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Mel Gibson To Appear In ‘The Hangover 2’? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 18, 2010 5:47 am EST The Hangover initially hooked audiences with a big cameo, as the trailer revealed that the film would depict, at long last, Mike Tyson’s secret love for Phil Collins. Now that the comedy is a name brand, The Hangover 2 doesn’t need a huge cameo to pull in audiences. But it can’t hurt, right? Last week returning actress Sasha Barrese said we could expect another huge guest appearance....

More Information About The Recurring Prop Newspaper By Peter Sciretta/June 9, 2010 12:00 pm EST Last week we did a post about the recurring prop newspaper which can be seen in many television shows and movies from the last few decades. If you didn’t check out the post the first time around, click here now. The post took off virally, and spread around the web and the world. But why is this one prop newspaper in so many movies and television shows?...

Movie Trailer: ‘Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2010 10:44 am EST Martin Lawrence is back in the female fat suit for Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, and he’s got Tropic Thunder’s Brandon T. Jackson suited up alongside him. There’s a trailer for the film after the break, and I dare you to watch it. The first Big Momma’s House came out in 2000, but this trailer plays as if a middle-school student wrote a comedy script in the mid-’90s and threw it into a time capsule....

By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2010 4:21 pm EST Magnolia Pictures/Magnet have released the second trailer for Gareth Edwards’ new low budget monster movie Monsters, and thankfully it doesn’t seem to give too much away. If you’re taking my approach to the film and trying to see as little as possible, it looks like you’ll be safe watching this trailer. Edwards reportedly made the film for a shockingly low sum (well under $100,000) and despite that, the film looks great....

Paul Scheer’s Rules To Watching Piranha 3D By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2010 12:30 pm EST Piranha 3D is getting rave reviews from the few who have screened it this week. The film currently has 82% on Rotten Tomatoes with 28 reviews filed, and it seems like this is the movie people were hoping Snakes on a Plane and Grindhouse would’ve been. CHUD even said that ‘Piranha 3D could be the finest film of our time’, I kid you not....

Prolific Japanese Director Takashi Miike Plans His First 3D Film: A Remake Of ‘Harakiri’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 16, 2010 1:22 pm EST Keeping up with the output of Japanese director Takashi Miike can be a difficult task. He’s slowed down somewhat in recent years, with only two films this year and two in 2009. But he’s still one of the most prodigious filmmakers alive, with a habit of burning like a wildfire through one feature project after another....

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Featurette: Fantasia: The Coolest Scene Ever By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2010 9:00 am EST Jon Turteltaub’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is inspired by the sequence in the Walt Disney Animated film Fantasia. While the film takes the 8 minute scene of classic animation and expands on the idea greatly, the movie does feature a sequence inspired by the original animated Mickey Mouse segment. Disney has released a new featurette that takes a look at this sequence, giving us a peek at what it looks like in live-action with Jay Baruchel....

Timur Bekmambetov May Produce Remake Of His Russian Flying Car Film ‘Black Lightning’ By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2010 8:29 pm EST Last year, Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted) produced Black Lightning in Russia. The movie was directed by Alexander Voytinskiy and Dmitriy Kiselev, the latter of whom edited Night Watch and Day Watch and pulled second-unit directorial duty on Wanted. The original Black Lightning looked like a slick, commercial adventure about a student whose fortunes turn around when he acquires a flying car....

VOTD: ‘The Batman Complex’ By Angie Han/April 27, 2011 3:00 pm EST Probably all of us have entertained fantasies at some point about becoming one of our favorite superheroes, whether as children playing with action figures or adults watching the latest comic book blockbuster. Generally, it’s just harmless fun — but take that drive to the extreme and things can get really weird, as seen in today’s Video of the Day....

VOTD: Flames Over Pandora (Gorillaz Meets Avatar) By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 13, 2011 5:00 am EST Youtube user Charman64 has used clips from Avatar to help illustrate the Gorillaz song “Fire Coming Out Of A Monkey’s Head”. Watch the video embedded after the jump. via: High Def VOTD: Flames Over Pandora (Gorillaz Meets Avatar) By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 13, 2011 5:00 am EST Youtube user Charman64 has used clips from Avatar to help illustrate the Gorillaz song “Fire Coming Out Of A Monkey’s Head”....

‘L’ Trailer: ‘Dogtooth’ Crew Delivers One Of Sundance’s Weirder Entries By Russ Fischer/Jan. 31, 2012 5:00 am EST A couple weeks back we presented the teaser trailer for a movie called L, which is directed by Greek filmmaker Babis Makridis and co-written by Dogtooth and Alps writer Efthimis Filippou, and shot by Dogtooth cinematographer Thimios Bakatakis. The teaser trailer was appealingly odd (well, appealing to me, anyway) but word about the film has been pretty quiet out of Sundance....

‘Mad Men’ Might Be To Blame For Frank Darabont’s Departure From ‘The Walking Dead’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 4, 2011 11:45 am EST Audiences have called Don Draper many things: genius, alcoholic, womanizer, and one of the best characters on TV. One thing the main character of Mad Men has never been called though is a zombie killer, but that might be more true than not. According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, the new $10 million-per-season contact AMC has signed with Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner could be the reason why Frank Darabont left one of AMC’s other hit shows, The Walking Dead....

‘Mirror Mirror’ Review: Tarsem Revamps Snow White For Media-Savvy Kids, With Mixed Results By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2012 12:00 pm EST Tarsem opens with a gorgeous CG animated puppet show detailing the history of the kingdom in which the story takes place. The King was a good man but disappeared on a combat expedition into the nearby dark forest. The narrator of this tale turns out to be the Queen (Julia Roberts), a conniving and selfish woman whose machinations put the kingdom in her hands....

‘On Chesil Beach,’ Meant To Be The Next Sam Mendes Film, Has Been Postponed By Russ Fischer/Sept. 14, 2010 10:17 am EST Call this as you’d like — either it is a weird confluence of events, or a sign that the pieces are really coming together at MGM. We just reported on the story that Sam Mendes had taken himself off the director shortlist for The Hunger Games so that he might be free to shoot the new Bond movie in late summer or early fall 2011....

‘The Thing’ Red Band Trailer By Germain Lussier/Sept. 19, 2011 12:30 pm EST If for some crazy reason you’ve never seen John Carpenter’s The Thing and are waiting to watch it after you see Matthijs van Heijningen’s direct prequel, also called The Thing, you may want to avoid this new, spoiler-filled red-band trailer. If, however, you are among the many who adore the 1982 film starring Kurt Russell, feel free to dive right in....

‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ Director Tomas Alfredson Options ‘The Brothers Lionheart’ By Russ Fischer/May 30, 2012 4:30 pm EST Tomas Alfredson has made two very specific sort of films in a row: the period-piece adaptations Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. But in the wake of the release of Tinker, we haven’t heard much about what the director will do next. He was mentioned as a possible option for Catching Fire, though that always seemed like a longshot, and has a couple other films in some stage of development....

‘When Harry Left Hogwarts’ Trailer – A Documentary About The End Of ‘Harry Potter’ By Angie Han/Oct. 19, 2011 9:00 am EST If you’re the kind of person who got all emotional during all those Harry Potter cast interviews about shooting the final scene, or if you referred to the last movie, without irony, as “the end of an era,” then When Harry Left Hogwarts is for you. The documentary, by BAFTA-winning filmmaker Morgan Matthews (The Fallen), chronicles the making of David Yates’ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Part 2, and will make you get teary-eyed all over again as cast members talk about what it’s been like to be part of the franchise for the past ten years....

Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ Might Be 3D; Michael Mann Considering 3D Too By Germain Lussier/Jan. 10, 2011 10:30 am EST In the coming years, someone is going to write a really interesting book about this new evolution of 3D complete with the highs, the lows and the creamy middles. And while the 2010 chapter certainly had some lows – Clash of the Titans, The Last Airbender – 2011 looks like it could easily turn the page....

Billy Bob Thornton Says ‘Bad Santa 2’ Planned For Fall Shoot; Plans To Direct Road Movie ‘And Then We Drove’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 14, 2012 1:00 pm EST Billy Bob Thornton is in Berlin this week with the latest film he directed, Jayne Mansfield’s Car. Reviews are hitting today and a quick scan suggests the response is middling but more favorable than not. The actor/director is also doing interview rounds, and the subject is ranging to more than his current film....

Darren Bousman’s ‘11-11-11’ Teaser Trailer By Germain Lussier/March 22, 2011 5:00 am EST While we have no idea when Darren Lynn Bousman’s latest film Mother’s Day will be released, there’s no doubt about his next one. The movie whose title is its release date, 11-11-11, just finished shooting and is currently in post-production. Though the apocalyptic, psychological thriller about the numbers 11:11 has yet to find domestic distribution, it shouldn’t be too difficult considering the built in release date, a complete lack of new horror films coming out after Halloween and this awesome teaser trailer....