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Relativity Announces CG Comedy ‘Turkeys’, Starring Owen Wilson And Woody Harrelson By Angie Han/Oct. 25, 2012 3:00 pm EST Hollywood has no shortage of movies about Christmas, Halloween, and Valentine’s Day, while poor old Thanksgiving tends to get overlooked. It’s a great release date, but not a movie subject. Not so any longer. Relativity Media is diving into the animation game with Turkeys, a CG comedy due out in 2014. Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson will lend their voices to two of the titular creatures, while Jimmy Hayward is on board to direct....

Teaser And Behind The Scenes Footage For Park Chan-Wook’s iPhone Film ‘Night Fishing’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 17, 2011 7:50 pm EST One of the more surprising news items of last week was the existence of Paranmanjang, which is a new 30 minute short film by Thirst and Oldboy director Park Chan-wook. (I originally used the translated title Ups and Downs, which is a fairly literal title translation, but it now seems like we might see the film under the name Night Fishing....

Watch Director’s Roundtable With Steve McQueen, Paul Greengrass, David O. Russell, Ben Stiller, Alfonso Cuaron And Lee Daniels By Russ Fischer/Nov. 15, 2013 12:00 pm EST As we mentioned a few days ago, one of the great pleasures of the award season, which does arrive each year with a grand set of problems and irritants, is that filmmakers are given more opportunities than usual to discuss their work, and some of those opportunities are more extensive than others....

Watch Jacob Gentry’s Sci-Fi ‘After The Disco’ Shorts With Kate Mara And Anton Yelchin By Russ Fischer/Nov. 22, 2013 4:30 pm EST The band Broken Bells, aka Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton and James “the Shins” Mercer, makes very cinematic music. For a video to accompany new material the pair had a great idea. Burton took a story concept to Jacob Gentry (The Signal, My Super Psycho Sweet 16) and gave him the freedom to make an extended pair of shorts that effectively act as a music video for the album, rather than for any one song....

Watch Marvel’s ‘Agents Of SHIELD’ Comic Con Panel By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2013 10:30 am EST Emergency Awesome has uploaded the entire Comic Con panel for Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (minus the pilot episode, my reaction to while you can read here). Watch it now embedded after the jump now! Watch Marvel’s ‘Agents Of SHIELD’ Comic Con Panel By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2013 10:30 am EST Emergency Awesome has uploaded the entire Comic Con panel for Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (minus the pilot episode, my reaction to while you can read here)....

WTF: Someone Is Crowdfunding A Kevin Smith Biopic By Germain Lussier/Feb. 19, 2014 11:45 am EST Since the release of his first film Clerks, Kevin Smith has cultivated a group of incredibly loyal, vocal fans. It makes sense, considering Smith’s story: that of the everyman going after the American dream; it’s a rags-to-riches story fueled with big risks, pop culture references and dick jokes. This is a man we could all relate to and be happy for....

‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Footage Preview Reveals Hulkbuster Suit, Avengers Tower By Russ Fischer/July 15, 2014 11:30 am EST A small audience in London got a taste of what audiences in Hall H are likely to see next week at Comic Con when Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige presented some Avengers: Age of Ultron footage along with a Guardians of the Galaxy preview. This presentation included Tony Stark in the Hulkbuster armor, and appearances from Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver....

/Film Interview: Director And ‘Wolf Of Wall Street’ Co-Star Rob Reiner By Germain Lussier/Dec. 23, 2013 5:00 pm EST That’s a lot of history and talent wrapped up in one man, so when I spoke to Reiner I focused on what his directorial expertise tells him about Scorsese, what it was like being one of three directors who act in the film and how his latest two films, Flipped and The Magic of Belle Isle, inform his current view of the Hollywood landscape....

‘Game Change’ Trailer - Julianne Moore Can See Russia From Her House By Angie Han/Jan. 31, 2012 3:30 pm EST Sarah Palin has become such a ubiquitous cultural figure at this point, it’s hard to believe it was just four years ago that John McCain pulled the then-relatively unknown pol into the spotlight by announcing her as his running mate for his 2008 presidential campaign. But as the 2012 race slowly heats up, now seems as good a time as any to think back to what happened the last time we as a nation chose a leader....

‘Harmontown’ Trailer: Dan Harmon After ‘Community’ By Angie Han/March 5, 2014 5:00 am EST It’s been a wild few years for Dan Harmon, the controversial creator of NBC’s Community. There was his notorious feud with Chevy Chase, his very public firing from his own show, and his eventual re-hiring by the same show. The first Harmontown trailer tags along on the cross-country comedy tour he took in the interim, offering a tiny taste of what this beloved but troubled artist was going through during that time....

‘Ice Age’ Borrows Muppets Idea, Spoofs ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Russ Fischer/July 10, 2012 5:30 am EST How did it take this long for someone to cut The Dark Knight Rises footage to the tune of the Karen O cover of ‘Immigrant Song’ from the trailer for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? Maybe there have been other versions of the same idea that I’ve missed, but this one is worth a look — it has quite a wide variety of footage, and is pretty nicely edited to emulate the trailer for David Fincher’s thriller....

‘Pacific Rim’ Creator Hired To Co-Write Sequel With Guillermo Del Toro By Russ Fischer/Dec. 4, 2012 1:30 pm EST It’s difficult to really get across the idea that Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim might truly be a movie we’ll want to see more of after it opens in July next year. The idea of del Toro doing his take on giant robots fighting giant monsters will be enough, for some people, especially when one of the robots is piloted by Idris Elba....

‘Percy Jackson And The Sea Of Monsters’ Trailer: Those Aren’t Sharks By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2013 11:30 am EST One of the many YA series to get life on movie screens has been Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The first film in the series, The Lightning Thief, bowed in 2010 and introduced film audiences to the story’s modernized take on classic mythological characters. Like many YA adaptations outside the Harry Potter and Twilight series, The Lightning Thief didn’t quite wow audiences....

By Russ Fischer/March 20, 2013 10:48 am EST The multi-hyphenate David Lowery is going to be someone that many more people are talking about within the next few years. He’s got three films doing the festival circuit this year: the indie drama Pit Stop, which he co-wrote; the exceptional ’60s-set western Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, which he wrote and directed; and Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color, which Lowery edited. I haven’t seen Pit Stop at this point, but his other two 2013 efforts are two of the best films of the year so far....

‘Star Wars’ Producer To Adapt Sci-Fi Short Film ‘R’Ha’ By Germain Lussier/June 7, 2013 9:08 am EST Rick McCallum was the face of Star Wars for almost two decades. He was the lead producer on the Special Editions, the Prequel Trilogy and, unlike George Lucas, was the guy talking about the films in public. Now, the former Lucasfilm employee will shepherd a totally new vision in sci-fi: R’Ha.R’Ha is based on a short film of the same directed by Kaleb Lechowski, who is attached to direct the feature....

Cannes Hit ‘Blue Is The Warmest Color’ Gets NC-17 Rating; Watch The Trailer By Angie Han/Aug. 21, 2013 1:40 pm EST Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Color drew raves upon raves at Cannes this year, for its tender, intimate portrayal of two young women (Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux) falling in love. But it also raised some eyebrows thanks to its graphic sex scenes. It’s no surprise, then, that the MPAA has stamped the drama with an NC-17 for its U....

Christian Bale Could Be Moses For Ridley Scott In ‘Exodus’ By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2013 11:11 am EST Bale has been really busy in the wake of Batman’s conclusion. He has shot roles in two terrence Malick films, recently finished Out of the Furnace for Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper, and is now working once more with David O. Russell, on the currently untitled ABSCAM project opposite Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Louis CK....

First Look: Kate Hudson And Anne Hathaway In Bride Wars By Peter Sciretta/June 5, 2008 12:17 am EST Last week Kate Hudson was spotted with Blue hair, and now a orange Anne Hathaway has been caught on camera, what the hell is going on in Gary Winick’s Bride Wars? The film tells the story of two best friends who become rivals when they schedule their respective weddings on the same day....

First Plot Details Revealed For Delayed ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 11, 2013 9:08 am EST Though 2010’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides was a billion dollar global blockbuster, critics hated it. It sits at a rotten 33% on Rotten Tomatoes. Might the producers think “if the movie was adored, maybe we could have made more”? That possibility was certainly part of Tuesday’s news that Pirates of the Caribbean 5, originally scheduled for a July 2015 release date, has been delayed....

First Posters For ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Feature New And Old Magneto And Xavier [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/July 23, 2013 9:50 am EST Thanks to Entertainment Weekly for the posters character posters. Thanks to Coming Soon for the viral Sentinel posters. For much more on X-Men: Days of Future Past, and their presence at Comic-Con, click here.