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Theme Park Bits: Harry Potter, Thor, The Avengers, Wizard Of Oz, Haunted Mansion By Germain Lussier/Oct. 30, 2013 3:00 pm EST This edition of Theme Park Bits has full of franchises: Harry Potter, The Avengers, Wizard of Oz and more. Below, read about the following: Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Express has been delivered to Universal Studios Orlando. Thor: Treasures of Asgard opens at Disneyland on Friday Marvel’s Avengers Academy is now open on the Disney Magic Cruise....

Toys Offer Potentially Spoilerish Visions Of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ And ‘Transformers 4’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 9, 2013 5:23 pm EST It always happens this way. Productions can work as hard as they like to protect character designs, but when those characters are going to be licensed out to toy makers and the like, the designs always get out to the public via toy fairs and conventions. So now we’ve got shots of Hasbro toys that tie in to The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Transformers: Age of Extinction....

Video: Pixar Creates ‘Toy Story Nutcracker’ Short For Disney California Adventure’s Holiday World Of Color By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2013 3:15 pm EST The Toy Story of Terror! Halloween special does a great job of bringing Pixar’s signature character set together with this month’s big holiday, and now the Toy Story cast is going to take part in a Christmas tradition as well. The difference is that for this upcoming project, you’ll have to travel to the Disney California Adventure Park at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA....

‘300: Rise Of An Empire’ Trailer: The Ecstasy Of Steel And Flesh By Angie Han/Jan. 20, 2014 1:00 pm EST Early in the latest trailer for 300: Rise of an Empire, Eva Green’s Artemisia hisses something about “the ecstasy of steel, flesh, sweat and muscle, rage… war.” The context of the line isn’t quite clear, but from here it seems to work just fine as a mission statement for the film as a whole....

‘Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa’ Trailer: Johnny Knoxville Channels Sacha Baron Cohen By Russ Fischer/July 31, 2013 1:15 pm EST We were surprised just a couple weeks ago to hear not only that there would be a new Jackass film, but that is already finished and ready to go. Now here’s the first trailer for Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, which puts Johnny Knoxville in his Irving Zisman old-man makeup for a film that is partially improvised in the classic Jackass mold, and partially scripted....

‘Pain And Gain’ Red Band Trailer: A Slow-Motion Shock To The Face From Michael Bay By Germain Lussier/March 26, 2013 3:26 pm EST Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie are about to get the full, Michael Bay Miami treatment in the action comedy Pain & Gain. A new red-band trailer for the April 26 film has just been released and it gives a great idea of the humor in the film, complete with language, violence and plenty of skin....

‘Parental Guidance’ Trailer: Families Can Always Use Another Non-Confrontational Movie For The Holidays By Russ Fischer/Nov. 19, 2012 5:48 pm EST Thanksgiving takes place in the States in a couple days, which means we’re at the time of year when some families will be convening for afternoons and evenings spent lazing around lethargically reconnecting in front of a ball game or a movie. There are already plenty of films that serve pretty well as background for family conversation, but Parental Guidance looks like a film that aims to be in DVD players for holidays starting in 2013....

‘Stoker’ Poster And Video: Nicole Kidman And Mia Wasikowska Drawn Into Twisted Family Tension By Russ Fischer/Oct. 30, 2012 10:47 am EST Park Chan-Wook’s Stoker is one of the film’s we’re most keen to see in the early months of 2013; the English-language debut of the director behind Thirst and the “Vengeance Trilogy” (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) holds a lot of appeal. That’s in part due to Park’s wonderful work with the camera and actors, as seen in most of his previous films....

‘This Is The End’ Gag Reel Somehow Even Sillier Than The Movie By Angie Han/Oct. 1, 2013 2:30 pm EST Of all the reasons to love This Is the End, the amazing cast is by far the best. As hilarious as Seth Rogen (who also co-directed with Evan Goldberg), Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, James Franco, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson are individually, they’re even better together. The gang has been tight for years, and it shows in every perfectly silly riff....

‘This Is The End’ Wishes You A Happy 4/20 By Angie Han/April 19, 2013 2:54 pm EST Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s This Is the End isn’t due out for another couple of months, but obviously a bunch of potheads like the ones depicted in the film aren’t about to let 4/20 pass unnoticed. The apocalyptic comedy has just put up a “holiday” greeting, in which stars Rogen, James Franco, Jay Baruchel, and Danny McBride show us their plans for the special day....

‘X-Men’ Producer Is “Dying” To Do A Gambit Movie With Channing Tatum By Angie Han/Jan. 30, 2014 9:30 am EST While doing press for White House Down last year, future Lego Superman Channing Tatum revealed that he’d love to play the X-Man Gambit someday. At the time, we figured it was just idle daydreaming on his part. Actors talk all the time about their fantasy roles, and that doesn’t mean they’ll ever get said roles....

AMC Theaters Will Host ‘Thor’ Marathons November 7 By Germain Lussier/Oct. 22, 2013 3:00 pm EST One of the many fun things about a new Marvel movie being released is an opportunity to see the older ones on the big screen again. For the release of The Avengers and Iron Man 3, Marvel organized theatrical marathons of the films leading up to the new movie, and the plan is no different for this coming November 7....

Ben Affleck Talks ‘Surprising’ Take On Batman In ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 25, 2013 9:30 am EST Ben Affleck is currently enduring a grueling shoot and will follow it up by getting in the barrel for fanboy nation. Affleck is now filming Gone Girl with David Fincher and will follow it as a turn as the latest big screen Caped Crusader in Zack Snyder’s 2015 sequel to Man of Steel, Batman vs....

Christopher Nolan Installed An IMAX Camera On A Learjet For ‘Interstellar’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 18, 2013 8:15 am EST Christopher Nolan and IMAX have become almost synonymous. The director uses the large format like no one else, shooting several of his films with IMAX film cameras to make them feel simultaneously bigger and more intimate. He’s the only director shooting true IMAX who uses it both for his big action scenes and emotional close-ups....

Early Buzz: ‘Dumb And Dumber To’ By Germain Lussier/March 7, 2014 11:49 am EST Few imagined we’d ever see a sequel to Dumb and Dumber, but come November it’s happening. The Farrelly Brothers have begun to test screen Dumb and Dumber To, their two-decades-in-the-making sequel starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. One of those screenings took place last night, and some attendees took to Twitter to air their reaction to the first public screening of the film....

Fan Debuts New ‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Poster By Germain Lussier/Sept. 20, 2013 10:00 am EST Trades, blogs, magazines, and newspapers are all viable aways for studios to debut new assets. But in an unusual move, Lionsgate has chosen a fan to debut a brand new piece of art from the highly anticipated The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. We’ve confirmed that, yes, the art released by fan Tori Dipple is indeed official....

First Look: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, And More In David Ayer’s WWII Drama ‘Fury’ By Angie Han/Sept. 19, 2013 8:00 am EST Four years after Inglourious Basterds (pictured above), Brad Pitt is heading back to World War II to take another crack at destroying the Nazis. But this time around, he’ll take a very different approach. Pitt leads the cast of David Ayer’s Fury, which follows a heroic attempt by a Sherman tank crew to fight the bad guys from behind enemy lines....

Guillermo Del Toro Responds To Michael Bay’s “Rip-Off” Slam; Bay Responds To Del Toro’s Response By Angie Han/April 19, 2013 3:36 pm EST It’s Autobots and Decepticons versus Jaegers and Kaiju. Sort of. Earlier this week at CinemaCon, Michael Bay made some vague comments about the “rip-off” robot movies that have followed his Transformers franchise. While he didn’t name names, folks wondered if he might be dissing Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Pacific Rim....

Guillermo Del Toro Says ‘Pacific Rim’ Sequel Would Feature Jaeger/Kaiju Hybrid By Germain Lussier/July 22, 2013 11:00 am EST Will we get to see Pacific Rim 2? It’s too early to say. The film is underperforming by most standards in North America, but it’s doing much better internationally with many major markets – such as China and Japan – yet to open. So while Guillermo del Toro’s monster vs. robot movie might miss $100 million domestically, it could potentially triple that number overseas....

Guillermo Del Toro Will Follow ‘Pacific Rim’ With Haunted House Movie ‘Crimson Peak,’ Hopes For ‘At The Mountains Of Madness’ Revival By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2012 1:00 pm EST While Guillermo del Toro’s biggest movies (prior to next year’s Pacific Rim) have been derived from comic book characters (Hellboy and Blade), his best work to date has been sourced from a certain supernatural influence. The Devil’s Backbone, Cronos, and Pan’s Labyrinth are either literally ghost stories, or very much kin to them....