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Three New ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Posters Highlight Electro Showdowns By Germain Lussier/Jan. 7, 2014 7:39 am EST Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is just about four months away and while much of the talk surrounding the film has been about extra villains, the truth is Electro (Jamie Foxx) is the main one. If you needed more proof, three beautiful international posters for the film have just been released featuring the airborne battle between he and the Webslinger (Andrew Garfield)....

Watch Jar Jar Binks Die In This ‘Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace’ Deleted Scene Fan-Edit By Germain Lussier/Nov. 8, 2013 1:30 pm EST Almost 15 years have passed and we just can’t get over Jar Jar Binks. The kid-friendly addition to Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was a technological marvel when he first appeared in 1999, but his voice, antics and incredibly annoying luck quickly made him the most hated character in the Star Wars universe....

‘Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Will Have A ‘Thor’ Crossover Episode By Russ Fischer/Nov. 1, 2013 5:42 pm EST Briefly: Marvel Studios has a good support structure for the show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., because it can drum up new interest in the show with episodes that relate very directly to Marvel’s theatrical releases. We’re going to see that happen for sweeps week later this month, when the story of Thor: The Dark World is directly continued in an episode on TV....

‘Avatar 2’ Will Use Underwater Performance Capture Technology By Germain Lussier/April 8, 2013 10:30 am EST It’s no secret that parts of James Cameron’s Avatar sequels will take place underwater. The Oscar-winning filmmaker has been open about this, as has his producer Jon Landau. It’s an environment Cameron’s comfortable with, as we’ve seen not only through Titanic, but through his IMAX documentaries and personal exploration trips. Setting Avatar 2 underwater poses many issues, however....

‘Captain America’ Set Photos Show High-Tech Sub And More Chase Action By Russ Fischer/Sept. 28, 2010 11:16 pm EST NO PHOTO Here’s your idle question of the day: are these pics of a sub from the set of Captain America: The First Avenger depicting a bit of tech that will be in use by the good guys, or is it a deadly device created by Hydra? Based on the design, I’d guess the latter....

‘Captain Marvel’ Movie Has Been Discussed “A Lot,” Says Kevin Feige By Angie Han/March 17, 2014 12:30 pm EST Fans have long wondered when Marvel Studios would get around to giving a female superhero her own standalone film. Black Widow seems like the natural candidate to go first, since the character has already proven popular in The Avengers and has a meaty supporting role in next month’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier....

‘Enormous’ Teaser Trailer: Living Under Threat Of Monster Attack By Russ Fischer/March 14, 2014 8:30 am EST With Godzilla providing giant monsters for the big screen this year, the web series Enormous is prepped to deliver a smaller blast of giant monsterdom. Rather than being about giant monster attacks, Enormous shows us an Earth that has already been devastated by monster attacks, in which the few surviving humans are scrambling to remain alive and fight back against the beasts....

‘Life After Pi’ Trailer: Short Documentary About The VFX House That Closed Then Won An Oscar By Germain Lussier/Feb. 14, 2014 8:50 am EST February 2013 was a bittersweet month for the visual effects house Rhythm & Hues. Due to the increased cost of effects-based work in Hollywood and the competitive nature of the business, they were forced to declare bankruptcy, fire hundreds of people and close up shop. Two weeks later, the company was given the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for their work in Ang Lee’s Life of Pi....

‘Terri’ Trailer – John C. Reilly And Creed Bratton Help ‘Huge’ Star Jacob Wysocki Come Of Age By Angie Han/April 20, 2011 7:00 am EST A new trailer has been released for Azazel Jacobs’ Terri, an indie coming-of-age film that premiered at Sundance earlier this year. On that information alone, you could probably make a pretty good guess as to what the film’s about: a high school outsider who learns to accept himself, thanks in part to the guidance of an offbeat mentor/authority figure....

‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ Trailer: Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, And Kanye West By Russ Fischer/June 16, 2013 10:52 pm EST Damn, this trailer for Martin Scorsese’s new film The Wolf of Wall Street is a great piece of work. Might be one of the year’s best trailers by the time 2013 is all said and done. This edit struts along to the tune of ‘Black Skinhead’ from Kanye West and flashes all the symbols of excess you’d expect from a movie about a stock trader who made nearly a million dollars a week when he was only 26....

‘The Wolverine’ Footage Reaction: James Mangold Aims To Craft An Emotionally Complex X-Men Movie By Germain Lussier/June 25, 2013 10:00 am EST Talking to James Mangold, director of The Wolverine, you get a sense this guy gets it. Not only has he directed films in almost every genre, and made Oscar-winners of several of his stars, he believes a great superhero movie needs more than a title and some explosions. “Calling something ‘comic book’ has a danger,” he said....

Bradley Cooper To Produce Lance Armstrong Biopic, May Star By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2013 3:30 pm EST The intensified scandal over the doping actions of Lance Armstrong have irrevocably tainted his participation in cycling. As you might expect, however, the controversy has only increased the speed at which various producers are trying to put together a film based on his story. One of a few projects in the works about the cancer survivor and disgraced champ is Red Blooded American, housed at Warner Bros....

Bryan Singer Shows Off Charles Xavier’s Counterculture Look In ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ By Russ Fischer/May 9, 2013 3:15 pm EST There have got to be many great papers out there on the clash of mainstream and counterculture ideas in X-Men stories. Just as a starter, the whole cycle is based on a discriminated minority (mutants), but for much of the series said minority is officially headquartered in Westchester, NY....

Concept Art From Unproduced Fourth Live-Action ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Movie By Germain Lussier/Dec. 14, 2012 2:10 pm EST Everyone knows the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were named after famous artists. But did you know the fifth one was named after a comic book legend? You’re probably thinking, “I didn’t even know there was a fifth Turtle” and that’s because there wasn’t. He was merely conceptualized by Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman in the mid 1990s for a proposed fourth live-action Turtles movie....

Cool Stuff: Backgrounds Come To The Forefront In Brooklyn Art Show By Germain Lussier/Aug. 29, 2014 7:57 am EST So much of today’s pop culture art is about the foreground. Actually, pretty much all of it is. That’s where the subject of the image usually resides and artists typically just service that. Which is why James White’s solo show, Celscapes, is such a breath of fresh air. All the work has a subject, of course, but it’s more about the environment and setting than one particular central focus....

By Russ Fischer/July 7, 2014 1:00 pm EST First up, Red Oaks was conceived by Gregory Jacobs, who has produced many projects for Soderbergh, and pitched the director the story while making Candelabra. Jacobs and Joe Gangemi (Eliza Graves) scripted, and will exec produce with Soderbergh and Green. In the show, set in 1985, Craig Roberts (Submarine) plays college student David Myers, who has a job as an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in New Jersey....

Fan-Made Poster For ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Is All Wet [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/March 11, 2013 9:29 am EST UPDATE: We’ve been had. The poster is fan made. Great job though and the below article has been edited. Thanks to everyone who pointed this out. The first poster for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness was all about one thing: Destruction. We saw John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch) standing on a mound of rubble with a burning city on the horizon....

Harry Potter And The Escape From Gringotts Video Explores The New Ride By Germain Lussier/May 13, 2014 12:13 pm EST Tuesday, Universal Studios Orlando opened the vault of secrets on their new ride, Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts. We saw concept art, heard about the story, read that Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint are all reprising their roles and Peter even interviewed the art director. But all that, kind of, pales in comparison to just watching a video that takes all everything and compresses it into an exciting two minute tease....

Indiana Jones Bazooka Pic By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 30, 2008 1:57 pm EST Might Indiana Jones take down a UFO with a bazooka in this summer’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Doubtful, but a new image has popped up in the new Empire mag, with co-stars Karen Allen and the emotive kid from Project Greenlight looking hesitant in their awe over Indy’s brandishing the firearm formerly associated with Rambo....

JJ Abrams Says He’s Talking To Bradley Cooper About Lance Armstrong Biopic, Cooper Denies Any Knowledge Of Project By Angie Han/Jan. 28, 2013 2:30 pm EST That a Lance Armstrong movie in the works is no surprise. The question is how exactly it’ll come together. Paramount and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot announced their acquisition of Juliet Marcur’s upcoming biography Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong earlier this month, and while there’s still no director or writer attached, there may soon be a star on board....