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Watch Air New Zealand’s ‘Men In Black’ Airline Safety Video By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 20, 2015 5:00 am EST For years, Air New Zealand has embraced the fact that they’ve become a tourist destination for those who are fans of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film adaptations by using the director and his big screen versions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s characters for their airline safety videos. But now that the Middle Earth franchises are over, it’s time for a new film franchise to step up....

Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘The Lobster’ Gets New Trailer And Release Date By Angie Han/March 16, 2016 6:30 am EST After spending the past year lighting up the festival circuit, Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster is finally gearing up for its U.S. theatrical debut. Originally, the plan was for Alchemy to release The Lobster in the states on March 11, but as you may have noticed, that didn’t happen — the distributor ran into some financial troubles, and the release was scrapped....

‘A Tale Of Love And Darkness’ Trailer: See Natalie Portman’s Feature Directorial Debut [UPDATED] By Russ Fischer/Oct. 16, 2015 2:15 pm EST UPDATE: An updated A Tale of Love and Darkness trailer with English subtitles has just been released, and you can check it out after the jump. Original story from 08/12/2015 follows. For her feature directorial debut, Natalie Portman also wrote and starred in A Tale of Love and Darkness, an adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Amos Oz, effectively an account of the founding of the state of Isreal as recounted through events in Oz’s own life....

‘Friday The 13th’ TV Series Rises At The CW With New Writers By Russ Fischer/Aug. 11, 2015 6:00 pm EST Last year producers were in development on a Friday the 13th TV series that sounded very The CW-ready and pretty dumb, with a plan to explore Jason Voorhees’ in different time periods, and revelations about “his wacky family.” That version of the series appears to have quietly died off, but now there’s a new Friday the 13th TV development....

‘La La Land’ Trailer: Ryan Gosling And Emma Stone Sing, Dance, Fall Madly In Love By Angie Han/July 13, 2016 6:43 am EST How about a bit of wistful longing to go with your coffee this morning? Summit Entertainment has just unveiled the dreamy first trailer for La La Land, the new musical romance by Whiplash director Damien Chazelle. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone (so great together in Crazy, Stupid, Love....

‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ Being Remade As TV Event By Russ Fischer/April 10, 2015 1:30 pm EST One recent trend in TV events like this is a live broadcast; we don’t know if that’s part of the plan here. Those broadcasts have become magnets for live-tweeting enthusiasts, and that sort of thing could take the place of the audience dialogue that has become such a part of the Rocky Horror experience....

‘Serena’ Trailer: Jennifer Lawrence And Bradley Cooper, Together Again By Angie Han/Oct. 29, 2014 3:30 pm EST Between 2011 and 2013, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper made three films together. Two of those, Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, both from director David O. Russell, have already come and gone. But the last, Susanne Bier’s Serena, is only now preparing for a theatrical bow. Based on the novel by Ron Rash, Serena stars Lawrence and Cooper as a married couple overseeing a timber empire in 1920s North Carolina....

‘Spider-Man’ Animated Movie Gets Director By Angie Han/June 20, 2016 3:05 pm EST As shooting gets underway on Spider-Man: Homecoming, Sony is taking a big step forward with its other upcoming feature about the webslinger. Sony Pictures Animation announced today that Bob Persichetti will direct the Spider-Man animated movie first announced last year. The project has been developing with producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller; Lord also wrote the screenplay. Avi Arad and Amy Pascal are producing the Spider-Man animated movie with Lord and Miller....

‘Star Wars: Rogue One’, ‘Captain America: Civil War’, And More Get IMAX Releases By Angie Han/April 8, 2015 7:32 am EST Prepare to spend a lot of your time in IMAX theaters over the coming year. IMAX and Disney have just renewed their contract through 2017. The deal covers, among other things, upcoming tentpoles from Star Wars, Marvel, and Pixar. Get the details on the Disney IMAX deal after the jump....

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailer Won’t Premiere On ‘The Hobbit’; Disney Has “Bigger Plans” By Germain Lussier/Nov. 20, 2014 10:00 am EST So if Disney has “big plans” to release the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and with it the first images and information about the film, what could that mean? Well a debut on TV is possible. Something Disney and Lucasfilm promote to to drive ratings for one of their shows....

‘The Defenders’: ‘Daredevil’ Star Elden Henson Says Foggy Nelson Will Report For Duty By Angie Han/Aug. 3, 2016 9:48 am EST We’ve always known who the lead characters in The Defenders would be: Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter), and Iron Fist (Finn Jones). It’s basically the small-screen version of The Avengers, and that’s been the plan all along. What’s less clear is which other familiar faces might join them....

‘The Gunman’ International Trailer: Sean Penn Has A Guilty Conscience By Angie Han/Jan. 20, 2015 8:00 am EST It’ll be at least a couple years before Taken 4 comes out — if it ever does come out — but while we wait, The Gunman might be able to tide you over. Directed by Pierre Morel (of the first Taken), The Gunman stars Sean Penn as Jim Terrier, a former Special Forces soldier and military contractor suffering from PTSD....

‘The Interview’ Has Grossed $31 Million On VOD, Will Get Wide UK And Ireland Release By Russ Fischer/Jan. 7, 2015 6:30 am EST Update: Sony will release The Interview in the UK and Ireland on February 6. We don’t have info on or even an indication of further international dates at this time. While it’s a far cry from the $100m that some had expected The Interview to make in a theatrical release, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s comedy has pulled in over $30m on VOD after being available online since December 24....

Aaron Sorkin Alum Jeff Daniels Up For Role In Steve Jobs Biopic By Germain Lussier/Dec. 9, 2014 2:00 pm EST Even before a single image is captured, the Aaron Sorkin-written, Danny Boyle-directed Steve Jobs biopic has featured plenty of drama. It changed studios, had a leading man exit, and several A-list actresses pass on some choice roles. As it stands now, Universal has the rights to the film, Michael Fassbender will play Jobs and Seth Rogen is his Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak....

CinemaCon 2016 Video Blog: ‘Story Of Your Life’ Is The Stand-Out At Paramount’s Presentation By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2016 6:30 am EST We’re back in Las Vegas at CinemaCon, the annual gathering of movie theater exhibitors. As you probably know by now, theater owners from around the nation gather to, among other things, watch presentations from all of the major movie studios previewing their film slates for the upcoming year and beyond....

Elizabeth Banks Returning To Aca-Direct ‘Pitch Perfect 3’ By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 27, 2015 12:00 pm EST After Pitch Perfect 2 pulled in just over $285 million on a budget of just $29 million, the possibility of Pitch Perfect 3 became a certainty with Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and Brittany Snow on board the sequel. The follow-up was originally slated for a July release, but got pushed back a bit into the old release date once occupied by the delayed Pacific Rim 2....

How Did This Get Made: A Conversation With Mel Brooks, Executive Producer Of ‘Solarbabies’ By Blake Harris/May 26, 2016 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Going into the interview, I expected to hear tales of unforeseen calamity and production run amok. But what I didn’t expect—and what became the prevailing thread of our conversation—was the enormous personal toll that Solarbabies had on Brooks....

IMAX Posts Four Potential ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Giveaway Posters By Germain Lussier/March 31, 2015 1:00 pm EST IMAX loves giving away free posters at early screenings of their films and they’ll be doing the same next month. That’s when Avengers: Age of Ultron hits theaters and the official Avengers Twitter page has posted four possible posters fans can vote for to get at IMAX screenings of the superhero sequel. Check out the Avengers Age of Ultron IMAX posters below....

LOL: One Of The Wet Bandits Responds To Macaulay Culkin’s Adult ‘Home Alone’ Reprisal By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 26, 2015 9:01 am EST Just last week, Macaulay Culkin essentially reprised his role as Kevin McCallister from the Home Alone movies for a web series DRYVERS. In the first episode of the series, Moldy Peaches guitarist Jack Dishel played a passenger catching rides via an Uber-style car service, and the driver who picked him up just so happened to be Culkin, recounting a rather familiar tale of childhood trauma by way of two cat burglars....

Marvel Is Making The Creative Decisions On ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’, Says Kevin Feige By Angie Han/April 27, 2016 12:30 pm EST It was big news when Sony and Marvel announced they’d worked out a deal to bring Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And the word on Captain America: Civil War is that the new Spidey, played by Tom Holland, gets off to a fantastic start. But Civil War is a movie released by Marvel Studios....