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Joel Edgerton, Jack Huston, Jim Sturgess, Lee Pace And Eddie Redmayne Testing For ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 28, 2012 3:18 pm EST Iron Man 3 is in post-production, Thor: The Dark World is currently filming, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is still casting and now the fourth film in Marvel’s Phase Two slate, Guardians of the Galaxy, is beginning to rev up. Writer/director James Gunn has been prepping the film and now Variety and Deadline are reporting a series of young male actors have signed test deals for the film, which’ll be released August 1, 2014....

John Williams Wants To Return For New ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy By Angie Han/Feb. 18, 2013 9:33 am EST Speculation about which Star Wars talents might return for Episode VII have been swirling since the moment Episode VII was announced, and talk has only heated up since J.J. Abrams was formally announced as director. Last week, we got word that Harrison Ford could reprise his role as Han Solo, and today we’ve learned that another, possibly even more iconic figure is eager to come back....

LOL: Netflix’s “Browse Endlessly” Plan By Germain Lussier/Feb. 19, 2014 11:15 am EST One of the simple truths of home movie watching is you never want to watch the movies that are right at your fingertips. If you own hundreds, even thousands of DVDs, you never want to watch a single one. Instead, we’re always pining over something not in the collection. The same can be said for Netflix. The service offers innumerable films on DVD or streaming, yet many of us can never decide what to watch....

Night Of The Living Dorks To Invade The US By Peter Sciretta/March 14, 2007 9:40 pm EST It’s not often that we get blind-sided by a foreign film remake that gets us excited. The Japanese horror movies we usually anticipate, but this new German comedy sounds like it has A LOT of potential. Warner Independent Pictures plans to remake Night of the Living Dorks, which is being described as Revenge of the Nerds meets Shaun of the Dead....

Page 2: Star Wars, Sesame Street, Blade Runner, Jaws, Firefly, Harry Potter, BTTF, Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 20, 2013 1:00 pm EST Header Photo: Power Wheels Speeder Bike Makes Kid Coolest On The Block Why Animators Should Care About The Recording-Breaking Debut of “Grand Theft Auto V” Hundreds of ‘Breaking Bad’ props, including Walter White’s Aztek, are now on sale Today’s t-shirt of RIPT Apparel is a Sesame Street-inspired design “Attack on Sesame Street”...

By Angie Han/April 10, 2013 7:18 am EST There are more variations of official and unofficial Star Wars action figures than anyone could possibly count, but even within that vast sea of paint and plastic, this inspired reimagining of the cast stands out. On a commission from comedian / actor / geek guru Patton Oswalt, artist Jamie Follis created a line of Star Wars toys based on your favorite characters — that is, if they’d been created by Russ Meyer instead of George Lucas....

Revolutionary Road: A Titanic Marketing Gimmick? By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2007 1:28 am EST Last month we reported that Titanic stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet would reunite in Revolutionary Road. But what first seemed like a coincidence (Winslet’s husband Sam Mendes is directing which explains her casting) now seems to be a big marketing gimmick as Titanic co-star Kathy Bates is also set to board the project. Based on the acclaimed 1961 novel by Richard Yates which was voted one of the top 100 novels of all time by Time Magazine....

Rumor: Sylvester Stallone Returns To ‘Rambo V’ Plan By Russ Fischer/June 23, 2014 3:30 pm EST Concepts for Rambo V have flown around for years now. The most outlandish one involved hunting a beast rather than a man, but it’s a project that has come up every once in a while in various incarnations, only to be killed off each time. There’s even talk of a Rambo TV series, albeit one without Sylvester Stallone....

See The ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ Football Jerseys To Be Filmed This Weekend By Russ Fischer/Oct. 18, 2013 10:59 am EST Normally this would be a Superhero Bits kinda thing, but since Germain is in London that column is on pause. That said: with these, the flow of minor details from Zack Snyder’s sequel to Man of Steel officially begins. These are the jerseys for football teams from Gotham City University and rival Metropolis State University, to be used in the shoot this weekend when East Los Angeles College is turned into Gotham’s local institute of higher learning during halftime of a game tomorrow....

Seven New ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Photos Feature Ronan And Knowhere By Germain Lussier/June 19, 2014 7:00 am EST August 1 is coming very, very quickly. Then, audiences will finally get to see the Marvel Cinematic Universe go fully cosmic in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Thanks to trailers, commercials, posters and more, most of us have already seen pretty much all we need from the film, which stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper as the Guardians....

Sigourney Weaver Could Imagine ‘Alien 5’ Happening In The Future By Germain Lussier/June 2, 2014 9:00 am EST Speaking at the Los Angeles Times Hero Complex Film Festival, Sigourney Weaver said she “could imagine a situation where we finish telling the story” and that she feels “like there is more story to tell.” Read the full Sigourney Weaver Alien 5 quotes below. Weaver said the following at the Los Angeles Times Hero Complex Film Festival, as reported by the LA Times....

Superhero Bits: Legends Of The Knight, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Doctor Strange, Wonder Twins, X-Men By Germain Lussier/Jan. 15, 2014 2:30 pm EST What’s the story behind that Wonder Twins poster from last year? How does Scarlett Johansson describe the script of Avengers: Age of Ultron? Which actor is the latest rumored for Doctor Strange? Will there be X-Men toys as San Diego Comic-Con exclusives? Where can you see a new DC themed movie called JLA Adventures: Trapped In Time?...

Timur Bekmambetov In Talks To Helm ‘Ben-Hur’ Reimagining By Germain Lussier/Aug. 19, 2013 11:00 am EST Eight months ago, MGM bought the rights to Ben-Hur, a new spec script based on the nineteenth century novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace. That news was so crazy, I had wiped it out of my memory. MGM didn’t though, and now the project is progressing. The latest update is that Timur Bekmambetov, the director of Wanted and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, is in early talks to direct the reimagining....

Tons Of New ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Footage In Australian Trailer By Germain Lussier/May 28, 2012 12:00 pm EST Watch the first 90 seconds of the Australian trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man and you’ll believe it’s just more of the same. Same scenes, same action, same music. After that, though, there are at least two never-before-seen scenes, a ton of new shots and a few jokes you may not want ruined as Marc Webb’s reboot swings into theaters in just over a month....

Watch The Animated Short Celebrating Superman’s 75th Anniversary By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2013 11:30 am EST DC Comics is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Man of Steel, and the summer release of the film called Man of Steel is just part of the big plan. A while back we told you that director Zack Snyder was working with Bruce Timm on a two-minute animated short that would cover the comic and motion picture history of Superman, and now that short is online....

Watch Tom Hiddleston Sing As Young Captain Hook In ‘The Pirate Fairy’ By Peter Sciretta/March 17, 2014 11:00 am EST Disney has released a new video clip from their upcoming DisneyToon Studios animated film The Pirate Fairy. The musical animated film is a Tinkerbell spinoff, described as “Hook before the hook” featuring Tom Hiddleston (Loki from the Marvel movies) as James, a cabin boy who ends up becoming Captain Hook. Christina Hendricks plays the main character Zarina (above), a red-haired bad-ass fairy who falls for Hiddleston’s character....

‘Curse Of Chucky’ Red-Band Trailer: Wanna Play? By Angie Han/Aug. 1, 2013 2:00 pm EST The original Child’s Play in 1988 sent a whole generation of kids running away screaming from their My Buddy dolls. But the series has taken a turn for the comedic in more recent years, with 1998’s Bride of Chucky and 2004’s Seed of Chucky. Now the franchise is returning to its scary roots with the first installment in nearly a decade, Curse of Chucky....

‘Decoding Annie Parker’ Trailer: Starring Samantha Morton And Aaron Paul By Angie Han/April 10, 2014 11:45 am EST Aaron Paul’s first big post-Breaking Bad outing had him playing a race car driver with a score to settle. His second has him playing the supportive husband to a woman suffering from breast cancer. Yet there’s something kind of Jesse Pinkman-ish about both of them; Paul seems to have cornered the market on lovable screwups....

/Film Interview: Nick Offerman Talks ‘The Kings Of Summer,’ Humor On The Internet, ‘The Lego Movie’ By Germain Lussier/May 30, 2013 1:00 pm EST But the true highlights are the supporting performances by some of TV’s most recognizable faces. Paramount among those is Nick Offerman. Best known for his role on Parks and Recreation, the actor steals every scene as the man most responsible for the boys running away from home....

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2013 11:00 pm EST If a movie can be both gentle and scathing, Fruitvale is it. In this simple but stunningly effective film, first-time feature director Ryan Coogler responds to the shooting death of a 22-year old Oakland man at a BART station on New Year’s Day 2009. The writer/director recreates the horrific action in a straightforward manner that is largely free of hyperbole and excess emotional manipulation....