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‘Girls’ Season 2 Trailer: “This Is What Happens When You Break Up With A Sociopath” By Angie Han/Nov. 30, 2012 3:44 pm EST As devotees of Louie and Sherlock are sighing over extralong gaps between seasons, Girls fans are enjoying some schedule shuffling in the opposite direction. Although the first season of Girls debuted in the spring, Season 2’s kicking off a little earlier than expected in January 2013. Which means the marketing push starts now....

‘Like Crazy’ Helmer Eyeing Kristen Stewart And Nicholas Hoult For ‘Equals’ By Angie Han/Oct. 24, 2013 2:00 pm EST Could the world’s most famous vampire lover find happiness with history’s most romantic zombie? Maybe, if Drake Doremus has anything to do with it. The Like Crazy director is reportedly eyeing Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult for Equals, a sci-fi love story by Nathan Parker (Moon). Hit the jump for more details about the new project....

‘Lost’ 10 Year Reunion: Watch The Full PaleyFest Event By Germain Lussier/March 18, 2014 12:11 pm EST The Lost 10 Year Reunion took place this past weekend in Hollywood and the full event is now online. As part of the annual PaleyFest event, host Paul Scheer spoke with executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse as well as stars Josh Holloway (Sawyer), Yunjin Kim (Sun), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Ian Somerhalder (Boone), Maggie Grace (Shannon), Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), and Malcolm David Kelley (Walt)....

‘On The Road’ Review: Jack Kerouac’s Classic Gets The Big Screen Treatment By Germain Lussier/Nov. 9, 2012 11:00 am EST On the Road is one of those books people live their life by. It changes perception. People read and reread it, discuss its particulars, and keep a copy in their luggage when they decide to act on its inspiration and go on a trip just like the characters Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise and Marylou....

‘Shaun The Sheep’ Teaser: Aardman Animation’s Kids Show Hits The Big Screen By Russ Fischer/Aug. 29, 2014 9:45 am EST Nick Park created Shaun the Sheep for his Wallace and Gromit shorts, and the character was originally seen in A Close Shave. Since then, Shaun has gone on to star in over 100 short episodes of his own Aardman Animation stop-motion animated television show. Now he’s got his own movie, written and directed by Mark Burton (Madagascar and Gnomeo & Juliet writer) and Richard Starzack....

‘Strange Rumblings In Shangri-La’ Trailer: Globe-Trotting Surf Documentary Now On iTunes By Germain Lussier/Sept. 23, 2014 4:45 pm EST The surf documentary has a long and storied history. As seen in The Endless Summer and Riding Giants and dozens in between, surfers and filmmakers have been traveling the globe together for decades, documenting the unique lifestyle and incredibly beautiful sport. The latest entry into this specific genre is out today. It’s called Strange Rumblings in Shangri-La and was directed by Joe G....

‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay’ Finds Annie Cresta And Messalla By Angie Han/Aug. 27, 2013 1:15 pm EST Although The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is still three months away from theaters, casting on the next two installments is already heating up. Hot on the heels of last week’s news that Natalie Dormer would play Cressida in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2 comes the announcement that director Francis Lawrence has also added Evan Ross and Stef Dawson....

‘The World’s End’ - What Did You Think? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 23, 2013 5:44 pm EST Edgar Wright’s new film, the final chapter in the loose trilogy of films that also includes Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, is The World’s End. The movie opened outside the US earlier this summer, but this weekend it hits the States. The story of five friends (Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Paddy Considine) who are roped into taking on a pub crawl they failed twenty years prior, the film is a sci-fi comedy that explores the effect of nostalgia and the ways that life goes on (or sometimes doesn’t) as we grow older....

By Angie Han/Jan. 9, 2014 11:05 am EST The streaming service has secured exclusive online streaming rights to all three seasons, effective immediately. Meaning, Prime members can log into their accounts right now to watch the show for free. Hit the jump for more details on the deal. As of now, there are 64 days left until Veronica Mars’ March 14 premiere; in a nifty bit of timing, 64 is also the total number of Veronica Mars episodes produced....

Exclusive: First Images From The Official ‘Walking Dead’ Art Exhibit In Los Angeles By Germain Lussier/Oct. 7, 2013 3:00 pm EST AMC’s Breaking Bad might be gone, but their highest rated series comes back this week. We’re talking, of course, about Low Winter Sun The Walking Dead. The bloody zombie apocalypse drama returns Sunday October 13 for its fourth season and we’ll finally find out what happens when Woodbury and the prison are forced to co-exist, with the Governor somewhere on the outside....

By Angie Han/Dec. 14, 2013 9:00 am EST Whoever signs on will have big shoes to fill. Lumet’s film was a big commercial success, earning $35 million domestically. (Which was a lot more money back then, obviously.) It was a hit with critics as well, earning five Oscar nominations plus one win for supporting actress Ingrid Bergman. Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Jacqueline Bisset, Colin Blakely, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, and Michael York were also among the cast....

Guillermo Del Toro Backs Off ‘Beauty’ With Emma Watson By Germain Lussier/June 13, 2014 5:30 am EST Fresh off the announcement Disney is moving forward with their own live-action version of Beauty and the Beast, a competing project has lost its captain. A new report says Guillermo del Toro won’t direct Beauty, a Warner Bros. project that has Emma Watson attached as the lead. He’s still producing, however, and wrote the current version of the script....

Hangover Sequel Taking Place In Thailand? By David Chen/Dec. 18, 2009 5:29 am EST The Hangover is one of the success stories of 2009, an example of a fortuitous convergence of circumstance and luck that produced a money-making hit. With a budget of $35 million, the movie went on to gross over $270 million domestically. It’s also seeped into the popular consciousness in a big way. I was just at Target yesterday when I heard a middle-aged woman ask the clerk for the “unrated” version of The Hangover DVD....

Is Judd Apatow’s Third Film Semiautobiographical? By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2008 12:19 am EST Until today not much has been revealed about Judd Apatow’s directorial follow-up to 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up. We knew that it would be more of a relationship drama compared to his previous films (“It’s a comedy, but it has more drama in it,” Apatow said in March. “A hilarious drama is what I’m going for.”) and that Seth Rogen, Adam Sandler and Leslie Mann were signed to star in the film....

J. J. Abrams To Direct ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 24, 2013 1:47 pm EST The director for Star Wars Episode VII has been revealed, and it is J. J. Abrams, according to The Wrap. While we don’t have a release from LucasFilm at this point, the Wrap reports that Abrams will do the film, despite his proclamation to the contrary last year. The report says that other directors such as Ben Affleck were in contention for the gig, but that new LucasFilm head Kathleen Kennedy has been heatedly courting Abrams for the job....

Japanese ‘Monsters University’ Trailer Shows Spoilers Of Mike And Sully’s Transformation From Rivals To Partners By Russ Fischer/March 8, 2013 1:00 pm EST Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. prequel Monsters University shows Mike and Sully in their college days, and illustrates how their friendship evolved out of an early rivalry. That’s stuff we’ve known for a long time, but a new Japanese trailer features some footage that illustrates more of how a couple of the character transitions take place....

John Singleton Wants Woody Harrelson To Join The A-Team By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 13, 2008 3:17 am EST While waiting online for the valet, Collider bumped into director John Singleton and ended up with some nice scoops regarding his upcoming take on The A-Team. Before we go any farther, I just want to say that Singleton is one of the most personable and persuasive directors I’ve ever interviewed. During production for 2 Fast 2 Furious, his ideas sounded just as badass, weirdly agreeable and uncompromising as they do here....

Kevin Feige Says Don’t Expect More Phase Three Announcements ‘Til 2014 By Angie Han/July 25, 2013 6:00 pm EST Part of the reason Marvel’s done so fantastically well with their Cinematic Universe is that they’ve been very good about planning ahead. Remember, the first seeds for 2012’s The Avengers were sown all the way back in 2008’s Iron Man. But there’s a limit to how far even they want to think ahead, or at least what they’re willing to talk about....

Movie Trailer: ‘Frankie And Alice’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2010 5:00 pm EST Freestyle Releasing have released the first movie trailer for Frankie and Alice. Directed by Geoffrey Sax (Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker, White Noise), the drama stars Halle Berry as “a young woman with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and not give in to her racist alter-personality.” The movie co-stars Stellan Skarsgård (Good Will Hunting, Mamma Mia!...

New ‘World War Z’ Poster: Zombies Attack A Helicopter By Germain Lussier/March 24, 2013 12:00 pm EST Usually when a movie stars Brad Pitt, his recognizable face is all over the posters. On the second teaser poster for his new film, World War Z, he’s nowhere to be seen. Instead it’s the terrifying image of a literal mountain of zombies climbing on top of each other to take down a helicopter....