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Sundance Parties: Thursday, January 18th, 2007 By Sundance Spy/Jan. 17, 2007 9:00 am EST Everyone wants to know where the new hot party is happening at Sundance. /Film will give you an indepth look at all the parties going on in and outside of Main Street every night of the festival. 2:00pm – 5:00pm Opening Reception at New Frontier on Main 333 Main Street (lower level) Credentialed and space available basis 5:00pm – 7:00pm Airborne Media Party at Airborne Lounge in the Harry O’s Complex on 427 Main Street Not Public 6:30pm – 9:00pm Opening Night Reception at Legacy Lodge on 1310 Lowell Avenue Ticket Required, No Parking, Shuttle Only We will be back with more tomorrow....

Superhero Bits: X-Men Days Of Future Past, The Dark Knight Rises, Iron Man, Deadpool, Man Of Steel, The Avengers By Germain Lussier/Dec. 27, 2012 12:00 pm EST Will we find out how Professor X loses his hair in X-Men: Days of Future Past? Want to see a ton of concept art from The Dark Knight Rises including Bane and Catwoman? Which superhero movies were on the list of most pirated in 2012?...

The Coen Bros’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Dated For December By Russ Fischer/May 3, 2013 3:23 pm EST It’s great that folks in Cannes will get a chance to see Inside Llewyn Davis, the new film from Joel and Ethan Coen, later this month. But for the rest of us… how does December sound? Not so great, right? I’ll take a release date inside this calendar year for a new Coen Brothers movie over no date at all, but that December date won’t even put the film in theaters nationwide....

The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 37 - Chasing The Laugh By David Chen/July 25, 2010 8:55 am EST Stephen explores the dangers of playing comedy and recalls stories of those who did it well – and some who didn’t. The Tobolowsky Files is a podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky....

Three Options Sit On ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5’ Director Short List By Germain Lussier/May 9, 2013 2:10 pm EST With Johnny Depp’s schedule quickly filling up and a Summer 2015 release date already locked in, Disney is feeling the pressure to hire a director for Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Rob Marshall, who directed the last film, was rumored to return but he’s already working on Into The Woods. That leaves the door open for someone new....

Tyler Perry Would Have Passed On ‘Gone Girl’ If He’d Known Who David Fincher Was By Angie Han/Aug. 27, 2014 7:00 am EST We were rather surprised to learn that Tyler Perry would be starring in a David Fincher movie, and as it turns out Tyler Perry was too. The multi-hyphenate confessed he didn’t know who Fincher was when he signed on for the Gillian Flynn adaptation Gone Girl. If he had, he probably wouldn’t have joined at all....

Watch: Star Wars Oculus Rift Game Lightsaber Motion Tracking Demo By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2014 11:30 am EST It seems all of the video gamers I know are very excited for the Oculus Rift virtual reality helmet gaming system. Sixense has released a video demo showing their new wireless motion system called STEM System that works with the Oculus Rift Developer Kit 2. The new demo shows a Star Wars oculus rift lightsaber game....

Zach Lipovsky Of ‘On The Lot’ To Direct ‘Leprechaun’ Reboot By Germain Lussier/May 28, 2013 11:45 am EST Briefly: World Wrestling Entertainment and Lionsgate have found a director for their reboot of the Leprechaun horror franchise. That man is Zach Lipovsky, best known for his starring role on Steven Spielberg’s TV show On The Lot. Lipovsky recently completed the SyFy Original Film Tasmanian Devils starring Danica McKellar.Written by Harris Wilkinson, the reboot will star WWE star Hornswoggle (real name Dylan Postl, seen above) as the titular killer....

‘Breaking Bad’ Opera In The Works; Oliver Stone Complains About Show’s Violent Finale By Angie Han/Oct. 9, 2013 5:00 pm EST One week after Walter White concluded his journey on Breaking Bad, people are still turning over that finale in their minds, and coming to very different conclusions. On one side, we have the artistic director of the One World Symphony in New York City, who so liked the series that he plans to adapt it into an opera....

‘Crazy 4 Cult 7’ Preview Part 1: The Premiere Pop Culture Art Show Returns To New York By Germain Lussier/Dec. 11, 2013 7:00 am EST Crazy 4 Cult, Gallery 1988’s signature pop culture art event, is returning to the Big Apple. The show, which got its start in Los Angeles several years ago and has since spawned two books and innumerable imitators, came to New York in 2012 and is coming back on December 13....

‘Final Destination 5’ Trailer #2 By Russ Fischer/July 7, 2011 1:30 pm EST The other day in a post about the trailer for The Myth of the American Sleepover I mused about how memories of first love are one of the batteries that powers cinema. Well, one of the other batteries is the thrill of seeing another human bite it. And so enter the Final Destination series, which since the first sequel has been defying its own name while drawing in audiences happy to spend 90 minutes watching a cast of young hopefuls being offed in creative ways....

‘Hop’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Feb. 9, 2011 10:30 am EST In Hop, from Alvin and the Chipmunks director Tim Hill, Russell Brand voices a CGI version of the Easter bunny and James Marsden plays the human who gets stuck taking care of him. Well, it isn’t the Easter bunny exactly, but a young bunny who has been tapped to be the next global deliverer of eggs and candy. Close enough....

‘Red 2’ Trailer: Bruce Willis Hasn’t Killed Anyone In Months By Angie Han/Jan. 17, 2013 6:31 pm EST Bruce Willis has starred in many sequels over the course of his three-decade career, but in 2013 he really outdoes himself with three separate sequels and nothing else. The first of them, A Good Day to Die Hard, hits next month, followed by G.I. Joe: Retaliation in March. Bringing up the rear is Red 2, which has just unveiled a first trailer in advance of its August release....

‘S-VHS’ Review And Video Blog: Horror Anthology Sequel Improves On Original In Every Way [Sundance 2013] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 20, 2013 8:49 am EST Whether you like to be scared, grossed out or just made to scream at the top of your lungs, you’re going to love S-VHS. The film, a sequel to 2012’s VHS, once again is an horror anthology, loosely linked by the story of a two people watching random VHS tapes, all of which include some of the most horrifying, disgusting and terrifying imagery imaginable, all from different talented genre directors....

Andrew Dominik Scripting ‘Shaolin Temple’ Remake By Russ Fischer/Aug. 22, 2014 1:00 pm EST Jet Li made his debut in the 1982 movie Shaolin Temple (billed in the trailer as a “grand production of billion dollars”!), and the film was a landmark in martial arts cinema. A collaboration between US and Chinese companies is backing a remake, and there’s an eye-roll waiting at the end of that news. But Justin Lin, best known for the Fast & Furious series, was announced as director earlier this year....

Bill Murray To Star In Barry Levinson’s ‘Rock The Kasbah’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 4, 2013 6:00 am EST This time, the Sharif does like it. Bill Murray has just signed on to star in Rock the Kasbah, directed by Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson. In the film, Murray will play a older music manager who stumbles a talented young singer in Afghanistan and angles for her to win an American Idol type competition show....

Gimme Remakes! Hollywood Eyes Steve McQueen’s Papillon, Bo Derek’s 10, Nic Cage’s Valley Girl By Hunter Stephenson/July 18, 2008 11:54 am EST Who’s the next Steve McQueen? The answer, of course, is Brendan Fraser aka no one. Hollywood producers Branko Lustig (American Gangster, Schlinder’s List) and John J. Kelly (Into the Wild) are developing a $90 million remake of the 1973 prison-break classic, Papillon, that starred a gruff McQueen and Dustin Hoffman in cool glasses....

Here’s What Potential ‘I Origins’ Sequel Would Be About By Germain Lussier/July 29, 2014 10:30 am EST Now that the movie has opened in a good amount of theaters (and hopefully some of you checked it out) we wanted to dig deep into some spoilers. Specifically, how the end credits tag of I Origins (yes, there’s mind blowing, must-see Nick Fury tag on the film) would directly lead into I. Below, read what Cahill had to say about how about the super spoilery coda scene leads directly into I....

New ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Images Feature Early Cap Costume And The Falcon By Russ Fischer/Jan. 10, 2014 2:23 pm EST We’ve already seen a good set of images and some video from Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and we’ll see a lot more by the time the film is close to its April opening. The latest batch of images features some pretty familiar stuff, such as a couple shots of a brooding Cap....

Page 2: Star Wars, Wes Anderson, GoT, Skyfall, Kubrick, Star Trek, Noah, Indiana Jones, True Detective By Peter Sciretta/March 7, 2014 2:30 pm EST Header Photo: Scout t-shirt Ranking Wes Anderson’s Movies: A Definitive, Quantitative, Scientific Analysis New York Times Movie Reviews, $11,000 a Pop Star Wars Video Game Sublimated Cap Remakes Are the Answer to the Oscar Ceremony’s Biggest Problem The 7 Best Reality Shows on NetflixPlay Wes Anderson Bingo, Special Grand Budapest Hotel Edition!...