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‘Knuckleball!’ Trailer: A Documentary On Baseball’s Most Elusive Pitch By Germain Lussier/Aug. 21, 2012 1:15 pm EST Speed and accuracy are generally considered to be the two most important skills while pitching. If a guy can clock in the 90s on the radar gun or paint the corner of the strike zone, he’s likely to be a millionaire. However, in Major League Baseball, two pitchers remain mostly unaware of where their pitches will end up and somewhat disinterested at their speed....

‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Behind The Scenes Featurette Allows Cast And Crew To Explain Wes Anderson’s Latest Film By Russ Fischer/May 8, 2012 8:00 am EST There isn’t a lot of new footage from Wes Anderson’s new film Moonrise Kingdom in the behind the scenes featurette that arrived today (there is some new stuff) but there are some really lovely shots of the director and crew at work. Various participants in the film, including co-writer Roman Coppola and actors Jason Schwartzman, Ed Norton, Bruce Willis, Bob Balaban, and Tilda Swinton, explain some of the basics of the film, giving up a few new character details as they do....

‘Super 8’ Wins /Film’s 2011 Super Bowl Movie Poll, But ‘Captain America’ Wins The Twitter Buzz By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2011 4:00 pm EST Last night we asked /Film readers to tell us which Super Bowl movie commercial was their favorite. Today we bring you the results. Hit the jump to find out who won. It appears /Film readers liked the movies which presented new footage. The top three spots were comprised of almost entirely never-before-seen footage....

‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Theatrical Trailer By Germain Lussier/Feb. 7, 2012 10:31 am EST For those of us not fortunate enough to make it to “The Untold Story Begins” Monday afternoon, Sony has just unleashed the latest trailer for Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man. Scheduled for release July 3, the 3D reboot stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Sally Field and more. But you knew that already....

‘Toy Story 3’ Screenwriter Michael Arndt To Pen ‘Snow And The Seven’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 1, 2011 6:00 pm EST Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’ll be the first Snow White to the ball? Three separate studios are currently vying to get their competing Snow White movies to the big screen: Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman, Relativity’s The Brothers Grimm: Snow White and Disney’s Snow and the Seven. And while we’ve heard plenty about the first two, little has been revealed about the Disney project except that it’ll see Snow White in China and the Seven Dwarves as Shaolin Monks....

‘World War Z’ To Shoot In Glasgow This August By Angie Han/June 13, 2011 8:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Discuss: Glaswegians: I have no idea if the production is still looking for zombie extras, but feel free to try The Casting Collective to find out. If you do get in, let us know all about it! Everyone: Are you excited to see World War Z headed to the big screen, or are you suffering from zombie fatigue already?...

‘Wrath Of The Titans’ Vs. ‘The Hunger Games’ On March 23, 2012 By Germain Lussier/Feb. 9, 2011 5:00 pm EST And, if I had to guess, I’d say it’s going to be The Hunger Games. The film, based on a very popular novel by Suzanne Collins about a girl forced to fight for her life in an arena in front of the whole country, has “blockbuster” written all over it and if Ross delivers the goods – which he should based on such strong material – the film feels much more Summer or Fall than Spring....

Benedict Cumberbatch Joins ‘The Hobbit’ By Russ Fischer/May 23, 2011 11:00 am EST When talking recently about the fact that Stephen Fry has joined the cast of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, we mentioned that there would probably be at least a few more casting odds and ends to report over the coming months. Now one has been let out of the bag by Martin Freeman, who plays Bilbo in the film....

Billy Bob Thornton May Direct ‘Jayne Mansfield’s Car,’ Talks Of ‘Bad Santa’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/Nov. 22, 2010 11:31 am EST Billy Bob Thornton’s directorial career has described an odd path. He broke out in a big way with his feature expansion of Sling Blade (from the short Some Call it a Sling Blade, directed by the late George Hickenlooper) and then went through the Weinstein wringer with All the Pretty Horses....

Black Death Trailer: Sean Bean Goes Back To The Dark Ages By Russ Fischer/April 29, 2010 12:03 pm EST When Christopher Smith’s movie Black Death was announced, I was interested simply for the fact that Smith was making a film set in the dark ages starring Sean Bean. I’d liked Smith’s first film Creep and loved his follow-up, Severance. And now, after recently seeing his excellent third film, Triangle, I’m more interested than ever....

Brett Ratner Attached To A New, Different ‘Hercules’? By Russ Fischer/April 28, 2011 3:30 pm EST Almost exactly a year ago, Brett Ratner was attached to direct a Millennium/Nu Image film based on the legend of Heracles/Hercules. The film was in development for years, but after Brett Ratner was attached to direct that he went on to make Tower Heist, and we haven’t heard much about Hercules at all. Now the Ratner/Hercules pairing returns, but in different form....

Casting Bits: Christina Hendricks, Olivia Munn And Others Join ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It,’ Alec Baldwin Circling ‘Rock Of Ages,’ Katee Sackhoff Is A ‘Sexy Evil Genius’ And More By Germain Lussier/Dec. 20, 2010 6:00 pm EST A lot to digest, we know. There’s so much more info after the jump that you’d be crazy not to click. I Don’t Know How She Does It is based on a popular British book by Allison Pearson about a woman who has to balance her life in the financial fast lane along with her family and friends....

Casting Bits: Tom Hanks In ‘Triple Frontier,’ Liam Neeson In ‘An Ordinary Man,’ Plus Kirsten Dunst And Mary J. Blige By Germain Lussier/Nov. 30, 2010 6:40 am EST After the long holiday weekend, it seems like Hollywood is back in full swing. Monday we had announcements of new projects for Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry and Kevin Smith and Tuesday is more of the same. Though previously rumored, Tom Hanks has now been confirmed to star in Kathryn Bigelow’s follow-up to her Oscar-winning work in The Hurt Locker called Triple Frontier (or possibly Sleeping Dogs), Liam Neeson will star in An Ordinary Man from director Brad Silberling, Kirsten Dunst will hit the road with Hit Girl with the coming of age drama Hick and Mary J....

Cool Stuff: ‘Parks & Recreation’ And ‘Eastbound And Down’ PaleyFest Posters By Germain Lussier/March 8, 2011 9:00 am EST Fans of Pawnee, Indiana and Kenny Powers are going to want to pay attention. Gallery 1988 has premiered posters for NBC’s Parks and Recreation as well as HBO’s Eastbound and Down to go along with their upcoming presentations at PaleyFest 2011. For Parks and Recreations, Mike Mitchell (who did the famous I’m With Coco poster) pays homage to Casablanca while Derek Deal was inspired by 1985 Topps baseball cards for Eastbound and Down....

Daft Punk ‘Tron: Legacy’ Poster Fully Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 20, 2010 10:44 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures has released a new poster for Tron Legacy featuring French electronic duo Daft Punk. You might remember that the poster was teased a couple weeks back, and last week we finally got our first look at the guys in their Legacy-styled outfits from the film (see above). Tonight the Daft Punk poster was derezzed and uploaded to the Tron LEgacy soundtrack website....

First Look: Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba And Ghost Rider In ‘Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance’ By Russ Fischer/July 25, 2011 1:49 pm EST Devindra said it best when writing up Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance at Comic Con: “this might not suck.” The beautiful thing about those big Hall H presentations is that you can feel the mood of the room swing positive or negative in real time. The Hall H audience is like a 6000-person-sized elephant, only a bit quicker on its feet, emotionally speaking....

Geek Deal: ‘Rambo’ Trilogy On Blu-Ray For Only $15.99 By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2012 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2010 10:06 pm EST We’ve shown you quite a good bit of material from Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist, including a Russian trailer. But this UK trailer for the film is the best look yet; it has a lot of new footage, and the quality is much higher than anything we’ve seen so far. We knew from stills that the film would be quite beautiful, but from the footage in this trailer, it looks stunning....

Kenny Ortega’s ‘Dirty Dancing’ Remake Will Hit Summer 2013 By Angie Han/Nov. 4, 2011 10:30 am EST Briefly: We still don’t know who’ll be stepping into Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey’s shoes for Kenny Ortega’s Dirty Dancing remake, but we know exactly when they try to dance into your hearts. According to Variety, Lionsgate has announced a release date of July 26, 2013 for the updated version of the 1987 romance classic....

Kevin Smith Wants To Make ‘Clerks 3’…As A Play By Germain Lussier/March 29, 2012 6:01 am EST Kevin Smith has one more movie in him and then he’s done with filmmaking. But that doesn’t mean his stories are going to end. At a recent Q&A in Los Angeles, Smith revealed there is one way he’d make a third Clerks: if he could do it on Broadway. Watch the video of Smith’s reveal and more after the break....