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‘Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol’ Poster Further Exploits A Hooded Tom Cruise By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2011 1:30 pm EST One of the first official promo shots we saw from Brad Bird’s Mission: impossible – Ghost Protocol was a shot of Tom Cruise looking sultry, serious and rather Marshall Mathers-esque in a grey hoodie jacket. Now the first one-sheet for the film is out, and it recycles that image, with the recognizable Mission: Impossible burning fuse superimposed at the bottom....

‘Super 8’ Trailer #2 And New TV Spot: Dogs, Danger And Destruction By Russ Fischer/June 6, 2011 11:30 am EST J.J. Abrams’ new film Super 8 opens this week, and there are quite a few reviews and reactions to be found already. (Pete just offered up his video reaction.) But on the off chance you want to approach the movie the old-fashioned way and not read much before seeing it, here’s a new trailer to get you thinking about how you might deal with the arrival of a monster and the military, if you were a small-town kid who just wanted to make a movie with friends....

8 Photos From ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ By Peter Sciretta/June 13, 2011 2:30 pm EST Paramount Pictures has released eight new photos for Michael Bay’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which first premiered on Yahoo. The new shots feature a mix of human character shots and big robot rendered action. Check the new stills out after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Plot synopsis: The Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, are back in action, taking on the evil Decepticons, who are determined to avenge their defeat in 2009’s Transformers Revenge of the Fallen....

Casey Affleck’s Mockumentary Starring Joaquin Phoenix Finished, Shown To Buyers By Russ Fischer/May 6, 2010 11:41 am EST This isn’t quite like nabbing some video of the sasquatch walking across your back yard, but it might be close. Over a year ago, Joaquin Phoenix announced his retirement from acting, grew a magnificent beard, started rapping, and fell off a stage. In his few public appearances (including one on Letterman) Phoenix insisted that the move from actor to MC was a legit, honest career change....

Casting Bits: James Franco In Ondi Timoner’s ‘Mapplethorpe’, Emma Roberts Out Of Harmony Korine’s ‘Spring Breakers’ By Angie Han/Jan. 13, 2012 7:00 am EST Whether you love James Franco or can’t stand him, it can’t be denied that the man works hard. As if he didn’t have enough on his plate already — what with films including Oz: The Great and Powerful, Lovelace, Spring Breakers, and his directorial effort The Broken Tower all coming up, plus all of his non-movie projects — he’s now added Mapplethorpe, a biopic of the late photographer....

Cool Stuff: Exclusive Preview Of Iam8bit’s “So You Created A Wormhole” Time Travel Art Show By Peter Sciretta/April 10, 2012 7:00 am EST Iam8bit is holding a Time Travel-themed art show called “So You Created a Wormhole” on Friday, April 13th the iam8bit gallery in Echo Park in Los Angeles, California (you can find out more info and rsvp on Facebook). They have over 40 fine art and screenprint artists contributing, with pieces ranging from Back to the Future to The Time Machine to other amazing collages of time and space (like dinosaurs vs....

By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 7, 2011 2:00 pm EST Chances are you don’t get sent award screeners and this news means nothing to you. I don’t recieve award screeners either, but I thought the switch to digital distribution was an interesting one. You can read the press release after the jump. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOX FILMED ENTERTAINMENT BRINGS SCREENERS TO SAG MEMBERS ON ITUNES Screen Actors Guild members can obtain information on receiving their redemption codes at www....

Infographic: Martin Scorsese Is A Man For All Genres By Russ Fischer/Nov. 28, 2011 6:00 am EST Memory works by compartmentalization. Our minds often like to reduce data to patterns, and those patterns get compacted into simple categories. And so for many people Martin Scorsese, despite having made The Last Waltz, Kundun and The Aviator, is just a director of New York gangster movies. (Maybe with a slight detour up to Boston for The Departed....

Kevin Bacon Describes His Role In ‘X-Men: First Class;’ Michael Fassbender Talks Costumes By Russ Fischer/Jan. 19, 2011 1:30 pm EST But now Kevin Bacon has explained a bit about his role, which gives us a lot more clues about what to expect. He also confirms a few details about the plot and timeline. Finally, Michael Fassbender adds a few comments, too. Moviefone talked to Kevin Bacon, who said of his appearance,...

Legendary Pictures Buys Sci-Fi Tentpole ‘Pacific Rim’ By Russ Fischer/May 28, 2010 12:21 pm EST Briefly: Legendary Pictures is going back to Clash of the Titans writer Travis Beacham for another potential summer blockbuster. The company has just “closed a high-six figure preemptive acquisition” of a 25-page treatment called Pacific Rim. If things go according to plan, the story will become a tentpole for Warner Bros. Here’s how Deadline describes the story:...

Mike Myers To Voice Pepé Le Pew In New Movie By Germain Lussier/Oct. 7, 2010 7:55 am EST He’s French, he’s in love and he stinks. Of course, we’re talking about Pepé Le Pew, the famously accented Looney Tunes skunk who strolls around Paris looking for beautiful women. Well, it seems that everyone’s favorite lovelorn skunk is going to be coming to the big screen and that he’ll be voiced not by the late Mel Blanc, but instead by none other than the current man of a thousand voices, Mike Myers....

Movie Trailer: ‘Beastly’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 3, 2010 4:30 pm EST If /Film is anything, it’s a breeding ground for High School Musical fans. So we were all very understanding when Beastly, which stars HSM alum Vanessa Hudgens, was bumped from its original Summer 2010 release date to make way for Charlie St. Cloud, which stars Hudgens’ boyfriend, and fellow HSM alum, Zac Efron. Inside, we all breathed a sigh of relief that we wouldn’t have to let our box office dollar reveal our true alliance to either Team Gabriella or Team Troy (which, in case you don’t know, are their High School Musical character names)....

Movie Trailer: Jackboots On Whitehall By Russ Fischer/June 3, 2010 4:28 pm EST What if Team America: World Police were British, took place during World War II, and was totally serious? Well…more serious. OK, fine, what if Team America was British and set in WWII? You might have something like Jackboots on Whitehall, which tells the story of an alternate WWII in which Goering, Goebbels and Himmler plan to tunnel under the English Channel and into the heart of London in order to capture Britain while the country’s army is elsewhere....

Netflix Claims One-Stream-At-A-Time Restriction Was A Mistake By Angie Han/Sept. 8, 2011 10:00 am EST But while you’re free to stay mad at Netflix for increasing the cost of the DVD plus watch instantly plan, it turns out there’s no reason to get worked up over the streaming limitation after all. The company has announced that it isn’t cracking down, and insists that customers who got the error message only did so because of a glitch in the system....

Never Let Me Go To Open BFI London Film Festival By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2010 11:10 am EST That isn’t the film’s world premiere, as it will first bow at the Toronto International Film Festival, but it’s a good booking for the London fest regardless. Doesn’t hurt that there’s a lot of British talent on board, among them screenwriter Alex Garland and cast Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley. (The film will already be open in the US by the time of this showing; it hits Stateside screens on September 15, right after the TIFF premiere....

New Cut Of Sergio Leone’s ‘Once Upon A Time In America’ To Add 40 Minutes By Russ Fischer/March 10, 2011 5:00 pm EST Purists can argue over the identity of Sergio Leone’s most enduring classic — I’d go with Once Upon a Time in the West — but there is little argument over which of his films had the most rocky path to a proper release. Once Upon a Time In America, starring Robert De Niro and James Woods, was drastically cut for the American release in 1984, which reportedly saddened the director to such a degree that he did not make another film before his death five years later....

New Line Developing Earthquake Movie ‘San Andreas: 3D’ From ‘Rock Of Ages’ Screenwriter Allan Loeb By Angie Han/Dec. 2, 2011 4:00 pm EST Considering what a big part of life earthquakes are in sunny Southern California, what big moneymakers disaster films can be, and how obsessed Hollywood is with 3D spectacle at the moment, I’m a little surprised San Andreas: 3D isn’t a thing that already exists. But no, New Line has just announced the new project, which as the title suggests revolves around a huge earthquake that hits the famed California fault line and causes widespread destruction in three action-packed dimensions....

Paramount Remaking ‘Ghost’…in Japan By Russ Fischer/June 9, 2010 11:20 am EST But how can we not talk about the remake of Ghost that Paramount plans to put into production in Japan? The idea: combat the struggling box office performance of American movies with a film more directly tailored to a Japanese audience. Reuters reports that “studios are increasingly eyeing the potential of local-language production, particularly in the $2 billion Japanese market where once-dominant American movies have been outgunned by local films the past three out of four years....

Paramount Thinks That Filming Transformers 3 Being Filmed Violates Copyright By David Chen/May 16, 2010 11:37 pm EST Those of us who live in major cities may have been fortunate enough, at one point or another, to happen upon a movie in the process of being filmed. The near-universal reaction is understandable: most people will whip out a camera and try to take a picture or shoot a short video. If you’re lucky, you may get footage of an action scene or a major star....

Rutger Hauer To Star In Feature-Length Version Of Hobo With A Shotgun By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2010 2:33 pm EST “I’m gonna sleep in your bloody carcasses tonight!” In 2007 there was a contest at SXSW that invited filmmakers to create their own fake grindhouse-style movie trailers to go along with the promotion for the Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez film Grindhouse. The winner, by a great margin, was Hobo with a Shotgun, from Nova Scotia director Jason Eisener....