Bring Batman To Life With Lego Cuusoo Wayne Manor By Germain Lussier/Dec. 6, 2013 5:00 am EST Lego Cuusoo is a site where fans can create and show off any Lego project they can come up with. If 10,000 people like it a design, Lego will consider making it a reality. The competition is incredibly fierce as only one piece out of many that meet the criteria is picked for every session....
Bryan Cranston Open To Playing Lex Luthor In ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 13, 2013 6:00 pm EST With LexCorp logos all over Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, it’s a pretty safe bet Lex Luthor will play a role in the film’s sequel. That sequel, we now know, will feature Batman and is likely going to be called Batman vs. Superman. Several actors have been mentioned as possibly being up for the role of the evil genius, including Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston and in a new interview, Cranston suggested he was open to playing the role....
Clint Mansell Re-Teams With Darren Aronofsky To Score ‘Noah’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 11, 2012 1:53 pm EST You might consider it a given that Clint Mansell would score Noah for Darren Aronofsky, as the two have a long-established working partnership that is beginning to resemble the creative marriage between Joel and Ethan Coen and Carter Burwell. In fact, “marriage” is exactly the word Aronofsky uses to describe his work with both Mansell and frequent cinematographer Matty Libatique....
Cool Set Photos And Video From The Chicago Set Of Transformers 3 By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2010 7:00 am EST Michael Bay is in Chicago shooting Transformers 3, and a bunch of photos and videos from the set have found their way online. We normally don’t post set photos/video unless they either show an actor in a unusual costume/make-up or if it shows some cool or unusual production values. These photos and video definitely fit into category b....
Early Transformers 2 Secrets Revealed By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2008 3:17 am EST The autobots include a pair of robots called The Twins, which join together to form an Ice Cream Truck (pictured right). An ice cream truck is a great disguise for a transformer as no one would suspect. I’m guessing that one of the twins is white and the other is pink (but this is just a guess). This appears the be the coolest new addition to the autobot line-up....
Ethan Hawke Says Richard Linklater’s “Truly Original” Film ‘Boyhood’ To Play In 2014 By Russ Fischer/Aug. 28, 2013 9:30 am EST There are long-gestating films that take forever to make due to complications and circumstance. Then there’s the rare one that takes years by design. Richard Linklater has been making Boyhood since 2002. The film isn’t delayed or in trouble or anything like that. Boyhood is designed to chronicle the growth of a boy from age 6 to his last year of high school at 17 or 18....
James Wan Tweets The Villain’s Car From ‘Fast And Furious 7’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 7, 2013 11:58 am EST The more that’s slowly revealed about James Wan’s Fast and Furious 7, the more excited I’m getting for the film. Last year we heard Jason Statham was going to be the main bad guy in the film, then Kurt Russell was cast, Djimon Hounsou joined up, and a few weeks ago fans went nuts when Tokyo Drift star Lucas Black joined tying the whole franchise together....
New NSFW Clip From ‘The Master,’ Announcing 70mm Screening In Austin TX On Monday By Russ Fischer/Sept. 7, 2012 5:21 pm EST The Alamo Drafthouse Ritz location in downtown Austin, TX — the same house that is showing a series of films in 70mm all this month — is hosting a benefit screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film The Master in 70mm. The show is this coming Monday, September 10, at 7:30....
Page 2: Star Wars, Simpsons, Jaws, Brad Bird, Breaking Bad, Penn Jillette, Wes Anderson, Pacific Rim, By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 4, 2013 1:00 pm EST Header Photo: R2D2Pac Matthew McConaughey: A Career in ShirtlessnessHow CBS’ Comedy Strategy Got Shortchanged by ‘2 Broke Girls’The Simpsons featured a tribute to Marcia Wallace and her character, Mrs. Krabapple, “After a couple of years no one will even remember”: 16 pop-culture windows into the world of 1993...
Pixar Updates: ‘Finding Dory’ Gets Co-Director, More ‘Inside Out’ Details Revealed By Angie Han/June 11, 2014 8:45 am EST Pixar set Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton to helm the sequel Finding Dory some time ago. Now, as the project chugs along, Stanton is getting a little extra help. Veteran Pixarian Angus MacLane (Toy Story of Terror) has been set as the Finding Dory co-director, as revealed by Stanton himself. Meanwhile, Pete Docter has dished out some fresh details on the next Pixar release, Inside Out, along with some new art and a logo....
Superhero Bits: Amazing Spider-Man 2, Batman Vs. Superman, Ant-Man, Venom, Thor 3 By Germain Lussier/Jan. 30, 2014 4:15 pm EST Will The Amazing Spider-Man 2 have a special sound mix? Does the Marvel Cinematic Universe need fixing? What do The Lego Movie and Man of Steel have in common? Want a hint at the plot of Thor 3? Does the Batman vs. Superman costume designer know when we’ll see his work?...
Superhero Bits: Batman V Superman, Guardians Of The Galaxy, The Flash, X-Men: Days Of Future Past By Germain Lussier/May 29, 2014 11:00 am EST Want to read and see the latest rumors about costumes in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice? What is comic book legend Alan Moore up to? Where can you hear a one hour X-Men: Days of Future Past interview with writer Simon Kinberg? Is the Flash pilot any good?...
Theme Park Bits: ‘Frozen’ Possible For Epcot, ‘Despicable Me,’ Jungle Cruise, ‘Jurassic Park’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 3, 2014 2:30 pm EST One of Disney’s biggest hits in recent memory might be getting a ride sooner than later. Read about that and everything below in this edition of Theme Park Bits. Disney might open a Frozen attraction at Norway in Epcot Center. The Despicable Me attraction in Hollywood gets a release date....
Watch David Fincher Explain How He Accidentally Got A Job Working On ‘Star Wars’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2012 1:30 pm EST Earlier today, David Fincher’s name was thrown into the Star Wars Episode VII rumor mill. Some of you might not know that David Fincher got his break in the film business working on Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi. How a 20-year-old landed a job working on special effects shots at Industrial Light & Magic in one of the biggest sequels of all time was an accident of sorts....
‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Clip: A Wall-Busting Rooftop Chase By Germain Lussier/March 11, 2014 11:30 am EST Having seen Captain America: The Winter Soldier, I can confirm the action this time around is much more guttural. The punches, the kicks, the crashes and falls all have a realistic weight to them. You can practically feel the bones crunching in the theater. Case in point: this awesome new Captain America Winter Soldier clip, which features Cap (Chris Evans) chasing the mysterious Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) after an assassination attempt....
‘Drift’ Trailer: A True-Life Tale Of Surfing, Innovation, And Crime By Russ Fischer/Dec. 17, 2012 11:44 am EST Here’s what looks like the surfer version of Dogtown and Z-Boys. The Australian film Drift is based on a true story of brothers who moved from surfing into the manufacture and sales of surf gear. It’s a ’70s-set tale of enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit, with Myles Pollard and Xavier Samuel in the lead roles, and Sam Worthington in a wig for a supporting role as the photographer who pushes them forward, but might also direct them towards the seductive potential of crime....
‘I, Frankenstein’ Trailer: What If Mary Shelly’s Monster Was In An Underworld Movie? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 4, 2013 12:45 pm EST You won’t even need to see the credit card that says I, Frankenstein is from the creators of the Underworld films to get that series’ vibe from this trailer. This film casts Aaron Eckhart as the best-looking Frankenstein monster ever in a story that goes with the now-standard over-inflation of stakes....
‘Iron Man 3’ Will Be Different In China; Fan Bingbing To Appear In Exclusive Scene By Russ Fischer/March 29, 2013 11:05 am EST That producers of American movies are courting Chinese funds is nothing new. For the past few years various films have taken Chinese money, and shot films partially in China, in order to qualify for distribution in the country, and thus enjoy the attention of its rapidly growing cinema audience....
‘Olympus Has Fallen’ Heading To London For The Sequel; Main Cast Will Return By Angie Han/Oct. 29, 2013 2:30 pm EST It took the Die Hard franchise five installments to send its hero overseas, but Olympus Has Fallen, a.k.a. “Die Hard in the White House,” will get there considerably faster. According to a new report, Nu Image and Millennium Films are reuniting the entire principal cast of the first movie — including Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman – for London Has Fallen, set in, you guessed it, London....
‘Precious’ Director Lee Daniels Attached To Remake Fellini’s ‘Nights Of Cabiria’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 7, 2010 9:30 am EST Oh, lord. In a story about Precious director Lee Daniels moving to CAA, I expected to find some indication of whether his next film would indeed be The Butler for Sony, or if he might actually make Selma, the film he worked to get off the ground for much of this year....
