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VOTD: Neil deGrasse Tyson Takes The Mic At Comic Con To Laud USS Enterprise By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2012 10:00 am EST It’s easy to focus on all the aspects of the San Diego Comic Con that are frustrating or foolish, but every year there are moments that make it worthwhile. One of those at this past SDCC took place during the Starship Smackdown panel, when physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson took the mic, as an audience member, to argue that the original U....

VOTD: The Summer 2010 Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2010 12:00 pm EST From ScreenRant’s Mike Eisenberg comes this well-edited epic movie trailer mash-up presenting a two and a half minute movie trailer for the 2010 summer movie season. Watch it now after the jump. VOTD: The Summer 2010 Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2010 12:00 pm EST From ScreenRant’s Mike Eisenberg comes this well-edited epic movie trailer mash-up presenting a two and a half minute movie trailer for the 2010 summer movie season....

Warner Bros.’ Batman And Superman Films Will Not Cross Over By Russ Fischer/Jan. 5, 2011 2:00 pm EST Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises is edging toward production, and just after that Zack Snyder’s new Superman will be going before cameras. There are a great many lingering questions about both films, and it will be some time before we have definitive answers to most of them. But Charles Roven, a producer on both films, has dropped a few tidbits of info, not the least being that there will be no Marvel-style crossover between the two movies....

By Russ Fischer/Nov. 22, 2011 9:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. What a treasure we have in Errol Morris. This year he already gave us Tabloid, a tremendously entertaining documentary that presents a wild, lurid story and uses it to sift for, if not factual truth, at least the perception of truth from a specific perspective. Truth and perspective have been two of the driving forces for Morris’ entire career as a documentarian, with both explored in detail through essays the filmmaker writes on a semi-regular basis for the New York Times....

Watch The First Episodes Of Fox’s ‘The Mindy Project’ And ‘Ben & Kate’ Online Now By Angie Han/Aug. 28, 2012 12:20 pm EST Fox’s strategy of debuting freshman comedy New Girl online two weeks early paid off beautifully last fall, so it makes sense that they’d take a similar approach to this year’s crop of new shows. The first episodes of The Mindy Project and Ben & Kate have both hit the web this week, nearly a month in advance of their September 25 on-air premieres....

Will A Successful ‘Logan’s Run’ Let Nicolas Winding Refn Direct ‘Wonder Woman’? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2011 1:23 pm EST Briefly: It was a little over a year ago that we heard that Drive and Bronson director Nicolas Winding Refn would like to make a film featuring the long-running DC Comics character Wonder Woman. He has talked about the project here and there, saying that he thinks Drive co-star Christina Hendricks would make a perfect Wonder Woman....

‘Beneath The Darkness’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2011 5:00 pm EST Dennis Quaid has occasionally played less than squeaky clean characters (like Arlis in Flesh and Bone) but he isn’t known as an actor who regularly jumps back and forth between playing heroes and villains. He’s got too much of a square-jawed appeal and a winning smile for that. But everyone has to change things up once in a while, so here’s Beneath the Darkness, in which Dennis Quaid plays a small-town mortician who is also a murderer....

‘Circumstance’ – Beautiful Iranian Lesbians Fight Against Oppressive Nation [Sundance Review] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 29, 2011 3:00 pm EST UPDATE: Circumstance just won the US Dramatic Audience Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Though it’ll probably never play in the country in which it’s set, attendees at the Sundance Film Festival were lucky enough to see Maryam Keshavarz’s debut feature Circumstance. Hopefully soon, you will too. Set in modern day Tehran, Iran, this beautiful film focuses on two attractive high school girls named Shireen and Atafeh, played by Sarah Kazemy and Nikohl Boosheri, both making their acting debuts....

/Film Video Blog: Disney’s Hand-Drawn/CG Animated Short Film ‘Paperman’ By Germain Lussier/July 31, 2012 5:00 pm EST Disney Animation Studios latest short film, Paperman, has been generating a ton of buzz since screenings began earlier this summer. Directed by John Kahrs, the film uniquely blends hand-drawn and computer generated animation to create a strikingly beautiful vision of mid-century New York City. There, “a young man relies on his heart, imagination, a stack of papers—and a little luck—to win the girl of his dreams....

‘Spy Kids 4’ Is Bringing Back Smell-O-Vision By Russ Fischer/June 24, 2011 10:07 am EST We saw the poster and trailer for Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, which prominently advertize that the film is in 4D. You might have wondered what the fourth dimension promised by Robert Rodriguez would be, or you may have guessed that the movie was going all the way into the land of gimmick, rather than just messing around on the borders....

‘The Hobbit’ Will Start Filming This March By Adam Quigley/Feb. 7, 2011 9:30 am EST Among the issues that have plagued development of The Hobbit in recent memory: financing troubles due to studio bankruptcy; a major directorial change after years of delays; actors boycotting the production; a thankfully avoided location change from New Zealand; the firey destruction of one of Peter Jackson’s workshops; and most recently, a perforated ulcer that cost the director a trip to the hospital and the film its February start date....

Cameron Diaz And Benicio Del Toro Team Up For ‘Agent: Century 21’ By Germain Lussier/May 10, 2012 2:30 pm EST With the Cannes Film Festival only a few days away, get ready to hear about film packages that are up for grabs at the festival. Filmmakers come to the festival with some actors, a script and try and get money to make a movie. Many don’t happen, many do, and here’s an example of one that will likely see the light of day....

Casting Bits: Steve Carrell In ‘Great Hope Springs;’ Eddie Redmayne In ‘Hick;’ 50 Cent In ‘Freelancers’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 18, 2011 5:30 pm EST Meryl Streep is making another movie with her The Devil Wears Prada director David Frankel: Great Hope Springs, in which a couple enlists a therapist to save their fading 31-year marriage. Meryl Streep is one half of the couple, with the actors playing her husband yet to be announced....

Christopher Meloni Offers Slightly More Information On His ‘Man Of Steel’ Role By Angie Han/June 27, 2011 9:00 am EST When it was announced last week that Christopher Meloni, formerly of Law & Order: SVU and Wet Hot American Summer, had signed on for the cast of Zack Snyder’s Superman flick Man of Steel, Russ couldn’t help speculating what this might mean for the movie — and wondering whether Meloni might be filling the role of Daily Planet editor Perry White....

Columbia Drops Garth Ennis Comic Adaptation ‘The Boys;’ YA Adaptation ‘Mortal Instuments’ Also Cut Loose By Russ Fischer/Feb. 13, 2012 9:00 am EST The Boys are in the orphanage. Columbia has been developing an adaptation of the Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson comic series for the past few years, but things have changed. The project has been put into turnaround, so another studio has a chance to step in and pick it up....

Danny Boyle Says He Will Direct The Next ‘28 Days Later’ Sequel? By Adam Quigley/Oct. 11, 2010 3:30 pm EST As hopeful as many of us were that Boyle would return, the odds of it actually happening appeared rather slim. Even while he was discussing potentially directing the film, there were simultaneous discussions of it being handed off to another director (as was done with the second film). If this latest update is to be believed though, Boyle is no longer considering directing the film; he is directing it....

Ed Helms In Talks For ‘Vacation’ After All By Angie Han/July 12, 2012 9:00 am EST A few months back, we got word that Ed Helms was being eyed for John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s Vacation reboot/sequel. But Helms shot down the casting soon afterward, saying that he’d heard “nothing” about it and that he had “no idea” where the press had gotten that impression. Now, however, it’s looking like we were on the right track the first time....

By Russ Fischer/Aug. 3, 2010 11:42 am EST A few weeks ago I got news of a pretty cool little project: as part of the promotional efforts for Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Universal approached [adult swim] about making something related to the film. The idea concocted by the folks at the network was to animate a piece of one of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novels that didn’t end up in Edgar Wright’s movie....

Exclusive Behind The Scenes Photos From Gareth Edwards’ ‘Monsters’ By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 25, 2010 8:00 am EST Magnolia Pictures/Magnet have presented us with an exclusive first look at four behind the scenes photos from Gareth Edwards’ low budget monster movie Monsters. Since screening the film at Cannes, we’ve been hyping the movie (read my mini review here). We called it Lost in Translation in a world infested by monsters. Check the photos out now after the jump....

By Russ Fischer/Dec. 8, 2010 11:00 am EST The image comes from Megan Fox’s own Facebook page, which is also the source of a couple behind the scenes images that are after the break.