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Glasses-Less 3DTV Is Eight To 10 Years Away Says James Cameron By Germain Lussier/Nov. 3, 2010 3:00 pm EST As we all know, James Cameron loves to talk about 3D. And considering the guy spent several years and millions of dollars developing 3D technology in the depths of the ocean in order to make Avatar, the least we can do is listen. Cameron believes the next big step in 3D is getting rid of those pesky glasses and that glasses-less 3DTV is about eight to ten years away from hitting critical mass here in the United States....

Japanese Tron Legacy Poster By Russ Fischer/Sept. 3, 2010 5:00 am EST Briefly: Not anything wildly new here, but there’s something seemingly appropriate and neat about the Tron logo rendered in Japanese katakana as part of this poster for Tron Legacy. And the design of this poster is kind of wonderfully old-school — it looks like it could easily be a poster for a film made twenty or thirty years ago, minus the obviously current suits and discs held in the foreground....

LOL: An ‘Avatar’ Wedding By Germain Lussier/Dec. 9, 2010 5:00 pm EST The most touching quote to come out of James Cameron’s Avatar was “I see you.” It was everything the film was about; words that represented an almost spiritual connection between the speaker and the listener. Well, “we see you” people in the above Avatar wedding photo and the spirit of Eywa in all of us wishes we hadn’t. Read a bit more about this hilarious abomination after the jump....

LOL: Todd Barry And Darren Aronofsky Discuss The Original ‘Black Swan’ By Angie Han/March 22, 2011 9:30 am EST Is it just me, or does the Deli Manager poster look like it’s for a straight-up horror film? I get that the font and format is aping the real Black Swan poster, but I’m finding that overall the look is more reminiscent of the character sheets for Kevin Smith’s Red State. Who knew Todd Barry could look so terrifying?...

Marc Forster Eyes Religious Drama ‘Heretics,’ Based On ‘This American Life’ Segment By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2010 5:00 pm EST Over the past couple years, the radio and sometime TV show This American Life has become a launching pad for a few potential film stories. A number of different segments from the show, which follows through on the title to document odd and interesting tales from America, are currently in development to possibly become feature films....

Movie Trailer: The Freebie By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 25, 2010 6:00 pm EST Phase 4 Films has released a movie trailer for the acclaimed 2010 Sundance Film Festival entry The Freebie. Written, directed and starring Katie Aselton, The Freebie is a romantic drama about a young couple in Los Angeles who try to spice up their marriage by allowing each other a one-night “freebie.” You might recognize Aselton from the Duplass brothers films The Puffy Chair, Cyrus, short films such as Scrapple and The Intervention, and the television series The League....

New ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Trailer Reveals More Lizard And More Web-Swinging Action By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2012 4:00 pm EST Yesterday Sony invited a handful of press to the studio lot to present an advance screening of the new trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. Director Marc Webb wanted us to see the 3D aspects of the trailer, in the way he intended it to be experienced — on the big screen....

Rumor: ‘Superman’ Has Third Act Issues; WB Unhappy With ‘Sucker Punch’? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 15, 2011 7:49 pm EST We just talked about the fact that Sherlock Holmes director Guy Ritchie has reportedly been offered the director’s chair on Xerxes, the sequel to 300. That comes as a bit of a shock, because that had previously been thought to be a Zack Snyder sequel, full stop. He did 300, then 300 more or less defined him, and he has been developing Xerxes with original graphic novel author Frank Miller....

Six More Green Lantern Photos Arrive By Russ Fischer/July 15, 2010 1:45 pm EST Update: Two more images have been added to this post bringing the total up to six photos. New images include Hector Hammond before his alien encounter and Hector in a bunker with the corpse of alien Abin Sur. Earlier today we had the first look at Ryan Reynolds in costume as Green Lantern, thanks to the cover of Entertainment Weekly....

Spanish-Dubbed Trailer For ‘The Impossible,’ From The Director Of ‘The Orphanage’ By Russ Fischer/April 20, 2012 4:30 pm EST A couple years ago Juan Antonio Bayona got a lot of attention for his debut feature, the Guillermo del Toro-produced supernatural thriller The Orphanage. Now Bayona returns with a film called The Impossible. And while it isn’t a horror film, exactly — not in the way that The Orphanage was — it certainly deals with horror in a specific way....

SRG Films Planning ‘Crossface,’ A “Biographical Thriller” About WWE Wrestler Chris Benoit’s Murder-Suicide By Angie Han/Dec. 7, 2011 10:00 am EST Given the popularity of the pro wrestling and the trainwreck appeal, if you can call it that, of former WWE star Chris Benoit’s 2007 murder-suicide, I suppose it was just a matter of time before someone got the brilliant idea to adapt the horrifying tale into a big-screen feature. SRG Films is currently developing Crossface, a “biographical thriller” based on Matthew Randazzo V’s book Ring of Hell: The Story of Chris Benoit and the Fall of the Pro Wrestling Industry....

The Ones Who Knock S5E04 - Fifty-One By David Chen/Aug. 8, 2012 5:50 am EST The Ones Who Knock is a podcast featuring recaps and reviews of each week’s episode of AMC’s Breaking Bad. This week, Joanna Robinson from Pajiba and Dave Chen discuss the fourth episode of season 5, “Fifty-One.” Be sure to listen to Dave’s interview with Rian Johnson, the director of this week’s episode. Also, check out Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz’s recaps....

Trivia: Conan O’Brien’s Sister And A ‘Bad Lieutenant’ Veteran Play Mark Wahlberg’s Sisters In ‘The Fighter’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 23, 2010 2:30 pm EST The Fighter is a wonderful movie, with a core set of impressive performances by Christian Bale, Melissa Leo, Amy Adams and the quiet Mark Wahlberg. But one of the most memorable aspects of the film is the cadre of shrill, nattering and high-haired women who are sisters to Mickey Ward (Wahlberg) and Dicky Eklund (Bale)....

Video Blog: ‘Dredd’ Harkens Back To Action Films Of The Eighties [Comic-Con 2012] By Germain Lussier/July 12, 2012 1:00 pm EST The Sylvester Stallone Judge Dredd is gone. Long live Karl Urban’s Dredd. Urban is the star of the latest incarnation of the popular cult comic character and, with the help of director Pete Travis and screenwriter Alex Garland, makes the role his own in a film that’s incredibly tight, stylized, bloody and fun....

Wayne Kramer To Direct ‘Pretty Boy Floyd’ By Russ Fischer/June 25, 2010 5:58 am EST Charles Arthur ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd hasn’t been portrayed in as many movies as some of the most famous real-life gangsters — he’s no Capone — but he’s certainly had his share of turns on the screen. Channing Tatum played him in Public Enemies; Martin Sheen played him on TV; Steve Kanaly played him in Dillinger. (That wasn’t him in O Brother, Where Art Thou?...

WTF: LucasFilm And Disney Combine To Create Star Wars ‘Cars’ Figures By Germain Lussier/Aug. 24, 2012 12:50 pm EST LucasFilm and Disney have long had a very symbiotic relationship. It began when Star Tours first hit Disney parks in 1987 and ever since, Disney characters have dressed up as Star Wars characters, Star Wars actors have done events at Disney, Disney sells tons of Star Wars merchandise, you catch the drift....

Zack Snyder Joins Twitter By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2010 6:00 am EST Zack Snyder, the “visionary filmmaker” behind 300, Watchmen, the Dawn of the Dead remake, and the upcoming adaptation of Legends of the Guardians and his first original feature film Sucker Punch, has finally joined Twitter. You can follow his tweets now at twitter.com/ZackSnyder. Zack Snyder Joins Twitter By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2010 6:00 am EST Zack Snyder, the “visionary filmmaker” behind 300, Watchmen, the Dawn of the Dead remake, and the upcoming adaptation of Legends of the Guardians and his first original feature film Sucker Punch, has finally joined Twitter....

‘Act Of Valor’ Co-Director Mike McCoy To Direct Technological Collapse Thriller ‘God’s Gulch’ By Russ Fischer/March 3, 2012 8:40 am EST Mike ‘Mouse’ McCoy and Scott Waugh (left and right, respectively, above) co-directed last weekend’s Navy SEALs hit Act of Valor, and the success of the film is paying off for both men and their production company Bandito Brothers. Waugh is already set to make a racing movie called High Speed and now McCoy is signed to make a movie called God’s Gulch, about what happens after the collapse of our technological infrastructure....

‘Bad Teacher’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2011 5:30 pm EST Columbia Pictures have released a green band movie trailer for Bad Teacher. You might recall that a red band trailer was released a couple weeks back. Jake Kasdan’s sex comedy Bad Teacher, is about the competition between a teacher ‘who just doesn’t give an F’ (played by Cameron Diaz) and her “overly energetic colleague” played by Lucy Punch, over the new guy in school: Justin Timberlake....

/Film In Print By Peter Sciretta/July 18, 2008 4:01 pm EST The Wall Street Journal’s Indian newspaper Mint asked if they could buy/publish my review of The Dark Knight. Which is kinda funny since I didn’t actually write a review, but instead penned a top 10 list chronicling the reasons why I loved the movie. Either way, they wanted to publish the “review” and I wasn’t going to stop them. I never thought I’d run a successful movie blog, never mind be published in any kind of print publication (aside from the possible occasional quote in a movie advertisement)....