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LOL: Bootleg ‘Oldboy’ Remake DVD Features Biting Pullquote By Russ Fischer/Feb. 26, 2014 1:30 pm EST Look around the internet and you’ll see loads of hilarious bootleg DVD covers. They might mis-identify the stars or filmmakers, provide a terrible plot synopsis, use nonsensical review pull quotes, or feature visual elements which are completely unrelated to the film. Still, this bootleg copy of Spike Lee’s Oldboy may now be the king of great/awful bootleg cover design, as it uses a review pullquote that is honest, if not exactly a great piece of salesmanship....

Marc Webb Attached To ‘Cold Comfort’ Spy Thriller At Fox By Russ Fischer/Feb. 27, 2014 3:30 pm EST Briefly: The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb is something of a golden boy at Sony right now, as he’s set to continue with the Spidey franchise through at least the series’ third installment. But he’s casting his eye beyond that, and naturally looking for projects outside the superhero realm. So Marc Webb is now attached to the movie adaptation of the upcoming spy thriller book Cold Comfort at Fox....

New Posters: ‘Last Vegas,’ ‘The Monuments Men,’ And ‘Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 26, 2013 8:47 am EST New posters have been released for three radically different Fall movies. There’s the star-studded Oscar contender The Monuments Men, starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville and John Goodman. Then there’s a comedy starring four Oscar-winners (Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline) called Last Vegas....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2009 3:09 pm EST Watch this video of 1 year old Gram from the Sweet Juniper Blog reacting to the Where the Wild Things Are trailer. And they’re worried that kids won’t like the movie? PBS has launched and Independent Lens Interactive Art House Theater Map, a google map mashup that lets you discover independent cinemas near you. Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky talks about the screenwriting process on MakingOf....

Page 2: Back To The Future, Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, Firefly, Scarlett Johansson, Warriors, Transformers, Jurassic Park, Arrested Development, Wes Anderson, Breaking Bad By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2012 1:30 pm EST Header Photo: 65 behind the scenes photos from Back to the Future. The header image shows all the puppeteers required to make Marty’s future jacket function in the sequel. Dark Shadows nabs $550K from midnight showsQMx has revealed their Comic-Con Exclusive Admiral Adama Battlestar Galactica 1:10 scale 5....

Star Wars Bits: Yavin 4 Rumors Debunked, Star Wars Comics Possibly Headed To Marvel By Germain Lussier/Dec. 20, 2012 4:12 pm EST Bad news on the Star Wars front today. Remember earlier this week when we thought part of the plot to Star Wars Episode VII had leaked and Luke Skywalker was returning to Yavin IV to create a Jedi Academy? Well, that’s not happening, or at least the reporter said he was incorrect....

Star Wars Episode 7: Close-Up Set Photos And Did JJ Abrams Order A DroneShield? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 21, 2014 11:56 am EST Over the last week, we’ve seen a bunch of ariel photos of the Star Wars Episode VII captured from Greenham Common set whilst filming the GAMA bunkers. The photos have shown a few X-Wing including a black-colored model, as well as the Millennium Falcon which JJ Abrams later released an official video of....

TV Bits: ‘Game Of Thrones’, ‘Community’, ‘Dexter’, ‘Downton Abbey’, ‘American Horror Story’, ‘Sons Of Anarchy’, ‘Fringe’, Michael J. Fox By Angie Han/Aug. 21, 2012 7:00 am EST That’s Skrein on the left and Jacobson on the right. I gotta say, neither of them look remotely like what I pictured while reading A Storm of Swords. But HBO’s done a bang-up job with casting so far, so I’ve no doubt they’ll impress me once Season 3 kicks off next year....

TV Trailers: Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Newsroom’ And ‘Breaking Bad’ Season 5 By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2012 1:00 pm EST As a bunch of great television comes to an end, we begin to gear up for the return of Breaking Bad and the premiere of Aaron Sorkin’s HBO series The Newsroom. After the jump you’ll find a third promo trailer for The Newsroom, which premieres on June 24th on HBO, alongside a new television commercial teaser for Breaking Bad entitled “All Hail The King”....

Watch: An Ode To The Fading Mecca Of The Film Fan - The Video Store By Germain Lussier/Oct. 25, 2013 11:00 am EST One day, when we’re all grown up and have kids of our own, an awkward conversation is going to happen. No, not that one. We’ll have to explain to our kids that when we were their age, we couldn’t just stream every single movie in an instant from our pocket....

‘Ant-Man’ Is A Heist Movie, Black Panther Movie Definitely In Development By Germain Lussier/Oct. 23, 2013 12:00 pm EST Sites like this can talk and talk and confirm and confirm movies in the pipeline, but it’s something else entirely to hear it from the man who makes it all happen. Below, you have a chance to watch Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige talk about both Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man, the first film of Marvel’s Phase 3, and confirm they’re developing a Black Panther movie....

‘Empire Strikes Back’ Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan And Simon Kinberg To Script ‘Star Wars’ Episodes 8 And 9 [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Nov. 20, 2012 5:30 pm EST When Disney bought LucasFilm and announced Star Wars Episode VII for 2015, with at least two more films to follow, there was a big flurry of excitement. But in the wake of that announcement there has been a Biblical flood of rumors and speculation about the films, most of which are patently ridiculous....

‘Muppets Most Wanted’ Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2013 9:25 am EST Walt Disney Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for The Muppets sequel Muppets Most Wanted. Watch it now embedded after the jump. I’m a huge fan of The Muppets, but this trailer looks and feels more like one of the Muppets TV movies than a sequel to the 2011 comeback film. It could be that its just crammed with celebrity cameos and pop songs, but it definitely doesn’t have the subversive and nostalgic vibe of the last film....

‘Oranges & Sunshine’ Trailer – Jim Loach, Son Of Ken, Directs Emily Watson And Hugo Weaving In Feature Debut By Angie Han/Sept. 15, 2011 1:30 pm EST Don’t let the cheery title fool you: Oranges & Sunshine actually tells a harrowing tale that’s all the more distubring for being true. In the first feature by director Jim Loach (son of The Wind That Shakes the Barley helmer Ken Loach), a social worker named Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson) encounters a woman seeking answers about her past....

‘Stranded’ Trailer: An Alien Threat Menaces Christian Slater In Space By Russ Fischer/June 10, 2013 4:00 pm EST There was a point when Christian Slater’s presence in a film was fairly commanding, but his image has been diluted to the point where the best thing we can expect out of a Christian Slater movie is passable entertainment. But this trailer for Stranded, a low-budget horror-thriller set on a space station with Slater as the commanding officer, looks more promising than most....

‘Trick ‘R Treat’ Director Set To Make Holiday Horror ‘Krampus’ By Russ Fischer/May 9, 2014 10:30 am EST Legendary is getting into the holiday horror game, and Kevin Smith might be pissed. Recall, if you will, Smith’s recent discussion of his holiday horror Anti-Klaus, originally called Comes the Krampus. He explained, “the Krampus carries an empty bag for taking away the bad kids. I wanna see THAT Christmas movie. So rather than wait for it, we’ll make it instead....

Adam McKay Pulls Out Of ‘Ant-Man’ Talks [Update] By Russ Fischer/May 30, 2014 7:52 pm EST Update from Editor Peter Sciretta: On Friday, we heard about the people who might direct Ant-Man in the wake of Edgar Wright’s departure. A list of three potential directors was circulated, featuring Adam McKay (Anchorman, The Other Guys), Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Gangster Squad) and Rawson Thurber (We’re the Millers). Last night is was revealed that Adam McKay was officially in talks to direct Ant-Man....

Ang Lee Will Direct Iraq War Novel Adaptation ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 19, 2014 8:15 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire, Catching Fire) has scripted an adaption of Ben Fountain’s novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, which has been called the “Catch-22 of the Iraq War,” and was nominated for the 2012 National Book Award. Now Ang Lee, whose last feature was the Oscar-winning Life of Pi, is a likely director prospect for the film....

Cool Stuff: ‘The Goonies’ Playing Cards On Kickstarter By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2014 10:30 am EST Albino Dragon has teamed up with illustrator Nat Iwata to create a deck of The Goonies playing cards. They somehow have secured the license from Warner Bros and are trying to bring the deck to life with the help of Bicycle and the United States Playing Card Company. After the jump, you can see some of the early (pending approval) card and box designs....

DreamWorks Prepping Its Own A Cappella Movie About Indiana University Group Straight No Chaser By Angie Han/Feb. 22, 2013 3:24 pm EST Singing groups have long been popular on school campuses, but it wasn’t until Glee came along that they started blowing up the screen. Universal’s similarly themed movie Pitch Perfect proved a big hit last year, and now DreamWorks is following suit with an a cappella feature of its own....