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TV News: First Photo From Lost Epilogue, Beavis & Butthead Returns, Dustin Hoffman To Star In HBO’s Luck, Amber Tamblyn Joins House, Clifton Collins Jr Joins The Event By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2010 6:00 am EST Entertainment Weekly has out first (or last?) glimpse of the 12-minute Lost epilogue “The New Man in Charge” that will be included on the Series Finale DVD/Blu-ray set. Actor Michael Emerson reveals that “Ben is going around to Dharma installations and closing some down....

VOTD: ‘Rugrats’ Goes Creepy And Red-Band With Mae Whitman, Michael Angarano And Alia Shawkat By Germain Lussier/Jan. 18, 2012 7:30 am EST “Your childhood memories will be raped” by this creepy, twisted, but incredibly funny new Funny or Die video. It’s a live-action version of the popular 1990s Nickeoldeon cartoon Rugrats starring Michael Angarano as Tommy, Alia Shawkat as Chuckie and Mae Whitman as the evil, manipulative big-girl Angelica. In true Funny or Die fashion, the red-band trailer digs deep and exploits the sadistic subtexts of the show which were only visible to an older audience....

Warner Bros. Hires Jason Rothenberg To Write ‘The Twilight Zone’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 20, 2010 1:53 pm EST Briefly: This is an incremental update to basically check in on the new Twilight Zone film that Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio’s company Appian Way have been developing. Screenwriter Jason Rothenberg has been hired to write a new draft of the film. Last time we heard anything about this one, WB had tapped The Astronaut’s Wife writer/director Rand Ravich to pen a script....

Watch A Wild Single-Shot Edit Of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’ By Russ Fischer/April 3, 2012 5:00 am EST I’ve talked in the past about my love of the ways in which current technology can give us new perspectives on old movies, and this is a great example of that in action. Jeff Desom built a sort of 3D digital model of the apartment courtyard from Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rear Window, and then composited all the events seen from the window of Jimmy Stewart’s apartment into a single shot that covers a couple days and nights....

WTF: WWE To Produce Animated ‘Scooby-Doo’ Film Set At WrestleMania; Man Shoots Himself In The Butt During ‘Bourne Legacy’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 15, 2012 4:30 pm EST The next two statements are totally true. World Wrestling Entertainment is producing an animated Scooby-Doo film centering on a murder mystery at Wrestlemania, and a man shot himself in the ass while sitting down in a screening of The Bourne Legacy. After the jump, read the details on the crazy but true stories....

By Russ Fischer/April 2, 2012 2:30 pm EST We’ve occasionally followed the development of 7 Days in Havana, an anthology film in which seven directors each chronicle one day in Havana, Cuba. The attraction is the set of directors, which includes Benicio Del Toro, making only his second time in the director’s chair (with Josh Hutcherson from The Hunger Games in his cast) and Argentine firebrand Gaspar Noe, who last made Enter the Void and is generally associated with French cinema thanks to his films Irreversible and I Stand Alone....

‘Mad Men’ Season 5 Teasers: Impeccable Style, Fantastic Writing, And Exceptional Acting Are Back By Angie Han/Feb. 22, 2012 3:30 pm EST Thanks to those ugly contract negotiations between AMC and showrunner Matt Weiner, it’s been over a year since the last episode of Mad Men aired. But patient fans will be rewarded soon, as the fifth season of the stylish AMC drama is set to premiere just over a month from today....

‘Pacific Rim’ Comic Con Poster Shows Guillermo Del Toro’s Giant Robot Design By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2012 11:29 am EST Guillermo del Toro has been very vocal in his promise about the subject of his new film Pacific Rim. That is, we know that this is his ode to Toho Studios films, and that he’s been very vocal about his hopes to deliver the best giant robots and monsters ever put on screen....

By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2011 11:47 am EST Now the film has been officially announced with a story revolving around small-town dreamer Dusty who wants to enter a globe-circling air race, but is afraid of heights. Let me guess: he gives up on his dream of winning the race and takes a job flying movie ad banners low over the crowds at Comic Con instead. Or maybe not. All the official info is in the press release after the break....

‘Project Nim’ - A Worthy Follow-Up To ‘Man On Wire’? [Sundance Review] By David Chen/Jan. 21, 2011 8:30 am EST Director James Marsh wowed critics and audiences and scored an Academy Award for his marvelous 2008 documentary Man on Wire (Marsh went on to direct one of the Red Riding films). That’s why I was psyched to learn that his newest documentary, Project Nim, would be opening the 2011 Sundance Film Festival....

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Blu-Ray Extras Revealed: Nearly 20 Featurettes, No Deleted Scenes By Germain Lussier/Sept. 27, 2012 3:35 pm EST There’s good news and bad news for fans of The Dark Knight Rises today. The good news is the film will hit Blu-ray and DVD on December 4, will be available with the limited edition broken cowl and will contain a ton of extra features. The bad news is there’s not a deleted scene to be found, let alone the 30 minutes originally rumored....

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Teaser Poster By Russ Fischer/July 11, 2011 8:11 pm EST What do you get if you combine the influence of The Dark Knight, the city-bending of Inception and the wholesale city destruction of Transformers: Dark of the Moon? Something that might look a lot like the teaser poster for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. Check out the full image after the break. Click to enlarge....

‘The Hulk’ Might Yet Air On ABC In Fall 2013 By Russ Fischer/May 15, 2012 11:30 am EST The fortunes of the Hulk fall, and then they rise. The character has been the star of one classic television show and two feature films, but it is his supporting role in The Avengers, as played by Mark Ruffalo, that has made the green guy a superstar once more. For some time a new television version of the Hulk has been simmering at ABC, with Guillermo del Toro producing....

By Peter Sciretta/April 18, 2010 11:40 pm EST Update: The original Sunday Box Office estimates were a bit off, and Kick-Ass did end up beating How To Train Your Dragon, but with only a $200,000 differential. Kick-Ass wins the weekend with a $19.8 million take for the three days, while Dreamworks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon came in second with $19.6 million, representing only a 21 percent fall from last weekend....

Casting Bits: Meg Foster In Rob Zombie’s ‘Lords Of Salem;’ Lindsay Pulispher In ‘Bonnie & Clyde;’ Robert Knepper In ‘R.I.P.D.’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 20, 2011 5:00 pm EST Rob Zombie is moving forward on The Lords of Salem, his upcoming horror film that involves witchcraft and terror in Salem, MA. He’s announced the first bit of casting: Meg Foster will play “Margaret Morgan, the leader of a secret coven of witches in Salem....

Crow Producer Talks Reboot Details By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2010 7:11 am EST In late 2008 Stephen Norrington signed on to write and direct a new version of The Crow, based (to some extent) on James O’Barr’s graphic novel and comics about a dead rocker whose spirit returns to seek vengeance on the men who killed him and raped his girlfriend. The 1994 film version directed by Alex Proyas gained instant notoriety when actor Brandon Lee was killed on set, and the film struck a chord with audiences....

Denzel Washington To Join Mark Wahlberg In ‘2 Guns’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 8, 2012 9:00 am EST Mark Wahlberg’s 2 Guns might have just gotten a huge boost in the person of Denzel Washington. Deadline reports the Oscar-winner, whose latest action film Safe House opens this week, is in talks to join the Baltasar Kormakur-directed film, based on a graphic novel by Steven Grant. 2 Guns sounds like a cousin of The Departed as it’s about an undercover Navel intelligence officer and DEA agent who are both investigating each other....

DreamWorks Animation Announces ‘Monkeys Of Bollywood’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 11, 2011 8:00 pm EST We had heard rumblings that DreamWorks Animation was developing a computer animated Bollywood movie, but had not heard much in terms of details until now. The company has announced via Variety that they have hired composer A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours), Broadway lyricist Stephen Schwartz (Enchanted, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pocahontas) and husband-and-wife producing team Gurinder Chadha and Paul Berges (Bend It Like Beckham, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging) to work on the animation studio’s first animated feature musical....

Expect ‘Green Lantern 2’ To Be Darker And Edgier Than The First By Russ Fischer/Aug. 2, 2011 10:11 am EST Green Lantern had a reasonable (not great) opening weekend but was otherwise a creative and financial dud. It is an example of that strange studio phenomenon: a film that manages to feel both over-written, with villains and setpieces seemingly cobbled together from different script drafts, and under-scripted, thanks to the total lack of sense behind most of the character actions....

First Set Photo: Cowboys & Aliens By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2010 1:13 am EST Jon Favreau has revealed the first set photo from his upcoming big screen adaptation of Cowboys and Aliens on Twitter. The photo was taken during camera tests, and gives us a little glimpse into the costumes from the movie. Check it out now, after the jump. Official Plot Synopsis: 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution....