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Edgar Wright’s ‘S Top 5 Movies And Top 10 Underrated/Underseen Movies Of 2010 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 21, 2010 9:00 am EST As the year comes to a close, more Top 10 lists are being published. Last week, British filmmaker Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim, Hott Fuzz) filed his annual listing of the top five movies of 2010. Hit the jump to find out what movies made Wright’s list this year. Edgar Wright’s ’s Top 5 Movies of 2010 The Social Network Black Swan Toy Story 3 Enter the Void 127 Hours Note: GQ asked for a top five list, which is much harder to complete than a top ten because it leaves five great films out of the game (for example, I’m sure Inception might be #6 on Edgar’s list…)....

Emma Stone To Deal Drugs In ‘30 Minutes Or Less’ Writer’s ‘Little White Corvette’ By Angie Han/Jan. 5, 2012 12:00 pm EST That is, until now. Stone has just committed to star in and executive produce Little White Corvette, an action comedy from 30 Minutes or Less writer Michael Diliberti. More details after the jump. The project marks Stone’s first foray into producing. Diliberti is also slated to executive produce, with Scott Aversano, Graham King, and Tim Headington producing....

Exclusive: Zack Snyder And Edgar Wright Bring Zombies To The Hero Complex Film Festival By Germain Lussier/April 24, 2012 7:05 pm EST Does a double feature of Dawn of the Dead with Zack Snyder and Shaun of the Dead with Edgar Wright sound like a good night at out the movies? You bet it does, and we can exclusively announce that’s just the first night of the upcoming, third annual Hero Complex Film Festival presented by the Los Angeles Times....

M. Night Shyamalan Teaming Up With Marti Noxon For Syfy Drama ‘Proof’ By Angie Han/Aug. 3, 2012 12:30 pm EST M. Night Shyamalan’s movie career has been on a steep downward trajectory for the past several years, but as someone who enjoyed his earlier films I’m still rooting for the guy to turn things around. And maybe he still can. It’s too soon to say how After Earth will turn out, but from what we’ve seen so far it looks… okay....

Michael K. Williams Heads To Detroit For ‘RoboCop’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 7, 2012 10:00 am EST We hoped at one point that Michael K. Williams, aka Omar from The Wire, might end up playing the title role in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. That didn’t happen, but it hasn’t stopped him from getting other great work. In addition to his recurring role on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Williams ended up doing a stint on Community, and has a part in Steve McQueen’s new film Twelve Years a Slave....

Netflix Announces New Pricing, Subscribers Who Want DVD & Streaming Face 60% Increase By Russ Fischer/July 12, 2011 11:09 am EST The free ride had to end sooner or later. Looks like it is sooner. For the past seven months, even after a price increase, Netflix has been the best deal in movies for US subscribers, as a monthly subscription priced at $9.99 allowed customers to have one DVD out at a time and watch unlimited streaming content at the same time....

New ‘The Hobbit’ Photo: Dwarves Fili And Kili By Russ Fischer/July 12, 2011 12:01 pm EST Given that the first of Peter Jackson’s two films adapting J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit isn’t due out for a year and a half, it is a bit strange to see Warner Bros. milk early character reveals like this. But evidently the studio wants people who aren’t familiar with some of the actors playing the story’s large company of dwarves to learn their names and faces a few at a time....

New Images: The ‘Footloose’ Remake By Angie Han/May 9, 2011 2:00 pm EST That Footloose remake that no one asked for and everyone keeps forgetting about (okay, maybe that’s just me) is still moving forward, and we have new images to prove it. The updated version stars relative unknown Kenny Wormald as protagonist Ren McCormack and two-time Dancing with the Stars winner Julianne Hough as love interest Ariel Moore — the parts originally played by Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer....

New Photos: Sofia Coppola’s ‘Bling Ring’ With Emma Watson, Kevin Spacey And David Fincher’s ‘House Of Cards’ By Angie Han/May 29, 2012 5:00 am EST Let’s look past the current summer movie for just a second to take a look at a couple of works that are a bit farther off on the horizon. Sofia Coppola’s fact-based The Bling Ring stars Harry Potter actress Emma Watson as the leader of a band of fame-obsessed thieves who steal from the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, while David Fincher’s Netflix miniseries House of Cards stars Kevin Spacey as a ruthless politician who’ll stop at nothing to claw his way to the top....

Shawn Levy Could Potentially Leave ‘Fantastic Voyage’ If Will Smith Doesn’t Star By Germain Lussier/Aug. 18, 2011 1:33 pm EST In The Hollywood Reporter’s exclusive story, they surmise that Levy will stay on if Smith signs onto the project. If Smith passes, Levy would probably make one more attempt at a comparable star (is there one?) and, if unsuccessful at that, he’d walk. Rumor had it a few months back that Levy wanted Hugh Jackman to star in the film but nothing ever came of it, probably because Jackman’s production of The Wolverine got pushed back and he’s attached to possibly star and produce in another handful of projects....

Superhero Bits: Dredd 3D, The Avengers, Dark Knight Rises, Kick-Ass 2, Flash By Germain Lussier/Aug. 21, 2012 11:00 am EST What stores will sell an exclusive 90 minute documentary along with copies of The Avengers? Want to see a clip from that featurette? How should The Dark Knight Rises have ended? Is Mark Millar teasing action scenes from Kick-Ass 2? Has a viral campaign started for Dredd 3D? Where can you download the prologue to the prologue of The Dark Knight Rises?...

Superhero Bits: The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, Arrow, The Amazing Spider-Man By Germain Lussier/May 15, 2012 12:30 pm EST Above: The Avengers inserted into Nighthawks by Edward Hopper by John P Glynn via Gizmodo. Marvel has released the above video as a thank you to all the fans for the success of The Avengers. I love this Iron Man painting, called Gilded, by Sam Spratt. Thanks to Geek Art....

The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 58 - Gone By David Chen/Aug. 24, 2012 5:43 pm EST It often seems like our world vanishes before our very eyes. But what is more amazing are the things that seem to reappear. The Tobolowsky Files is a podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky....

TV Bits: ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Mockingbird Lane’, ‘Modern Family’, ‘Louie’, ‘Sons Of Anarchy’, ‘How I Met Your Mother’, And More By Angie Han/July 30, 2012 2:30 pm EST Getty Images New episodes of Arrested Development will (allegedly) hit Netflix sometime in 2013. [via Vulture] It’s pretty clear at this point the Mockingbird Lane won’t be all that much like its source material, The Munsters, but creator Bryan Fuller says we can still expect his new show to make references to its predecessor as well as other famous monsters....

TV Bits: Four ‘Walking Dead’ Season 2 Teasers, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Creator Sells Historic Hotel Series, MTV VMAs To Go Hostless, Adam F. Goldberg Gets ‘Breaking In’ Renewal And New Pilot Order By Angie Han/Aug. 25, 2011 3:00 pm EST My favorite is the last one, which comes across to me like someone in the marketing department just really wanted to use that “Makes True Blood look like iCarly!” quote and couldn’t figure out where else to put it....

Watch PaleyFest Panels From ‘Community,’ ‘The Office’ And More On Hulu By Germain Lussier/Feb. 23, 2012 3:30 pm EST For TV fans, next week begins one of the most exciting events of the year: PaleyFest. It’s a two-week festival in Los Angeles where the casts and crews of some of TV’s most successful shows hold in-depth discussions and Q&A’s about where their shows have been and are going. This year ,the featured shows are American Horror Story, Community, Once Upon A Time, New Girl, The Office, Sons of Anarchy, Bones, Castle, The Vampire Diaries, Revenge, Two and a Half Men, Mad Men and Modern Family....

Watch The Fact-Filled End Credits From ‘The Other Guys’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 11, 2010 11:28 am EST One of the stranger things about Adam McKay’s action comedy The Other Guys, starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, is the end credits. In a film like this you might expect jokey outtakes or throwaway character comedy to run alongside the credits. But McKay did something different: he used the film’s credits to lambaste corporate business and bonus packages....

‘Fireflies In The Garden’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Aug. 28, 2011 2:51 pm EST If you need proof that the old movie star system doesn’t really exist any longer, here’s a trailer for Fireflies in the Garden, aka the ’lost’ Julia Roberts movie. The film was shot in 2007 and hit festivals in 2008, and is only not getting a release date. Then again, Fireflies in the Garden is only kind of a Julia Roberts movie — it’s a family drama in which Roberts and Willem Dafoe are parents of a boy who grows up to become a bearded, very serious Ryan Reynolds....

‘Hugo’ - What Did You Think? By Russ Fischer/Nov. 27, 2011 5:00 pm EST If I had to imagine the results of a quick exit poll, I really don’t know how I’d expect responses to Martin Scorsese’s latest movie, Hugo, to fall. The director’s first ‘family’ film is an adaptation of Brian Selznick’s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret and, on the surface at least, tells the story of a young boy’s attempt to live in the roof of a train station in ’30s Paris....

‘Jackass 3D’ For Best Picture By Russ Fischer/Jan. 5, 2011 4:30 pm EST Good for a laugh: just in time to start the ad campaign for the film’s DVD release, Paramount is positioning Jackass 3D as a serious Oscar contender. (Or, the studio is pulling for the slightly truncated title, Jackass 3.) I’d expect nothing less from the Jackass crew than to see them angling for Best Picture. (Though if they were really serious this ad would have shown up before the nominations for the PGA awards were decided....