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POTD: Tom Wilson Answers Your Burning ‘Back To The Future’ Questions By Germain Lussier/May 11, 2012 2:30 pm EST It’s oddly fitting that the actor who played Biff Tannen doesn’t really talk about Back to the Future. Biff was the outcast in the films, the villain, always plotting and the butt of the joke, sometimes literally. That actor, Tom Wilson, now makes his living doing stand up comedy and music and because he gets asked about the classic trilogy so often, he’s apparently created a card he hands to people that answers all the same questions he gets asked over and over again....

Rachel Weisz In Talks To Star In The Deep Blue Sea By Russ Fischer/Aug. 2, 2010 8:28 am EST OK, first: this isn’t a story about a remake of or sequel to the giant shark “oops, I ate Sam Jackson” movie Deep Blue Sea. It is about a film version of the 1952 play by Terence Rattigan (first filmed in 1955 with Vivien Leigh starring) about a woman who leaves her husband for a troubled RAF pilot, only to be devastated when he dumps her....

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood Scoring Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 5, 2011 12:00 pm EST After what seems like years of speculation and delays, Paul Thomas Anderson is in post-production on The Master, his film that is either a lot or a little inspired by the life and work of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The movie stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as the title character, with Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Laura Dern and many more appearing as well....

See A Red-Band Blooper Reel / Trailer For ‘The Watch’ By Angie Han/July 25, 2012 9:00 am EST With just two days til its July 27 premiere, The Watch director Akiva Schaffer has pushed out one last red-band trailer. Or maybe it’s a blooper reel. However you want to categorize it, it may actually be one of the funnier bits of marketing that have come out for the movie. Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Vince Vaughn, and Richard Ayoade star as a quartet of suburban guys whose neighborhood watch group is mostly just an excuse for them to get out of the house and engage in some quality male bonding....

See The First Snippets Of Tim Burton’s ‘Dark Shadows’ By Russ Fischer/March 13, 2012 6:57 pm EST We’ve been very curious to see the trailer for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, starring Johnny Depp, Eva Green and Michelle Pfeiffer, but despite the film’s opening date being just a couple months away, so far we’ve seen only stills. The first trailer will arrive on Thursday, via a rather unlikely source: The Ellen Degeneres Show....

This Is Not ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Teaser Trailer By Russ Fischer/June 17, 2011 12:09 pm EST Hit the jump to see the effort of some grinning joker of a trailer editor.

Universal Sues Global Asylum Over ‘American Battleship;’ Asylum Thanks Universal For Publicity By Germain Lussier/May 1, 2012 5:30 pm EST One stars Taylor Kitsch and Rihanna as Naval Officers trying to save the world from aliens. The other stars Mario Van Peebles and Carl Weathers as Naval Officers trying to save the world from aliens. If those two descriptions sound somewhat interchangeable to you, you aren’t alone. The company behind the former, which obviously is Universal’s upcoming mega-budget blockbuster Battleship, is suing Global Asylum, the company behind the latter, a film called American Battleship....

Video: How They Created The Effects In ‘Chronicle’ By Peter Sciretta/April 4, 2012 11:00 am EST Have you ever wondered how they accomplished some of the effects in Josh Trank’s Chronicle? Hit the jump to watch two videos — one which takes us behind the scenes to reveal how the flying sequences were created, and a second video which was fan-made which shows how you can recreate some of the effects at home....

Video Clips: Kevin Smith’s Too Fat For 40 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 18, 2010 6:00 am EST Love him or hate him as a filmmaker, Kevin Smith is a funny personality who knows how to tell a story. He has a successful podcast called Smodcast, which is broadcast on Satellite radio and has spawned a daily podcast network. He is notorious for his hilariously honest question and answer sessions, which have been released in three DVD volumes over the years....

VOTD: ‘Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs’ As A 60-Second, Live-Action Short By Angie Han/Feb. 9, 2012 6:00 am EST Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs contains so many crazy, fantastical elements that I never figured the story could’ve worked as anything but an animated film. I mean, c’mon. Live-action hobbits or dragons or space battles are one thing, but live-action hamburger storms would just be ridiculous, right?...

Website Spotlight: Is It Real 3D Or Fake 3D? By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2010 11:00 am EST Avatar made billions of dollars, and Hollywood has gone 3D crazy. Studio executives are rushing films shot with traditional film cameras into a post production conversion process which looks horrible. And the consumers have begun to notice the extreme difference between “real 3D” movies and “fake 3D” movies. But how does one figure out if the latest feature film release is real or post converted?...

‘Wilde Salome’ Trailer - Al Pacino Grapples With Oscar Wilde By Angie Han/Aug. 31, 2011 11:00 am EST Al Pacino’s known for many memorable roles — most notably, Tony Montana in Scarface and Michael Corleone in The Godfather — but it turns out one of the parts nearest and dearest to his heart is one that few film buffs have seen. Pacino has a little-known obsession with Oscar Wilde’s play Salome, and has played the part of King Herod in multiple stage productions....

By Angie Han/Oct. 10, 2011 4:30 pm EST Though some fans have expressed their displeasure with the changes that Marc Forster has made in his cinematic adaptation of Max Brooks’ zombie apocalypse novel World War Z, it seems the movie version is staying faithful to the source material in at least one way: a devotion to chillingly realistic detail. So much so, in fact, that Forster’s Budapest set was recently visited by a real-life SWAT team, who were none too happy with having to confiscate some 85 “prop” firearms that turned out to be fully functional and extremely dangerous weapons....

Alex Kurtzman And Roberto Orci Re-Writing ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2;’ Filming Could Start Early 2013 By Germain Lussier/April 24, 2012 11:45 am EST They’ve tackled Transformers, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible and now another franchise can be added to the impressive resumes of producers/screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci: Spider-Man. They’ve just been hired to Sony to rewrite the script of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the sequel to Marc Webb’s reboot which hits theaters on July 3....

Andrew Garfield Continues To Be Non-Specific About ‘Spider-Man’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 30, 2010 7:30 am EST We’re still waiting to see photos of Andew Garfield in Spider-Man (memo to Sony: get an official one online before spy pics beat you to the punch) so for now we’re going to have to rely on more comments from the actor to get a sense of the film. The production is on break for the holidays right now, and while he’s back in England, Mr....

Anthony Hopkins Joins Rachel Weisz In Fernando Meirelles’ ‘360;’ Frances McDormand And Eminem In Talks By Russ Fischer/Sept. 30, 2010 4:00 am EST We missed a big piece of casting news about a week ago, which was that Rachel Weisz had signed on for Fernando Meirelles’ film 360. The picture is scripted by the ubiquitous-of-late Peter Morgan, based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler. (The gent who wrote Traumnovelle, which was last adapted to film as Eyes Wide Shut....

Avatar/Titanic Second Unit Director To Helm Final Destination 5 By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2010 4:00 pm EST So you’re looking to hire someone for your 3D movie and you can’t afford James Cameron because it’s just another horror sequel? What is a studio to do? How about hire a Cameron protege? New Line Cinema/Warner Bros has hired Steven Quale to direct the upcoming horror 3D sequel Final Destination 5. Quale is a long time associate of James Cameron, recruited out of USC film school by Cameron, beginning his career as a production assistant on The Abyss....

Ben Stiller Directing As Well As Starring In ‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’ Remake By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2011 7:00 am EST It has taken a while, but a remake of the unusual 1947 Danny Kaye film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (itself a loose adaptation of a James Thurber story) may finally happen. The last time we heard about the project it looked like Ben Stiller would play the henpecked clerk who daydreams his troubles away, before meeting the woman of his dreams in real life....

Cool Stuff: Quentin Vs. Coens Art Show Preview #1 By Germain Lussier/March 9, 2011 4:00 pm EST Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers are, without a doubt, three of the most revered filmmakers working today. The release of a new film by Tarantino or the Coens insights a Pavlovian response in most film fans as each writer/director has such an incredibly high success rate, we’re almost guaranteed to see, at the very least, a good movie, if not a great one....

Drafthouse Films To Distribute Post-Apocalyptic Video-Game Dancing Movie ‘The FP’ By Angie Han/Aug. 1, 2011 10:00 am EST One of the most buzzed-about films out of this year’s South by Southwest was the Trost Brothers’ The FP, which screened as part of the SXFantastic series. The offbeat indie takes place in a retrofuturistic, post-apocalyptic world in which gangs settle scores via video-game dancing (think Dance Dance Revolution). Going by the trailer, it seems to be every bit as weird as the premise would suggest....