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Latest ‘The Wolverine’ International Trailer Heavy On Set-Up And Mutant Action [Updated With TV Spot] By Germain Lussier/June 12, 2013 1:30 pm EST Man of Steel opens this weekend, but don’t forget you have one more superhero movie coming this summer. That’s James Mangold’s The Wolverine, the return of Hugh Jackman as everyone’s favorite immortal, adamantium-clawed X-Man. This time Logan, dealing with the events of the original X-Men films, finds himself in Japan and posed with an incredible proposition....

Mark Miller Discusses His Consultant Role For Fox’s Marvel Superhero Movies By Angie Han/Oct. 10, 2012 4:22 pm EST The outspoken Millar was quick to acknowledge Fox’s spotty history with superheroes (Elektra, anyone?), but pointed out that the studio’s had some major successes as well: What’s changed, Millar says, is a new staff dedicated to bringing their Marvel movies to the next level: Although Fantastic Four, The Wolverine, and X-Men: Days of Future Past were in the works long before Millar was hired, he was enthusiastic (if vague) in his praise for them....

New ‘Oz The Great And Powerful’ Images Show Massive Landscapes, Beautiful Witches, And More By Germain Lussier/Nov. 12, 2012 9:00 am EST Your trip to Sam Raimi’s Oz is just a few short months away. Oz The Great and Powerful, Raimi’s prequel to The Wizard of Oz, has long felt miles away. But after a crazy summer at the movies and a promising fall, the film’s March 2013 release has crept up on us....

Page 2: Star Wars, Attack The Block, Newsroom, Doctor Who, Reznor, WALL-E, Edge Of Tomorrow, Big Hero 6, Ghostbusters By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 29, 2014 4:00 pm EST Header Photo: Money Is Way Cooler When Historic Figures Are Turned Into Famous People 11 Reasons Once Upon A Time’s Frozen Story Is Flipping Weird5 Questions About the Frozen Storyline on Once Upon a Time “Han Burgundy” by Blake Armstrong How Dan Aykroyd Predicted Bill Hader’s Entire SNL Career After 3 EpisodesEverything you need to know about ‘Once Upon a Time’ season 4...

Paramount Not Committed To ‘Terminator 5’ Title ‘Terminator: Genesis’ By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2014 10:30 am EST Paramount Pictures has issued a press release announcing the start of principal photography on the fifth Terminator feature film, Terminator: Genesis. Of course, much like most of the information in the press release, we already knew this — we even posted a photo from the set earlier this week. The only thing of note is that Paramount does not use the Terminator: Genesis title in the press release, instead repeatedly referring to the film as the Terminator reboot....

Robert Redford To Star In True Crime Tale From ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ Director By Russ Fischer/April 11, 2013 2:07 pm EST Damn, how David Lowery’s career has rocketed forward this year. After a few years in which he crafted a string of shorts and the feature St. Nick, Lowery had three films at Sundance this past January. They were Pit Stop (which he co-wrote), Upstream Color (which he edited), and the great modern-ish western Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, which he wrote and directed....

Set Photos: ‘X-Men First Class’ And ‘Captain America’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 28, 2010 1:00 pm EST Yesterday we brought you a big lineup of rumored spoiler tidbits from X-Men: First Class. Now we’ve got a couple extra spy photos snapped on set. Some of them tie into one of the bits mentioned in that roundup, so if you’re looking for more hints on how some parts of the film are going to play out, check after the break....

Stanley Tucci Says He Won’t Be In ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’, But Hayley Atwell Will By Angie Han/Feb. 13, 2013 11:30 am EST Despite the seven-decade leap between Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, there are a few stars from the former set to reprise their roles in the latter. That group includes Chris Evans as the title character, obviously, along with Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes and Toby Jones as Arnim Zola....

VOTD: A ‘Fast And Furious’ Tribute To The Career Of Paul Walker By Germain Lussier/Dec. 5, 2013 12:53 pm EST The world was rocked this weekend when actor Paul Walker died in a car crash at the age of 40. As someone who has followed his career since the very beginning, and has seen every Fast and Furious movie opening night, the news hit me much harder than I expected. Walker was such a fun person to watch....

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 7, 2013 12:04 pm EST If we end up seeing a news report in Anchorman 2 about the damage done by metal thieves, this is the backstory. Anyone who deals with slow-moving real estate or commercial property repairs knows that buildings can be big targets for thieves. Copper wire is very valuable, and since the economic downturn of ‘08 empty homes, big commercial spaces and even civic infrastructure have frequently been targeted by thieves looking to grab wire or anything that could contain large quantities of the metal, such as air conditioning units....

‘28 Hotel Rooms’ Trailer: I Love You, I Love You Not By Russ Fischer/Oct. 5, 2012 9:30 am EST American Psycho, Big Love, and American Horror Story actor Matt Ross makes his feature writing and directing debut with 28 Hotel Rooms, which played Sundance this year to considerable acclaim and is soon opening via Oscilloscope. The film follows the tumultuous courtship of a couple played by Chris Messina (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Away We Go) and Marin Ireland (Homeland), and this first trailer for the movie is an occasionally raw illustration of the life they try to lead together....

‘60 Minutes’ Segment On Sundance Fave ‘Searching For Sugar Man’ Celebrates Talented Singer Rodriguez By Russ Fischer/Oct. 8, 2012 5:42 pm EST One of the big hits of both Sundance and SXSW this year was the doc Searching For Sugar Man, about the singer Rodriguez, whose records bombed in the US in the ’70s even as it became a major cultural force in South Africa. Sony Classics picked up the film after Sundance, but no trailer has been released at this point....

‘Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/May 20, 2011 6:15 pm EST The long, strange story of Conan O’Brien’s exit from NBC and the national comedy/music revue tour that followed gets its final chapter — or coda, really — in the form of the documentary Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop. The film premiered at SXSW and landed distribution that will see the film hitting VOD and AT&T’s U-verse platforms before a small theatrical opening....

‘Godzilla’ Teaser Trailer By Russ Fischer/Dec. 10, 2013 10:06 am EST Monsters director Gareth Edwards is the man entrusted by Toho, Legendary, and Warner Bros. to revamp Godzilla — or more properly, to bring him back to speed as the giant nuclear monster that owns the hearts of moviegoers. Edwards said this week, “To me, he’s like a force of nature, like the wrath of God or vengeance for the way we’ve behaved… I want it to be epic....

‘London Has Fallen’ Closes In On A New Director By Angie Han/Sept. 29, 2014 12:00 pm EST London Has Fallen may have found a new director. According to a new report Babak Najafi, best known for Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (a.k.a. Snabba Cash II), has entered talks to take over at the helm following Fredrik Bond’s last-minute departure.Gerard Butler returns to star in the Olympus Has Fallen sequel along with Aaron Eckhart....

By Germain Lussier/March 19, 2014 9:35 am EST Pirates of the Caribbean 5 is currently in limbo, thanks to Disney CEO Bob Iger. Iger did a conference call on Tuesday and made it rain with news. He mentioned The Incredibles 2, Star Wars Episode VII, and also mentioned that, despite directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg being attached, the studio has yet to green light the long-in-development fifth film in the mega-blockbuster franchise starring Johnny Depp....

‘The Numbers Station’ Trailer: A Thriller Built On Enigmatic Intelligence Agency Relics By Russ Fischer/Feb. 13, 2013 10:00 am EST No one has ever truly confirmed the full intent of the numbers stations. For decades — since WWII, some say since WWI — shortwave broadcasts around the world have repeated strings of numbers for unknown recipients. The voices are male and female, some children, some synthesized. Supposedly the stations are government-maintained, the numbers strings of one-time pad code....

‘The Thieves’ Trailer: ‘Ocean’s Eleven’-Style Heist Flick Beats Out ‘The Host’ As Most-Watched Korean Movie Of All Time By Angie Han/Oct. 8, 2012 11:51 am EST In 2006, Joon-ho Bong’s The Host set the record for the highest-grossing Korean film of all time, but apparently sea monsters are no match for attractive criminals. This summer saw The Host’s figure defeated by Dong-hun Choi’s The Thieves, a heist flick that looks from here like a Korean Ocean’s Eleven with touches of Mission: Impossible....

‘The Two Faces Of January’ Trailer: Oscar Isaac Learns To Be A Real Criminal By Russ Fischer/June 18, 2014 2:30 pm EST Last time we checked in on The Two Faces of January, the film didn’t have a US release date set. There was reason to hope for one, as the film stars Viggo Mordetensen, Kirsten Dunst, and Oscar Isaac in an adaptation of the novel by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr....

Akiva Goldsman Producing ‘Space Invaders’ Movie By Peter Sciretta/July 18, 2014 10:58 am EST Akiva Goldsman has signed on to develop and produce a Space Invaders movie based on the classic Taito video game. Goldsman, who is known for I Am Legend and Hancock, and who just directed Winter’s Tale, will produce with Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell. More details on the Space Invaders movie after the jump. Warners bought Midway Games in 2009, but the US publisher of Space Invaders does not own the theatrical rights to the game....