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‘The Cabin In The Woods’ Trailer: What Is Really Going On In This Hidden Cabin? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 5, 2011 11:30 am EST For a few years now, there has been no small amount of mystery surrounding The Cabin in the Woods, the horror film directed by Cloverfield screenwriter Drew Goddard and co-written by Goddard and Joss Whedon. At one point you could find a great deal of praise about the script, without much specific mention of exactly what makes the story tick, and what (if anything) makes the movie different....

‘The Loved Ones’ Trailer - Three Years Later, Festival Favorite Aussie Horror Finally Prepares For Stateside Release By Angie Han/May 2, 2012 2:30 pm EST Sean Byrne’s Aussie horror The Loved Ones first attracted attention back in 2009, when it nabbed the Midnight Madness Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival, and continued to garner good buzz on the festival circuit through 2010… and then 2011. Now it’s 2012, and though it seems like festivalgoers have nothing but nice things to say about this bloody prom flick, The Loved Ones still hasn’t gotten a proper U....

‘Titanic’ Shifted To Midweek Release Date, Eddie Murphy’s ‘A Thousand Words’ Moved Yet Again By Angie Han/Feb. 8, 2012 7:00 am EST Briefly: As McG’s This Means War quietly slinks back from its Valentine’s Day debut to its original Friday opening, another, far more acclaimed romance is boldly shifting up a few days to a midweek opening. Paramount has moved the 3D release of James Cameron’s Titanic up from Friday, April 6 to Wednesday, April 4, giving it a headstart on the Easter weekend box office....

Bobcat Goldthwait’s ‘God Bless America’ Takes Aim At Entitled Rich Kids… And Probably Everyone Else By Russ Fischer/March 14, 2011 5:00 pm EST If Bobcat Goldthwait made more movies, he might be a real cinematic treasure. Simply on the strength of Shakes the Clown and World’s Greatest Dad — especially the latter — he can claim one of the darker corners of American comedy as his own. World’s Greatest Dad is that very rare thing: a seriously funny comedy with great characters that is also one of the darkest, ugliest portraits of human nature I’ve ever seen....

Disney Hires Screenwriter For ‘The Hill,’ A Film Based On The Matterhorn Ride By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2011 6:00 am EST With the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film having earned just shy of a billion dollars worldwide (a number that is vaguely horrifying, given the quality of the film) Disney understands the power of a succesful brand. So the company isn’t just developing a new Haunted Mansion movie with Guillermo del Toro and a Magic Kingdom film with Michael Chabon and Jon Favreau....

Double Dose Of Greedo: High Heels Photo And Mondo Tees Poster By Germain Lussier/Nov. 30, 2010 1:00 pm EST Apparently, late November means it’s all about Greedo. The Rodian bounty hunter who hung out with Anakin Skywalker on Tatooine as a kid and famously got blown away by Han Solo in Mos Eisely (or maybe shot first, depending on your age) has become something of a meme in recent days. First, there’s an on set photo making the rounds that shows the green bounty hunter wearing high heels on the set of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope alongside director George Lucas, plus he’s also the main subject of the latest Mondo Tees Star Wars poster which is slyly called Han Shot First....

First Viral Teaser Released For M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘After Earth’ By Germain Lussier/July 16, 2012 9:30 am EST Neither M. Night Shyamalan, Will Smith or Jaden Smith showed up at San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend, but their new movie did. After Earth had a subdued, small panel Saturday morning featuring screenwriter Gary Whitta (Book of Eli) and director of photography Peter Suschitzky (The Empire Strikes Back) talking about the world in which the 2013 sci-fi action film is set....

Francis Lawrence Offered ‘Hunger Games’ Sequel ‘Catching Fire’ By Angie Han/April 19, 2012 6:41 pm EST After narrowing down the field to two possible contenders earlier this week, Lionsgate has finally settled on a new director to replace Gary Ross for its Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire. Francis Lawrence has just received the offer to helm the sequel, beating out fellow finalist Bennett Miller (Moneyball). Though Lawrence and Lionsgate have yet to finalize the deal, considering how quickly the studio is moving on this project, we can probably expect them to do so soon....

Geek Deal: ‘Deadwood: The Complete Series’ For Only $60 On DVD Or $84 On Blu-Ray By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 8, 2011 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Here’s Leatherface In ‘Texas Chainsaw 3D’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 5, 2012 12:17 pm EST When we last saw Leatherface at the end of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, he was doing a dance of frustration, spinning like a dervish flailing his chainsaw, as the Final Girl Marilyn Burns escaped in the back of a stranger’s pickup truck. We’ve seen versions of Leatherface many times in the years since, but John Luessenhop’s film Texas Chainsaw 3D purports to be a direct sequel to Hooper’s film, picking up right after the end of the 1974 original....

James Cameron, Vince Pace Offering Seal Of Approval To ‘Walking With Dinosaurs 3D’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2011 4:30 pm EST Walking With Dinosaurs 3D, the hybrid live-action/CGI family film based on the BBC Worldwide six-part series featuring CGI and animatronic dinosaurs in the Mesozioc period, already has the advantage of associating with a popular touring exhibition, and is likely to be distributed by Fox. Now the film has a marquee name as consultant and a powerful tech partner, as the producers have started working with James Cameron and Vince Pace to get the Cameron | Pace Group stamp of approval for the film’s 3D efforts....

Listen To Some Of Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross ’ ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ Score By Germain Lussier/Aug. 10, 2011 5:00 pm EST The last time Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross scored a movie for director David Fincher, they won Oscar gold. Now, Sony has put up our first listen to their next collaboration, the score to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Along with the photos posted on the film’s official website, if you linger on the page, you’ll hear a pretty significant, atmospheric segment of what Reznor and Ross have planned for this December....

LOL: Ben Kingsley Submits Video Audition For Transformers 3 By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2010 4:00 pm EST Last week we posted and ridiculed the unsolicited video audition that reality television star Heidi Montag recorded for Michael Bay in an attempt to become Megan Fox’s replacement in Transformers 3. We joked that Montag would have probably had better luck modeling some skimpy clothes or, gasp, reading from a sample page of script sides, instead of firing guns and running around....

By Russ Fischer/Dec. 5, 2011 7:30 am EST Best part: where the ‘analyst’ talking about Hollywood’s agenda against capitalism manages to equate The Muppets, Cars 2, Syriana, and There Will Be Blood. All the same movie! I hadn’t thought of a Muppets/TWBB double-feature, so I’m glad this report brainwashed me into thinking that’s a good idea. Because it is. Remember kids: Tex Richman is the bad guy in The Muppets because he’s a dick, not because he’s rich....

LOL: Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Ski Mask By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 30, 2010 1:00 pm EST If you’re planning to rob a bank, why not rob a bank dressed as the Stay Puft Marshmellow Man? Okay, that’s clearly not the purpose of this Ghostbusters ski-mask, but that is the only thing that comes to mind while looking at this product. via: na LOL: Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Ski Mask By Peter Sciretta/Dec....

Marvel Updates: Ant-Man Footage Could Be Released Online, Viggo Mortensen Won’t Play Dr. Strange By Angie Han/Sept. 13, 2012 9:15 am EST One of the unexpected highlights of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con was Edgar Wright’s test footage reel from his long-gestating Ant-Man. For all the positive buzz that clip got, however, it wasn’t clear when or how anyone who wasn’t in Hall H that day would get to see it....

New ‘Paul’ Teaser Poster By Germain Lussier/Dec. 16, 2010 2:00 pm EST With a cast to die for including Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jason Bateman, Bill Hader, Joe Lo Truglio, Jane Lynch, Jeffrey Tambor, and Sigourney Weaver, it’s hard not to be excited for director Greg Mottola’s Paul. From a script by Pegg and Frost, the film follows two friends who pick up a real life alien on their road trip visiting famous alien landmarks across America....

New ‘Thundercats’ Animated Series Trailer By Germain Lussier/Feb. 28, 2011 5:30 pm EST The Thundercats are coming back to the small screen later this year courtesy of Warner Brothers and Cartoon Network. And though the big screen adaptation of Thundercats is currently dead, its brand new cartoon series is sure to breath life into the franchise. Up until now, we’ve only seen one choice image of the group, but a trailer recently aired during the network’s Hall of Games Awards that gives a much better idea of what fans can expect....

POTD: Banksy Begins Street Art Oscar Campaign? Or Is This The Work Of Mr. Brainwash? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2011 9:00 pm EST Last week it was announced that Exit through the Gift Shop is one of five films nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards. This week we’ve begun to hear reports that Banksy (the credited director of the street art documentary) is beginning his award campaign the only way he knows how to — street art....

Release Dates: Never Let Me Go Bumped Up To September; Steve Carell’s Crazy Stupid Love In April 2011 By Russ Fischer/July 1, 2010 11:23 am EST One of the more interesting-looking movies of the fall is Mark Romanek’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go. The trailer arrived recently, and it makes the picture look elegant and puzzling — just the sort of gorgeous enigma that could be an antidote to the increasingly terrible movies of summer 2010....