Mandela Long Walk To Freedom Teaser Today We Are Cancelling Apartheid

‘Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom’ Teaser: Today, We Are Cancelling Apartheid By Angie Han/July 12, 2013 11:15 am EST This weekend’s Pacific Rim sees Idris Elba leading the charge against massive sea monsters known as Kaiju. In another few months, though, he’ll be demonstrating heroism of a more grounded sort. Directed by Justin Chadwick (The Other Boelyn Girl), Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom stars Elba as anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela, who became the first-ever South African president elected in a non-segregated democratic vote....

January 18, 2023 · 5 min · 925 words · Pearl Colon

Paranormal Activity The Marked Ones Trailer Black Magic Super Powers

‘Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones’ Trailer: Black Magic Super Powers By Russ Fischer/Oct. 17, 2013 9:44 am EST There’s no sequel to Paranormal Activity this year, but just as the new year turns there will be The Marked Ones. Directed by Christopher Landon (who co-wrote Paranormal Activity 2-4) this is the “Latino-themed” spin-off we’ve heard about. It has some black magic, some super powers via possession, and some good old fashioned street intimidation....

January 18, 2023 · 3 min · 450 words · Sonia Simpson

Premature Red Band Trailer Groundhog Day Meets American Pie In This Indie Comedy Exclusive

‘Premature’ Red Band Trailer: ‘Groundhog Day’ Meets ‘American Pie’ In This Indie Comedy [Exclusive] By Germain Lussier/June 24, 2014 7:00 am EST /Film is proud to exclusively debut the red-band trailer for Premature. Co-written and directed by Dan Beers, Premature opens in theaters and On Demand on July 2. In the mold of another big summer film, Premature takes the time travel conceit made popular by Groundhog Day and grafts it onto another genre....

January 18, 2023 · 6 min · 1111 words · Judy Nelson

Red Hook Summer Trailer Escaping Atlanta Finding Jesus

‘Red Hook Summer’ Trailer: Escaping Atlanta, Finding Jesus By Russ Fischer/June 28, 2012 7:00 am EST Spike Lee is back this year with Red Hook Summer, a film that continues his chronicle of Brooklyn living, as begun in She’s Gotta Have It and continued through Do The Right Thing, Crooklyn, and other films. This time the focus is Flik (Jules Brown), a kid who leaves Atlanta for a summer to live with his very religious grandfather (Clarke Peters) in Red Hook, Brooklyn....

January 18, 2023 · 7 min · 1489 words · Linda Johnson

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Trailer And Posters Steve Carell And Steve Buscemi Vs Jim Carrey In A Battle Of Magic

‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’ Trailer And Posters: Steve Carell And Steve Buscemi Vs. Jim Carrey In A Battle Of Magic By Germain Lussier/Dec. 20, 2012 8:05 pm EST The new school vs. old school movie is nothing new. We’ve seen the young hot shot come onto the crafty veteran’s turf time and time again. What sets The Incredible Burt Wonderstone apart is that it does that in the world of magic....

January 18, 2023 · 4 min · 671 words · Lillian Steveson

The Wolverine Gets A 6 Second Teaser

‘The Wolverine’ Gets A 6-Second Teaser By Angie Han/March 25, 2013 10:07 am EST Mondays aren’t many people’s favorite day of the week, but this particular Monday has been a great one for Wolverine fans. We kicked off the morning with a whole new batch of stills and posters from The Wolverine. Now we have our first glimpe of footage thanks to a “tweaser” (that’s what director James Mangold calls a teaser for a trailer) that’s arrived a full day earlier than than promised....

January 18, 2023 · 5 min · 903 words · Tina Fashaw

We Re The Millers Trailer The Family That Smuggles Weed Together

‘We’re The Millers’ Trailer: The Family That Smuggles Weed Together… By Angie Han/May 23, 2013 8:16 am EST Family road trips gone awry are a staple of comedy — just ask Chevy Chase, who starred in National Lampoon’s Vacation, or Ed Helms, who’s set to lead the sequel. But We’re the Millers mixes up the formula a bit by making its lead family not really a family. Jason Sudeikis leads the cast as a drug dealer tasked with smuggling weed into the country....

January 18, 2023 · 5 min · 887 words · Grace Hayes

Barbie Movie On Fast Track From Sony And Mattel

Barbie Movie On Fast Track From Sony And Mattel By Germain Lussier/April 23, 2014 9:35 am EST One of the biggest toy franchises in the world is in a race to the big screen. Sony has just signed a deal with with Mattel to make a movie version of Barbie. Jenny Bicks (What A Girl Wants, Rio 2) is writing the script, with the studio hoping to be shooting by the end of the year....

January 18, 2023 · 6 min · 1236 words · Edith Kelly

Choose Your Own Freaks Geeks Adventure With This 8 Bit Youtube Game

Choose Your Own ‘Freaks & Geeks’ Adventure With This 8-Bit YouTube Game By Angie Han/Oct. 7, 2013 9:00 am EST Lindsay Weir went on quite a journey in the first and only season of Freaks and Geeks, shedding her nerdy Mathlete persona to fall in with the aimless freak crowd. But it wasn’t necessarily clear at every step what the right choice was. Should she have left that smoking patio with Millie?...

January 18, 2023 · 4 min · 768 words · Linda Lescarbeau

Danny Glover Thandie Newton And Oliver Platt Join 2012

Danny Glover, Thandie Newton And Oliver Platt Join 2012 By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2008 3:42 am EST Danny Glover, Thandie Newton and Oliver Platt are in discussions to join Roland Emmerich’s epic disaster project 2012. An academic researcher (John Cusack) opens a portal into a parallel universe and makes contact with his double in order to prevent an apocalypse predicted by the ancient Mayans. December 21st 2012 is the last day of the Mayan calendar, believed to be the end of the world....

January 18, 2023 · 3 min · 627 words · Herbert Brown

Did Patton Oswalt Get Kicked Out Of The Alamo Drafthouse For Texting

Did Patton Oswalt Get Kicked Out Of The Alamo Drafthouse For Texting? By Germain Lussier/Dec. 14, 2011 10:00 am EST No one is immune to the Alamo Drafthouse’s strict no texting policy, not even comedian Patton Oswalt. Recently, Oswalt was in Austin promoting his new film Young Adult when the notorious Tweeter was caught on his phone in a well-lit, sparsely populated theater. Director Jason Reitman then walked in to kick him out and…wait a minute, this is a joke!...

January 18, 2023 · 2 min · 403 words · Dorothy Baxley

Disney And Johnny Depp Team On Modern Version Of Don Quixote

Disney And Johnny Depp Team On Modern Version Of ‘Don Quixote’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 5, 2012 12:51 pm EST This news report is Johnny Depp figuratively spitting in Terry Gilliam’s face. Years ago, Gilliam and Depp were working on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a fantastic (in the true sense of the word) take on the old Cervantes tale. The production faced insurmountable odds, from illness and accidents to extreme weather, and was shut down....

January 18, 2023 · 5 min · 1004 words · Elizabeth Lipscomb

Drew Goddard To Direct Sinister Six

Drew Goddard To Direct ‘Sinister Six’ By Russ Fischer/April 7, 2014 5:21 pm EST When Sony announced plans for two Spider-Man spin-off films, Venom and Sinister Six, the studio named Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods co-writer and director) as screenwriter for the latter film. At the time, Goddard was tipped as a possible director for the movie, and that has now been confirmed. The Sinister Six is that group of super-villains that has menaced Spider-Man in comics stories over the years, with a roster that originally included Doctor Octopus, Electro, Kraven the Hunter, Mysterio, Sandman and The Vulture....

January 18, 2023 · 5 min · 859 words · Kimberly Campbell

First Look George Clooney S The Monuments Men Trailer Out Thursday

First Look: George Clooney’s ‘The Monuments Men;’ Trailer Out Thursday By Germain Lussier/Aug. 7, 2013 1:46 pm EST Thursday August 8, audiences will get their first look at George Clooney’s latest directorial effort, The Monuments Men. Featuring one of the most impressive casts in recent memory (Clooney, Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Hugh Bonneville, Bob Balaban), it’s the true story of art historians who attempted to protect the world’s greatest pieces of art from a thieving Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany....

January 18, 2023 · 4 min · 700 words · Georgia Atkinson

Google Oscar Commercial We Re All Storytellers Featuring Pixar S Andrew Stanton

Google Oscar Commercial: “We’re All Storytellers” Featuring Pixar’s Andrew Stanton By Germain Lussier/March 3, 2014 8:41 am EST The Google Oscar commercial was one of the highlights of Sunday’s Academy Awards broadcast. The one-minute clip featured young filmmakers learning about movies and storytelling, accompanied by audio from Oscar-winning director of Wall-E, Finding Nemo and John Carter Andrew Stanton speaking at the TED conference. It’s a beautiful, inspiring piece of work. Check it out below....

January 18, 2023 · 1 min · 187 words · Wayne Hinkle

Has Deadpool Found A New Director In Adam Berg

Has ‘Deadpool’ Found A New Director In Adam Berg? By Adam Quigley/Oct. 27, 2010 5:47 am EST Last year, we posted a 2-minute short film/advertisement called Carousel from a little-known Swedish music video director named Adam Berg. The response to it was wildly enthusiastic, and for good reason: it’s a stunning piece of filmmaking, beautifully capturing a single frozen moment in time as one continuous tracking shot allows a bank heist narrative to unfold....

January 18, 2023 · 5 min · 1027 words · Milton Bala

Hbo Sets Dates For Girls Season 3 And Matthew Mcconaughey S True Detective

HBO Sets Dates For ‘Girls’ Season 3 And Matthew McConaughey’s ‘True Detective’ By Angie Han/Oct. 16, 2013 12:19 pm EST After surviving a tumultuous Season 2, the girls of Girls will be back for a third go-round this winter. HBO announced today that the comedy will premiere January 12, 2014 with two back-to-back episodes, starting at 10:00 PM. Creator and star Lena Dunham broke the news in a way that’d make her character proud: via a cute Instagram pic, which you can see after the jump....

January 18, 2023 · 2 min · 400 words · Ruth Cockrell

Jon M Chu Offers Updates On G I Joe Retaliation And Masters Of The Universe

Jon M. Chu Offers Updates On ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ And ‘Masters Of The Universe’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 26, 2012 1:30 pm EST Director Jon M. Chu has quickly become one of those directors whose quotes you need to read. After gaining notoriety with the Step Up movies and Justin Bieber documentary, Paramount entrusted him with one of their marquee franchises: G.I. Joe. Then Sony handed him the reigns to another potential franchise, Masters of the Universe....

January 18, 2023 · 9 min · 1842 words · Susan Alger

Judd Apatow To Produce Untitled Script By Comedian Amy Schumer

By Germain Lussier/Aug. 26, 2013 3:00 pm EST Even by Comedy Central’s R-rated standards, comedian Amy Schumer’s show, Inside Amy Schumer, is dirty. It’s also hilarious, provocative and more than a little offensive to potentially every group out there. It’s not what you’d expect from the sweet-looking comedian, which is exactly why Universal Pictures has optioned an untitled script by Schumer. Judd Apatow, king of the R-rated comedies, is along to produce the project....

January 18, 2023 · 3 min · 488 words · Rebecca Mazur

Mark Millar Says A Kick Ass 3 Movie Isn T In Development

Mark Millar Says A ‘Kick Ass 3’ Movie Isn’t In Development By Germain Lussier/Aug. 11, 2014 10:00 am EST At the comic shop, Kick-Ass is over. The final issue of the series, Kick-Ass 3 #8, recently hit shelves, ending a six-year run for writer Mark Millar and artist John Romita Jr. That run didn’t only begin with the comics though. Filmmaker Matthew Vaughn developed the first Kick-Ass movie in tandem with Millar and Romita Jr....

January 18, 2023 · 7 min · 1474 words · Toni Harrison