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Watch Three New Clips From Jason Reitman’s ‘Young Adult’ By Angie Han/Nov. 14, 2011 10:00 am EST If you haven’t been lucky enough to catch Paramount’s unannounced screenings of Young Adult in your town, you can still get an early look at the film here in the form of three newly released clips. Jason Reitman’s latest collaboration with Juno writer Diablo Cody stars Charlize Theron as young adult author Mavis Gary, who returns to her hometown and attempts to win back her now-married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson)....

‘Computer Chess’ Trailer: The Awkward Adolescence Of The Man-Machine By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2013 1:30 pm EST Every once in a while a movie comes along that can be used as a yardstick to measure just how different people want their movies to be. Computer Chess is that movie for 2013. This period-set story of a weekend competition for chess programmers is a pitch-perfect recreation of early ’80s geek culture — when the geeks were truly awkward outcasts — and a very unusual exploration of the intersection between humanity and technology....

‘Haywire’ Trailer #2: Gina Carano Destroys Michael Fassbender By Russ Fischer/Nov. 10, 2011 4:00 pm EST Relativity Media unveiled Steven Soderbergh’s action movie Haywire this past weekend at the AFI Fest, to mixed/positive reviews. The idea behind the movie is that Soderberg saw MMA fighter Gina Carano in action, and wanted to build a movie around her. He and screenwriter Lem Dobbs (The Limey) came up with a story about a betrayed covert ops specialist out for revenge, dropped Carano in the middle and surrounded her with actors like Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas, Bill Paxton, Michael Douglas and Michael Fassbender....

‘Jack Reacher’ & ‘Mission: Impossible’ Producer David Ellison Joins New ‘Terminator;’ Could Tom Cruise Fight A T-800? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2012 3:31 pm EST The Terminator is a family deal once more. Way back in the ’80s, the original film was created by James Cameron, who sold the rights to budding producer Gale Anne Hurd to get the project made. The two later married, but various business deals over the years (not to mention their eventual divorce) saw the Terminator rights sold to other parties, leaving neither in control of the characters....

‘Like Someone In Love’ Trailer: Abbas Kiarostami Looks For Love In Toyko By Angie Han/Feb. 4, 2013 4:14 pm EST Although the setting has changed from Tuscany to Tokyo, Certified Copy director Abbas Kiarostami once again seems to be exploring themes of perception and mistaken identity in his latest film, Like Someone in Love. Rin Takanashi plays a college student moonlighting as an escort. After spending an apparently sexless evening with an elderly new client (Tadashi Okuno), she allows him to drive her to class the next morning — where they’re spotted by her jealous boyfriend (Ryo Kase), who assumes the old man must be her grandfather....

‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ International Trailer: Tons Of New Footage Including A Crashing Enterprise By Germain Lussier/March 21, 2013 5:33 am EST We’re less than two months away from finally seeing Star Trek Into Darkness. That’s a nice feeling, isn’t it? J.J. Abrams and his crew have been hard at work finishing the IMAX 3D film that will tell the continuing stories of the U.S.S. Enterprise and a brand new international trailer has just come online to pump you up a bit....

‘The Four Players:’ Evan Daugherty’s Gritty Four Part Adaptation Of Super Mario Bros. By Germain Lussier/Nov. 14, 2013 10:30 am EST Evan Daugherty is a rising star in Hollywood. He wrote Snow White and the Huntsman, Divergent, and the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Now he’s taking an obvious love of ’80s and ’90s pop culture behind the camera. He wrote and directed a four-part short film series called The Four Players, which is a gritty new take on Nintendo’s sacred property Super Mario Bros....

Cool Stuff: Gallery Nucleus’ ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ Art Show By Peter Sciretta/June 26, 2014 12:30 pm EST Gallery Nucleus has once again teamed with Dreamworks Animation for an art show celebrating the company’s How To Train Your Dragon film series. The How To Train Your Dragon art was created as a tribute to the movies by artists on the film’s creative team, curated specifically for this art exhibit. While the show does have some beautiful original works of art, those are a bit pricey — so I wanted to showcase some of the more affordable limited edition prints they have released (available to purchase online)....

Cool Stuff: Martin Ansin’s ‘Taxi Driver’ Poster For Mondo By Germain Lussier/March 12, 2013 3:30 pm EST This is a huge time for Mondo. The company kicked off SXSW last week with their massive Game of Thrones show. Later this week is the even bigger Stout/Taylor show. (Check back Friday for more on that.) And today they’ve revealed a truly historic entry into their archive. Martin Ansin has done a poster for Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, tied to a screening at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, TX next week....

Darren Aronofsky And Paramount May Have Different Visions For ‘Noah’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2013 11:11 pm EST Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming film Noah tells exactly the story the title would lead you to assume: of Noah (Russell Crowe, above), the ark, and the flood, as relayed in the Bible. Well, not quite as relayed in the Bible, and that’s where things get tricky. From the beginning Aronofsky wasn’t interested in making a straight Biblical story — while he described this one very early on as a “Biblical epic,” the actual details of the story aren’t quite what you got out of Sunday School....

Deleted Scenes From Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’ And Judd Apatow’s ‘This Is 40’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 2, 2013 11:28 am EST Heading into 2012, two films many of us were looking forward to were the new movies from Rian Johnson and Judd Apatow: Looper and This is 40. Now that we’ve seen them, why not see a bit more? After all, whether or not you loved or loathed either film (read my review of each at these links) it’s difficult to dispute that everything Johnson or Apatow does is worth watching....

Doug Liman Directing Tom Cruise In ‘El Presidente,’ Hoping Jack Nicholson Will Sign On By Russ Fischer/Nov. 20, 2013 7:00 am EST Briefly: Doug Liman just directed Tom Cruise in the sci-fi time-warp film Edge of Tomorrow, and now Liman is coming on board a movie that Cruise has been trying to make since 2010. The film is El Presidente, about “a straight-arrow Secret Service agent who is assigned to protect America’s worst former president, an alcoholic and womanizing sleazebag who never won a presidential election but was elevated from VP when the president died....

Duncan Jones Reveals Story Points And New Concept Art For ‘Warcraft’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2013 7:07 am EST Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) is hard at work on the pre-production stage of Warcraft, his film adaptation of the game world seen in Blizzard video games Warcraft and World of Warcraft. The film doesn’t shoot until early 2014, but a lot of work has already gone into the project. Jones and his producers appeared at Blizzcon over the weekend, and sat in on a panel talking about the film....

First Look: Robert De Niro And Edgar Ramirez In ‘Hands Of Stone’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 18, 2014 5:00 am EST Briefly: That shot above is the first look at Hands of Stone, in which Edgar Ramirez (Carlos) plays Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán, who fought some of the top talents in boxing (from Sugar Ray Leonard to Hector Camacho to Thomas Hearns) and fought during five decades and held world titles in four different weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight....

First Looks: ‘White House Down’ And ‘Last Vegas’ [UPDATED With Higher-Res Images] By Angie Han/Nov. 6, 2012 11:00 am EST UPDATE: Thanks to Collider, we’ve been able to update the post with higher-res versions of the same images. Click through to take a look. As the nation decides who’ll get to take control the White House for the next four years, Channing Tatum’s been running around trying to save it from takeover by evil forces....

First Official Look: Lindsay Lohan As Elizabeth Taylor In Lifetime’s ‘Liz & Dick’ By Angie Han/June 5, 2012 9:30 am EST When we first heard about Lifetime’s decision to cast Lindsay Lohan as silver screen icon Elizabeth Taylor in the TV biopic Liz & Dick, we wondered if it might just be a PR stunt. But the deal was firmed up over the spring, and now shooting is actually underway. The first official image has now hit the web, along with a handful of snapshots from the set....

Geek Deal: 24: The Complete Series For Only $79.99 – One Day Only! By Peter Sciretta/May 1, 2014 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Today’s Gold Box Deal of the Day is 24: The Complete Series for only $79.99, 77% off the $270 msrp. The deal will only be good today (August 28th 2013) until midnight, so act fast! Geek Deal: 24: The Complete Series For Only $79....

Here’s The New Suit For ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 25, 2013 8:20 am EST Now that the Oscars are over, Hollywood is happy to remind you what it’s really all about: superhero sequels. Sony has released your first look at the new costume for Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2, scheduled for release May 2, 2014. The full image is below. Thanks to Coming Soon for this detailed image....

Martin Scorsese Casts Andrew Garfield And Ken Watanabe In ‘Silence’ By Germain Lussier/May 7, 2013 11:03 am EST Each time Andrew Garfield’s name comes up for a project these days, it’s seemingly bigger and more impressive than the last thing. He was crucial to David Fincher’s The Social Network, he re-imagined your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, and now arguably the greatest living filmmaker has tapped him to star in his new project....

By Germain Lussier/May 7, 2013 4:00 pm EST Television upfronts start next week, which means we’ll get the final news of what shows are returning, which are being cancelled, and which new shows will be premiering over the coming months. TNT has jumped the gun, giving a 10-episode order to The Last Ship, a Michael Bay produced action drama starring Eric Dane. The show picks up in the wake of an apocalyptic event that wipes out most of the world, but leaves a cluster of survivors on a single Naval ship that was at sea....