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Clueless Was Released 15 Years Ago Today By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2010 4:55 pm EST If you’re not feeling old enough already,/Film friend Angie Han reminds us that Amy Heckerling’s iconic teen comedy Clueless was released in movie theaters 15 years ago today. Leave your memories of the teen classic in the comments below! Clueless Was Released 15 Years Ago Today By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2010 4:55 pm EST If you’re not feeling old enough already,/Film friend Angie Han reminds us that Amy Heckerling’s iconic teen comedy Clueless was released in movie theaters 15 years ago today....

Collection Of ‘Prometheus’ Set Photos Includes One Character Cut From Final Edit By Russ Fischer/June 15, 2012 5:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Whether you love Prometheus, hate it, or just find the whole thing frustrating, it’s a week later and Ridley Scott’s film is still one of the hottest topics in the movie world. We learned this week that the film is going to be augmented by 20 to 30 minutes of deleted scenes when it hits DVD and Blu-ray later this year, with some of those scenes available only as standalone deleted options, and others viewable through a branching extended cut....

Confirmed: Marion Cotillard Cast In ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/Feb. 14, 2011 7:00 am EST UPDATE: THR Confirms that Marion Cotillard is in talks for the film, though nothing is set yet. Christopher Nolan is looking for the film’s love interest, also meeting with Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts in recent weeks. Scheduling is the issue, and THR says “The plan is for Cotillard to start shooting mid-June in London, film all summer in L....

Cool Stuff: Mondo’s Posters For ‘ParaNorman’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 10, 2012 2:00 pm EST ParaNorman is stop-motion animated zombie horror movie for families. Can you imagine a subject more ripe for different artistic interpretations? It makes perfect sense, then, that the team at Laika, who also did Coraline, would team up with Mondo to do a series of posters for their highly-buzzed about film, which opens August 17. After the jump, check out six different Mondo posters for ParaNorman....

Cool Stuff: Star Wars Parody T-Shirt “My Son” By Peter Sciretta/May 30, 2010 1:20 am EST TeeFury’s T-Shirt of the Day is a Star Wars parody: Jimiyo’s “My Son” shows what might have happened if Chewbacca and Princess Leia had a one night stand one night on the Falcon. The good news is the tee is available for only $9 plus shipping. The bad news is it is available today, and today only....

Exclusive: Five Badass Photos From Scott Stewart’s Priest By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2010 9:00 am EST Screen Gems has provided us with five exclusive photos from Scott Stewart’s action/horror/thriller Priest, which stars Paul Bettany as a priest who disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece. Stewart comes from a special effects background, working on films such as Sin City, Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, and Iron Man, among many others....

Fan-Made Trailers: The Best ‘John Carter’ Trailer Yet, And Live-Action ‘Akira’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 21, 2012 2:30 pm EST Disney has been struggling with the marketing for Andrew Stanton’s John Carter, which opens in a couple weeks but still seems to face an uphill battle establishing itself even for audiences that should be pretty receptive to an old-school sci-fi film based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. There have been a couple trailers now and quite a few clips released, and while each has various charms no one trailer or clip has really hammered home what the movie is....

First Look: Joe Carnahan’s ‘The Grey’ Starring Liam Neeson By Germain Lussier/Feb. 21, 2011 8:00 am EST As director Joe Carnahan thought about his next movie after the balls-to-the-wall action adaptation The A-Team, he decided to go into a deep freeze. His follow-up frozen film is called The Grey and it stars Liam Neeson, Dallas Roberts, James Badge Dale, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, Nonso Anozie, and Joe Anderson as a group of oil-rig workers who crash and find themselves stranded on the Alaskan tundra in the presence of a group of deadly wolves....

Four New Photos: Christopher Nolan’s Inception By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2010 12:44 pm EST A couple weeks back we published four new photos from Christopher Nolan’s Inception. With only a few months until release, more and more is beginning to be revealed. Themoviemash alerted us to three new photos which have recently hit the web: two of which appeared in Entertainment Weekly’s Summer Movie Preview, and the last photo was a result of copal-sv cracking the code in the Inception viral video game Mind Crime....

Geek Deals: Battlestar Galactica, The Wizard Of Oz And Lord Of The Rings By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 2, 2011 1:31 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

James Cameron Jokes About ‘The Avengers’ Failure To Crack $2B; Watch Kate Winslet And Jeremy Sisto Screen Test For ‘Titanic’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 11, 2012 4:45 pm EST Even when James Cameron doesn’t have a new film in theaters, he’s not far from the headlines. This year saw the 3D re-release of his record-breaking 1997 success Titanic, which pushed the movie’s total gross over two billion dollars. Between that and Avatar, just two of Cameron’s movies have made him more of an economic power than many small countries....

Jeremy Renner Developing And Planning To Star In Steve McQueen Biopic By Russ Fischer/April 28, 2011 1:17 pm EST Jeremy Renner is a machine. He’s leaping from Mission: Impossible to Hansel & Gretel to The Avengers and then likely to The Bourne Legacy, and at some point will squeeze in voice work for the fourth Ice Age film. Got to take the big opportunies while they’re around, and The Hurt Locker created them left and right....

Lost ‘Aliens’ Video Game Discovered By Germain Lussier/Jan. 14, 2011 4:00 pm EST Running around as Ellen Ripley, flamethrower/grenade launcher in hand, blowing away aliens. It seems like such a natural transition to a video game. And though the first two films in the Alien franchise did have games come to home computer, Commodore 64, and even the stand-up arcade platform, the first time Nintendo or Sega users got to play in the universe was Alien 3....

New Image From Pixar’s Upcoming Short, Day & Night By Russ Fischer/May 4, 2010 1:55 pm EST For the past couple months, we’ve been speculating about the nature of Day & Night, the new Pixar short film that will be attached to prints of Toy Story 3. We saw one still not long ago that made the film look like a 2D affair, with a real visual callback to some of the wackier 2D animated shorts of the ’60s and early ’70s....

Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ Will Unspool Christmas 2012 By Germain Lussier/June 15, 2011 5:00 am EST Whether or not it stars Will Smith or Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz or Leonardo DiCaprio, The Weinstein Company has just claimed Christmas Day 2012 for Quentin. That’s the day they’ll release Quentin Tarantino’s Western influenced film Django Unchained. As of right now, Django is the only movie scheduled to open that day but it’ll also see competition from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (December 14, 2012) and Johnny Depp in Lone Ranger (December 21, 2012)....

Resident Evil: Afterlife Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2010 1:00 pm EST A new trailer for Resident Evil: Afterlife premiered on G4TV’s Attack of the Show. Watch it now in low resolution, embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Official Plot Synopsis: Screen Gems and Constantin Film present Resident Evil: Afterlife, the next installment in the widely successful “Resident Evil” film franchise has begun production in Toronto, Canada....

Rumor: And The ‘Iron Man 3’ Villain Hierarchy Is… [Updated] By Russ Fischer/May 30, 2012 10:30 am EST How much do you want to know about Iron Man 3 before the film is even finished shooting? We’re in the center of the Venn diagram that features circles of rumor and spoiler, so I’ll keep things after the break. But the basics are as follows: Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) is in North Carolina shooting Iron Man 3 now, with Robert Downey, Jr....

Sony Buys ‘Shadow Runner,’ Sets Chris Hemsworth To Play Elite Military Operative By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2011 10:30 am EST After his star-making turn in Thor, Chris Hemsworth is likely to find himself in the same sort of position his Star Trek co-star Chris Pine did a couple years back. Like Chris Pine, Hemsworth has a couple films in the can that might be released in the future (and his are higher profile: Red Dawn and The Cabin in the Woods) and he’s already cast in a few other big projects, like Snow White and the Huntsman and that little movie The Avengers....

Sources Claim The Weinstein Co. Is Planning A PG-13 Cut Of ‘Bully’ After All By Angie Han/April 2, 2012 1:30 pm EST The battle between The Weinstein Co. and the MPAA over the rating for Lee Hirsch’s Bully could finally be winding to a close, as sources claim that The Weinstein Co. is preparing a PG-13 cut of the anti-bullying doc after all. The unrated, unedited version of the film opened in five New York and Los Angeles-area theaters this past weekend to solid box office numbers, and is expected to roll out to 23 more markets on April 13 with the new cut....

Steven Spielberg Will Make First Appearance At San Diego Comic-Con By Germain Lussier/July 14, 2011 10:30 am EST We predicted it, reported it, and now it’s official. Yes, world, Steven Spielberg will, indeed be at San Diego Comic-Con. The legendary filmmaker will make his first live appearance at the geek destination next Friday to accept the Inkpot Award and promote his upcoming motion capture 3D film The Adventures of Tintin. Read more after the jump....