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Superhero Bits: Amazing Spider-Man, Dark Knight Rises, Mondo, The Avengers, TMNT, Justice League By Germain Lussier/Aug. 28, 2012 11:00 am EST Who did the new Mondo Batman poster above and when can you get it? Does Emma Stone think Gwen Stacy will suffer her comic book fate in The Amazing Spider-Man? Want to read some intelligent commentary on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Three? Did the Justice League already make its way to the small screen?...

The CW Developing Show Around DC Comics Character Raven By Russ Fischer/Dec. 6, 2010 12:55 pm EST Briefly: While the big news in comic book-related TV today has to do with the finale of The Walking Dead and reported writer firings behind the scenes of the show, there’s also new DC Comics TV news. The CW is developing a series featuring the DC character Raven. The empath and teleporter has been incarnated in a few versions on the comic page, and we don’t know which version might appear in the script....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Knight And Day, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Going The Distance, And More By Adam Quigley/Dec. 1, 2010 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. My write-up of the first season of Parks and Recreation amounted to little more than a prediction that the show would hit its stride in Season 2. Lo and behold, that’s exactly what happened. Following a nearly identical pattern to The Office, Parks and Rec struggled through a forgettable introductory 6-episode season that mainly served to set up the characters and find the show’s rhythm....

UK Movie Poster: ‘Paul’ Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost And Seth Rogen By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2010 10:00 pm EST We’ve seen a teaser trailer and a couple photos from Paul, directed by Greg Mottola from a script by Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. Turns out there’s been a poster floating around as well. A shot of the one-sheet (in banner form) was taken at an expo in London, and you can see the full image below....

VOTD: ‘King Of Kong’ Steve Wiebe Tries To Set ‘Fix-It Felix Jr.’ Record, The Game From ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 3, 2012 1:00 pm EST Video game and documentary fans should know the name Steve Wiebe. He’s the star of The King of Kong, Seth Gordon’s awesome 2007 documentary about how Wiebe battled master gamer Billy Mitchell for the world record high score at Donkey Kong. The film made Wiebe a household name in those circles and now Disney has brought him in for another challenge....

Watch The First Five Minutes Of ‘Lockout’: Guy Pearce Is A Smartass, Then A Badass By Angie Han/April 10, 2012 6:00 am EST Lockout doesn’t boast the most original premise in the world — it’s perfectly obvious why it’s drawn comparisons to both Taken and Escape From New York — but there’s at least one good reason to keep an eye out for this film, and that’s star Guy Pearce. The reliably compelling Aussie actor plays up his badass/smartass side as Agent Snow, a former government agent who’s wrongly been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage....

Will Michael Mann’s Next Film Be ‘Agincourt’ Or ‘Go Like Hell’? By Russ Fischer/May 27, 2011 3:21 pm EST It appears that Agincourt is still the most likely next film for Michael Mann, but now he is also signed to develop a script based on the book Go Like Hell, with an eye to possibly direct. The book follows the Ford Motor Company’s efforts to reinvent itself, and the showdown with Ferrari at Le Mans in the mid ’60s....

‘Black Swan’ Video Clip: Nina Performs Swan Lake By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2010 9:00 am EST Official Synopsis: BLACK SWAN follows the story of Nina (Portman), a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica (Barbara Hershey) who zealously supports her daughter’s professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice....

‘Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)’ Director Plans To Sue Actor Dieter Laser After Script And Contract Dispute By Russ Fischer/March 29, 2012 3:00 pm EST Every once in a while the production of a film mutates from a collaborative, sometimes combative effort into a bit of a legal mess. Evidently that is where Tom Six’s Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) is headed. Six recently trumpeted that Dieter Laser, who played the insane surgeon of the first film, would return for the threequel....

‘One Shot’ Adds Michael Raymond-James, From ‘True Blood’ And ‘Terriers’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 6, 2011 12:31 pm EST The latest addition to Christopher McQuarrie’s One Shot, an adaptation of Lee Child’s novel of the same name that is already set to feature Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, David Oyelowo, Robert Duvall, and Richard Jenkins, is Michael Raymond-James. The actor had a role on the well-liked and sadly canceled Terriers, and has been a part of True Blood as well....

‘Starship Troopers’ Anime To Be Released In 2012 By Germain Lussier/Oct. 14, 2011 1:00 pm EST A new Starship Troopers movie will be released next year, would you like to know more? Unfortunately, the answer to that question might be “No” considering the huge drop in quality the franchise has suffered since its first theatrical showing. Based on a masterful 1959 novel by Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers is about an idealistic future where the human’s main adversaries are big alien bugs....

‘The Ropes’ Trailer: Vin Diesel Produces And Directs A Webseries About NYC Bouncers By Russ Fischer/March 6, 2012 10:00 am EST In Vin Diesel’s early days, before gaining widespread attention thanks to roles in Saving Private Ryan, The Iron Giant and Pitch Black, the actor wrote, produced, directed and starred in the short Multi-Facial and the feature Strays. The actor hadn’t directed since Strays, but he went back behind the camera for the beginning of the web series The Ropes, which follows a small group of NYC nightclub bouncers, and is seemingly based on Diesel’s own experience as a bouncer....

Abigail Spencer Lands A Role In Joss Whedon-Produced ‘In Your Eyes’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 16, 2012 2:00 pm EST Now that Joss Whedon has more or less officially made the full transition from TV to film, he’s burning rubber. Of course, he’s still hard at work on The Avengers, Marvel’s massive superhero movie out May 4. On the downtime of that shoot, he made a low-budget version of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and now actress Abigail Spencer revealed she’s signed on for Whedon’s next movie which she describes as a “supernatural romance....

Arnold Schwarzenegger Looking At Lead Role In Action Thriller ‘Captive’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2011 1:49 pm EST Arnold Schwarzenegger’s comeback is really back on track. Seriously. His first stab at a post-politics return to acting was hamstrung by an embarassing and irresponsible paternity situation. But a few months have passed, public ire has shifted to other targets, and Arnie is making appearances on casting sheets once again. He’s got The Last Stand booked already, in which he’ll be directed by I Saw the Devil’s Kim Jee-woon, with Peter Stormare likely co-starring....

Barry Sonnenfeld Confirms Will Smith And Tommy Lee Jones For Men In Black 3D By Brendon Connelly/April 21, 2010 4:34 am EST Straight from director Barry Sonnenfeld comes news that Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are set to return for a third Men in Black picture and, in a move which will surprise precisely no-one, Sony will be releasing it in 3D. The official line seems to be that while Smith and Jones have both agreed to reprise their Men in Black roles, only Smith has formally signed....

Battle: Los Angeles Viral Launched At Comic-Con By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2010 8:30 pm EST While walking around the Gaslamp district preparing for Comic-Con in San Diego, I spotted a bunch of posters for Battle: Los Angeles, leading to a viral website ReportThreats.org. On February 25th 1942, just after 2am, hundreds of thousands of people witnessed something in the skies above Los Angeles. US army planes scrambled to intercept, while anti-aircraft guns fired over 1,500 rounds for more than two hours....

Bill Nighy In Talks To Play ‘I, Frankenstein’ Villain By Russ Fischer/Nov. 15, 2011 4:00 pm EST Over nearly two years, Lakeshore Entertainment has been trying to get a jump on the impending Frankenstein adaptation race by making a movie based on Keven Grevioux’s graphic novel I, Frankenstein. The Underworld-like story, a “contemporary fantasy thriller in which the original monster of Victor Frankenstein stands between the human race and an uprising of supernatural creatures determined to overthrow the world,” was originally going to be directed by Underworld: Rise of the Lycans director Patrick Tatopoulos....

By Germain Lussier/Oct. 20, 2011 2:13 pm EST “Don’t worry, I’m not gonna frak it up.” That’s what screenwriter John Orloff told the Los Angeles Times when it was announced that he’d been hired to write a new Battlestar Galactica movie for Universal and director Bryan Singer. Orloff wrote Anonymous, which is about to hit theaters; he also scripted Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole and A Mighty Heart....

Casting Bits: Kelly Reilly In ‘Flight;’ Olivia Wilde In ‘The Longest Week;’ Vanessa Hudgens In ‘Frozen Ground’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 13, 2011 6:00 am EST Robert Zemeckis is preparing to make his live-action return with the film Flight, in which Denzel Washington will play a commercial pilot who safely lands a troubled flight, saving almost all aboard, but finds his own role in the flight’s trouble under investigation. Now Kelly Reilly (Pride and Prejudice, Eden Lake, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) is in talks for the other lead role, “Nicole Devlin, a drug addict who is at rock bottom when she meets Whip,” with the latter character being Denzel’s role....

Disney Promotes ‘Tangled’ With Double Rainbow Parody By Adam Quigley/Sept. 8, 2010 9:00 am EST Pictured above: My reaction to Disney’s “Double Rainbow” parody. The window of opportunity to take advantage of an Internet meme tends to be approximately a week or two, depending on the lasting value of the meme, and missing that window can mark the difference between a video/image that’s lauded as comedic brilliance and one that’s subjected to savage ridicule....