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VOTD: All The Movie References In The First 5 Seasons Of ‘The Simpsons’ By Germain Lussier/July 29, 2013 8:00 am EST Over the past two decades Fox’s legendary animated series The Simpsons has experienced unprecedented success. One of the many reasons for that is, over the course of 500 plus episodes, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. An example? A bevy of movie references litter many episodes, drawn from films news and old....

Watch An Effects Breakdown For ‘Thor: The Dark World’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 27, 2013 5:02 pm EST Looking at pre-vis typically isn’t very interesting — for the most part, current rendered pre-visualization sequences are just like watching the movie through the filter of Taiwan’s Next Media Animation. And even when the pre-vis is as detailed as what Third Floor did for Thor: The Dark World (which is very detailed) it’s still mostly a very crude version of the film....

Watch Disney’s New Mickey Mouse Short Film ‘Croissant De Triomphe’ By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2013 1:19 pm EST Disney is finally ready to bring back the mouse. Mickey Mouse, who made his debut in the 1928 black and white animated short film Steamboat Willie has appeared in hundreds of films over the years. But in recent years, the character has been primarily slumming in preschool television programing — the Mouse has only starred in three films since 1980....

WTF: AMC Theater Reports Google Glass User To Federal Agents By Russ Fischer/Jan. 21, 2014 3:45 pm EST It’s easy to take potshots at Google Glass — while the new tech has many adherents, it also is an object of suspicion from those who don’t see the use of Glass, or who aren’t all that keen on the boundary between physical and digital life becoming more blurred, or the idea of being captured on video even more surreptitiously than is already the case....

‘Admission’ Trailer: How Have Tina Fey And Paul Rudd Never Co-Starred Before? By Angie Han/Nov. 16, 2012 9:13 am EST Tina Fey built her career on the fast-paced comedy of Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, but with the latter almost at an end it’s time for her to move on to the next phase. If the trailer for Paul Weitz’s Admission for any indication, that may just end up being movie stardom....

‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ TV Spot Features Either A Big Spoiler Or Deep Misdirection By Russ Fischer/Feb. 21, 2014 3:00 pm EST There’s a conversation going on now about spoilers for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The identity of the second character in the film’s title is at the center of it — most comics fans know the history of the Winter Soldier, but general movie audiences don’t. Is his origin a spoiler, or simply something that Cap has to discover, while not being a big reveal for the audience?...

‘Clown’ Trailer: Eli Roth Makes Your Worst Nightmares Come True By Germain Lussier/Jan. 10, 2014 10:00 am EST “Clowns are scary” is a well-loved idea in horror. One man who isn’t scared, however, is producer Eli Roth. He saw a trailer for a fake film called Clown and helped develop it into a feature. The full trailer for that feature, also called Clown, is now out. A father (Andy Powers) puts on a clown suit for his son’s birthday, only to find the suit is cursed and he can’t get out of it....

‘Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb’ Trailer Takes The Series To Britain By Angie Han/July 30, 2014 8:12 am EST Everyone’s favorite museum security guard is at it again in the Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb trailer. This time, Larry (Ben Stiller) and his pals are concerned that there’s something wrong with the tablet that brings the exhibits to life every night. This requires them to travel to the British Museum, where the tablet’s creator (Ben Kingsley) resides, and where they get to meet, among others, the dashing hero Lancelot (Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens) and a very Rebel Wilson-y security guard played by Rebel Wilson....

‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ Trailer: Tom Hiddleston Is A Beautifully Morose Vampire By Russ Fischer/Nov. 1, 2013 3:00 pm EST Tom Hiddleston’s growing legion of fans should really sink their teeth into Jim Jarmusch’s vampire tale Only Lovers Left Alive. This one might not have the roaring energy of Thor or The Avengers, but it does pair Hiddleston with Tilda Swinton, with the two playing on and off again lovers who have hundreds of years of baggage between them....

Aaron Paul Joins Amanda Seyfried And Russell Crowe In ‘Fathers And Daughters’ By Angie Han/Nov. 21, 2013 4:30 pm EST Before Jesse Pinkman ever fell under the sway of Mr. White, Aaron Paul had already made an impression on TV audiences as Scott, gentle suitor to Sarah (Amanda Seyfried) on Big Love. The cute couple made their last appearance in the show’s 2011 finale, but the actors are now set to team up on the big screen for Fathers and Daughters....

Animation Bits: Metal Band Mastodon Making Music For ‘Monsters University,’ Pete Docter’s New Film May Be Titled ‘The Inside Out,’ Plus ‘Frozen’ And Director’s Roundtable By Russ Fischer/Dec. 4, 2012 2:51 pm EST I didn’t ever expect to see any link between metal and a Pixar movie, but we’re living in a wonderful world. And so the metal band Mastodon, which has already scored Jonah Hex (twice!) and contributed music to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie, will have a song in Monsters University....

By Germain Lussier/Nov. 4, 2013 12:00 pm EST Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity has quickly become one of the biggest blockbusters of the year. At $219 million and counting, with a full awards season run likely, the 3D space thriller has firmly planted itself in popular culture both for this year and years to come. It makes sense, then, that the evil geniuses at Mondo have created an officially licensed poster for the film....

Dwayne Johnson To Star In “Raunchy” ‘Baywatch’ Movie By Germain Lussier/Oct. 2, 2014 3:30 pm EST In a story that’s worthy of April 1st, Dwayne Johnson is “loosely attached” to Paramount’s long-gestating big-screen take on Baywatch. The adaptation of the hit TV show has been in development for years and is now once again picking up steam with a new writer and director team. Comedy writer Justin Malen is rewriting the script (which was most recently penned by Reno 911 co-creator Robert Ben Garant) for Sean Anders and John Morris, the team behind We’re the Millers and Horrible Bosses 2, who are directing....

Emmy Rossum Talks Dragonball By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 24, 2007 8:56 pm EST Dragonball star Emmy Rossum talks about training and filming with Chow Yun Fat in her latest blog entry: “Sorry I’ve been rather quiet for a bit, I’ve been working on a very exciting new film that I’m shooting outside the US. I’m working with the great Chow Yun Fat and I’m very excited about the role, which is so different than any role I’ve ever played....

First ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Teaser Hits With ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 27, 2014 9:30 am EST Briefly: Set photos, spy shots, toys; in a few short weeks none of it will matter. One of the producers on the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles remake revealed the first teaser trailer will be released alongside Captain America: The Winter Soldier on April 4. Hopefully, with it will come our first official look at the new design director Jonathan Liebesman is working with....

First Look: Mark Wahlberg In Michael Bay’s ‘Pain And Gain’ By Angie Han/April 3, 2012 10:00 am EST We’ve been dying to know just how in the hell Michael Bay’s Pain and Gain would turn out, because the $20 million black comedy sounds so far out of the Transformers director’s usual wheelhouse. While we’ll have to wait a few more months for a proper trailer to get a better sense of whether or not Bay actually nails the alleged “Pulp Fiction meets Fargo” tone, the first photos of Mark Wahlberg on set as bodybuilder-turned-kidnapper Daniel Lugo have hit the web....

First Look And Concept Art: Joon-Ho Bong’s American Debut ‘Snowpiercer’ By Angie Han/Jan. 16, 2013 9:30 am EST 2013 is going to be a great year for American fans of Korean cinema. No fewer than three revered Korean filmmakers are making their English-language debuts in the coming months. Jee-woon Kim (I Saw the Devil) gets the party started with The Last Stand later this week, followed by Chan-wook Park (Oldboy) and his Stoker in March....

Idina Menzel Sings ‘Let It Go’ With Jimmy Fallon And Kid Instrument Accompaniment By Germain Lussier/March 4, 2014 9:15 am EST Idina Menzel’s Oscar performance of Let It Go was overshadowed by John Travolta’s “Adele Dazeem” mishap, but she hass quickly refocused attention on the song. The star of Frozen appeared on The Tonight Show to perform the popular ‘Let it Go’ with Jimmy Fallon. Better yet, they did it as one of Fallon’s signature bits....

Last Pages Of The ‘Breaking Bad’ Finale Script Give More Closure To Walt And Jesse By Germain Lussier/Oct. 28, 2013 3:00 pm EST No matter how good the visuals were, the writing on Breaking Bad was always better. This was made evident to me a few months before Breaking Bad finally faded to black. Director Jason Reitman did a live read of Vince Gilligan’s pilot script and I described the writing as follows: “As fantastic the first episode of Breaking Bad is to watch, to hear it read reveals another level of brilliance....

Liam Neeson Joins Martin Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 31, 2014 12:42 pm EST Even at 71 years of age, Martin Scorsese shows no signs of slowing down. He’s currently on the awards circuit with his masterful film The Wolf of Wall Street, and he will debut a new documentary in the coming months. Then he’ll follow all that with Silence, and adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel about Jesuits who attempt to spread Christianity in 17th century Japan....