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‘The ABCs Of Death’ Red-Band Trailer: How Many Different Ways Can You Die? By Angie Han/Nov. 15, 2012 9:20 am EST Whether you prefer your horror films to look like stop-motion animations, classic slasher flicks, sci-fi epics, or weird fantasies with cat-ladies slithering about, The ABCs of Death has got you covered. Like a cinematic version of Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies, each letter in the horror anthology’s alphabet corresponds to a different way to die, as represented by one of 26 different directors....

‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Has A Post-Credit Easter Egg After All [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/April 29, 2014 3:20 pm EST UPDATE: The initial release wasn’t clear, it has nothing to do with the X-Men trailer. Story has been updated.UPDATE 2: The images have been revealed. When The Amazing Spider-Man 2 screened for press in Los Angeles last week, there was no scene at the end of the credits. Even if there was, though, we wouldn’t have unlocked the true secret because we didn’t know the key....

‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Trailer Will Premiere April 14; Here’s A Sneak Peek By Germain Lussier/April 3, 2013 10:41 am EST As the summer movie season is about to begin, trailers for the year’s fall and winter releases will start pouring in. One of the most anticipated among that lot is Francis Lawrence’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and the first trailer will premiere April 14 during the MTV Movie Awards....

‘The Impossible’ Trailer: ‘The Orphanage’ Director Juan Antonio Bayona Tackles The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami By Angie Han/Aug. 20, 2012 4:15 pm EST Five years after making his feature debut with the Guillermo del Toro-produced ghost story The Orphanage, filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona is back with The Impossible, which deals with an entirely different kind of fear. Instead of tangling with things that go bump in the night, the family at the center of the new film are facing the less fanciful terrors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami....

‘The Lego Movie’ Teasers Introduce Emmet, Batman, And More; New Trailer Out Thursday By Angie Han/Oct. 30, 2013 3:30 pm EST Even if you’re too old for trick-or-treating, you can count on getting at least one shiny new treat tomorrow. Warner Bros. has announced that they will release the second trailer for Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s The Lego Movie on Thursday, October 31, to follow up that delightful first trailer we got back in June....

‘X-Men Apocalypse’ Will Shoot In Montreal Next Year By Germain Lussier/Sept. 4, 2014 8:40 am EST With the summer of 2015 all but set, eyes have quickly turned to the summer of 2016. Most of the talk has been about Batman v Superman and Captain America 3, but don’t forget there’s another major superhero film coming mere weeks after those. It’s X-Men Apocalypse, the sequel to the massive hit X-Men Days of Future Past, which was the #4 movie of the summer grossing over $230 million domestic and $745 million worldwide....

Ben Stiller And Reese Witherspoon Cast In Cameron Crowe’s Next Movie By Peter Sciretta/June 9, 2008 4:09 am EST The only things we know about Cameron Crowe’s latest project is that yet-to-be-titled contemporary-set “romantic comedy adventure” was written by Crowe, will star Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon, will begin shooting in January 2009, and will be released by Columbia Pictures, who won a bidding war over four rival movie studios. Oh, and we can assume that it will have a killer soundtrack, because after-all, it is a Cameron Crowe movie....

Both ‘Bourne’ Movies Still In Development; Matt Damon And Paul Greengrass Not Locked By Russ Fischer/Sept. 17, 2014 11:15 am EST Greengrass didn’t have the most pleasant split from the franchise after The Bourne Ultimatum, despite it being the most successful film of the franchise. Damon said he’d only play Bourne again if Greengrass returned, and that didn’t seem like a very likely option. Now they may both be back for Bourne 5, putting the planned 2016 sequel to Jeremy Renner’s The Bourne Legacy in question....

Director John August Clairifies The Bright Side Of Illegal Torrent Downloads By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 27, 2008 9:38 pm EST You don’t see a lot, actually any, directors making the correlation between illegal torrent leaks of their films, their films’ popularity and consumer interest, but August has voiced up. And it’s clear that August has received a lot of flack for doing so, as he’s extended on his prior statements and countered others’ directed at him in another blog entry....

Exclusive: Nicholas Stoller Could Direct Seth Rogen/Kevin Hart Buddy Comedy By Germain Lussier/April 21, 2014 10:29 am EST There’s been nothing but good buzz, and rightfully so, for Nicholas Stoller’s Neighbors. The May 9 release starring Seth Rogen and Zac Efron is likely to be one of the biggest comedies of the summer. Coming off that, Stoller has a bunch of projects in the works. He’s producing and writing the animated films Captain Underpants and Storks....

Exclusive: Tony Stark’s Avengers Tower Debuts As Easter Egg In ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ By Germain Lussier/March 14, 2014 10:52 am EST (NOTE: That image above is not from Cap 2, it’s from The Avengers.) When Captain America: The Winter Soldier hits theaters April 4, be on the look out for Tony Stark’s Avengers Tower. As a hidden Easter Egg. At the end of The Avengers, the Stark Tower was decimated, leaving only the “A” as a tease of what’s to come....

Gal Gadot, Elodie Yung, And Olga Kurylenko Testing For ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 8, 2013 8:30 am EST Talk is heating up about the possibility that Wonder Woman will show up in Zack Snyder’s Batman vs. Superman. Rumors say that Jaimie Alexander was testing for a role in the film, even though her contract with Marvel makes any major role unlikely, and the particulars of her comments led to the idea that she was talking about Wonder Woman....

Kathryn Bigelow And Todd Field Plan Dueling Bowe Bergdahl Pics By Angie Han/June 16, 2014 6:00 pm EST But they aren’t the only ones. Todd Field is reportedly working on his own Bergdahl movie, based on the Rolling Stone article America’s Last Prisoner of War. Hit the jump for more details on both pics. Bergdahl joined the U.S. Army in 2008, and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009. Just weeks after his arrival, he walked off his base and was captured by the Taliban....

Kelsey Grammer Is The Non-Robot Villain In ‘Transformers 4’ By Germain Lussier/May 1, 2013 1:33 pm EST Briefly: While the robots will always be the stars of Michael Bay’s Transformers films, it’s the humans that can make or break it. The director has wiped the slate clean for Transformers 4 and so far added two Oscar-nominees in Mark Wahlberg and Stanley Tucci as well as a few unknowns. For the main human villain, Bay continues his trend of casting award-calibur actors by adding Kelsey Grammer, the four-time Emmy award winning actor who cut his blockbuster franchise teeth a few years back as Beast in X-Men: The Last Stand....

Lars Von Trier Gives Up Final Cut For ‘Nymphomaniac’ As Special Softcore Release Plan Is Canned By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2013 12:00 pm EST Pretty much every conversation about making and releasing films could start with the same line: film is all about compromise. There’s a balance of money, talent, time, and other factors that can be impossible to quantify. Lars von Trier isn’t a guy known for his willingness to compromise, but that doesn’t mean it is any less a factor in his filmmaking....

Lesbian Werewolf Movie Jack And Diane DELAYED By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 23, 2007 6:38 pm EST While doing some research on Juno (what else), I came across an unfortunate bit of news about an indie film which I’ve been tracking for some time, Jack and Diane. Bradley Rust Gray’s film is about two teenage lesbians (Ellen Page and Olivia Thirlby), who meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously....

Listen: John Landis Talks Movies For Three Hours By Germain Lussier/Jan. 31, 2014 4:15 pm EST Who wouldn’t love to pick the brain of a Hollywood legend for hours on end? Even actors themselves take the privilege seriously. Case in point, this newly-discovered three hour conversation between Kevin Pollak and John Landis. Landis, whose films include The Blues Brothers, Animal House and An American Werewolf in London, was a guest on Pollak’s “Chat Show” in 2011....

Mark Millar Discusses His Role In Creating A Cohesive Marvel Universe For Fox By Russ Fischer/Nov. 9, 2012 2:13 pm EST Speaking to Empire, Millar explained the situation: So what else is going on? Sounds like we might expect a few more mutant films to appear in the not too distant future: But I also don’t want to make it too much of a mess either, with everyone showing up in everyone else’s films....

Morgan Freeman To Star In ‘Ben-Hur’ Remake By Angie Han/Sept. 12, 2014 8:30 am EST We recently reported that Tom Hiddleston was being courted for the new version of Ben-Hur, but while he makes up his mind Timur Bekmambetov has gone ahead and cast the film’s first star. Morgan Freeman is set to join the epic. The news comes one day after he booked a role in Ben-Hur’s polar opposite, Ted 2....

Movie Theater Mishaps: UK Audiences Demand Refunds For Lack Of Dialogue In ‘The Artist’, Ads Ruin ‘Hugo’ Screening In NYC By Angie Han/Jan. 19, 2012 5:00 am EST Given that Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist and Martin Scorsese’s Hugo are both about the joys of filmmaking and film-watching, it’s a little ironic that incidents at recent screenings of the two pictures seem to highlight some of the ways that the modern moviegoing experience can go terribly wrong....