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TV Bits: ‘Mad Men’ Season Five Moves Forward; HBO Develops Dick Cheney Mini-Series; New ‘Falling Skies’ Promo Video By Russ Fischer/March 22, 2011 4:00 pm EST The fifth season of Mad Men has had a difficult birthing process. Series creator Matthew Weiner last signed a contract with AMC and LionsGate two years ago, and the show’s massive success since then led him to ask for much more favorable terms before signing to make a fifth season....

Vera Farmiga & Mia Wasikowska Cast In ‘A View From The Bridge’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 18, 2011 11:30 am EST Briefly: Anthony LaPaglia is producing and appearing in a film version of Arthur Miller’s 1955 play A View From A Bridge, which landed him a Tony in 1998. The production has assembled a strong cast: Vera Farmiga and Mia Wasikowska are the new additions, rounding out the previously cast trio of Mr....

VOTD: ‘Lost’ Fan Film ‘The Man Who Brought Us Here’ Shot On Location By Germain Lussier/Jan. 18, 2011 7:00 am EST Corey Vidal, the guy who did the awesome Star Wars split screen, a capella John Williams tribute that’s sporting about 12 million hits on YouTube, is back paying homage to another geek mainstay: Lost. He’s posted a 6 minute short film called The Man Who Brought Us Here which was filmed in Hawaii on a bunch of actual locations from the show....

VOTD: ‘Sucker Punch’ Trailer Recut With Disney Princesses By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2011 1:30 pm EST Sucker Punch hits next week, and I still have no idea what to expect from the film. But despite the fact that I’m not a particularly big fan of Disney’s princess characters, seeing them inserted into the trailer for Sucker Punch somehow makes a certain sense. Watch the edit after the jump. Given that this trailer is assembled from footage culled from at least eight other movies, what does it say about Sucker Punch that this edit looks no less coherent than the film’s real trailer?...

Watch More Behind The Scenes Of ‘Rango’ By Angie Han/Feb. 17, 2011 9:30 am EST We’re pretty excited for Rango, the new Gore Verbinski-directed animated feature starring Johnny Depp as a charismatic chameleon. And we’re not the only ones. Paramount’s clearly pushing this film hard, even buying it a commercial during the Super Bowl. Now that’s commitment. A couple of months ago, we showed you a making-of featurette for Rango titled “Behind the Scenes: Natural Acting Experience,” which demonstrated Verbinski’s new technique for creating CGI characters....

‘A Fantastic Fear Of Everything’ Trailer: Simon Pegg And His Wild, Comic Nightmares By Russ Fischer/April 6, 2012 11:00 am EST Here’s a nice little treat before the Easter weekend begins: last year, Simon Pegg starred in a film called A Fantastic Fear of Everything, about a guy who once wrote childrens books but has turned to crime novels. But his crime research has taken a serious toll on his psyche and emotional well-bring, and he eventually has his own run-in with a killer....

‘Attack The Block’ Hits Blu-Ray And DVD October 25 By Angie Han/Sept. 12, 2011 9:00 am EST Attack the Block’s theatrical run is almost at an end, but fear not — you’ll be able to watch it from the comfort of your own home soon enough. The “cult classic in the making” will hit shelves October 25 on Blu-ray and DVD. Whether you missed it the first time around or just really loved it and want to see it again and again, it’s worth checking out on disc....

‘Deadwood’ Creator David Milch Scripting Video Game Adaptation ‘Heavy Rain’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2011 9:56 am EST One of the last times we talked about the video game Heavy Rain, director Neil LaBute was making some unlikely promo spots in which he polled a few other big directors about the nature of love. This new report about Heavy Rain might be even more unlikely than that one. NYPD Blue and Deadwood creator David Milch has been hired by Warner Bros....

‘I Saw The Devil’ Red Band Trailer - Another Heart-Pumping, Face-Pummeling Revenge Flick From Korea By Adam Quigley/Feb. 16, 2011 6:30 am EST The new red band trailer for I Saw the Devil is one of the best I’ve seen in ages. It’s certainly a marked improvement over the earlier, non-domestic trailer for the film, which featured much of the same footage, but little of the rhyme or rhythm that makes this trailer so deliriously, propulsively malicious....

‘In Time’ Extended Trailer Starring Justin Timberlake And Amanda Seyfried By Germain Lussier/July 23, 2011 8:00 am EST Imagine that your body stopped aging at 25 and that you could live forever. It’s a very promising proposition if not for one small caveat. At the age of 25, your body is given one year to live. The only way to remain alive is to acquire more time on your body’s biological clock....

‘Insidious’ Trailer - A New Horror Thrill Ride From The Makers Of ‘Saw’ And ‘Paranormal Activity’ By Adam Quigley/Feb. 17, 2011 6:30 am EST Director James Wan has been on a downward slope since Saw. His ultra low-budget horror debut may not have been a huge hit with critics, but as you have surely deduced from the six sequels it’s spawned, the film performed like gangbusters with audiences. His two follow-up efforts, meanwhile, did not....

‘The Smurfs’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/March 10, 2011 6:00 pm EST There is now a full-length trailer for The Smurfs, Sony’s live-action/animated hybrid which brings updated CGI versions of the Smurfs to New York City, where they run riot through the lives of Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays as they try to escape the clutches of the wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria). If that doesn’t sound like a horror film, that’s because you haven’t yet watched the trailer....

‘The Social Network’ Continues To Dominate Critics Awards: San Francisco, San Diego, And Toronto By Germain Lussier/Dec. 14, 2010 12:00 pm EST It seems like only yesterday when we were talking about The Social Network becoming an award-season juggernaut as it swept critics awards from coast to coast. Actually, that was yesterday. But so much has changed since then. The film garnered six Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Jesse Eisenberg), Best Supporting Actor (Andrew Garfield), Best Screenplay and Best Original Score and won best picture from the San Francisco Film Critics’ Circle as well as the Toronto Film Critics’ Association....

‘Your Sister’s Sister’ And ‘GOATS’ Mini-Reviews Featuring Emily Blunt And David Duchovny [Sundance 2012] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 27, 2012 5:00 am EST While Sundance is best known for movies that sell for millions and stir up controversial topics, most of the movies are simple, well-written, well-acted films that are solid, but often get lost in the mix. Lynn Shelton’s follow-up to Humpday, called Your Sister’s Sister, is one of those movies....

Austin Film Society To Remake Richard Linklater’s ‘Slacker’ For 20th Anniversary By Germain Lussier/May 3, 2011 12:30 pm EST Without Richard Linklater’s slice of life film Slacker, the independent film boom of the 1990s might not have happened. Unlike almost anything American audiences had seen before, it inspired a generation of filmmakers to go out and make their own movies. Kevin Smith often credits seeing the film at the Angelika Film Center in New York as his inspiration to make Clerks, the film’s success gave Linklater the ability to make Dazed and Confused and so much more....

Cary Fukunaga Signs To Direct ‘Spaceless’ For Universal By Russ Fischer/Aug. 1, 2011 5:00 pm EST Cary Fukunaga has quickly become one of my favorite directors thanks to his work with the tremendous Sin Nombre and the very good Jane Eyre. He has had one possible new film on deck, the Civil War heist film No Blood, No Guts, No Glory, and he has talked up other options, including a musical....

Casting Bits: John Lithgow In ‘Dog Fight;’ Rachel Weisz In ‘The Railway Man;’ Luke Wilson And Kevin Connolly In ‘Elvis & Nixon’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 28, 2011 11:00 am EST Dog Fight is going to be one of the more visible political satires to hit just before the 2012 Presidential election; the movie will be from director Jay Roach, featuring Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell as North Carolina politicians who are running opposite one another for a congressional seat in a district election....

Cool Stuff: A Recipe For The Mouthwatering Prison Dinner From ‘Goodfellas’ By Angie Han/Aug. 23, 2012 6:00 am EST Like all the greatest classics, Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas leaves audiences dazzled by its style, wowed by its acting, moved by its storytelling, and provoked by its ideas. If you have a taste for Italian food, it may also leave you pretty hungry. One of the most famous sequences follows Henry and his mob colleagues whipping up a truly mouthwatering feast in prison....

Cool Stuff: Star Wars Book Ends By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2010 5:00 pm EST Gentle Giant is producing a series of Star Wars bookends, two of which have been announced and are available for preorder: the Trash Compactor scene from A New Hope and Jabba’s Palace scene from Return of the Jedi. And a special Star Wars logo bookends is available exclusively from Borders. Hit the jump for more photos and info....

Cool Stuff: The ‘Ones That Got Away’ Posters By Germain Lussier/Jan. 10, 2011 11:00 am EST Artist Fernando Reza, who also did these cool TV Band posters, asked the question, “What If?” What if Stanley Kubrick finished Napoleon? What is Orson Welles finished Don Quixote? And he answered those questions with his new set of film posters called The Ones That Got Away; Four posters including those two aforementioned films as well as Alfred Hitchcock’s Kaleidoscope and David Lean’s Nostromo....