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Superhero Bits: Dark Knight Rises, Community, Deadpool, Amazing Spider-Man By Germain Lussier/Dec. 26, 2011 11:00 am EST Above, a new hi-res image of Christopher Nolan shooting IMAX on the set of The Dark Knight Rises via Comic Book Movie. [Image removed at the request of DC.] Here’s what the Comedian will look like in the upcoming Watchmen prequel thanks to Bleeding Cool. Nite Owl is on the next page. Whoa. Insane Marvel paintings by Dennis Meheere via Geek Tyrant....

Tarsem Singh To Direct Noirish Fantasy Thriller ‘Killing On Carnival Row’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 17, 2011 3:00 pm EST For years we didn’t hear much at all about Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall). But his new film Immortals opened a week ago to generally negative opinion (I liked it more than most, though I’ll never argue that it is ‘good’) and the trailer for his family-oriented Snow White comedy Mirror, Mirror just hit this week....

TBS Announces November 8 Start Date For Conan O’Brien By David Chen/May 19, 2010 8:33 am EST The past few months have been a fascinating journey for late-night host Conan O’Brien. After a bruising battle with NBC, which ended with an agreement stating that he could not publicly disparage NBC nor appear on television for about six months, O’Brien is finally ready to make the return to late night. TBS has just announced that Conan’s new show will premiere on the station on November 8, 2010 at 11 PM....

The Academy Doesn’t Know What To Do If Banksy Wins An Oscar By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 10, 2011 8:00 am EST Exit Through The Giftshop is not only one of the best documentaries of 2010, but it’s one of the best movies of the year. The documentary which is credited to the elusive street art icon Banksy is up for an Oscar, but The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences isn’t sure how to handle the situation....

The Tobolowsky Files Gets A Book Deal By David Chen/Sept. 29, 2010 3:44 pm EST I have been waiting for almost a year to write the following sentence: Stephen Tobolowsky has just signed a book deal for a non-fiction book based on The Tobolowsky Files, to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2012. Needless to say, I am ecstatic that Stephen’s wonderful stories now have the potential to reach an even wider audience....

Timur Bekmambetov To Contribute To Chinese Remake Of Russian Version Of ‘New Year’s Eve’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 23, 2011 9:00 am EST Need help puzzling out that headline? Here you go: Yolki, aka Six Degrees of Celebration, is a Russian film that is about “eight different Russians – from eight different time zones – and how their destinies intersect one New Years Eve."(Ok, so maybe it isn’t quite the Russian version of New Year’s Eve, if only because it doesn’t have Bon Jovi and Robert De Niro, but close enough, I think....

VOTD: ‘Late Bloomer’ – If H.P. Lovecraft Took Junior High Sex Ed By Angie Han/May 9, 2011 11:00 am EST Still bummed about the fact that Guillermo del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness is no longer happening? Well, there’s not much I can do about that… but perhaps today’s Video of the Day will help ease your H.P. Lovecraft craving just a tiny bit. Craig Macneill’s Late Bloomer isn’t a Lovecraft adaptation per se, but it explicitly draws inspiration from the horror author’s oeuvre to tell the tale of one “seventh grade sex ed class gone horribly wrong....

VOTD: Cours Toujours By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2010 12:00 am EST Olivier Barre and Elise Garcette directed this wonderful animated short film titled Cours Toujours (American translation Stay on Course). The story follows a man chasing after a cute little bird. I really love to mix of retro stylized design with new computer animation techniques. Watch the short film embedded after the jump. Thanks to Cat H for the tip....

Vote To Bring ‘Attack The Block’ To Your City By Germain Lussier/Aug. 1, 2011 4:30 pm EST After months of building buzz with free screenings, online clips and giveaways, Attack the Block finally opened this weekend on eight screens to a very healthy $17,200 per screen average, making it the highest grossing of the new, limited release films. (It lost the highest per screen average of new limited releases to Miranda July’s The Future which made $27,000 on one screen)....

Wes Anderson’s Next Is ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel,’ Johnny Depp Confirmed To Appear By Russ Fischer/July 16, 2012 10:14 pm EST It looks like Wes Anderson might get right to work on a film to follow Moonrise Kingdom, and we’ve had a list of possible actors: Johnny Depp, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe and Angela Lansbury. While most of those names remain tentative, now we know that Depp is confirmed for the film, and that it will likely be the actor’s follow-up to The Lone Ranger....

Who Will Be Baz Luhrmann’s Daisy In ‘The Great Gatsby’? Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley, Abbie Cornish And More Shortlisted By Russ Fischer/Nov. 1, 2010 9:16 pm EST As he’s been workshopping his script for The Great Gatsby, director Baz Luhrmann is still trying to find a woman to play Daisy in his new film version of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. The role was played by Rebecca Hall in that recent workshop, during which Leonardo DiCaprio played Jay Gatsby and Tobey Maguire read narrator and onlooker Nick Carraway....

‘Conan The Barbarian’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/May 4, 2011 4:33 pm EST The first teaser trailer for the new Conan the Barbarian was dreadfully uninspiring. Made up of smoke and spare glimpses of footage, it played like Lionsgate and Millennium were trying to hide something. Now the full trailer is out, and there’s definitely no hiding anything here. The movie looks more or less as you’d expect it to look, but there might be some fun adventure within....

‘Hotel Transylvania’ Teaser Trailer - Genndy Tartakovsky Turns Adam Sandler Into A Vampire By Angie Han/April 25, 2012 8:30 am EST Though Genndy Tartakovsky has been a force in TV animation since the mid-’90s, it’s only now that he’s finally making the jump to features with Hotel Transylvania. It’s clear that the new film has more of a traditional look than most of his shows have had, but there are some nice visual flourishes that should please fans of his previous work....

‘The Skin I Live In’ US Trailer And Poster By Russ Fischer/Aug. 29, 2011 3:45 pm EST Reviews out of Cannes might have been mixed at best, but the images and footage we’ve seen so far from The Skin I Live In, aka the reunion of Pedro Almodovar and Antonio Banderas, are just too weird to allow me to write the film off completely. The film is about experimentation, control, and sex, and at the very least it looks as visually lush as you’d hope to see from a deliberately genre-informed outing from Almodovar....

Casting Bits: Ben Stiller In ‘RentaGhost’, Cam Gigandet In ‘Free Ride’, Charlie Saxton In ‘The English Teacher’ By Angie Han/Oct. 13, 2011 9:38 am EST Written by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant (Night at the Museum), RentaGhost revolves around a recently deceased man who decides to be more productive in his afterlife than he was during his regular life. He launches a service which allows living folk to rent ghosts and other paranormal beings....

Casting Bits: Catherine Zeta-Jones In ‘Broken City’; ‘Game Of Thrones’ And ‘The Killing’ Stars Frontrunners For ‘Arthur & Lancelot’ By Angie Han/Oct. 23, 2011 9:00 am EST Catherine Zeta-Jones has had a slow couple of years, but the Chicago actress stepping it up again. She recently wrapped three films — Lay the Favorite, Playing the Field, and Rock of Ages, all of which are due out next year — and has now landed one more....

Casting Bits: Jamie Campbell Bower In ‘The Mortal Instruments;’ Dania Ramirez In ‘American Reunion;’ Jackson Rathbone In ‘Live At The Foxes Den’ By Russ Fischer/May 31, 2011 6:44 pm EST After some dithering among several pretty young blond boy actors, Screen Gems and director Scott Stewart (Priest, Legion) have chosen Jamie Campbell Bower to play Jace Wayland in the adaptation of City of Bones, Cassandra Clare’s first The Mortal Instruments novel....

David Fincher’s The Social Network Website Launched, Reveals 46 New Photos And Trent Reznor’s Score? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 30, 2010 4:47 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The movie stars Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer and Rooney Mara. Columbia Pictures has given the film a rumored $47 million budget. Based on Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, The Social Network tells the story of Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg, the founders of Facebook....

By Germain Lussier/May 10, 2012 5:00 am EST Monday we exclusively revealed something extremely exciting for Breaking Bad fans. An online, viral marketing campaign (or ARG, alternate reality game) was launched over at BreakingGifs.com that will eventually reveal 16 pieces of high end, limited edition art by some of today’s most well-known artists leading up to the premiere of the final season of the show this summer. The event began Wednesday night in New York City as Hood Internet took the stage, only to be joined by Gus (Giancarlo Esposito) who helped reveal a URL....

First Look: Owen Wilson, Steve Martin And Jack Black In ‘The Big Year’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 18, 2011 10:33 am EST [IMDB, via CinemaBlend]