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Star Wars Celebration Coming To Anaheim In April 2015; Lucasfilm Registers ‘Attack Squadrons’ URLs By Germain Lussier/July 29, 2013 10:00 am EST This past weekend, Star Wars fans from around the world descended on Germany for Star Wars Celebration. The event, which is basically Comic-Con focused solely on Star Wars, has been going every few years since the release of Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 1999. At the end of this year’s event, organizers announced the next Celebration will take place April 16-19, 2015 in Anaheim, CA — just in time to prep for the reported release of Star Wars Episode VII in May 2015....

Steven Spielberg Working With Microsoft On Live-Action ‘Halo’ TV Series [Updated] By Russ Fischer/May 21, 2013 10:54 am EST Microsoft is announcing the new Xbox, called Xbox One, right now, and is promoting the box as an all-in-one home entertainment solution. As part of the hardware announcement, the company has been touting new ways to interact with television, gaming, and other content. We’ve known that Xbox Live has been planning to move into some of the original TV space that Netflix has been doing, and now we know what the vehicle will be: a live-action Halo TV series, with involvement from Steven Spielberg....

The Honest Trailer For ‘Inception’ Gives The Film A Kick By Germain Lussier/Jan. 8, 2013 7:19 pm EST Christopher Nolan’s Inception was never meant to be simple. The film features a final shot that explicitly doesn’t tell us what happens in the end and a plot that mirrors the world it creates, featuring many layers of story rolling out simultaneously. And it’s a movie about entering other people’s dreams. For that reason alone, it was bound to have plot holes....

VOTD: ‘Back To The Future’ Animated In 60 Seconds By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2013 12:00 pm EST The guys at 1A4 Studio have decided to try to animate Back to the Future Part I in just 60 seconds. Watch the cute black and white stick figure-style animated short film embedded after the jump. VOTD: ‘Back To The Future’ Animated In 60 Seconds By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2013 12:00 pm EST...

Watch ‘One Last Dive,’ A One-Minute Horror Short From ‘Hobo With A Shotgun’ Director By Russ Fischer/July 26, 2013 2:00 pm EST Summer’s a great time for horror and thrills that take place in the water. Jaws set a standard for horror in the deep, leading to dozens of films that take advantage of the inherent distrust many people have of an environment in which they are very much an intruder....

Watch Pixar’s ‘Toy Story’ Short Film ‘Partysaurus Rex’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 9, 2012 5:30 pm EST The latest Toy Story short, Partysaurus Rex, premiered recently in front of the 3D re-release of Finding Nemo, and just showed up on television this week, thanks to the Disney Channel. The short gives Rex the dinosaur a brief starring role, as he turns into an unlikely party maven when left alone with a new group of toys....

‘A Million Ways To Die In The West’ Red-Band Trailer: Everything Wants To Kill Seth MacFarlane By Russ Fischer/Jan. 30, 2014 9:39 am EST The new film from Family Guy and Ted creator Seth MacFarlane is a western, but otherwise it looks like just what you’d expect from the guy: a violent, vulgar, kinda weird comedy about a guy who maybe isn’t cut out for the frontier. Check out the first red-band trailer for A Million Ways to Die in the West below....

‘All Is Bright’ Trailer: Paul Rudd And Paul Giamatti Ring In The Holidays By Angie Han/Sept. 6, 2013 2:00 pm EST There are certain actors we’re happy to see in just about anything, and the newest film by Phil Morrison (Junebug) happens to feature three of them. All Is Bright stars Paul Giamatti and Paul Rudd as Dennis and Rene, former partners in crime who reunite when Dennis gets out of jail....

‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Concept Art Shows Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch And Hulk Buster By Germain Lussier/March 18, 2014 6:30 pm EST Marvel revealed some concept art from Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron during Tuesday’s ABC special. It includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Quicksilver, Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch, a battle between the Hulk and Tony Stark’s Hulkbuster armor, and more. Check out those images, and some new looks at Ant-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy, the images below....

‘Cave Of Forgotten Dreams’ Trailer #2 By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2011 3:00 pm EST I can’t tell you too much more about the film, not having had a chance to see it yet, so let’s go back to the TIFF recap of the movie, published in advance of the film’s premiere at the fest last year: Herzog gained extraordinary permission to film the caves using lights that emit no heat. But Herzog being Herzog, this is no simple act of documentation....

‘Damsels In Distress’ Trailer - Whit Stillman Returns To Filmmaking After 14-Year Break By Angie Han/Feb. 14, 2012 12:00 pm EST Throughout the ’90s, Whit Stillman could be counted on for his wry depictions of the American upper class, inspiring the likes of Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach. But he took a break from filmmaking after 1998’s The Last Days of Disco, and it’s only now that he’s returning to the silver screen with Damsels in Distress....

‘Girls’ Star Adam Driver Eyed For Nightwing In ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ By Angie Han/Nov. 11, 2013 7:27 am EST Hannah Hovarth’s knight in shining armor could become a bona fide superhero. Girls star Adam Driver is reportedly the frontrunner to play Dick Grayson a.k.a. Nightwing in Batman vs. Superman, which stars Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill as the titular superheroes. Meanwhile, other actors rumored to be in contention are Ezra Miller (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) and Penn Badgley (Gossip Girl)....

‘Hitchcock’ Trailer: Just A Man Obsessed With Murder By Russ Fischer/Oct. 10, 2012 11:00 am EST Here’s the trailer for Hitchcock, which stars Anthony Hopkins as the Master of Suspense, caught during the period in which he made Psycho. This is our first taste of Hopkins’ Hitchcockian affectation, and we can still hear quite a lot of the actor’s signature tone in there. It’s rather like Hitch by way of Hannibal Lecter....

‘Homeland’ Season 3 Trailer And Poster: Picking Sides By Angie Han/Aug. 23, 2013 11:00 am EST Loyalty has always been a major theme on Homeland. The entire premise of Season 1 was Carrie (Claire Danes) and Saul (Mandy Patinkin) trying to suss out just whom Brody (Damian Lewis) was working for. Things got more complicated still for Brody in Season 2, what with all the double- and triple-crossing. Now, in Season 3, it may be Carrie’s turn to pick a side once and for all....

‘Last Vegas’ Trailer: Old Guys Can Get Down, Too By Angie Han/July 19, 2013 10:30 am EST What do you do when you manage to get four iconic Academy Award winners (Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline) together at the same time? If you’re director Jon Turtletaub, you get them to recreate The Hangover for the senior citizen set. To clarify, Last Vegas isn’t actually a Hangover remake or sequel, it just kinda looks like one....

‘Love Is Strange’ Trailer: John Lithgow And Alfred Molina Get Married In New York By Germain Lussier/June 20, 2014 4:00 pm EST In Love is Strange, John Lithgow and Alfred Molina play a gay couple who jump at the chance to finally get married. However, once news of the nuptuals reaches the church where one of them works, prejudice takes over and they’re forced to change their lifestyle completely. Written and directed by Ira Sachs, the film had strong buzz out of the Sundance Film Festival and was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics....

‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’ Trailer And Poster: “God, You’re Noteworthy!” By Angie Han/Nov. 25, 2013 8:09 pm EST Most of us lead fantasy lives more “noteworthy and mentionable,” as one might put it, than our real lives, but the protagonist (Ben Stiller) of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty faces a bigger divide than most. In his daydreams, he’s a handsome hero who sweeps his crush (Kristen Wiig) off her feet, whereas in reality he can barely look her in the eye....

A ‘Neighbors’ Sequel Has Been Discussed, But Isn’t Definite By Germain Lussier/June 9, 2014 2:00 pm EST Star and producer Seth Rogen recently discussed this, saying he and Evan Goldberg have had meetings about a potential sequel, but nothing is happening just yet. Read more about a Neighbors sequel below. There, Rogen said “We are having a lot of discussions” about a possible sequel to Neighbors, but whether or not it’ll happen is still undetermined....

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Confirmed: Antoine Fuqua To Direct Denzel Washington In ‘Magnificent Seven’ Remake [Update] By Germain Lussier/Sept. 10, 2014 5:00 am EST Update from Editor Peter Sciretta: Antoine Fuqua is now confirmed to direct Denzel Washington in a remake of The Magnificent Seven. More details on the Denzel Washington Magnificent Seven remake, after the jump. The original story by Germain Lussier from June 5th 2014 follows:Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington are hitting a groove....