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‘Predestination’ Trailer: Ethan Hawke Is Caught Somewhere In Time By Russ Fischer/July 21, 2014 12:15 pm EST While the partnership between Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater has led to some of the most satisfying films in recent art-house release, Hawke is also indulging his genre interests in many other pictures. In the recent past he’s done films like Sinister, Total Recall, The Purge and Daybreakers. Now he has reunited with Daybreakers filmmakers Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig for Predestination, a time-travel thriller that seems like it has the ambition to grab the audience that loved Looper....

‘Take Me Home Tonight’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 14, 2010 3:30 pm EST Relativity Media and Imagine Entertainment have finally released a movie trailer for the long-delayed dramedy Take Me Home Tonight (previously titled Kids in America). Directed by Michael Dowse (Goon, Fubar, It’s All Gone Pete Tong), the story follows “an aimless college grad who pursues his dream girl at a wild Labor Day weekend party. He, his twin sister and their best friend struggle with their burgeoning adulthood over the course of the night....

‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Clip: Electro Lights Up NYC’s Times Square By Angie Han/Jan. 1, 2014 10:36 am EST As revelers crowded into New York City’s Times Square last night to ring in the New Year, Electro (Jamie Foxx) was dropping by the iconic intersection for a different, far more nefarious reason. In a new clip from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 that debuted at last night’s festivities, the supervillain makes a pit stop in midtown Manhattan to soak up some of its electricity and to release some of his fury....

‘The Conjuring 2’ Will Scare Audiences Next October By Germain Lussier/Feb. 25, 2014 6:35 pm EST Briefly: Six months ago, who would have though James Wan’s The Conjuring would itself conjure not one, but two, follow-ups? A spin-off, Annabelle, is currently filming. Now Warner Bros. has set a prime October 23, 2015 release date for the direct sequel to the paranormal investigation film. Carey Hayes and Chad Hayes are writing and Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson are now confirmed to return....

‘The Hateful Eight’ To Shoot In January, Opens In 70mm Fall 2015 By Angie Han/Sept. 3, 2014 8:24 am EST Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight has certainly had an eventful 2014. The project was first revealed in late 2013, and then called off in January of this year, before getting moving again in July. But its 2015 will be even more exciting. The Weinstein Co. announced today that The Hateful Eight will enter production early next year for release late next year....

‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’ Six-Minute Trailer By Angie Han/Dec. 2, 2013 6:20 pm EST There have been no shortage of teasers, trailers, and clips for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Ben Stiller’s latest directorial effort, but for the most part the footage has been revealed in brief one- or two-minute increments. Today, we have a brand-new trailer for the romantic adventure that clocks in at six minutes long....

‘Tokyo Drift’ Star Lucas Black Returns For ‘Fast And Furious’ Films 7, 8 And 9 By Germain Lussier/Sept. 16, 2013 4:00 pm EST This news literally made me jump out of my seat with pure, franchise-linking excitement. Lucas Black, the actor who played the lead character Sean in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, will reprise his role in James Wan’s Fast and Furious 7. But that’s not all. His contract installs him as a new series regular and he’ll be back for not only the 2014 installment, but at least two more after that....

‘Transcendence’ Trailer: Johnny Depp Theorizes, Then Becomes An Intelligent Machine By Russ Fischer/Feb. 11, 2014 4:27 pm EST Here’s the latest full trailer for Wally Pfister’s Transcendence, starring Johnny Depp as an AI designer who is killed in “real” life, but preserved as a digital consciousness. Pfister makes the leap from cinematographer to director here, but you can still see visual traces of his long run shooting for Christopher Nolan. This film looks like the dark thriller counterpart to Spike Jonze’s Her, as Depp’s character is killed at the hands of anti-tech terrorists, leading his consciousness down a pathway where it can expand well past the limitations of human biology....

‘Tropic Thunder’ Writer To Direct Will Ferrell And Kevin Hart In ‘Get Hard’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 18, 2013 9:14 am EST Briefly: Will Ferrell is turning to Kevin Hart for help, and a Tropic Thunder writer is going to watch over it all. Etan Cohen, who co-wrote Tropic Thunder, will direct Get Hard, scripted by Ian Roberts and Jay Martel. The film is about “a wealthy investment bank manager who is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and prepares for prison with help from the guy who washes his car....

13-Minute ‘Man Of Steel’ Featurette Makes Great Appetizer For Final Film By Germain Lussier/June 3, 2013 9:50 am EST Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel is 143 minutes long. If you want to catch a chunk of that right now, Warner Bros. has released a featurette that’ll do the trick. A thirteen minute video is now online, compiling brand new footage, interviews, behind the scenes glimpses and more from the highly anticipated Superman reboot....

Cool Stuff: Candykiller’s Ridley Scott Poster Art Prints By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2014 3:00 pm EST Our friends at Blurpy have alerted us to Brian Taylor’s awesome Ridley Scott movie poster print series. Taylor, who also goes by the nickname Candykiller, is a Scotland-based graphic designer and illustrator who has worked mainly at design and advertising agencies. Candykiller has released the first two prints for the movies Blade Runner and Alien, available for purchase on Big Cartel....

Kevin Rahm Would Like An LA-Set ‘Mad Men’ Spinoff, Please By Angie Han/Aug. 22, 2013 7:00 am EST Breaking Bad isn’t the only acclaimed AMC series on its way out. Mad Men is expected to wind down with the upcoming seventh season, due out in 2014. And as with the depiction of Vince Gilligan’s drug underworld, Matthew Weiner’s cutthroat ad industry could live on in the form of a spinoff. Or so hopes actor Kevin Rahm....

Kodi Smit-McPhee Joins ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 22, 2013 6:04 pm EST Director Matt Reeves is going back to his last film to fill a key role in his next one. Let Me In star Kodi Smit-McPhee has just been cast as one of the leads in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the sequel to 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes....

Matt Damon And Paul Greengrass Return For More Bourne By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2008 2:41 pm EST Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass will be returning for a fourth film in the Bourne series. The Bourne trilogy has made over $945 million worldwide at the box office (the last film, Ultimatum, responsible for $443 million of that total). The films are based on novels by Robert Ludlum, who passed away in 2001....

Mitchell Hurwitz Says He’ll “Definitely” Make A 5th Season Of ‘Arrested Development’ By Germain Lussier/July 26, 2013 11:45 am EST One way or another, the Bluths will be back. The creator of Arrested Development, Mitchell Hurwitz, is currently in Montreal for the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival. The topic of a potential continuation for Arrested Development came up and Hurwitz said he “definitely” felt they’d be back. He then turned to Ted Sarandos, the chief content officer at Netflix, and said “I don’t want to get into a whole negotiation right now… but I’ve got a family to feed....

New Posters: Robert Zemeckis’ ‘Flight’, David Chase’s ‘Not Fade Away’, Allen Hughes’ ‘Broken City’ By Angie Han/Oct. 4, 2012 6:00 am EST A fresh batch of posters for three films on our radar have just hit the web. The ones for Allen Hughes’ Broken City and Robert Zemeckis’ Flight both rely heavily on star power, which seems like a reasonable strategy when said stars include Russell Crowe, Mark Wahlberg, and Denzel Washington....

On The Visual Effects Artists Protest Outside The Oscars, And The Dire Financial State Of The VFX Industry By Russ Fischer/Feb. 27, 2013 9:01 am EST The Oscar wins come, ironically, at a very difficult time for one of the companies most directly responsible for the movie’s success: Rhythm & Hues, the effects house that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection just a week ago. Lee didn’t mention the company by name in his speech, or thank the artists who brought his film to life....

Page 2: Star Wars, Seinfeld, Neverending Story, Robin Williams, Wizard Wars, DuckTales, Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2014 11:00 am EST Header Photo: Star Wars Costumes Made From Beer Cans The Secret Tech Behind Disney’s Haunted Mansion IllusionsWhen Will Hollywood Stop All the Remakes, Reboots and Sequels? What’s The Deal With ‘Seinfeld’ And ‘Friends’ Recreated In ‘The Sims 4’? 5 THINGS CINEMATOGRAPHERS CAN DO TO MAKE THE EDITOR HAPPIER...

By Russ Fischer/Oct. 18, 2013 8:30 am EST Yet another novel by Philip K. Dick is in development as a feature, but this one might end up differently than most. Typically, a PKD story will be the basis for a somewhat mainstream big-budget thing that files away all the odd edges and corners of the original. Something like Blade Runner or Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, that breaks the mold a bit, doesn’t come around very often....

Producer Floats Idea Of Two Versions Of ‘Fifty Shades’: One R, One NC-17 By Angie Han/Nov. 15, 2013 4:30 pm EST Lars von Trier’s plan to release hardcore and softcore versions of Nymphomaniac didn’t go quite as planned, but now another developing project has glommed onto a similar idea. Producer Dana Brunetti recently revealed that he hopes to put out two edits of Fifty Shades of Grey: an R-rated one for more general audiences, followed by an NC-17 edit for the more hardcore fans....