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Seth MacFarlane Gets Drunk, Channels Daniel Day-Lewis In New Oscar Promos By Angie Han/Jan. 10, 2013 4:58 pm EST The Academy isn’t known for its unpredictability (well, this year’s snubs for Best Director notwithstanding), but it came as a big surprise when it was announced last year that they’d selected Seth MacFarlane to host the awards ceremony. The Family Guy creator is well loved among the younger set but little known among the older-skewing Oscar audience....

SXSW Award-Winner ‘Short Term 12’ Gets Distributor, Late Summer Release Likely By Germain Lussier/March 28, 2013 10:51 am EST

The 500th Edition Of Superhero Bits Featuring A ‘Dark Knight Trilogy’ Exclusive By Germain Lussier/Sept. 25, 2013 3:30 pm EST Five hundred days of small superhero news; my, how far we’ve come. Today, to commemorate this landmark column edition, we have an exclusive clip from The Dark Knight Trilogy: Ultimate Collector’s Edition featuring two of the best superhero directors of all time: Christopher Nolan and Richard Donner. Besides that, do you want to know how you can be an extra in Batman vs....

The Everdeen Sisters Reunite In New ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Photos By Russ Fischer/April 11, 2013 4:48 pm EST We’ve seen a few photos from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as we slowly approach the film’s November release, and we’ll soon get a look at new footage when a trailer premieres on April 14. But in the meantime here are a couple extra shots that depict Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and a tender moment between the heroine and her younger sister Primrose (Willow Shields)....

Tom Shadyac In Talks To Direct ‘The Intouchables’ Remake By Germain Lussier/March 1, 2013 7:00 am EST The morning of the Oscars nominations, one of the biggest snubs – in my opinion – was France’s The Intouchables not getting a nod for Best Foreign Film. Written and directed Eric Toledano & Olivier Nakache, it’s a hilarious and heartfelt true story about a quadriplegic and his unorthodox caretaker (François Cluzet and Omar Sy, above)....

Vin Diesel To Star In ‘World’s Most Wanted’ By Germain Lussier/July 26, 2013 4:00 pm EST Briefly: These days, you can’t open a web page without seeing the name Vin Diesel. He’s opening massive franchises. He’s rumored for a Marvel movie. He’s reprising iconic roles and he’s always aiming to get films made. Knowing all that, the title for his next movie is incredibly fitting. Diesel has just signed on to star in World’s Most Wanted, based on a pitch by video game writers Will Staples and Sean O’Keefe, and rewritten by Dan Mazeau (Wrath of the Titans)....

VOTD: ‘Star Wars Episode VI: A New Hope’ Animated In One Minute By Germain Lussier/April 23, 2013 11:10 am EST 1A4 Studio is back at it again, and this time they’re going to a galaxy, far, far away. The black and white animation team who’ve made “Speedruns” of The Matrix and Back to the Future have now tackled one of, if not the most beloved films of all time: George Lucas’ Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope....

VOTD: Spoiler Alert Movie Montage By Germain Lussier/March 22, 2011 6:00 am EST If you are reading this, chances are you’ve had a movie spoiled for you, and not just by the image above. We live in an age where to truly go into a movie with a clean slate, you can’t really go onto the Internet. Even if you avoid movie websites like ours, being online is a minefield of spoilers: friends are bound to tweet or post on Facebook about movies they’ve seen, images for films are everywhere and pop up ads show full trailers without even asking....

VOTD: Topher Grace’s ‘Land Of The Lost’/‘That 70’s Show’ Animated Mash-Up By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2014 12:15 pm EST Topher Grace has launched a new website called Cereal Prize where he’s posting fun pop culture bits every 24 hours. One of his first posts features a strange but funny 70’s-style morning cartoon mash-up of That 70’s Show and Land of the Lost/The Flintstones. Watch it now embedded after the jump....

Watch ‘Xenogenesis,’ The James Cameron Short Film That Points Towards ‘Avatar’ Sequels By Germain Lussier/Dec. 11, 2012 4:15 pm EST The day a movie turns a profit, the vultures come out to pick. More often than not when a movie becomes a hit, people accuse the filmmakers of stealing their ideas and sue them for a taste of the profits. A recent example is the highest grossing movie of all time, Avatar....

By Germain Lussier/June 2, 2011 12:00 pm EST Darren Aronofsky’s original plan was to follow up Black Swan with The Wolverine. Instead, he chose Luscious Plumping Mascara. Aronofsky’s second directing gig (he did a Yves Saint Laurent commercial too) after the incredible success of Black Swan is this brand new Revlon commercial featuring Jessica Biel and rapper/producer Pharrell Williams. In classic Aronofsky fashion, there’s plenty of beauty going on in these frames....

‘Big Hero 6’ Images: The Tender Tale Of A Boy And His Robot BFF By Angie Han/May 20, 2014 6:37 am EST While we still have a couple of days to wait for the first trailer for Big Hero 6, we do have a new look at the movie today thanks to some cool-looking stills. The first big Marvel movie from Disney Animation centers on a young robotics prodigy named Hiro Hamada who forms his own superhero team to save his hometown of San Fransokyo....

‘Enemy’ Is An Enigmatic, Uneasy Thriller [Video] By David Chen/March 21, 2014 11:00 am EST What would you do if you discovered that there was another person in the world who looked exactly like you? How quickly would your world be torn from its moorings? What would you do? Would you ignore that person? Or would you obsessively track him/her down? Either way, you’d probably feel like something was gravely wrong with this universe....

‘Jupiter Ascending’ Features Channing Tatum As A Wolf/Human Hybrid By Germain Lussier/June 24, 2013 11:57 am EST While many fans have started looking ahead to the summer of 2015, we have a full summer of blockbusters to watch before that. 2014 will provide new movies from well-known franchises and characters like Spider-Man, X-Men, Transformers, Fast and Furious, as well as Planet of the Apes. Lots of familiar properties to go around for everyone....

‘The Bronx Bull’ Trailer: Here’s That Controversial ‘Raging Bull’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/June 19, 2014 3:15 pm EST Naming and perception can be everything. Say you’re making a boxing movie, and people might be interested. Tell everyone you’re making a film about Jake LaMotta, and there’s instant name recognition. Tell people it is called Raging Bull II, and that recognition turns to scorn. Another LaMotta film is well and good, but hitching it to Martin Scorsese’s heavy-hitter has another level of effect....

‘The Purge’ Writer/Director James DeMonaco Returning For Sequel By Angie Han/Nov. 6, 2013 6:00 am EST Universal put a second The Purge film in motion almost the moment the first one opened, because that’s the kind of thing a studio does when a $3 million horror flick rakes in ten times that on opening weekend alone. But progress has been pretty quiet since then, until now. Original writer/director James DeMonaco is set to return for the sequel, which is once again set up at Universal with Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions and Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes producing....

‘Top Of The Lake’ Trailer: A Missing Girl, A Drug Lord, And A Tenacious Investigator By Russ Fischer/Feb. 25, 2013 2:01 pm EST Jane Campion’s last film was the truly excellent Bright Star, and after a movie like that I’d normally leap at any opportunity to see the director’s next effort. But I missed Campion’s new mini-series Top of the Lake at Sundance, because doing the project justice required a seven-hour commitment, and I couldn’t make that work at the fest....

A Marvel-Like ‘Ghostbusters’ Universe Is In The Works, According To Dan Aykroyd By Germain Lussier/Sept. 17, 2014 9:00 am EST Every few weeks there’s a new reason Ghostbusters 3 hasn’t happened yet. Some are valid, others are not, but for the past 25 years there’s always something. First it was Bill Murray’s reluctance, then it was Chris Miller and Phil Lord passing on the project, of course the tragic death of Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman’s departure, script problems, the list goes on and on....

ABC Announces ‘Toy Story That Time Forgot’ Christmas Special By Angie Han/Jan. 17, 2014 12:00 pm EST As of now, it’s unclear whether Toy Story 4 is happening at all. And even if it is, the release is year away at least. But don’t worry — that shouldn’t stop us from logging some quality time with Woody, Buzz, and the rest of the toy box gang in the near future....

Cool Stuff: Aled Lewis’ ‘Such Pixels’ Exhibit At Gallery 1988 By Germain Lussier/Feb. 4, 2014 4:00 pm EST UK artist Aled Lewis is a relative newcomer in terms of mainstream pop culture art, but he’s about to become a household name. Previously, he’d done a few brilliant Edgar Wright pieces for Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles (among others) and now the gallery that all but started the craze is featuring Lewis’ first solo exhibit....