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VOTD: Rally Driver Ken Block Owns The Universal Studios Backlot By Russ Fischer/Aug. 19, 2011 10:00 am EST I’ve never been to the Universal Studios backlot, despite making many visits to LA over the years. And now that I’ve seen this video, in which rally driver Ken Block navigates the lot at tremendous speed and with impeccable precision, I’m not sure I need to. When you’ve got a few minutes to watch the entire video, hit the jump....

‘Puss In Boots’ Gets Two Week IMAX Release; Hints At ‘Breaking Dawn’ IMAX Announcement By Germain Lussier/March 1, 2011 1:30 pm EST Add yet another film to the already tight 2011 IMAX theater schedule. Or maybe two. DreamWorks just announced that their Shrek spin-off, Puss In Boots, is going to play on domestic IMAX screens for two weeks beginning November 4. Why only two weeks when there’s no film scheduled for IMAX release on November 18?...

‘The Bourne Legacy’ Trailer: Rebuilding Killers, And Franchises By Russ Fischer/May 31, 2012 9:07 am EST Universal is planning a nice transition from the summer to fall movie seasons with the August release of The Bourne Legacy. The film is from writer/director Tony Gilroy (who co-wrote with Dan Gilroy) and outlines a new branch of the spy storyline created in the three Bourne movies starring Matt Damon. This time, Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker, The Avengers, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) is the memory-challenged super-spy who is embroiled in a violent plot....

‘The Perks Of Being A Wallflower’ Trailer - Hermione Granger Welcomes Percy Jackson To The Island Of Misfit Toys By Angie Han/June 4, 2012 9:30 am EST It’s a little surprising to me that it’s taken this long for Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower to get made into a film. Since its publication in 1999, the novel has become a classic of YA literature, one that nearly everyone seems to have read and loved, or at least heard really good things about....

‘You Instead’ Trailer – Nymphadora Tonks And That Pothead From ‘Attack The Block’ Get Cuffed By Angie Han/July 18, 2011 6:00 am EST David Mackenzie’s first movie of 2011, Perfect Sense, was a cerebral end-of-the-world tale in which Ewan McGregor and Eva Green fell in love as the human race slowly lost its senses. Mackenzie’s second film of the year, You Instead, seems to be in many ways its polar opposite: a lighthearted, energetic story about enjoying the hell out of your senses....

Antoine Fuqua In Talks For The Other “Die Hard In The White House” Movie, ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ By Angie Han/April 11, 2012 12:00 pm EST Maybe it’s got something to do with the current divisive political climate, or maybe election years just bring out the most destructive tendencies in people. More likely, it’s just that weird Hollywood tendency to produce multiple films based on a single idea at the same time....

Bill Murray Can’t Kill ‘Ghostbusters 3,’ Which Soldiers On Without Him By Russ Fischer/Aug. 2, 2012 9:00 am EST Briefly: Here’s good news about Ghostbusters 3, at last: we can all stop thinking about it, because Dan Ayrkoyd has said that Bill Murray definitely won’t be a part of the sequel. The actor told Metro “No, I can tell you [Murray] won’t be involved,” when asked about the return of the original Peter Venkman....

Christopher Nolan Won’t Produce ‘Justice League’ Or Further Batman Films By Russ Fischer/July 9, 2012 2:00 pm EST Get ready for the flood of Christopher Nolan quotes from the press conference and interviews that took place in the past couple days. We’ve already heard about the Charles Dickens influence on The Dark Knight Rises, and now we’ve got a statement from Nolan about what we can — or can’t — expect from him in the future....

D.J. Caruso Talks ‘Preacher,’ Mentions Chris Pine, Shia LaBeouf And Alex Pettyfer Are Interested By Germain Lussier/March 17, 2011 11:45 am EST When I Am Number Four came out in the United States, director D.J. Caruso had yet to officially sign on to direct the adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s iconic comic book series Preacher. Now that Number Four is opening internationally, though, the cat’s out of the bag and the international press has been chatting him up about it....

David Oyelowo In Talks To Join Rise Of The Apes By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2010 2:30 pm EST Oyelowo will join James Franco (Spider-Man/Milk) who is set to play the lead, “a young, driven scientist who becomes a crucial figure in the war between humans and apes.” Other co-stars include John Lithgow, who plays Franco’s father, also a scientist, Don Cheadle (Iron Man 2), Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire), who plays a primatologist who helps Franco, Brian Cox will play “the villainous owner of a primate sanctuary who runs the facility without compassion for the animals that live there,” and Andy Serkis, who will play Caesar, the chimp who leads the simian revolt....

First Look: ‘The Walking Dead’ Season Two By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2011 10:45 am EST Well, it looks a lot like The Walking Dead, season one, but check out those eyes! The second season of The Walking Dead is shooting now in Georgia, and AMC has released the first still from the production. We don’t know if the budget cuts that Frank Darabont feared ended up coming to pass, but there is a short statement from the director/showrunner after the break, along with a larger version of the image....

Geek Deal: 62% Off ‘Harry Potter: Years 1-7 Part 1 Gift Set’ On DVD Or Blu-Ray By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 26, 2011 8:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The deal is only good today and today only. The price will disappear at midnight.

Joaquin Phoenix Not In ‘Hoover,’ Says Director Clint Eastwood By Russ Fischer/Oct. 11, 2010 2:40 pm EST Clint Eastwood is hopefully going to shoot Hoover soon, with Leonardo DiCaprio playing J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI, who held the post for forty years through a wide spectrum of political changes. (And Hoover was instrumental in swaying some of those political changes, if you believe many of the stories about him....

Josh Brolin Reportedly Circling The Jason Reitman And Diablo Cody Film ‘Young Adult’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2010 8:17 am EST The Juno team of writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman are reuniting for Young Adult, which already has Charlize Theron set to star as a divorced writer who returns to her hometown and forces herself into the life of her married-with-children high school sweetheart. I already like the sound of that, but if Josh Brolin played the guy Theron is stalking, I’d like it even more....

Maggie Gyllenhaal Shines In Victorian-Era Vibrator Romcom ‘Hysteria’ [Tribeca Review] By Angie Han/April 25, 2012 11:00 am EST Tanya Wexler’s Hysteria boasts the kind of premise that’s bound to make viewers sit up and take note: In Victorian-era England, the handsome young Dr. Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) invents the vibrator to help him treat his “hysterical” female patients by inducing paroxysms. (Or as we call it today, masturbating them to orgasm....

Movie Trailer: 13, The American 13 Tzameti Remake By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2010 12:30 pm EST A Russian movie trailer has been released online for 13, the American remake of the award-winning French crime thriller 13 Tzameti. The film follows a naive young man who assumes a dead man’s identity and “finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence,” and a Russian-roulette-style competition where the losers truly lose everything....

Movie Trailer: Drew: The Man Behind The Poster By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2010 1:30 pm EST If you grew up in the 1980’s or 1990’s, then you probably grew up with the artwork of Drew Struzan. I know that many of the movies from my childhood featured Drew’s poster art, and the walls of my current office are filled with some of these reproduced masterpieces. A new feature-length documentary film is being released highlighting the the career of poster artist Drew Struzan, who’s most popular works include the “Indiana Jones,” “Back to the Future” and “Star Wars” movie posters — “Drew: The Man Behind The Poster”...

Movie Trailer: Lost Boys 3: The Thirst By Peter Sciretta/May 28, 2010 10:09 am EST Okay, I’ve grown to accept that we’ll never get a real sequel to The Lost Boys. The 2008 straight-to-DVD sequel Lost Boys: The Tribe was beyond horrible. Warner Home Video has produced a third film, and this time around it looks like it focuses on the return of the Frog brothers. I’m not saying Lost Boys: The Thirst looks good, but at least it puts Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander back in the spotlight, instead of just assigning them to secondary characters....

Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time - What Did You Think? By David Chen/May 28, 2010 4:43 pm EST Note: This post will be sticky’d to the top of the site until Monday. My biggest question going into Mike Newell’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (in theaters everywhere today) was whether or not Newell and Jerry Bruckheimer had successfully transcended the oft-disparaged genre of “video game movies” and managed to cobble together a satisfying cinematic adventure....

Sony Paying Andrew Garfield Only $500,000 For Spider-Man Reboot By Peter Sciretta/July 5, 2010 7:00 am EST Deadline is reporting that Sony is paying Andrew Garfield only $500,000 to play the new Spider-Man. Shocking? Not really… When it was announced that Columbia Pictures was going to reboot the Spider-Man movie franchise, it was revealed that a big reason for the do-over was due to money. The new 3D reboot has a preliminary price tag of only $80 million, far less than the previous installments....