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‘21 Jump Street’ Red Band Trailer By Germain Lussier/Nov. 2, 2011 1:25 pm EST Based on the hit late Eighties TV show and featuring the debut of the newly slender Jonah Hill, 21 Jump Street isn’t scheduled for release until March 16 but your first official look is now online. The film, directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and co-starring Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Ice Cube with a not-so-secret cameo by Johnny Depp now has a three minute plus red band trailer that only ruins a few of the jokes....

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Writer Simon Beaufoy Still Hopes Danny Boyle Will Make Shape-Shifting Gang Movie ‘Sharp Teeth’ By Russ Fischer/March 9, 2012 3:00 pm EST Just over a year ago Simon Beaufoy — who won an Oscar for his Slumdog Millionaire script and went on to write 127 Hours — hoped that Danny Boyle would take a shine to his adaptation of the Toby Barlow novel Sharp Teeth. We kinda hoped Boyle would like the script, too, because it sounds nuts....

‘That’s My Boy’ Red-Band Trailer #2 By Germain Lussier/June 6, 2012 3:00 pm EST Adam Sandler and crew have been promoting That’s My Boy for so long now, I feel like it’s already come and gone. He was at the Super Bowl talking about the film, on ESPN before that and now, finally, after over six months of hype, the film will finally be released next week. In the movie, Sandler plays a man who fathers a child in his teens and then, when his child (Andy Samberg) gets married, the young father comes back into his life....

By Russ Fischer/June 5, 2012 5:00 pm EST Most video game movies are pretty terrible adaptations of game properties. Maybe the way to go is to just make movies informed by games, as Edgar Wright did with Scott Pilgrim. Disney is taking that approach with Wreck-It Ralph, a film in which the main character is a video game bad guy (think of a human Donkey Kong) who years to break out of the role he’s locked into....

Bollywood Movie Trailer: Shankar’s The Robot By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 5, 2010 11:00 am EST What if Bollywood created a movie with equal parts Iron Man, I, Robot, Bicentennial Man and featured the score of Academy Award-winning composer A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire)? /Film reader Nathan T sent over the trailer for S. Shankar’s The Robot, which looks to be that movie. The film features Rajinikanth in dual roles, as a science professor and a superintelligent android robot....

Casting Bits: Patrick Wilson And Vera Farmiga In ‘The Conjuring’, Nikki Reed And Jake Hoffman In ‘Snap’ By Angie Han/Jan. 24, 2012 12:00 pm EST Patrick Wilson could be reuniting with his Insidious director James Wan for The Conjuring, as he and Vera Farmiga enter final talks to star in the new supernatural thriller. Written by Chad and Carey Hayes, the script centers around a married couple (Wilson and Farmiga) investigating spirits in a Rhode Island farmhouse, in what turns out to be the most terrifying case of their demonology careers....

Casting Bits: Reese Witherspoon In ‘Who Invited Her?’, Bob Balaban Joins ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ By Angie Han/June 8, 2011 11:01 am EST Not too long ago, it seemed like every new movie in the works was some spin on the doomed paranormal romance a la Twilight. Now, Hollywood’s new obsession seems to be wedding-themed comedies. Thanks to the recent successes of Bridesmaids and The Hangover Part II, Hollywood is apparently intent on producing any wedding-based comedy it can get its hands on....

Casting Bits: Samantha Morton In David Cronenberg’s ‘Cosmopolis;’ Alan Rickman In ‘Gambit;’ Rick Yune In RZA’s ‘The Man With The Iron Fists’ By Russ Fischer/March 22, 2011 6:00 pm EST The casting for David Cronenberg’s adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel Cosmopolis has been an up and down affair, with original talents Colin Farrell and Marion Cotillard dropping out. Robert Pattinson is now the male lead — he plays a young billionaire who deals with quite a few problems as he spends a day crossing Manhattan in his limo....

Cool Stuff: Iam8bit Gallery Show ‘Licorice Flix’ Recreates Movie Images With Candy By Russ Fischer/Nov. 3, 2011 5:30 pm EST The iam8bit crew was born out of an enthusiasm for video games and pop art, with the iam8bit gallery being most famous for shows featuring fun reinterpretations of video game scenes and icons. But the group is starting to venture into the world of movies. The last SUPER iam8bit show featured a great many pieces inspired by the documentary The King of Kong, for example....

Cool Stuff: Jay Ryan’s ‘Ten Banthas’ Star Wars Poster By Germain Lussier/Dec. 14, 2010 8:38 am EST This is arguably my favorite Mondo Star Wars poster yet and it goes on sale today. Ten Banthas dramatizes a simpler time on the planet of Tatooine in the broad, cartoon style that’s the signature of artist Jay Ryan. The subtle touches, like the structure in the back and the Star Destroyer in the sky really make this poster pop....

Dean DeBlois Talks ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ Sequel: Middle Part Of Trilogy; Storyboarding Underway By Russ Fischer/June 3, 2011 2:13 pm EST We won’t see the sequel to How to Train Your Dragon for another three years — the as-yet untitled film is set to release on June 20, 2014. But work on the movie is underway, and writer/director Dean DeBlois has issued a small update on the production. He confirms that work is underway on the storyboards, and seems to confirm Jay Baruchel’s suggestion that the series is planned as a trilogy....

Derek Zoolander Returns, Thanks To SNL By Russ Fischer/Oct. 10, 2011 8:32 am EST Ben Stiller made his return to hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend, his first hosting gig on the show since 1998. And he brought Derek Zoolander with him. It’s not exactly a ten-year celebration of the 2001 release of Zoolander, but until those oft-discussed plans for a sequel actually bear fruit, it’ll have to do. Check out the character’s appearance below....

Help Fund ‘I Am Big Bird’, A Documentary About Big Bird And Oscar The Grouch Puppeteer Caroll Spinney By Angie Han/Aug. 7, 2012 2:00 pm EST Jim Henson’s Muppets are such iconic, indelible personalities that it’s almost easy to forget they are, in the end, just bits of felt and foam brought to life by a team of talented human performers. But while the puppeteers behind Sesame Street and The Muppets may not be as well known as the characters they’ve created, their stories can be every bit as fascinating....

Joss Whedon Officially Directing The Avengers By Devindra Hardawar/July 22, 2010 3:31 pm EST Joss Whedon announced today that he’s officially directing The Avengers, while on stage with J.J. Abrams at San Diego’s Comic-Con. He joked that Marvel didn’t have enough money for a real press release, so he took it up himself to confirm previous reports that he was in talks to direct the film. When pressed for further details, he said that it was way too early to reveal anything....

LOL: Rob Lowe Calls ’80s Hollywood Agent Warren Klein By Germain Lussier/Sept. 18, 2012 6:00 am EST Rob Lowe fans have one man to thank for their favorite actor not retiring: Legendary Eighties Hollywood agent Warren Klein. If we’re lead to believe the latest voicemail released by Funny or Die, Rob Lowe was so upset that Tom Hulce beat him out for the lead role in Milos Forman’s Amadeus, he was seriously considering quitting acting....

New ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Poster Spreads Fire Over Gotham By Russ Fischer/May 21, 2012 2:40 pm EST Today Warner Bros. released a new poster for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, and it is an attention-getting design that helps put the original teaser poster into perspective. Here we see the same bat-logo outline established by a crumbling Gotham City, but with the addition of a fiery explosion and tense, determined Batman (Christian Bale)....

Pixar’s ‘Brave’ Moves Back A Week By Germain Lussier/March 17, 2011 10:00 am EST This summer, Pixar gives us Cars 2. Next year, we’ll get both John Carter of Mars and Brave, which is being touted as Pixar’s first original fairy tale. It was set to open June 15, 2012 but was just bumped back a week to June 22, 2012. That puts it up against Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which will almost assuredly be a hard R and makes for nice counter programming....

Rihanna Joins Peter Berg’s Battleship By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2010 9:37 pm EST Variety reports that pop/R&B recording artist Rihanna has joined the cast of Peter Berg’s water based epic action adaptation of the board game Battleship. While Rihanna’s music has appeared in movies such as Bring It On: All or Nothing, Are We There Yet?, Sydney White, 21, Wild Child, The House Bunny, Beethoven’s Big Break, I Love You Man, The Hangover and Grand Ma Takedown, this marks her feature film acting debut....

Sequel Bits: ‘Red 2,’ ‘Kick-Ass 2,’ ‘Despicable Me’s’ Minions, ‘300: The Battle Of Artemisia’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 22, 2012 12:30 pm EST Fake superheroes, spin-offs and Leonidas are all in this edition of Sequel Bits. After the jump read about the following: Mark Millar is teasing some of the fights and costumes in Kick-Ass 2. Universal has set a December 19, 2014 release date for a Despicable Me spin-off centered on the Minions....

Seth Rogen Is The Dude In Jason Reitman’s ‘Big Lebowski’ Live Read By Germain Lussier/March 29, 2012 1:00 pm EST Thursday marks the end of Jason Reitman’s series of live readings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and, for most of us, that’s a relief. It’s a relief because we can finally stop being insanely jealous of the small group of people who’ve gotten to experience these incredible events which will never be released to the public....