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Quote: WALL-E Director Andrew Stanton On Not Considering What The Audience Wants By Peter Sciretta/June 12, 2008 2:05 am EST Finding Nemo and WALL-E director Andrew Stanton let another Pixar secret slip while being interviewed by Suite101. “The day we start thinking about what the audience wants, we’re going to make bad choices. We’ve always holed ourselves up in a building for 4 years and ignored the rest of the world, because nobody are bigger movie geeks than we are, so we know exactly what we are dying to see with our family and kids....

Rumor: ‘The Hateful Eight’ Shoots In November By Russ Fischer/May 27, 2014 12:45 pm EST The result we hoped for when Quentin Tarantino staged his live-read of The Hateful Eight script looks like it will come to pass. A new report says Tarantino has fully revived plans to make the movie, and will now shoot The Hateful Eight late this fall, starting in November. Much of the cast from the live read will reportedly be on board....

Rumor: Warner Bros. Developing ‘Legion Of Super-Heroes’ Movie By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2014 5:30 am EST The Legion is a long-running DC hero team that could, in a very (very) loose manner be considered the equivalent of the Guardians. The team has appeared in decades of comics through several big reboots, and also has a presence in animation, and even live-action via Smallville. Just as the Guardians and Avengers are potentially going to be in opposition with Thanos, the Legion has a solid history with Darkseid, the Jack Kirby character who actually inspired Thanos....

Scream 4: Hayden Panettiere Claims Screenwriter Controvery Is “Very Untrue”, Set Photos Reveal Woodsboro’s Obsession With Ghostface By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2010 4:17 pm EST Couple new Scream 4 updates for you. I’m going to throw both of them after the break, because one, a statement from Hayden Panettiere about the rumor that she was unhappy with script changes, comes in the form of a hefty quote. And the other is a set of images of the town of Woodsboro....

Superhero Bits: Fantastic Four, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Venom, Watchmen, X-Men: Days Of Future Past By Germain Lussier/Feb. 28, 2014 3:30 pm EST How much will it cost to access 15,000 Marvel Comics on your mobile device? Which WWE superstar wants to play Venom? Does the cast of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 want to crossover with The Avengers? What did producer Matthew Vaughn say about the tone of Fantastic Four? When can you play X-Men: Days of Future Past on your mobile device?...

Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy, Antboy, R.I.P.D., James Cameron, Man Of Steel, Hulk, The Wolverine By Germain Lussier/July 5, 2013 1:16 pm EST What’s up with the Danish superhero film Antboy? Want to read a possible trailer description for The Amazing Spider-Man 2? What major event in Guardians of the Galaxy is currently location scouting? Which new Captain America suit is being immortalized by Hot Toys? Does James Cameron think the 3D in Iron Man 3 or Man of Steel was good?...

Three New ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Images Tease Tuesday’s Trailer Release [UPDATED WITH HI-RES] By Germain Lussier/Feb. 17, 2014 2:36 pm EST Set your DVRs. Chris Pratt will be on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday to debut the first trailer for James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy. To get people ready, three new images from the film have been released, including a full look at the team and Star-Lord’s ship, the Milano....

Video: George Lucas & Kathleen Kennedy Talk First Meetings And The New LucasFilm By Germain Lussier/Nov. 19, 2012 3:45 pm EST After two news-packed installments in the ongoing discussion between Kathleen Kennedy and George Lucas on the occasion of Disney purchasing LucasFilm and Star Wars, part three is a bit of a letdown. The new and former heads of LucasFilm discuss the first time they met and how Kennedy found out Lucas was interested in passing the company to her....

VOTD: ‘Back To The Future’ Screen Tests By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2010 1:00 pm EST /Film reader Ed C pointed me towards a couple videos which contains the original screen tests for Back to the Future. In this rare low resolution video test you can see Lea Thompson (Loraine Baines McFly), Crispin Glover (George McFly) and Thomas F. Wilson (Biff Tannen) try out lines and improv with an unknown Marty McFly stand-in....

VOTD: New York City Telekinetic Energy Prank, Courtesy Of ‘Carrie’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 8, 2013 3:00 pm EST This Halloween, there’s literally only one wide horror release and that’s Kimberly Peirce’s remake of Carrie. That fact alone should make the film a hit, but this viral video can’t hurt either. A team of filmmakers, actors and stuntmen set up a fake coffee shop in New York City for the lone goal of freaking customers out when a young girl starts moving crap with her mind....

Watch ‘True Detective’ Making Of Featurettes, And Download ‘The King In Yellow’ For Free By Germain Lussier/Feb. 17, 2014 11:38 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Things are really heating up on HBO’s True Detective. The crime drama created by Nic Pizzolatto and directed by Cary Fukunaga has sparked all kinds of speculation, debate and praise from critics and fans alike. Last week the focal point of discussion was the epic tracking shot....

Watch The First Two Episodes Of ‘Battlestar Galactica: Blood And Chrome’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 9, 2012 11:50 am EST We’ve waited a good while for the debut of Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, the web series which focuses on a young William Adama (Luke Pasqualino, Skins) and his youthful encounters with early Cylons. There was once a chance that the series might air exclusively on television, but Syfy has broken the pilot up into a web series....

‘Alter Egos’ Trailer: Kevin Smith-Distributed Indie Explores A Superhero Identity Crisis By Angie Han/Oct. 16, 2012 11:17 am EST Considering Kevin Smith’s enduring love of comic books, it’s a little surprising to realize he’s never actually directed a superhero feature. But he’s about to make a contribution to the subgenre in another way. Smith’s Smodcast Pictures is set to distribute Alter Egos, a low-budget indie about the rift between a man and his own superheroic identity....

‘Drive’ Won’t Get A Sequel, But The Driver May Yet Appear In Other Films By Angie Han/Oct. 9, 2012 3:48 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. At the time, it was unclear whom Sallis was referring to, but it now appears Refn wasn’t one of them. In a recent interview, Refn unambigiously shot down the idea of a cinematic Drive sequel. However, he hinted that the Driver could resurface on the big screen in some other way....

/Film Atlanta: Russ Introduces Documentary ‘Eurocrime!’ Tonight At The Atlanta Film Festival By Russ Fischer/March 30, 2012 9:30 am EST For any Atlanta residents (or people within driving distance) there’s a great event going on tonight at the Atlanta Film Festival. The documentary Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Movies That Ruled the ’70s, from writer/ producer/ director and Atlanta resident Mike Malloy, will have its world premiere at 7pm as part of the Atlanta Film Festival....

‘Greetings From Tim Buckley’ Trailer: Penn Badgley Takes On An Imposing Musical Icon By Russ Fischer/Sept. 18, 2012 12:15 pm EST Jeff Buckley, whose sole album Grace made him a cult favorite singer/songwriter, is not a figure many actors would be eager to play. Blessed with a distinctive voice and followed by a rabid fan base, Buckley, is often seen as a singular figure in the music world. But Penn Badgley accepted the challenge of playing (and singing as) Buckley for director Daniel Algrant in the film Greetings From Tim Buckley....

‘Little Miss Sunshine’ Directors To Make Mister Rogers Movie By Germain Lussier/Sept. 27, 2013 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. That tale of camaraderie juxtaposed with the life of a TV icon is the story of Madigan’s book I’m Proud of You which is now being turned into a movie. It’ll be helmed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris who directed the Oscar-winning Little Miss Sunshine as well as last year’s underrated Ruby Sparks....

‘Lone Survivor’ Trailer: Heroes For More Than One Day By Russ Fischer/July 31, 2013 3:17 pm EST Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster, Emile Hirsch and Eric Bana are also part of the story, but as the title suggests, things don’t go super-well for some of them. Oh, and as soon as the trailer really kicks into gear it plays out to the tune of Peter Gabriel mournfully covering David Bowie’s “Heroes.” Check out the trailer below....

‘Mood Indigo’ US Trailer: Michel Gondry Tells A New Love Story By Russ Fischer/May 22, 2014 10:00 am EST While we’ve seen footage from Michel Gondry’s new film Mood Indigo over the past year, here’s a proper US trailer. This hits now because the film finally lands in US theaters this summer from Drafthouse Films. The movie adapts the novel by Boris Vian, with Audrey Tatou and Romain Duris starring in a love story that appears to have all the visual and emotional hallmarks of Gondry’s storytelling....

‘Terminator Genisys’ Is Official Title Of Terminator 5; Arnold Schwarzenegger Tweets Announcement Photo By Germain Lussier/Aug. 6, 2014 9:23 am EST The new Terminator movie just wrapped filming and star Arnold Schwarzenegger took to Twitter to thank the cast, crew, and get fans excited for July 1, 2015. Most interestingly though, the back of his chair – and the logo on the new, official, @Terminator Twitter account – called the film Terminator Genisys....