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New ‘Horrible Bosses 2’ Trailer: Shower Buddies And Fight Clubbing By Germain Lussier/Sept. 30, 2014 5:36 pm EST You’ve gotta love how Warner Bros. is marketing Horrible Bosses 2. The last trailer pushed the edges of what “Green Band” could do, featuring some incredibly racy dialogue from co-star Jennifer Aniston. She’s back in the latest trailer, called the “Official Main Trailer” and again her story sets the tone with some hilarious, off-color humor....

New ‘Thor’ Clip Shows Off Sif, Destroyer And Warriors Three By Russ Fischer/April 28, 2011 10:25 am EST Depending upon where you live, you might have already been able to see Thor, but for US residents the film doesn’t open until May 6. We’ve seen a couple clips from the movie, and they’ve been not quite inspiring, though international reviews suggest that any severe worries about the film’s ability to entertain are probably unfounded....

New Music Videos From David Lynch And Michel Gondry By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 3, 2010 9:24 am EST There’s two new music promos of note for film enthusiasts, one from a music video director who branched into movies and the other, vice versa. You can see both Michel Gondry’s promo clip for Mia Doi Todd and David Lynch’s introduction clip for Ariana Delawari’s album Lion of Panjsheer embedded below the break. There’s no way you’d get them mixed up: these works fall quite comfortably inside the expected output of their respective creators....

Oliver Stone Making Edward Snowden Biopic By Angie Han/June 2, 2014 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Stone has previously gone on the record calling Snowden a “hero” for exposing the details of NSA’s global surveillance program, and President Barack Obama a “disgrace” for prioritizing the hunt for Snowden over the reformation of “George Bush-style eavesdropping techniques.” Not everyone will agree with those assessments, but Stone’s never been afraid to ruffle some feathers....

Sam Mendes-Directed iPhone 4 “FaceTime” Commercial By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2010 11:21 am EST The new Apple iPhone commercial directed by Sam Mendes, the Academy Award-winning director of American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Revolutionary Road and Away We Go, is now online. The commercial premiered after Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone 4 during Apple’s WWDC keynote today (June 7th 2010). But this isn’t the first time that Apple has employed a big director for their television commercials… The Northern California-based computer company has a long history of hiring big name filmmaker for their television spots (chronicled in brief after the jump)....

Star Wars Bits: More Plot Rumors, Star Wars Rebels Episode Titles, J.J. Abrams On Set By Germain Lussier/Aug. 29, 2014 12:00 pm EST Want more Star Wars Bits? We’ve got more Star Wars Bits. It starts with some big time Star Wars Rebels updates and ends with some potentially massive Episode VII spoilers. (Don’t worry, they’re well hidden.) Below, read about the following: Watch three new commercials from Star Wars Rebels....

Trivia: M. Night Shyamalan Ghost-Wrote Which Teen Romantic Comedy? By Angie Han/June 7, 2013 1:00 pm EST The marketing for After Earth featured plenty of eye-popping scenes, but one of the most curious aspects of the campaign had to do with what the studio chose not to show: director M. Night Shyamalan’s name. No doubt that was thanks to his declining cachet in the pop culture landscape. Fairly or not, he’s gone from rising star to laughingstock over the past fifteen years....

By Russ Fischer/April 9, 2013 3:17 pm EST MacGruber made the leap from Saturday Night Live to the big screen and then into the hearts of a fan base that reveres the film’s humor. But the film didn’t make the leap to hit status, at least as far as accountants are concerned. So the sequel ideas that Will Forte and his co-conspirators developed have been forced to stay dormant. Until now....

‘Cloud Atlas’ Theatrical Trailer By Angie Han/Sept. 6, 2012 7:34 am EST Anyone who’s really eager to see the Andy and Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer’s Cloud Atlas has likely already pored over that six-minute trailer released over the summer, but for the rest of the moviegoing public there’s now a more traditional two-minute theatrical version. Whichever camp you fall into, the new cut is worth checking out, as there’s a bit of fresh footage to be found here....

‘Cub’ Trailer: A Scout Troop Finds Real Horror In The Woods By Russ Fischer/Aug. 29, 2014 11:15 am EST The Midnight Madness program at the Toronto Film Festival is one of the most reliable lineups of provocative genre movies each year — programmer Colin Geddes does a great job of choosing films that are memorable and full of new talent. Here’s the Cub trailer, which will be your first look at one of this year’s Midnight Madness titles....

‘Dead Man Down’ Trailer: Colin Farrell And Noomi Rapace Tangled In Deadly Revenge [Updated With New Embed] By Russ Fischer/Jan. 2, 2013 11:40 am EST Director Niels Arden Oplev and actress Noomi Rapace found great success across the globe with the trilogy of films based on Steig Larsson’s Millennium novels, beginning with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. The duo has reunited for Dead Man Down, a revenge tale in which Rapace plays a woman who coerces hit man Victor (Colin Farrell) into helping her execute a revenge plot....

‘Grace Of Monaco’ Teaser: Nicole Kidman Is A Pretty Pretty Princess By Angie Han/Sept. 16, 2013 8:18 am EST Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Diana has already been thoroughly panned by critics across the pond, but maybe the second of this fall’s two princess biopics will meet a better fate. The first teaser has been revealed for Grace of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman as movie star-turned-royal Grace Kelly. Olivier Dahan (La Vie en Rose) directs, and Tim Roth and Frank Langella also star....

‘Lore’ Trailer: A Difficult Journey To Awareness Through The Ruins Of WWII By Russ Fischer/Feb. 12, 2013 4:21 pm EST Lore is quickly becoming one of the more talked-about indies of the year. Australian director Cate Shortland (Somesault) made the film, and co-wrote the film with Robin Mukherjee, based on part of Rachel Seiffert’s novel The Dark Room. The film follows a young woman and her siblings as they flee to safety across ruined Germany in the wake of Hitler’s death....

‘Man Of Tai Chi’ International Trailer: Keanu Reeves’ Directorial Debut Looks Like A Straight-Up Tournament Movie By Russ Fischer/April 20, 2013 5:19 pm EST Here’s the first footage from Keanu Reeves’ directorial debut, Man of Tai Chi, and it isn’t quite what I expected to see. This is a fight film through and through, which we knew to expect, but one that seems to have more in common with a film like Bloodsport than the fight-heavy films Reeves is known for as an actor....

‘Red’ Director Robert Schwentke To Helm Disney’s ‘The Finest Hours’ By Angie Han/May 29, 2013 11:17 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Tamasy and Johnson did extensive research on the project, even interviewing some of the survivors of the incident. They pitched the adaptation to producer Jim Whitaker, who then brought it to Disney. The studio optioned the book in 2011. HBO vet Tim Van Patten (Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire) was circling the project last fall as a potential feature directing debut....

‘The Smurfs 2’ International Teaser: It’s Not Quite ‘Despicable Me,’ Is It? By Russ Fischer/Nov. 19, 2012 3:28 pm EST Is minimal design in teasers now the go-to for kids animation franchises? Despicable Me 2 used the approach to pretty cute effect not long ago, and here an international teaser for The Smurfs 2 (which is likely almost exactly the same as the forthcoming US teaser) relies on little but a Smurf, a white backdrop, and an insistent bit of text....

AMC’s ‘Better Call Saul’ Delayed And Renewed; See The First Image By Angie Han/June 19, 2014 3:46 pm EST Desperate for a Breaking Bad fix? AMC has both good and bad news for you. The network announced today that the Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul has been delayed by several months, from late 2014 to early 2015. On the bright side, when the show finally does air we can expect more of it....

Cool Stuff: Mondo Does Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 25, 2013 12:00 pm EST It’s a good time to not live under the sea. Right now, not only are some theaters playing Disney’s 1989 masterpiece The Little Mermaid in 3D, but the Diamond Edition Blu-ray hits stores on October 1. To commemorate both occasions, Mondo is releasing a poster by Tom Whalen. This beautiful 24 x 36 inch gem goes on sale Thursday....

Despite Alexander Payne’s Wishes, ‘Nebraska’ Will Be Broadcast In Color On Epix By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2014 4:00 pm EST We don’t see many new films produced in black and white, and even fewer that get major studio distribution. And even then, there’s often a color version kept in reserve for use in certain markets. Such was the case with Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, released last winter. Payne had to cut the budget of the film in order to get Paramount to agree to the black and white aesthetic....

Disney Plans ‘Star Wars’ Push At D23; Analysts Predicting Over $1B Box-Office For ‘Episode VII’ By Russ Fischer/July 9, 2013 11:00 am EST Disney won’t be showing anything from Star Wars at Comic Con, leaving Hall H to the fireworks from Marvel Studios. But at Disney’s own D23 Expo, taking place in Anaheim, CA August 9-11, the film will make a sort of formal debut as a resident of the Mouse House....