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Bruce Wayne Is Beaten Into Fighting Shape In Trailer For ‘Batman: Arkham Origins’ Game By Russ Fischer/Oct. 17, 2013 2:15 pm EST The crew at Rocksteady Studios really got Batman right in the game Batman: Arkham Asylum. I’d argue that the vision of the character in that game was among the best versions of Batman ever put on screen. The second sequel to that game is Batman: Arkham Origins, which comes out later this month....

Cyber Monday Geek Deals: LotR, Battlestar, Firefly, Marvel, Mel Brooks & More By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 2, 2013 11:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Danny Boyle To Make Television Police Drama ‘Babylon’ For Channel 4 By Russ Fischer/Aug. 22, 2013 11:15 am EST Briefly: Danny Boyle has done a bit of television over the course of his career (especially if you count that little foray with the 2012 Summer Olympics) and now he’s prepping to make his biggest foray into the medium. Boyle has signed with Channel 4 in the UK to make Babylon, a “police drama” that will be “set in the world of modern policing....

Did Bryan Singer Tweet The First Look At A Mutant From ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past?’ By Germain Lussier/April 5, 2013 12:00 pm EST From the looks of it, Bryan Singer has just given us our first glimpse at a mutant from X-Men: Days of Future Past. The director of the upcoming X-Men “Inbetweenquel” tweeted an image that is obviously the character Beast, who was played by Nicholas Hoult in X-Men: First Class (as seen above) and by Kelsey Grammer in X-Men: The Last Stand....

Exclusive: Laurent Durieux’s Beautiful ‘Peter Pan’ Poster On Sale Now By Germain Lussier/May 10, 2013 11:00 am EST Describing the style of artist Laurent Durieux is challenging. It’s mechanical, but lyrical. Rigid, but whimsical, and still realistic. This interesting cross-section of visual cues makes his work perfect for so many different properties, from The Wizard of Oz or Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, to Buck Rodgers and Jaws. We’re proud to exclusively debut Durieux’s latest piece, based on the classic J....

Find Out The Shocking Alternate Ending For ‘Homeland’ Season 2 By Germain Lussier/Aug. 15, 2013 11:27 am EST The rest of this article will be filled with spoilers for both seasons of Homeland. Please stop if you haven’t seen it yet. Which you should, it’s a great show. Second and even more surprising, was the first draft of the finale script had Carrie (Clarie Danes) following Brody across the border after he was framed for blowing up the CIA....

First Look: Sacha Baron Cohen Is A Soccer Hooligan In ‘Grimsby’ By Russ Fischer/July 3, 2014 10:30 am EST The World Cup is paused right now in the rest zone between the Round of 16 and the Quarter-finals. But there’s a new dash of soccer enthusiasm to be found today via Sacha Baron Cohen. The actor stars in the comedy Grimsby, a film about an oafish soccer hooligan (Baron Cohen) who goes on the run with his formerly estranged black-ops agent brother, played by Mark Strong....

By Russ Fischer/July 15, 2013 8:30 am EST The image comes from the Facebook page for the film Predators, released three years ago, with the tag “something is coming.” The map in the picture is of San Diego’s Gaslamp District — I.E. the location for Comic Con — which along with the text hints at some sort of scavenger hunt for attendees. What the reward at the end might be is unknown....

Harry Potter Gets His Own ‘Boyhood’ In ‘Potterhood’ Parody Trailer By Angie Han/July 30, 2014 6:00 am EST Sure, Richard Linklater might be the first to make a coming-of-age movie by shooting a single actor over a twelve-year period. But even as he was shooting his ambitious Boyhood, audiences around the world were breathlessly watching a different boy sprout up, fill out, drop his voice, fall in love, and endure a veritable parade of misguided father figures on the big screen....

Hugh Jackman Confirmed For ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ By Angie Han/Dec. 19, 2012 7:00 am EST In just a few days, we’ll be seeing Hugh Jackman tackle one of the stage’s most iconic heroes in Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables. But the role that’s really been his signature for the past decade is X-Men’s Wolverine, and it’s one he’ll be reprising again for the next two summers. Shooting is already complete on The Wolverine, which hits in July, but the news today is that he’s also confirmed for an appearance in 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past....

LOL: ‘Key & Peele’ Valet Guys Meet Liam Neeson By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2014 4:30 pm EST Key & Peele is one of the funniest shows on TV right now, and one of the good recurring bits features the two comedians, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, playing a pair of valet attendants who are obsessed with Liam Neesons. Yeah, “Neesons.” the simple mention of Neeson’s name is enough to send the two movie lovers into slow-mo scene recreations and apoplectic paroxysms of delight....

Matt Reeves Talks ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Details By Germain Lussier/July 17, 2013 10:00 am EST Director Matt Reeves will soon present the sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, at San Diego Comic-Con. However, with a film that’s still shooting and is very heavy on CGI, he doesn’t expect to have much footage to show. What he will show is his passion for the franchise, one he’s been a fan of since childhood....

Mel Brooks On Get Smart By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2008 2:55 pm EST The Los Angeles Times has an interesting interview with Get Smart creator (and did I mention comic genius) Mel Brooks. Here are a couple highlights: “Someone called me up and said, ‘They’re making a movie of ‘Get Smart.” I said, ‘Oh, really? What are they going to call it?’ They said, ”Get Smart.” I said, ‘That was wise....

Meta Sundance: It’s COLD Out There By Sundance Spy/Jan. 19, 2007 1:06 am EST It’s extremely cold at Sundance this year, and I’m not the only one who is complaining. Entertainment Weekly takes a look at the 11 most influential films to premiere at Sundance. Cinematical’s James Rocchi gives his early review of Black Snake Moan: “Black Snake Moan isn’t a bad film; it’s just not as well-conceived and well-structured as Hustle and Flow....

By Angie Han/May 14, 2013 7:00 am EST With 30 Rock and The Office officially at an end, the only returning show on NBC’s Thursday night comedy block this fall will be Parks & Recreation at 8 PM. It’ll be followed at 8:30 by Welcome to the Family, starring a Caucasian family and a Latino family who are thrown together when their kids unexpectedly decide to get married. Next up will be Sean Saves the World, with Sean Hayes as a single gay dad of a teenage daughter....

New ‘Oz: The Great And Powerful’ Poster Features Awards Contender Rachel Weisz As A Wicked Witch By Germain Lussier/Dec. 18, 2012 12:15 pm EST Most doubt about who the baddest of them all will be in Sam Raimi’s Oz The Great and Powerful can now be put to bed. In the film, which opens March 8, simple trickster Oscar Diggs (James Franco) ends up in Oz and meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are struggling for control of the land....

New ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Photo; Mark Millar Hints At Connectivity With ‘Fantastic Four’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 19, 2013 10:30 am EST The shot above is the image released to celebrate the wrap of shooting on Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, which finished it’s last days over the weekend. The pic shows the film’s core characters. While we know that the film really brings together the cast of Singer’s original movies with the cast from the First Class prelude, Comic Con footage and other materials that have emerged since really suggest that this is a story about the evolution of Charles Xavier, with fellow First Class teammate Beast along for the ride and Wolverine as a guiding force....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2008 12:35 pm EST Someone on Flickr snapped a photo of Hugh Jackman filming a World War II style scene for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Cinematical has the poster for Jeffrey Nachmanoff’s Traitor, which stars Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce. Millennium Films is developing a new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. The story will focus on the group’s origins. Boring. [variety] The LA Times has an article about the music of Scott Pilgrim, in which they talk to the comic creator Bryan Lee O’Malley about the upcoming film starring Michael Cera....

Presenting Your New Shia LaBeoufs: Nicola Peltz And Brenton Thwaites Land ‘Transformers 4’ Leads By Angie Han/Dec. 11, 2012 6:00 am EST Paramount has found its next Shia LaBeouf. Or rather, its next two Shia LaBeoufs. Brenton Thwaites and Nicola Peltz have just landed the leads in Transformers 4, joining Mark Wahlberg. If you don’t recognize those names right now, that’s okay — you’ll be hearing plenty more about these rising stars in the next couple of years....

See ‘The Knick’ Character Posters; Steven Soderbergh Eager For Second Season By Russ Fischer/July 7, 2014 4:00 pm EST A set of posters for the show supports the set of trailers we’ve seen so far, and gives a spotlight to many members of the supporting cast, and also to what appears to be an impressive attention to detail on the part of the wardrobe and production design departments. Additionally, Soderbergh has been talking about the show, and says that the bracing experience of making the first season has him eager to to a second....