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Cool Stuff: U-Command Wall-E Remote Control Toy By Germain Lussier/Sept. 30, 2014 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. More than almost any Disney character in recent memory, everyone wants a Wall-E. He’s cute, he’s got personality, he’s helpful and he cleans up after you. What could be better than that? Unfortunately, we’ll never own an actual Wall-E because they don’t exist. He’s a figment of the imagination of director Andrew Stanton and hundreds of other talented people at Pixar....

DreamWorks Animation Looks To Trolls For Possible Franchise By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2013 7:00 am EST Years after both the first and second wave of interest in the knotty little Danish troll dolls that feature placid grins and giant colored hair, DreamWorks Animation is thinking of making a movie. Created in 1959 and popularized in the ’60s, then in the ’80s, the trolls have already starred in games and a TV show aired in the ’90s....

Extended ‘Green Lantern’ TV Spot Has Brief New Footage By Russ Fischer/April 22, 2011 8:45 am EST Last night during 30 Rock and American Idol Warner Bros. premiered a new TV spot for Green Lantern, but the spot was really more of a recut trailer. At 1:30, it is essentially a shortened version of the WonderCon footage that was shown off not long ago. But there are a few new bits sprinkled here and there in this edit....

Jennifer Garner Says Ben Affleck’s Batsuit Is A “Total Reinvention” By Angie Han/Jan. 20, 2014 4:00 pm EST With Batman vs. Superman now set to open May 6, 2016 instead of July 17, 2015, it’ll be some time before we get to see Ben Affleck in his new batsuit. But Jennifer Garner doesn’t have to wait that long, because one of the perks of being married to a superhero is getting to see the costume first....

Joss Whedon Discusses Agent Coulson’s Return In ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’ By Angie Han/March 11, 2013 7:30 am EST It’s been some time now since Joss Whedon confirmed that Clark Gregg would be reprising his role as Agent Phil Coulson in ABC’s S.H.I.E.L.D., but the question’s remained: How would he fit in? Coulson’s storyline in The Avengers didn’t set up him up for an obvious return in the TV series, which is set after the events of that film....

Kevin Smith To Go On ‘Red State’-Style Roadshow Tour For ‘Jay & Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 22, 2013 2:30 pm EST Briefly: Kevin Smith has just announced that he and Jason Mewes will be touring their new movie, Jay & Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie, this Spring. Much like he did with his thriller Red State, Smith will take the film to theaters followed by a lively Q&A’s with plenty of surprises....

Latest ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Teaser Poster Simplifies Things By Germain Lussier/Dec. 17, 2013 2:30 pm EST The first posters for Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 were epic. Three separate images, each revealing its own villain, combining to create one massive, stunning image. That’s exactly what the Spider-Man universe will doing too, with the recent announcements of Venom and Sinister Six movies after The Amazing Spider-Man 3. All that imminent world building gets rolled into four words on the latest teaser poster for the May 2 release....

Miles Teller And J.K. Simmons Set For ‘Whiplash’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2013 7:30 am EST Let’s just get this out there: in describing the film Whiplash, which has set Miles Teller (The Spectacular Now) to star, Deadline calls the approach “Full Metal Jacket at Juilliard.” If that doesn’t make you wonder what the film is all about, nothing will. The film is an expansion of a short from Sundance, with Damien Chazelle, who wrote the short, directing the feature....

Movie Trailer: Rare Exports By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2010 12:30 pm EST One of the films I really enjoyed at the 2010 Fantastic Fest was a Finnish movie titled Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, which tells the untold origin story of Santa Claus. Directed by Jalmari Helander, based on the 2003 short film, Rare Exports feels like a fusion of Joe Dante and Guillermo del Toro. A group is working to excavate something buried in the mountain — the original Santa Claus....

New ‘The Equalizer’ Images Show A Calm, Deadly Denzel Washington By Russ Fischer/April 22, 2014 10:00 am EST Antoine Fuqua directed Denzel Washington in The Equalizer last year, but Sony has been slow to roll out any footage. Now we’ve got an official poster and a set of images, along with what appears to have been a pretty good “viral” marketing gag that was placed in the New York Times over the weekend....

New ‘The Wolverine’ Image: Ready For A Fight By Russ Fischer/Feb. 20, 2013 4:46 pm EST It’s about a month before we’ll see the first footage from James Mangold’s The Wolverine, which once again shoves adamantium claws through the back of Hugh Jackman’s hands. Less than a day ago, Mangold tweeted a view into the film’s editing suite that gave up a small look at a still we hadn’t seen. Today we’ve got a new image showing Logan as we like to see him: pissed off....

Page 2: Star Trek 2, Nicolas Cage, Star Wars, Big Lebowski, Lost, Groundhog Day, Toy Story, Ghostbusters, Harry Potter, Battle: Los Angeles By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2011 1:15 pm EST Travis Price created this poster for The Big Lebowski.FSR lists 8 Actors Even Nic Cage-ier Than Nic Cage.Cake Central created this 3D Princess Leia and R2-D2 cake. The TBS college comedy Glory Daze has been canceled after its first season....

Page 2: Star Wars, Muppets, Hunger Games, Frozen, LEGO, Jurassic Park By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 10, 2014 12:00 pm EST Header Photo: Jabba the Hutt snowman 7 Supposedly Classic Studio Ghibli Movies That Set Terrible Examples for ChildrenStudy: Female Stars Paid Significantly Less After Age 34 Jimmy Fallon Leaves ‘Late Night’ With Musical Assist From the Muppets These Are the Best Unproduced Screenplays with Female Protagonists Five Favorite Films with Ben WheatleyJeff Victor’s The Ultimate Pop Culture Alphabet: GHI...

Page 2: Transformers, GoT, Hobbit, Sylvester Stallone, Disneyland, Walking Dead, Futurama, Aliens By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 6, 2013 2:00 pm EST Header Photo: Today’s t-shirt of RIPT Apparel is a Jurassic Park/Transformers-inspired design “Jurassic Spark” The Essentials: Michelangelo Antonioni10 Movie Mustaches For Movember Motivation Grumpy Cat Meets Grumpy the Dwarf at Disneyland Long Live the DVD: Why I’ll Never Give Up Physical Media How to Make a Perfect Wes Anderson Parody...

Project Greenlight Short Films: Watch The Top 20 Finalists By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 12, 2014 1:50 pm EST Project Greenlight is coming back and the filmmaker contest/reality television series is deep in the elimination process. Thousands of filmmakers submitted their entries which were viewed and rated by a peer group of participants on the ProjectGreenlight.com website. The top 200 directors advanced and were asked to submit a two minute bio video about themselves....

Red Band ‘Oldboy’ Clip Features Working Out And Hammerfighting By Germain Lussier/Nov. 5, 2013 10:34 am EST Spike Lee’s remake of Oldboy is quickly approaching, and with it come answers to innumerable questions. Paramount among those questions is “Will American audiences want to see such a brutal, visceral story after eating their Thanksgiving dinners?” Based on this violent clip, it seems like a hard sell.Josh Brolin stars as Joe Doucett, an unlikeable salesman who is mysteriously imprisoned for twenty years....

See The First US ‘Holy Motors’ Poster, And See The Film At The First Possible Chance By Russ Fischer/Oct. 2, 2012 11:34 am EST I can say without hesitation that Leos Carax’s Holy Motors is not just one of the best films I’ve seen this year, but one of the most impressive I’ve seen in a long time. The movie rocketed to the top of my list at Fantastic Fest in the past two weeks, and it is one that I have continued to think about in the days since my first viewing....

Stan Winston Is Dead By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2008 11:46 am EST I have a bit of unfortunate news to report. Academy Award winning special effects and make-up artist Stan Winston died last night. Winston is best known for his work in the Terminator series (Winston designed the original Terminator Endoskeleton), Jurassic Park, Aliens, Predator, and Edward Scissorhands. A frequent collaborator of James Cameron, they co-founded Digital Domain in 1993. Winston was the second special effects artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....

Superhero Bits: Lego Batman, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Thor: The Dark World By Germain Lussier/Nov. 13, 2013 2:15 pm EST What is Mystique up to in X-Men: Days of Future Past? When will Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. link with Thor: The Dark World? Is there a Captain America: The Winter Soldier spoiler on a new toy package? What are the major questions regarding the Marvel/Netflix shows?...

The Frogumentary Continued: /Film At Walt Disney Animation Studios - The Princess And The Frog And The Return To Hand Drawn Animation By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 7, 2010 2:35 pm EST After the break you’ll find the next two installments of my “Frogumentary”, focusing on The Princess and the Frog animator Eric Goldberg and clean-up animator Marshall Toomey. You may wish to catch up on part one first. I want to extend my congratulations to Goldberg who last night won a richly deserved Annie Award for Character Animation in a Feature Production with his rendering of Louis in The Princess and the Frog....