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‘Hitman: Agent 47’ Teaser Explains The ‘Mad Men’ Opening Credits By Russ Fischer/May 15, 2015 3:00 pm EST For years the enigmatic opening credits to Mad Men have provoked viewers into many entertaining questions. How literal is the opening animation meant to be? What does it mean for Don Draper, and by implication the rest of the characters? While the metaphoric thrust of the credits is evident to anyone who watches the show, it’s still fun to talk about....

‘Men & Chicken’ Trailer: Mads Mikkelsen Gets Really Weird In TIFF Comedy By Russ Fischer/Aug. 11, 2015 3:30 pm EST I’m so thankful for Mads Mikkelsen. He can make serious films, and take big genre stuff like Hannibal as seriously as anything else, and then he can make a really weird-looking movie like Men & Chicken, a Danish comedy that will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival....

‘Monster Trucks’ Pushed To 2017; ‘The Little Prince’, ‘SpongeBob 3’ And More Set Dates By Angie Han/Nov. 11, 2015 4:00 pm EST Monster Trucks keeps speeding further and further into the future. The live-action / CG film, originally slated to open in May of this year, has been delayed yet again, this time from 2016 all the way to 2017. Taking its old 2016 slot will be The Little Prince, an animated adaptation of the classic children’s book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry....

‘Pacific Rim 2’ Is Back On With ‘Daredevil’s Steven S. DeKnight Directing By Angie Han/Feb. 23, 2016 7:20 pm EST The past couple of years have been a real roller coaster ride for Pacific Rim fans. The film’s limp U.S. box office dimmed hopes of a sequel, before a strong overseas performance got Universal interested again. A release date was set and everything seemed on track for more jaeger vs. kaiju fights… and then Universal got cold feet and put the whole thing on hold....

‘Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension’ Trailer: Toby’s Last Hurrah By Angie Han/June 24, 2015 5:30 am EST Paramount Pictures has unveiled the trailer for the fifth and supposedly final installment in the Paranormal Activity franchise, subtitled The Ghost Dimension. The story picks up with a new family this time, the Fleeges: dad Ryan (Chris J. Murray), mom Emily (Brit Snow), and daughter Leila (Ivy George). But while the family is new, the threat is old....

‘Queen Sugar’ Trailer: Ava DuVernay Teams Up With Oprah Winfrey On The Small Screen By Angie Han/July 20, 2016 1:30 pm EST It’s been two years since Selma turned Ava DuVernay into one of the hottest, most in-demand filmmakers working today. But she hasn’t actually put out another movie since then. So what’s she been up to in the past couple of years? Well, among other things, putting together Queen Sugar, a new drama launching on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network this fall....

‘Secret Agent’ Is The Next Film From ‘I Saw The Devil’ Director Kim Jee-Woon By Russ Fischer/Aug. 3, 2015 2:00 pm EST The 1930s-set picture, which is set during Korea’s efforts to throw off Japanese colonialism, will be led by a couple of South Korean stars, and hopefully the WB backing means we’ll see it sooner rather than later in the US. Variety reports, describing the film like so: Twitch also notes that the film’s story is rooted in “the history of Organization of Righteous Bravery, a part of the armed independence movement during Korea under Japanese rule,” with other sites saying it “follows the activities of the Heroic Corps, an anti-Japanese independence organization that existed under the Japanese colonial period in South Korea....

‘Starry Eyes’ Trailer And Poster: Success Requires Sacrifice By Russ Fischer/Oct. 30, 2014 4:30 pm EST Starry Eyes answers an old question — what would you do for fame? — with brutal and visceral intensity. The film, written and directed by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer, features Alex Essoe in a figurative and literal star-making turn. She plays Sarah, a young woman whose own self-destructive tendencies play right into the odd desires of one casting director, leading to what could be her big break as the lead actor in a horror feature....

‘The Revenant’ Posters Are All About Grit And Grime And Beards And Revenge By Jacob Hall/Nov. 2, 2015 7:30 am EST No 2015 film looks more miserable than The Revenant, and that’s just how director Alejandro G. Iñárritu likes it. Even when he’s making a supposed comedy like Birdman, no director takes greater delight in shoving an audience’s face right into the literal and metaphorical muck. His movies are gorgeously made exercises in making you feel awful....

Cool Stuff: New Wall Art Lets You Hang Famous Movie Shoes On Your Wall By Ethan Anderton/May 20, 2016 6:30 am EST If you’re a huge cinephile, but you’re a little too grown up to just hang a bunch of movie posters on your wall, then we have some nice wall art that might be up your alley. Illustration and design studio Son of Wolves has created a print featuring nine pairs of some of the most iconic shoes from your favorite motion pictures....

Deadpool To Start Shooting This Spring In Vancouver By Angie Han/Jan. 19, 2015 3:00 pm EST The Deadpool spinoff had been talked about for so long it had started to feel like a pipe dream. But now it’s really and truly happening, with a release date in place and everything. And since said release date is just over a year away, the start of shooting is just around the corner....

Final ‘Spectre’ Trailer: Sam Mendes And Daniel Craig Bring The Action By Angie Han/Oct. 2, 2015 9:30 am EST Daniel Craig recently said he’d be happy to play Bond as long as he was “physically able,” but as the Spectre final trailer shows, playacting a globe-trotting super-spy takes quite the toll on a man’s body. The new promo brings the action, from boat chases and explosions to upside-down helicopters and good old-fashioned fistfights....

Lionsgate Wants ‘The Odyssey’ To Be Multiple Films By Russ Fischer/May 22, 2015 2:30 pm EST In an unprecedented move, a movie studio has decided that an adaptation of a well-known story will be broken up into several movies, rather than done as a single film. That’s a joke, of course. The way things are now, it would be more surprising to hear of one film being developed. In this case, the subject is The Odyssey, which The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson are developing for Lionsgate....

New Steven Spielberg And Tom Hanks Film Titled ‘Bridge Of Spies,’ John Williams Confirmed To Score By Russ Fischer/March 3, 2015 2:21 pm EST The new Steven Spielberg film, which reunites the director with star Tom Hanks, was referred to early on as the “Untitled Cold War Thriller,” and then shot under the title St. James Place. But when released in theaters, the movie will be called Bridge of Spies — a more colorful title, to be sure, and one which has its own place in cold war history....

Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ Pushed To 2016 By Angie Han/Sept. 14, 2015 6:30 am EST It looks like we’ll have one fewer present to open come Christmas Day. Open Road has pushed Oliver Stone’s Snowden off its year-end release calendar and into 2016. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the controversial NSA whistleblower. More on the Snowden release date delay after the jump. Open Road has not yet announced a new release date for Snowden....

Report: Mark Hamill To Voice The Joker In ‘Batman: The Killing Joke’ Animated Movie By Angie Han/July 28, 2015 7:00 am EST A classic Joker story is getting a classic Joker. According to a new report, Mark Hamill is set to voice the Clown Prince of Crime in Batman: The Killing Joke, Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment’s animated adaptation of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s iconic comic book storyline. Get all the details on the Killing Joke Mark Hamill casting after the jump....

Rumor: Who Is Felicity Jones In ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’? By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 2015 6:00 am EST So far the cast assembled for the first Star Wars Anthology film has been an eclectic mix of talent. Felicity Jones has taken the lead role in Star Wars: Rogue One while other cast members include Riz Ahmed, Sam Claflin, Diego Luna, Forest Whitaker and maybe Ben Mendelsohn. However, we don’t really know anything about who these actors are playing....

See All Of Hasbro’s ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Toys Coming Out On Force Friday By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 21, 2015 10:30 am EST Hasbro has released a full catalog of Star Wars: The Force Awakens toys that are coming out on Force Friday, which takes place on Midnight on September 4th 2015. Most of the toys are pretty much spoiler free as it seems JJ Abrams and the creative team is limiting the early merchandising to mostly the first third of the movie....

Shawn Levy Won’t Direct ‘Minecraft’ Movie By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2014 10:15 am EST Angie Han’s original story from October 2014 follows: After the success of The Lego Movie taught Warner Bros. there was money to be made in movies about building blocks, the studio quickly scooped up the rights to the video game Minecraft. Now, as Warner Bros. constructs plans for a Lego Movie franchise, it’s also getting the pieces into place for that Minecraft movie....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: The Avengers, Captain America, Gotham, Ant-Man, Supergirl, Batman & Robin By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 20, 2015 2:30 pm EST Warner Bros. put billboards for their DC Comics TV shows on their iconic water tower for the first time. For 1st time EVER, WB unveils #watertower billboards for #Supergirl #Gotham #Flash #Arrow! #WBDCTV pic.twitter.com/bPZsNhz9kd — Warner Bros. TV (@warnerbrostv) October 20, 2015...