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LOL: George Lucas Goes Trick Or Treating In FoxTrot By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 1, 2010 1:00 pm EST Bill Amend’s latest FoxTrot comic strip imagines what happened when Star Wars creator George Lucas went trick or treating on Halloween. LOL: George Lucas Goes Trick Or Treating In FoxTrot By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 1, 2010 1:00 pm EST Bill Amend’s latest FoxTrot comic strip imagines what happened when Star Wars creator George Lucas went trick or treating on Halloween....

Marvel Casting: Mads Mikkelsen To Be ‘Thor 2’ Baddie; Ashley Hamilton In Talks For ‘Iron Man 3’ By Russ Fischer/May 24, 2012 5:00 pm EST A couple of notable casting choices for upcoming Marvel movies hit this afternoon, and let’s start with Mads Mikkelsen, who is in talks to play the bad guy in Thor 2. We don’t know much about the plot for the Alan Taylor-directed film at this point, and we don’t know what role Mikkelsen will play....

McG Vying Against Breck Eisner To Direct ‘Ouija’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 18, 2010 4:04 pm EST If one were to use a Quija board to figure out who will be directing the big budget adaptation of the popular party game, the planchette might illuminate the letters M-C-G. McG, the director of Charlie’s Angels and Terminator Salvation, recently wrapped shooting This Means War with Chris Pine and Tom Hardy and pitched his take on the project to Universal on Friday, according to Heat Vision....

Rumored ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5’ Director Wish List Includes Tim Burton, Sam Raimi And More By Germain Lussier/June 1, 2011 7:07 pm EST Most of us who had the misfortune of seeing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides probably had two thoughts as the credits rolled: “Did that really just happen?” and “No longer is a pirate’s life for me.” While the film has been a global box office sensation, in mere weeks grossing nearly as much worldwide as the first film did in its entire run (thank you 3D), it took a deserved critical drubbing....

Sequel Bits: ‘Wanted 2,’ ‘Step Up 4’ Poster, ‘Tintin 3’ Probably Based On ‘Prisoners Of The Sun,’ New ‘Evil Dead’ Logo By Germain Lussier/Nov. 3, 2011 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Will these films live up to their predecessors? You be the judge. After the jump read about: Coming Soon talked to writer/director team Michael Brandt and Derek Haas about their new film The Double and asked them about Wanted 2....

Shiloh Fernandez Cast In ‘The Evil Dead;’ Jane Levy In Talks For Lead Role [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Feb. 3, 2012 11:00 am EST That new version of The Evil Dead is still pulling together a cast, after Lily Collins dropped out of the lead role. Collins would have played a troubled girl who, with her brother and some friends, goes to a remote cabin to detox, where supernatural forces are awakened to threaten the group....

Stream Jonny Greenwood’s Expressive ‘The Master’ Score; ‘Dredd’ Score Also Available In Full By Russ Fischer/Sept. 11, 2012 1:17 pm EST The Master opens in limited release on Friday, but one of the most anticipated aspects of the film — Jonny Greenwood’s score — can now be enjoyed in full. While I can’t say that everyone should obsessively listen to this score before seeing the film, as the music plays a very special part in the development of the film’s progression, just as you’d expect....

Superhero Bits: X-Men Vs. The Avengers, Man Of Steel, Smallville, Amazing Spider-Man By Germain Lussier/Dec. 6, 2011 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Fans dying to see the X-Men and Avengers worlds collide need only wait until next year. X-Men Vs. The Avengers will be a massive story arc in Marvel Comics next year written by some of their most prolific writers. Head to USA Today to read more....

VOTD: Future Pixar Director Lee Unkrich Dominates A 1987 Episode Of ‘Win, Lose Or Draw’ By Russ Fischer/May 18, 2011 11:00 am EST Pixar’s Lee Unkrich, who won an Oscar this year for Toy Story 3, has been promising that he would post an ’embarrassing video’ if his Twitter account hit one hundred thousand followers. That milestone was passed last night, and today he made good on his promise. What is the video?...

Will Budget Cuts Hobble ‘The Walking Dead’? By Russ Fischer/May 31, 2011 7:02 pm EST It seems to always go this way. A show is successful, and then those pulling the financial strings want to figure out how to make more money out of it. One way is by trimming the budget. And that is evidently what Frank Darabont faces as he preps the second season of The Walking Dead. The show has already seen its share of controversy, thanks to the report that the second season would do without a writing staff, but this might be a far more difficult thing to manage....

Would You Watch A Broadway Version Of ‘Back To The Future’? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 2, 2012 11:00 am EST We’ve seen quite a few examples of cross-pollination between Broadway and film, but typically via a Broadway show that is turned into a movie. One of the projects that might go the other direction, however, is Back to the Future. The enduring ’80s film still boasts a strong fanbase, and so producers are starting to explore the idea of a stage musical version....

‘300’ Sequel No Longer Called ‘Xerxes’ By Russ Fischer/April 6, 2011 9:30 am EST 300 was a success that went beyond the expectations of everyone involved in the film, and plans for a sequel were very quickly put into motion. Before anything could happen Frank Miller had to get the sequel going as a graphic novel, and from that director Zack Snyder started working on a script. Despite the fact that he’s now working intensely to make Superman: The Man of Steel, Mr....

‘Coraline’ Animation Company Laika Adapting Youth-Lit Novel ‘Wildwood’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2011 10:30 am EST Colin Meloy, singer for The Decemberists, and his wife Carson Ellis just published a young-adult illustrated fantasy novel called Wildwood. The book is set in an alternate version of Portland, OR. and is the first of a would-be trilogye that follows “Prue McKneel, a young lady who must confront a world filled with magic and danger after her younger brother is kidnapped, forcing her to enter the Impassable Wilderness....

‘Fanboys’ Director Kyle Newman To Go Behind The Scenes Of ‘Star Wars’ With Black List Script ‘Chewie’ By Angie Han/Aug. 2, 2012 10:30 am EST One of the most-liked scripts on last winter’s Black List was Evan Susser and Van Robichaux’s Chewie, about Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew and his work on the Star Wars set. But whereas some of the screenplays on the compendium already had stars, producers, and directors attached, Chewie wasn’t very far along at all — and considering the no doubt complicated rights issues surrounding it, it seemed totally possible it’d never get made at all....

‘Thor’ Super Bowl Commercial By Russ Fischer/Feb. 6, 2011 4:55 pm EST Here’s the Super Bowl spot for Marvel Studios’ Thor , starring Chris Hemsworth as Thor and featuring Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins. It’s mostly a condensed version of the first teaser trailer for the film (that also being the footage we saw at Comic Con last summer) but there are a few new shots here. The pace is great and the energy level is high....

Alexandre Aja To Direct Horror-Hangover Story ‘Horns’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 8, 2011 5:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances....

Brad Bird Talks ‘Incredibles 2;’ Willing To Make A Sequel, But Only With The Right Story By Russ Fischer/Oct. 26, 2011 5:00 pm EST The Incredibles is a great movie. It might be the best superhero movie, and it is certainly one of the best Pixar efforts. With Pixar making sequels more often now than in the past, naturally questions arise about a follow-up to Brad Bird’s story of a super-powered family....

Bryan Fuller Writing Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 17, 2010 11:11 am EST Briefly: There’s a new Pinocchio film brewing (not the stop-motion one that Guillermo del Toro has talked up) and Bryan Fuller of Pushing Daisies has been hired to write the film for Warner Bros. Variety doesn’t have too much more detail, but says that the film was inspired by the success of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, so it isn’t a stretch to expect that we’ll see at least a semi-revisionist version of the classic Pinocchio story....

Cool Stuff: Jay Shaw’s Blue Underground Mondo Gallery Show By Germain Lussier/June 5, 2012 5:30 am EST For their third gallery show, the Mondo team tapped up and coming artist Jay Shaw (who also goes by Iron Jaiden) to create seventeen posters based on the films of Blue Underground. The resulting show, Don’t Go Out Tonight, is a beautiful European influenced ode to the fantastic cult classics of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties featuring films like Django, Q The Winged Serpent, Emanuelle in America, The New York Ripper and many more....

Google Doodle Celebrates The First Drive-In Theater Opening By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2012 2:30 pm EST The Google logo doodle today celebrates the 79th anniversary of the opening of the first drive-in movie theater. The doodle features the Google logo on the sign for a drive-in theater, with a ticket stub in front of it. Clicking the play button on the stub starts a brief video, which we’ve embedded after the jump....