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Knight And Day Movie Trailer Is Also A Video Game By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2010 1:00 pm EST 20TH CENTURY FOX LAUNCHES FIRST-EVER INTERACTIVE GAME ENABLED MOVIE TRAILER FOR KNIGHT AND DAYJOIN THE FILM’S ACTION IN UNIQIUE SHOOTING /FIGHTING GAME AT www.knightanddaymovie.com/game LOS ANGELES…. Twentieth Century Fox’s upcoming motion picture event KNIGHT AND DAY today launched the first-ever game enabled movie trailer. The unique shooting/fighting experience allows audiences to play along with Tom Cruise’s Roy Miller character in the film’s theatrical trailer....

Michael Fassbender And Domhnall Gleeson Join UK Comedy ‘Frank,’ From ‘The Men Who Stare At Goats’ Writers By Russ Fischer/Sept. 4, 2012 11:27 am EST Briefly: This is a pretty small story, but it could lead to something fun: Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson (son of Brendan, and Bill Weasley in the last two Harry Potter films) have been signed to star in a UK comedy called Frank. The Film4 production is written by Jon Ronson (who wrote the book The Men Who Stare at Goats) and Peter Straughan (who scripted the film The Men Who Stare at Goats, and co-scripted Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and will be directed by Lenny Abrahamson....

Movie Trailer: ‘Born To Be Wild 3D’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 22, 2010 10:00 am EST If you saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 at an IMAX theatre over the weekend, then chances are you probably caught the trailer for Warner Bros’ upcoming IMAX 3D animal documentary Born to be Wild 3D. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this film “documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them—saving endangered species one life at a time....

Movie Trailer: Neil Jordan’s Ondine By Peter Sciretta/April 15, 2010 9:34 pm EST The film premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and was met with good, but not great, reviews. Our friends at FirstShowing saw the film at the Canadian film fest, and say it is “a heartwarming feel with some beautiful cinematography, impressive acting, and just a wonderful story, that it’s easy to fall in love with this film....

Ridley Scott Says New ‘Blade Runner’ Project Is “Likely To Be A Sequel” By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2011 11:30 am EST We know that Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. are working with Ridley Scott to make another film set in the Blade Runner world, though whether the new film might be sequel, prequel or spin-off we haven’t known. Hell, we really don’t know anything about the movie, including the key question: “why?...

TV Bits: ‘In Living Color’ Returns, ‘American Horror Story’ Renewed, Jim Gaffigan Coming To TV, Charlie Sheen Returning And More By Germain Lussier/Oct. 31, 2011 4:00 pm EST Read more about all of this after the break. American Horror Story is only four episodes old but it’s already been on the cover on Entertainment Weekly and has now, fittingly on Halloween, been picked up for a 13 episode second season according to TV Line....

TV Ownership Drops For First Time In Nielsen History By Angie Han/Nov. 30, 2011 7:36 pm EST With services like Netflix and Hulu beefing up their streaming selections, it’s easier than ever to pull the plug on your TV and still remain in the pop culture loop — and increasingly, consumers are doing just that. According to a new report released this week by Nielsen Media Research, the number of U....

Universal Movies Now Available In Apple’s iCloud By Angie Han/April 9, 2012 4:30 pm EST As digital rentals and purchases continue to increase their importance in the home video market, companies have been trying to find new and improved ways to entice customers. Last year also saw the launch of Ultraviolet, which gives consumers access to digital copies of DVDs and Blu-rays they’ve already purchased, and this month Walmart is rolling out a “disc to digital” service to convert physical media to digital copies for $2 to $5 a pop....

VOTD: Vintage 1983 Lots-O’-Huggin’ Bear Commercial… Toy Story 3 Viral? By Peter Sciretta/April 26, 2010 6:00 am EST A video appeared online last week on YouTube claiming to be a television commercial from 1983 advertising the Lots-o’-Huggin’. Many of you following the site know that Lotso is one of the new toys/characters in Pixar’s Toy Story 3. The thing is… I’m 99% sure Lotso was a custom creation of Pixar and didn’t actually exist in 1983....

Watch: Four Bob Balaban-Narrated ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Featurettes By Angie Han/May 16, 2012 1:00 pm EST The four latest featurettes for Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom don’t reveal much more about the actual movie than that last behind-the-scenes video did, but it’s still a pleasure to watch the cast and crew coming together. Especially when all the proceedings are narrated by Bob Balaban, in typically wry, gentle Anderson style. The four videos focus on Anderson and stars Bill Murray, Edward Norton, and Bruce Willis, as they shoot their scenes and goof off between takes....

Watch ‘The Karate Kid’ Comprised Completely Out Of Rehearsal Footage By Germain Lussier/Nov. 28, 2011 1:30 pm EST Sometimes the Internet surprises you with something so random and cool, it’s unfathomable that it actually exists. An alternative version of The Karate Kid is all that and a crane kick. In 1983, director John G. Avildsen was getting ready to shoot The Karate Kid with stars Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and others....

‘Cosmopolis’ Red-Band Teaser Trailer: David Cronenberg And The Rebirth Of Robert Pattinson By Russ Fischer/March 22, 2012 7:25 am EST Well, hello, David Cronenberg! In 2012 the director is going to unleash his second film in two years, and for those who thought A Dangerous Method was too dry, it looks like Cosmopolis might be for you. A teaser has just landed for the film, and it looks nuts. The film stars Robert Pattinson in an adaptation of a novel by Don DeLillo, and it looks like Cronenberg’s most overtly sexual movie since Crash, and his most visually strange since eXistenZ....

‘Dark Knight’ Origins: Sound Design, Bane’s Voice & Concept Images, Inspiration For Heath Ledger’s Joker By Germain Lussier/Aug. 1, 2012 3:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Chances are we’re all pretty familiar with the The Dark Knight Rises from the outside view. Now it’s time to pop the hood. Much as rumors cropped up before production, spy photos poured out during production, speculation raged approaching release and debate stirred at release, behind the scenes tidbits are now coming online at a great rate....

/Film LA: James Bond Retrospective In June, ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Midnight Screening And Reunion This Week By Angie Han/May 22, 2012 3:00 pm EST One huge upside to living in Southern California — aside from fantastic weather and plentiful opportunities to stuff your face with In-N-Out burgers– is the thriving film scene that naturally results from being the world capital of moviemaking. Whether you prefer your adventures led by suave British spies or pudgy Italian-American plumbers, the next few weeks have got something for you....

/Film New York: Catch Pixar’s Short ‘La Luna’ This Weekend By Angie Han/Sept. 8, 2011 4:00 pm EST Most audiences won’t be seeing Enrico Casarosa’s lovely Pixar short La Luna until it opens with Brave next summer, but lucky New Yorkers will get the chance to check it out early this Sunday. The short will be playing at the Japan Society this weekend as part of the Films for Hope festival, and will be followed by a discussion with the director himself....

‘I Am Number Four’ Featurette: “Inside Look” By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 19, 2010 7:00 am EST DreamWorks Pictures has released a new featurette for DJ Caruso’s bigscreen adaptation of the sci-fi action thriller I Am Number Four. The two minute video gives us an overview of the film’s story, as explained by the cast and crew. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Official One Pager: I AM NUMBER FOUR Genre: Action-thriller Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer, Dianna Agron, Kevin Durand, Callan McAuliffe Director: D....

‘The Forgiveness Of Blood’ Trailer - ‘Maria Full Of Grace’ Helmer Returns To The Big Screen With Albanian Blood Feud Tale By Angie Han/Jan. 20, 2012 3:37 pm EST After breaking out in 2004 with the acclaimed Maria Full of Grace, director Joshua Marston moved into television, helming episodes of Six Feet Under, In Treatment, and How to Make It in America. Now, eight years later, Marston’s finally returning to the silver screen with his second feature The Forgiveness of Blood....

‘The Little Mermaid’ Gets Its Own ‘Twist On The Classic Tale’ By Germain Lussier/May 23, 2011 4:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Take away the connotation of the Disney version of The Little Mermaid we all know and love and this sounds like the typical fantasy romance that’s begun to see pop up here and there. Twilight meets Charlie St. Cloud or something like that....

‘The Skin I Live In’ International Teaser Trailer: Crazy, Cool, Creepy By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2011 2:05 pm EST Reviews at Cannes painted Pedro Almodovar’s new film, The Skin I Live In, as a muddled but sometimes effective thriller. A new international teaser for the movie has landed, and it certainly hypes up the ’effective’ part, even while suggesting the same all over the map tone of which some complained at Cannes....

‘Transformers 3’ Action Sequence Recycled From ‘The Island’ By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2011 3:00 pm EST Say what you will about Michael Bay, but he is a filmmaker who knows how to maximize the bang for the buck. He is often critisized for using too much product placement, which gives him millions of dollars more to play with than he would have otherwise had access to. In a film like The Island it is annoying and distracting, and in a film like Transformers: Dark of the Moon, its much less noticable (although David Chen was bothered more by the Cisco product placement)....