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First Official Photo From The Smurfs, Teaser Trailer Description By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2010 12:58 am EST Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures has released the first official photo from the upcoming big screen CGI/live action hybrid 3D adaptation of The Smurfs. The photo features our first look at the computer generated Smurfs: Grouchy, Papa and Clumsy, in Times Square New York City. Check the uncropped photo out in full, after the jump....

Infographics: Analyzing The 2011 Academy Awards By Peter Sciretta/March 1, 2011 8:00 am EST A couple different websites have put together infographics analyzing different aspects of the 2011 Academy Awards: From visualizations of the Twitter response to the Oscar telecast, to graphed out charts showing the various lengths of all the acceptance speeches throughout the night, and Oscar Twitter Worldwide Trending Topics list. From Techcrunch: From What the Trend: From Mashable: From The National Post:...

Joel And Ethan Coen Are Making A TV Comedy About A Private Investigator By Russ Fischer/Oct. 4, 2011 6:29 pm EST Coen Brothers fans, prepare for paroxysms of excitement. Los. Bros. Awesome are making a TV show. But settle down just a bit, however, because they’re not going to be writing every episode, and at this point we’re not even certain that Joel or Ethan will direct an installment. But plans are afoot to create a show called HarveKarbo, which would be an idiosyncratic LA-based detective show....

Kooky’s Return Trailer: This Time, With Subtitles And English-Language Website By Russ Fischer/April 8, 2010 2:42 pm EST Not long ago I posted the trailer for Kooky’s Return, a beautiful-looking film by Jan Sverák (director of the Best Foreign Film Oscar-winning Kolya) that combines live-action and puppets for a slightly off-beat, very imaginative look at childhood. At the time the trailer featured no subtitles. Just after posting, however, I got in touch with the film’s production designer, Jakub Dvorský, and he recently mailed to point out that the trailer is now subtitled....

Lionsgate/Roadside To Distribute Joss Whedon’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ By Angie Han/Sept. 12, 2012 6:00 am EST Though Joss Whedon has floated the idea of releasing Much Ado About Nothing over iTunes if the film couldn’t find a theatrical distributor, in truth it seemed unlikely that the man behind the $1.5 billion Avengers juggernaut would be unable to find some studio, somewhere, willing to strike a deal. And indeed, Lionsgate / Roadside has now stepped up to release the film....

LOL: The Asylum’s Titanic 2 Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2010 4:00 pm EST Titanic 2 is one of those jokes that everyone has made at sometime over the past decade. It’s the one sequel no one expects will ever be made. There was even a great mock trailer produced four or five years ago. The Asylum, the direct-to-dvd production company responsible for producing cheap knock-offs of the latest big budget Hollywood movies (termed “Knockbusters) has just finished production on Titanic 2....

Mark Millar To Oversee 20th Century Fox’s Marvel Movies By Germain Lussier/Sept. 27, 2012 12:06 pm EST Coming Soon posted the press release (read the full thing below) but here are some of the major bulletpoints. It says the move marks “an expanded commitment to some of its most important franchises” and confirms that Nemesis is still in development at the studio. Millar hints that he’s only working on those three films at the moment, but with The Wolverine already well into production, I’m not sure how much input he’ll have on that....

Michael K. Williams Will Play Rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard In ‘Dirty White Boy’ By Germain Lussier/March 22, 2012 3:30 pm EST In the realm of films about iconic deceased rappers, Dirty White Boy has to take the cake. It’s the story of how Wu-Tang Clan co-founder Ol’ Dirty Bastard, aka Russell Jones, was partially conned into letting an unproven VH1 production assistant named Jarred Weisfeld manage him while the rapper was in jail....

Pixar’s Day & Night Easter Egg By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2010 5:33 pm EST In June we posted a huge compilation of easter eggs which could be found in Pixar’s latest feature film Toy Story 3. But what about Teddy Newton’s awesome short film Day & Night. Did you catch the reference to one of Walt Disney’s classic animated films? No? Hit the jump to find out. Disney’s Facebook page alerts us to the following easter egg in Day & Night which references a western seen on television in the animated classic 101 Dalmatians....

POTD: Johnny Depp Dressed As Captain Jack Sparrow Visits London School By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 7, 2010 2:00 pm EST A nine-year-old girl named Beatrice Delap wrote to Captain Jack Sparrow asking for help staging a “mutiny” against her teachers at the Greenwich-based Meridian Primary School. Johnny Depp, who was filming Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides at the nearby 18th century Old Naval College, decided to pay the girl a visit dressed in character as Captain Jack Sparrow....

Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ Officially Rated R By Germain Lussier/May 7, 2012 11:00 am EST Thanks to Collider for the confirmation.

Rob Zombie Moves Away From Horror, Will Write And Direct Hockey Film ‘Broad Street Bullies’ By Russ Fischer/June 19, 2012 1:30 pm EST Zombie is attached to write, produce and direct Broad Street Bullies, a film based on the career of the upstart and ultimately winning ’70s Philadelphia Flyers hockey team. But don’t worry about some of Zombie’s trademarks; as a ’70s hockey film, and specifically one about the ’take no prisoners’ Flyers, there’s a lot of room for violence here....

Ron Howard On ‘The Dark Tower:’ Budget-Influenced Script Changes Aren’t Radical By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2011 6:00 am EST Whatever you think of the grand career sweep of the creative team, Imagine Entertainment and, in particular, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Akiva Goldsman are trying something pretty outrageous with their adaptation of Stephen King’s novel series The Dark Tower. Set to span three films and two limited TV series, with an offshoot game or two to add additional flavor, there’s nothing quite like it on the drawing boards anywhere else....

Scott Pilgrim Movie Trailer Recreated From Graphic Novel By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2010 12:43 pm EST The Mr blonde 2010 decided it would be fun to recreate the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World movie trailer using frames from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel series. This is a recreation of the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Theatrical Trailer. I used images from the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel and matched the trailer as best I could....

Sequel Bits: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 & 3, Prometheus, Taken 2, Tron: Uprising By Germain Lussier/April 10, 2012 3:00 pm EST The sequel news just keeps on here in another edition of Sequel Bits, the place where, with once click, you can read all of the latest updates on properties with multiple entries. After the jump, you can read about: Marc Webb says that Peter Parker’s untold origin in The Amazing Spider-Man will span several movies....

Seth Rogen And Chris Pine In Talks For McG’s This Means War? By Russ Fischer/April 22, 2010 7:40 am EST The Wrap runs down a number of options for the film after Production Weekly ran a list of actors in whom the studio is interested for the role. According to The Wrap, only Rogen and Pine are really the guys right now — PW mentioned Robert Downey Jr and Matt Damon, who are supposedly not actual options....

Take A Virtual Tour Behind The Scenes Of ‘Transformers The Ride’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 29, 2011 9:00 am EST Transformers The Ride opens this weekend at Universal Studios Singapore and, if you’re like me, you wish you could hop on a plane to check it out. Sure it’s opening at Universal Studios Hollywood this Spring but, just like seeing a movie early, there’s something special about riding a ride before anyone else....

The First Videos From Inside ‘Transformers: The Ride’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 22, 2011 6:00 am EST In feverish anticipation of the public unveiling of Transformers: The Ride December 2 at Universal Studios Singapore, several videos have popped online that give you both a tour inside the ride and brief glimpses of the ride itself. We’ve seen photos, but now it’s movie time. Enough fuss, the videos are after the jump....

Three New Movie Posters: Despicable Me By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2010 2:21 am EST Universal has released three new movie posters for Illumination Entertainment’s computer animated feature Despicable Me. Check them out now, after the jump. In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden deep beneath this home is a vast secret hideout....

Tron Legacy: New Clip “Sirens Dress Sam” And Featurette “World Of Tron” By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2010 4:00 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures has released a third video clip “Sirens Dress Sam” and new featurette “The World of Tron” from Tron Legacy. The first clip which featured Quorra (Olivia Wilde) saving Sam (Garrett Hedlund) from possible death and takes him through some off road terrain on a four-wheel Light Runner (one of the new vehicles introduced in the sequel)....