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See The Exclusive Posters For Harmony Korine’s Proenza Schouler Collaboration ‘Snowballs’ By Angie Han/Sept. 23, 2011 7:00 am EST Harmony Korine has built up quite a reputation as a polarizing cult filmmaker (writer of Kids, writer/director of Gummo, Mister Lonely, Trash Humpers), but that hasn’t stopped him from doing quite well for himself in the relatively safe world of commercials. Among his past high-profile clients are Budweiser, Liberty Mutual, and Axe....

Teaser Trailer For Sundance Entry ‘L,’ From ‘Dogtooth’ Writer And Cinematographer By Russ Fischer/Jan. 2, 2012 10:30 am EST Yorgos Lanthimos got our attention with Dogtooth — hell, he got the world’s attention with the film — but he isn’t the only person responsible for that film and its follow-up, Alps. Efthimis Filippou wrote both Dogtooth and Alps, and Dogtooth was shot by Thimios Bakatakis. Now there is L, directed by Babis Makridis and co-written by Filippou and shot by Bakatakis....

Trivia: Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ Sold 12 Million More Tickets Than ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ 12 Million Less Than ‘The Dark Knight’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 22, 2012 1:33 pm EST No matter which way you cut it, Batman means blockbuster. The theatrical phenomenon began in 1989 with Tim Burton’s Batman, which grossed $251 million and spawned three sequels. Then, in 2005, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins grossed $205 million and spawned two sequels, The Dark Knight ($533 million) and The Dark Knight Rises, which is at $413 million and climbing....

TRON: Legacy – What Did You Think? By David Chen/Dec. 17, 2010 7:00 pm EST After years of hype and anticipation, Joseph Kosinski’s TRON: Legacy finally arrives in theaters today. The trailers promised dazzling visuals, heart-pounding light cycle sequences, a de-aged Jeff Bridges of questionable quality, and a kick-ass score by Daft Punk. Does the final film ultimately deliver? Share your thoughts in the comments below. SPOILERS are allowed. I was able to see the film a screening this week, and while I wasn’t blown away, I didn’t think TRON: Legacy was an abomination....

UPDATED: New ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Images In Entertainment Weekly By Germain Lussier/July 14, 2011 11:25 am EST UPDATE: We’ve added the high resolution scans from the magazine and website and changed some of the wording to reflect that. Every year around Comic-Con, Entertainment Weekly runs a huge blow out about the pop culture convention and this year is no exception. The cover of their latest issue, hitting newsstands Friday, features brand new photos of The Amazing Spider-Man including Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, mechanical webshooters and that beautiful costume....

By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2010 12:00 am EST Aardman Animation is a UK-based animation studio responsible stop-motion, clay animation productions, particularly those featuring Wallace & Gromit. In April 2007, Aardman signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment to produce feature films, but the company still regularly produces shorts. The latest is titled “Fly” and comes from supervising animator Alan Short. Watch the two and a half minute computer animated short film after the jump....

VOTD: Every 3D Movie Is The Same By Angie Han/July 24, 2012 6:00 am EST Watch enough movies, and you’ll find that you occasionally walk out of the theater sometimes with the vaguely disappointing feeling that you’ve just shelled out $14 to see a movie you’re already seen before. Sometimes, it’s no surprise that a film looks derivative — did anyone really expect Underworld: Awakening to wow us with its originality, for example?...

What The ‘I Am Legend’ Zombies Could Have Looked Like By Germain Lussier/April 20, 2011 9:00 am EST He’s blown the “What If” doors off Tim Burton’s Superman Lives, Ang Lee’s Hulk and next up in Francis Lawrence’s I Am Legend. Special Effects guru Steve Johnson has just released a video that shows an unused makeup test for the zombies in the 2007 Will Smith hit. Apparently Lawrence wasn’t entirely happy with how the actors looked in this makeup and eventually just went to full CG creations....

Will A Lawsuit Kill ‘The Crow’? By Russ Fischer/April 20, 2011 4:00 pm EST A battle is brewing over The Crow. Producer Edward R. Pressman has been working for over a year to assemble a new Crow film with Relativity Media. Of late, Bradley Cooper has been in early talks to star with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directing. But Harvey Weinstein has entered the picture, claiming that he has a contract “signed by everybody” that gives The Weinsteins worldwide distribution rights for The Crow....

‘Man Of Steel’ Likely To Be DC’s Only Film For Three Years; WB Hopes To Announce Slate Soon, ‘Justice League’ To Appear In Video Game By Germain Lussier/July 11, 2012 9:30 am EST The unparalleled success of this summer’s Marvel movie The Avengers, coupled with the interest in Christopher Nolan’s final Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, has shined a bright spotlight on DC Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. If Marvel can make billions with second tier superheros like Iron Man and Thor, why hasn’t DC done the same thing?...

‘The Book Of Mormon’ Star Josh Gad To Play Steve Wozniak Opposite Ashton Kutcher In ‘Jobs’ By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2012 9:00 am EST The internet meme comparing Ashton Kutcher with Steve Jobs will soon turn into a weird reality in the indie biopic of the late Apple co-founder, Jobs: Get Inspired. (That’s a working title.) News of Kutcher’s casting, which hit on April 1, was assumed to be a joke at first, but Jobs producer Mark Hulme and director Joshua Michael Stern aren’t joking....

‘The Help’ International Trailer By Angie Han/June 9, 2011 12:00 pm EST The Help isn’t the platonic ideal of a summer movie — actually, it’s kind of the opposite. But thanks in a large part to the cast, it’s one of the upcoming films I’m most curious about. Tate Taylor’s adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s novel follows a young writer named Skeeter (Emma Stone) who causes an uproar in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi when she publishes a book from the point of view of “the help....

‘The Hobbit’ Footage Will Show In 24fps At Comic-Con By Russ Fischer/July 12, 2012 6:30 pm EST Peter Jackson shot the two films in his adaptation of The Hobbit on state-of-the-art digital cameras, and in native 3D. But the big technical push with the movies was the frame rate, as Jackson shot with intent to project the movies at a frame rate of 48 frames per second, rather than the film industry standard of 24fps....

‘Yellow Submarine’ Remake Sunk After ‘Mars Needs Moms’ Tanks By Russ Fischer/March 14, 2011 8:27 pm EST Talk about awkward. The last headline below this one is an endorsement of mocap filmmaking from Steven Spielberg. But the major industry talk today that wasn’t centered on SXSW was all about how the mocap film Mars Needs Moms absolutely tanked in its debut weekend. There is some significant fallout from that failure: Disney has passed on the mocap remake of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, which Robert Zemeckis had planned to make this year....

Adam McKay Says Interest In ‘Anchorman 2’ May Keep The Film Alive (But Don’t Get Your Hopes Up Too High Just Yet) By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2010 12:57 pm EST There’s been a lot of back and forth over the possibility of a sequel to Anchorman, but a couple months back director Adam McKay dashed the hopes of fans when he said (via Twitter) that Paramount had passed on the project....

Arnold Schwarzenegger Considering Scripts, Including WWII Tale ‘With Wings As Eagles’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 17, 2011 9:25 am EST Now that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s term as Governator has ended, it’s time to see if he’ll go back to acting in any serious way. A very brief cameo in The Expendables could have been him dipping a toe back into the waters after his years in office, or it could have been a final love note to fans....

Cameron Crowe Lines Up Another Project: ‘Beautiful Boy’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 24, 2012 3:40 pm EST Writer/director Cameron Crowe has been quite busy as of late and he’s only getting busier. He recently cast Emma Stone in an untitled romantic comedy (likely called Deep Tiki) set in Hawaii. Now reports say he has set the follow-up to that film, too. Crowe is moving forward with Beautiful Boy, based on a novel by David Sheff, about a family dealing with their son’s meth addiction....

Casting Bits: Brie Larson In ‘21 Jump Street;’ Luke Evans In ‘Dogs Of Law;’ Pierce Brosnan In ‘All You Need Is Love’ By Russ Fischer/March 4, 2011 6:09 pm EST The big-screen version of 21 Jump Street finally has a female lead. Brie Larson (United States of Tara, Scott Pilgrim vs the World) will play Molly in the rather unlikely R-rated comedy/action translation of the TV show that launched the career of a young Johnny Depp in 1987....

Casting Bits: Melanie Laurent In ‘Now You See Me’, Chace Crawford And Rob Huebel In ‘What To Expect When You’re Expecting’, Natasha Lyonne In ‘American Reunion’ By Angie Han/July 14, 2011 1:30 pm EST Inglourious Basterds and Beginners actress Melanie Laurent is set to star opposite Jesse Eisenberg in Louis Leterrier’s magician heist movie Now You See Me. The story revolves around FBI agents hunting down a group of world-famous bank-robbing magicians (sorry, illusionists) who shower their audiences with the stolen cash....

Christopher Guest’s Next Film Will Focus On Retro Collectors By Adam Quigley/Sept. 24, 2010 9:19 am EST Has it been three/four years already? That must mean it’s time for another Christopher Guest mockumentary. That’s still a call for celebration, no? Though the filmmaker’s last effort, For Your Consideration, may not have been too warmly received, one misstep can’t sour the name of a man who has proven himself so reliable in the past....