By Russ Fischer/April 21, 2014 5:00 pm EST This same clip was shown at CinemaCon a few weeks ago, but this was the first time a general audience had a chance to see anything from the film. It’s a very visceral and heavily stylized scene, followed by a montage presentation of other footage from the movie. It also stars Taron Egerton as Gary Unwin, the nephew of Firth’s character, with Michael Caine and Samuel L....
Morgan Freeman Hospitalized After Car Accident By David Chen/Aug. 4, 2008 10:54 am EST CNN and the AP are reporting that Morgan Freeman was in a car accident in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi on Sunday night. Freeman was airlifted to a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where he is in serious condition. Reports from the scene of the accident indicate that Freeman was talking as he was removed from the scene; according to one local journalist,...
Peter Jackson Details Additions In ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ Extended Edition By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2013 12:35 pm EST One of the few complains fans didn’t have with Peter Jackson’s first Hobbit film, An Unexpected Journey, was “it’s too short.” Clocking in at about 2 hours and 50 minutes, it felt like the story of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) joining a group of dwarves on a journey to the Lonely Mountain barely even began by the time the credits rolled....
Read Tom Hiddleston’s E-Mail To Joss Whedon After He Read ‘The Avengers’ Script By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2014 2:34 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After reading Joss Whedon’s screenplay for The Avengers, star Tom Hiddleston (who plays the villainous Loki) wrote a sweet e-mail to the filmmaker/scribe which has somehow found its way online for all to read. Read Tom Hiddleston’s e-mail to Joss Whedon after the jump....
Watch Two Deleted Scenes From Disney’s ‘Frozen’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 20, 2014 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When Disney released Frozen at Thanksgiving last year, it was met with generally good reviews and solid buzz. But no one could have been prepared for what happened next. The snowball of excitement and box office just kept rolling and now, coming up on its fourth (?...
Which Movies And TV Shows Had The Highest 2014 Comic Con Buzz? By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2014 11:45 am EST Just having gotten home from San Diego, I’m not sure which film excited me the most at 2014 San Diego Comic Con International. Mad Max: Fury Road was definitely the biggest surprise in terms of footage. Avengers: Age of Ultron and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice owned the majority of my conversations....
‘Community’ Season Five Trailer: Beyond The Darkest Timeline By Russ Fischer/Dec. 12, 2013 11:50 am EST The first teaser for the fifth season of Community did something I thought was impossible: it made me want to watch the fifth season of Community. Early tweets from people who’ve seen the first episodes (like Alan Sepinwall) supported the notion that Dan Harmon’s return has brought the show back to that smart/manic weirdness that made the best episodes of the first three seasons stand out from all other sitcoms....
‘Empire State’ Trailer: Dwayne Johnson And Liam Hemsworth Go Direct To DVD By Angie Han/June 20, 2013 12:12 pm EST Dwayne Johnson may be “franchise Viagra,” having helped prop up the Journey to the Center of the Earth, Fast and Furious, and G.I. Joe movie series over the past couple of years, but even he can’t keep Dito Montiel’s Empire State from going straight to DVD. The film’s lack of a theatrical run is even more surprising when we look at the rest of the cast list: The Hunger Games’ Liam Hemsworth leads, while Michael Angarano and Emma Roberts play supporting roles....
‘Gotham’ Featurette: The City Is A Powder Keg Ready To Explode By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2014 6:00 pm EST Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world’s greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon’s story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world’s most iconic villains?...
‘How To Train Your Dragon 2’ Poster: Hiccup And Toothless Are All Grown Up By Angie Han/Nov. 21, 2013 10:32 am EST One of the advantages of an animated sequel is that the characters never really have to get older if the filmmakers don’t want them to. They can even regress in age, as Sulley (John Goodman) and Mike (Billy Crystal) did for this summer’s Monsters University, twelve years after Monsters Inc....
‘Nightcrawler’ Moves To Halloween, Legendary’s ‘Krampus’ Gets Fall 2015 Date By Russ Fischer/Aug. 19, 2014 3:30 pm EST When one film moves around on the calendar, others often follow suit. Recently David Ayer’s Fury was pulled up from a November 2014 opening to a mid-October date, the better to (hopefully) enjoy a long awards season runup. That put it directly in competition with Nightcrawler, the indie thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Now Nightcrawler has backed off a couple weeks to put room between the two releases....
‘Nightcrawler’ Trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal Makes A Living Off Blood And Death By Russ Fischer/Aug. 21, 2014 11:10 am EST Nightcrawler stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a guy who discovers that his intense work ethic and lightweight moral sense combine to make him a talent in the field of shooting bottom-feeding TV news. Initially unsuccessful in his job hunt, a chance encounter with a news team led by Bill Paxton leads Gyllenhaal’s character to start gathering news on his own… and perhaps even tweaking it a bit, as this new Nightcrawler trailer suggests....
‘Oz The Great And Powerful’ Super Bowl Spot By Russ Fischer/Feb. 3, 2013 4:09 pm EST Disney isn’t showing off as much new stuff in the Super Bowl commercial for Oz the Great and Powerful as it did for The Lone Ranger , but here’s a quick look at the March release. We know pretty much what to expect from Sam Raimi’s Oz prequel, but if you need a refresher check out the spot below....
‘Powers’ TV Show Becomes First Playstation Network Original By Russ Fischer/March 20, 2014 1:30 pm EST Xbox Live has a suite of original programming coming soon to the Xbox platform, and now Sony is getting into the original series action for the PlayStation Network. The first show created exclusively for the PlayStation will be a Powers TV show, based on the comic written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Michael Avon Oeming....
‘Spring Breakers’ Red-Band Trailer #2: Twisting The American Dream By Angie Han/Feb. 21, 2013 1:30 pm EST The four bikini-clad, gun-toting hotties at the center of Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers have drawn quite a bit of attention, by virtue of the fact that they’re, well, four bikini-clad, gun-toting hotties. (And two of them former Disney gals, no less.) But based on festival reviews, it may be James Franco as Alien you really want to keep an eye on....
‘The Boxtrolls’ Trailer: Meet Laika’s Misunderstood Monsters By Angie Han/March 18, 2014 8:29 am EST Laika’s The Boxtrolls doesn’t open for another six months, but the marketing team is already working hard getting the word out there. Today brings yet another new Boxtrolls trailer — the fourth so far — which explains a bit more about the titular tribe of misunderstood monsters. Watch it after the jump. Despite their willingness to churn out trailer after trailer, Laika’s been less eager to show off the plot....
‘The Last Stand’ Theatrical Poster: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Knoxville And A Big-Ass Gun By Germain Lussier/Nov. 14, 2012 9:10 am EST The final theatrical poster for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s return to action star status, The Last Stand, has just been revealed and with it comes a big promise. Arnold will be handling a big-ass gun in an image reminiscent of Terminator 2: Judgement Day. In The Last Stand, the English language debut of Kim-Jee Woon, Schwarzenegger plays a small-town sheriff who is forced to defend his borders against an escaping crime boss....
Ben Stein’s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Vs. Bill Maher’s Religulous By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 18, 2008 2:59 pm EST Variety is reporting that the filmmakers behind Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a new anti-Darwinism pro-Intelligent Design documentary starring Ben Stein, have stepped up their film’s marketing to coincide with its timely April release (around the same time that Bill Maher’s pro-agnostic doc Religulous opens internationally). Motive Entertainment, the marketing company that helped make The Passion of the Christ and The Chronicles of Narnia box office hits, was recently hired to “spread the [film’s] gospel....
Christian Bale Joins Johnny Depp In Michael Mann’s Public Enemies By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 11, 2008 2:49 am EST When Hollywood needs a bankable actor to snag a Wild West outlaw, Pablo Escobar or a few thousand Terminators, they send for Christian Bale, so why not send him after John Dillinger? This summer’s Dark Knight is in talks to star in the 2009 mobster drama Public Enemies for director Michael Mann. Bale’s rumored for the role of FBI agent Melvin Purvis, who became an American hero in 1934, the year his relentless manhunt for Dillinger culminated in the 31-year-old gangster being shot dead after he fled from a movie theater by Purvis’ men....
Danny Woodburn Cast As Splinter In ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ By Russ Fischer/April 15, 2013 4:25 pm EST The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have a new mentor. The live-action/CG hybrid film being produced now by Platinum Dunes and Michael Bay, and directed by Jonathan Liebesman, has cast Danny Woodburn as the mutated rat Splinter. The actor will likely do the role as a full motion-capture performance, in the same way the turtles are being created....
