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‘The Comedy’ Teaser: Tim And Eric As Loathsome, Self-Loathing Hipsters By Angie Han/Aug. 31, 2012 10:00 am EST How do you sell a movie that’s earned the dubious distinction of having one of the highest walkout rates in recent Sundance memory? Well, if you’re the marketing team behind Rick Alverson’s The Comedy, by defiantly playing up the horrified reactions in your own trailer. Starring Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of Tim and Eric and James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, The Comedy is a super dark, super dry look at the exquisite pain of being a young(ish) wealthy white dude in America....

‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ Takes Priority For Martin Scorsese And Leonardo DiCaprio, Shoots In August By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2012 11:00 am EST At this point it probably unsafe to declare that any one project will be Martin Scorsese’s next before cameras start to roll, but it looks like his next movie is really and truly decided. (Seriously.) Financing has come together for Scorsese to make The Wolf of Wall Street, which will star Leonardo DiCaprio, making the film the pair’s fifth collaboration....

‘V/H/S’ Red-Band Trailer By Russ Fischer/June 19, 2012 6:00 am EST The horror anthology is making a comeback, and at Sundance this year a five-story film called V/H/S scared the crap out of many viewers. (Including Peter.) Combining the talents of of Adam Wingard (You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), Simon Barrett (You’re Next, Dead Birds), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), and Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), V/H/S uses a wraparound story to frame several low-fi tales of horror....

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Trailer: Kathryn Bigelow Hunts For Osama Bin Laden By Angie Han/Aug. 6, 2012 10:17 am EST A day after Aaron Sorkin presented his take on the death of Osama bin Laden in HBO’s time-delayed drama The Newsroom, The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow is getting ready to present hers. Which, as you might expect, looks a bit more action-oriented than his did. Starring Joel Edgerton, Jessica Chastain, Chris Pratt, Kyle Chandler, Mark Strong, Jason Clarke, and many more exciting names, Zero Dark Thirty follows the Navy SEAL Team 6 in their ultimately successful hunt for the al Qaeda leader....

Aardman Animation’s ‘The Pirates! Band Of Misfits’ Casts Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, David Tennant And More By Russ Fischer/May 5, 2011 3:00 pm EST Sony and Aardman Animation have teamed for a new 3D stop-motion animated film, called The Pirates! Band of Misfits, based in part on Gideon Defoe’s book The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists. (Which is also the film’s title in the UK, I believe.) That isn’t news, but the first still, above, and the announcement of the full cast definitely is....

Bad Robot Assembling New Action Film; Brad Parker Directing With Matt Reeves Producing By Russ Fischer/Jan. 11, 2012 2:00 pm EST Briefly: Paramount and J.J. Abrams’ company Bad Robot are putting together a new mystery movie, and have tapped Brad Parker to direct. Parker made The Diary of Lawson Oxford, and also worked as second-unit director on Let Me In. Keeping things in the family, Let Me In director Matt Reeves will produce this currently untitled action film, alongside Abrams and Bryan Burk....

Behind The Scenes Clips From David O. Russell’s The Fighter By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2010 12:00 pm EST David O. Russell’s The Fighter still doesn’t have an official release date (although I’ve heard it may hit theaters the week of the Thansgiving holiday), and we haven’t heard anything about the project since that test screening report in January. For those who haven’t been following the project, here is a recap: Darren Aronofsky was originally scheduled to direct, but switched over to The Wrestler....

Benedict Cumberbatch Nabs A Lead Role In The ‘Star Trek’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/Jan. 4, 2012 7:14 pm EST If seeing a report that Benedict Cumberbatch has been added to the cast of a film isn’t exciting, you probably haven’t been watching the BBC series Sherlock, in which he plays an absolutely wonderful version of Sherlock Holmes. (Cumberbatch also had notable roles recently in War Horse, as the British officer with whom Tom Hiddleston’s character had a friendly rivalry, and in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, where he played a character who provided some aid to Gary Oldman’s lead....

Black Widow Spin-Off “Definitely Possible” By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2010 4:44 pm EST There wasn’t much news that came out of the Iron Man 2 press conference today regarding the future of the Marvel movie universe. But one of the interesting bits was Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige in response to the question of if Scarlett Johansson’s character Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow would be getting her own big screen movie spin-off:...

Blu-Ray Geek Deals: Bourne Trilogy, Raging Bull, James Bond, Twilight Zone And The Big Lebowski By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 17, 2011 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. They are also selling The Big Lebowski Limited Edition Blu-ray Book + Digital Copy for only $16.99, 43% off the $30 msrp.

Casting Notes: Maggie Gyllenhaal In Bill Monroe Biopic; Scott Speedman In The Vow; Josh Hartnett In Tomorrow; Karl Yune In Real Steel By Russ Fischer/Aug. 18, 2010 1:21 pm EST Looks like Maggie Gyllenhaal will play alongside her husband Peter Sarsgaard in a biopic of bluegrass pioneer Bill Munroe. She told ScreenCrave she’d been in the film about “Bill Monroe, who invented Blue Grass music had a kind of Sid and Nancy style affair with this woman Bessie Lee Mauldin throughout his life… T-Bone Burnett’s going to do the music and Callie Khouri who wrote Thelma & Louise wrote the script so we’re going to do that together....

Edgar Allan Poe Thriller ‘The Raven’ Loses Title, Gains Release Date By Angie Han/May 4, 2011 8:07 am EST A couple quick updates on James McTeigue’s The Raven today: The Edgar Allan Poe thriller, starring John Cusack as Poe, has lost its title, and is currently being referred to by the working title The Untitled Raven Project. On the plus side, the film now has an official release date of March 9, 2012....

Elijah Wood Talks About His Upcoming Appearance In ‘The Hobbit’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 12, 2011 8:30 am EST So Elijah Wood is going to be in The Hobbit. Kind of a surprise to some, though given part of the infrastructure built by J.R.R. Tolkien, not the most unusual thing that could have happened. (More on that in a minute; we’ll keep supposition and info about the nuts and bolts of his appearance after the break....

James Cameron Wants To Shoot 3D Film About Brazilian Tribes By Adam Quigley/Sept. 7, 2010 10:30 am EST More after the break. Yahoo! News has the news, including an excerpt of an interview Cameron did for the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, where he stated: We will be provided a glimpse at this in the special features for the forthcoming Avatar Special Edition DVD, which has a brief piece about the very topic that this movie will seek to examine in full....

John Leguizamo To Defend The Villain In ‘Kick-Ass 2’, Deal Drugs In ‘The Counselor’ By Angie Han/July 31, 2012 11:00 am EST Over the years, John Leguizamo’s earned a reputation as the kind of solid character actor who can make the most out of whatever he’s given. But not all supporting roles are created equal, so it’s great to see him land two particularly juicy-sounding ones back to back. Leguizamo has reportedly booked parts in Ridley Scott’s drug drama The Counselor, joining the likes of Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, and Cameron Diaz, and Jeff Wadlow’s comic book sequel Kick-Ass 2, which also stars Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse....

LOL: Everything Chris Klein Says In Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li By David Chen/Sept. 10, 2010 10:00 am EST I never had the stomach to check out Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, but from some of the reviews I read/watched, it sounds like I didn’t miss too much. There was one element of the film I was always curious about, though: the performance of Chris Klein as detective Charlie Nash....

M. Night Shyamalan-Produced ‘The Night Chronicles: Devil’ Now Simply Called ‘Devil’ By Russ Fischer/July 6, 2010 10:12 pm EST M. Night Shyamalan is producing a trio of horror-thrillers called, collectively, The Night Chronicles, with the first film in the series due to hit later this year. Originally the title was set to be the rather wordy The Night Chronicles: Devil, but according to Box Office Mojo, the title has officially been shortened....

Martin Scorsese Set For ‘The Snowman’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 21, 2011 10:00 am EST Less than a month ago Martin Scorsese started to show public interest in directing a film based on Jo Nesbø’s thriller novel The Snowman. (He has been circling the project for longer than that.) The book is one of nine Nesbø novels featuring Harry Hole, a non-traditional, alcoholic, loose-cannon police detective. In The Snowman, “a son finds his mother’s pink scarf wrapped around the neck of a ominous looking snowman....

Movie Posters: Phish 3D, Nowhere Boy, Robin Hood, Solitary Man By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2010 3:30 pm EST A few new movie posters have popped up over the weekend, and we have collected them for you after the jump. Posters include Phish 3D, Nowhere Boy, a final poster for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, and Solitary Man. Nowhere Boy (via: yahoo): Phish 3D (via: IMPA) Robin Hood (via: AICN): Solitary Man (see the poster in high resolution on cinematical)...

Movie Trailer: The Parallel Sequel ‘Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 5, 2010 8:30 pm EST I know what you’re thinking: we just saw the trailer for Paramount’s Paranormal Activity 2, and it had nothing to do with Tokyo. But there’s an interesting strategy going on overseas with the Paranormal Activity series: Paramount has authorized the Japanese production of a ‘parallel sequel’ called Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night. Check out the first-look trailer after the break....