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VOTD: ‘The Ultimate Hitch Cookbook’ By Angie Han/July 12, 2011 12:00 pm EST We feature director homages all the time here at /Film, but today’s Video of the Day offers something a little different. Using bright, playful animation and a healthy serving of wit, “The Ultimate Hitch Cookbook” analyzes the work of director Alfred Hitchcock in culinary terms and lays out “recipes” for some of his most-loved classics. Now you, too, can whip up dishes like “Walk the Dog” (“the perfect meal for stakeouts or the Peeping Tom next door”) or “The Perfect Kendall-Light Dinner” (“for homesick travellers”)....

VOTD: The Secret Mission Of The Terminator By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2010 12:00 pm EST A Chinese filmmaker made this short 4-minute video which features a Terminator panhandling outside of a Apple Store in Beijing China. You’ll have to watch the video to find out what might happen if the Terminator gets enough money to recharge his batteries. VOTD: The Secret Mission Of The Terminator By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2010 12:00 pm EST...

Watch The New Trailer For The ‘Jurassic Park’ UK Re-Release By Germain Lussier/Aug. 29, 2011 4:45 pm EST While American audiences were forced to watch Jurassic Park over and over again on AMC for the past week straight, Steven Spielberg’s 1993 smash hit is coming back to the big screen across the Atlantic. Empire is reporting the film will be re-released in the United Kingdom on September 23 to help drum up interest in the October Blu-ray box set....

Will Jay Baruchel Step Into Miguel Ferrer’s Shoes For ‘RoboCop’? By Russ Fischer/July 25, 2012 3:00 pm EST Last week, when Jackie Earle Haley was reported to be one of the latest additions to Jose Padilha’s new RoboCop film, Jay Baruchel was reported as another likely addition. Now he’s been confirmed, and we know that Baruchel will play, per THR, “the head of marketing for Omnicorp, the company that is building the police cyborg....

‘Easy Money’ Trailer - Joel Kinnaman’s Breakout Performance Comes With Martin Scorsese’s Stamp Of Approval By Angie Han/June 26, 2012 6:00 am EST It’s been several months since we saw the trailer for Snabba Cash II, but now comes the trailer for the first Snabba Cash. No, we’re not getting our numbers mixed up. While the first film was a huge smash in Sweden back in 2010, it’s only now getting around to a proper U....

‘Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance’ Behind The Scenes Reel Highlights Adventurous Directors By Russ Fischer/Jan. 25, 2012 5:00 am EST It’s been a bumpy ride for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. The film is a sequel to a movie very few people liked; when first announced there wasn’t a lot of enthusiasm for the project. Then Crank and Gamer directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor came on board. Their hyper-kinetic, seat of the pants directorial style seemed so perfect for Ghost Rider that expectations elevated a bit....

‘Sound Of My Voice’ Trailer: What Mysteries Lie Within A Suburban Cult? By Russ Fischer/March 19, 2012 10:30 am EST As much as I liked the introductory 12-minute clip, in which documentary-making couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) attempt to infiltrate a mysterious group led by an enigmatic young woman named Maggie (Brit Marling), I think this trailer is a lot more effective in establishing just how quietly strange the movie might be....

‘The Paperboy’ Trailer: The Year Of Matthew McConaughey Continues With ‘Precious’ Director’s Lurid Drama By Angie Han/Aug. 1, 2012 11:00 am EST Matthew McConaughey is having one hell of a year. Having already drawn praise for turns in Richard Linklater’s Bernie, Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike, and William Friedkin’s Killer Joe, the onetime Failure to Launch star is now heading into fall with Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy. Inspired by true events, The Paperboy centers around wayward young man (Zac Efron) and his journalist brother (McConaughey)....

‘V/H/S’ Green-Band Trailer By Russ Fischer/July 10, 2012 5:00 pm EST The horror anthology film V/H/S teams up a good handful of film talents: Radio Silence, Adam Wingard (You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), Simon Barrett(You’re Next, Dead Birds), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), and Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), with each of the group contributing a creepy low-fi horror story to the collection....

Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity Will Be 60% CGI, Opening Shot Is Over 20 Minutes Long By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2010 8:00 am EST We have a few updates on Alfonso Cuarón’s 3D sci-fi space thriller Gravity starring Robert Downey Jr.. The film will apparently be 60% CGI, shot using a high balance of hybrid CG and live action elements like Avatar. And fans of Cuaron’s long continuous takes will be excited to learn that the opening shot will last at least 20 minutes....

Are The ‘Dead Island’ Film Rights Sold, Or Not? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 21, 2011 5:00 pm EST The question of a film based on the game (or, more likely, the trailer) quickly cropped up, and on Friday night it was revealed that the rights had been sold to The Sean Daniel Company. Except that game publisher Deep Silver is now saying that the rights to the game have not been sold....

Casting Bits: Stacy Keach In ‘The Bourne Legacy;’ Forest Whitaker In ‘Vipaka;’ Katrina Bowden In ‘Nurse 3D’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 7, 2011 3:54 pm EST Stacy Keach is the latest actor added to the growing cast of Tony Gilroy’s The Bourne Legacy, which stars Jeremy Renner as a new ultra-capable agent who emerges from the same training program that created Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne. We don’t know Keach’s role, but do know that he will play alongside (or against) Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton in the film that acts as a parallel storyline to the three existing Bourne films....

Comic Con: Let Me In Panel, Footage Description And Video Blog By Russ Fischer/July 24, 2010 10:18 pm EST Matt Reeves, the director of Cloverfield, knows that he faces an uphill battle with Let Me In, his remake of the Swedish film Let the Right One In. Or, as it were, his alternate take on the John Ajvide Lindqvist novel of the same name. This new version of the story has been met with a great deal of resistance from fans, as it was announced before the original film had even been able to move from festivals to US movie screens....

Cool Stuff: ‘Ghostbusters’ Wedding Cake By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 11, 2011 9:00 am EST We have featured some geeky wedding cakes over the past few years (including a zombie wedding cake, and not one but two Back to the Future wedding cakes). Charm City Cakes have created an awesome Ghostbusters-themed wedding cake for DonnaMarie and Ricky. They wanted to incorporate their shared love of the movie into their wedding cake. Their idea?...

Cool Stuff: Star Wars Space Slug Oven Mitt By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2010 12:00 pm EST It’s very easy to geek up your living room or bedroom, but cool kitchen and bathroom items are definitely harder to find. As part of LucasFilm’s celebration of 30th anniversary of Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, they have created a Space Slug Oven Mitt. Available exclusively on StarWars.com for $19.99. Ships in August 2010....

Disney’s ‘Frozen,’ Formerly ‘The Snow Queen,’ Will Be CG Rather Than Hand-Drawn By Russ Fischer/Jan. 11, 2012 5:00 pm EST At the end of last year, Disney announced that a film called Frozen would be the studio’s animated offering for the Holiday 2013 window, and we quickly learned that the film is the latest incarnation of a project once called The Snow Queen, which has been in development for many years....

Early Buzz: ‘The Thing’ Prequel And Joel Schumacher’s ‘Trespass’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2011 4:01 pm EST We’ve got advance word today on two films. One, the prequel to The Thing, is an object of great curiosity to many fans of John Carpenter’s 1982 film, which stands as a benchmark for practical creature effects. The other, Joel Schumacher’s home invasion movie Trespass, which stars Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage, just seems like an oddity at this point....

Early Buzz: First Screening Of ‘Green Lantern’ Earns Positive Praise By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2011 9:00 am EST The first screening of Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern happened on Sunday night in Hollywood, and the early response so far has been very positive. Read some tweets and quotes after the jump. Robert Meyer Burnett (director of Free Enterprise) on Twitter: GREEN LANTERN fucking ROCKED. The 3D was AWESOME. As a lifelong DC fan, the opening ten minutes made me squeal like schoolgirl....

Early Buzz: George Clooney’s ‘The Ides Of March’ Scores Mild Venice Victory By Russ Fischer/Aug. 31, 2011 7:00 pm EST The trailer for George Clooney’s fourth film, the political drama The Ides of March, suggested that the film might turn out to be a good character piece that has appeal beyond the limits of a political drama that is locked in a four-year old contest. (The source material is Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North, which is sourced from Howard Dean’s 2004 primary campaign....

Edgar Wright Just Directed An ‘Ant-Man’ Test Reel By Germain Lussier/June 28, 2012 4:54 pm EST For anyone who was curious to the exact status of Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man, we now have a definitive answer. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Wright spent about a week earlier this month “shooting footage for a reel that will be used to test out the potential look and tone of his movie, as well as to decide how convincing Ant-Man’s powers look on screen....