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Poster Documentary ‘Just Like Being There’ Is Now On Netflix Instant By Germain Lussier/April 26, 2013 5:00 pm EST Briefly: You may remember last year’s South by Southwest film festival when I wrote a blog about appearing in a documentary. That documentary, Just Like Being There directed by Scout Shannon, is now available on Netflix Instant. It’s a carefree journey through the world of limited edition gig posters, told through the music of festivals like SXSW and more....

Set Photos: Natalie Portman In Darren Aronofsky’s The Black Swan By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2009 4:15 pm EST The first set photos of Natalie Portman from Darren Aronofsky’s The Black Swan have been discovered online at Accidental Sexiness (via: our friends at Collider). The film, which is currently filming in New York City (the scene pictured took place in Lincoln Center), is a supernatural drama set in the world of New York City Ballet....

Superhero Bits: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Thor: The Dark World, Man Of Steel, Kick-Ass 2, Punisher By Germain Lussier/May 31, 2013 3:41 pm EST Which four actors have just been added to Captain America: The Winter Soldier? Want to see a set video of that film’s titular bad guy? What do Man of Steel postal stamps look like? Are there Kick-Ass 2 Comic-Con exclusives? What do fans want to see in the Man of Steel sequels?...

Triumph The Insult Comic Dog Getting Own TV Series By Germain Lussier/May 9, 2014 2:00 pm EST Someone is getting a new TV series….FOR ME TO POOP ON. Yes, it’s true, Robert Smigel’s cult comedy puppet, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, is getting his own TV show. It’ll be part of the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming block, which will soon run from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. nightly. Triumph’s show is currently untitled but will co-star 30 Rock’s Jack McBrayer....

TV Bits: ‘Game Of Thrones’, ‘Hannibal’, ‘Mad Men’, ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘Downton Abbey’, ‘Boardwalk Empire’, ‘The X-Files’, ‘Beverly Hills Cop’, And More By Angie Han/March 8, 2013 5:00 pm EST Change is coming to Downton Abbey, as yet another character prepares her exit. Siobhan Finneran, who plays O’Brien, has confirmed that she won’t be back for Season 4. Good thing there’ll be plenty of other new cast members to fill the gap, including Tom Cullen and Harriet Walter as Crawley family friends; opera star Kiri Te Kanawa as a guest; Julien Ovendon as an aristocrat; Joanne David as a duchess; and Nigel Harman as a valet....

Watch The First 15 Minutes Of ‘Helix’ From ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Revival Producer By Russ Fischer/Jan. 6, 2014 6:23 pm EST Helix, the new show from Ron Moore (Battlestar Galactica) has been previewed in a series of atmospheric and ominous teasers. But it’s the main print ad (above), also seen around LA on giant billboards, that has really caught my attention. (Nothing like staring at an exploding head while you’re stuck in traffic....

Watch Tom Hiddleston, Patrick Stewart And Jeremy Irons In Trailer For Epic ‘The Hollow Crown’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 8, 2013 12:30 pm EST Was Joss Whedon’s adaptation of the Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing a little more lightweight than you like from the Bard? If so, the massive Sam Mendes-produced project The Hollow Crown might be what you’re looking for. The BBC series adapts four Shakespeare plays, “Richard II,” “Henry IV Part 1” and “Part 2,” and “Henry V,” with Tom Hiddleston, Patrick Stewart, Jeremy Irons and Ben Whishaw in primary roles....

By Angie Han/Oct. 14, 2013 12:15 pm EST If true, that contradicts an earlier confirmation by Singer that X-Men: Days of Future Past would be shot and released in the traditional 24 FPS. So which is it? More after the jump. AICN says that’s actually the second source to claim that Singer will release the movie in a higher frame rate; a “pretty legit” one said the same thing some time ago but they didn’t want to publish the rumor until they had more evidence....

‘Captain Phillips’ International Trailer: Tom Hanks Faces Trouble At Sea By Angie Han/Aug. 26, 2013 5:00 pm EST These days, the word “piracy” more readily brings to mind tech-savvy downloaders scouring Google than dangerous criminals sailing the high seas. But in 2009, the capture of the MV Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates served as an unhappy reminder that the latter kind haven’t entirely disappeared. Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips chronicles the dramatic hijacking and the events that followed, with Tom Hanks in the title role....

‘Getaway’ Trailer #2: Evil Euro Villain Forces Ethan Hawke To Drive Really Fast By Angie Han/Aug. 20, 2013 1:45 pm EST Ethan Hawke has spent much of the past couple of years looking terrified, at least when he’s not busy wooing beautiful French women. He’s had roles in two Jason Blum-produced horror pics, Sinister and The Purge, and now he’s got himself a lead role in the late-summer thriller Getaway....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’: Stan Lee Cameo Confirmed After All By Angie Han/April 28, 2014 9:00 am EST If the Marvel movies have one major common thread, it’s Stan Lee. Not only did he create most of the characters we see in them, he cameos in a great many of them. He’s appeared in every Marvel Cinematic Universe film to date, and has also popped up in non-MCU franchises like X-Men and Spider-Man....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ IMAX 3D Shows Will Feature Shifting Aspect Ratios By Russ Fischer/June 5, 2014 5:00 pm EST We occasionally see IMAX film presentations in which the film’s aspect ratio changes from scene to scene. Typically this is due to a shift between footage shot on digital or 35mm film and native IMAX footage. So we’ve seen the ratio shift in films like Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and The Dark Knight Rises....

‘Not Safe For Work’ Trailer: Joe Johnston Follows ‘Captain America’ With A Thriller By Angie Han/Feb. 20, 2014 9:46 am EST Joe Johnston could have done anything after Captain America: The First Avenger, and what he chose to do was run in the opposite direction with a micro-budget thriller.Not Safe for Work stars Max Minghella (The Social Network) as a paralegal who gets trapped in his office building with a killer (J....

‘Seeking Justice’ Trailer - And That’s Why You Never Get Involved With Shadowy Vigilante Organizations By Angie Han/Jan. 25, 2012 2:00 pm EST Another month, another Nicolas Cage thriller. This time around, the film is Roger Donaldson’s Seeking Justice (formerly titled The Hungry Rabbit Jumps and then just Justice), and Cage plays a man so filled with rage over a recent attack on his wife (January Jones) that he takes a stranger (Guy Pearce) up on his offer to “take care of” the attacker....

‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Synopsis Positions The Film As A Galactic Manhunt By Russ Fischer/Nov. 26, 2012 8:04 pm EST We don’t know a lot about J.J. Abrams’ second Star Trek film, Star Trek Into Darkness. We know the film stars ring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve and Peter Weller, and that it is scheduled for May 17th, 2013....

‘The Best Man Holiday’ Is Getting A Sequel By Angie Han/Nov. 19, 2013 9:42 am EST The romcom sequel raked in $30 million, or just a few million below the total lifetime domestic gross of its predecessor. Making those figures even sweeter for Universal is the fact that The Best Man Holiday cost just $17 million to make. That price tag is expected to go up for the threequel, however. Deadline reports that none of the starry ensemble cast (which includes Morris Chestnut, Taye Diggs, Regina Hall, Terrence Howard, and Sanaa Lathan) is contracted to return at this point, since Universal didn’t really expect The Best Man to launch a franchise, so they’ll likely ask for pay raises....

‘The Fault In Our Stars’ Screenwriters Scripting ‘The Disaster Artist’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2014 5:30 am EST They’ve scripted indies, novel adaptations and off-kilter romances such as (500) Days of Summer, The Spectacular Now, and The Fault in Our Stars. Now Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber are scripting The Disaster Artist for James Franco, based on the book that details the making of cult film The Room. Metro reports that the screenwriting duo is tackling the film....

‘The Host 2’ Finally Set With Screenwriter, Director, And Release Window By Russ Fischer/Jan. 3, 2013 9:31 am EST In the past couple months we’ve seen two videos for The Host 2, which is meant to be the sequel to Bong Joon-ho’s excellent 2006 film that followed a monster’s rampage through Seoul, South Korea. But those videos were tests and pitch reels, not actual film footage, and at least one of them was a couple years old....

‘The Muppets’ Director James Bobin In Talks To Direct ‘Alice In Wonderland’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/May 30, 2013 3:57 pm EST Lewis Carroll wrote more than one adventure in Wonderland, so the notion of a sequel to Alice in Wonderland is hardly new. But the idea of a film carrying on the approach of Tim Burton’s superficial, action-oriented film from 2010 does sound a bit ridiculous. Nevertheless, Burton’s film made over a billion dollars, propelled in part by a post-Avatar interest in 3D....

By Russ Fischer/May 6, 2014 5:30 pm EST Here are the new Warner Bros. date locks, via Deadline: In addition to those films, Warners set two untitled animated films for release. One of the Warner Animation Group films will arrive on February 10, 2017, and the other is set for February 9, 2018. Most of those dates see the Warner films opening unopposed at the moment, but other releases will eventually crowd in....