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Director Mike Judge Is Considering An ‘Idiocracy’ Anniversary Tour By Jack Giroux/April 19, 2016 3:30 pm EST With the comedy’s 10th anniversary coming up, actress Maya Rudolph says Mike Judge is considering going on tour for the film, conducting screenings and Q&As. Learn more about the potential event below. In Idiocracy, Rudolph played Rita, the prostitute forced into a suspended animation experiment by her pimp, “Upgrayedd.” Hundreds of years later, after waking up from hibernation, Rita and, another guinea pig in the government experiment, Joe (Luke Wilson), greet a horrific future....

How The Avengers: Age Of Ultron Should Have Ended - Parts One And Two By Ethan Anderton/June 16, 2015 12:15 pm EST The folks at How It Should Have Ended previously skewered The Avengers: Age of Ultron by poking fun at one of the trailers for the Marvel Studios sequel. But now that the full film has been out in theaters for over a month, and the team has had a chance to soak it in a few times, they’re taking aim at the whole enchilada....

Larry David Considering More ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’, According To J.B. Smoove By Jack Giroux/June 10, 2016 6:30 am EST Season eight of Curb Your Enthusiasm ended on an exceedingly satisfying note. Larry and Leon (JB Smoove) were enjoying a beautiful day in Paris, but, Larry David being Larry David, they quickly found themselves in an argument with a stranger over something. If that ends up being the series finale, it’s a fitting conclusion....

New ‘Ghostbusters’ Show Off Second Proton Pack While Visiting Children’s Hospital By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 2, 2015 12:32 pm EST Over the weekend, the cast of the new Ghostbusters earned some goodwill with fans by visiting the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Photos have been making the rounds online featuring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones visiting patients and their families while wearing all their Ghostbusters gear....

Producer Simon Kinberg Still Threatening To Make A ‘Fantastic Four’ Sequel By Angie Han/May 13, 2016 9:30 am EST “We want to make another Fantastic Four movie,” Kinberg said during the recent press tour for X-Men: Apocalypse. And they’re really going to try to get it right this time, he promises: “We’ll try to be truer to the essence of the tone of Fantastic Four,” he said. Speaking with Den of Geek, Kinberg was frank about his disappointment in 2015’s Fantastic Four:...

Superhero Bits: Arrow, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, The Flash, Batman By Germain Lussier/March 18, 2015 4:00 pm EST How accurate a shot is Arrow? Who is TJ Miller playing in Deadpool? Could Spider-Man cameo in Daredevil? Is Daniel Bruhl excited for Captain America: Civil War? Will Marvel bring back the Age of Apocalypse in their comics? What’s the link between Captain America and Cinderella? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: New Mutants, Jessica Jones, Captain America, Batman: Arkham Knight, Powers By Angie Han/Oct. 2, 2015 5:00 pm EST What’s the latest on Josh Boone’s New Mutants? Who’s directing Jessica Jones? When will Batman: Arkham Knight return to PC? What happens when Superman oversleeps? Has the Arrow / Flash crossover episode started shooting? What would the Justice League look like as D&D characters? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: Product Placement Creates Civil War Plot Hole, Sebastian Stan On Batman V Superman & More By Ethan Anderton/May 12, 2016 4:00 am EST What does Captain America: Civil War star Sebastian Stan think of Batman v Superman? What villain does Kevin Smith want to bring to Arrow if he gets to write an episode for the show? How did Chinese product placement create a bit of a plot hole in Captain America: Civil War?...

Warner Bros. Shuffles 2016 Action Comedies ‘The Nice Guys’ And ‘Central Intelligence’ By Germain Lussier/March 19, 2015 2:00 pm EST Briefly: Warner Bros. just dated/shuffled two big action comedies they have set for the Summer of 2016. First up, Central Intelligence, directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, will open June 17,2016. That date was previously occupied by The Nice Guys, directed by Shane Black and starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe....

‘De Palma’ Trailer: The Influential ‘Scarface’ Director Recounts His Career In A New Doc By Ethan Anderton/April 20, 2016 10:00 am EST Director Brian De Palma is one of the most influential and iconic directors that cinema has ever seen. His body of work includes films such as Scarface, Carrie, Blow Out, The Untouchables, Casualties of War, Mission: Impossible, Snake Eyes, The Black Dahlia, Carlito’s Way and most recently, Passion. Now the filmmaker himself dives into his impressive ouvre in a documentary simply titled De Palma....

‘Ex Machina’ Star Alicia Vikander In Talks For New ‘Bourne’ And ‘Assassin’s Creed’ By Ethan Anderton/May 23, 2015 11:46 am EST After starring in the riveting sci-fi thriller Ex Machina, which you can still catch in theaters, Swedish actress Alicia Vikander is on the rise to stardom. Aside from being sexy and mysterious in Alex Garland’s magnificent film about artificial intelligence, we’ll also see Vikander in Guy Ritchie’s forthcoming Man from U....

‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Rated R For “Unusual” Reason By Angie Han/Jan. 8, 2015 9:30 am EST The question was never whether Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Fifty Shades of Grey would feature lots of sex, but how much sex and what kind. Now we have a better idea, thanks to the MPAA. The board has just given Fifty Shades of Grey an R, which is possibly disappointing but not terribly surprising. More interesting is the group’s “unusual” justification for that rating....

‘Finding Dory’ Trailer: Pixar’s Most Forgetful Heroine Sets Out On An Unforgettable Adventure By Angie Han/Nov. 10, 2015 6:25 am EST The first Finding Dory poster, released yesterday, riffed the forgetful fish’s oft-repeated mantra: “Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…” Now the Pacific regal blue tang has swum all the way to YouTube, where Pixar has unveiled the first official Finding Dory trailer. Ellen DeGeneres returns as Dory, and Albert Brooks as Marlin....

‘Guardians 2’: Kurt Russell Is Ego, Sylvester Stallone And Taserface To Appear [Comic-Con 2016] By Angie Han/July 23, 2016 7:30 pm EST We’re almost a year away from the next installment in the Guardians of the Galaxy series, but the build up for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 began today in San Diego. Filmmaker James Gunn appeared at the infamous Marvel Studios presentation on Saturday afternoon in Comic Con’s Hall H to preview his next movie....

‘Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters’ Still Getting A Sequel, Has A New Director By Russ Fischer/Aug. 7, 2015 6:26 pm EST Notice to witches: you’re still not safe. There was talk of a sequel for the January 2013 release Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters even before the film hit theaters, but more than two years later there has been relatively little movement. Until now. Hansel and Gretel 2 is still happening, likely because the international box office for the first film was enough to offset the relatively lackluster domestic performance....

‘Louder Than Bombs’ Trailer: Jesse Eisenberg Grieves For Isabelle Huppert By Angie Han/Feb. 29, 2016 4:00 pm EST When Jesse Eisenberg was cast as Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, it came as a big surprise — not just because Lex is typically portrayed as older (and balder), but also because a massively budgeted superhero flick seems so far outside of Eisenberg’s usual wheelhouse. You can rest assured, however, that Eisenberg isn’t ditching the quieter, artsier indies he built his early career on....

‘Max’ Trailer: A Dog With The Heart Of A Marine By Russ Fischer/March 18, 2015 11:30 am EST Call it War Dog — Max is the story of a dog trained to work with military units in Afghanistan, who finds a new life with family in the States after his handler is killed in action. If you’re a dog person, this first Max trailer is probably going to be enough to have you shedding tears on your laptop keyboard, and I can just imagine the tear-jerking power of the film, even when it throws out pretty goofy lines like “we’ve got the Air Jordan of dogs....

‘Ocean’s Eleven’ Spinoff: Helena Bonham Carter And Mindy Kaling Join Sandra Bullock And Cate Blanchett By Angie Han/June 9, 2016 1:18 pm EST Warner Bros. has recruited two more for its Ocean’s Eleven spinoff. Mindy Kaling and Helena Bonham Carter have reportedly joined Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett in the heist film, which is being directed by Gary Ross (The Hunger Games). We’ve got a long way to go before that cast is full, but Kaling, Bonham Carter, Bullock, and Blanchett are a rock-solid start....

‘Paddington’ Trailer: Now With Ben Whishaw As Paddington By Angie Han/Oct. 28, 2014 10:30 am EST Paddington hit a snag this summer when lead voice actor Colin Firth dropped out, with both sides mutually agreeing that he “didn’t seem to fit.” After a few weeks of searching, Ben Whishaw was brought on as his replacement. Today, we finally have our first listen at Whishaw’s take on the beloved Brit bear thanks to a new Paddington trailer....

By Angie Han/May 4, 2015 12:15 pm EST Here’s one more tidbit to add to the growing bounty of gifts this May the Fourth. Vanity Fair has revealed the first look at the Star Wars: The Force Awakens character played by Gwendoline Christie, named Captain Phasma. So who is Captain Phasma, exactly? Get to know this imposing new figure after the jump. Vanity Fair unveiled the Star Wars Gwendoline Christie character on its site today....