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Infographic: Back To The Future Trilogy Timeline By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 11, 2010 10:00 am EST If you read /Film on any sort of regular basis, then you know at least two things about me: I like posting infographics and I love love LOVE Back to the Future. Graphic designer Sean Mort decided to squeeze the events of the Back to the Future trilogy into a timeline infographic. I watched the films yesterday and set about trying to make sense of the timeline....

International Movie Trailer: A Very Slightly Different Look At ‘Cars 2’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 16, 2010 1:55 pm EST Briefly: We’ll present this mostly without comment, because we just saw the domestic Cars 2 trailer this morning, and this UK version really doesn’t change up much at all. You might expect to to do a bit more to trumpet Michael Caine’s presence as Finn McMissile, but I’m happy that it just allows us to realize “hey, that’s Michael Caine!...

James Gandolfini Books ‘Twylight Zones,’ Circles ‘Cogan’s Trade’ And ‘Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 24, 2011 8:01 pm EST Don’t call it a Sopranos reunion, but James Gandolfini is poised to work with Sopranos creator David Chase once more. The actor has taken a role in Mr Chase’s new project Twylight Zones, aka the film previously referred to as the Untitled David Chase Rock and Roll Movie. In addition, Mr....

Legendary Disney Songwriter Robert Sherman Has Died By Peter Sciretta/March 6, 2012 1:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Legendary songwriter Robert Sherman has died at the age of 86. Alongside his brother Richard, the Sherman Brothers were responsible for some of the best known and catchy songs in Disney film and theme park history. Here is a list of projects he provided songs for: The AbsentMinded Professor Disneyland/Disney World rides: it’s a small world (after all), The Enchanted Tiki Room (“The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room”), Carousel of Progress (“There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow”) Mary Poppins (2 academy award wins) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Oscar-nominated) The Jungle Book The Sword in the Stone The Aristocats The Parent Trap Charlotte’s Web The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (creating the now famous Winnie the Pooh theme song) Snoopy, Come Home Bedknobs and Broomsticks (2 Oscar nominations) Tom Sawyer (1973 – Oscar-nominated) American Graffiti The Magic of Lassie (Oscar-nominated) The Tigger Movie Radio Flyer Beverly Hills Cop III (“The Wonderworld Song”) The Sherman Brothers worked directly for Walt Disney until Disney’s death in 1966, producing more than 200 songs for 27 films and two dozen television productions....

Luke Evans Offered ‘Fast Six’ Villain Role By Angie Han/May 2, 2012 7:30 am EST Whether or not Rihanna really is joining Fast Six as a baddie remains to be seen, but if she does, she may have some company on the dark side. A new report has surfaced indicating that Luke Evans has just been offered the villain role in the sequel, directed by Justin Lin. It’s the same part that Jason Statham was in very early talks for back in October, but it seems the production has now moved on to a fresher face....

Mark Verheiden Co-Writing, Exec Producing ‘The Dark Tower’ By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2011 5:30 pm EST Mark Verheiden is a name that has been known in geek circles for years. I first ran across his stuff when he was scripting comics like the Aliens series for Dark Horse over twenty years ago. Since then he has become a steady scriptwriter for television, with many episodes of Battlestar Galacitca, Smallville and Heroes under his belt, among others....

New Iron Sky Teaser Trailer By Russ Fischer/May 14, 2010 6:57 am EST We haven’t covered Iron Sky much, despite the fact that it is a sci-fi comedy about Nazis attacking Earth from their base on the moon. We haven’t done a lot of coverage because there hasn’t been much to cover besides a pre-production teaser and the basic concept itself. But now the production has shot some footage for the film, which is being financed piecemeal....

Page 2: Muppets, Jason Segel, Back To The Future, Steven Spielberg, Toy Story, Star Wars, Harry Potter, WALL-E, Scott C, Lord Of The Rings By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 14, 2011 10:30 am EST Header Photo: The Muppets cake pops RWS has photos inside the recently opened Transformers store, outside the upcoming Transformers: The Ride in Singapore.IChiban produces custom LEGO sets, including one of the Back to the Future DeLoreon.Star Wars: Where Science Meets The Imagination will open at the Discovery Science Center on November 17th 2011....

Peter Jackson To Announce Hobbit News Soon? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 25, 2010 3:37 pm EST Briefly: Here we go again! With talk suggesting that MGM’s financial situation is finally getting sorted out, naturally there’s bound to be more conversation with respect to The Hobbit. This time it is producer and presumed director Peter Jackson talking to The Dominion Post, saying that MGM and Warner Bros. are “making progress untangling the MGM situation, so we should have certainty with The Hobbit sometime soon....

POTD: Avatar Poster Recreated In Mosaic Using 4000 Blu-Ray Discs By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2010 8:00 am EST Hit the jump to see the full mosaic. So, we were at the London Film Museum, in one of the Riverside Suites looking out over the London Eye. We used 4000 Blu-ray discs to create the iconic Avatar Navi image. It was 9.6 by 6 metres – so 57.6 square metres in total!...

POTD: J.K. Rowling’s Plot Spreadsheet For ‘Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 8, 2010 2:00 pm EST One of the questions all of our great storytellers now have to answer on a daily basis is, “Where is it all going?” Think of the writers of Lost. All anyone ever wanted to know from them was if they actually had everything planned out. Another person who has had to answer that question is J....

Sandra Bullock May Play Clint Eastwood’s Daughter In ‘Trouble With The Curve’ By Angie Han/Oct. 11, 2011 1:00 pm EST We thought we’d seen the last of Clint Eastwood’s acting career in Gran Torino, but news broke last week that the icon was eyeing a starring role in Trouble With the Curve, the directorial debut of frequent Eastwood collaborator Robert Lorenz. It appears Eastwood has since committed to the film, in which he’ll play a baseball scout who hits the road with his daughter....

Scream 4 Teaser Poster Revealed By Peter Sciretta/April 28, 2010 4:24 pm EST Wes Craven has premiered the official teaser poster for Scream 4 in Entertainment Weekly. The poster doesn’t reveal much about the upcoming sequel, the first part of a new trilogy written by screenwriter Kevin Williamson. The one-sheet shows a close-up of the Ghostface mask and features the tagline “New Decade. New Rules.” And the letter A in the Scream logo has been turned into a red number 4....

Seven Minutes Of LucasFilm’s ‘Red Tails’ Are Now Online; Plus George Lucas Speaks About Its Hardship, Prequels And Sequels By Germain Lussier/Jan. 10, 2012 1:30 pm EST According to executive producer George Lucas, Red Tails is “as close as you’ll ever get to [Star Wars] Episode VII.” So it seems appropriate that seven minutes of the film have made their way online for your viewing pleasure. The action epic, over two-decades in the making, is directed by Anthony Hemingway and sports a super-impressive cast such as Cuba Gooding, Jr....

Star Wars Bits: Disney’s Carbon-Freeze Walkthrough, Updates On Live Action TV Series, Boba Fett Movie And More By Germain Lussier/May 22, 2012 6:00 am EST Earlier this month, it was revealed Star Wars Weekends at Walt Disney World provided fans a chance to buy a custom made toy of themselves in Carbonite, just like Han Solo. That’s now underway and, after the jump, you can see some video and learn more about that process....

Studio Ghibli To Announce New Film On December 15 By Russ Fischer/Nov. 6, 2010 2:30 pm EST Good news for fans of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese company that has been the traditional home of master animator Hayao Miyazaki along with many other wonderful filmmakers. On Thursday at the Rome International Film Festival, the president of the studio announced that he will “announce Ghibli’s new work on December 15.” Why is this good news?...

The Weinstein Co. Will Release Madonna’s ‘W.E.’ In 2011 By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2011 1:00 pm EST After a bit of delay in finding a distributor, Madonna’s second directorial effort W.E. has a home at The Weinstein Company. Moreover, the Weinsteins plan to release the picture sometime in 2011 — a last-minute calendar addition that could mean one of two things. Either the movie has actual awards potential, or The Weinstein Company needs a movie, now, that can fill some space in November....

Trivia: Clint Eastwood Was Offered Superman And James Bond By David Chen/Sept. 8, 2010 1:30 pm EST Can you picture Clint Eastwood wearing Superman’s cape and tights? How about enjoying a martini, shaken-not-stirred, while wearing a tux and sporting a Walther PPK? The sight of those outfits on Eastwood might not have been too far removed from reality. According to a recent interview, Eastwood was once offered the roles of Superman AND James Bond....

Universal Drops ‘Clue,’ But It Still Lives On Thanks To Gore Verbinski By Germain Lussier/Aug. 3, 2011 11:00 am EST Universal, in the conference room, with the telephone. That’s most likely how the movie studio officially dropped their interest in a remake/adaptation of the Hasbro board game Clue. However, Hasbro is currently so flush from films like Transformers: Dark of the Moon, they aren’t worried. They’ve got Battleship, Stretch Armstrong, Ouija and Candyland all still in various stages of production/development and they’re letting Clue go out on its own with Gore Verbinski’s production company Blink Wink....

Warner Bros. Developing ‘Tales From The Gangster Squad’ By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2010 9:17 am EST So, reportedly the Mafia Wars rumor that cropped up yesterday isn’t true, so we can breathe a sigh of relief that we may never see a film based on that particular bit of gangster fiction. But there are a million stories in the naked city, and Warner Bros. is said to be pulling a few of them together for Tales from the Gangster Squad, which would be “an action movie conceived as an ensemble piece for a group of top-level actors....