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Cool Stuff: Quentin Vs. Coen Round Two - Exclusive Images, Video And More By Germain Lussier/May 31, 2011 12:00 pm EST Last month, a battle between Quentin Tarantino and The Coen Brothers began on art gallery walls in New York City. Later this week, that battle continues in San Francisco as Spoke Art presents Quentin vs. Coen Round Two, a follow-up exhibit to their wildly successful New York show. Tons of recognizable artists have contributed new art based on the films of Tarantino and the Coens, and fans can see, and purchase it, for themselves, beginning June 2 through June 30 at the Spoke Art Gallery, 816 Sutter St....

First Look/Listen: Daft Punk In Tron: Legacy [Costumes And Music] By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2010 4:00 pm EST Disney’s Tron: Legacy had a HUGE presence at Comic-Con, including a gigantic booth on the show floor. I was only really able to visit it briefly during preview night, and while I didn’t see anything Daft Punk related on display, others claim to have spotted Daft Punk action figures on display. The figures give us a look at what the electronic music duo look like in the movie....

HBO Now Offering Streaming Only Subscription Option…In Scandinavia By Germain Lussier/Aug. 31, 2012 12:08 pm EST HBO programming is among the most in-demand, on-demand programming out there. Everyone wants to stream show like The Sopranos, Sex and the City and The Wire but they’re not available on any of the major sites. So when HBO annoucned their own service, HBO Go, fans got very excited. That excitement quickly faded when HBO revealed Go would only be available to current cable subscribers....

J.J. Abrams Is Answering Questions On Quora By Germain Lussier/Nov. 22, 2011 12:30 pm EST Whether or not this will be an ongoing thing or if it’s just to help promote the home video release of Super 8 is unclear. But, as of right now, J.J. Abrams is answering fan questions or Quora. Quora, for those who are unaware, is sort of Yahoo Answers meets Wikipedia. It’s a user generated database of information that’s based on people’s questions and answers....

James Cameron Briefly Talks ‘Avatar’ Sequels: Shooting Back To Back, Surviving Cast Returns By Russ Fischer/Jan. 24, 2011 1:00 pm EST The director told EW, Those dates are a tiny bit more specific than what we were told when the two films were announced. (At the time, the dates were merely ‘December 2014 and 2015.’) And that he is beginning to write them now is also just confirmation of something we already knew....

Javier Bardem Confirmed For ‘Bond 23’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 11, 2011 5:00 pm EST We’re still in the grey zone with respect to real news about the next James Bond film. Rumored to be called Skyfall, we’re still just calling it Bond 23 for now. There will be a press conference early next month to announce the beginning of production, at which point we’ll likely get a batch of official info....

Kick-Ass Screenwriter Jane Goldman Rewriting X-Men: First Class By Russ Fischer/May 11, 2010 10:43 am EST When Matthew Vaughn was announced as director of X-Men: First Class, you wouldn’t have been errant in guessing that this news would quickly follow. Vaughn and Jane Goldman worked closely together on Stardust and Kick-Ass, so it was logical to guess that she might contribute to First Class as well. Indeed, we’re now hearing that Goldman will work on the script for the X-Men prequel....

LOL: R2-D2 College Prank By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2010 9:00 am EST A bunch of students turned Carleton College’s Goodsell Observatory into R2-D2, complete with sound effects. A funny and harmless prank, all of the the “decorations” were draped or taped onto the dome and there was no permanent defacement of the property. After the jump you can see some more photos and even a short video of the sound effects in action....

Max Borenstein Is The Latest Writer On ‘Godzilla’ For Legendary Pictures By Russ Fischer/Nov. 10, 2011 8:00 am EST Briefly: In March 2010 Legendary Pictures announced that it would make a new Godzilla film. All the wrongs done by Roland Emmerich’s 1998 film would be made right, and we would get a sci-fi creature feature that stands up to the best films in the long-running character’s history. That was the idea, at least, but in almost two years since that deal was announced we still know almost nothing about what Legendary is doing with Godzilla....

Ron Burgundy Takes To Twitter For ‘Anchorman 2’ By Germain Lussier/May 14, 2012 5:00 pm EST With the Anchorman 2 teaser trailer set to hit the big screen late tomorrow night with the midnight shows of The Dictator, Ron Burgundy himself took to Twitter to let everyone know about the momentous occasion. Check out his tweet below. Here’s Burgundy’s tweet. He’ll certainly be worth a follow as Anchorman 2 goes into production in the coming months....

Sam Worthington Set To Star In And Produce New Allan Quatermain Film By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2010 11:01 pm EST Sam Worthington cannot be stopped. He hasn’t really distinguished himself in his last few big movies, but those movies have generally done rather well. You might have heard the numbers on Avatar by now. So he’s become one of the bright young lights as far as studios are concerned. In addition to the many other films he’s been attached to, Worthington is now attached to Quatermain, a sci-fi take on the classic hero from King Solomon’s Mines....

By Germain Lussier/Sept. 7, 2011 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Now that Robopocalypse has a release date, odds are he’ll have to start shooting right on the tail of Lincoln, which is rumored to start shooting in the next few months. (Lincoln locations have been scouted in Georgia and other states for an October shoot, though we don’t have a hard and fast start date available for that film....

The Avengers: The Real Movie Gets A Start Date While A Fan-Made Trailer Teases The ’50s Version That Never Was By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2010 10:09 am EST So The Avengers is really happening, and Marvel’s hopefully mighty team–up movie now has a start date: Superhero Hype got info that says The Avengers will shoot in February 2011. We don’t know how long the Joss Whedon-directed project will be before cameras, nor exactly where it is shooting....

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Confirmed To Be Two Films By Russ Fischer/June 10, 2010 6:13 pm EST I know you’ve all been on pins and needles waiting for this news, so rest easy: Summit has confirmed via press release that its adaptation of Breaking Dawn, the final Twilight novel, will be broken into two films so as to maximize profit from the soon to be completed series. Contract negotiations were the reason that it has taken so long between rumor and announcement....

Tony Scott Wants To Direct ‘Top Gun 2’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 24, 2010 9:27 pm EST Recently when we heard that Paramount was looking to woo Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott back to the studio to make a sequel to the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun I cast aspersions upon the idea that Tony Scott might actually direct a sequel. But I was wrong — Tony Scott said this weekend that he is, in fact, interested in doing Top Gun 2, and that he’s on board for the sequel....

Trivia: Han Solo Appears In ‘Firefly’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 11, 2011 7:30 pm EST Have you ever noticed that Han Solo (Harrison Ford’s iconic character from the original Star Wars trilogy) is hidden in the background in some sceenes of Joss Whedon’s short lived sci-fi television series Firefly? Details and photos after the jump. Yes, Han Solo actually appears in the background of various sequences (in carbonite form). According to legend, star Nathan Fillion was such a huge Star Wars fan that the props department stuck the 12" Han Solo in Carbonite in the background of a couple scenes....

Universal Will Distribute ‘Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy’ From ‘Let The Right One In’ Director Tomas Alfredson By Russ Fischer/Feb. 28, 2011 5:00 pm EST One of the year’s more promising films is Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In) directed the film from Peter Morgan’s script which adapted the novel of the same name by John Le Carre. The cold war-era tale stars Gary Oldman as a former MI:6 operative who comes out of retirement to ferret out a mole in the intelligence organization....

VOTD: Overused Phrases In Movies - “We’ve Got Company!” By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2010 12:00 am EST There are a lot of overused phrases in movies, and “We’ve Got Company!” is at the top of the list. Guy Bauer created a one-minute montage showing some of the movies and television show in which the phrase has been used. Watch it, embedded after the jump. via: Elizabeth Banks VOTD: Overused Phrases In Movies - “We’ve Got Company!...

VOTDs: ‘[the Films Of] Danny Boyle’ And ‘Nolanography’ By Angie Han/March 18, 2011 5:00 am EST Video montages have become fairly common recently. It seems not a week goes by without another new compilation making the rounds, whether it’s a montage of death scenes from Lost, cut/slide moments from movies, or instances of characters telling each other “Get outta there!” A great many of them are pointless and uninspired, but the best ones have a strong sense of rhythm and logic....

By Germain Lussier/Nov. 11, 2010 2:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Deadline reported news of the deal for the book which apparently, according to the tone of the article, had a bunch of people vying for it. However, Warner Brothers ended up with the rights because they already own the rights to previous books by Brad Thor including The Lions of Lucerne and Blowback which both feature a Navy SEAL named Scot Harvath....