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‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’ Video Game Trailer By Germain Lussier/June 2, 2011 4:00 pm EST That’s where the 2012 video game Aliens: Colonial Marines picks up. It follows a team of Marines who are sent back to LV-426, back to the abandoned U.S.S. Sulaco, to investigate what happened to our beloved Hicks, Hudson, Vasquez, Apone and more. Gearbox, the team behind Borderlands and Duke Nukem Forever, has been developing this game for five years and – in anticipation of next week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo – has finally released a trailer for the Spring 2012 release....

‘Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked’ Trailer By Angie Han/Oct. 14, 2011 9:30 am EST [via Coming Soon] I’m admittedly biased here – I tend to hate CGI creature covers of outdated pop hits, and this trailer contains no fewer than three of them — but I really have nothing positive to say about this trailer. Normally, my curiosity would be piqued by the presence of talents like Poehler, Faris, Applegate, Cross, and so on....

‘Contagion’ – What Did You Think? By David Chen/Sept. 9, 2011 5:00 pm EST There really is nothing like a sprawling film covering a complex topic directed by Steven Soderbergh. Soderbergh’s Contagion hits theaters today boasting a cavalcade of big film stars, all trying to make sense of a world being torn apart by an infectious virus. So with the insane amounts of talent behind it, does the film live up to its promise?...

‘Hop’ Trailer #3 By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2011 6:00 pm EST Universal Pictures’ Illumination Entertainment (the guys behind the computer animated feature Despicable Me, have released a third movie trailer for the upcoming Russell Brand Easter Bunny comedy Hop. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Directed by Tim Hill (Alvin and the Chipmunks) based on a script is by Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio and Brian Lynch....

‘Horrible Bosses’ Trailer #2 And New Clip By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2011 8:30 am EST This is really more like Horrible Bosses Trailer #1.5, because it is basically the first trailer slightly rearranged, with a few more jokes added to each of the ‘boss introduction’ segments. So it shows the same setup where three guys (Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day) scheme, in seemingly moronic ways, to knock off their three bosses, played by Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey and Jennifer Aniston....

‘Takers’ Director To Helm ‘Leatherface 3D’? By Russ Fischer/April 20, 2011 2:30 pm EST Remember a couple years back, when Saw producers Twisted Pictures picked up the rights to make sequels to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre from Platinum Dunes? Suddenly the idea of another Dunes sequel/remake didn’t seem like such an unappealing idea. But it is taking some time for Twisted to get a film together, and we haven’t heard much about the continuation or rejuvenation of the series with the exception of a screenwriting nugget last fall....

By Russ Fischer/April 4, 2012 1:00 pm EST When Universal rebooted The Mummy as an action-movie franchise in the Indiana Jones mold, the film made a star out of Brendan Fraser and did phenomenally well overall, especially given that it opened just two weeks before Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. (Looking at the numbers I wonder how many people saw The Mummy instead when they went to the theater to see Star Wars and shows were sold out, but I know that’s how I saw the first Fraser film....

‘Thor 2’ Confirmed For Summer 2013 By Peter Sciretta/June 30, 2011 2:34 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures have finally confirmed what we’ve suspected for a while, Thor 2 will be released in Summer 2013. Thor grossed $437 million worldwide, and Marvel Studios has a public mandate to release two movies a year. In 2011 it was Thor and the upcoming Captain America: The First Avenger. In 2012 it will be the superhero team-up The Avengers with no second release yet announced (is anything planned?...

Box Office: MacGruber Bombs, Final Shrek Takes Top Slot From Iron Man By Peter Sciretta/May 22, 2010 2:22 am EST According to the early Friday box office estimates, Universal’s Saturday Night Live big screen adaptation of MacGruber bombed with only $1.6 million on Friday, headed for an estimated weekend total of $4.5 million. Not only did it lose out to the new Shrek film, but also the second weekend of Summit’s romantic drama Letters To Juliet, the second weekend of Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood and the third weekend of Iron Man 2....

Christopher Nolan Producing Supernatural Thriller For Writer/Director Keith Gordon By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2011 3:54 pm EST Briefly: A great many big-name directors, after establishing their career directing pictures, move into producing. Some do it earlier than others (Eli Roth, Timur Bekmambetov) while many don’t start lending their names and clout to other projects for many years. Christopher Nolan wasn’t known as a producer of any films other than ones he would direct until the new Superman film, Man of Steel, started to come together at Warner Bros....

Clooney And Jolie To Play Sinatra And Monroe In ‘The Life And Opinions Of Maf The Dog’? (Nope!) By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2010 10:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. So Angelina Jolie could be the third major actress to play Marilyn Monroe this year. Jolie and George Clooney are reportedly set to play Monroe and Frank Sinatra in an adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s novel The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog....

By Germain Lussier/March 28, 2012 4:00 pm EST Any artist who can graphically represent the Indiana Jones films in an interesting visual way, and also manage to completely ignore Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, is a-okay in my book. That’s why you should check out the following trilogy of posters by French graphic designer Maxime Pecourt after the jump. Thanks to Geek Art for the heads up....

Cool Stuff: ‘Mad Men’ Inspired Posters By Germain Lussier/Jan. 12, 2011 12:00 pm EST While fans of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce wait for the impending announcement of Mad Men season 5, it seems appropriate to check out a bunch of art inspired by the show. After all, the award winning AMC drama is all about advertising and perception so to see artists interpret the show in different ways is kind of meta....

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Exclusive Images And Storyboards From The Malaysian Kickboxing Film ‘Bunohan’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 12, 2011 10:00 am EST Ghosts, kickboxing, Shakespeare and sibling rivalry are all at the center of Bunohan, a Malaysian film that had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival over the weekend and have its U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest later this month. Written and directed by Dain Said, Bunohan (also called Return to Murder) is the story of how three brothers, each with a murderous profession, flee their home country and family only to find themselves back together in the titular small border town where they’re forced to deal with their pasts....

First Official Image Of Daniel Day-Lewis In Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 7, 2012 7:30 am EST Here’s what many people have been waiting to see since Steven Spielberg cast Daniel Day-Lewis in his presidential biopic Lincoln: an official shot of Lewis in costume and makeup as our sixteenth president. He looks fantastic — almost eerily like our image of the man — pictured in what could well be his seat at the Ford Theater, where John Wilkes Booth would take Lincoln’s life only minutes later....

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Gina Carano Moves From ‘Haywire’ To ‘Fast Six’ By Russ Fischer/April 23, 2012 2:00 pm EST Steven Soderbergh helped Gina Carano change careers from MMA star to actress when he and Lem Dobbs built the action film Haywire around her. In the wake of that film’s release, we’ve heard about possible next jobs for Carano, but now she’s set to join one of the biggest action franchises from any studio....

Harry Lennix Is A General In ‘Man Of Steel’ By Germain Lussier/July 8, 2011 2:30 pm EST He lead the people of Zion in The Matrix sequels and now he’ll lead the American military with Superman. Variety reports that Harry Lennix has been cast as a “high-ranking military officer named General Swanwick” in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. He’ll join an impressive cast that includes Henry Cavill as Superman, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Michael Shannon as that other General, Zod, and Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Russell Crowe and Julia Ormond’s as Superman’s Earth-bound and Kryptonian parents....