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Movie Trailer: David O Russell’s The Fighter By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2010 4:20 pm EST Paramount Pictures have finally released the first movie trailer for David O Russell’s The Fighter. For those who haven’t been following the project, here is a recap: Darren Aronofsky was originally scheduled to direct, but switched over to The Wrestler. The film tells the story of Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), a real life boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded after a run of drugs and crime....

New Images: ‘X-Men: First Class,’ ‘Cowboys & Aliens,’ ‘Super 8’ By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2011 2:30 pm EST First up is the X-Men image, in which you can see the film’s rendering of the team’s classic blue and yellow costumes in a bit more detail than before. Click the image to enlarge. [Facebook] Next up is Cowboys & Aliens, which is still fighting the PR battle as some people don’t know what to make of the very pulpy, genre-mashup title....

Page 2: Prometheus, Game Of Thrones, Wreck-It Ralph, Mars Attacks, Indiana Jones, Breaking Bad, Lilo & Stitch, Doctor Who, Back To The Future, Ghostbusters, Arnold Schwarzenegger By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 19, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: Blockbuster Video is hiring but please no dinosaurs. The 15 Highest Per Screen Averages of All Time, and Whether They Translated into Mainstream Box Office SuccessesWhat Revolution Can Learn From Game of Thrones, Lost, and The Walking Dead...

Pixar’s ‘Monsters University’ Teaser Trailers By Peter Sciretta/June 20, 2012 1:10 am EST Disney has released the teaser trailer for Pixar’s Monsters Inc prequel Monsters University. The film takes us back to when Mike and Sully were in school learning how to scare. Its Pixar’s version of a college comedy, and the teaser trailer gives us a glimpse at some of the partying and pranks we might expect. The trailer will be presented in 3D, attached to Pixar’s Brave this Friday....

Sequel Casting: Taylor Lautner Joins ‘Grown Ups 2’; Sebastian Koch And Yulia Snigir Are ‘A Good Day To Die Hard’ Baddies; ‘Skyfall’ Adds Bond Girl Tonia Sotiropoulou By Angie Han/April 5, 2012 12:30 pm EST It’s not like we were ever looking forward to Adam Sandler’s Grown-Ups 2 to begin with, but now I’m wondering if Happy Madison is actively trying to annoy a certain segment of the population. Specifically, the portion of the filmgoing audience that despises both Grown-Ups and The Twilight Saga, which I’m guessing is the vast majority of our readership....

TV Casting: Connie Britton In ‘Nashville’, Carrie-Anne Moss In ‘Ralph Lamb’, Sigourney Weaver In ‘Political Animals’ By Angie Han/March 7, 2012 12:30 pm EST While some of her Friday Night Lights co-stars have made the leap into big-screen adventures, Connie Britton’s still shining on the small screen. Fresh off of a single-season stint on FX’s American Horror Story, Britton has now signed on for ABC’s musical family soap Nashville. And yes, the “musical” part of the description indicates that we’ll be hearing the former Mrs....

‘Act Of Valor’ Trailer: The Action Movie Starring Real-Life Navy SEALs By Russ Fischer/Oct. 12, 2011 2:15 pm EST When Osama Bin Laden was killed by a Navy SEAL squad earlier this year, many companies in Hollywood quickly decided to make films based upon the famed special ops force. Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal were in a good spot, as they were already planning a film about Bin Laden and the SEALs....

/Film Interview: Bret McKenzie, The Oscar-Nominated Songwriter Of ‘The Muppets’ [Video] By Germain Lussier/Feb. 9, 2012 2:30 pm EST If you walked out of The Muppets feeling like you were on top of the world, Bret McKenzie was a big reason. The actor/singer/songwriter, best known for his HBO series Flight of the Conchords, was hired by director James Bobin to write many of the brand new songs for characters like Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo and others to sing in the Muppets triumphant return to the screen....

/Film Video Interview: Barry Sonnenfeld Talks ‘Men In Black 3’ By Germain Lussier/May 25, 2012 5:00 pm EST Barry Sonnenfeld isn’t bothered by all the negative press around his latest film, Men in Black 3. According to reports, Sonnenfeld’s return to directing after about five years was a runaway train of rising costs, script problems and on-set drama. None of that matters to the director because the movie speaks for itself....

‘Final Destination’ 6 And 7 Already Being Prepped? Filming Back-To-Back? By Adam Quigley/Feb. 1, 2011 8:30 am EST Despite The Final Destination being touted as the last film in the series, that didn’t stop Warner Bros./New Line from greenlighting Final Destination 5, so why the heck would it stop them from greenlighting several more? The studios are clearly determined to milk this cash cow dry, and their only motivation to stop is if the franchise meets its own pitiful death at the box office....

‘Once’ Helmer John Carney To Direct Steve Carell In ‘Dogs Of Babel’ By Angie Han/Nov. 3, 2011 1:00 pm EST Steve Carell has been slowly transitioning toward more dramatic roles ever since he quit The Office to focus on his rising film career, but some of his choices have sounded a bit questionable, at least on paper. One of the stranger ones he’s been attached to is the lead in The Dogs of Babel, an adaptation of Carolyn Parkhurst’s debut novel....

‘Pacific Rim’ And ‘Saw’ Writers To Pen Video Game Adaptation ‘God Of War’ By Germain Lussier/July 11, 2012 7:00 am EST Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan have long since been the runaway success story of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s highly underrated HBO show Project Greenlight. The pair were on the third season and wrote Feast, which lead them to write Saw IV through VII, a couple other movies and most recently, a draft of Guillermo Del Toro’s epic Pacific Rim....

‘Super’ Trailer: “That’s Inappropriate.” By Russ Fischer/March 4, 2011 12:30 pm EST Here is the trailer for James Gunn’s weird and probably, as the quote suggests, very inappropriate super hero movie Super. Rainn Wilson looks like he is perfectly cast as a guy who creates a costumed alter-ego after his hot wife (Liv Tyler) dumps him for a drug dealer (Kevin Bacon). Ellen Page is the young girl who becomes his too-eager sidekick after helping instruct him on the basics of superheroes and we even get a peek at Nathan Fillion as The Holy Avenger....

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Story Revealed? Is It ‘Prey’ With Dr. Hugo Strange? By Germain Lussier/Dec. 4, 2010 12:26 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ain’t It Cool News is the latest place to report the rumor that Prey is the story inspiration for The Dark Knight Rises but sites like Collider, Entertainment Weekly, and Total Film either ran a similar rumor, or just took a wild stab at it, weeks ago....

‘The Muppets’: More Cameos Announced By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2010 7:00 am EST Production is underway on the new Muppet movie, The Muppets, and information regarding the many cameos in the film have been flooding onto the internet. We have a couple new names to add to the ever-growing list. In the fairness of the spoiler-conscious, we’ve put the names after the jump (although I’m sure many of these cameos will be teased in the eventual marketing and trailers)....

‘Total Recall’ Theatrical Trailer: Same Story, Super Size Scope By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2012 4:22 pm EST Everything you thought you know might not be what it seems. That’s both true in the world of Total Recall and regarding your previous thoughts on the movie. Sony just released a brand new trailer for the Len Wiseman directed August 3 remake starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel and it’s filled with so many epic looking action scenes, set pieces and special effects, it might actually get you pumped up for the film....

‘Urbanized’ Trailer – The Director Of ‘Helvetica’ And ‘Objectified’ Plans A City By Germain Lussier/Sept. 20, 2011 4:00 pm EST Sometimes the most beautiful things are the ones we take for granted on a daily basis. One example of that is also the subject of Urbanized, the new documentary by Gary Hustwit: our cities. From the roads, to the trees, to the buildings and sidewalks, almost every square foot of every city in the world is carefully planned, yet we drive around not thinking about the intricate detail that was considered years and years ago to try and control congestion, pollution and a million other things....

Alex Proyas Developing Adaptation Of Sci-Fi Thriller ‘AMP’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 2, 2010 5:00 am EST Alex Proyas (Dark City, Knowing) will produce and may direct AMP for Summit Entertainment. The studio just picked up the rights to the Daniel H. Wilson thriller novel, which is being called “a mix of scifi action and political allegory reminiscent of District 9.” The plot of the unpublished book, which will hit shelves in June 2011, features “a world where the technology designed to make the disabled whole, turns them into supermen....

Angelina Jolie Actually Writing And Directing Her Bosnian War Love Story; Will Not Star By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2010 3:30 pm EST This is interesting. Over the weekend there was a report that Angelina Jolie would be making a film planned as a love story set during the Bosnian war of the early ’90s. The report was rather lacking in specifics, which led everyone (me included) to assume she’d be acting in the film....

Cameron Crowe Will Direct We Bought A Zoo Next By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2010 9:36 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Previously:Almost Famous is one of my favorite movies of all time, and Cameron Crowe used to be one of my favorite writer/directors. It is not that the filmmaker had a huge fall from grace — I actually liked Elizabethtown more than most, despite Orlando Bloom’s best efforts....