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Two New ‘Only God Forgives’ Trailers Sell Tension And Violence By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2013 8:33 am EST This morning brings gifts: along with the Cannes lineup we’ve got new trailers for some of the scheduled films, and among them are two new looks at Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives. Ryan Gosling stars in the Thai-set western as a minor gangster who is commanded by his domineering mother (Kristen Scott Thomas) to bring his brother’s killer to justice....

Universal’s Next Werewolf Movie Features A Nazi-Fighting Lycanthrope By Russ Fischer/Jan. 10, 2014 12:45 pm EST Chris Morgan, the screenwriter behind most of the Fast and the Furious sequels, is now producing a new film for Universal. The studio with the richest horror movie legacy of all will make The Wolf’s Hour, based on a 1989 novel. The story is set in WWII, and sees the Allies using a lycanthrope to infiltrate occupied Paris in order to stop a Nazi attack on London....

Vin Diesel Suggests ‘Fast & Furious 7’ Shoots This Summer In LA By Russ Fischer/March 30, 2013 10:57 am EST Seems so simple, but only Marvel is building the same sort of structure, and capturing fans the same way. Fast & Furious 6 arrives on May 24, and in a note about an early screening of the film Vin Diesel says that the reaction to 6 is good enough that shooting on Fast & Furious 7 is already set for this summer....

Warner Bros. Green Lights ‘Entourage’ Movie By Germain Lussier/Jan. 29, 2013 10:13 pm EST As a man who moved from New York to Los Angeles with dreams of Hollywood glory in my head, today is a great day. Warner Bros. has given to the green light to the movie version of Entourage, the HBO series that ran from 2004-2011. Mark Wahlberg executive produced the show based on his own life....

Watch The Animated Version Of Patton Oswalt’s ‘Star Wars’ Rant By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2013 8:54 am EST If Patton Oswalt wasn’t already a Duke of the internet, he would have earned the position with the Parks and Recreation outtake in which Oswalt went on an eight-minute rant/filibuster that outlined a plot for the next Star Wars movie, complete with most of the Marvel Universe and the characters from the two recent Clash of the Titans films....

Watch The Full ‘X-Men Days Of Future Past’ Comic-Con 2013 Panel By Germain Lussier/July 22, 2013 9:00 am EST This past Saturday in Comic-Con’s Hall H will go down in history as one of the best days ever at the Con. We found out about a Superman/Batman movie, saw footage from Godzilla, a teaser for Warcraft, footage from every single upcoming Marvel movie and so much more. One of the major highlights was director Bryan Singer parading out the entire cast of his 2014 sequel, X-Men: Days of Future Past....

‘Killing Season’ Trailer: John Travolta Tries To Kill Robert De Niro With An Evil Accent By Russ Fischer/June 17, 2013 1:30 pm EST We’ve slept a bit on this one. Add up the “direct to video” impression that the promo art (and John Travolta’s beard) give to this latest effort from Daredevil director Mark Steven Johnson, and you might have given it a pass, too. Even if Killing Season does also star Robert De Niro as a former soldier that Travolta is keen to kill, based on a grudge that goes back to the Bosnian War....

‘Obvious Child’ Trailer: Sundance Abortion Comedy Hit Starring Jenny Slate By Germain Lussier/April 15, 2014 10:53 am EST Jenny Slate is about to become a movie star thanks to the Obvious Child trailer. The comedic actress, best known for her TV roles on Saturday Night Live, Parks and Recreation, House of Lies and others, plays her the lead character, Donna, in the Gillian Robespierre film. She’s a stand-up comedian whose life gets turned upside down when a one-night stand with an unlikely man leaves her pregnant....

‘Paranorman’ Helmer To Direct Jackie Chan And Seann William Scott In ‘Skiptrace’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 22, 2013 10:45 am EST When Jackie Chan has an idea for a movie, that movie gets made. That’s certainly the case with Skiptrace, which is based on idea from the martial arts icon. Chan will star as Hong Kong detective whose daughter (X-Men: Days of Future Past’s Fan Bingbing) gets abducted and the only person who can help is a wiseass American gambler, who’ll be played by Seann William Scott....

‘The Artist’ Trailer: Is The Cannes Silent Film Favorite An Early Best Picture Contender? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 25, 2011 5:30 pm EST The first film to generate real ‘best picture’ buzz at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was The Artist, a lively silent film depicting late ’20s Hollywood. It is directed by Michel Hazanavicius, aka the guy that made the comic OSS 117 films. The film seems like an unlikely pairing of man and material, but a look at the footage shows just how much care went into making this period tale about the transition from silent to sound films....

‘The Double’ Trailer: “You’re In My Place” By Angie Han/Feb. 18, 2014 9:22 am EST Further down on the calendar is The Double, Richard Ayoade’s adaptation of the Fyodor Dostoevsky novella. Jesse Eisenberg stars as both milquetoast Simon, who is horrified to discover that his exact likeness / polar opposite, the brash, charismatic James, is taking over his life. The first few trailers did a great job of getting across the nightmarish vibe of the tale, but the newest one offers a better sense of the plot, as well as a bigger dose of Ayoade’s humor and wit....

‘The Expendables 3’ Teaser Trailer: Whistle While You Work By Russ Fischer/Dec. 19, 2013 10:21 am EST The Expendables 3 just shot this summer, but here’s the first teaser trailer ahead of the film’s release at the end of summer 2014. This installment in the action series full of old guys brings Harrison Ford into the fold, and also features a mix of other returning faces and new recruits.Sylvester Stallone leads the pack, with Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Kelsey Grammar, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wesley Snipes, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Ronda Rousey, Antonio Banderas, Mel Gibson, and Kellan Lutz are picking up guns and/or grimacing....

‘The Host’ Trailer & Poster: Stephenie Meyer’s Post ‘Twilight’ Sci-Fi Love Story, From Director Andrew Niccol By Germain Lussier/Nov. 13, 2012 8:06 am EST Over the past five years, author Stephenie Meyer has proved she can strike a chord blending genre and romance. Her Twilight books and movies are some of the most successful in recent memory, playing to a specific audience hungry for passionate romance and tantalized by their horror-inspired roots....

‘The Purge’ Sequel Coming Summer 2014 By Germain Lussier/Nov. 20, 2013 2:30 pm EST Briefly: One of the biggest surprise hits of 2013 was The Purge, James DeMonaco’s small-budget thriller about a future where the U.S. legalizes all crime on one night each year. Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey starred. After a massive opening weekend, a sequel was quickly announced and now that sequel has a release date. Universal Pictures is currently calling it “The next chapter of The Purge” and it’ll be released June 20, 2014....

Blood And F-Bombs: ‘The Wolverine’ Extended Cut Is The Most Explicit X-Men Movie To Date By Russ Fischer/Nov. 19, 2013 4:56 pm EST The first solo Wolverine movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, was a bloated, cartoonish mess that vomited stereotypical criticisms of comic book movies onto the screen as story points. Unsurprisingly, that left no one happy. When a follow-up, The Wolverine, was revealed to be drawing direct inspiration from the character’s early solo comic book outing created by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, there was reason to hope the character’s second headlining gig might fare better....

David O. Russell-Scripted ‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’ Nears Production By Angie Han/Feb. 5, 2014 7:30 am EST Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was once such a hot property, bidding for the movie rights began before the book even hit shelves. But it’s spent the past five years in development hell, shuffling from one high-profile movie star and director to another. The last we heard of it was in May, when the David O....

Dwayne Johnson Could Join Robert Ludlum’s ‘The Janson Directive’ By Germain Lussier/July 8, 2014 2:40 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Universal has just about accomplished that first step for the upcoming adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Directive. Johnson is in talks to star in and produce the film, which is based on a book by the late Bourne series author. This, too, is a potential franchise starter, about a legendary covert agent who starts a private agency and finds himself being hunted by his own people....

Elle Fanning Will Lead Neil Gaiman’s ‘How To Talk To Girls At Parties’ By Angie Han/July 10, 2014 9:45 am EST While we wait to see what becomes of those long-gestating Sandman and American Gods adaptations, another Neil Gaiman tale is taking a step toward the big screen. Elle Fanning has signed on to lead How to Talk to Girls at Parties, based on a 2006 short story by Gaiman. John Cameron Mitchell is directing....

Amy Schumer Trainwreck By Russ Fischer/July 18, 2014 2:00 pm EST The prospect of Amy Schumer writing and starring in a feature film is awesome. Her script Trainwreck is being directed now by Judd Apatow, with a set of co-stars that includes Bill Hader, Brie Larson, and Tilda Swinton. I’ve got no doubt that she’ll carry the role like a champ – her brutally funny show Inside Amy Schumer has been one of Comedy Central’s best new offerings, and shows more than enough to know that she could be one of the next great comedy stars....

Guillermo Del Toro Confirms He’s “Discussing” Justice League Dark Movie ‘Heaven Sent’ By Angie Han/Nov. 9, 2012 7:00 am EST Guillermo del Toro may not have plans to direct Justice League, but he could be tackling another, more del Toro-y stable of DC heroes. Last week, a report circulated that del Toro was working on Heaven Sent, about team of darker, more supernatural DC Comics characters like John Constantine, Deadman, The Spectre, and Swamp Thing....