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Superhero Bits: The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, Iron Man 3, Green Lantern, The Avengers By Germain Lussier/Dec. 30, 2011 2:00 pm EST What improvement will be made to Robert Downey Jr.’s costume in Iron Man 3? Want to read some of the new Superman origin from Action Comics? Curious to see some unused posters from The Incredible Hulk and alternative concept art from Green Lantern? What are the latest rumors regarding cameos in The Avengers?...

Universal Studios Hollywood’s Transformers: The Ride 3D Teaser By Angie Han/Feb. 6, 2012 12:30 pm EST I can’t say I have much love for Michael Bay’s Transformers as a movie franchise, but even I have to admit that their huge, splashy, more-is-more approach is perfect inspiration for a theme park ride. With the spring opening of Transformers: The Ride 3D at Universal Studios Hollywood just months away, the company has revealed an exciting new teaser that hints at some of the spectacle that’s in store....

Warner Brothers Wants An ‘Inception’ Sequel, Here Are Five Ideas By Germain Lussier/Oct. 22, 2010 12:15 pm EST In all seriousness, Christopher Nolan has pretty much stated that he’s done with this world and while Warner Brothers could technically do one without him, do you really think they’d risk the chance of pissing off the man behind their most successful movie ever, The Dark Knight? Inception comes to Blu-ray on December 7 so conversations about its intricacies are about to start up again....

What’s Going On With Scream 4? Rumors Rampant Of Screenwriter Change-Up And Massive Script Overhaul By Russ Fischer/July 2, 2010 11:54 am EST UPDATE: There might be more truth and ugliness to this than I first thought was the case. New info at the end of the article. We’ve been running a lot of Scream 4 info, and in a piece I ran yesterday one commenter asked why we’ve been covering it so much....

‘Cars 2’ Teaser Trailer #2 By Russ Fischer/Nov. 16, 2010 8:15 am EST We just got full info about the story in Cars 2, which puts John Lasseter back in the driver’s seat along with co-director Brad Lewis. Now there’s a full trailer, which you can see after the break. And it is chock full of Michael Caine! Mr. Caine plays a British intelligence agent who intersects with Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) as they take part in the first World Grand Prix....

/Film New York: Video And Highlights From ‘The Big Lebowski’ Cast Reunion And Screening By Angie Han/Aug. 18, 2011 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Organized by Universal Studios Home Entertainment in conjunction with Lebowski Fest, the evening kicked off with a spirited Q&A hosted by Entertainment Weekly writer and Lebowski superfan Clark Collis before moving into a full-length screening of the cult classic....

‘Green Lantern’ Website Is Now Live By Russ Fischer/Oct. 5, 2010 6:44 pm EST Briefly: It’s not much, and this is basically just us helping out the publicity department at Warner Bros., but the website for Green Lantern is now live. All you’ll find at the moment is a swirling ball of green light that resolves into the film’s lantern logo. There’s not even much in the source code for the site — nothing like the ASCII image of Jeff Bridges found in the Tron Legacy soundtrack site, for example....

‘Kung Fu Panda 2’ Super Bowl Commercial: “We Will Wok You” By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2011 5:30 pm EST DreamWorks Animation has premiered the Super Bowl television spot for Kung Fu Panda 2, or Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom as it is officially titled. The trailer is now online, as is the official plot synopsis. Hit the jump to watch it now, but keep in mind it’s purely a teaser trailer....

‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ - A Devastating Portrait Of Cult Brainwashing [Sundance Review] By David Chen/Jan. 22, 2011 2:30 pm EST There are few movies that fill me with so much discomfort that I can’t wait to leave the theater, even while I’m watching them. Martha Marcy May Marlene, which premiered yesterday at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, is one of those films, a portrait of cult brainwashing that is so discomfiting, I would have walked out if I wasn’t so transfixed by the tremendous filmmaking on display....

‘Submarine’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Feb. 7, 2011 10:30 am EST Here’s the trailer for Submarine, the British film that has been killing at festivals since it debuted at TIFF last year. Peter loved it there, and David loved it at Sundance. Check out the trailer — which certainly has some familiar notes from other big indie success stories — and leave your thoughts after the break. At Sundance, David said,...

‘The Master’ Sets An All-Time Per-Screen Box Office Record By Germain Lussier/Sept. 17, 2012 11:20 am EST The word “comforting” comes to mind when you realize a new Paul Thomas Anderson movie can set box office records. His latest film, The Master, opened this past weekend in five theaters and grossed $736,311 for a per-screen average of $147,262. That’s the highest per-screen average ever for a live-action film with a traditional release....

‘Traitor’ Director Jeffrey Nachmanoff Replaces Ed Zwick As Director Of ‘American Assassin’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 22, 2012 10:00 am EST Thanks to the James Bond film series and stuff like the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan films and the Bourne movies, production companies and studios look at any series of espionage novels with dollar signs in their eyes. Sure, there are many examples of thriller novel to film adaptations that failed to ignite a franchise, but no one ever built a successful movie series by not adapting books....

2011 Will Break The All Time Record For Movie Sequels By Germain Lussier/Feb. 16, 2011 10:30 am EST We’ve gotta thank Box Office Mojo (with a heads up from Cinematical) for doing most of the legwork here. Here’s how it breaks it down. 27 sequels total. Nine second movies (up from eight in 2010), five third movies (down from seven), five fourth movies, five fifth movies, two seventh movies and one eighth movie....

Akiva Goldsman Chooses Jessica Brown Findlay Of ‘Downton Abbey’ As ‘Winter’s Tale’ Lead By Russ Fischer/March 21, 2012 9:30 am EST Thanks to her performance as Lady Sybil Crawley in the two seasons of Downton Abbey, which has become an unexpected smash hit for PBS in the US, Jessica Brown Findlay is on the cusp of being far more well-known than her otherwise limited on-screen resume would lead you to expect....

Anthony Mackie Joins ‘Gangster Squad’ By Russ Fischer/June 10, 2011 6:28 pm EST Briefly: Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer is just not messing around when it comes to the cast of his new film, Gangster Squad. The film, scripted by LA cop Will Beall and formerly reffered to as Tales From the Gangster Squad, is based on a series of articles in the LA Times that recounted efforts of a ’40s LAPD squad to curtail the influx of organized crime in Los Angeles....

By Germain Lussier/March 29, 2012 11:30 am EST As revealed exclusively here on /Film, Mondo has three Disney posters left to be released. Here’s one of them. It’s a gorgeous rendition of the 1954 live film 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by artist Ken Taylor. The detail has to be seen to be believed. Check it out below. Click on the image to check it in high resolution. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Ken Taylor is a 24" x 36" screenprint with an edition of 390....

By Germain Lussier/Oct. 27, 2010 2:30 pm EST The officially licensed Star Wars poster series by Mondo Tees is half over. That’s what Justin Ishmael, the man behind Mondo, revealed while unveiling the 11st poster in the series: Luke’s Destiny by Frank Stockton. And being as we’re reach the halfway point, and have missed a few along the way, we decided to not only show you the brand new poster, but rank the first half....

Cool Stuff: Tomer Hanuka’s Star Wars Poster “Father: Encounter On Dagobah” By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2010 2:00 pm EST The Alamo Drafthouse’s Mondo Tees has given us an EXCLUSIVE look at their next officially licensed Star Wars poster: Tomer Hanuka’s “Father: Encounter on Dagobah”. The 19"x25" poster print is a limited edition of only 250, each hand numbered. The poster will go on sale on Thursday July 29th on the MondoTees website....

Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Counselor’ Is Next For Ridley Scott; Michael Fassbender May Take Lead By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2012 7:30 am EST Cormac McCarthy is helping delay the production of the new Blade Runner film. The author recently sold a spec screenplay called The Counselor, about a respected lawyer who tries to get into the drug trade without being completely pulled in, but quickly finds that he’s out of his depth....

Darren Aronofsky Exits ‘The Wolverine’ By Germain Lussier/March 17, 2011 10:02 am EST The Hollywood Reporter broke this very unfortunate news. Here’s what Aronofsky had to say: One has to wonder if the recent tragedies in Japan, where the film was set and scheduled to shoot for part of its production, impacted Aronofsky in any way. It goes without saying, of course, that this tragedy is way more important than some little movie, no matter how the two things relate to each other, but the recent natural destruction almost certainly had an adverse affect on what the crew had to do there, maybe adding a considerable about of time to the production....