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Hollywood’s New Movie Poster Design Trend: Overcrowded With Characters By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2012 5:00 am EST The latest All-Dwarf poster for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey seems to confirm a new Hollywood movie poster design trend — filling a one-sheet with an overcrowded gathering of characters. From what I can tell, the new trend started with the final Toy Story 3 poster, which was created by BLT Communications — a marketing department Disney regularly employs....

By Russ Fischer/April 14, 2010 3:18 pm EST Who would have guessed that a little movie about gay men and prison breaks would generate a full-on distribution saga? I Love You, Phillip Morris , directed by Bad Santa writers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa and starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor, was bought a while after Sundance ‘09, then had release dates pushed back a couple times, then was taken off the release schedule, then put back on....

Infographics: How To Make A Horror, Animated Or Action Movie By Germain Lussier/April 13, 2011 6:00 am EST Want to make a movie but not exactly sure what to do next? The fine folks over at Canal Plus, a European film distributor, have released some posters that should be able to help. Three posters in total tell the amusing tales of How To Make A Horror Movie, How To Make An Animated Movie and How To Make An Action Movie (seen above)....

Logo And New High-Res Image Released For Pixar Short ‘La Luna’ By Russ Fischer/June 7, 2011 2:00 pm EST At the beginning of May, we had the first info on La Luna, a new short from Pixar.This isn’t going to play in front of Cars 2, but perhaps in front of Brave. The film is a coming of age story about a young boy, and the night on which he is taught the peculiar details of his family’s traditional occupation....

Movie Trailer: ‘Justin Bieber Never Say Never’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 26, 2010 10:37 am EST Who wants to be INSPIRED on this beautiful October day? Well, you can’t do much better than the trailer for Justin Bieber Never Say Never. This 3D Paramount documentary tells the “inspiring true story” of 16-year-old teen singing sensation Justin Bieber who went from YouTube nobody to one of the most famous people on the planet in mere months....

Movie Trailer: ‘Nokas’, A Heist Movie From The Director Of The Original ‘Insomnia’ By Russ Fischer/July 6, 2010 7:51 am EST Just a couple weeks to go until Christopher Nolan’s Inception opens (the reviews are already up) but let’s take a moment to go back in time to 2002, when Nolan remade the Norwegian thriller Insomnia. The original was a great little piece of work, directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg. After Insomnia Skjoldbjærg hasn’t done a lot — his 2001 adaptation of Prozac Nation looks like it was a serious career stall....

Movie Trailer: The Adjustment Bureau By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2010 11:24 am EST We’ve been waiting to see footage of George Nolfi’s The Adjustment Bureau, which stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt in a loose adaptation of a Philip K Dick short story, Adjustment Team. Now there’s a trailer, and it is hard to tell what the movie is, exactly. There are moments which will remind you of Dark City and The Matrix, while the underpinning of PKD paranoia and lack of control is certainly there....

MPAA Overturns NC-17 Rating For ‘Blue Valentine’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 8, 2010 1:41 pm EST In a rare case of a successful appeal before the MPAA, the NC-17 rating initially slapped on Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine has been overturned. Harvey Weinstein personally appeared before the appeals board to plead on behalf of the film. The film will go out to theaters with an R rating. The NC-17 was delivered because of a sex scene between Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams — one which, it must be noted, carries no trace of violence or other ‘objectionable’ content, but is merely somewhat graphic and emotionally raw....

Neil Marshall To Direct Underground, A Horror Film About…Underground Supper Clubs? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 27, 2010 12:38 pm EST Briefly: What could be further from Centurion, the bloody action film from director Neil Marshall? How about Marshall making a film set in the world of underground supper clubs? Yeah, you read that right. Underground, scripted by David Cohen, is a horror / thriller set in the “world of gourmet underground supper clubs....

New Poster: ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ By Russ Fischer/June 23, 2011 11:39 am EST You’ll be able to see the new trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger this evening (it hits at 7:30 EST) but for now we’ve got a new poster that puts the heroic profile of star Chris Evans front and center. Advance word on the film, by way of a long-lead press screening or two, is very very good, and the movie is really starting to look like the summer action picture to beat....

New Posters: ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ ‘Page One,’ ‘Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark,’ ‘Melancholia’ And Many More By Russ Fischer/May 6, 2011 4:29 pm EST There have been a great many new posters in the past few days. Just this afternoon we’ve seen new one-sheets for the doc Page One: Inside the New York Times, the horror remake Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Miranda July’s odd-sounding new drama The Future, and Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia....

Shawn Ryan Would Like To Make A ‘Terriers’ Movie With Kickstarter Funds By Angie Han/Aug. 31, 2012 12:21 pm EST The Ted Griffin-created drama starred Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James as a pair of scruffy unlicensed PIs. A hit with critics but a flop with viewers, Terriers was axed in December 2010 after just one thirteen-episode season. Of course, one big roadblock to reviving a cancelled series is convincing investors that a low-rated premise will actually draw an audience this time around....

The Best Movies From 1982 You Probably Haven’t Seen By Jordan Hoffman/March 9, 2012 7:00 am EST Fitzcarraldo; Werner Herzog, director. The subject of a famous documentary (Burden of Dreams) the behind-the-camera woes of Fitzcarraldo are much of what propelled the myth Herzog-as-maverick/madman. But you can put all that aside and still be fascinated by this remarkable film about a European rubber baron compelled to bring an opera house to the hinterlands of Peru, even if it means his very life....

This Week In Trailers: The Guard, Dancing Dreams, Tarantino: Disciple Of Hong Kong, If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front, The Wave By Christopher Stipp/June 4, 2011 9:51 am EST I don’t know if it got any better for me in 2008 with regard to unexpected gems than In Bruges. Brendan Gleeson has a certain style, a comedic delivery that is at the same time smart, sly, and quite dry....

Tonight At 8pm EST: A Live /Filmcast Q&A With Edgar Wright By David Chen/Aug. 9, 2010 2:00 pm EST Edgar Wright’s newest film, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, is almost upon us, but we’ve already given the film some pretty high praise. Tonight, we’ll have the opportunity to chat with Wright for about half an hour. I couldn’t be more excited, seeing as how the man has already made some of my favorite films of all time....

Universal Taps A New Screenwriter For ‘Asteroids’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 10, 2011 9:00 am EST Briefly: In 2009 Universal and Atari partnered to begin the process of developing a movie based on Asteroids, one of the very earliest classic arcade video games. (Or, more properly, Universal won an auction to the rights and Atari took the studio’s money.) There is no story in the game at all — players control a small ship that has to blast its way to safety (which never comes) through a field of giant asteroids....

VOTD: Iron Baby By Peter Sciretta/May 28, 2010 4:00 am EST We’ve featured a bunch of Patrick Bolvin’s videos in past editions of Video of the Day, including a Batman vs. Hellboy movie trailer mash-up, Iron Man vs. Bruce Lee, Bumblebee’s stop-motion animated dance and Boba Fett’s stop-motion Mandalorian Dance. The French Canadian autodidact director’s newest video has gone viral, including a mention on Twitter from Iron Man director Jon Favreau who tweeted “You need to see this if you like Iron Man or babies....

‘Flypaper’ Trailer By Germain Lussier/June 20, 2011 1:30 pm EST There’s a bank heist movie coming out starring Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Tim Blake Nelson, Mekhi Phifer, Jeffrey Tambor and Rob Huebel, directed by one of the guys behind The Lion King and written by the guys who did The Hangover. Sounds pretty good, right? Flypaper, directed by Rob Minkoff and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore tells the story of what happens when three separate crews mistakenly decide to rob a bank at the same time....

‘Les Misérables’ Cast May Sing Live On Camera By Angie Han/Dec. 29, 2011 11:00 am EST That Tony Award-winning Broadway vet Hugh Jackman was a great pick to star as Jean Valjean Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables was never in doubt, but it seems his theater experience may prove even more helpful to the film production than we previously expected. According to a new report, Hooper has ordered his cast to sing live while shooting their scenes, much as they would if they were performing in a stage musical....

‘Limitless’ Director Neil Burger In Early Talks For Dystopian YA Adaptation ‘Divergent’ By Angie Han/Aug. 23, 2012 3:26 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. To that end, they’ve just started early talks with Limitless director Neil Burger. Burger reportedly got the offer after beating out several other big-name filmmakers. More details after the jump. The first of a planned trilogy, Divergent has sold over 1....