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Movie Playlist: Michael Cera’s Must See List By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 27, 2010 3:00 pm EST Which movies and television shows does Michael Cera recommend? The following comes from Intervals of Awesome: My cousin, Harvey, randomly ran into Michael Cera at a London coffeeshoppe. Cera and Harvey hit it off and ended up having a 2 hour conversation over lunch. Cera wrote a list of stuff Harvey should see. I didn’t believe this story 100% until I got a hold of the list (which is v....

Newly Launched ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ Website Offers More Plot Details And Photos, Promises More Movies By Angie Han/Dec. 15, 2011 7:30 am EST Sony has unveiled the official website for The Amazing Spider-Man, with several new images, character descriptions, a synopsis, and yes, the promise of more Spider-Man. It’s not surprising that the studio’s been working hard to market this film, but it is nice that most of what we’ve seen so far looks pretty good, with the website being no exception....

Noah Baumbach And Jesse Eisenberg To Reunite For ‘While We’re Young’? By Russ Fischer/May 31, 2011 3:30 pm EST Zombieland and The Social Network minted Jesse Eisenberg as a new star, but Noah Baumbach was an early booster as he cast the young actor in The Squid and the Whale. That, along with Roger Doger, was what really put the young actor on the map, positioning him for his current success....

NSFW ‘ABC’s Of Death’ Trailer Asks For Fan Participation By Germain Lussier/Oct. 20, 2011 3:00 pm EST Horror fans across the world are waiting with baited breath to catch a glimpse of Drafthouse Films upcoming anthology The ABCs of Death. Twenty-six short films, each by a different director, will each portray a unique method of death linked to a letter of the alphabet. With directors like Nacho Vigalondo, Jason Eisener, Noburo Iguchi, Xavier Gens, Ti West and Adam Winguard involved, there’s reason to hope it will be disgustingly good....

Page 2: Game Of Thrones, Fred Dekker, Young Adult, Monsters University, American Reunion, Fright Night, Wrath Of The Titans, Comic Con, The Jerk, Star Wars, Cowboys & Aliens By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2011 8:00 am EST Header Photo: Action Movie Wedding Cake THR lists 15 Movies That Made The Grade: A+ CinemaScore Posse. Today’s t-shirt of RIPT Apparel is a Star Wars-inspired design “Greedo’s Shooting Academy”. Mini Geek Deal: Best Buy has Dexter Seasons 1, 2, 3, or 4 on DVD for $14....

Paul Dano Joins Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’ By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 1, 2010 4:43 am EST Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood, Cowboys & Aliens) is in talks to join Brick director Rian Johnson’s sci-fi thriller Looper, reports Variety. Dano will join Joseph Gordon Levitt (500 Days of Summer, Inception), Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada, The Wolfman). Looper is set in the near future. Time travel doesn’t exist yet, but it will be invented a few decades in the future....

Posters: The Expendables, Tekken, Predators, Secretariat And Love Ranch By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2010 1:00 pm EST It’s been a while since our last movie poster round-up, so after the jump you’ll be able to find a bunch of new one sheets, including: Disney’s horse-racing drama Secretariat, an international poster for the big screen adaptation of the fighting video game Tekken, , two character posters for Love Ranch, a low-res look at the thermal vision Predators poster and a new one sheet for Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables....

Sam Worthington Developing Comic Book Imprint With Eye Towards Future Film Projects By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2010 1:27 pm EST As more and more comic book properties are snapped up by production companies, it makes sense that actors are starting to get in on the creation of comics on the ground floor, the better to develop properties in which they might eventually star. The latest actor to get into the comics biz is Sam Worthington....

Stephen Tobolowsky On The Art Of Being A Character Actor By David Chen/Sept. 17, 2010 7:30 am EST In case you haven’t heard, actor Stephen Tobolowsky and I do a podcast for /Film called The Tobolowsky Files, which has been the subject of some humbling praise recently. While we’re currently on hiatus until October, that didn’t stop the folks at The New York Times from taking note of Stephen’s amazing storytelling (which has also been published in The Awl)....

Tarsem Wants To Make Sprawling Modern War Movie ‘Eye In The Sky’ By Russ Fischer/March 20, 2012 5:00 pm EST Tarsem Singh has made his name on lush, even indulgent visuals in films like The Cell, The Fall, and Immortals, as well as in music videos that preceded his feature work. His new film, the Snow White retelling Mirror Mirror, seems to be scaled back just a tiny bit from the all-out ‘feast of design’ approach seen in his previous films, but it will still likely be more ambitiously designed than most other films this year....

There May Be No ‘Eastern Promises 2’ After All By Russ Fischer/Aug. 14, 2012 1:00 pm EST As David Cronenberg does the US press rounds for his new film Cosmopolis, which opens limited this Friday the 17th and expands starting the week after, he’s fielding some questions about his next film. The director often has several projects percolating, and the current time is no different. But one long-mooted film is apparently not going to happen after all, as Cronenberg says that the sequel to the 2007 Eastern Promises is no longer backed by Focus Features, and thus may not happen at all....

Video: See Nickelodeon’s New ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ In Action By Angie Han/March 11, 2011 9:00 am EST It seems like only yesterday we were showing you the first image of Nickelodeon’s new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. In fact, it was two days ago. To quickly refresh your memory: Nickelodeon bought the rights to the reptilian heroes for $60 million back in 2009, and quickly made plans for a feature film and a brand-new television series for the characters....

Vin Diesel Could Shoot An R-Rated ‘Riddick’ Movie This Summer By Germain Lussier/May 25, 2011 11:04 am EST For years, Vin Diesel and David Twohy have sworn up and down that they were going to make a sequel to the Pitch Black spin-off The Chronicles of Riddick. As far back as this site has existed, and beyond, the pair have said they’d like to continue the story of the sci-fi badass and wanted criminal Riddick, but when the 2004 film failed to explode at the box office, grossing barely $60 million domestic, those plans stalled....

VOTD: Star Wars: A Light In The Darkness - Part 1 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 23, 2010 1:00 pm EST There are so many bad Star Wars fan films that I often don’t make it through the first minute of these reader submitted or posted short films. The films are often made by first time filmmakers who have never tried to shoot and put together a short film, nevermind one full of costumes, computer generated special effects, action stunt-work and compositing....

Warner Bros. Buys David Dobkin’s ‘Arthur & Lancelot,’ Nicholas Sparks’ Latest Novel, & Hires ‘Halo: Reach’ Writer For Action Rewrite By Russ Fischer/June 18, 2011 5:45 pm EST First up, let’s quickly go over Arthur & Lanceleot, which Wedding Crashers and The Change-Up director David Dobkin wrote as a relatively big-budget ($90m) contemporary retelling of the King Arthur story. (Sorry, fans of Matt Wagner’s Mage — that property may have just been pre-empted....

Warner Bros. To Wage ‘World War X’ By Russ Fischer/July 16, 2010 11:37 am EST Briefly: Pitch acquisition time. Warner Bros. has picked up Colin Trevorrow’s script World War X, which will be produced through Joel Silver’s production company. The title is catchy (though similar to the in-development zombie film World War Z) and implies a much greater scale than the logline. According to Variety, the story is about “a man recruited by a team of government agents to stop a terrorist from the future who is using time travel to reshape history....

By Russ Fischer/Aug. 28, 2012 7:28 am EST We complain when another reboot, remake, or needless sequel is added to the parade of films in development, and this one is at least original. Very original, at that, if also very ridiculous. But done well, it could end up in live-action fairy tale territory, and not in the same way that, say, Snow White and the Huntsman wants to do.

Zachary Quinto And Karl Urban Talk ‘Star Trek 2,’ Now Officially Titled ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 11, 2012 1:18 pm EST The biggest Star Trek news of the past week was, of course, the fact that the official title to J.J. Abrams’ sequel is Star Trek Into Darkness, a move that was met with an equal amount of confusion and excitement. And while no one has officially come out to comment on the title yet [UPDATE - One star now has....

‘Bad Teacher’ Red-Band Trailer By Russ Fischer/Feb. 23, 2011 6:30 am EST Ah, spring. The time when young peoples’ fancy turns to what they’ve been thinking about all winter. It’s a time for red-band trailers promoting sex-themed comedies, and for those trailers to feature snippets of music by those sexy scalliwags, the Eagles of Death Metal. In this case, the movie is Jake Kasdan’s Bad Teacher, the song is ‘Solid Gold,’ and the content is all about Cameron Diaz proving that she’s not a comedic stick in the mud....

‘Battleship’ Scribes Jon And Erich Hoeber Hired To Write ‘Red’ Sequel By Germain Lussier/Jan. 17, 2011 5:30 pm EST Collider landed a nice, big exclusive today when they found out Summit Entertainment has brought back Jon and Erich Hoeber to write a sequel to the hit action comedy Red. The Hoebers have been pretty busy as of late, helping penning the Sam Worthington vehicle Man on a Ledge as well as the upcoming human vs....