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‘Downloaded’ Trailer: ‘Bill & Ted’ Star Alex Winter’s Documentary On Napster By Germain Lussier/Dec. 7, 2012 4:15 pm EST Many of us think of Alex Winter only as Bill S. Preston, Esq., the most excellent co-star of the Bill and Ted movies. But since those films were released, the actor has found himself behind the camera quite often, directing theatrical and TV movies, and TV shows. Then last year he signed to make a documentary about the cultural milestone Napster, an online music sharing software that not only changed the way we consume music, but changed the internet as well....

‘Intramural’ Trailer: A Bunch Of SNL-Ers Made A Sports Movie By Angie Han/April 8, 2014 4:15 pm EST The Saturday Night Live stars are the last people you’d expect to see in an inspirational sports drama, but they’re the perfect folks to send up the inspirational sports drama subgenre. Kate McKinnon, Jay Pharoah, and Beck Bennett all make appearances in the first Intramural trailer, which, as the title suggests, takes on the world of intramural college sports....

‘Mortdecai’ Trailer: Johnny Depp Is A Bit Of A Moron, Actually By Angie Han/Aug. 12, 2014 10:15 am EST One of those chances arrives next February in the form of a goofy comedy. Depp plays the title character in Mortdecai, a roguish art dealer racing to recover a stolen painting that could lead to Nazi gold. The first Mortdecai trailer has just been released, and you can watch it after the jump....

‘Narco Cultura’ Trailer: Doc Explores Drug Cartel Culture As Seen In ‘Breaking Bad’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 27, 2013 3:00 pm EST The terrible power of drug cartels south of the US border has been fuel for fiction and legend for years. Popular visions of cartel actions are at a high point now thanks to the attention on Breaking Bad, but even without that show there would be dozens of visions of cartels in media....

‘The Purge 2’ In Development By Russ Fischer/June 11, 2013 10:32 am EST The Purge opened last Friday and handily won the weekend, taking twice the coin of the next most potent competitor, The Internship. The Purge cost $3m to make and earned $34m, meaning that a sequel was almost inevitable. Add to that fact a tax rebate from the state of California, which will refund quite a big chunk of the sequel’s production budget, and producer Jason Blum has a big thumbs-up to make The Purge 2....

‘The Raid 2’ Trailer By Angie Han/Jan. 21, 2014 9:59 am EST The marketing campaign for Gareth Evans’ The Raid 2 is off to a damn good start. The first teaser was light on plot but heavy on thrills, and the Indonesian trailer was a violent good time. Then there’s the fact that the first movie was pretty damn great, which really is the best advertisement of all for the sequel....

‘The Walking Dead’ Season 5 Trailer; Premiere Set For October 12 [Comic Con 2014] By Germain Lussier/July 25, 2014 1:35 pm EST The Walking Dead took over Hall H on Friday at Comic Con, and the showrunners brought along a brand new trailer. The next season will premiere October 12, but for now you can check out the first Walking Dead Season 5 trailer below. Plus, read some of the highlights of the panel including some new additions to the cast and answers to questions about where this season will go....

‘This Is 40’ Red-Band Featurette: Dealing With Constant Intimacy, And Fondling Megan Fox By Russ Fischer/Nov. 19, 2012 12:38 pm EST Let’s just cut to the chase: there’s a bit in this red-band featurette explaining Judd Apatow’s new film This is 40 where Leslie Mann fondles Megan Fox. That happens at about the 2:45 mark. So just go watch that, and then get back to me. I’ll wait. OK, so this is a good attempt by Apatow, Mann, and Paul Rudd to ground the film and both put it in the context of Knocked Up (Mann and Rudd reprise their roles from that film) and position the story as a coming of middle-age tale that has something for all of us....

‘We Are What We Are’ Director To ‘Curse The Darkness’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 26, 2014 5:00 am EST I really like what SpectreVision is doing. The label created by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Josh C. Waller is backing and promoting a set of strange movies from the US and around the world. Their films so far include A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (review), Cooties (review), L.F.O. (review), Toad Road (trailer), and Open Windows (trailer)....

‘World War Z’ And ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Double Feature Hits Theaters Friday By Germain Lussier/Aug. 27, 2013 6:22 pm EST Fans waiting to see either World War Z or Star Trek Into Darkness before the summer movie season ends are about to get another chance. Hoping to fill a pretty big hole in the release schedule on the summer’s final weekend, Paramount is presenting a double feature of their two summer hits for the price of one ticket....

‘Wrong Cops’ Trailer: Gay Porn, Car Humping, And Liberties With Law Enforcement By Russ Fischer/Nov. 22, 2013 2:30 pm EST The trailer for Nymphomaniac set the bar pretty high when it comes to including explicit content in movie advertising. And, in truth, this trailer for Wrong Cops, from director Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Wrong) isn’t nearly as explicit as that. But, in the fashion that is now the recognizable signature of Dupieux, it is nuts....

‘You’re Next’ Teaser Posters: Menacing Animal Faces Promise Dire Terror By Russ Fischer/March 22, 2013 4:30 pm EST In 2011, one of the hits of TIFF and Fantastic Fest was Adam Wingard’s home invasion thriller You’re Next. The film drew raves at just a couple of festival screenings and was snapped up by LionsGate. But rather than releasing the film quickly, the studio held on to it for a while. After appearing once at Fantastic Fest in September 2011, the film was dormant until just over a week ago, when it played at SXSW....

Bryan Singer Producing New ‘Twilight Zone’ Series For CBS Studios By Russ Fischer/Dec. 19, 2012 12:00 pm EST Briefly: The fact that Warner Bros. has been slowing moving forward with a new Twilight Zone movie for the past few years won’t stop CBS Studios from developing a new television take on Rod Serling’s seminal sci-fi thriller series. Now Bryan Singer is on board to produce the new TV version. He’ll develop and exec produce the new show, and perhaps direct the pilot as well....

David Dobkin Directing Hugh Hefner Biopic For Warner Bros. By Angie Han/Dec. 18, 2013 2:15 pm EST Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has cropped up in quite a few movies and shows over the decades. Sometimes, he’s played by himself, as in Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The House Bunny; other times, actors are called upon to play younger versions of him, as in The Playboy Club and Lovelace. But those have all been supporting roles or cameos....

George Lucas Will Give Most Of His $4 Billion From Disney To Charity By Angie Han/Nov. 1, 2012 3:21 pm EST George Lucas and Lucasfilm have given fans plenty to grumble about over the past decade, but as Disney prepares to take over the company, the filmmaker is going out on an undeniable high note. In 2010, Lucas committed to donating most of his wealth to charity by signing the Warren Buffet and Bill Gates Giving Pledge....

Harrison Ford Joins ‘Anchorman 2’ By Russ Fischer/March 4, 2013 12:16 pm EST If you had to cast the Tom Brokaw or Dan Rather of Ron Burgundy’s world, to whom would you turn? Adam McKay and Judd Apatow have looked to Harrison Ford. The actor will appear in Anchorman 2 as “a legendary anchor,” implying that someone on the Anchorman 2 crew watched and liked Ford’s 2010 comedy Morning Glory, in which he also played a TV news personality....

Internet Rumors May Get Michael Bay To Put Mark Wahlberg In ‘Transformers 4’ After All By Russ Fischer/Nov. 7, 2012 11:32 am EST You may recall recently that Mark Wahlberg was rumored for a big role in Michael Bay’s Transformers 4. While Bay quickly killed the rumor, saying that he and Wahlberg were developing a different film together after working in tandem on Bay’s Pain and Gain, now there’s life to the story once again....

Katie Holmes In Talks To Play Wonder Woman?! By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2007 2:55 pm EST Oh No. I can hear the collective sigh of fanboys from around the world as I type the following bit of news: Katie Holmes is in talks to star in a big screen adaptation of Wonder Woman. In the past I’ve been very fair to Tom and Katie (unlike most of this country), and I even think Holmes is a good actress....

LOL: Cookie Monster Stars In Sesame Street’s ‘The Hungry Games: Catching Fur’ By Angie Han/Nov. 18, 2013 2:15 pm EST Katniss Everdeen and Cookie Monster wouldn’t seem to have a whole lot in common. One is a serious, prickly teen living in an oppressive dystopia; the other is a jolly mop of blue fur who resides in the world’s friendliest neighborhod. One hunts to feed her starving family; the other is famous for a destructive addiction to baked goods....

Nicolas Cage Is The Wrestler By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 12, 2007 1:36 am EST Nicolas Cage is in talks to star in The Wrestler, written by Robert Siegel. The film, which is in development at Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures, follows a 1980s-era pro wrestling star named Randy “The Ram” Robinson who has become a burnt-out shell of his former self. Ram has a heart attack in a small-time match, and his doctor warns him that if he ever fights again, he would be risking his own life....