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Infographic: Jason Voorhees’ Body Count In All The ‘Friday The 13th’ Movies By Germain Lussier/Aug. 9, 2011 6:00 am EST If you really think about it, Jason Voorhees was incredibly creative. An artist of death. Though everyone always thought the little deformed boy who drowned in the lake had some sort of mental deficiency, if you look at his impressive body (or should I say “bodies”) of work, he truly had some evil genius in him....

J.K. Rowling Launches Mysterious ‘Pottermore’ Website By Angie Han/June 16, 2011 5:30 pm EST Though the book series has long since ended, and there’s only one month to go until the eight-part film series closes as well, fans who have been mourning the end of the Harry Potter franchise can perk up again. A mysterious new website called Pottermore.com suggests that we may be getting, yes, more Potter sometime in the future — though in what capacity we’ll be getting more Potter is not yet quite clear....

Javier Bardem To Voice Villain In ‘Despicable Me 2’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 6, 2011 11:00 am EST An Oscar-winner known for calling people “Friend-O” could soon be playing an animated character name “El Macho.” Javier Bardem, best known for his villainous turn in the Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men is in negotiations to voice the bad guy in Despicable Me 2, the 3D animated sequel to the 2010 hit starring Steve Carell....

JJ Abrams’s Super 8 Is NOT A Cloverfield Prequel Or Sequel By Peter Sciretta/May 5, 2010 2:38 pm EST Over the past couple days, we’ve been tracking a report about a super secret teaser trailer which has been digitally locked, shipped, and will play before Iron Man 2. Initially, HitFix broke the story that the project was a JJ Abrams project titled Super 8, and that it is rumored to be a Cloverfield sequel....

LOL: An 8 Year Old Explains The Expendables By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2010 2:00 pm EST College Humor hired an 8-year-old to explain what happens in the movie trailer for The Expendables. Watch the video now embedded after the jump. LOL: An 8 Year Old Explains The Expendables By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2010 2:00 pm EST College Humor hired an 8-year-old to explain what happens in the movie trailer for The Expendables....

Movie Trailer: ‘TRON: Legacy – Low Rez’ In 3D By Germain Lussier/Dec. 4, 2010 10:00 am EST Because you demanded it, because we haven’t posted about it enough, and because you know you’re excited, it’s time for another TRON: Legacy post! This post, however, isn’t as serious as Dave’s editorial on the potential box office failure, or as expensive as my write up on real life light cycles. No, this is just a group of massive TRON fans from Gamervision who’ve watched Be Kind Rewind one too many times and decided to make their own version of the TRON: Legacy trailer....

Peter Jackson Not Quite Confirmed For The Hobbit By Russ Fischer/June 28, 2010 12:18 pm EST The news that Peter Jackson is negotiating to direct the two halves of The Hobbit hit the internet Friday afternoon, not quite as a bomb, because many had expected it, but with resounding effect nonetheless. Still, it seemed a strange thing, given that the problems that forced Guillermo del Toro to leave the film — notably a very uncertain schedule thanks to MGM’s financial state — haven’t been resolved....

Peter Stormare Cast In ‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 24, 2011 12:04 pm EST The cast for Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, to be directed by Dead Snow helmer Tommy Wirkola, is looking pretty damn good. Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton play the title roles, while Famke Janssen is their spell-casting adversary. Now the film has added Peter Stormare, who can be so much fun as a scene-chewing villain, to the bad guy roster....

POTD: Kagan McLeod’s The Ghosts Of Sitcoms Past By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2011 3:30 pm EST Kagan McLeod created this illustration featuring the mant actors and actresses from the past years of multi-camera sitcom history. How many of the 50 characters do you reccognize? Answer key on the National Post. POTD: Kagan McLeod’s The Ghosts Of Sitcoms Past By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2011 3:30 pm EST Kagan McLeod created this illustration featuring the mant actors and actresses from the past years of multi-camera sitcom history....

Release Dates: ‘Argo’ Moves From September To October, Bumping ‘Gangster Squad’ Off Warner Bros.’ Schedule By Angie Han/April 10, 2012 1:30 pm EST Apparently, everyone in Hollywood returned from this past weekend with the burning desire to shift around their release date calendars. Following Monday’s scheduling shuffle for Summit’s Ender’s Game and Paramount’s The Dictator, Warner Bros. has just decided to push back its Ben Affleck thriller Argo by a few weeks — which wouldn’t really be a big deal, except that Argo’s new date bumps Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad off the calendar altogether....

Samuel L. Jackson Cast In ‘The Samaritan’ By Russ Fischer/March 18, 2011 4:00 am EST Samuel L. Jackson will soon be suiting up as Nick Fury for The Avengers, but while Joss Whedon gets that film into gear, the actor will star in The Samaritan. The film, called a neo-noir thriller, and once listed under the title Lie Down With Darkness, is about a grifter who has spent the past two decades in prison and wants to escape his past....

Sequel Bits: ‘Avatar 2,’ ‘The Hangover Part III,’ ‘Super Troopers 2,’ ‘Potfest,’ ‘Insidious 2’ By Germain Lussier/July 30, 2012 3:00 pm EST Todd Phillips’s third, and final Hangover film – The Hangover Part III – is scheduled for release May 24, 2013 and production is about to begin. The Wolfpack is all back – Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms- and Ken Jeong, Mike Epps, Mike Tyson, Justin Bartha and others are all expected to reprise their roles....

Seth Rogen Unsure If He’ll Appear In Judd Apatow’s ‘Knocked Up’ Spin-Off By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 12, 2011 4:00 pm EST Last week it was revealed that Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann would be reprising roles as husband and wife from Apatow’s 2007 hit Knocked Up in Judd Apatow’s currently untitled comedy set for release June 1, 2012. There was some confusion about if the movie was a prequel or sequel, and Apatow was quick to clarify that the film would be a stand-alone spin-off (much like the Apatow-produced Get Him To The Greek was a spin-off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall)....

Stanley Tucci And Bill Nighy Cast In Bryan Singer’s ‘Jack The Giant Killer’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2011 12:30 pm EST According to TheWrap, Tucci will play Roderick, the villain of the story and an adviser to the king who has plans of taking over Cloister and Nighy will play one half of Fallon, the two headed leader of the giants. Fallon’s other half will be played by John Kassir....

The Weinstein Company Plans Nighttime, Off-Site Comic Con Exhibition For Piranha 3D By Russ Fischer/July 19, 2010 3:00 am EST Last week, The Weinstein Company pulled a planned panel for Piranha 3D out of Hall H, because the Comic Con powers that be decided the footage TWC planned to show didn’t fit the event’s family-friendly guidelines. But man-eating fish aren’t to be held back, so there’s a new event scheduled to show off the film, which will take place Thursday night away from the convention center....

Vera Farmiga To Star In Indie Western ‘A Thousand Guns’ By Russ Fischer/April 15, 2010 11:52 am EST Nothing makes me happy in quite the same was as seeing a small, odd western come together with a top-notch cast. I’ve got new hope for a film called A Thousand Guns, based in part on the fact that Vera Farmiga has just signed on. The film, which is about “a preacher’s wife and her journey of revenge,” has a few fun-sounding elements, like a demon gun called El Rojo and a band of seemingly ninja-like assassins....

By Angie Han/June 6, 2011 2:00 pm EST With E3 almost upon us, we’re getting lots of info about new video games — not that we’re complaining. After the jump, we’ve got good news for everyone from time travelers to Trekkies (or Trekkers, if you prefer) to Jedi. The whole GT.TV episode that delivers the info is 21 minutes long, so feel free to skip ahead to the 5:00 mark for the relevant portion....

Woody Allen’s Latest Gets New Title And Release Date By Germain Lussier/March 19, 2012 1:30 pm EST Following up his most financially successful film to date, recent Oscar-winner Woody Allen has his next film all but ready to go. It was going to be called Nero Fiddled but distributor Sony Pictures Classics announced the title has changed to To Rome With Love and it’ll be released June 22. Read much more after the jump....

WTF: Will.i.am Says James Cameron Is Directing 3D Black Eyed Peas Concert Film By Russ Fischer/July 2, 2010 7:10 am EST UPDATE: The son of Cameron producer Jon Landau told CHUD this story is false. Which is both relieving and, in a way, sort of a shame. Original article follows. Is it April first? Because I can’t figure out any other reason that will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas would be claiming that James Cameron is directing a concert film for the plastic pop band....

‘Battle Royale’ May Come To The US In 3D After All By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2010 7:00 am EST Back in May we heard that Toei was converting Battle Royale to 3D. That seemed like a bad idea, but it was more a curiosity than anything else. After all, the film was never given distribution in the States when originally released so there was no reason to think this 3D version would make it across the sea, either....