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Learn How The ‘Jurassic Park’ Dinos Were Built And Where They Got Their Voices By Angie Han/April 10, 2013 4:57 pm EST Twenty years later after its original release, it’s still tough to top Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park for believable movie dinosaurs. While we’ll never know for certain how close the effects wizards actually came to replicating the prehistoric creatures, everything about their appearances in the film, from the way cock their heads to the way they hiss at their prey, feels uncannily lifelike....

Lee Daniels’s Next Project Will Be A Janis Joplin Biopic Starring Amy Adams By Angie Han/Aug. 22, 2013 11:30 am EST Janis Joplin has yet to get the biopic treatment (well, unless you count Jenna Maroney’s Jackie Jormp-Jomp), but that’ll change soon if Lee Daniels has anything to do with it. The director attached himself last year to a Joplin drama with Amy Adams in the lead, and now he says that the film will be his follow-up to Lee Daniels’ The Butler....

Michael Bay Attached To New Adventure Film At Paramount By Germain Lussier/March 18, 2014 10:00 am EST Pain and Gain aside, Michael Bay has been in the world of Transformers for eight years now. Eight years. That’s almost a decade removed from the Michael Bay of old. Long gone are the days of the high-concept Michael Bay action films like Bad Boys, The Rock or Armageddon. Even The Island, Pearl Harbor and Bad Boys II are a distant memory....

More Star Wars Episode 7 Villain Rumors Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 23, 2014 3:08 pm EST A couple weeks back, a hot rumor hit the internet explaining how the Star Wars Episode 7 villain could rewrite Star Wars franchise history. Well a new report adds more heat to the fire. Learn more about the new Star Wars Episode VII villain rumor after the jump. Warning: Possible spoilers obviously ahead.LatinoReview has now heard from new new independent sources that while Star Wars Episode VII will feature a bunch of new villains, the puppet-master behind everything is someone we already know from the previous Star Wars films: Emperor Palpatine....

MTV’s ‘Scream’ TV Series Gets ‘Criminal Minds’ Writers By Germain Lussier/July 26, 2013 4:30 pm EST Briefly: MTV’s Scream TV series is moving forward. The network announced the show at their upfront this past Spring and Friday, at the Television Critics Association event, they revealed Jay Beattie and Dan Dworkin would be writing the show. Beattie and Dworkin worked together on Criminal Minds, Revenge and The Event. There’s still no word on how, or if, the show will tie into the movies or when we might see a pilot....

New ‘The Lone Ranger’ Trailer And Live Q&A By Russ Fischer/April 17, 2013 1:09 pm EST Disney is getting into the last phase of its push for Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger, starting with a presentation of footage at CinemaCon today. The next step is a new trailer, which you can watch below, and a live-streamed Q&A with Verbinski and his stars Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer....

Nicolas Winding Refn To Direct ‘The Equalizer’ Starring Denzel Washington By Germain Lussier/Dec. 7, 2012 12:34 pm EST When Denzel Washington attaches himself to a script, it gets directors interested. That’s how Robert Zemeckis came aboard Flight, and now Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn has joined Washington on The Equalizer, a loose adaptation of the ’80s TV show. Washington will play a former covert operative who, in an attempt to atone for previous sins, offers up his skills in the classified section of a newspaper stating: “Got a problem?...

Ray Fisher Cast As Cyborg In ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ By Russ Fischer/April 24, 2014 3:27 pm EST The potential Justice League roster just expanded by one in Zack Snyder’s new vision of the DC Universe. Theater actor Ray Fisher (not the football player) has been cast as Cyborg in Batman vs. Superman. Since Fisher just played Muhammed Ali in a play staged in New York, he should have the chops to sign on as Cyborg....

Steve Jablonsky Scoring ‘Ender’s Game,’ Not James Horner By Germain Lussier/May 10, 2013 2:00 pm EST Briefly: Earlier this year, we reported James Horner would be scoring Gavin Hood’s sci-fi adaptation, Ender’s Game. Turns out, that isn’t true. Steve Jablonsky, the composer behind the Transformers films as well as Pain & Gain, has the gig. The trailer for Ender’s Game is out now and it opens November 1. [Ender News via FS....

Superhero Bits: X-Men Days Of Future Past, Batman Vs. Superman, Captain America, Ant-Man, Spider-Man, Man Of Steel By Germain Lussier/Dec. 16, 2013 2:45 pm EST What’s the number one reason there aren’t female superhero movies? Want to see a new image of Wolverine in X-Men: Days of Future Past? Which of Paul Rudd’s Anchorman 2 co-stars wants to play Ant-Man? Who is Spider-Man’s most evil foe? What were the best superhero action scenes of 2013?...

The Coen Brothers Won’t Ever Revisit ‘The Big Lebowski’ By Angie Han/May 24, 2013 3:00 pm EST A sequel to The Big Lebowski never seemed all that likely to happen, but if you were still holding out hope somehow you might as well stop now. Joel and Ethan Coen have expressed their total lack of desire to make any more Lebowski-related films, including the long-rumored spinoff about Jesus Quintana. For that matter, it doesn’t sound like they have plans to revisit any of their older projects — apparently, they’re just not interested in follow-ups....

Tom Cruise Won’t Be ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ By Angie Han/May 24, 2013 10:55 am EST After trying and failing to get The Man From U.N.C.L.E. off the ground with Steven Soderbergh, the Warner Bros. project seemed to get a new lease on life when Guy Ritchie signed on and then got Tom Cruise and Armie Hammer to star. But once again, the long-gestating picture has hit a speed bump....

VOTD: How ‘The Lego Movie’ Should Have Ended Featuring Superman And Batman By Germain Lussier/May 1, 2014 1:30 pm EST The How It Should Have Ended videos are always well done. Insightful, funny, and professional looking. But they’ve taken things to a new level for The Lego Movie. They’ve emulated the animation overseen by directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller to create a video that not only looks exactly like it’s part of The Lego Movie, it points out some pretty interesting points....

Warner Bros. Plotting A ‘Scooby-Doo’ Reboot By Angie Han/June 17, 2014 2:00 pm EST It’s been ten whole years since Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, and you know what that means: It’s time for a reboot. Warner Bros. is reportedly in the early stages of a new Scooby-Doo movie, though it’s unclear at this point whether it’ll be live-action or CG. Hit the jump for more details on the new project....

Weinsteins Begin 2015 Oscar Race, Paying $7 Million For ‘The Imitation Game’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2014 1:45 pm EST That image above is Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role of The Imitation Game, in which he plays mathematician Alan Turing. The film is based on a Black List script by Graham Moore, directed by Morten Tyldum, and evidently Harvey Weinstein sees it as a primo Oscar contender to open later this year....

By Angie Han/Sept. 29, 2014 1:15 pm EST At this point, mocking sexy adult costumes is just as much a Halloween tradition as trick-or-treating or petty vandalism. But even by the usual ridiculous standards, these Frozen-inspired outfits take the cake. See the sexy Frozen costumes — including tarted-up versions of Elsa, Anna, and yes, even Olaf — after the jump. For legal reasons, these aren’t technically Elsa, Anna, and Olaf costumes, but “Blue Dress” / “Blue Maiden,” “Norwegian Maiden,” and “Funny Snowman” costumes, respectively....

‘Dead Snow 2: Red Vs. Dead’ Trailer: The Nazi Zombies Are Back By Angie Han/Sept. 15, 2014 3:30 pm EST Poor Martin. The only survivor of the first Dead Snow discovers in Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead that his troubles are far from over. You see, the infected arm he had to hack off in the last film has since been replaced by a Nazi zombie arm, and it’s got a mind of its own....

‘Infinitely Polar Bear’ Is A Super-Charming Film With Mark Ruffalo’s Best Performance Yet [Sundance 2014 Review] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 19, 2014 3:00 pm EST With Mark Ruffalo moonlighting as a superhero these days, it’s easy to forget he’s one of the best actors currently working. Infinitely Polar Bear, written and directed by newcomer Maya Forbes, not only serves as a reminder of Ruffalo’s chops, it’s arguably his finest performance to date....

‘Miss Meadows’ Trailer: Is Katie Holmes The Most Unlikely Vigilante? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 21, 2014 5:00 am EST Katie Holmes is just about the last person you’d expect to see with a gun in her hand, angrily staring down violence in a small town. And that’s probably a significant part of the reason she was cast in Miss Meadows, from writer/director Karen Leigh Hopkins. Holmes plays a small-town teacher who has a dark secret....

‘Monsters University’ Trailer: Kickstarting A Rivalry By Russ Fischer/Feb. 11, 2013 9:48 am EST Pixar gives up new footage from its latest sequel in this trailer for Monsters University. Starting off with a classic bit of “arriving at college” footage, we’re introduced to the institution in which Mike and Sully meet, form a rivalry, and eventually become friends. It doesn’t look quite as warm and fuzzy as the original film was, but there’s enough of Pixar’s gorgeous animation to make it a treat to look at....