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‘Batman: Year One’ Animated Trailer By Russ Fischer/July 7, 2011 12:30 pm EST After Frank Miller wrote the end of Batman’s story in The Dark Knight Returns, he and the brilliant comic artist David Mazzucchelli took to the pages of Batman’s regular comic series to remap the character’s origin in Year One. Those issues (Batman #404-407 in 1987) became one of the landmark Batman stories. For almost twenty-five years Year One has had a lasting effect on major Batman storylines, even instigating the scuttled Darren Aronofsky Batman film a decade ago, and eventually providing a good deal of inspiration to Christopher Nolan’s subsequent film Batman Begins....

‘Bridesmaids’ Trailer, Judd Apatow-Produced Comedy Starring Kristen Wiig And Maya Rudolph By Germain Lussier/Feb. 1, 2011 12:30 pm EST Yesterday, the poster for Bridesmaids hit the web and today we’ve got a full trailer. Both are awesome. The comedy, directed by Paul Feig and produced by Judd Apatow, stars Kristen Wiig as a single woman struggling with the fact that her best friend, played by Maya Rudolph, asks her to be her Maid of Honor....

‘The Muppets’ – What Did You Think? By Russ Fischer/Nov. 23, 2011 6:00 pm EST After a long promotional runup that included a never-ending string of parody trailers, photo shoots and gleeful audio experiments, The Muppets is finally in theaters. Jason Segel’s loving ode to Jim Henson’s puppet troupe combines some winking modern showmanship with a whole lot of love for the Muppets and what they have always represented in pop culture....

Adria Petty Making ‘Suffocate,’ A Horror Film About Hoarders By Russ Fischer/March 10, 2011 9:00 am EST Briefly: I had never seen even a snippet of the show Hoarders until recently, and I rather wish I still hadn’t. While I understand the horrific appeal I can’t quite get into being entertained/horrified by people who are obsessively driven to surround themselves with stuff. Unless, of course, they’re the subject of a horror film rather than a pseudo-documentary TV show....

Animated ‘Harold & Kumar’ Series In The Works By Angie Han/Nov. 7, 2011 1:00 pm EST In the seven years since its inception, the Harold & Kumar franchise has only managed to crank out three films — the latest of those being this past weekend’s A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas. But if all goes well, we could soon be getting doses of the pothead pair on a much more regular basis....

Complete Grindhouse DVD/Blu-Ray Coming Soon? By Peter Sciretta/July 5, 2010 10:29 am EST As you probably know, when Grindhouse was released in theaters, it was a double feature featuring Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, and a few faux trailers at the beginning and in between. When the films were released on DVD, they were distributed as separate movies, with the trailers omitted from both releases (with the exception of Machete)....

DC Entertainment Relocating Offices From NY To Burbank; President Diane Nelson Says DC Films Won’t Emulate Marvel’s By Russ Fischer/Sept. 21, 2010 10:48 pm EST Most of DC Entertainment, the newly reorganized company that is comprised of a large multimedia division and the DC Comics publishing enterprise, is being moved from New York to Burbank, in the Los Angeles area. There’s a lot of musing about what this really means for the future of DC Comics and the related properties lodged at Warner Bros....

FilmDistrict Will Distribute Angelina Jolie’s ‘In The Land Of Blood And Honey,’ Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’ And More By Russ Fischer/May 15, 2011 7:14 pm EST And now that the lousy announcements are out of the way, there are these, too: FilmDistrict is teaming with TriStar to release Rian Johnson’s film Looper (we just had the first still from that one on Friday) and Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut, which now has the title In the Land of Blood and Honey....

First Look: Tom Tykwer’s Drei (Aka Three) By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2010 9:00 am EST Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg has released the first four photos from Tom Tykwer’s new film Drei (English translation: Three), a contemporary love story set in current day Berlin which is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The film is Tykwer’s first German project in a decade, and the first movie he has written himself since 2000....

HIGH School Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2010 11:17 pm EST One of our most anticipated films of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival was the stoner comedy High School. I attended a midnight screening of the film, and the crowd was hysterical with laughter. That said, I thought the premise was much more clever than the actual film. What’s the premise? Here is the official description from Sundance: “Michael Chiklis plays a smarmy high school principal who suddenly institutes a zero-tolerance crusade, introducing mandatory drug tests for all students....

Jonathan Levine’s Cancer Dramedy Retitled ‘50/50’, Gets Release Date By Germain Lussier/Feb. 18, 2011 9:34 am EST Producer/star Seth Rogen’s cancer comedy has endured at least two title changes, two directors and two lead actors. So it seems fitting that its new, and final, title is 50/50 and Summit will release it on September 30. Directed by Jonathan Levine (The Wackness) the film stars Rogen as well as Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the title role, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Philip Baker Hall and Angelica Huston....

New International ‘X-Men: First Class’ Trailers Very Briefly Show Sebastian Shaw In Action By Russ Fischer/April 23, 2011 12:32 pm EST The past 36 hours have been part of what was probably the slowest news cycle of the year, so why not throw out two more short trailers for X-Men: First Class? They’re basically cut from the same mold as the one we saw earlier this week, with perhaps one or two glimpses of new stuff....

Peter Jackson Negotiating To Direct The Hobbit By Russ Fischer/June 25, 2010 10:02 am EST Briefly: Here you go, fans: be happy. THR is reporting that Peter Jackson is negotiating a deal to direct the two halves of The Hobbit himself. He’s talking to Warner Bros., MGM and New Line right now, and Deadline says that he’s been busy extracting himself from other obligations. What does that do to Tintin? Deadline also says that Jackson directing has been a primary factor in getting MGM to schedule The Hobbit to shoot at the end of this year....

Scarlett Johansson To Direct ‘Summer Crossing’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 18, 2011 10:00 am EST Scarlett Johansson veered into directing in 2009 with These Vagabond Shoes, a short black and white film that starred Kevin Bacon as a man in search of a hot dog. The short was intended, by Johansson, to be part of the New York, I Love You omnibus film, but ended up being cut. (Producers said the short was cut because it was in black and white, while the rest of the film was in color, and didn’t feature an “interpersonal relationship” as did the other tales....

VOTD: 9 Famous Movies Recreated In One Take Music Video By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2011 3:00 pm EST Rapper DeStorm’s latest music video recreates 10 famous movies in one-take. Watch it now embedded after the jump. The music video: Films included: The Gold Rush The Godfather Casablanca Pulp Fiction The Graduate Rocky 2 Home Alone Psycho Terminator 2 Making Of featurette:Original Raw footage (with movie comparisons): VOTD: 9 Famous Movies Recreated In One Take Music Video...

VOTD: Old School Film And Video Company Logos From The ’70s And ’80s By Germain Lussier/Feb. 11, 2011 7:00 am EST When you popped a VHS into your VCR in previous decades, chances are you saw a colorful, animated logo before the feature. At the time, these logos seemed as normal as the act of hitting the Rewind button after the movie. They were just matter of fact. As tends to be the case with almost anything, though, time puts a unique filter on these kind of things....

‘Fun Size’ Trailer: Dorothy Loses Spider-Man In ‘Chuck’ Creator’s Big-Screen Debut By Angie Han/June 28, 2012 2:30 pm EST In the decade or so since he hit Hollywood, Josh Schwartz has become a high-profile name in television. He first gained attention for creating the smash hit The O.C., and followed up that success by co-creating Chuck and Gossip Girl. And now that he’s conquered the small screen, he’s got his sights set on taking over the big one....

‘Girl Walks Into A Bar’ Trailer - The First Major Motion Picture Created Exclusively For Web Distribution By Adam Quigley/Feb. 18, 2011 7:30 am EST That film is Girl Walks Into a Bar, and it brings together an ensemble cast including Carla Gugino, Zachary Quinto, Josh Hartnett, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Robert Forster, Alexis Bledel and many more. That roster of actors is incentive enough to check out the film....

‘Predisposed’ – Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo And Tracy Morgan Make For Fun Drama [Sundance 2012] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 30, 2012 5:00 am EST One Oscar winner, an Oscar nominee and the actor who made the EGOT famous simultaneously elevate the quirky family drama Predisposed. Melissa Leo plays a drug addicted mother whose son, played by Jesse Eisenberg, is forced on a madcap adventure on the most important day of his life....

‘Straw Dogs’ Trailer: A Tornado Of Lust, Rage And Cowardice By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2011 12:41 pm EST I’m going to have to hold my thoughts on this footage for Rod Lurie’s remake of the landmark Sam Peckinpah film Straw Dogs, because after watching the trailer a couple times I’m still second-guessing what the intentions are. What I can see is that this trailer is selling a very straight-up thriller, in which James Marsden and Kate Bosworth (both looking better than I expected — this might be a career high for Kate Bosworth, not that such a thing means much) have to deal with the advances of a bunch of tough rednecks when they move back to her hometown in Louisiana....