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Teaser Trailer For Wong Kar Wai Short Film (Actually A Booze Commercial) ‘Déjà Vu’ By Russ Fischer/May 21, 2012 11:30 am EST What a wonderful day it is for a wide variety of film lovers: we’ve had teaser footage for films as disparate as the James Bond film Skyfall, the sequel to Anchorman, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s hotly-anticipated film The Master. And now there is new footage from Wong Kar Wai, whose short film Déjà Vu is being unveiled at Cannes....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: 127 Hours, Love & Other Drugs, Faster, Burlesque By Adam Quigley/March 3, 2011 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It would be easier to dismiss the showiness of the overwhelmingly manic, pulsating style of 127 Hours if it weren’t so perfectly characteristic of its protagonist. With his earnest zest for life and self-proclaimed superhero status, Aron Ralston refuses to let anything keep him in one place for too long—save for, you know, a big rock....

Tom Cruise And Jack Nicholson Could Reunite In The Comedy ‘El Presidente’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 5, 2010 5:16 pm EST This could be pretty tasty: Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson, whose 1992 onscreen interaction previously produced one of the most recognizable and oft-quoted scenes in movie history, may work together again. In a comedy, no less. A Few Good Men was almost twenty years ago, but the quotable power of the courtroom showdown between Cruise and Nicholson hasn’t begun to fade from public memory....

Video Blog: Peter And Germain’s Spoiler-Free Reaction To ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Germain Lussier/July 18, 2012 6:00 am EST Since Batman rode off into the light at the end of 2008’s The Dark Knight, fans have been clamoring, craving, and digesting every little thing they can about its eventual sequel. That film is finally here. The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan’s conclusion to his Batman series, opens on Friday and reactions to the film have set the internet a fire....

Video From The Set Of Marvel’s Thor By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2010 10:43 am EST /Film reader GoldenBoyMacrae alerted me to a four minute set visit video report for Marvel’s Thor on Entertainment Tonight. The piece mostly consists of an interview between stars Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman, but also features a bit of behind the scenes footage from the set (as seen above). Watch it now, embedded after the jump....

VOTD: ‘Back To The Future’ Alternate Ending Travels To Another Galaxy By Germain Lussier/Oct. 20, 2011 6:00 am EST Very few of us would argue that the ending of the first Back to the Future is absolutely perfect. “Where we’re going we don’t need roads,” coupled with a flying car exploding out of the screen for a jaw-dropping cliffhanger is pretty tough to beat. But one YouTube user actually found a way, not to improve it per say, but to cleverly combine it with something else we all know and love....

VOTD: Pulp Disney By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 9, 2010 1:14 am EST What happens when Disney’s classic animated character’s Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck get mashed up with Quentin Tarantino’s violent R-rated classic Pulp Fiction. Watch the video, embedded after the jump. VOTD: Pulp Disney By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 9, 2010 1:14 am EST What happens when Disney’s classic animated character’s Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck get mashed up with Quentin Tarantino’s violent R-rated classic Pulp Fiction....

‘Human Centipede Part 3 (Final Sequence)’ Will Feature Dieter Laser, Laurence R. Harvey And Director Tom Six By Russ Fischer/March 2, 2012 4:30 pm EST When Tom Six released his second Human Centipede film last year, he cemented his horror series as the subset of movies that a good many people love to hate. While the first film features a demented doctor (Dieter Laser) who sews three people together end to end, the black and white sequel features a damaged butterball (Laurence R....

‘I Saw The Devil:’ Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Bloody [Sundance Review] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 22, 2011 8:00 am EST Violent revenge flicks are pretty much heroin for most film fans. We inject the works of Park Chan-Wook and Takashi Miike directly into our veins, swooning in the delights of violence and hyperkinetic cinema. In comparison, Kim Jee-woon is relatively new to the scene. His film, The Good The Bad and the Weird, certainly made a significant blip on film fan’s radar and now with his latest film, I Saw the Devil, Jee-woon has crafted an even more visceral experience....

‘Little Fockers’ Reshoots To Add Much-Needed Dustin Hoffman? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2010 11:54 am EST UPDATE: The LA Times talked to Universal chairman Adam Fogelson, who said the film is testing well and added, “As we’re continuing to refine the film, one of the ideas that’s certainly a possibility is having Dustin be a part of the picture. We didn’t call him and say that we desperately need his help or anything like that....

‘The Muppets Movie’ Books A Fun Musical Cameo; Bret McKenzie Of ‘Flight Of The Conchords’ Contributing Songs By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2010 10:02 am EST First up, the two items in the headline are not related, though with Bret McKenzie is working with Jason Segel on songs for The Muppets Movie, and with his Flight of the Concords director James Bobin directing the Muppet film, don’t be surprised to see him end up in the film....

‘Trishna’ Trailer: Michael Winterbottom And Frieda Pinto Adapt ‘Tess Of The d’Urbervilles’ By Russ Fischer/April 4, 2012 10:30 am EST Michael Winterbottom loves to flip between genres. In the past couple years he has adapted the Jim Thompson novel The Killer Inside Me, made the road trip comedy series The Trip, which was edited into feature version, and completed an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles, with Frieda Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) starring as a working class girl who falls for the son of a land developer....

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘To Catch A Thief’ Being Remade By Germain Lussier/April 7, 2011 4:30 pm EST As Hollywood continues to remake classic films, so far, the works of Alfred Hitchcock have remained relatively untainted. Of course there’s Gun van Sant’s Psycho, pseudo remakes like Disturbia and The Truth About Charlie and other films in development but considering the huge amount of movies Hitchcock made, it’s pretty surprising that we don’t have a new remake being released every single month....

Casting Notes: Willis, Whitaker And Akerman In Catch .44; Jeff Fahey In Dadgum, Texas; Jennifer Lawrence And Max Thieriot In House At The End Of The Street By Russ Fischer/June 4, 2010 9:19 pm EST Must be great to be a new feature director and end up with a cast like this: first-timer Aaron Harvey is directing Catch .44, and he’s got Bruce Willis, Forest Whitaker and Malin Akerman on board to star....

Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown Taking Over ‘The Lost Symbol’ Screenplay By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 20, 2010 3:33 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The third adventure is a 12-hour race to the finish quest set in Washington, DC, following mystery-solving Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon unravel Freemason conspiracy theories using hidden codes. The film franchise already accounts for over $1.24 billion in worldwide box office....

DC Not Planning For Justice League Movie By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 8, 2010 11:37 am EST Geoff Johns, speaking at New York Comic-Con, confirmed that Warner Bros and DC are not currently planning for a superhero team-up Justice League of America movie. ComicBookMovie reports that when Johns was asked about the possibility of shared-universe films á la Marvel, Johns responded with the following: “I’m going to speak frankly: I think our characters are bigger than Marvel’s....

Edward Norton Creating ‘Lewis And Clark’ Miniseries For HBO With ‘Stone’ Director John Curran By Russ Fischer/Oct. 12, 2010 11:35 am EST Edward Norton and director John Curran are slowly cultivating a good working relationship. They previously made The Painted Veil, which wasn’t quite a success, and then crafted Stone. The latter, despite having early caution instilled thanks to a terrible sales trailer, has turned out to be a fairly satisfying thriller / character study....

First Look: Elle Fanning In Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Twixt’ By Russ Fischer/July 18, 2011 8:34 pm EST I don’t know what I was expecting from Twixt, but this wasn’t quite it. Francis Ford Coppola’s latest film (formerly Twixt Now and Sunrise) is a gothic thriller of a sort, but one inspired by Hawthorne and Poe, filmed partly in 3D and featuring a soundtrack by analog knob-tweaking electronic musician Dan Deacon....

Geek Deal: Ocean’s 11, 12 And 13 Blu-Ray Box Set For $17.99 By Peter Sciretta/May 23, 2011 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Guillermo Del Toro Says MGM Woes Holding Up The Hobbit By Russ Fischer/May 28, 2010 9:16 am EST We’ve passed on reporting a lot of non-news stories about the casting and start date for The Hobbit, because most lately have come from people who aren’t Peter Jackson or Guillermo del Toro. At this point, those are the only two guys you should be looking for for news on the film....