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Photos: ‘The Hunger Games’, ‘This Is Forty’, ‘Gangster Squad’, ‘Men In Black 3,’ ‘Frankenweenie’ By Angie Han/Jan. 16, 2012 9:30 am EST As we head toward the Oscars and therefore the end of awards season, it’s time to take a better look at some of the films we’re anticipating from 2012. We have for you today an eclectic mix of photos from some of the entertainments we’re most looking forward to, from Gary Ross’ deadly serious YA adaptation The Hunger Games to Judd Apatow’s almost-middle-age comedy This is Forty and everything in between....

Poll: Which Of The Movie Super Bowl Commercials Did You Like Best? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2011 8:34 pm EST A lot of movie commercials premiered during the Super Bowl: JJ Abrams’ Super 8, Captain America: The First Avenger, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Thor, Fast Five, Priest, Just Go With It, Limitless, The Eagle, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Rio, Battle: Los Angeles, Cowboys & Aliens, Drive Angry 3D, and Rango....

Possible Paul Greengrass Projects May Now Include Somali Pirate Film And Formula One Project By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2011 6:15 pm EST Although I really don’t know the truth of the matter, I imagine that the past year has been a frustrating one for Paul Greengrass. Green Zone came out in March 2010 and was almost immediately labeled an underperformer. After a great deal of extra time was taken to reshoot and cut the not-exactly crowd-pleasing film, it probably could never be anything but....

Producer Shopping Rush Limbaugh Biopic By Russ Fischer/June 3, 2010 1:57 pm EST This probably won’t be fair and balanced. Writer/producer James Sciafani has scripted a film about conservative pundit and talk show host Rush Limbaugh — aka one of the most popular radio personalities in America — and is shopping the film around for financing. But the movie isn’t likely to be terribly sympathetic to Limbaugh, as Sciafani is a Democrat who describes the film as “Citizen Kane meets Private Parts....

Steve McQueen’s ‘Shame’ Gets U.S. Release Date Of December 2, 2011 By Angie Han/Oct. 4, 2011 2:30 pm EST According to The Hollywood Reporter, among the NSFW highlights we can expect from the film are “male and female full-frontal nudity, graphic depictions of straight/gay/threeway sex, masturbation, urination,” and something really gruesome that we’re not going to reveal here so as to avoid spoilers. Aside from its explicit nature, the film has also drawn lots of attention for powerful performances by leads Fassbender and Mulligan — no surprise considering how much praise both actors have earned for their talents in the past....

The Looney Tunes Show: More Character Designs Revealed By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2010 7:00 am EST In May we told you that Warner Bros. would be reinvent the classic Looney Tunes stable of characters as a series of new 3D theatrical short films and a new 26-episode half-hour Cartoon Network television series called The Looney Tunes Show. The pitch for the new series is that Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck will be “odd-couple roommates in a contemporary cul-de-sac” with neighbors Yosemite Sam, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Marvin the Martian and Porky Pig....

The Making Of Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Black Swan’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 4, 2011 6:30 pm EST As the Oscar ballots get distributed to Academy members, it seems like all of the movie studios are released behind the scenes featurettes and documentaries in support of their award-nominated films. Over the past week, we’ve posted such videos as a massive 93 minute documentary The Social Network, The cinematography of True Grit, and The Making of The King’s Speech....

Top 10 Superhero Movies By Zach Lawrence/Oct. 4, 2007 12:33 am EST The following editorial is from Zach Lawrence.I was watching Heroes season 1 the other day. I’m enthralled. And sadly dusting myself off from lagging behind the bandwagon on what apparently everyone knew but me. We have plethoras of Heroes in the cinema, some undeserving, some exceeding what we dreamed they would be like, but all of them Hero’s nonetheless....

Watch The Short Film ‘Blinky,’ In Which A Small Robot Goes Slightly Out Of Control By Russ Fischer/March 21, 2011 10:00 am EST We don’t often cover short films for over a year in advance, but Ruairi Robinson made the great short The Silent City and was attached to the live-action Akira remake, so when concept video cropped up for a new film of his in late 2009, we noticed. That film turns out to be the short Blinky, starring Max Records (Where the Wild Things Are) as a kid whose family has some problems....

WTF: ‘Zookeeper’ Advertising Inserted Into ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Reruns? By Russ Fischer/July 6, 2011 4:30 pm EST Is nothing sacred?!? How can we trust anything, if we can’t trust reruns of How I Met Your Mother? A couple of eagle-eyed viewers have noticed that episodes of the show from several years back have been digitally altered in reruns to feature ads for Sony, Columbia or Screen Gems films. At least two instances of Zookeeper ads have been screencapped, and there’s a Country Strong ad inserted into another episode....

‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Theatrical Trailer #2 Goes Gettysburg Address By Germain Lussier/May 28, 2012 4:00 pm EST The film will be released June 22 and follows the 16th President of the United States (Benjamin Walker) who becomes a lean, mean, vampire killing machine after seeing a bloodsucker kill his mother. It also stars Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, was produced by Tim Burton, written by Seth Grahame-Smith (based on his novel) and is directed by Timur Bekmambetov....

‘Brave’ Also Expanding To Wide Release For Labor Day Weekend By Angie Han/Aug. 31, 2012 10:47 am EST Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow will be sharing the multiplex this weekend with another red-haired heroine making a last-minute push for box office dollars. Disney’s doubling down on old releases for Labor Day, giving Pixar’s Brave a one-week-only wider opening. The animated adventure has dwindled to just 450 theaters by last weekend, but will be bumped up to a 1,700-theater wide release for this weekend....

(Re)Watch The First Seven Minutes Of Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Drive’ By Angie Han/Jan. 31, 2012 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For the rest of you, Drive stars Ryan Gosling as a movie stunt driver who mans getaway vehicles by night. When he falls for a married neighbor (Carey Mulligan), he gets pulled into a heist with her ex-con husband (Oscar Isaac) that spins out of his control....

‘Resident Evil: Retribution’ Trailer - Video Game Franchise Gets A ‘Total Recall’ Twist By Germain Lussier/June 14, 2012 9:30 am EST Milla Jovovich is back in the fifth installment of the Resident Evil series, Resident Evil: Retribution, and the first trailer has just come online. Scheduled for 3D release on September 14, it seems Umbrella has embedded Alice with false memories of a perfect life in order to stop her from taking down the evil, monster making corporation....

Anne Hathaway To Inherit Jane Fonda’s Role In Barbarella? Not So Fast. By Russ Fischer/Dec. 10, 2010 11:30 am EST Lately there’s a casting rumor every single day, and the latest is a one-two for Anne Hathaway, who has been mentioned as the latest possible lead for the revamped Barbarella, and for David O. Russell’s possible feature The Silver Linings Playbook. But The Playlist talked to a rep for the actress who says she hasn’t been formally attached to either film....

Cool Stuff: Aesthetic Apparatus’s Limited Edition ‘Young Adult’ Pop-Up Screening Art By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 19, 2011 5:30 pm EST As we told you yesterday, Paramount Pictures is running unannounced pop-up screenings of Jason Reitman’s new film Young Adult in cities around North America. As a special bonus, Jason and Paramount enlisted the curatorial services of Los Angeles’s famous pop culture art gallery Gallery1988 to pick the artists and produce limited edition pieces of art for the surprise screenings....

Cool Stuff: Hot Toys’ Col. Hans Landa 1/6th Scale ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Collectible Figure By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 25, 2010 10:00 am EST Hot Toys have announced the upcoming release of the 1/6th scale Col. Hans Landa Inglourious Basterds Collectible Figure, part of their Movie Masterpiece Series. The highly detailed Col. Hans Landa collectible is specially crafted based on the image of Christoph Waltz in the movie, highlighting the newly sculpted head, movie-accurate facial expression, Germany army uniform and detailed accessories....

David Gordon Green, Emile Hirsch, And Paul Rudd Secretly Remade An Icelandic Road Trip Comedy By Angie Han/June 6, 2012 4:00 pm EST Sneaky, sneaky. While we’ve been wondering when David Gordon Green might return to the indie fare that earned him so much acclaim in his early days, it turns out Green himself has already done so in secret. Green, along with stars Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch, has just wrapped the low-budget road trip comedy Prince Avalanche, an Austin, TX-set remake of the Icelandic film Either Way (A annan veg)....

Detroit Shoots Down Idea To Erect ‘Robocop’ Statue In City By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2011 4:00 pm EST I’m sure you saw the Chrysler’s “Imported From Detroit” Super Bowl commercial featuring Eminem. Detroit has an image problem, and steps have been taken to spin the city’s image back in a more positive direction. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has been soliciting the internet for suggestions on how to clean up the city and its image....

Director Hires: Don Scardino For Steve Carell Comedy ‘Burt Wonderstone;’ Mary Harron To Direct ‘Wicked Lovely’ By Russ Fischer/June 3, 2011 9:15 am EST The comedy Burt Wonderstone, which is planning to star Steve Carell as a “traditional magic man who is dethroned by a hip younger illusionist and must then find a way to rediscover his love for magic,” has been kicking around for a few years. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Horrible Bosses) wrote the script, and the film has had a couple different directors attached....