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Robert Rodriguez’s Nike Short Film ‘The Black Mamba’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 21, 2011 9:00 am EST NBA All Star Weekend has just concluded and besides the All Star Game, 3-Point Shootout and Slam Dunk Contest, one of the biggest happenings in the world of the basketball was a new film by Robert Rodriguez. The director of Sin City and Spy Kids teamed up with Nike and Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, along with Bruce Willis, Danny Trejo and Kanye West, for a basketball-influenced grindhouse short action film called The Black Mamba....

Sales Trailer: The Bang Bang Club By Russ Fischer/Aug. 3, 2010 2:30 pm EST The Bang Bang Club, a dramatization of a true story about four photographers who documented the end of apartheid in South Africa, is scheduled for a world premiere next month at the Toronto Film Festival. I thought we’d covered this film in the past, but there’s little about it on the site. So while this trailer (which I believe is a sales trailer, rather than an official theatrical one) isn’t super-new, this is a good time to present it....

Sam Mendes Says He’s Not Yet Committed To ‘Bond 24’ By Russ Fischer/June 26, 2013 11:31 am EST Briefly: More than likely, Sam Mendes is telling people he’s not yet committed to Bond 24 to forestall any questions about what the movie is going to be. But all the same, the director who once ruled out making another Bond film to follow Skyfall, but who was then all but confirmed to direct Bond 24 (and Bond 25) is saying that nothing is set in stone at this point....

Sandra Bullock To Go Evil For ‘Despicable Me’ Spinoff ‘Minions’ By Angie Han/Feb. 11, 2013 1:55 pm EST Sandra Bullock has shown a willingness to mix things up over the years, trying her hand at everything from comedy to drama and playing everyone from wacky free spirits to steady, soothing presences. But the one thing that never really seems to change from role to role is her “America’s Sweetheart” reputation....

Star Wars Bits: Anthony Daniels Talks ‘Episode VII,’ Harrison Ford Does Not, Plus Dark Horse Comics And More By Germain Lussier/April 11, 2013 4:02 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When are we going to get some real answers about Star Wars Episode VII? C-3PO believes they’ll come during Star Wars Celebration, taking place July 26-28 in Germany. Anthony Daniels spoke to the Digital Spy and hinted at the convention as a potential hot bed of information and suggested that he might be returning for the upcoming sequel:...

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 23, 2013 5:00 am EST And now Searchlight is said to be close to a $10m deal to pick up the movie. If the deal goes through, Searchlight will have beat out Lionsgate, FilmDistrict, Paramount Pictures, and Warner Bros. in a sale that Deadline calls “one of the most spirited auctions in recent Sundance memory.” It would also be one of the priciest deals ever for the fest....

Theme Park Bits: Captain America, Star Wars, Shrek, Snow White And Ratatouille By Germain Lussier/March 3, 2014 4:00 pm EST That’s a hashtag with 140 characters. Get it? There’s much more in this edition of Theme Park Bits. Below read about the following: Captain America: The Living Legend and Symbol of Courage is coming to Disneyland. Check out a fan rendition of what a possible Star Wars overhaul to Disneyland would look like....

Watch Don Hertzfeldt’s Mind-Melting ‘Simpsons’ Couch Gag By Russ Fischer/Sept. 29, 2014 11:30 am EST In the past couple years the producers of The Simpsons have allowed a few different filmmakers and artists to go wild in revamping the show’s opening “couch gag.” Banksy envisioned a mine in which slave labor animates the show and grinds up kittens to stuff Bart Simpsons dolls; Guillermo del Toro scripted kaiju battles and cameos from Alfred Hitchcock, Stephen King, and a legion of other horror characters from his own films and others....

‘Sherlock’ Season Three Starts Filming Next Week; Will Likely Air Winter 2013 By Germain Lussier/March 11, 2013 10:00 am EST BBC’s Sherlock is technically, a TV show. But with episodes that are the length of a film, and two stars, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, who have become major movie actors, the show might as well be a movie. The point being: it takes an unusual bit of scheduling to create....

‘Shutter Island’ And ‘Drive Angry’ Writers Tapped For ‘Terminator 5’ By Angie Han/Jan. 17, 2013 12:36 pm EST Just as promised, the Terminator will be back. Progress on Terminator 5 has been on-again, off-again for the past couple of years, but now it’s picking back up with the hiring of writers Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier. While the pair have yet to complete any projects together, they’ve collaborated on a couple of things that haven’t made it to the screen yet....

‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ International Trailer By Angie Han/Aug. 9, 2013 8:37 am EST The summer movie season’s winding down, but there should be plenty of big, exciting action this fall as well. Among the upcoming offerings are The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which picks up with Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) on their victory tour around Panem following the events of the first film. Francis Lawrence directs this time around....

‘This Is The End’ International Trailer And Red-Band Spot By Russ Fischer/May 30, 2013 4:55 pm EST The early word on Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s apocalyptic comedy This Is the End has been great. The film that began as an expansion of the short Jay and Seth Versus the Apocalypse has really grown up. It reportedly achieves more than a few laughs based on the joke premise of a comedy who’s who (Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Jonah Hill) playing thinly fictionalized versions of themselves as the world goes to hell....

By Russ Fischer/March 12, 2014 7:30 am EST Also getting orders are Bosch, and Mozart in the Jungle. Details on each is below. Bosch is a cop drama based on Michael Connelly’s book series, written by Eric Overmyer and Connelly. Titus Welliver (Argo, Lost) plays the main character, who is in pursuit of the killer of a teen boy while also dealing with a trial for allegedly murdering a suspected killer....

Atlantis-Themed Underwater Theme Park ‘Pearl Of Dubai’ Announced By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2014 11:22 am EST Dubai is the place where things you never thought were possible get built. First it was a real life robotic Jurassic Park, and now it has been announced Dubai will be home to the first underwater theme park. Reef Worlds, a Los Angeles-based reef developer, plans the underwater tourism site to look like an ancient abandoned lost city....

Disney’s ‘Frozen’ To Return To Theaters With Sing-Along Version By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 23, 2014 4:00 pm EST Disney Animation’s Frozen is a huge hit at the box office, having earned over $337 million domestically, $425 million internationally, thus far since its late November release. And its not cooling off, the film made over $16 million on this past four day MLK weekend. But thats not going to stop Disney from trying to get fans back to the theater one last time to see the film again....

Geek Deals: ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ & ‘Angel’ Complete Series For Only $49-58 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 13, 2014 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Iconic Images Are Combined In Latest ‘Man Of Steel’ Posters [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/May 12, 2013 1:00 pm EST UPDATE: We’ve added a second new Man of Steel Poster below the jump. There’s been a ton of Man of Steel imagery this week and the latest poster kind of combines it all. The iconic “S” symbol is layered with the speeding silhouette of Henry Cavill’s Superman shooting up to the sky, creating a very powerful image....

Ivan Reitman Clears Up Rumors About ‘Ghostbusters 3’ And Bill Murray By Angie Han/July 22, 2013 2:00 pm EST It’s been tough to surround hype and rumor with fact when it comes to Ghostbusters 3. Even the stuff straight out of the actors’ and producers’ mouths are suspect; if everything Dan Aykroyd said was true, we’d probably already be arguing about whether a Ghostbusters 4 could kick off a whole new trilogy....

Jose Padilha And Wagner Moura Team For Netflix Series ‘Narcos’ By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2014 4:30 pm EST Pablo Escobar is a figure that has become the inspiration for many a film, and now he and the Medellin Cartel are going to be the focus of a new limited series on Netflix. The former DVD rental house and current streaming movie champ will be the home for a ten-episode show called Narcos....

LOL: Honest Trailer For Jurassic Park 3D By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2013 7:00 am EST ScreenJunkies has done it again, creating another one of their funny “Honest Trailers” for the upcoming 3D rerelease of Jurassic Park. I personally loved the 3D conversion of this classic Spielberg film (probably the best 3D conversion I’ve seen so far) but its hard not to chuckle at this video lampoon. Watch it now embedded after the jump....