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Mickey Mouse/Roger Rabbit Film Called ‘The Stooge’ Has Been Proposed To Disney By Germain Lussier/Feb. 19, 2013 5:00 pm EST Marvel teamed up characters in The Avengers, DC is teaming up heroes for Justice League, and now Disney could have the option to team up two of their own iconic characters. Gary K. Wolf, creator of Roger Rabbit, is saying a proposal for a film called The Stooge is being prepared for Disney executives....

More Possible Star Wars 7 Concept Art Reveals Major Lightsaber Duel And Storm Troopers By Germain Lussier/Sept. 25, 2014 2:28 pm EST Looks like there might be more firings on the set of Star Wars Episode VII. Weeks after the site Indie Revolver posted some incredibly spoiler-filled images reportedly from the highly anticipated film, everyone heard J.J. Abrams let go of some people. Today, that site has released a few more images and while they aren’t as spoilerific as the ones from a few weeks ago, they do potentially ruin the look of some of the new Storm Troopers and maybe even one of the lightsaber action scenes....

Page 2: Batman , Looney Tunes, Conan O’Brien, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Indiana Jones, The Fighter, Elmo By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2011 7:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Sexy Spider-Woman cosplay. Bradley Cooper confirms there won’t be an A-Team sequel: “I loved it too. But unfortunately, outside of you, a few of your friends and myself, there just wasn’t enough revenue to supply a second installment of that franchise....

POTD: ‘Star Wars’ Collaborators Gareth Edwards And Gary Whitta Meet Darth Vader By Germain Lussier/May 28, 2014 12:45 pm EST If the first six Star Wars movies weren’t all about Darth Vader, today’s Photo of the Day might be a big reveal. Instead, director Gareth Edwards and writer Gary Whitta simply to Twitter today to reveal they’re meeting about their mystery Star Wars spin-off, scheduled for release December 2016, and have a new boss: Lord Vader....

Sam Raimi’s Producer Says ‘Evil Dead 4’ Would Actually Be ‘Army Of Darkness 2’ By Russ Fischer/March 11, 2013 8:00 am EST Once upon a time, Sam Raimi wanted to call his third Deadite-killing expedition Medieval Dead, and briefly flirted with the title Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness, before simply releasing the movie as Army of Darkness in 1992. There’s no question that the film is a sequel to Evil Dead II; it uses Bruce Campbell as the same lead character, Ash, and involves many familiar Evil Dead elements....

Superhero Bits: LEGO Batman The Movie, Iron Man 3, Man Of Steel, The Dark Knight, Captain America By Germain Lussier/Oct. 18, 2012 11:30 am EST Want to see the trailer for the first LEGO Batman movie? How about a new piece of promotional art from Iron Man 3? Which superheroes are being turned into monster trucks? Can Harry Lennix talk about his character in Man of Steel? What did Marvel’s Jeph Loeb have to say about the future of Marvel TV and Anime?...

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Returns Part 2, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Kick-Ass 2, Batman, X-Men By Germain Lussier/Oct. 5, 2012 1:00 pm EST Want to see the first image from The Dark Knight Returns Part 2? Is there a new book that tells the history of Marvel Comics? What does Batman think of Bronies? How is The Dark Knight Rises doing in Blu-ray pre-sales? Was that female casting call for Captain America: The Winter Soldier all it’s cracked up to be?...

Superhero Bits: X-Men Days Of Future Past, Powers, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Avengers, Green Lantern By Germain Lussier/Jan. 11, 2013 12:30 pm EST Where can you see some cool, new concept art from The Avengers, X-Men: First Class and Green Lantern? What was Jennifer Lawrence’s reaction to learning the title of X-Men: Days of Future Past? Which superhero film did Armond White say is better than Zero Dark Thirty? When does Guardians of the Galaxy start shooting?...

The ‘Mass Effect’ Movie Moves Forward With New Screenwriter By Germain Lussier/Oct. 24, 2012 3:30 pm EST Here’s some great news for the legions and legions of Mass Effect fans out there. Screenwriter Morgan Davis Foehl has been hired to take a new pass at a script for the popular video game turned big budget film. His hiring marks the first significant movement on the project since 2010 when Legendary Pictures purchased the rights to the franchise, which centers on a 22nd century military commander who leads a human army against a race of alien robots who selectively wipe out a galaxy every 50,000 years....

Theater Owners Want Shorter Trailers Without Links To Online Content By Germain Lussier/Jan. 27, 2014 10:30 am EST Last summer, the National Association of Theater Owners revealed they’d soon release a new set of guidelines to movie studios in regards to in theatrical marketing. The highlight of that tease was a push for all trailers to be under two minutes long. Well, the full list of guidelines has now been released and besides the shorter trailers, theaters also don’t want studios to be able to advertise movies more than 150 days away from release and they don’t want any kind of online cross promotion in the trailers....

Universal Sets New ‘Bourne’ In Motion, Jeremy Renner Set To Star Once More By Russ Fischer/Aug. 2, 2013 12:12 pm EST Briefly: Jeremy Renner’s first turn as the lead of a Bourne film wasn’t quite as well-received as the first three films with Matt Damon, but that hasn’t stalled the series. Universal is now moving on a fifth film in the franchise to follow the 2012 release The Bourne Legacy, with Renner again in the lead....

Video: Everything Wrong With ‘Frozen’ By Germain Lussier/June 16, 2014 5:00 am EST CinemaSins is a YouTube channel which nitpicks every movie imaginable. Sometimes (or “always” depending on your tastes) they do so to an infuriating degree. When they take aim at a bad movie, it makes sense. When the target is a good film, the outcome can be even worse. Even when they’re finding “sins” in a movie, sometimes those “sins” aren’t necessarily things are are wrong; instead they’re just general observations....

Video: The Art Of IMAX Sound Featuring Hans Zimmer By Germain Lussier/Dec. 23, 2013 11:00 am EST These days, IMAX doesn’t just mean a giant screen. It means giant sound too. I’ve had multiple occasions to talk to executives for the innovative company and time and time again they stress what makes IMAX special isn’t just the possibility of a larger than life screen. It’s a a sound mix that’s unique, loud and second to none....

Watch Five Vine Teasers From ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 4; Trailer To Premiere Sunday By Angie Han/Jan. 10, 2014 10:38 am EST We know, we know. The “teaser for a teaser” trend is getting out of hand. But after the epic, blood-soaked insanity that was Season 3 of Game of Thrones, we can’t help but latch on to whatever we can get of Season 4. And right now, that means we’re poring over these five action-packed Vines....

Why Disney Is Giving ‘Escape From Tomorrow’ A Pass By Russ Fischer/Sept. 18, 2013 2:00 pm EST The film Escape From Tomorrow delights in waving its junk right in Disney’s face, and the Mouse House, in an unusual move, seems willing to let that happen. There’s been a lot of talk about the film since its Sundance premiere, and especially since the first official trailer premiered not long ago. The film was shot “illegally” (read: without corporate knowledge or approval) in Disney theme parks, and makes liberal use of registered Disney trademarks in a manner that isn’t at all consistent with Disney’s own use....

‘1952,’ ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5’ And ‘Muppets 2’ Gets Release Dates By Germain Lussier/Jan. 14, 2013 12:11 pm EST Disney woke up and decided to make some news today. In addition to officially announcing two Marvel movies for 3D, they’ve dated a bunch of other high profile films, The Muppets 2, rumored to be called The Muppets…Again, will be released March 21, 2014 Maleficent has been moved from March 2014 to July 2, 2014....

‘Another Earth’ Director Works Up Another Science-Tinged Drama, ‘I Origins’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 11, 2012 2:14 pm EST Director Mike Cahill broke out of Sundance 2011 with the sci-fi tinged drama Another Earth, featuring Brit Marling as a young woman whose process of coming to terms with her own troubled past is complicated by the revelation of a parallel Earth, apparently identical to our own. Does a version of the same woman live on that planet, and did it make the same mistakes this one did?...

‘Fargo’ Showrunner Noah Hawley Writing Universal Monster Movie By Russ Fischer/Sept. 19, 2014 8:30 am EST All we know of the Universal Monsters plan right now is that Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan (The Fast and the Furious series) are planning to relaunch the studio’s classic monsters as a “connected universe,” starting with a new Mummy film that Jon Spaihts (Prometheus) wrote and Kurtzman will direct. Kurtzman recently explained, The Mummy is set for release on June 24, 2016....

‘Fear Paris’ Teaser: A Horror Anthology From Joe Dante, Xavier Gens And Timo Vuorensola By Germain Lussier/Feb. 4, 2014 9:54 am EST A brand new horror anthology has been given a green light. It’s called Fear Paris, and will feature multiple connected stories from directors such as Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Hole), Xavier Gens (Hitman), and Timo Vuorensola (Iron Sky) which will explore the supernatural underbelly of France’s capital city. Casting is now underway and two more directors will soon join the project, which will start shooting this summer....

‘Ghostbusters 3’ Scheduled To Shoot In Summer 2013 By Angie Han/Oct. 18, 2012 9:00 am EST Could Ghostbusters 3 really, finally, at long last, be getting into gear? The long-awaited horror prequel was put in “suspended animation” earlier this year, but since this project never stays dead for long, it soon picked up a new writer to pen a fresh script. Now it looks like director Ivan Reitman, star Dan Aykroyd, and the studio are preparing to shoot next summer....