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VOTD: Feature-Length Look Behind The Scenes Of ‘Batman Begins’ For 10th Anniversary By Ethan Anderton/June 26, 2015 6:00 am EST Earlier this month, June 15th marked the 10th anniversary of Batman Begins, the franchise reboot from director Christopher Nolan that launched the most acclaimed film franchise adaptation of The Caped Crusader to date. So what better time is there to dive behind the scenes of the film that gave Gotham the hero it deserves?...

WTF: ‘Sausage Party’ Costumed Characters Make A Weird Morning Show Appearance By Ethan Anderton/July 14, 2016 5:00 am EST Watch the Sausage Party morning show promotion after the jump. Here’s the weird Sausage Party promotion (via Cartoon Brew): Doing this kind of local advertising seems like a strange move for Sony Pictures, especially on a FOX affiliate channel, but maybe the studio was hoping that an odd clip like this would go viral online simply due to its odd nature....

‘Bridge Of Spies’ Poster: Tom Hanks Caught Between US And Soviet Flags By Russ Fischer/June 4, 2015 1:00 pm EST In the meantime, check out the first Bridge of Spies poster, which finds a very serious Tom Hanks caught between the US and Soviet flags. Click this image to enlarge. Poster via Disney. Bridge of Spies will be in theaters on October 16. Directed by three-time Academy Award®-winning director Steven Spielberg, “Bridge of Spies” stars: two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks as James Donovan; three-time Tony Award® winner Mark Rylance as Rudolf Abel, a KGB agent defended by Donovan; Scott Shepherd as CIA operative Hoffman; Academy Award nominee Amy Ryan as James’ wife, Mary; Sebastian Koch as East German lawyer Vogel; and Academy Award nominee Alan Alda as Thomas Watters, a partner at Donovan’s law firm....

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Credits Scenes: Russo Brothers Say There Could Be Three By Ethan Anderton/March 17, 2016 9:30 am EST The newest trailer for Captain America: Civil War finally gave us our first glimpse of the new Spider-Man, and fans couldn’t be more excited to see what he brings to the table, even if the new suit has been a little divisive among them. And now that Marvel no longer has to be secretive about Spider-Man actually being in the movie, Anthony & Joe Russo have opened up about the opportunity to bring the webslinger into the Marvel cinematic universe....

‘Death Note’ Producer Promises All Of You Bloodthirsty Maniacs An R-Rating By Jacob Hall/Feb. 22, 2016 11:30 am EST A Hollywood adaptation of the popular manga Death Note has been in the works for some time, with Shane Black announced to direct back in 2011. Since then, Black has dropped out, You’re Next director Adam Wingard stepped in, and a cast has started to take shape. It’s happening. For real this time!...

/Film LA: ‘Ghostbusters,’ ‘Fletch,’ MacGruber’ And ‘Big’ To Screen With Special Guests By Germain Lussier/Feb. 24, 2015 2:00 pm EST Many people who move to Los Angeles do so because of movies. If you want to star in them, you move here. If you want to make them, you move here. If you want to write about them, you move here. And as a result of that, if you love watching movies, there’s really no better place to live in the world....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Deleted Scenes: Everybody Hurts By Russ Fischer/Feb. 18, 2015 12:00 pm EST Everybody hurts in Game of Thrones, especially right after they’re cut by the sword of betrayal. In two newly-released deleted scenes from the fourth season, we see two major characters dealing with their own respective feelings in the wake of betrayal. Clearly, minor spoilers for Season 4 follow in these Game of Thrones deleted scenes....

‘Keanu’ First Look: Key And Peele Reunite To Save An Adorable Kitten By Angie Han/Dec. 30, 2015 4:30 pm EST Comedy fans mourned when Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele decided to end their Comedy Central series Key & Peele (pictured above) after five razor-sharp seasons. But in the duo’s defense, they had a pretty good reason for doing so: they wanted to move on to other things. Like Keanu, an upcoming comedy which reunites Key and Peele so they can dish out more satirical social commentary....

‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’ Trailer: Jane Austen Gets Zombie-Fied By Angie Han/Oct. 22, 2015 12:00 pm EST There have been many attempts to modernize Jane Austen over the years, perhaps the most successful of which is Amy Heckerling’s Clueless. But Pride and Prejudice and Zombies takes a different approach. Instead of moving the action to the present day, it just unleashes an ever-trendy horde of zombies into Regency-era England....

‘Stretch’ Red-Band Trailer: Try To Figure Out Who’s Craziest By Russ Fischer/Oct. 9, 2014 6:00 am EST This trailer embraces being adults-only; it’s got violence, cursing, nudity, and a lot of weird stuff. It isn’t safe for work, but it might just be as crazy as the film. The song there is ‘Love Missile F1-11 by Sigue Sigue Sputnik, probably best known for its use in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

‘Suicide Squad’ Star Jared Leto Says Playing The Joker Was “Like Giving Birth” By Jack Giroux/Oct. 26, 2015 2:30 pm EST If you have actor/singer/Oscar winner Jared Leto’s address, please send him cards, flowers, or chocolates, because, for God’s sake, the man just gave birth. That’s how he describes having played the Joker in director David Ayer’s (Fury) Suicide Squad, which is about a pack of villains on a suicide mission....

‘The Prophet’ Trailer Teases Salma Hayek’s Animated Passion Project By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2015 8:30 am EST Salma Hayek produced and provides the voice for the animated version of Kahlil Gibran’s book The Prophet, and the film’s first trailer is now available. The book is a collection of poems and essays, and in keeping with that original structure the film is directed by a collection of directorial teams, to tell the story of “the unlikely friendship between a young mischievous girl and an imprisoned poet,” with a voice cast that also includes Liam Neeson, Quvenzhané Wallis, John Krasinski, Frank Langella, Alfred Molina....

‘X-Men: The Animated Series’ Honest Trailer: Return To The Era Of Super Soakers & Pizza Bagels By Ethan Anderton/May 25, 2016 6:00 am EST For many children of the 90s, their first experience with X-Men came in the form of the animated series that aired Saturday mornings on FOX. Plenty of those kids still view that adaptation of the comic as the definitive version of the X-Men, even moreso than the big screen franchise that has been playing out over the past 16 years....

Audi Ad Features New ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Footage And ‘Ant-Man’ TV Spot By Germain Lussier/April 1, 2015 4:00 am EST An extended Audi ad featuring new footage from Avengers: Age of Ultron steals a little secret from Marvel. After the one minute car commerical, it surprises us with a post-credit 30 second TV spot for 2015’s second Marvel Studios film, Ant-Man. So you get new Avengers footage and then Ant-Man footage too....

Colin Farrell To Get Magical In ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’ By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 5, 2015 12:30 pm EST The cast of the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has quite an eclectic array of talent on board so far, but the cast has just added another interesting name. This season’s True Detective co-lead Colin Farrell has just signed on to the Warner Bros. project that finds Eddie Redmayne playing Newt Scamander, a wizard venturing around the magical world documenting magical creatures for his book, 70 years before the events of the Harry Potter film franchise....

Denise Di Novi To Direct Thriller ‘Unforgettable’ By Russ Fischer/June 22, 2015 1:00 pm EST For decades Denise Di Novi has worked as a producer. She consulted on Videodrome; her name is on Heathers; and she was among the most significant members of the team that brought early Tim Burton films to the screen. She worked to make Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Ed Wood, for starters....

Don’t Count On Steven Spielberg Rebooting ‘Back To The Future’ Or ‘Jaws’ At Universal By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 3, 2015 2:30 pm EST Since this deal was revealed, there’s been a lot of chatter about Universal wanting to reboot Spielberg’s original blockbuster Jaws and the time traveling franchise that he produced, Back to the Future. But these assumptions are being blown out of proportion, and as of now, there’s no real indication that either the studio or Spielberg have any plans to touch those properties....

Fernando Reza’s ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 6 Posters Feature Murder And Magic And Fire And Blood By Jacob Hall/May 20, 2016 3:30 pm EST It seems like everyone with an ounce of artistic talent and a finger on the pulse of popular culture has paid tribute to HBO’s Game of Thrones at this point. You can’t walk two steps on the internet without stumbling over a cool poster or a nifty sketch or a fun re-imagining of the show’s characters....

Guillermo Del Toro Might Go On A ‘Fantastic Voyage’ With James Cameron By Angie Han/Jan. 7, 2016 10:00 am EST The original Fantastic Voyage was a Cold War adventure about a team of scientists who shrink themselves down to atomic size and enter a man’s body to try and save his life. That premise may sound familiar even if you’ve never seen Fantastic Voyage, as it’s been parodied and riffed on countless times including in shows like Futurama, Family Guy, and Archer....

Jean-Claude Van Damme Co-Starring In ‘Kickboxer’ Remake By Russ Fischer/Dec. 2, 2014 2:45 pm EST JCVD has become the teacher. Multiple remakes of Jean-Claude Van Damme action movies from the ’80s are brewing, and while one doesn’t want him, another has embraced the man who generated the audiences to make a remake possible in the first place. Kickboxer is being remade with a new cast, and in the Kickboxer remake Jean-Claude Van Damme will now play the role of the master who teaches martial arts to a promising young student....