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‘Gravity’ First Footage: Sandra Bullock And George Clooney Stranded In Space By Russ Fischer/May 7, 2013 10:27 pm EST We’ve waited what feels like an age to see anything at all from Alfonso Cuaron’s new film Gravity. So we’ll indulge Entertainment Tonight one of their lousy fast montages that mar footage from the film with graphics and voiceover. The clip below has the first Gravity footage that most people have had a chance to see, and while we’ll get a much better look at the film when the trailer drops this Thursday, this is a good little taste....

‘Inside Out’ Trailer: Pixar’s Latest Goes Inside The Mind By Angie Han/Oct. 2, 2014 9:02 am EST The summer 2014 movie season is only a few weeks behind us, but Pixar has offered us one big reason to look forward to the 2015 movie season. The revered animation studio has just revealed the first trailer for Inside Out, Pete Docter’s fanciful exploration into the mind of an 11-year-old girl. Like all people, this kid is guided by her emotions....

‘Jackass’ Director Jeff Tremaine To Film Mötley Crüe Bio ‘The Dirt’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 1, 2013 5:26 pm EST Jeff Tremaine, who directed the recent film Bad Grandpa, has been with the Jackass crew from the beginning. He was the magazine editor who sent a camera with journalist Johnny Knoxville to “test out” a bulletproof vest — by being shot while wearing it — and video footage of that event ultimately spawned Jackass and everything that followed....

‘Klown’ Green-Band Trailer - Two And A Half Danes Enjoy ‘Hangover’-Style Shenanigans By Angie Han/June 21, 2012 1:30 pm EST While the foreign comedy Klown has often been likened to a Danish version of The Hangover, if half of what we’ve heard about it is true, it’s far darker and raunchy than any adventure we’ve ever seen the wolf pack engage in. A feature film sequel of a hit TV series, the Mikkel Nørgaard-directed film follows two pals (Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen) gearing up for a debauched “Tour de Pussy” getaway....

‘Lovelace’ Trailer: Amanda Seyfried, International Porn Superstar [Updated] By Angie Han/July 9, 2013 8:00 am EST [Update: official version of the trailer is below.] It’s a little disappointing, then, the mixed reviews mostly complain the film “doesn’t go deep enough,” as HitFix put it. (Or, to put it in less porn-y terms, as Indiewire did, the directors “play it too safe.”) At least Seyfried is getting praise for her performance. The NY Post even suggests she may be worthy of an Oscar nomination....

‘The Iron Lady’ UK Trailer: Meryl Streep Will Overcome By Russ Fischer/Nov. 14, 2011 4:00 pm EST Here’s the full UK trailer for The Iron Lady, in which Meryl Streep plays a strangely attractive version of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. There’s a lot of fire in Streep’s performance that will will likely overwhelm any complaints about a lack of authenticity. This trailer is a little bit The King’s Speech, and a little bit poppy thanks to the tongue-in-cheek use of ‘Our House’ by Madness, but in general it gets across the idea of Thatcher as a determined and iron-willed leader....

‘This Is The End’ - What Did You Think? By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2013 4:30 pm EST Who coulda guessed that the best comedy of the summer might involve a bunch of actors facing the Biblical end of the world? Years ago Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Jay Baruchel (with Jason Stone) made a trailer for an imaginary movie called Jay and Seth Versus the Apocalypse, and this week they released the feature expansion of the idea....

Andrew Garfield Says Studio Notes Hurt ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 11, 2014 7:00 am EST The Spider-Man films have represented a diminishing set of returns, for Sony on the domestic financial front (though we don’t have all data for long-tail revenue) and for audiences in terms of satisfaction. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 often felt surprisingly derivative of Sam Raimi’s own Spider-Man 2. When it did explore new territory, the story threads were unconvincing....

Christopher Nolan Reunites With Anne Hathaway For ‘Interstellar’ By Russ Fischer/April 9, 2013 2:05 pm EST Christopher Nolan is bringing back a major player from The Dark Knight Rises to flesh out the cast of his next film, Interstellar. Matthew McConaughey signed for the film not long ago, and now he’ll likely be joined by Anne Hathaway, who is coming off not only her Batman turn, but also an Oscar win for Les Miserables....

Directing Bits: McG May Direct ‘School Of Fear;’ Nicolas Winding Refn Cinematographer To Direct ‘Trafficker’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 19, 2012 12:07 pm EST So let’s see what happens when he goes for actual children’s material. McG has a first look deal to direct School of Fear, based on the book series by Gitty Daneshvari. The book is about “four children, all suffering from phobias, who are sent to the exclusive yet secretive school where they conquer their fears and survive a perilous final test....

Funny Or Die Making Its Own Steve Jobs Biopic, Starring Former Mac Pitchman Justin Long By Angie Han/March 18, 2013 4:00 pm EST Sony’s still figuring out what it wants to do with their Steve Jobs biopic, and Open Road just got cold feet about opening theirs. But out of the blue, a third competing project has arrived on the horizon. Funny or Die – yes, really — has just announced the April 15 online release of iSteve, a parodic take on the late Apple founder....

Gal Gadot Is Wonder Woman In ‘Batman Vs Superman’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 4, 2013 9:45 am EST Rumors have swirled for months about whether or not Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck will be joined by another hero in the sequel to Man of Steel. Now we have the answer: Gal Gadot (the Fast and the Furious series) will be Wonder Woman in Zack Snyder’s upcoming Batman Vs. Superman. Snyder said in a statement,...

Hollywood’s Magic Castle, Home Of The Academy Of Magical Arts, Is Conjuring Up A Movie By Russ Fischer/Oct. 30, 2012 9:30 am EST Don’t confuse this with Magic Kingdom, Disney’s Night at the Museum-style film in which a Disney theme park comes to life at night. No, Magic Castle — or whatever this film may be called — is based on a private nightclub in Hollywood housed in a century-old building (old for LA standards!...

Jason Statham And Tom Hardy Rumored For ‘Escape From New York;’ Kurt Russell Insists Snake Plissken Be American By Russ Fischer/March 26, 2013 11:05 pm EST Today, Empire ran a great new photo of the original Escape From New York team of director John Carpenter and star Kurt Russell. Along with the pic, Carpenter commented on the potential new reboot of Escape From New York (“they don’t know where they’re going with it”) and Russell opined on the problem with casting a new version of his character Snake Plissken....

New Images From Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Wind Rises’ [Updated] By Russ Fischer/May 28, 2013 8:30 am EST The film will be released in Japan on July 20 of this year, and a trailer should air on Japanese television this week. We’ll have that trailer when it arrives, but in the meantime we can give you three new images from the film, which will be used as posters in cinemas later this spring....

Page 2: Star Wars, Scorsese, Spielberg, Walking Dead, Jurassic Park, Pacific Rim, Simpsons By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 27, 2014 1:00 pm EST Header Photo: Drive Casual With This Chewbaccca’s Bandolier Seat Belt Cover Thora Birch: how Hollywood’s darling disappearedThe Best Documentaries of Sundance 2014Anthony Petrie’s new Wolf Of Wall Street-inspired screenprint “Fun Coupons.” Oscars 2014: This Year’s Best Actress Nominees Are the Oldest in Academy History THE FILM CRITIC IN THE INTERNET ERA...

Remake Bits: Charlize Theron And William Monahan Team For ‘Sympathy For Lady Vengeance;’ Reality-Based ‘The Town That Dreaded Sundown’ Also In Development By Russ Fischer/Nov. 28, 2012 9:52 pm EST Where to start with the big remake news of the past twenty-four hours? How about with the version of Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Lady Vengeance that Charlize Theron has been trying to make for so long that when it cropped up again today, many people thought it was new....

See How ‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’ Ages Ben Stiller Thirty Years By Russ Fischer/June 15, 2012 10:30 am EST The past year has been a notable one for films that age characters with makeup and a little bit of digital work. There was a last-minute change to the aging done to the key characters in the final Harry Potter film, when all involved realized that the first version wasn’t up to snuff....

See How The ‘Iron Man 3’ Mansion Attack Was Created Long Before Filming Began By Germain Lussier/May 16, 2013 5:17 pm EST With Iron Man 3 now in theaters, D’Alessandro has shared with /Film a very early animatic from the film. It’s of the mansion attack, where the Mandarin’s goons totally destroy Tony Stark’s Malibu home. The scene is filled not only with action, but non-verbal character development and tons of cool uses of the Iron Man armor....

See The Cast Of ‘Entourage’, Reunited By Angie Han/Jan. 9, 2014 4:15 pm EST For a while there, the Entourage movie was starting to look a bit iffy. Warner Bros. had greenlit the sequel, but then there was a whole bunch of drama about who was getting paid what. Ultimately, though, the studio was able to wrangle together all six principal cast members with an eye toward shooting in January 2014....