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Release Dates: ‘The East’, ‘Spring Breakers’, ‘Vampire Academy’, ‘Untitled Illumination Entertainment 2015 Project’ By Angie Han/Feb. 14, 2013 4:34 pm EST Winter is slowly but surely inching to an end, so let’s look ahead to what the next season has in store for us. The next few months promise to be an interesting one for indie releases, as both Spring Breakers and Zal Batmanglij’s The East are slated to open....

Super-Villain Comedy Short ‘Henchmen: Ill-Suited’ Gets Feature Treatment By Russ Fischer/Aug. 14, 2014 11:00 am EST The lives of super-villains have been explored in animated films such as The Incredibles, Despicable Me, and MegaMind. Now Adam McKay, Will Ferrell (who voiced MegaMind), and their company Gary Sanchez are guiding the feature adaptation of a short film set in a city of super-villains. Henchmen will expand and revamp the story from the Bron Studios short Henchmen: Ill Suited, which premieres this week at SIGGRAPH 2014....

Superhero Bits: Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men: Apocalypse, Arrow, Thor, Dark Knight Rises, Kick-Ass 2 By Germain Lussier/Dec. 5, 2013 4:15 pm EST What secrets are buried on the Amazing Spider-Man 2 website? Did the Internet know about X-Men: Apocalypse back in July? How much did the Flash help Arrow’s ratings? Want to see some extended scenes from Kick-Ass 2? Which Thor jokes does Chris Hemsworth hear most often? Where can you see Thor: The Dark World villain Malekith take on Iron Man?...

Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy, Batman Vs. Superman, X-Men: Apocalypse, Arrow, Amazing Spider-Man 2 By Germain Lussier/Dec. 11, 2013 3:20 pm EST After a few days off, Superhero Bits is back! Want to hear Bradley Cooper talk about voicing Rocket Raccoon in Guardians of the Galaxy? What are the latest rumors and developments on Batman vs. Superman? Which new Hunger Games star is playing a DC villain on Arrow? When is Captain America: The Winter Soldier going in for additional photography?...

Superhero Bits: Iron Man 3, X-Men Days Of Future Past, Amazing Spider-Man, Kick-Ass 2, Hulk By Germain Lussier/Nov. 9, 2012 1:00 pm EST Comic Book Movie posted this new promo image from Iron Man 3, tied to a Chinese sponsor. So Bryan Singer has begun working and Geek Files reports X-Men: Days of Future Past will start shooting in April 2013. Speaking with Comic Book Resources, Mark Millar said The Wolverine will be Fox’s Iron Man....

TV Bits: ‘Mockingbird Lane’, ‘The Walking Dead’, Aaron Paul, Portia De Rossi By Angie Han/June 13, 2012 3:00 pm EST This TV Bits isn’t quite as jam-packed as some of the others we’ve had lately, but there are some juicy tidbits in here. Such as: New roles for Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul and Arrested Development star Portia de Rossi A glimpse of Marilyn (Charity Wakefield) in Bryan Fuller’s Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane A still from The Walking Dead Season 3 showing the return of a presumed dead character Hit the jump to read on....

VOTD: Tom Hanks And Sandra Bullock Re-Enact The Piano Scene From ‘Big’ By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 14, 2013 11:30 am EST Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks are both making the promotional rounds for their respective films Gravity and Captain Phillips, and were on UK’s The Jonathan Ross Show together. Ross used the opportunity to get Hanks to reprise the iconic FAO Schwarz scene from 1988’s Big, and play chopsticks on a giant floor piano with Bullock....

Watch: ‘The Matrix’ In 60 Seconds By Angie Han/March 7, 2013 6:00 am EST We’ve been watching with interest as the Wachowskis move forward on their next film, Jupiter Ascending, but it’ll be some time yet before we find out how their efforts actually pan out. The project hasn’t begun shooting, and likely won’t hit theaters until 2014 or later. In the meantime, then, we can look back at the film that started it all — The Matrix....

‘Begin Again’ Trailer: Mark Ruffalo And Keira Knightley Make Sweet Music By Angie Han/March 28, 2014 7:30 am EST Once was one of the real gems of 2007, a delicate love story about two people brought together by music. Based on the new Begin Again trailer, director John Carney seems to be trying to repeat the trick in 2014, only on a larger scale with bigger stars.Mark Ruffalo plays a washed up record exec who has just about hit rock bottom — that is, until he chances upon a freshly dumped musician (Keira Knightley) who’s also feeling adrift....

‘Cinco De Mayo’ Trailer; Darren Lynn Bousman’s 2013 Border Crossing Horror Movie By Germain Lussier/May 7, 2012 1:30 pm EST Darren Lynn Bousman, apparently, loves to make horror films centered on specific dates. He directed Mother’s Day, which is now playing in theaters and will be released on Blu-ray Tuesday, 11-11-11, which is now on Blu-ray, and a trailer has just been revealed for another movie set on a specific date....

‘Eastbound & Down’ Will End After Upcoming Fourth Season By Germain Lussier/June 6, 2013 11:26 am EST Four strikes and Kenny Powers is finally out. The popular HBO show Eastbound & Down is set to start filming its fourth season this week and will premiere on September 29. Then that’s it. Though there was some question after the second and third seasons of the Danny McBride/Jody Hill show as to what would happen next, HBO has decided the fourth season will be its last....

‘Frozen’ Is The Highest Grossing Animated Movie Of All Time By Angie Han/March 31, 2014 8:45 am EST Frozen isn’t just a big fat hit for Disney. It’s one of the biggest, fattest hits that ever hitted. As of this weekend, the icy adventure has become the single highest grossing animated film of all time, beating out 2010’s Toy Story 3. Hit the jump to find out just how much money Anna and Elsa have raked in for the Mouse House....

‘Get On Up’ Trailer: How James Brown Became The Godfather Of Soul By Angie Han/March 13, 2014 6:00 pm EST Hot on the heels of this morning’s first-look image, Universal has released the first Get On Up trailer. The Tate Taylor-directed biopic stars Chadwick Boseman – last seen playing another American icon, Jackie Robinson, in 42 – as James Brown, tracing his journey from poor street kid to the Godfather of Soul....

‘Getaway’ Trailer: Just Drive, Ethan Hawke By Russ Fischer/June 6, 2013 12:28 pm EST Confession: for a long time I didn’t like Ethan Hawke. I can’t even remember why; the reason was irrational, I’m sure. Probably something along the lines of “I don’t like his face,” the sort of snap judgement made when you’re young, which sticks just because it’s there. I’ve long since revised my stance, mostly because it was stupid....

‘Grown Ups 2’ Trailer: Taylor Lautner Tries Intentional Comedy By Russ Fischer/April 3, 2013 9:04 am EST Grown Ups is one of the movies from the past few years that many people love to hate — even those people who haven’t seen it. (Confession: I have not seen Grown Ups.) Presented below, mostly without comment, is the trailer for Grown Ups 2, in which Adam Sandler and Salma Hayek move out of LA and back to their home town....

‘Prometheus’ Writer Jon Spaihts To Rewrite ‘Black Hole’ Remake By Russ Fischer/April 5, 2013 9:03 am EST A few years back, Jon Spaihts became popular in Hollywood thanks in part to his still-unproduced sci-fi screenplay Passengers. That led to a gig writing what became Prometheus. Most of us don’t know precisely how Prometheus would have played if Spaihts had been the lone writer on the project; his draft has never been read by many fans....

‘The Babadook’ Poster: Evil Pops Up Everywhere By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2014 4:00 pm EST The Babadook, which follows a very troubled single mother and her son, is the best horror film I’ve seen in 2014. In fact, it’s one of the best I’ve seen in a long time, period. So we’re going to keep talking about it, because the name isn’t the sort that ropes audiences in right away. (In fact, the film’s title is the main reason I almost blew it off at Sundance....

‘Veronica Mars’ Trailer: “I Don’t Really Do That Anymore” By Angie Han/Jan. 2, 2014 9:05 pm EST High school reunions feel a bit passe in the age of Facebook and Twitter, but even those who tossed out their own ten-year invites may want to RSVP for Neptune High’s. The first Veronica Mars theatrical trailer has finally arrived, just ten months after Rob Thomas turned to Kickstarter to ask the so-called “Marshmallows” to make the long-rumored sequel a reality....

Clips From ‘NWR’ Documentary Explain Making Of Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Only God Forgives’ By Russ Fischer/July 5, 2013 3:17 pm EST Only God Forgives stars Ryan Gosling as an American at large in Bangkok, where he and his brother run a boxing gym a a front for a drug operation. But that’s really a tangental story point — the real thrust of the movie is about what happens when Gosling’s character conflicts with his own mother (an icy, scary Kristin Scott Thomas) over the ideal approach to avenge violence done to their family....

Colin Farrell In Talks For ‘True Detective’ Season Two By Russ Fischer/July 11, 2014 10:41 am EST We just heard that the second season of Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective will have four central characters. Now we may have faces for two of them. Colin Farrell is reportedly in talks to take one of the lead roles in the show’s second season. And Taylor Kitsch is also said to be “among the leading candidates” for the second male lead....