‘Big Hero 6’ Trailer Rounds Up The Whole Gang By Angie Han/Sept. 25, 2014 10:15 am EST As we head into the final quarter of the year, Disney is bringing us one last Marvel movie. Big Hero 6 is the venerable studio’s first animated Marvel adventure, which means it’s the film we’ve been waiting for pretty much since the moment Disney bought Marvel. Ryan Potter leads the voice cast as young robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada....
‘Fruitvale Station’ Trailer: Michael B. Jordan Shines In Tragic True Story By Russ Fischer/May 10, 2013 5:09 pm EST I was very moved by Ryan Coogler’s film Fruitvale Station when it played Sundance under the title Fruitvale. Michael B. Jordan stars as Oscar, a young man detailed by police at an Oakland, CA BART station after a brawl on a train early on New Year’s Day. The night ended in tragedy, and the cell phone cameras carried by many witnesses documented an almost inexplicable display of police force....
‘No Good Deed’ Trailer: Idris Elba Takes A Dark Turn By Angie Han/June 13, 2014 6:00 am EST Idris Elba was quite the big screen hero last year. He battled kaiju in Pacific Rim, defended Asgard in Thor: The Dark World, and inspired a nation in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. But he’s taking a villainous turn with his next film, No Good Deed. Directed by Sam Miller (Elba’s Luther), the thriller stars Elba as escaped convict Colin....
‘Noah’ Super Bowl Spot Features A Hint Of Angels By Russ Fischer/Feb. 2, 2014 3:05 pm EST That rain-soaked poster for Noah we saw yesterday was just the first hint of a marketing deluge that will be well underway before the film opens in March. Now we’ve got the next wave: the ad for the film that will run during the Super Bowl on Sunday. There’s not much new footage here — we’ve seen almost all of this before....
‘Ong Bak’ Star Tony Jaa Joins ‘Fast And Furious 7’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 23, 2013 4:06 pm EST One of the world’s best martial arts stars is coming to America. Tony Jaa, the star of the Ong Bak series, has just been cast in James Wan’s upcoming sequel Fast and Furious 7. It’ll be his first U.S. production. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of the casting. Here’s what the actor told them in an e-mail from Thailand....
‘Saw’ Director James Wan To Direct ‘MacGyver’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2012 1:15 pm EST No, not MacGruber… MacGyver. The hit TV show, starring Richard Dean Anderson as a secret agent who didn’t like guns but DID like building improvised bombs and other clever homebrew options to escape from dangerous situations, is coming to theaters. Finally. Producers have been trying to make a MacGyver movie for some time, and the flat box office of parody takeoff MacGruber isn’t changing that....
‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Press Conference Announces June 30 Japanese Premiere And Some Plot Details By Russ Fischer/Jan. 19, 2012 12:30 pm EST Got an hour to kill today? Check out the Japanese press conference for Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man, at which producers Avi Arad and Matthew Tolmach, and stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone took the stage after a screening of seven minutes of footage. We can’t show you the footage, but a video of the full press conference is online, and it gives up a few new tidbits of info about the film’s plot....
‘The Butterfly Effect’ Getting A Reboot By Angie Han/July 26, 2013 9:08 am EST As Hollywood gets increasingly dependent on established properties, we’ve seen all manner of things get remade and rebooted in the past few years. Including a certain superhero franchise that was barely ten years old when it got reworked as a new series. Still, this one seems to come out of nowhere. Benderspink and Film Engine are teaming for a reboot of The Butterfly Effect, the 2004 sci-fi thriller starring Ashton Kutcher as a man who travels back to earlier points in his life and attempts to re-do them — or reboot them, if you will....
‘The Fifth Estate’ Trailer: Benedict Cumberbatch Invents Wikileaks By Germain Lussier/July 16, 2013 10:00 pm EST The first trailer for Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate, has just been released. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange, the October 18th release dramatizes the rise, and fall of the controversial website Wikileaks. Check out the trailer below. Here’s the trailer for The Fifth Estate: Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game....
‘The Water Diviner’ Trailer: Russell Crowe Directs A Feature By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2014 4:00 pm EST With The Water Diviner, Russell Crowe steps behind the camera to direct his first feature. He also stars in the film, which is set in the dats after World War I, as a man whose sons are missing after the battle of Gallipoli. He goes to Istanbul in search of the young men. Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney, Cem Yilmaz and Yilmaz Erdogan all co-star in the film written by Andrew Anastasios and Andrew Knight....
‘Thor: The Dark World’ Clip Shows Asgardian Air Battle: Plus More ‘Thor 3’ Talk By Germain Lussier/Oct. 24, 2013 7:00 am EST Thor: The Dark World is still a few weeks away, but it seems pretty likely to be a hit. I thought the movie was really fun, plenty of other critics agree, and fans are excited to see the Marvel Cinematic Universe continue to expand. All that makes it seem likely we’ll see Thor 3 in the future....
A Show In Two Minutes: Watch A Full Behind The Scenes ‘SNL’ Video By Russ Fischer/April 10, 2014 8:00 am EST We show you a lot of behind the scenes footage, and quite a few Saturday Night Live gags, so why not a behind the scenes SNL video? This two-minute short shows off the filming of a single episode of the show, sped up to lightning speed. In this case, it’s the recent episode hosted by Anna Kendrick (above) though the camera angle won’t really show you the star....
Biopic Casting: Natalie Portman As Jackie O, Brit Marling And Wes Bentley In Lincoln Drama, Miley Cyrus In ‘Bonnie & Clyde’ By Angie Han/Oct. 1, 2012 6:00 am EST Katie Holmes portrayed Jackie O in last year’s The Kennedys, Minka Kelly is playing her in next year’s The Butler, and now it could be Natalie Portman’s turn to tackle the role. The Oscar-winning star is reportedly being courted for the simply titled Jackie, a Noah Oppenheim-scripted drama about the aftermath of JFK’s assassination as seen through the eyes of his widow....
Comedians Dominate ‘Captain Underpants’ Voice Cast By Germain Lussier/Jan. 22, 2014 8:00 am EST DreamWorks Animation is finally moving forward with an adaptation of the popular children’s book series, Captain Underpants. They won a heated bidding war for the property back in 2011 and Tuesday they announced the principal members of the voice cast. They include Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Nick Kroll, Jordan Peele and Thomas Middleditch. The film will be directed by Rob Letterman (Monsters vs....
Derek Cianfrance To Direct Midcentury Drama ‘The Light Between Oceans’ By Angie Han/Sept. 3, 2013 5:00 pm EST Derek Cianfrance knows a thing or two about tricky family relationships, judging by his previous works. Brother Tied explored a troubled sibling rivalry, Blue Valentine examined the breakdown of a once-promising marriage, and The Place Beyond the Pines saw fathers unwittingly passing their sins down to their sons. His next directorial effort continues in a similar vein, though this time the family’s biggest problem seems to come from outsiders rather than from each other....
Ellen Page Wants To Make A Kitty Pryde Movie With Joss Whedon By Angie Han/Sept. 9, 2013 4:45 pm EST The Avengers director has occasionally floated the idea of a Kitty spinoff movie starring Page, with no results to show for it so far. But should he ever get it off the ground, Page says she’d be “so thrilled” to get involved. Hit the jump to read her comments. Previously, Whedon has said that he’d love to make a Kitty film but that the studio didn’t seem interested....
Find Out How Terry Gilliam’s ‘Watchmen’ Would Have Ended By Angie Han/Feb. 27, 2014 6:09 pm EST When it finally opened in 2009, Watchmen had been developing for decades under a great many different people. One of them was Terry Gilliam, who’d been attached in the ’90s to helm from a script by Charles McKeown with Joel Silver producing. Alas, they were unable to make it work, and the project eventually fell into Zack Snyder’s lap....
Find Out When You’ll Be Able To See ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Trailer By Germain Lussier/Nov. 25, 2013 11:00 am EST Briefly: The above image says it all. Marc Webb’s highly anticipated sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, will debut a trailer online December 5. There will also be a sneak on Good Morning America the same day. You’ll then be able to see it in theaters December 13 when The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is released....
First Official Look: Ben Stiller In ‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’ By Angie Han/April 15, 2013 11:30 am EST It’s been 66 years since the original The Secret Life of Walter Mitty came out, and a remake of it has been in development for about a quarter of that time. But after bouncing between various studios, directors, and leads, the project finally got a big push a couple of years back when Ben Stiller signed on to both star and direct for 20th Century Fox....
First Video And Images Released From The ‘Godzilla’ Set By Angie Han/March 19, 2013 2:28 pm EST There’s still a whole lot we don’t know about Gareth Edwards’ upcoming reboot of Godzilla, but now that production’s actually underway the filmmaker seems to be a little more forthcoming. For starters, Edwards has just uploaded a “special message” from the shot. It’s really not much more than a brief hello, but it does offer our first look at the film’s set....
