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This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: The Road, True Blood (Season 2), Mystery Team, And More By Adam Quigley/May 25, 2010 12:51 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic subgenre has been worn out. Between recent outings such as The Book of Eli, 2012, Daybreakers, Doomsday, and The Happening, it’s becoming apparent that there’s really not a whole lot else that can be done with it, and at this point they’re just recycling clichés (e....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Unstoppable, Waiting For “Superman”, Kites, And More By Adam Quigley/Feb. 15, 2011 7:07 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The impassioned, well-meaning Waiting for “Superman” prods at an important and disconcerting issue: the failure of the American school system. But that’s all it really does. It prods and points fingers, blaming unions and funding conflicts, all the while tossing out animated statistics to highlight how severe the problem is....

Toy Fair Images Have Revealed ‘The Avengers’ Villains By Germain Lussier/Feb. 11, 2012 12:03 am EST In spoiler hunting, two things rarely lie: domain registration and upcoming toys. The domains come first and can reveal anything from the existence of a project to a rumored title. Toys, on the other hand, are less visible, more easily kept under wraps. They’re made by private companies that put them into development way in advance of a film’s release because they need to be mass produced....

UK One-Sheet Debuts For ‘Let Me In’ But Will Distributor Trouble Stall The Film In The US? By Russ Fischer/July 5, 2010 11:43 am EST Last week we saw the first international trailer for Let Me In, the American remake of Let the Right One In. Now there’s a UK poster that sports a minimal, bloody design. But the US distributor of the film is in trouble, and after the heads of the company resigned last week, will we have to wait some time for the marketing push to begin in the States?...

Val Kilmer Reuniting With ‘Real Genius’ Co-Star Jon Gries For ‘Deep In The Heart’ By Adam Quigley/Feb. 1, 2011 8:00 am EST Weight gain and squandered A-list cred be damned, I’ve never liked Val Kilmer more than I have over the past ten or so years, and it’s images like the one above that demonstrate why. After terrific turns in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Salton Sea, Spartan and — yes, I’m serious — MacGruber, the ex-Hollywood hunk is now returning to his ’80s roots by teaming up with Real Genius pal Jon Gries (best known as Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite)....

Warner Bros. Revives ‘Arthur & Lancelot,’ Colin Farrell In Talks By Russ Fischer/March 14, 2012 10:30 am EST It seems like just yesterday that Warner Bros. had deemed David Dobkin’s Arthur & Lancelot too expensive to live. (In fact it was January.) The film, meant to be a big action-oriented take on the Arthurian legend, was taken off the studio’s production schedule after budget concerns arose and attached actors Kit Harington and Joel Kinnaman were freed to do other projects....

Watch Riley Stearns’ ‘Magnificat’, Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead And Stephen Tobolowsky By Angie Han/Feb. 9, 2012 10:30 am EST Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s 2012 is definitely off to a good start. Her starring turn in the indie drama Smashed earned high praise at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and she’s got A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter on her upcoming slate. But Vampire Hunter’s not due out til summer and Smashed and Charles Swan have yet to even announce release dates, so it may be a while before most of us actually get to see her on the big screen....

What Can We Learn From The Official Synopsis For ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’? By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2012 3:00 pm EST Sony is rebooting Spider-Man’s screen image, and director Marc Webb has shot The Amazing Spider-Man with Andrew Garfield playing Peter Parker, Emma Stone playing Gwen Stacy, and Rhys Ifans playing Dr. Curt Connors, the man who becomes the Lizard. We know the basics of the story — Spider-Man’s beginnings are among the most oft-told comic book stories — but Sony has proclaimed that The Amazing Spider-Man will feature the untold story of Peter Parker’s early years....

What Is Michelle Rodriguez’s Citizen Jane? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2010 12:00 pm EST Did you know that Michelle Rodriguez (Avatar, Fast and the Furious) is starring in an action remake of Orson Welles 1941 classic Citizen Kane titled Citizen Jane? Me neither. The first mention of the project was in a press release issued earlier this month for Rodriguez’s appearance at Fantastic Fest, a boxing fight with Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League....

Woody Harrelson Raises Doubts About ‘Zombieland 2’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 16, 2011 12:30 pm EST According to one of the original film’s stars, Zombieland 2 seems further away than we initially thought. We’d been reporting that the film was searching for new cameos, the script was drafted and more, all of which lead us to assume the film was smoothly moving through the pipeline. However, in an interview with Total Film, Woody Harrelson, who played the sweet but violent, Twinkie-lovin’ character Tallahassee in the 2009 hit, expressed some doubts that making a sequel would be the right thing to do....

‘Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey’ Trailer By Angie Han/Sept. 23, 2011 3:00 pm EST Constance Marks’ documentary chronicles the story of Kevin Clash, the man who makes Elmo ‘Elmo,’ from his days as an ambitious working-class kid in Baltimore to his current career as the artist behind one of the most popular puppets of all time. Woven throughout Clash’s narrative is a related, equally fascinating thread — the rise of master puppeteer Jim Henson and his Muppets....

By Germain Lussier/Sept. 28, 2011 6:00 am EST Buying a ticket to see a film called Extraterrestrial brings with it a lofty set of expectations. You expect sci-fi, you expect action and most of all you expect to see aliens. Nacho Vigalondo’s second feature film says screw that. His Extraterrestrial has an alien invasion in it but it’s there only to put a new spin on the romantic comedy, a spin only the man behind Timecrimes could create....

‘Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance’ Trailer: Same Action, More Story By Russ Fischer/Dec. 15, 2011 10:30 am EST The recent BNAT screening of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, from Crank directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, turned out to be a giant miscalculation. The audience that you’d assume was most likely to be receptive to the Ghost Rider sequel ended up hating it, and now Columbia has wave of bad buzz to overcome....

‘John Carter’ Clip Shows Taylor Kitsch And A Martian With Willem Dafoe’s Voice Battling A White Ape By Angie Han/Feb. 24, 2012 3:30 pm EST We’ve seen what seems like a fair amount of footage from John Carter already, between its various teasers, trailers and TV spots, but today we’ve got a somewhat longer two-and-a-half minute clip to show you — plus another two minutes from a new sizzle reel. The scene sees the titular hero (Taylor Kitsch) and Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) battling white apes in a huge arena, while the reel that includes some new bits we haven’t seen yet....

‘Napoleon Dynamite’ Helmer Jared Hess To Direct Disney’s ‘The Pet’ By Angie Han/March 1, 2012 10:00 am EST Producer Scott Rudin is finally getting the ball rolling on his long-gestating family comedy The Pet, and he’s picked Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess to help out by taking over at the helm. Originally pitched by Matt Lieberman, the screenwriter behind Dimension Films’ remake of Short Circuit, The Pet revolves around a man who’s kidnapped by aliens....

‘Paranormal Activity’ Producer Jason Blum Now Making Haunted Houses By Angie Han/Sept. 6, 2012 2:58 pm EST After making a career out of haunted house movies — most notably the Paranormal Activity series — producer Jason Blum is moving on to actual haunted houses. Blum has announced plans for The Blumhouse of Horrors, a Halloween attraction in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Blum’s production company is currently at work turning the historic Variety Arts Theater into the rundown vaudeville venue with some deep, dark secrets....

‘Rambo: Last Stand’ Is Scripted; May Resemble ‘Unforgiven’ In Tone By Russ Fischer/Aug. 19, 2011 2:25 pm EST Right after the release of Rambo, the fourth film to feature Sylvester Stallone’s iconic Vietnam War veteran character, it seemed like a fifth film was a foregone conclusion. Last year, however, the writer/actor/director reversed his position, saying ““I think Rambo’s pretty well done. I don’t think there’ll be any more.” It seems like he was concerned about appearances more than the lack of a compelling story....

‘Take This Waltz’ Clips: Seth Rogen And Michelle Williams Wrestle With Infidelity In Sarah Polley’s Second Directorial Effort By Angie Han/Aug. 8, 2011 12:00 pm EST Multi-hyphenate Sarah Polley first gained attention as a director at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival, where she premiered her first feature, Away From Her. Subtle and bittersweet, the film demonstrated an assuredness not often seen in such young, relatively inexperienced filmmakers, and Polley was rewarded with several nods and wins when awards season came....

‘Terra Nova’ Premiere Date Announced, More Photos Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 11, 2011 1:30 pm EST Jason O’Mara (Life on Mars) will headline the series. The series will follow a family who live 100 years from now on future Earth, who are flung back in time 150 million years to the prehistoric age, when Earth was ruled by dinosaurs. Terra Nova was written by Craig Silverstein and Kelly Marcel, based on Marcel’s story idea....

‘The Avengers’ Talk/Tease Newly Filmed Bonus Scene By Germain Lussier/April 16, 2012 10:01 am EST The news that Joss Whedon and his Avengers cast were shooting one more scene last week, following the film’s premiere, was pure speculation porn. We all started to imagine what Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans could possibly be filming, especially after having seen the movie complete with a credits tease already intact....