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Read About The Bane Origin Sequence Cut From ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 7, 2012 10:30 am EST One near-constant in the Christopher Nolan Batman movies is that he doesn’t spend much time detailing the origins of the villains in each film. (Two-face being an exception, as his origin is woven into The Dark Knight.) The Dark Knight Rises goes into a bit more detail than the two movies that precede it, as it gives us some hint about how the characters that exist at the beginning of the film got to be who they are....

Reese Witherspoon And Commercial Director Bryan Buckley Board ‘Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus’ By Angie Han/June 21, 2012 4:30 pm EST Say what you will about the neverending stream of Twilight-esque YA sagas, comic book sequels, and gritty fairy tale reboots — at least they’re working off of actual narratives. Thanks to the success of He’s Just Not That Into You, the really irritating new trend in Hollywood is adapting plotless advice books....

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, And Taylor Lautner Will Earn $25-41 Million Each For The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn By Adam Quigley/July 6, 2010 12:50 pm EST Not even a day after word came out on the talented-but-unknown Andrew Garfield making minuscule earnings for the Spider-Man reboot, there’s a report of less-talented-but-better-known stars scoring a huge payday. This might not be so frustrating to read if the stars in question didn’t happen to be, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner, the leads of the Twilight series....

Steven Zaillian Wants To Direct The Remake Of ‘Timecrimes’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 20, 2011 5:00 am EST It doesn’t feel like the last time we reported on a US remake of TimeCrimes was almost a year ago. But it was back in January that Steven Zaillian was reported as the screenwriter responsible for the roadmap for the remake of Nacho Vigalondo’s fan-favorite time-travel thriller. He was working from a previous draft from Tim Sexton, and Zaillian was producing as well....

The Sound Of ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2’ By Germain Lussier/July 15, 2011 4:27 pm EST After looking at preliminary box office estimates, “the sound of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” could easily refer to screaming fans and stacking money. According to early estimates, the eighth and final Potter film grossed an estimated $43.5 million from midnight shows alone, putting it well on the way to break the single day box office record and compete for the all time three day record as well....

Tom Hanks, The Wachowskis And Tom Tykwer Make ‘Cloud Atlas’ Official By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2011 2:03 pm EST So we know for certain now: after being relatively dormant since Speed Racer, the next film from the Wachowskis will be an adaptation of the David Mitchell novel Cloud Atlas. They’re co-writing and co-directing with Tom Tykwer, more or less as we’ve reported in the past, and Tom Hanks is officially attached to star....

Universal Announces Back To The Future Trilogy Blu-Ray By David Chen/June 28, 2010 5:44 am EST The news come via BTTF.net, who also snagged an interview with Back to the Future writer/producer Bob Gale. According to Gale: The fake Blu-Ray art we posted a few months ago touted a Jaws 19 “exclusive short film” in 3D (i.e. the fictional Jaws sequel seen briefly in Back to the Future 2). Unfortunately, it looks like that will not actually be a special feature....

Video: Freddy Krueger Competes In ‘Mortal Kombat’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 10, 2011 4:30 pm EST Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better than seeing Freddy Krueger fight Jason Voorhees, now you can control him fighting Scorpion, Sub Zero and Liu Kang. The Nightmare on Elm Street icon is the latest downloadable character in the new Mortal Kombat game and after the jump you can see the trailer for his appearance as well as two of his fatalities....

VOTD: ‘Star Wars’ Stands Up To Cancer With Emma Stone, Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari And More By Germain Lussier/Sept. 15, 2011 1:00 pm EST Aziz Ansari, Emma Stone, Andy Samberg, Ed Helms, Seth Rogen, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong, Jamie King and Samuel L. Jackson are all Star Wars fans just like us. Unlike us, they’re all big stars, some of whom are even part of the Star Wars universe itself. They also all appear in a brand new video to help promote a bunch of charitable ventures between Lucasfilm and Stand Up To Cancer....

Warner Bros. Dates ‘Project X’ And ‘Bullet To The Head’ For Early 2012 By Germain Lussier/Aug. 23, 2011 5:15 pm EST Briefly: Warner Bros. has changed the release date of the mysterious Todd-Phillips produced comedy Project X from November 23 to March 2. The high school party comedy is directed by Nima Nourizadeh. A few weeks later, on April 13, they’ll release Bullet To The Head, the Walter Hill-directed action film starring Sylvester Stallone....

Watch ‘The Sound Of Prometheus’ By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2012 4:30 pm EST I think everyone who sees Prometheus will agree that the film is beautifully made, from the perspective of how Ridley Scott and his crew created the film’s environments and settings. Visually, Prometheus is often stunning, and that design is complemented by an expertly-crafted sonic palette. The latest episode of the SoundWorks Collection’s “The Sound of…” series focuses on Prometheus....

By Russ Fischer/Dec. 31, 2010 2:00 pm EST Just when you thought you’d seen everything! Lucky McKee tweeted a link to this 1991 Mexican commercial for Alka-Seltzer. Seems like nothing special based on that concept, but then you see that it is directed by Guillermo Del Toro and features the director as a guy who quickly exits a business meeting because his upset stomach is about to make him transform into a werewolf....

‘A Thousand Words’ Trailer: Stalling The Eddie Murphy Comeback Train By Russ Fischer/Nov. 10, 2011 11:00 am EST Before the whole Eddie Murphy/Brett Ratner/Oscars thing started, we told you that the movie A Thousand Words, which shot with Murphy starring in 2008, was finally going to be released. Shelved for years and destroyed in test screening reviews, the movie was set for a January 2012 date, and then moved to March 23 2012, likely to capitalize on the public interest bump Paramount assumed Murphy would get from hosting the Oscars....

‘Chronicle’ Trailer: A Convincing First Look At Fox’s Found-Footage Not-Quite-Superhero Tale By Russ Fischer/Oct. 19, 2011 3:15 pm EST MTV is the origin point for the trailer. Good stuff, right? The kids look pretty believable, and while the budget obviously isn’t high, the depiction of the developing powers works for me. And while I look at most found footage films and feel as if I can predict exactly how they’re going to go down, there is an element of uncertainty here....

‘End Of Watch’ Red Band Trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal And Michael Pena Get Dirty By Germain Lussier/Aug. 14, 2012 6:00 am EST A few months ago, End of Watch wasn’t on anyone’s radar. One trailer here, a Comic-Con panel there and now the LAPD action drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena and directed by David Ayer has a ton of positive buzz rolling with it. This latest red band trailer is sure to continue that train as it features brutal language, disturbing violence and a level of intensity rarely enjoyed by films in this genre....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Announces Casting And Return Date For Season 3 [Comic-Con 2012] By Angie Han/July 14, 2012 11:00 am EST After drawing enough fans to fill Ballroom 20 to the rafters and then some at last year’s Comic-Con, HBO’s Game of Thrones was upgraded this year to the massive Hall H — and still had no trouble whatsoever attracting lines out the door (and down the sidewalk, and behind the Hilton, and all the way out to the water)....

‘How To Train Your Dragon’ TV Series Trailers Tease All-New Dragons By Angie Han/Feb. 28, 2012 10:00 am EST Cartoon Network is set to launch a weekly animated series called Dragons later this year that sees Hiccup and his pals working with the fearsome but friendly creatures, including some new types of dragons not seen in the previous film. Watch the first trailers after the jump. [via Bleeding Cool] While I loved How to Train Your Dragon, if I had one criticism of that film, it’d be that we didn’t get to spend nearly enough time with the supporting characters....

‘Ice Age’ Director Chris Wedge Options ‘Wings Of Madness’ By Angie Han/April 7, 2011 12:00 pm EST No, don’t worry — Wings of Madness isn’t a sequel to Wings of Desire.* Rather, it’s a book about aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont, written by science writer and former Discover editor Paul Hoffman. Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian living in France who invented one of the first airplanes, independently of the Wright Brothers. His story will be brought to the big screen by Chris Wedge, who has just optioned the biography....

‘The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence’ Video Blog [Fantastic Fest 2011] By Germain Lussier/Sept. 23, 2011 9:30 am EST Really, there was no better, more foul movie to officially kick of Fantastic Fest 2011 than The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence. Directed by Tom Six, it’s the follow-up to the controversial 2009 film and the screening on Thursday in Austin was the film’s world premiere. If you are unfamiliar with The Human Centipede, its premise is right there in the title....

‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’ French Teaser Trailer And Poster By Russ Fischer/Aug. 8, 2011 4:00 pm EST One of the most buzzed-about films at Cannes this year was Lynne Ramsay’s third feature, We Need to Talk About Kevin, in which Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly play the parents of the sociopathic Kevin, played by Ezra Miller. The adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s 2003 novel was hailed as a difficult but fascinating film, and despite concerns that the film’s off-putting content might limit its commercial prospects, Oscilloscope picked up the movie for distribution in the US....