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LOL: ‘The Interview’ MTV Special With James Franco And Seth Rogen By Germain Lussier/Aug. 19, 2014 5:00 am EST The trailer for Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s The Interview is pretty insane. In the film, a famous entertainment journalist and his producer get an exclusive interview with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Before heading to the interview, the U.S. government asks the guys to assassinate the dictator. So why the heck would this journalist, out of everyone, get this exclusive interview?...

MIchael Haneke Waiting On One Actress Before Shooting ‘Flashmob’ By Russ Fischer/June 20, 2014 4:15 pm EST It was just a few weeks ago that we talked about the fact that Michael Haneke is putting together a new film. Called Flashmob, the movie is one he conceptualized a few years ago, before setting it aside to make Amour. The concept has evolved a bit since then, but the basic core still seems to be that it “the fragile relationship between media and reality,” and features a set of characters who meet via the Internet....

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Concept Art Caesar’s eyes: Caesar with war face paint: Koba: Cornelia with face paint and head-dress: Ceremony Painted Male Ape: Apes wearing primitive clothing: Apes hunting in the muir woods: Thanks to ConceptArtWorld for posting the images. You can see more work from Aaron Sims Company visual effects at asc-vfx.com – they also have some of their work from Rise of the Planet of the Apes in their online portfolio....

Moviegoing Bits: French Marketers Promise Spoiler-Free Trailers; Watch No-Cell-Phone PSAs From ‘Frankenweenie’ And ‘Finding Nemo 3D’ By Angie Han/Aug. 17, 2012 12:45 pm EST You can’t fault studios for wanting to give audiences a peek at the goods, if that’s what it takes to get dollars to the ticket counter. But with some overhyped pictures, it seems like they’re not bothering to leave anything at all for the actual theatergoing experience....

Natalie Portman Is Nude Afterall By Peter Sciretta/March 19, 2007 9:30 am EST Update: You can also see Portman nude in Wes Anderon’s new short film Hotel Chevalier, which is available online. Watch it NOW. It’s been almost a year since we first reported that Natalie Portman would be filming a nude scene in her next film role. Her publicists quickly shot back claiming that the Star Wars starlet would be using a body double....

New Wong Kar-Wai Project Is ‘Ferryman’ By Russ Fischer/June 23, 2014 11:45 am EST It was only last week that we heard Wong Kar-wai is now beginning work on his follow-up to The Grandmaster. Now we have more details on the project. The film is said to be a romance, and as it turns out, it will be based on a Zhang Jiajia short story called Ferryman. The story is one of a set originally published by Zhang on the tremendously popular service Chinese blogging Weibo, and later collected in the book I Belonged to You....

Sequel Bits: Fast And Furious 6, Star Trek 3, Muppets 2, Catching Fire, Legend Of Conan By Germain Lussier/Jan. 15, 2013 9:00 am EST Super Bowl, teaser posters, rumors and more are all in this edition of Sequel Bits. After the jump read about: A new image from Fast and Furious 6 is out and find out when you’ll see the first footage. Watch a video of Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about The Legend of Conan....

Superhero Bits: Dark Knight Returns, Avengers Initiative, Darth Vader, Batgirl, Man Of Steel By Germain Lussier/Sept. 6, 2012 12:45 pm EST Want to see a new clip from The Dark Knight Returns Part 1? Which company is now making high quality Marvel toys? Did you ever think that Darth Vader and Bane sounded similar? What do the creators of the mobile game Avengers Initiative have to say on launch day? What do the X-Men look like as Star Wars characters?...

The Incredible Invisible Practical Effects Miniatures Used To Create The Star Wars Prequels By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2014 10:54 am EST We’re all getting excited about the practical effects we’ve seen from the set of Star Wars Episode 7. Many people complain about the abundance of computer-generated effects in George Lucas’ Star Wars prequels, but what they don’t realize is more practical miniature models were created for any one of the Star Wars prequel films than were made for the entire combined original trilogy....

Trailer Teases New J.J. Abrams Project As Unusual Novel Called ‘S.’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2013 3:30 pm EST A few weeks ago, Bad Robot released a trailer for a new project from J.J. Abrams. It was called Stranger, and the nature of the thing wasn’t known at the time, but the trailer was interesting enough to get a lot of attention. (The involvement of Abrams didn’t hurt.) At the time, a few people thought the trailer was likely for a book called S....

TV Bits: ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘Dexter’, ‘SNL’, ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘Under The Dome’ By Angie Han/July 4, 2013 9:00 am EST Thought the Game of Thrones cast was big before? Get ready to meet still more new characters in Season 4. The HBO fantasy series has just cast Pedro Pascal (Graceland) as Oberyn Martell (a.k.a. The Red Viper), a prince of Dorne who still nurses a grudge against Ser Gregor Clegane for murdering his sister Elia Martell during Robert Baratheon’s takeover of the Iron Throne....

‘A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III’ Trailer: Roman Coppola’s Wacky Take On A Relationship Breakdown By Russ Fischer/Nov. 30, 2012 4:22 pm EST A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, the second feature from Roman Coppola, runs a breezy 85 minutes. With the release of its first trailer, we can see just what the regular Wes Anderson collaborator has in store to follow up his feature debut from 2001....

‘Better Call Saul’ Teaser: Can I Get An Amen? By Angie Han/Sept. 22, 2014 12:20 pm EST The TV schedule will be jam-packed with new shows for the next few weeks, some much more promising-looking than others. However, even within that crowded slate there’s one highly anticipated project that’ll be conspicuously absent. The Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul doesn’t premiere until early next year, which means we’ve got several months to wait still....

‘Eastbound And Down’ Season 4 Trailer: Kenny Powers Is Back From The Dead By Germain Lussier/Sept. 5, 2013 10:00 am EST Robots, water slides, girls dancing as Santa Claus, machine guns, roller skating, the fourth season of Eastbound and Down has it all. In 60 seconds, the full trailer for the final season of the show has so much insane, jaw-dropping and head-scratching content you’ll swear there’s no way creators Danny McBride and Jody Hill can tie it all together....

‘Lego’ Spinoff ‘Ninjago’ Set For 2016 By Angie Han/May 21, 2014 6:07 am EST The next building block in Warner Bros.’ big-screen Lego franchise will click into place in 2016. The studio has just set a date for The Lego Movie spinoff Ninjago, directed by Charlie Bean (Tron: Uprising). Get the latest details on the project after the jump. Warner Bros. domestic distribution president Dan Fellman said in a statement:...

‘Scooby-Doo: Wrestlemania Mystery’ Trailer: The Gang Investigates A WWE Sponsored Case By Germain Lussier/Dec. 17, 2013 12:30 pm EST One of the most anticipated trailers of the year is finally hear. Not Interstellar, not Star Wars Episode VII, not even Transformers: Age of Extinction. It’s Scooby-Doo: Wrestlemania Mystery! This collaboration between WWE Studios and Warner Bros. features Scooby, Shaggy going to the biggest event on the wrestling calendar, only to find a mystery they need to solve....

‘The Congress,’ From ‘Waltz With Bashir’ Director, Will Be Roughly 60% Live-Action, 40% Animated By Russ Fischer/Dec. 23, 2011 5:00 am EST We’ve been tracking Ari Folman’s film The Congress for three years. That’s because Folman’s last film was Waltz With Bashir, a great animated look at a soldier’s unreliable perspective on war. The Congress is something quite different, however. Based on a story by noted speculative fiction author Stanislaw Lem, this one features Robin Wright, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Paul Giamatti and Danny Huston in a story — greatly reworked from Lem’s text — about an actress who makes a deal that changes her future in ways she could never predict....

Angelina Jolie Unfurls Her ‘Maleficent’ Wings In A New Teaser By Angie Han/March 17, 2014 12:00 pm EST As if her massive horns and cut-glass cheekbones weren’t intimidating enough, Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent has revealed yet another bizarre feature: wings. Her big, dramatic flappers have just been unveiled for the first time in a new image, banner, and trailer for Maleficent. As cool as the wings look, though, they don’t necessarily sound that fun to wear....

Armie Hammer Joins Tom Cruise In ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ By Russ Fischer/April 24, 2013 5:53 pm EST Briefly: Armie Hammer worked with one of the world’s biggest movie stars in The Lone Ranger, and now he’s set to partner up with another in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., for which James Bond creator Ian Fleming contributed early concepts. Hammer has been added to the cast of Guy Ritchie’s new version of the espionage-focused TV series that ran in the mid-’60s....

Early Buzz: Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ Plus New Photos Released By Germain Lussier/Feb. 4, 2013 9:30 am EST Normally if the ground shakes in Los Angeles, it’s an earthquake. Saturday night, any shaking was likely a result of giant robots and giant monsters squaring off on screen. Guillermo Del Toro’s July 11 release, Pacific Rim, had a early test screening in Burbank, CA Saturday night and the buzz is extremely positive....