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‘The Avengers’ - What Did You Think? By Russ Fischer/May 4, 2012 5:00 pm EST The event Marvel Studios has been working towards for many years is here: the studio has released The Avengers, in which the various stars of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, and The Incredible Hulk unite in the sort of super-team movie that once would have existed only as a fan pipe dream. Well, most of the various stars of those films, as Mark Ruffalo steps in as Bruce Banner and the Hulk, but otherwise we’ve got the roster that Marvel has been building over the past few summers: Robert Downey, Jr....

‘The Simpsons’ Parodies Awards Season, Pixar And More By Russ Fischer/Feb. 21, 2011 2:30 pm EST Every once in a while, The Simpsons still hits the right notes. A few months ago the show opened with a Banksy-designed sequence that was the most pointed bit of animation seen on the show in years. Now The Simpsons is turning barbs toward the film award season, and is taking easy but amusing shots at Pixar, Aardman Animation, Sylvain Chomet and more....

2010 Set Box Office Records As 11% Of Population Accounts For 51% Of Tickets Sold By Germain Lussier/Feb. 25, 2011 12:47 pm EST Movie insiders regularly complain that less people are going to the movies, the theatrical experience is shifting to the home and piracy is cutting into box office profits. However, that’s not the story the numbers tell. According to the Motion Picture Association of America, worldwide box office receipts actually rose 8% in 2010 to $31....

Alex Proyas Moving On To Robert Heinlein Adaptation ‘The Unpleasant Profession Of Jonathan Hoag’ By Angie Han/April 10, 2012 3:30 pm EST In the three years since his last directorial effort Knowing, director Alex Proyas has seen not one but two of his potential follow-ups killed for budgetary reasons. Legendary Pictures scrapped his epic Paradise Lost in February, and though Universal revived Dracula: Year Zero in the same month, it was a new incarnation of the project without Proyas or would-be star Sam Worthington attached....

Bruce Willis Officially Cast In ‘G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation’ [Update] By Angie Han/Aug. 21, 2011 8:00 pm EST Update: GI Joe 2 star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has tweeted a confirmation that Bruce Willis has officially signed on to the cast in G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation. Original story follows. Earlier this summer, we briefly mentioned a report that Bruce Willis was at the top of the wishlist for a certain role in G....

Casting Bits: Eric Bana In ‘Brilliant;’ Tyler Perry In ‘The Marriage Counselor;’ Jason Bateman In ‘Disconnect’ And ‘The Longest Week’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 27, 2011 5:00 am EST Let’s start off this casting break with a quick one: Robert Luketic (The Ugly Truth) is putting together a diamond heist movie called Brilliant, written by Blood Diamond producer Gillian Gorfil. He’s now got Eric Bana set to star. The plot follows “a small-time criminal who joins accomplished thieves in a diamond heist,” with Bana presumably playing the small-timer....

First Look: Daniel Radcliffe In ‘Woman In Black’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 27, 2010 10:09 am EST Daniel Radcliffe’s first film gig after the Harry Potter series wrapped is a starring role in Woman in Black, an adaptation of a Susan Hill story that is being produced by the relaunched Hammer Films. The first shot of Radcliffe in costume is now floating around, and you can see it in full after the break....

By Russ Fischer/Sept. 11, 2010 12:08 pm EST Can’t say that this clip does too much for me, but that’s one of the possible problems with clips, even more than with trailers — out of context, it’s really hard to say if this works for the film as a whole. Perhaps there are things we don’t know about these characters that would make this clip play better within the film....

By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 2, 2010 9:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Here is the official synopsis from the publisher: At the 2009 Eisner Awards, Locke & Key was nominated for Best Limited Series and Joe Hill was nominated for Best Writer. You can watch a trailer for the comic book that was created by IDW Publishing: Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them…....

Heidi Montag Submits Video Audition For Transformers 3 By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2010 1:00 pm EST Heidi Montag, star of the MTV reality series The Hills, has recorded a video audition for Michael Bay, which she has posted online. Montag does have some acting credits on her resume: appearing as herself on an episode of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother in January 2009, and a cameo role in the Adam Sandler comedy Just Go with It....

International ‘Rio’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2011 5:00 am EST Watch the trailer now embedded after the jump. Leave your thoughts in the comments below. Official Plot Synopsis: John Powell is scoring the film with contributions of Bossa Nova master musician Sergio Mendes and Will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas). ‘Rio’ is a 3-D animation feature from the makers of the ‘Ice Age’ films. Set in the magnificent city of Rio de Janeiro and the lush rainforest of Brazil, the comedy-adventure centers on Blu, a rare macaw who thinks he is the last of his kind....

Jim Carrey’s ‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’ Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2011 5:30 pm EST For me, Jim Carrey movies are begining to become a subgenre of wacky family comedies, and all of them feel the same. Mr. Popper’s Penguins seems no different. And yes, the trailer even includes a catchy pop song from pop culture past. Seems like the fulfilled the formula to the T. That said, I’ll probably still see the movie, if not in the theaters then on video, just for the penguins alone (even if they are partly CG)....

John Turturro Joins ‘Cars 2’, New Characters Unveiled: Uncle Topolino, Mama Topolino And Francesco Bernoulli By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2011 10:00 am EST Disney has revealed three new characters who will appear in Pixar’s Cars 2: Uncle Topolino, Mama Topolino and Francesco Bernoulli. Hit the jump to see super high resolution images, official character bios, and a 360-degree animated turnaround video. We have learned a bit of information that Disney has yet to announce — Francesco Bernoulli is set to be voiced by John Turturro....

Lars Von Trier Says He’ll No Longer Do Interviews; Faces Investigation Over Cannes Comments By Russ Fischer/Oct. 5, 2011 10:38 am EST From the ‘blown way the hell out of proportion’ file: Lars von Trier has now been questioned by Danish police over comments he made at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The comments in question are those in which he said he sympathized with Hitler — essentially a poorly-considered moment in which he took a wrong track down a meandering train of thought in response to a question about his family history....

M. Night Shyamalan Setting Up New Film With Willis, Paltrow And Cooper By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2010 12:18 pm EST Briefly: M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender opens soon, and advance of that opening he’s apparently trying to set up financing for a new script that he’s penned. Details are thin right now, but he reportedly has some notable talent attached: his The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable star Bruce Willis, plus Gwyneth Paltrow and Bradley Cooper....

Michael Bay Confirmed To Direct ‘Transformers 4,’ No Cast Or Story Yet, Release Set For June 2014 By Russ Fischer/Feb. 13, 2012 6:51 pm EST This afternoon there was a report that Paramount definitely has plans for a fourth Transformers movie to be released in 2014. That wasn’t a big surprise, as we’ve been reliably certain that a fourth, and possibly a fifth movie have been in development for the past few months....

New Photos: Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 19, 2011 5:00 am EST Walt Disney Pictures have released a couple new photos from Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. One of the new photos gives us out first look at Captain Hector Barbossa, portrayed by Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, who in this film joins King George II’s Royal Navy as a privateer to lead an expedition to the Fountain of Youth....

Oscar-Winner Alan Menken Working On Music For ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 7, 2011 11:30 am EST Alan Menken has won eight Oscars, mostly for his work on such Disney classics as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Pocahontas. He’s both a composer and songwriter who is synonymous with upbeat, happy music that’s fun for the whole family. Now that Disney owns Marvel, it seems they’ve imported their Oscar-winner to help with one of their upcoming comic book movies, Captain America: The First Avenger....

Page 2: Mission Impossible, Hunger Games, Pulp Fiction, Scott Pilgrim, Twilight Zone, Ghostbusters, Jaws, Back To The Future, Harry Potter, John Carter, Mad Men, Human Centipede By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2012 12:30 pm EST Header Photo: Darren “Daz” Tibbles imagines Mission: Impossible – The Animated Series Kevin Smith talks to NPR about Leaving Filmmaking Teens React to The Hunger Games Why Prometheus is a terrible name for a starship.Pulp Fiction/Mickey Mouse mash-up by Amy MebbersonMoviePool explains 4 ways to fix the Oscars....

Paul Haggis Near Deal To Remake Spanish Film ‘Celda 211’ For CBS Films By Russ Fischer/Oct. 28, 2010 5:00 am EST Paul Haggis’ latest film The Next Three Days is going to be released soon, but the writer/director still doesn’t have a follow-up booked. At least as a director. He’s set to write the big screen version of The Equalizer, and has been talked about as a possible director for that film....