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Page 2: Game Of Thrones, Lincoln, Lord Of The Rings, Wreck-It Ralph, Walking Dead, Aliens, The Master, Looper, The Exorcist, Adaptation, Tom Hanks, Ira Glass By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 26, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: Throne of Games6 Must See Films of AFI FEST 2012The Psychology Of Darth VaderLincoln CANNOT catch a break. The Complete ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Character Guide Lena Dunham: My first time was with Barack ObamaCheck This Out: Weta Installs Gigantic Gollum at Wellington AirportThe Myth Of “So Bad It’s Good"Your Guide to the Indistinguishable Men of Nashville...

POTD: Wes Anderson’s ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Projection Instructions By Germain Lussier/March 14, 2014 9:58 am EST Thanks to Reddit (via Collider) for this image: Despite the fact Anderson is taking control of the final phase of film creation, there’s one bigger reason why The Grand Budapest Hotel has these instructions and it’s mentioned in there. The movie changes aspect ratios depending on the time period. For the majority of the film, it’s in a 1:33:1, square aspect ratio (such as the header image at the top of the post)....

Ridley Scott’s ‘The Counselor’ Unveils A New Clip And 5 Character Posters By Angie Han/Sept. 11, 2013 3:37 pm EST Of all the dangerous criminals in The Counselor, Cameron Diaz’s Malkina may just be the iciest. In a new clip from the Ridley Scott-directed drama, she shows her steely side to Reiner (Javier Bardem), prompting even the hardened career criminal to ask, “You don’t think that’s a bit cold?” But at least Malkina’s femme fatale appeal comes across on her character poster....

Sequel Bits: ‘Sin City 3,’ ‘Shrek 5,’ ‘Raid 2,’ ‘Smurfs 3,’ ‘Pitch Perfect 2,’ ‘Fast And Furious 7’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 26, 2014 10:47 am EST Robert Rodriguez appeared on Sirius XM’s The Ron and Fez Show Tuesday and reported he and Frank Miller have already begun to discuss Sin City 3. Here’s the quote, via The Interobang. Elizabeth Banks isn’t straying too far from the original with Pitch Perfect 2....

Star Wars Bits: ‘A New Dawn’ Revealed, Plus May 4 Disney Store Exclusives, Star Wars Weekends And Comic-Con By Germain Lussier/April 25, 2014 11:59 am EST Today’s biggest Star Wars news has to do with the Expanded Universe and perhaps the Boba Fett film. But that’s far from all that’s going on. In this edition of Star Wars Bits, read about the following: The first new book in canon, Star Wars: A New Dawn, has been revealed… …as well as the rest of the first wave of canon books like Star Wars: Tarkin....

Superhero Bits: Batman V Superman, Age Of Ultron, Black Panther, Guardians, Daredevil, Arrow By Germain Lussier/Aug. 5, 2014 4:30 pm EST The first images of Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock on the set of Daredevil hit the net. A special effects featurette from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 via Comic Book Movie. The first images of Ben Affleck at Bruce Wayne have been taken from the Detroit set of Batman v Superman....

Superhero Bits: Man Of Steel, Deadpool, The Wolverine, Batman, Iron Man, Captain America: The Winter Soldier By Germain Lussier/Oct. 30, 2012 12:30 pm EST Want to see a cool video of the Man of Steel title treatment? Will director Zack Snyder talk about sequels to the Superman film? Why is Aziz Ansari being portrayed as Iron Man? Has someone turned the new Wolverine teaser poster into a pumpkin? Which superhero will the U....

Upright Citizens Brigade’s ‘Freak Dance’ Trailer By Adam Quigley/Feb. 4, 2011 6:30 am EST UPDATE: As co-writer/director Matt Besser has explained in the comments below, the trailer went public prematurely and it’s been taken down until a release date has been secured. We’ll update when it’s live again. For all those who have grown weary from the constant surge of spoofs that rely more on topicality than actual jokes, this could be the antidote....

Video: Siskel & Ebert On The Magic Of Steven Spielberg By Germain Lussier/April 11, 2014 7:00 am EST There are many reasons to be sad Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert are no longer with us. One reason, way down on the list, would be their occasional specials dedicated to the films of a particular director. Every once in a while, the legendary Chicago critics would dedicate an episode of their show not to a bunch of new releases, but to the art and beauty of one single filmmaker’s body of work....

VOTD: The Visual Effects Of The Grand Budapest Hotel By Peter Sciretta/April 29, 2014 3:00 pm EST Look Effects has released a five minute VFX breakdown of the visual effects they created for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. Some of the effects are seamless and near invisible, changing the color of a wall or text on an envelope. Some of the other effects involve more involved miniatures which are combined with real world location shots and actors on green screens....

Watch Joe Carnahan’s ‘Gemini Man’ Sizzle Reel, Which Pits Clint Eastwood Against Clint Eastwood By Russ Fischer/Oct. 10, 2012 10:00 am EST Here’s another sizzle reel from director Joe Carnahan. Not long ago we showed you Carnahan’s assembled reels meant to pitch Daredevil, and now here’s another, for the canceled Disney film Gemini Man. The project, based on a script by David Benioff, has a good high-concept premise: an older government agent discovers that he’s in the crosshairs of a younger, more capable assassin....

‘A Single Shot’ Trailer: Sam Rockwell Hunts To Live By Russ Fischer/April 2, 2013 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The big recent roles from Sam Rockwell have been comedic — think of his turn in Seven Psychopaths, his work in The Sitter, hell, even his Iron Man 2 performance had a comic tinge. And when audiences get a chance to see The Way Way Back later this year, they’ll see a very endearing and funny turn from the actor....

‘Branded’ Trailer - Jeffrey Tambor, Leelee Sobieski, And Max Von Sydow Expose Marketing As A Sinister Alien Plot By Angie Han/May 9, 2012 10:00 am EST Maybe Mad Man Michael Ginsberg wasn’t joking about being from Mars after all. The dystopian thriller Branded (a.k.a. Moscow 2017) takes as its premise the idea that corporate marketing is actually part of an evil plot to keep citizens dull and passive. And I don’t mean “evil” as in simply greedy or dishonest a la Wall Street — I mean “evil” as in sinister, possibly alien, and probably even capable of literally demolishing the world....

‘Coriolanus’ Trailer: Ralph Fiennes, Blood And Shakespeare By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2011 9:59 am EST With his modern update of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, first-time director Ralph Fiennes earned quite the warm reception earlier this year at the Berlin film festival. Some of the most vocal adulation went to the supporting performance by Vanessa Redgrave. Indeed, even in this trailer her performance looks nuanced and impressive, with fierce notes that stand out even against the intense work from director/star Fiennes as Coriolanus....

‘Filth’ Trailer: James McAvoy Is A Deranged Pervert By Angie Han/June 7, 2013 10:46 am EST We’ve still got a few years to go before Danny Boyle gets around to that Trainspotting sequel, but in the meantime Jon S. Baird’s Filth should tide us over nicely. Also adapted from an Irvine Welsh novel, the dark comedy stars James McAvoy as bad cop Bruce Robertson. And I mean bad: Bruce is corrupt, violent, drug-addicted, and just plain mean....

‘Galaxy Quest’ Sequel Officially Happening…As A Comic Book By Germain Lussier/Aug. 20, 2014 4:00 pm EST Mention a Galaxy Quest sequel and the Internet sets on fire. Earlier this month, a few quotes from the cast of the cult 1999 comedy got people very excited for a possible follow-up to the film. Alas, there’s no actual movement on a film sequel. There is, however, a Galaxy Quest sequel coming to your local comic shop....

‘Haunter’ Trailer And Poster: Abigail Breslin Is Trapped In A House Of Murder By Russ Fischer/July 31, 2013 9:00 am EST Haunter is the new horror/thriller from Vincenzo Natali, who last gave us the crazy creature feature Splice. The film stars Abigail Breslin as a young woman trapped in her house, threatened by a murderous presence and plagued by visions of other victims that have fallen prey to the true owner of the home in which she’s bound....

‘Noah’, ‘Nymphomaniac’ Banned In Parts Of The Middle East By Angie Han/March 7, 2014 11:00 am EST This spring brings a wave of promising high-profile projects, but for cinephiles in the Middle East the pickings will be slightly slimmer. Darren Aronofsky’s Noah and Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac have been banned in the parts of the Middle East, which is probably about the only thing the two films have in common. Find out where and why after the jump....

‘Open Grave’ Trailer: Sharlto Copley Doesn’t Know Why He’s In That Mass Grave By Russ Fischer/Oct. 30, 2013 12:45 pm EST Shalrto Copley wakes up in a grave, which is good — better to be alive than dead. But that may be the only good thing happening to the guy, as it is a mass grave filled with other bodies, and nearby is a house full of suspicious people who don’t remember how they came to be there....

‘RoboCop,’ ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2,’ ‘Thor: The Dark World’ And ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Confirmed For Comic-Con 2013 By Germain Lussier/July 4, 2013 9:30 am EST Briefly: The full schedule for San Diego Comic-Con 2013 will be released very soon, but the major movie studios have already started to jump the gun. Sony revealed they’ll be bringing RoboCop, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 to Hall H on Friday July 19....