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Watch: Tara Lipinski’s ‘The Big Lebowski’-Inspired Figure Skating Routine By Germain Lussier/Feb. 6, 2014 11:00 am EST Well here’s something you don’t see every day: a gold medal-winning figure skater paying homage to The Big Lebowski. Thanks to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Tara Lipinski took center stage on the ice rink at Rockefeller Center in New York City to twirl around with a long brown coat and White Russian. And no, she doesn’t spill the beverage....

WTF: Justin Bieber Shows Off ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ Script By Russ Fischer/Sept. 13, 2013 5:30 pm EST If you hated the news of Ben Affleck being cast in Zack Snyder’s sequel to Man of Steel, you’ll probably blow a gasket for real with this item. Justin Bieber added a new photo to his Instagram feed tonight, in which he shows off his own copy of the Batman vs. Superman script — or a fairly well-made fake that looks like it bears his name....

‘Disconnect’ Trailer And Poster: The Internet Can Be A Dangerous Place By Angie Han/March 1, 2013 3:30 pm EST Did you know that the Internet can be a dangerous place? That’s more or less the premise of Henry-Alex Rubin’s Disconnect, a Crash-style ensemble drama about the perils of the digital age. That message comes about two decades late, and the execution looks about as subtle as a pornographic pop-up ad. But on the bright side, you could do much worse for casting than Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Michael Nyqvist, Paula Patton, Andrea Riseborough, Alexander Skarsgard, Max Thieriot, and Colin Ford....

‘Django Unchained’ - What Did You Think? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 26, 2012 4:12 pm EST It’s been three and a half years since the Cannes debut of Inglourious Basterds, and now Quentin Tarantino has returned with Django Unchained. The film might be the unlikeliest Christmas Day release ever, as it stars Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz as a freed slave and his bounty hunting benefactor who are seeking to free Django’s wife (Kerry Washington) from the man (Leonardo DiCaprio) who owns her....

‘Horns’ Teaser Trailer: Daniel Radcliffe Has A Wicked New Look By Russ Fischer/July 14, 2014 1:40 pm EST Here’s the first teaser for the adaptation of Joe Hill’s novel Horns, which comes from director Alexandre Aja (High Tension, Piranha 3D). Daniel Radcliffe stars as Ignatius, a guy whose girlfriend perishes under mysterious circumstances, leading most everyone to think Radcliffe is the person responsible. There’s more to it than that, and one of the story’s complications is that Ignatius grows horns, and finds that this new physical development also brings a power to compel others to admit hidden details about their lives....

‘Justified’ Likely To End After Season 6, Says FX By Angie Han/Jan. 9, 2014 6:00 am EST As Justified enters its fifth season, fans may want to savor their time with Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant). There may not be too much of it left. Showrunner Graham Yost has previously said that he sees his Western drama running for six seasons, and though it’s not unheard of for a show to run beyond its originally intended lifespan if it proves popular enough, it seems that in this case he has the network backing him up....

‘Planes’ Voice Cast Includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John Cleese And A ‘Top Gun’ Reunion By Angie Han/March 26, 2013 10:00 am EST Disney’s Cars spin-off Planes is getting a boost from a high-profile voice cast. Following Dane Cook’s casting last month as protagonist Dusty, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Teri Hatcher, John Cleese, and many more have signed on to fill the supporting cast. There’s even a mini Top Gun reunion going on, with Val Kilmer and Anthony Edwards....

‘Ted’ Review: Non-Stop, Raunchy Laughs Help Mask An Obvious Plot By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2012 4:00 pm EST For better or worse, Seth MacFarlane’s Ted is exactly what you think it’s going to be. The story of a man who lives with his walking, talking, pot smoking teddy bear is crude, rude and incredibly funny. It’s also bursting at the seams with cameos and pop culture references much like MacFarlane’s popular TV show, Family Guy....

‘The Imposter’ Trailer - How Does A 23-Year-Old Frenchman Pass Himself Off As A Missing 16-Year-Old Texan? By Angie Han/Feb. 23, 2012 6:00 am EST Year after year, documentaries prove that as the old saying goes, the truth really is wilder than fiction. This year’s Sundance hit The Imposter tells the tale of a Texas family whose 13-year-old child disappeared in 1994. Three years later, their son was found in Spain, telling tales of kidnapping and torture....

‘The Skeleton Twins’ Trailer: Bill Hader And Kristen Wiig Go Dramatic By Germain Lussier/June 30, 2014 8:45 am EST One of the most exciting and uplifting films of the Sundance Film Festival just got its first trailer. It’s called The Skeleton Twins and stars Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as estranged siblings, reunited after a tragedy, who must begin to work through their old issues. Craig Johnson directed the film, which is decidedly more dramatic than you’re used to seeing Wiig and Hader, but they rise to the occasion....

‘Winter’s Tale’ Trailer: Colin Farrell And His Magic Horse Face Love And Death By Angie Han/Jan. 31, 2014 9:30 am EST After decades spent writing and producing, Akiva Goldsman is finally trying his hand at feature directing. His first effort is Winter’s Tale, an epic fantasy romance based on Mark Helprin’s novel of the same title. Colin Farrell stars as Peter Lake, a thief attempting to rob a mansion in turn of the century New York....

Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Jobs’ Will Be Released In August By Germain Lussier/June 12, 2013 9:15 am EST Jobs, the biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher, premiered at Sundance earlier this year to mixed reviews. Kutcher’s performance was surprisingly good, but the script was lacking. “Jobs is so hell-bent on cramming all these seminal moments into one film, it never builds much context around them. We never feel like they mean anything,” I wrote....

Bong Joon-Ho Might Not Be OK With Those ‘Snowpiercer’ Edits After All By Russ Fischer/Oct. 9, 2013 1:30 pm EST When it was first reported that The Weinstein Company planned to cut roughtly 20 minutes out of Bong Joon-ho’s South Korean blockbuster Snowpiercer, the director seemed pretty sanguine about the whole affair. He was said to be working with Harvey Scissorhands to get the edits done, even though he point of the cuts was reportedly to trim character moments and turn the movie into more of a straight-ahead action movie, not unlike the changes that were made to Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster for it’s own US debut....

Concept Art: Canceled Pixar Movie ‘Newt’ And Sam Raimi’s Abandoned Lizard Designs From ‘Spider-Man 2’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 4, 2013 7:00 am EST Mere days after brand new concept art emerged for several of Pixar’s upcoming films, the same has happened for one of its abandonded projects. Newt, which was to be directed by Gary Rydstrom, was about how the last two newt salamanders on Earth hated each other and were forced to fall in love....

By Germain Lussier/Oct. 3, 2012 9:00 am EST Artists Dave Perillo and Tom Whalen are big fans of ’80s pop culture. We know this not only because it’s the theme of their current Los Angeles art show, but also because they’ve each tackled one of the most popular properties of the decade exclusively for New York Comic-Con. Whalen has done two posters for Transformers (Autobots and Decepticons) and Perillo has done two for G....

By Germain Lussier/April 28, 2014 1:30 pm EST May 4th is a day to celebrate Star Wars, to celebrate the pageantry, the action and the legacy George Lucas first brought to the screen in 1977. And while we all know J.J. Abrams is about to start a whole new trilogy of films, and we’re expecting something soon on that front (still!), many other places are celebrating “May the 4th Be With You” in their own way....

Exclusive: FAMP Art Debuts With Beautiful Poster For ‘City Of God’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 20, 2014 7:00 am EST Fernando Meirelles’ City of God is one of those movies you can constantly turn people onto. When it was released in 2002, it opened to incredible acclaim but many people missed it simply because it’s a foreign language film. Now, if ever asked for a movie recommendation, City of God is at the top of the list....

Fan-Made Musical Reprise For ‘Frozen’ Will Make You Melt [Video] By Angie Han/Dec. 31, 2013 4:00 pm EST As I recall it, the climax of Disney’s Frozen is pretty great as it is. All the themes of the film — love, sisterhood, self-sacrifice, self-control — come to a head in one moving scene, sure to jerk tears and draw smiles in equal measure. But one fan thinks there’s a little something else Disney could’ve done to make the moment even more touching....

Firefly Cast To Reunite For Firefly Online, Watch A New Gameplay Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2014 1:00 pm EST The announcement was made at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con. Firefly stars confirmed to reunite for the game include Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau, Jewel Staite, Adam Baldwin, Morena Baccarin, Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres, Sean Maher, Michael Fairman and Ron Glass. As you might expect, all of the actors will be reprising the roles from the original Firefly television show....

First Look: Jaden Smith And Jackie Chan In The Kung-Fu Kid By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 17, 2009 9:00 am EST [No photo] This is the first set photo I’ve seen from the Will Smith-produced remake/re-imagining of The Karate Kid, which thankfully has officially been retitled The Kung-Fu Kid. What are they doing? [No photo] As you probably know by now, Jaden Smith plays Dre, a skateboarding video game buff who is forced to move to China after his single mother (Taraji P....