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‘Star Trek’ Sequel Will Be Shot On Film And Converted To 3D, Will Not Feature Any Original Series Cast Members By Russ Fischer/Dec. 20, 2011 5:37 pm EST J.J. Abrams is a producer on Mission: Impossible, and as the new film in that franchise hits theaters he’s been out doing the standard promo push. Some questions are naturally being lobbed his way about the sequel to his 2009 Star Trek revival....

‘Taken 2’ Internet Trailer: So Much Killing To Be Done By Russ Fischer/Sept. 5, 2012 9:00 am EST Liam Neeson introduces a new internet-only trailer for Taken 2, the film that features the continuing exploits of Neeson’s former black-ops character, whose family is once again the target of foreign tough guys who have a preoccupation with violence. And the trailer really pushes the idea that these movies are exploiting our human trend towards creating endless cycles of violence — you hurt my people, so I hurt yours, and you hurt mine again, and it never, ever ends....

‘The Lone Ranger’ Got Really, Really Expensive Once Again By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2012 3:30 pm EST Remember months ago when Disney put the development of Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger on ice because the budget had ballooned up to $250m or more? The studio is probably having flashbacks to that point, because the film is reportedly now over budget to the point where it is going to cost $250m or more; part of that budget overage has to do with the film being way behind schedule....

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Is The Working Title Of Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama Bin Laden Movie By Russ Fischer/March 2, 2012 10:30 am EST “Zero Dark Thirty” is a military slang term for super-early in the morning — that zone between midnight and 4am where a soldier might find himself stuck with some particularly crappy duty. Or the time where a raid might be launched on a wary target, the better to catch them off-guard....

Anna Kendrick And Bryan Cranston Offered ‘Get A Job’, Miles Teller In Talks By Angie Han/Jan. 24, 2012 6:00 am EST Eight years after his sophomore directorial effort P.S., Dylan Kidd is heading back into feature filmmaking with a new comedy for CBS Films titled Get a Job. And he’s got his eye on some intriguing young stars (and Bryan Cranston) for the lead roles: Miles Teller is in talks for one of the leads, while offers have gone out to Cranston and Anna Kendrick for other roles....

Concept Art And Cast For Darren Lynn Bousman’s ‘11-11-11’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 14, 2011 10:13 am EST In the last two weeks, everyone was talk about the number one. We had 1-1-11 and then 1-11-11 but really, it’s all about 11-11-11. That’s when the unique repetition of the number 1 reaches its full potential and the director of Saw II-IV, Repo! The Genetic Opera and Mother’s Day is capitalizing. Darren Lynn Bousman is currently in Barcelona, Spain getting ready to shoot his upcoming horror thriller 11-11-11 and he’s just announced a cast full of relative unknowns, plus some moody concept art, intended to amp up the scares....

By Germain Lussier/May 23, 2012 5:00 pm EST You all know me as a bit of a poster freak so when I say this, know I’m not being hyperbolic. Mondo’s poster for 13 Assassins, designed by Vania Zouravliov, is an early contender for poster of the year. Based on the awesome, bad-ass, insert positive adjective here samurai film by Takashi Miike, Zouravliov’s piece not only evokes a whole other time period, it pops with energy and emotion....

By Russ Fischer/Nov. 15, 2011 10:30 am EST Yesterday there was big news about David Yates and the development of a new Doctor Who film, which the director is overseeing with the BBC. That project is in the very early stages, with a writer yet to be hired. We’re not going to see that new version of Doctor Who for a couple years yet. And Warner Bros., for which Yates made the last four Harry Potter films, is still trying to keep the director around....

Dexter: Prison Break Star Chris Vance Joins Season 5, New Photo And Promo Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2010 9:00 am EST A bunch of news on the Dexter front: Prison Break star Chris Vance is joining the cast for a multi-episode arc, a new image has appeared, along with a new Season five promo. Hit the jump to learn more information and see the image and promo. If you haven’t seen the fourth season of the series, obviously, beware of spoilers....

Documentary Trailers: ‘Glow: The Story Of The Gorgeous Women Of Wrestling’ And ‘First Position’ By Angie Han/April 4, 2012 3:30 pm EST While documentaries of every stripe have their charms, my favorites tend to be the ones that offer up-close-and-personal looks at worlds I’d never really considered before. Like, say, professional women’s wrestling. Brett Whitcomb’s GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling looks at the all-female wrestling promotion that featured in their own syndicated TV series from 1986 to 1990, through footage from the original series and interviews with the women who were once involved with the organization....

First Official Look At Rooney Mara As Lisbeth Salander In ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 12, 2011 10:02 am EST OK, this isn’t a press still from the film, but it’s pretty good, anyway. Rooney Mara is on the cover of W magazine, and she’s in character as Lisbeth Salander, the heroine in David Fincher’s version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Along with the image is a great profile on Mr....

Geek Deal: Firefly On Blu-Ray For $27.99, $10 Blu-Ray Sale: Kung Fu Hustle, Terminator 2, 2001, Usual Suspects, Silence Of The Lambs, Lost Boys, Crash And Many More By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2010 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. via: slick

IFFBoston Movie Reviews: Documentary Shorts The Poodle Trainer And Keep Dancing By David Chen/April 24, 2010 7:34 am EST I love Documentary Shorts programs because they’re fascinating little slices of life from around the world that I’d never otherwise be privy to (plus, the films are so short that if you don’t like one, all you need to do is wait 15 minutes for it to be over). Last night, I saw IFFBoston’s Shorts 2: Docs package....

Infographic: The Avengers Family Tree By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2011 7:00 am EST Over the last few months, graphic designer Joe Stone has released a couple handy infographics showing the many relationships (married, dated, offspring, clone, nemesis…etc) between the characters in the X-Men comic books and the Fantastic Four universe. This weekend he released a third in his continuing comic book family tree infographic series, this one focusing on the relationships in The Avengers....

Is ‘Ant-Man’ Marvel’s First Comedy? Edgar Wright Screens Test Footage [Comic-Con 2012] By Germain Lussier/July 14, 2012 6:53 pm EST “Ant-Man will kick your ass, one inch at a time.” That’s what director Edgar Wright said after lying through his teeth this week that he was in London and then appearing on stage at the Marvel Hall H panel Saturday night at San Diego Comic-Con 2012. Wright, who co-wrote Ant-Man with Joe Cornish, shot a short test reel recently showing how Ant-Man would look in his super small state....

Judd Apatow Believes The Oscars Need A Best Comedy Category By Germain Lussier/Nov. 21, 2011 11:30 am EST Drama is easy and comedy is hard. That’s the sentiment of writer/director/producer Judd Apatow who, at a recent Oscar-themed screening of Bridesmaids, said he believes the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences undervalues humor and should give out an Oscar for Best Comedy much as they do for Best Animation. Watch a video of Apatow’s quote and discuss this complicated issue after the jump....

Lee Pace Joins Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2011 7:30 am EST The latest to join Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is Lee Pace, the Pushing Daisies vet who led the cast of Tarsem’s The Fall, has survived the Twilight series and will be seen at the end of next year playing Elven King Thranduil in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Before he goes to New Zealand to work with Peter Jackson, however, the actor will play one-time New York City mayor Fernando Wood, an early Confederate supporter....

LOL: Inception Characters Don’t Understand Inception By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2010 8:00 am EST And you thought Inception was confusing… College Humor takes on the complexities/flaws of Christopher Nolan’s Inception in a new comedy short titled “Inception Characters Don’t Understand Inception”: Inception is the movie of the summer, that has moviegoers trying to comprehend the complexities of Nolan’s dreamworld. How do the characters seem to understand all the rules that it took us two and a half hours to learn so fast?...

LOL: This Is How You Promote Jackass 3D! By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 4, 2010 9:00 am EST At Comic-Con, Paramount Pictures screened 8-minutes of Jackass 3D (watch our video blog here, trailer here) and I called it “a theme park experience but with poop and pee.” I know I hurt from laughing after only 8 minutes, and I believe it takes the gimmicky nature of 3D to the extreme. Paramount is trying to think of some out of the box marketing ideas to promote the upcoming 3D sequel....

Movie Trailer #2: Stuart Hazeldine’s One-Room Thriller ‘Exam’ By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2010 11:00 am EST In November, we posted a trailer for Stuart Hazeldine’s high-concept, low-budget thriller single-room real-time feature debut Exam, which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival last Summer. IFC has since launched a genre label called IFC Midnight which will release the movie exclusively on Video On Demand beginning in July. QuietEarth calls the plot “Cube meets The Apprentice”....