By Russ Fischer/March 18, 2013 7:00 am EST Briefly: Ashton Kutcher made his big bow as Steve Jobs at Sundance, in the film once called jOBS and now wisely re-formatted as Jobs. The film was picked up by Open Road and quickly set for an April 19 limited opening. But audiences are going to have to wait longer to see Kutcher do his best take on the Apple co-founder....

‘Monkey Kingdom’ Trailer: Disneynature Visits The Asian Jungle By Angie Han/April 10, 2014 12:00 pm EST Disneynature’s string of adorable animal documentaries will continue next year with Monkey Kingdom, about a tribe of monkeys living in the jungles of South Asia. They’re thousands of miles and several evolutionary branches removed from the subjects of this year’s Bears, and yet the formula remains pretty much the same. There are cute-looking creatures and majestic-looking ones, and at the center of it all is a loose plotline about a mother and her baby fighting for survival in a harsh world....

‘Monsters University’ And ‘Despicable Me 2’ Kids’ Choice Award TV Spots By Angie Han/March 25, 2013 1:00 pm EST The Oscars they aren’t, but the Kids’ Choice Awards are very good for getting fresh looks at upcoming films. Both of this summer’s big animated sequels — Monsters University and Despicable Me 2 — premiered new spots with unseen footage at this weekend’s event. The former is still running with its college theme, as Mike and Sulley enjoy the G-rated, Pixar equivalent of a wild frat party....

‘Penguins Of Madagascar’ Trailer: These Birds Crave Adventure By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2014 10:00 am EST If you’ve got some secret agent stuff that needs doing, you could hire James Bond. But he has to put on a tux for formal work. Why not hire a crew that is always wearing tuxes? Penguins of Madagascar opens up the hidden backstory of the birds from the Madagascar films. They’re masters of disguise and espionage, these guys (well, birds) and willing to leap into danger at a moment’s notice....

‘Rage’ Trailer: Nicolas Cage Wonders “How Deep Is Hell?” By Russ Fischer/May 8, 2014 5:00 am EST This film Rage was once called Tokarev, but the basics are the same: Nicolas Cage plays a guy whose daughter is kidnapped one night. But there’s no question that this is some random victimization. No, the problem is that Cage’s character’s criminal past has come back to haunt him. And despite the good advice of Danny Glover, a guy who is great at giving cautious, good advice, Cage goes right back to his bad old ways....