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Page 2: Harry Potter, Patrick Dempsey, The Hoax, On The Lot, Donnie Darko And Oscar Partys By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2007 5:00 am EST Patrick Dempsey will star in the romantic comedy Made of Honor, for the British director behind Mr. Bean and City Slickers II, Paul Weiland. Written by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont (Can’t Hardy Wait, A Very Brady Sequel) the story follows Tom Bailey (Dempsey), who is in love with his best friend Claire, but is unwilling to admit it....

Page 2: Star Trek, Jurassic Park, Frozen, GoT, Jonah Hill, Star Wars, Ghostbusters By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2014 12:00 pm EST Header Photo: Diamond studded Star Trek ring 15 Surprising Facts You Might Not Know About ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’ On Its 20th AnniversaryJennifer Connelly’s 10 Best Movies Cartoon Brews: Disney Character Inspired Cocktails 5 Dreaded Movies That Ended Up Being GreatWhat Are Cate Blanchett’s Best Movies?Six Nerdtastic Snow Sculptures For The Next Snowpocalypse6 Baffling Video Games Adapted From Famous Movies and ShowsHow a Film Made in 1928 is Still Revolutionary: Carl Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc"Custom-Feature: ‘Tyrion Lannister’ Mini Munny by Darren ‘Klang’ Clegg25 Best Monster Movies Of All Time...

Penn & Teller Developing New TV Show And Finishing New Movie By Germain Lussier/April 5, 2013 2:30 pm EST Penn and Teller’s unique brand of magic feels like it’s been around forever. Over decades, it has permeated many levels of popular culture, through their successful Showtime show Bullshit, their long running Las Vegas stage act, appearances on The Celebrity Apprentice or cult movies from the Eighties. The duo hopes to continue that notoriety as they prepare another multimedia onslaught in the coming months....

POTD: Hall H Mega Photo During The ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Panel By Germain Lussier/July 23, 2013 4:30 pm EST The photo has now been released. Check it out below. Here’s a link to the full photo. I’ve taken a small screen cap below. If you go in and tag yourself, you can be entered to win a poster signed by the full cast. Which is cool. But the fact that it’s just a static photo, is decidedly not cool....

Rumor: ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Plot Details Revealed By Angie Han/July 20, 2014 12:24 pm EST Officially, the storyline of Star Wars Episode VII remains shrouded in mystery. J.J. Abrams isn’t saying much, and neither are his cast and crew. Unofficially, however, we may have our first taste of some concrete Star Wars Episode VII plot details today. A rumored plot summary has been making its way around the web, and if accurate it has tons of juicy info....

Rumor: Warner Bros. Once Again Considering Armie Hammer For ‘Justice League’ Batman By Germain Lussier/Oct. 9, 2012 1:45 pm EST Before The Social Network, before The Lone Ranger, before The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Thor and The Avengers, Armie Hammer was already Batman. The year was 2007 and Warner Bros., trying to make a superhero team up film well-before The Avengers, cast the then unknown actor as the Dark Knight himself in Justice League....

Rupert Wyatt Won’t Make ‘The Equalizer’ After All By Russ Fischer/March 5, 2013 2:04 pm EST Briefly: Sony and Denzel Washington want to make a new/updated version of the classic ’80s TV series The Equalizer. It’s pretty easy to see why, as the role of a former intelligence agent who offers his skills pro bono to people in need seems like something that could very easily blend Washington’s appeal with modern economic concerns to achieve some of the same popularity of a film like Taken....

Superhero Bits: Amazing Spider-Man 2, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Wolverine, Batman, Iron Man 3 By Germain Lussier/March 22, 2013 1:30 pm EST Is there more than one suit in The Amazing Spider-Man 2? Which Avengers actor is dishing about Captain America: The Winter Soldier? Want to hear a detailed description of The Wolverine trailer? How about a new still? Would Ryan Reynolds like to appear in X-Men Days of Future Past?...

The Rock Teases DC Comics Film Role Possessed Of “A Superman Level Of Power” By Russ Fischer/March 25, 2014 11:04 am EST Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was, many years ago, tied to a Shazam film, to play the villainous Black Adam. He’s also been connected to a big-screen adventure starring the character Lobo. Neither project went anywhere; both have seemed more or less dead in the past couple years. But during his promotion of Hercules, The Rock teased a DC Comics project, and his description sounds like it could be one of those two characters....

Triumph The Insult Comic Dog Takes On The Cast And Crew Of ‘This Is 40’ By Angie Han/Dec. 18, 2012 1:01 pm EST With the likes of Chris O’Dowd, Lena Dunham, and Melissa McCarthy in supporting roles, Judd Apatow’s This is 40 is positively overflowing with hot comedic talents. But the film features some more established comic players as well, including Robert Smigel. During what must’ve been a slow day on set, Smigel decided to bring along his old pal Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to mingle with the cast and crew, specifically Apatow, Leslie Mann, Paul Rudd, John Lithgow, and Megan Fox....

‘Arthur Newman’ Trailer: Colin Firth And Emily Blunt Try To Be Other People By Angie Han/March 27, 2013 12:40 pm EST Pretty much everyone has had a moment when they felt an intense desire to run away from their own lives, an urge to leave everything and everyone behind completely and start fresh as an entirely different person. Only a precious few people actually attempt to do it. In the first trailer for Arthur Newman, family man Wallace Avery (Colin Firth) joins those ranks by faking his own death and assuming the identity of Arthur Newman, golf pro....

‘C.O.G.’ Trailer: Merging David Sedaris And The Indie Coming Of Age Template By Russ Fischer/Aug. 14, 2013 6:00 pm EST The work of David Sedaris hasn’t led to film adaptations, at least until C.O.G. showed up at Sundance earlier this year. The film is based on Sedaris’ life story, as related in the book Naked, with Glee’s Jonathan Groff starring as David, who takes off from his family to summer in the Northwest US....

‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Trailer: “This Isn’t Freedom. This Is Fear.” By Russ Fischer/Oct. 24, 2013 9:00 am EST Here’s the first trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which Captain America really starts to come to grips with the messy politics of the modern world. (And also with relations with Black Widow, as a little opening banter shows.) The warrior started to get a taste of things in The Avengers, but here he really comes up against the shadowy goals and motivations of the agency and government he works for....

‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Gets All-Female Cast For Jason Reitman’s Los Angeles Live Read By Germain Lussier/Feb. 15, 2013 5:00 pm EST Jason Reitman has once again decided to completely flip the cast for his February Live Read, presented by Film Independent at LACMA. This time around, the film is Glengarry Glen Ross. Best known as a 1992 movie starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin and Ed Harris, Glengarry Glen Ross is based on a Pulitzer Prize winning play by David Mamet....

‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Featurette Explores The Film’s Sound By Russ Fischer/Dec. 26, 2013 10:00 am EST More than in most of the Coen Brothers films, the music of Inside Llewyn Davis is essential to the story. Character facets are revealed through the songs various musicians play, and the actors’ musical performances are as essential as their dramatic turns. The SoundWorks collection has turned its attention to the film to create a video in which production mixer Peter Kurland and re-recording mixer Greg Orloff talk about the practical aspects of capturing and presenting the performances....

‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Trailer: The Coens Explore ’60s New York By Angie Han/Jan. 24, 2013 12:00 pm EST For their follow-up to 2010’s True Grit, Joel and Ethan Coen are heading to a whole other time and place. Based on the memoir The Mayor of MacDougal Street by musician Dave Van Ronk, Inside Llewyn Davis follows the a rising singer-songwriter (Oscar Isaac) through the folk music scene in ’60s New York....

‘Monsters University’ - What Did You Think? By Germain Lussier/June 21, 2013 6:00 pm EST Pixar Animation Studios has created a monster and it’s not named either Mike or Sulley. It’s called “expectations.” After pretty much a decade of flawless excellence, the creators of Toy Story, Cars, Finding Nemo, Up, The Incredibles and so much more hit a bit of a critical rough patch. 2010’s Toy Story 3 was their most successful film of all-time, grossing over $1 billion worldwide....

‘Oculus’ Review: A Mind-Bending New Horror Franchise Is Born By Germain Lussier/April 11, 2014 1:00 pm EST These days it feels like every horror movie can be easily categorized. Either it’s a possession movie, a found footage movie, a slasher movie or some inane combination. Finding something different is rare. Mike Flanagan’s Oculus, at the very least, strives to be different. Combining elements from several subgenre columns into something that feels new and fresh, Oculus is the story of a brother and sister who try to destroy a haunted mirror that drives people to wild hallucinations, blurring lines between what’s real and what’s not....

‘Supergirl’ TV Series Lands At CBS By Angie Han/Sept. 19, 2014 9:45 am EST Supergirl is coming to CBS. The network has just landed the DC Comics adaptation, which is being executive produced by Greg Berlanti (Arrow) and Ali Adler (No Ordinary Family). The pickup means that, if all goes well, four of the five broadcast networks will airing shows based on DC characters next season. The fifth, ABC, will still be in the costumed-hero game, with Marvel’s Agents of S....

‘The Congress’ Featurettes Show The Creation Of A Hybrid World By Russ Fischer/July 31, 2013 8:30 am EST Though most of us haven’t had a chance to see the film yet, hopefully you remember Ari Folman’s movie The Congress. After years of development, the movie premiered at Cannes back in May, and scored a US distribution deal from Drafthouse Films. The movie features Robin Wright as an actress who sells her likeness to a film studio, and Folman uses live-action scenes and some really wild animated sequences to explore her life....