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By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 9, 2010 1:30 pm EST Conan O’Brien returned to late night with his new talk show Conan on cable network TBS, and drew a whopping 4.15 million viewers! Other notable numbers include the coveted demos 2,451,000 adults 18-34 and 3,285,000 adults 18-49. Conan was easily able to overtake the other late night competition including Jay Leno’s The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert....

First Look: Aardman Animation’s ‘Arthur Christmas’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 21, 2010 9:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In addition to working on new Wallace & Gromit shorts, the great Aardman Animation studio has a couple other projects in the pipeline. One is a stop-motion film called Pirates!, of which we’ve heard little since the film was announced in April ‘09. Also announced in spring of last year was Arthur Christmas, a CGI holiday film originally called Operation Rudolph....

First Look At A Suit From The New ‘RoboCop’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 15, 2012 11:47 am EST I’m reluctant to say that this is absolutely 100% the design for the new RoboCop, despite the fact that these pictures were snapped on the Toronto set of Jose Padilha’s new version of the story. I say that because I’m not certain that we’re seeing Joel Kinnaman in the suit there, though it could be a stuntman in a version of the suit that Kinnaman wears....

Geek Deal: The Bourne Trilogy On Blu-Ray For $35, Queer As Folk Complete Series For $84 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2010 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Bourne Identity After being pulled from the sea with two bullets in his back, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) awakens on a fishing boat with no memory of his involvement in a top-secret, black ops arm of the CIA called Treadstone....

Guillermo Del Toro To Produce Video Game Trilogy Called ‘inSANE’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 13, 2010 11:30 am EST Whenever Guillermo del Toro has done interviews in the past few months, he’s talked about learning and becoming well-versed in all the different entertainment mediums. In particular, he’s pointed to video games as a place where story telling has great potential but he’s never gotten more specific than that. We now know what del Toro has been talking about....

Jennifer Lawrence Attached To Play Half Of Unusual True-Life Couple In ‘Ends Of The Earth’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2012 1:30 pm EST Winter’s Bone let everyone know that Jennifer Lawrence was one of the brightest new acting talents around, but it was the stepping stone of X-Men: First Class and, more crucially, The Hunger Games that made her a star. But she isn’t sticking exclusively to big-budget mainstream films. Lawrence seems to be balancing roles between those tentpole franchises and smaller pictures....

LOL: Pumpkinception By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2010 4:30 pm EST Trying to figure out a pumpkin carving idea to prove your film geekiness? College Humor has come up with Pumpkinception, an Inception-inspired pumpkin design which is sure to confuse your trick or treaters. Hit the jump to see the illustration. Gotta love the pro tip. See more pumpkin designs in CollegeHumor’s Seven Easy Jack-O-Lantern Ideas. LOL: Pumpkinception By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2010 4:30 pm EST...

LOL: Superman On Facebook By Germain Lussier/Oct. 15, 2010 10:00 am EST If you are a superhero, it’s probably best not to let your Mom on Facebook. Batman knows what’s up. If a picture is worth a thousand words there really isn’t much I can say that this photo doesn’t. It’s simultaneously simple yet full of social networking and comic book references. Big props to Joy of Tech and The High Definite for the hilarity....

Mary Elizabeth Winstead Cast In ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2011 1:18 pm EST Earlier this week, just a short time after hearing that Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Robin McLeavy were the frontrunners for the role of Mary Todd in Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, we reported that Ms. McLeavy had been given the role. Turns out that was wrong. In fact, Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been given the role, so she’ll stand tall next to Benjamin Walker against the hordes of the undead in early America....

New ‘Skyfall’ Image Shows Bond Ready To Kill By Russ Fischer/Feb. 1, 2012 9:30 am EST Time to tell that poolside image of Daniel Craig as James Bond: sorry, you’ve been disavowed. Early this morning 007.com revealed what EON Productions is calling the real first image of Daniel Craig as James Bond in the new film Skyfall, which is being directed right now by Sam Mendes and photographed by Roger Deakins....

Rumor: George Lucas To Digitally Reanimate Famous Dead Actors? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 6, 2010 11:37 am EST This is the sort of story that plays right into all the derision aimed at the George Lucas tendency to digitally revamp his own movies, and therefore seems like something you’d just chuckle over and shrug off as rumor-mongering. But then you see that it comes from a former Lucas collaborator: Mel Smith, who directed Radioland Murders....

Rumor: Updated ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Audio Mix Makes Bane Easier To Understand [Updated] By Angie Han/Jan. 3, 2012 8:25 am EST [Update: After conversations with Warner Bros. and IMAX, Collider’s source story about this update was taken down and replaced with an apology. Original story follows, though it is now moot.] When The Dark Knight Rises prologue hit theaters in front of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol last month, the clip got a lot of buzz, but not all of it was exactly the kind Warner Bros....

Sequel Bits: ‘Finding Nemo 2’, ‘Hangover 3’, ‘Kick-Ass 2’, ‘Scary Movie 5’, ‘Silent Hill: Revelation 3D’, ‘Red 2’ By Angie Han/Sept. 10, 2012 12:00 pm EST Head over to LA Times to read their full piece on Stanton, which is definitely worth a read if you’re a fan of his. What was immediately on the list was writing a second ‘Carter’ movie," he said. When that went away, everything slid up....

Sony Buys Spec Script Based On Comic ‘Zombies Vs Robots’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 22, 2011 1:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Deadline says the spec script “focuses on a young girl who is the last survivor on earth. She is protected by a group of robots from a pack of zombies that are intelligent and evolved.” At this point, that’s all the info Deadline has....

Texting To Be Allowed In New Washington State Theater By Germain Lussier/Dec. 6, 2011 7:00 am EST It’s not a movie theater and it hasn’t even been built yet, but an in-the-works performance hall just outside Seattle, Washington plans to encourage its patrons to use their phones in the theater. The Tateuchi Center in Bellevue, Washington, set to open in 2014, is being built with its own cell antennae inside so that patrons – who will ideally be younger – can text, tweet and Facebook during performances....

Todd Phillips Has Four Possible New Directorial Projects At Warner Bros. By Russ Fischer/Feb. 6, 2012 4:00 pm EST Starting with The Hangover, Todd Phillips has turned into a new cash cow for Warner Bros., with the two Hangover movies and Road Trip cumulatively earning more than a billion dollars worldwide. (The Hangover films are responsible for the bulk of that gross.) Not bad for a guy who makes absurd comedies....

VOTD: “I Hate Muffins” Movie Montage By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2010 12:00 am EST Last week we featured a video montage which collected the overuse of “Get Out Of There!” in movies. But someone decided that wasn’t the biggest movie dialogue cliche in cinema and created a competing video montage. Why do so many filmmakers overuse the quote “I Hate Muffins” in big Hollywood movies? Watch the faux video embedded after the jump....

VOTD: Mike Relm’s Iron Man 2 Remix By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2010 11:00 pm EST San Francisco-based audio/video mash-up artist/performer Mike Relm has created a cool remix of the Iron Man 2 trailer. Director Jon Favreau saw it and even showed it to the Paramount marketing department. If you haven’t seen it yet, watch it now embedded after the jump. VOTD: Mike Relm’s Iron Man 2 Remix By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2010 11:00 pm EST...

VOTD: POGO’s Toy Story-Inspired Toyz Noize And Buzzwings By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2010 12:39 am EST Australian video remix artist Pogo’s Upular, composed using chords, bass notes and vocal samples from the Pixar film Up became a viral video sensation. Now Pogo has returned with two more videos based on Pixar films, this time taking on the Toy Story series with Toyz Noize and Buzzwings. Watch the new videos embedded after the jump....

Watch Kevin Pollak’s Two And A Half Hour Long Interview With Damon Lindelof By Peter Sciretta/June 28, 2011 10:05 am EST As you know, we’re big fans of long form interviews at /Film. In the past, we’ve posted extended 30-minute and possibly even one-hour interviews found on shows as Charlie Rose and other corners of the interwebs. Its rare that we see a filmmaker or screenwriter interviewed for anything longer than that....