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‘Dear Mr. Watterson’ Trailer And Release Info: ‘Calvin & Hobbes’ Documentary Finally Hits Screens By Russ Fischer/July 16, 2013 12:36 pm EST Several years ago Joel Schroeder began working on a documentary called Dear Mr. Watterson. The film was essentially designed to be a long appreciation of Bill Watterson’s excellent comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, which ran in newspapers from 1985 to 1995. Several years and a big Kickstarter campaign later, the film is ready to be released, and there’s a full trailer, as well as some release info....

‘Flight’ Trailer: Robert Zemeckis And Denzel Washington Pull Out Of A Tailspin By Russ Fischer/June 6, 2012 5:02 pm EST After years spent directing mo-capped animated films, Robert Zemeckis has returned to live-action with Flight. The film casts Denzel Washington as an airline captain who lands a plane that is about to crash, only to be forced to face his own demons as the investigation into the crash goes on....

‘Obey The Giant:’ A Narrative Short Film On The Early Life Of Artist Shepard Fairey By Germain Lussier/April 15, 2013 11:00 am EST Whether you’ve seen it on the streets of your city or on someone’s hat as they walk down the street, a familiar slogan is found all over the place: “Obey.” The simple command with the layered connotation is the handiwork of artist Shepard Fairey. Influenced by the film They Live and using the visage of Andre the Giant, Fairey began plastering the familiar logo all over the globe in the ’90s, leading viewers to consider its implications....

‘Saving Mr. Banks’ Trailer: Disney Follows ‘Mary Poppins’s’ Rocky Path To Film By Angie Han/July 11, 2013 10:40 am EST There’s a certain kind of stress that comes with watching a favorite book get adapted into movies, and I can only imagine that the process must be even more nerve-wracking for the authors of those books. It can’t be easy for them to see their work chopped up and rearranged, or to find that what soars on the page drops with a thud on the screen....

‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Japanese Trailer, New Still, Spock Promo, And Character Posters By Angie Han/April 24, 2013 11:17 am EST With the opening of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness just around the corner, we can hardly turn around these days without stumbling across a new trailer or clip or TV spot. Today we have two new videos. The first is the Japanese trailer, which contains a bit of new footage, and the second is a promo centered on Spock (Zachary Quinto) and voiced by John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch)....

‘The Grey’ Producers To Remake Kim Jee-Woon’s ‘I Saw The Devil’ By Angie Han/Dec. 19, 2013 1:30 pm EST Spike Lee’s Oldboy wasn’t really a success in any sense when it opened last month. Critics met the film with a shrug, audiences failed to meet it at all, and fans who were against it to begin with got to crow “I told you so.” But Oldboy’s failure isn’t keeping producers Adi Shankar and Spencer Silna from trying to remake a different Korean revenge thriller starring Choi Min-sik....

‘The Past’ Trailer: ‘A Separation’ Director Asghar Farhadi Ends Another Marriage By Angie Han/Nov. 19, 2013 12:00 pm EST Two of the brightest foreign stars of 2011 have joined forces for a new movie in 2013. The Past teams Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian director behind the brilliant domestic drama A Separation, with Bérénice Bejo, best known in the U.S. as the sweet-faced ingenue from The Artist. Given that pedigree, it’s not surprising that there’s Oscar buzz surrounding the project already; Iran has submitted The Past as its foreign-language entry in this year’s Oscar race....

‘The Theory Of Everything’ Trailer: Eddie Redmayne Is A Young Stephen Hawking By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2014 9:20 am EST Here’s the first The Theory of Everything trailer, in which Eddie Redmayne (Les Miserables, Jupiter Ascending) plays a young Stephen Hawking. The film catches Hawking in the years before motor neuron disease ravaged his body, when his theories about space and time first began to coalesce, and when he fell for the woman (Felicity Jones) who became his first wife....

‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Sequel Officially In The Works, Composer Confirms By Angie Han/April 6, 2014 11:52 am EST Wreck-It Ralph may not have been a box office juggernaut on the order of Frozen, but it was still a pretty big hit when it landed in 2012. Talk of a potential Wreck-It Ralph sequel began swirling not long afterward, but there’s been no official confirmation that any such movie would actually happen — until now....

10-Second Sneak Preview: ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ Super Bowl TV Commercial By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2011 4:45 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures have released a 10 second sneak peek of the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Super Bowl TV Spot. The full thirty second commercial will air during the big game this Sunday. But catch 10 seconds now embedded after the jump. Previously: Official Plot Synopsis:...

All-Ages ‘V/H/S/2’ Trailer: Great Intensity, Without Much Blood By Russ Fischer/May 21, 2013 2:30 pm EST I liked the original V/H/S because it was a small, weird collection of shorts. The sequel, V/H/S/2, is bigger and much more bold than the first, with bigger scope and some ideas that are far more weird. It doesn’t have quite the same sense of intimate disquiet, but it has some much more monstrous action....

Annapurna Pictures Nabs ‘Where’d You Go Bernadette,’ And ‘(500) Days Of Summer’ Team Will Adapt By Germain Lussier/Jan. 8, 2013 3:28 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette’s intensifying allergy to Seattle–and people in general–has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands....

Daniel Radcliffe Sports Horns In The First Image From… ‘Horns’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 2, 2012 4:37 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s fun watching Daniel Radcliffe try out strange roles in the wake of Harry Potter’s finale. His latest is Horns, from director Alexandre Aja (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes), based on the book by Joe Hill. Radcliffe’s character is Ignatiaus “Ig” Perrish, accused of the rape and murder of his girlfriend....

Enter The Biopic Twilight Zone: Film About Rod Serling Goes Into Development By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2011 12:30 pm EST This had to happen: a company has picked up the life rights to The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, and is seeking to make a biopic about the pioneering television writer/producer who defined the popular approach to science fiction and unusual short stories when The Twilight Zone hit the airwaves in 1959....

Footage Surfaces From Suppressed Jerry Lewis Holocaust Movie ‘The Day The Clown Cried’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 11, 2013 4:08 pm EST In the early ’70s, Jerry Lewis directed and starred in The Day the Clown Cried, which would go on to become of the most notorious “lost” films in cinema history. In fact the film isn’t really lost — it exists, and Lewis has a copy. Harry Shearer is among the very few people that claim to have seen it, and Lewis says it will never, ever be released....

FX Confirms ‘Justified’ Ending With Sixth Season By Russ Fischer/Jan. 14, 2014 1:13 pm EST Briefly: Just a week ago we heard that Justified might end with its planned sixth season. (The fifth season just began.) Now FX CEO John Landgraf has confirmed that the show’s sixth season will be its last. Landgraf said, “It was really Graham and Tim Olyphant’s decision … We talked about it a year ago and they felt that the arc of the show and what they had to say (fit better with six seasons than seven seasons)....

Grumpy Cat Is Getting Her Own Movie By Angie Han/May 30, 2013 8:12 am EST Plenty of cinephiles have bemoaned the lack of creativity in Hollywood nowadays, but it’s not entirely justified. The industry is still plenty creative when it comes to digging up unusual source materal. Just a couple weeks ago, we got word of a movie project based on a chain restaurant. Today, someone else has announced plans to craft a picture based on Tardar Sauce a....

Harrison Ford Says Bringing Back Indiana Jones Is “Perfectly Appropriate” By Germain Lussier/Aug. 6, 2013 10:00 am EST Though Steven Spielberg is currently without a project, and George Lucas isn’t saddled with Star Wars pressure, there’s no new news on the Indiana Jones 5 front. Everyone still feels they’d do it, but it comes down to timing and Lucas pitching Spielberg and star Harrison Ford a stellar idea. Ford is currently doing press for his latest film, Paranoia, and was quoted as saying he thinks it’s “perfectly appropriate” to bring the character back....

Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theatre To Convert Into Third Largest IMAX Theater In North America By Peter Sciretta/April 11, 2013 2:37 pm EST Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theatre is one of the most famous movie theaters in the world, but in recent years it has become more of a tourist attraction and venue for movie premieres. The theater plans to enter the 21st century with plans to convert the huge theater into an IMAX theater....

Horror Sequel Bits: ‘Sharknado 2’, ‘Insidious Chapter 2’, ‘[REC] 4’ By Angie Han/Aug. 8, 2013 6:24 pm EST The Sharknado sequel finally gets a title! Also after the jump: Insidious 2 has an odd promo on Pretty Little Liars WWE Studios’ See No Evil 2 will shoot this fall See a new pic from I Spit On Your Grave 2 Check out a set video from [REC]4: Apocalypse Love Sharknado or hate it, that’s an amazingly appropriate title....