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The 10 Best Moments Of Jerry Seinfeld’s AMA, From ‘Man Of Steel’ Talk To New Larry David Project By Germain Lussier/Jan. 6, 2014 3:30 pm EST Here are the ten best quotes, in no particular order. Talking about a Seinfeld episode that never happened: On a new project with Larry David: Yes. There was one episode where Jerry bought a handgun. And we started making it and stopped in the middle and said “this doesn’t work....

TV Bits: ‘Arrested Development’, ‘American Horror Story’, ‘Once Upon A Time’, ‘Hannibal’, ‘The Farm’, ‘Revolution’, ‘Bates Motel’, ‘Jersey Shore’, Robin Williams By Angie Han/Aug. 31, 2012 4:05 pm EST Robin Williams is eyeing a return to primetime, with his first regular series gig since Mork & Mindy went off the air in 1982. CBS has just entered talks to pick up a new single-camera workplace comedy by David E. Kelley, which would star Williams as a talented ad exec working at an agency with his daughter....

TV Trailer: HBO’s New Comedy Series ‘Doll & Em’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2014 1:30 pm EST HBO has released the first trailer for Doll & Em, a new comedy series about a British Hollywood star who hires her childhood friend to be her personal assistant while she is making a film in Los Angeles. The series was created by and stars The Newsroom’s Emily Mortimer and The Mighty Boosh’s Dolly Wells....

Videos: Recreating 1961 Disneyland For ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 12, 2013 4:00 pm EST It’s a Walt Disney movie, set at Disney, about Walt Disney. There’s all kinds of meta going on in John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks, a dramatization of the events that lead the film Mary Poppins to the big screen. Golden Globe nominee Emma Thompson plays author PL Travers and Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney, who courted Travers for the rights to the character for years....

Watch The English-Language Trailer For ‘Arrietty’, From Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli By Angie Han/July 5, 2011 7:00 am EST An international English-language trailer has dropped for Studio Ghibli’s Arrietty, the directorial debut of animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi. The new spot features the UK voice cast, which includes Saoirse Ronan as Arrietty, Olivia Coleman, Tom Holland, and Mark Strong. Based on Mary Norton’s classic children’s series The Borrowers, the film revolves around a 14-year-old girl named Arrietty Clock, who is one of a group of tiny people who secretly reside in the homes of regular-sized people and “borrow” supplies from them as needed....

‘A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III’ Red-Band Trailer: Charlie Sheen, His Animated Brain, And Lots Of Women By Russ Fischer/Jan. 11, 2013 3:59 pm EST Roman Coppola’s second directorial effort, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, is on VOD now and will be in theaters on February 8. We’ve seen a couple trailers already for this film, in which Charlie Sheen plays a graphic designer who has a meltdown after being dumped by his girlfriend....

‘Independence Day 2’ Gets A Rewrite By Germain Lussier/May 28, 2014 4:38 pm EST Emmerich is currently filming a movie called Stonewall while prepping the highly anticipated sequel. [Deadline]

‘Kaboom’ Trailer; Gregg Araki Sure Does Love Thomas Dekker’s Eyes By Russ Fischer/Jan. 14, 2011 6:00 pm EST Halfway through the new full trailer for Gregg Araki’s new film Kaboom I’d already decided it looks like a sexually liberated, made for TV Donnie Darko when this quote came up: “A gonzo teen fantasy that’s tripper, hornier and more apocalyptically funny than ‘Donnie Darko’.” Oh, the coincidence! We showed you some NSFW clips from the film when it was at TIFF last year, and a NSFW teaser trailer just a week ago, but this is the full trailer, from Sundance Selects....

‘Lincoln: An American Journey’ Presents The Extensive Backstory Of Steven Spielberg’s Latest By Russ Fischer/Jan. 16, 2013 5:46 pm EST Most of you probably know some of the story of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln: the director has wanted to make the film for years, but needed to secure the proper script, the proper actor, and timely financing. Things finally came together in 2011, and the result is Spielberg’s best film in several years, and a particularly timely movie that perfectly captures not only much of the essence of Abraham Lincoln and the time in which he lived, but also reflects our own culture and politics....

‘Monsters University’ Short ‘Party Central’ Preview And Poster By Angie Han/March 6, 2014 8:30 am EST A dozen years passed between Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University, but Disney/Pixar isn’t waiting nearly that long to bring the dynamic duo of Mike and Sulley back again. The Monsters University short Party Central is due to be released in theaters with Muppets Most Wanted later this month, and today we have a new clip featuring the Oozma Kappa brothers getting a bit devious....

‘Sound City’ Trailer: Dave Grohl Waxes Enthusiastic About Famed LA Recording Studio By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2012 8:00 am EST In celebration of the simple yet sometimes unattainable goal of creating the perfect sound recording, here is a new trailer for the Dave Grohl-produced and directed documentary Sound City. The niche appeal of a doc about a single recording studio — in this case, the LA studio of the film’s title — might be offset by the parade of recognizable music stars offering their enthusiastic assessment of the studio’s glory....

‘Tabloid’ Trailer: Errol Morris Explores ’70s Sex Scandal By Russ Fischer/June 9, 2011 2:56 pm EST This is one of the best trailers I’ve seen so far this year. The Errol Morris documentary Tabloid chronicles a very strange subject: Joyce McKinney, who became a tabloid fixture in the UK in 1977 when accused of kidnapping and raping a Mormon missionary named Kirk Anderson. It was called ‘The Case of the Manacled Mormon,’ and now famed documentarian Errol Morris explores the story in his own polished style....

‘The Canyons’ Trailer: Is Cinema Dead, Or Is Lindsay Lohan Just Bored? By Russ Fischer/July 10, 2013 3:25 pm EST The Canyons, that ultra-low-budget film cooked up by Bret Easton Ellis (screenwriter) and Paul Schrader (director) has been the subject of much talk for a solid year. The two cast Lindsay Lohan when no one else would, and profiles have detailed her difficult behavior even as Schrader praises his leading lady as a Marilyn Monroe type....

‘The Chair’ Trailer: Starz New Filmmaking Docuseries By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2014 7:00 am EST We’ve talked a bunch about the return of Project Greenlight to HBO, but we haven’t really featured the new filmmaking series coming soon on Starz. The Chair is a new docuseries created by Chris Moore, the Executive Producer of Project Greenlight and Co-Producer of Good Will Hunting. The Starz “original filmmaking experiment” follows two first-time directors, Shane Dawson and Anna Martemucci, who are given the opportunity to direct separate films adapted from the same original screenplay (How Soon Is Now written by Dan Schoffer)....

‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Cost $50 Million More Than The Original; Plus New IMAX Poster By Germain Lussier/Oct. 30, 2013 5:00 pm EST Next month’s release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has an interesting parallel to the film itself. When the original movie came out, expectations were high but impressive results raised them even higher. Because of that success, the release of the second film has fans and executives alike expecting nothing short of a mega-blockbuster....

Cameron Crowe’s Next Will Open Christmas Day By Angie Han/Feb. 14, 2014 1:30 pm EST Sure, the last Christmas was just two months ago, but it’s never too early to start thinking about presents for next Christmas. And Sony already knows just what it’s getting us: the next film from Cameron Crowe. The studio has dated the as-yet-untitled Hawaii-based romance, starring Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone, for December 25. Get plot details and more after the jump....

Christopher Meloni And Josh Brolin Latest To Join ‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’ [Updated] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 8, 2013 1:05 pm EST Briefly: Very few things about filming a Robert Rodriguez movie are similar to your standard, effects-laden blockbuster. Case in point: his October 2013 film Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. The sequel to the 2005 film brings back most of the cast of the original (such as Jessica Alba and Mickey Rourke) with several new additions....

By Angie Han/April 23, 2014 8:00 am EST David Foster Wallace fans aren’t the only ones harboring doubts about James Ponsoldt’s upcoming biopic The End of the Tour. As it turns out, the late writer’s family is none too thrilled about the project, either. In a new statement, the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust stressed that they “neither endorse nor support” the project, which is based on journalist David Lipsky’s notes from a never-published story....

David Goyer Interested In Green Lantern As Warner Bros. Head Promises DC Film Announcement By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2014 12:15 pm EST Will we see Green Lantern in a Justice League movie? That’s not an April Fools’ speculation, but rather one obvious idea to kick around based on two recent quotes. The president of WB recently said that we can expect a new DC film series announcement soon — that’s not just one film, but a series — while David Goyer, one of the architects of the recent Batman and Superman films, says he’s interested in Green Lantern....

Here’s What Happens In The First Scene Of The ‘Breaking Bad’ Season Premiere By Germain Lussier/July 22, 2013 8:36 am EST Why does Walter White have a beard, what’s he doing with that thing in the trunk and what happens after the toilet? These are just some of the questions that will be answered starting August 11 when the final 8 episodes of Breaking Bad begin to air. The majority of the show’s cast, along with creator Vince Gilligan, took the Hall H stage on the last day of San Diego Comic-Con to talk about the show’s legacy....