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Superhero Bits: Batman V Superman, Doctor Strange, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Nightwing, X-Men By Germain Lussier/Sept. 30, 2014 10:00 am EST When and where can you get Batman stamps? Want to hear Ben Affleck talk about his role in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? How about see some new set photos from the film? What’s going to happen later this season on Gotham and was there a nod to another big hero on the recent episode?...

Superhero Bits: X-Men Days Of Future Past, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Iron Man 3, Captain America: The Winter Soldier By Germain Lussier/April 30, 2013 6:20 pm EST Did Robert Downey Jr. comment on upcoming Iron Man movies? Which mutant just showed up on the set of X-Men: Days of Future Past? Want to see a video of an action scene in The Amazing Spider-Man 2? How can you be a part of Captain America: The Winter Soldier in the Washington DC area?...

The First Five Minutes Of The Princess And The Frog By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 5, 2009 5:54 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures has released the first five minutes from the company’s upcoming return to hand-drawn animation The Princess and The Frog. The video clip features a bit of uncompleted animation. The movie is a new take on E.D. Baker’s novel The Frog Princess (which was actually the original title of the film)....

‘Captain America’ Set Photos Show Cap’s Stunt Double With Costume, Shield And Motorbike By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2010 6:49 pm EST NO PHOTOS A great number of set photos have surfaced in recent weeks for Captain America: The First Avenger, but we haven’t posted most of them. For the most part, we’ve avoided the pics because they’re dull, empty set shots with no context and, more important, no Captain America....

‘Epic’ Trailer: Blue Sky Studios Draws A Forest Battle By Russ Fischer/Nov. 20, 2012 10:45 am EST Following on the heels of a bunch of character images, here’s the first full trailer for Blue Sky Studios’ Epic, directed by Chris Wedge (Ice Age, Robots) and featuring the voices of Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, and Aziz Ansari (in what seems to be essentially a parralel of Eddie Murphy’s gig in Shrek). Seyfried voices a girl who is pulled into a tiny forest battle between Leafmen and their enemies; naturally there’s a handsome little leaf dude (Hutcherson), a weird sidekick (Ansari) and a bunch of eye-candy creature-fairy-things....

‘Escobar: Paradise Lost’ International Trailer: Benicio Del Toro Thrives As A Monster By Russ Fischer/Sept. 3, 2014 11:00 am EST In Escobar: Paradise Lost, Benicio del Toro plays drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, delivering a performance that is already drawing strong praise after the film’s Telluride debut. But this isn’t just another “rise and fall” story focusing on a famous outlaw. The film, directed by Andrea Di Stefano, follows a college student (Josh Hutcherson), who falls for a local girl while in Colombia, only to discover that her uncle is an internationally-infamous drug lord....

‘Fast And Furious 6’ Review: The ‘Fast And Furious’ Movie Fans Never Imagined Possible By Germain Lussier/May 24, 2013 3:45 pm EST Finally, Fast and Furious 6 marks the total obliteration of any semblance of reality or logic in the franchise. Speeding through a city with a huge safe in tow seemed crazy in Fast Five. In Fast and Furious 6 Lin expands the action to absurd proportions, creating set pieces and action beats that defy physics and coherence....

‘Gears Of War’ Gets New Producer And Renewed Development Effort By Russ Fischer/April 29, 2013 4:23 pm EST After years of development, the video game series Gears of War may finally make the leap to the big screen. The series originated by Epic Games and published by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 and PC, tells one part of a long conflict between humans and aliens called the Locust Horde. Set on the fictional planet Sera, the story features a conflict over energy, long family histories, and plenty of big notes of loyalty, betrayal, and plenty of military conflict....

‘Goon’ Creator Eric Powell Updates On David Fincher-Produced Film Adaptation, “We’re Still Moving Forward” By Russ Fischer/March 18, 2013 9:00 am EST Before Veronica Mars could try to kickstart anything, David Fincher and Goon comic book creator, writer/artist Eric Powell, used the service to raise money to take a step or two forward with a proposed CG animated version of Powell’s comic. Goon has struggled forward as a project for a few years, with early test footage appearing at Comic Con years back, and Clancy Brown and Paul Giamatti long attached to voice major characters....

‘Gotham’ Showrunner Answers Burning Questions About Batman Prequel Series By Germain Lussier/May 8, 2014 11:00 am EST The full interview with Bruno Heller is at Entertainment Weekly. Head there to read the full thing as I’ve just pulled a few of the more pressing questions below. How did he settle on a tone?The first thing was starting with Jim Gordon, who is the most human and real and normal person in the DC pantheon....

‘Stoker’ Featurette Introduces A Few Extra Family Members By Russ Fischer/Feb. 18, 2013 1:40 pm EST I may not have been wild about Park Chan-Wook’s English-language debut, Stoker, but there are definite pleasures within. Among them are the performances from the supporting cast. Jacki Weaver shows up for a bit, as does Dermot Mulroney. Neither has featured in a big way in the marketing so far, as each has a relatively small part to play in the film....

‘The Walking Dead’ Renewed For Fifth Season By Russ Fischer/Oct. 29, 2013 10:58 am EST Briefly: Despite the fact that no show seems to garner more “why am I still watching this?” comments every week than The Walking Dead, the fact is people are still watching it. Loads of them. 16.1 million people tuned in to the recent season four premiere, which is a record number for any basic cable show, and the showing in the key 18-49 demographic was particularly good....

‘Transformers 4’ IMAX Poster: Giant Robots On The Giant Screen By Germain Lussier/March 12, 2014 10:30 am EST Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction is the first feature length film shot with full screen, IMAX 3D cameras. It’s one of two features being released in full IMAX this year (the other being Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar) and to promote that fact, Paramount has just released a Transformers 4 IMAX poster. This is a poster all about scale and you can check it out below....

ABC’s New ‘Charlie’s Angels’ TV Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 17, 2011 12:30 pm EST ABC has announced that a new reboot of Charlie’s Angels will begin airing Thursday nights at 8:00pm starting this Fall. The network has released a trailer for the series, which is executive produced by Smallville creators Miles Millar and Alfred Gough. Watch the trailer embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below....

Adam Sandler Kicks Off Horror Label, Scary Madison, With Shortcut By Hunter Stephenson/June 6, 2008 11:44 am EST Yes, watching Zohan is like sucking on a blow dryer with a mouthful of expired tuna, but don’t brush off Scary Madison just yet. That’s the name of Adam Sandler’s new horror label, an off-branch of his production company, Happy Madison, and the first SM film is a thriller entitled Shortcut. The reason why I’d hold out the trash talk for the time being?...

Amanda Seyfried Boards Noah Baumbach’s ‘While We’re Young’ By Angie Han/May 24, 2013 7:55 am EST Frances Ha is earning rave reviews in its limited rollout, but Noah Baumbach isn’t about to rest on his laurels. Instead, he’s already busy getting his ducks in a row for his next directorial effort, While We’re Young.Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, and Adam Driver are already set to star in the film, and now Baumbach is rounding out the lead quartet with Amanda Seyfried....

Bryan Singer Picks Up Rights To Supernatural Comic ‘Haunted’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 10, 2014 1:15 pm EST “Imagine the end of Ghostbusters, but with the heroes failing and Gozer taking over the world.” That’s how writer Scott Chitwood describes his upcoming new comic book, Haunted. The story picks up 13 years after the barrier between the real and spiritual worlds collapses, and focuses on a young girl who might have the key to saving the world....

David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’ Has Different Third Act From Original Novel By Germain Lussier/Jan. 9, 2014 10:51 am EST Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel, Gone Girl, has one of the most divisive endings in recent memory. (It’s an ending we won’t spoil here.) Having read the book, I remember thinking, “Audiences are going to be so pissed if David Fincher’s movie ends this way.” Turns out, that might not be a problem....

HBO Will Offer The First Episodes Of ‘Girls’ And Veep’ For Free Online By Angie Han/April 12, 2012 3:00 pm EST Between the second season of Game of Thrones and the premieres of buzzed-about comedies Girls and Veep, April 2012 seems like an especially great time to have an HBO subscription — or, HBO hopes, to sign up for one if you haven’t already. The premium cable network has announced a plan to offer the first episodes of the two new shows for free online, starting the day after their debuts....

Joe Dante Not Involved In ‘Gremlins’ Reboot Or Sequel By Russ Fischer/Sept. 3, 2014 4:00 pm EST Given how movie studios continually mine familiar properties for new sequels and remakes, it’s no surprise that there’s a push at Warner Bros. to make a new Gremlins movie. What is a surprise is that we haven’t seen one yet. A new film is in development now — reportedly a sequel, rather than a reboot — but new Gremlins films have been in development before and never gone anywhere....