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Infographic: The McFly Scheme: Time Travel Sports Betting By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2010 12:30 pm EST Back to the Future Part II makes it look so simple. Grab a Gray’s Sports Almanac, give it to your past self, bet on sports events you have the results of, win tons of money, and become very very rich. However, it isn’t as easy as it sounds. NFLInjury has created a handy dandy infographic to show why “The McFly Scheme” might not be the fastest and easiest way to getting rich....

Is ‘Full-On Horror’ Next For Joel And Ethan Coen? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 9, 2011 11:30 am EST With True Grit standing as the greatest box-office success of Joel and Ethan Coen’s directorial career, the question now is naturally: what next? While some (read: me) might hope that this success would finally provide a way to finance their adaptation of To the White Sea, it seems like that’s not to be the case....

LOL: CageFlix By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2010 11:00 am EST I’m not sure why you would want to add all 49 Nicolas Cage movies available on DVD to your Netflix queue, but someone has created a website called CageFlix that allows you to do just that in one simple click. Cageflix is the internet’s leading Nicolas-Cage-centric, batch queue management tool for Netflix. It adds all availalable DVDs of Nicolas Cage movies to your Netflix queue....

LOL: The ‘Star Wars’ Christmas Special (That Everyone Really Wanted) By Germain Lussier/Dec. 23, 2010 6:00 am EST If you want a bunch of Wookies growling nonsense for ten minutes, look somewhere else. The guys at Gamervision have employed some voice overs, fancy editing and more and finally given us all the Star Wars Christmas Special (That Everyone Really Wanted). Check out the video after the jump. Thanks to Gamervision and the High Definite for the heads up....

LOL: The Video Website Movie Trailer (Social Network Parody) By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 4, 2010 8:00 am EST Yes, we’ve watched the full length movie trailer for David Fincher’s The Social Network more times than we should publicly admit. I’ve also watched the teaser trailers a couple times each. Who would have thought a movie about the creation of Facebook could be so compelling. A few weeks ago we posted a parody titled The Other Social Network, which told the story about Tom and his “friends....

Marvel Movies: ‘The Avengers’ Shoot Starts Tomorrow; Shane Black Co-Writing ‘Iron Man 3’ After All? By Russ Fischer/April 24, 2011 12:30 pm EST Marvel’s great Avengers experiment is about to begin. Joss Whedon wrote in to Whedonesque today to announce that The Avengers begins shooting tomorrow. Specifically he said (in part): “Tomorrow we start shooting (I THINK I’m legally permitted to say that). Day one. That’s right. We’ll be shooting the pivotal death/betrayal/product placement/setting up the sequel/coming out scene, at the following address:” at which point the email goes a bit off the rails, but I think you get the point....

McG Considered Releasing ‘This Means War’ With Alternate Endings By Russ Fischer/Feb. 6, 2012 11:00 am EST It takes a gutsy filmmaker — and, perhaps more to the point, a gutsy studio — to emulate the strange release of the 1985 film Clue. When originally released, Clue went out with three different endings, and audiences didn’t know which one they were going to see. (There’s also a reported fourth ending, but that’s a topic for another post....

One-Hour Discussion With Oscar Writing Contenders Aaron Sorkin, Simon Beaufoy, Michael Arndt, And More By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 11, 2010 9:00 am EST The Hollywood Reporter has posted their one hour long discussion between 2010 Oscar contenders Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network), Simon Beaufoy (127 Hours), Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3), John Wells (The Company Men), Todd Phillips (Due Date) and David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole). Wait a second, is Due Date really an Awards contender?...

Page 2: Disney, Paranorman, Star Trek, Labyrinth, Game Of Thrones, Guillermo Del Toro, Star Wars, The Expendables, Orson Welles, Karate Kid, The Shining, Nickelodeon By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2012 8:00 am EST The Philip K. Dick Movie Report Card Cute Paranorman kids’ meal at Pacific Theaters in Culver City (photo thanks to Kate Erbland). 20 Neat Facts, Cool Allusions, Instances Of Foreshadowing, And Theories On ‘Breaking Bad’QMx has released the first set of their Star Trek: The Original Series Art Prints....

Page 2: Fight Club, Big Fish, Real Steel, Taxi Driver, Doctor Who, Lord Of The Rings, Expendables 2, Star Wars, Megan Fox, Step Up 4, Face/Off, Malcolm Ingram, Walking Dead, Predator, Puss In Boots By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 12, 2011 8:00 am EST Header Photo: 9 Famous Pop Culture Sweaters. LiveForFilms lists Top Five Best Picture Snubs Not Featuring Martin Scorsese. Matt Needle has created a print Inspired by the 2011 fim Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy....

See How Armie Hammer Became The Winklevoss Twins In ‘The Social Network’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 14, 2011 1:30 pm EST Once upon a time creating onscreen twins using one actor was a matter of careful staging with body doubles, and controlled camera work and split-screen editing allowing one actor to play two roles. Now there are more complex, perhaps more subtle ways to achieve the same effect. So here is a pretty detailed look at the measures undertaken by David Fincher and crew as they tranformed Armie Hammer into the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network....

Steven Spielberg Chooses Jared Harris To Play Ulysses S. Grant In ‘Lincoln’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 28, 2011 1:00 pm EST Briefly: The evil professor Moriarty, arch-enemy of Sherlock Holmes, is about to become the famed Union general and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant. Steven Spielberg has found one of the last pieces of his Lincoln puzzle in talented character actor Jared Harris, familiar to fans of Mad Men and shortly to be seen in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows....

Teaser Trailer: ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 17, 2010 10:09 am EST Jon Favreau’s follow-up to the two Iron Man movies is Cowboys & Aliens, which loosely jumps off from the comic of the same name to show a western town besieged by alien invaders. (Title kind of gives that whole thing away.) The attraction here isn’t even the concept, but the cast: Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford lead a troupe that also includes Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Paul Dano, Keith Carradine, Noah Ringer and more....

The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 57 - The Long Distance Relationship By David Chen/June 29, 2012 6:57 pm EST Stephen prepares to leave his family for Broadway. Along the way he learns some unexpected lessons from his past about the future. 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....

Ti West Directing ‘The Sacrament’ For Producer Eli Roth By Russ Fischer/Sept. 6, 2012 2:23 pm EST Eli Roth’s first step towards horror fame was Cabin Fever. One of Ti West’s first steps was directing Cabin Fever 2, though West wasn’t given control over the final product and requested that his name be taken off the film, and disowned the final release. Now Roth and West are coming together to working on a new film, called The Sacrament....

Two Action Packed New Images From Pixar’s ‘Brave’ By Germain Lussier/May 2, 2012 4:00 pm EST Pixar is being very careful with how they’re marketing their latest film, Brave. As I’ve already written, almost every single piece of the marketing has been from the first 30 minutes of the movie and only a very select few glances at the latter part of the story have popped online. The Japanese trailer had a few, same with the Japanese poster and now two new images do the same....

Video: David Cronenberg Talks About ‘The Dangerous Method’ At Toronto’s FanExpo By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2010 4:30 am EST So what’s this new David Cronenberg film The Dangerous Method all about? We know it is based on Christopher Hampton’s play The Talking Cure, and that it concerns the early friendship and working relationship between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), and the young woman (Keira Knightley) that came between them....

Warner Bros. Trying To Turn ‘Guinness Book Of World Records’ Into An Action Movie Because Of Course It Is By Angie Han/June 8, 2012 7:30 am EST With everything from pregnancy advice manuals to pen-and-paper guessing games being turned into movies these days, the only thing surprising about this news is that it’s taken this long. Warner Bros. is negotiating for the film rights to The Guinness Book of World Records, with the intention of turning it into an action adventure flick....

‘Arthur’ Trailer Featuring Russell Brand And Helen Mirren By Germain Lussier/Feb. 10, 2011 10:30 am EST Well, it’s about bloody time. Jason Winer’s remake of the classic Dudley Moore comedy Arthur, starring Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Luis Guzman, Jennifer Garner and others is scheduled for release on April 8 but we hadn’t seen a trailer until now. The film is about a spoiled New York billionaire whose whole life has been set-up for him until he finally stands up to his parents and he’s forced to live without money....

‘Easy A’ Director To Tackle Wild True Hijacking Story ‘Skyjack’ By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2012 5:00 pm EST Will Gluck, who made the very funny Easy A as well as this year’s Friends With Benefits, may detour into a true and very strange story with one of his new opportunities. The guy has quite a few upcoming projects, including a re-team with Emma Stone, a great sex comedy heist story called Sex on the Moon, and several other options all in various stages of ‘maybe’ development....