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Video Blog Reaction: Coen Brothers’ True Grit By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 1, 2010 10:00 am EST Last week I had the awesome opportunity to screen the Coen Brothers newest film, a big screen adaptation/remake of True Grit. For those of you who haven’t seen the trailer (and if you haven’t seen the trailer — click here now!), the western stars newcomer Hailee Steinfeld as a spitfire 14-year-old farm girl named Mattie who sets out to capture the man who murdered her father....

VOTD: Awesome Movie Theater Marriage Proposal By Germain Lussier/April 22, 2011 6:00 am EST You’ve seen plenty of marriage proposals on television, at sporting events and maybe even in movie theaters. But this one is above and beyond. This guy hired a company to create an action movie trailer, starring him, that would play in front of a movie he and his girl went to see. She’d get confused, finally see her boyfriend, and, well, you should watch this video....

Watch THR’s Hour-Long Interview With 2011’s Award-Worthy Actors By Germain Lussier/Dec. 6, 2011 6:00 am EST Every year during awards season, The Hollywood Reporter somehow organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress, writer and director of the year’s best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty spectacular. What’s even better is they release the videos of the full conversations so we can watch. For the 2011 Actors Roundtable, they’ve brought together George Clooney of The Descendants, Christopher Plummer of Beginners, Gary Oldman of Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy, Christoph Waltz of Carnage, Albert Brooks of Drive and Nick Nolte of Warrior to discuss their own, and each others’, performances, all of which have a good shot at multiple award nominations....

‘Alvin And The Chipmunks 3: Chipwrecked’ Teaser Trailer By Germain Lussier/June 16, 2011 3:00 pm EST Thanks to Apple for the trailer. Head over there to watch it in High Definition. At least it was short, right? Here’s the official plot description of the film: Like most of you, I was an Alvin and the Chipmunks fan when I was younger so the release of the first film should have churned up some nostalgia....

By Germain Lussier/May 21, 2012 6:00 am EST If you aren’t totally caught up with AMC’s Breaking Bad, I urge you not to check out the latest piece of art from the Breaking Bad Art Project. It’s of a major, major spoiler concerning that happens in the latest season’s finale. However, if you are caught up, I’m sure you have an idea exactly what awaits you below if I say it concerns Gus (Giancarlo Esposito)....

‘Oldboy’ Remake Reportedly Gaining Steam Once More; Director Wishlist Includes Steven Spielberg, Matthew Vaughn, Danny Boyle By Russ Fischer/Nov. 8, 2010 1:41 pm EST One of the biggest potential remake projects of the past couple years was the much-derided Steven Spielberg / Will Smith version of Oldboy. Never mind that their film was said to be a new adaptation of the original manga, rather than a straight remake of Park Chan-Wook’s widely praised (and quite excellent) film....

‘Red Lights’ - The Director Of ‘Buried’ Created His Version Of ‘Ghostbusters’ [Sundance 2012] By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 21, 2012 11:23 am EST Rodrigo Cortés made a name for himself with a film that premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival: Buried, based on Chris Sparling’s black list script about a man buried alive who has to figure a way out of his coffin before his air supply is used up. The film starred Ryan Reynolds, and was critically praised for it’s direction, a tough task considering the 95-minute film takes place completely inside a casket....

‘Rio’ Character Posters By Germain Lussier/Jan. 7, 2011 11:30 am EST If a film studio can’t bring in audiences to a slick-looking, 3D animated film starring animals with famous voices, they might as well hand over their keys. Making kids movies is like printing money; even the bad ones are usually successful in some way. That makes it tough to gauge just how big a role the marketing played in it....

‘Super 8,’ ‘Thor,’ ‘Captain America’ Footage Screened At Cinema Con By Peter Sciretta/March 29, 2011 1:14 am EST Tonight Paramount Pictures, Marvel Entertainment and DreamWorks Animation presented footage from JJ Abrams’ Super 8, Thor, Captain America, Kung Fu Panda 2, and Puss in Boots. The DreamWorks Animation footage was basically a shortened version of the presentation we saw in Los Angeles a couple weeks back (article here). After the jump you can read my thoughts and reactions to the other footage screened tonight, along with a video blog....

‘The Guard’ – ‘Hot Fuzz’ Plus ‘In Bruges’ Equals Funnier Than Both [Sundance Review] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 27, 2011 12:00 pm EST The Guard, which was picked up at Sundance by Sony Pictures Classics, is one of those movies you’re going to be quoting and turning your friends on to. Though it seems pretty surface based on a general description, once you see it, you realize it’s a truly special movie complete with humor, action, heart and one of the most memorable characters in recent years....

‘X-Men: First Class’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 10, 2011 2:45 pm EST Hit the jump to watch it now. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Release Date: June 3, 2011 Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, January Jones, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon Directed By: Matthew Vaughn Written By: TBD, based on a story by Bryan Singer Official Plot Synopsis: X-MEN FIRST CLASS charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events....

Ari Sandel To Direct Big Screen Adaptation Of Neil Strauss’ The Game By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2010 10:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For those of you who are chuckling about the idea of a handbook for pickup artists being adapted into a big screen movie, that isn’t exactly the case. While Strauss’ book does have informations which claim to teach men who to pickup women, the story is a first person account of Rolling Stone writer Struss’ journey into the world of pickup artists, where he not only learned how to become one, but he becomes a master teacher with a group of rotating students in a Sunset Strip mansion....

Axe To Axe! First Look At Sylvester Stallone In ‘Bullet To The Head’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2011 4:30 pm EST Sylvester Stallone is really back in action this week, with that teaser trailer for The Expendables 2 and a poster to go along with it. Sly even gets to hold down the poster solo, despite the fact that the whole selling point of The Expendables 2 is that it is an even bigger action ensemble than the first....

Catherine Hardwicke To Direct ‘The Bitch Posse’ By Russ Fischer/May 6, 2011 1:54 pm EST Catherine Hardwicke will forever be known as the director of Twilight, but she has been and hopefully will again be more than that. (Even Red Riding Hood, which was more like Twilight than not, was at least much weirder one than I expected.) She’s now set to direct an adaptation of The Bitch Posse, a 2006 novel by Martha O’Connor that tells of a set of three friends who bonded in high school, then live through an event that shatters their friendship....

Comic-Con Movie Trailer: Thor By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2010 11:55 pm EST Well, there’s one genie that can’t go back in the bottle. A digital copy of the trailer for Thor — the same footage shown during Marvel’s Saturday panel at Comic Con — has hit the internet. See it after the break. This can’t possibly be official, so it may not last long. And I’m of two minds about posting it, but the sad fact is that whether we post it or not, it’s out in the wild....

First Look: Red Tails By Russ Fischer/May 10, 2010 5:26 am EST We’ve heard a couple of rumors about Red Tails, the World War II flick about the Tuskegee Airmen produced by George Lucas and directed by Anthony Hemingway. But until now we haven’t seen any photos or images. You can see a few behind the scenes shots after the break, culled from a large collection of photos that are meant to show off the digital imaging tech used to shoot the feature....

Gareth Edwards’ Monsters Gets An October Release Date By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2010 12:00 pm EST Since screening the film at Cannes, we’ve been hyping Gareth Edwards’ new low budget monster movie Monsters (read my mini review here). Hollywood is already going nuts over the filmmaker, who supposedly made the film for a fraction of a million dollars (maybe even as little as $15,000), and some are touting him as the next Neill Blomkamp....

Joss Whedon Explains Early Reluctance To Accept ‘The Avengers 2’ Gig By Russ Fischer/Sept. 19, 2012 12:00 pm EST It’s great to be Joss Whedon right now — after years of being a cult sensation he has turned into one of the most powerful guys in Hollywood, thanks to the fact that The Avengers sits in third place on the all-time box-office earners list. But that also means that he’s under the sort of scrutiny that he’s never quite faced before, and that means there’s a lot to think about when it comes to making decisions going forward....

By Angie Han/Feb. 29, 2012 3:30 pm EST Among their several upcoming projects are an action comedy recently picked up by Indian Paintbrush, which has Kristen Wiig attached to star. In addition, there’s also another collaboration with Alexander Payne in the works, and a directorial debut with Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney set to star. More after the jump. For her part, Wiig’s been enjoying her own career boost since the success of Bridesmaids....

LOL: The Recurring Prop Newspaper By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2010 9:00 am EST If you watch enough television shows and movies, then you might even start to notice that a bunch of the same props are used over and over again. I first noticed this with a magazine prop in various television shows including Married With Children, which featured a gum advertisement on the back cover. Someone on Reddit recently put together a compilation of photos from various television shows, commercials and movies, showing how one newspaper prop gets around and is reused, and reused again....