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‘The Devil’s Carnival’ Teaser Trailer: ‘Repo! The Genetic Opera’ Creators Return By Russ Fischer/Feb. 21, 2012 10:00 am EST Darren Lynn Bousman, who co-wrote and directed the midnight cult fave Repo! The Genetic Opera, has created a follow-up musical called The Devil’s Carnival. The 55-minute film features some returning Repo! players such as Paul Sorvino, Alexa Vega, Bill Moseley, and Ogre of Skinny Puppy. It also has some new faces such as Jessica Lowndes, Sean Patrick Flannery, Briana Evigan, Ivan Moody, Marc Senter and Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan from Slipknot....

‘The Lorax’ Full Trailer: Where’s The Seuss? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 6, 2011 11:00 am EST The first teaser we saw for The Lorax, which comes from Despicable Me animation studio Illumination Entertainment, focused a lot more on the new stuff that has been written for the film than it did the classic Dr. Seuss book upon which the film is based. An Australian trailer showed just a bit more of the classic material, and now there is a full US theatrical trailer for the movie....

‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ International Teaser - Which Of Britain’s Finest Modern Actors Is Secretly A Soviet Mole? By Angie Han/June 30, 2011 4:15 am EST I’ve been looking forward to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy since I first heard that Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson had been tapped to direct from Peter Morgan’s (The Queen, Frost/Nixon) script. My excitement has only increased with each new casting announcement — Gary Oldman!...

Ben Affleck To Star In Political Comedy ‘Nathan Decker’ By Russ Fischer/March 29, 2012 12:30 pm EST I really respect the way Ben Affleck turned his career around. The actor had a pretty bad few years a while back thanks to his over-publicized relationship with Jennifer Lopez and a handful of big films that were not the best fit for his personality. Then he proved his directorial skill with Gone Baby Gone, and remade himself as a viable leading man in The Town....

Bryan Fuller’s ‘The Munsters’ Will Be A Cross Between ‘True Blood’ And ‘Modern Family’ By Angie Han/Dec. 5, 2011 11:00 am EST We’ve been following Bryan Fuller’s reimagining of The Munsters for NBC with a mixture of curiosity and trepidation ever since it was first announced over a year ago. On the one hand, another reboot of the beloved ’60s series seems totally unnecessary, and there’s always the fear that the new version won’t do the old one justice....

Clint Mansell To Score Park Chan-Wook’s Vampire Film ‘Stoker’ By Germain Lussier/June 5, 2012 10:30 am EST When you’ve got the director of Oldboy making an intimate vampire film, you know the score will be as important as the lead actors. In the case of Park Chan-wook’s English-language debut, Stoker, that certainly seems to be the case. He’s recruited Clint Mansell to score the film, which stars Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman and Alice in Wonderland herself, Mia Waskiowska, in the story of a girl and her mother who, after the death of the father, reunite with his mysterious brother, who is rumored to be a vampire....

By Germain Lussier/Oct. 22, 2010 2:00 pm EST Mondo Tees and the Alamo Drafthouse, who have been making limited edition movie posters together for several years, now have some rising and welcome competition in the custom movie poster game. Tommy Good and the Astor Theater, an Melbourne, Australia based theater, have already produced beautiful posters for their screenings of Predator, Die Hard and Blade Runner and now they’ve got two brand new ones....

Cool Stuff: Acapulco Gold’s ‘Phoebe Shirt’ By Hunter Stephenson/June 16, 2010 3:00 pm EST Before you ditch that crummy summer job and toss your cheesy pirate uniform and fish sticks out the window, borrow some $10s from the register and treat yourself to something nice. Like, say, this new tee from NYC’s Acapulco Gold, which salutes talented actress Phoebe Cates and the wet-hottest moment in ’80s teen cinema. Printed on 100% cotton and made in the USA, part of us—guess the part—wishes the print ran a second longer....

Cool Stuff: Gallery 1988 Comic-Con Exclusives Feature ‘The Last Starfighter, ‘Alien’ & ‘Breaking Bad’ By Germain Lussier/July 9, 2012 3:30 pm EST When it comes to San Diego Comic-Con exclusives, everyone has their poison. Maybe you’re looking for the Mattel and Hasbro toys. Maybe it’s limited edition comic books, or freebies. It’s no secret I’ll be looking for posters and while we have yet to hear what Mondo has in store (though it’s probably going to be huge and you’ll be able to read all about it here very soon) we saw some very cool Con exclusive posters based on TV shows....

Cool Stuff: Tim Doyle’s ‘Clerks’ Poster By Germain Lussier/Aug. 4, 2011 3:00 pm EST Tim Doyle has done some phenomenal posters based on the works of Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick and many, many others. But I think his latest poster, based on the first film by Kevin Smith, could be his best yet. Doyle has been commissioned by Austin Books and Comics (in Austin, Texas obviously) to create a poster for an upcoming screening of Clerks, Smith’s hilarious, influential 1994 film....

Damon Lindelof Starts Writing Star Trek Sequel By Peter Sciretta/June 30, 2010 5:00 am EST The above tweet was filed by Damon Lindelof on Tuesday. Returning from his well deserved post-Lost vacation, Lindelof is ready to get to work full time on scripting the Star Trek sequel with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. We are now exactly two years away from the announced release date of June 29th, 2012. The screenwriting team told TrekMovie last week at the Saturn Awards that they have a story and that “the next phase is to get together and try to destroy it....

David Fincher Says ‘20,000 Leagues Under The Sea’ Likely To Be 70% CG By Russ Fischer/Aug. 11, 2011 8:00 pm EST David Fincher is a forward-thinking kind of guy. In the ’90s, when digital effects were still relatively young, he put CGI to work in Alien 3, and heavily used digital images to journey through the brain (and the apartment) of Tyler Durden in Fight Club. He has embraced digital cinematography and the various benefits it provides, and employed such extensive CGI work on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button that the skinny version of young Steve Rogers in Captain America is referred to by many as the Ben Button version of Chris Evans....

Despite Bob Hoskins’ Retirement, The ‘Roger Rabbit’ Sequel Is Still Possible By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2012 5:20 pm EST After years of working in the (self-imposed) motion-capture gulag, Robert Zemeckis returns to live-action with Flight. He’s got other live-action work lined up, but one of his next projects may go back to his classic blend of live-action and animation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. A Roger Rabbit sequel has been talked up for years and years, but seemed to have a big roadblock thrown in front of it over this past summer when Bob Hoskins, the lead of the original movie, retired from acting....

Details Revealed About Spike Jonze/Arcade Fire Collaboration ‘Scenes From The Suburbs’ By Angie Han/Feb. 15, 2011 6:00 am EST It’s a good week for Arcade Fire: Not only did they win the Grammy for Album of the Year last night, their Spike Jonze collaboration Scenes From the Suburbs will be premiering at the Berlin Film Festival on Wednesday. We reported last year that Scenes would be a “science-fiction B-movie” about “friends growing apart....

Disney Plans Movie Based On Scrapped Theme Park Attraction ‘The Museum Of The Weird’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 17, 2010 2:00 pm EST Eventually, there will be no Disney theme park attraction, real or imagined, that doesn’t hit a movie screen. Pirates of the Caribbean was only the beginning. Guillermo del Toro has a deal to make a Haunted Mansion film (a new one, that is, but not a sequel) and Jon Favreau will direct the Night at the Museum-like Magic Kingdom....

Edward Zwick To Direct ‘The Great Wall’ For Legendary East By Germain Lussier/Aug. 23, 2011 5:30 pm EST Earlier this week Legendary Pictures, producers of the The Dark Knight and The Hangover among others, announced they’d gotten a large investment from a Hong Kong investor to move forward with Legendary East, a new company that would make its own movies. Mere days later, Legendary East already has its first project. It’s called The Great Wall and it’ll be directed by Edward Zwick (Glory, The Last Samurai)....

Exclusive Illustrations From ‘Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 31, 2011 12:00 pm EST Several of these illustrations, but not all, were used in the final film. They give you a good idea of the kind of creepy, Gothic spin Helander’s film puts on the Christmas holiday. If this is all confusing to you, here’s some more info. Peter liked the movie a lot when it played Fantastic Fest 2010 and said the following:...

First Look: Ang Lee’s ‘Life Of Pi’ By Angie Han/April 25, 2012 10:00 am EST Life of Pi has taken its good sweet time journeying from the bookshelf to the box office. First published in 2001, Yann Martel’s novel passed through the hands of M. Night Shyamalan, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet before ultimately ending up with Ang Lee in 2009. A tricky adaptation process and budgetary woes helped keep the film in development hell a few years longer, but Lee struggled through and at long last, we finally have our first little peek at the new movie....

First Look: Will Smith And Josh Brolin In ‘Men In Black 3’ By Germain Lussier/April 12, 2011 1:30 pm EST Despite some of the most insane behind the scenes drama in recent memory, Men in Black 3 remains on schedule. Tales of shooting with only a fraction of the script and massive rewrites might have scared fans of the series – which stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as secret agents sworn to protect Earth from aliens – but this first look at the film could bring back some confidence....

Here’s One Shot Of Tom Cruise As ‘Jack Reacher’ By Russ Fischer/June 27, 2012 12:00 pm EST Below is a new look at Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, the title character of Christopher McQuarrie’s upcoming Paramount film. It’s an old trick to say that Cruise just looks like Cruise here, because of course he does — that’s the whole point of hiring someone at his level of fame, especially to anchor an action thriller....