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Tim Burton Directing Live-Action ‘Dumbo’ Remake By Russ Fischer/March 10, 2015 11:30 am EST Dumbo is coming back to theaters in new form, and the film now has a director. Tim Burton was part of the beginning of Disney’s current foray into live-action reinventions of its classic animated catalog, as he directed Alice in Wonderland, released early in 2010. Disney has followed that with Maleficent and the new Cinderella, with live-action versions of Beauty and the Beast and The Jungle Book on the way along with an Alice sequel....

VOTD: ‘Big Hero 6’ Meets ‘The Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ In Perfect Trailer Mash-Up By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 8, 2015 4:00 am EST Earlier this week, the world of Disney’s animated movies was combined with the studio’s own forthcoming blockbuster hit Star Wars: The Force Awakens in an impressive trailer mash-up. And now Disney’s recent animated comic book sensation Big Hero 6 meets their live-action cash cow The Avengers: Age of Ultron in another very well done trailer mash-up....

VOTD: Take A Tour Of The Pixar Animation Studios Campus By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 7, 2015 5:00 am EST If you’re a lover of animation, then one of the places you’re likely dying to visit is Pixar Animation Studios. Unlike most major production companies, Pixar is nowhere near what people regard as Hollywood. Instead, the Pixar campus is situated far north, in Emeryville, California. And today you can get an idea of what it’s like to be on Pixar’s big, fun campus....

Watch: Bill Murray Opens Up For Final David Letterman Appearance By Russ Fischer/May 20, 2015 9:30 am EST Any long-time viewer has their own personal favorite moment from David Letterman’s 30-year career in late night TV, and quite a few of those memories probably involve Bill Murray. The actor was Letterman’s first guest in both incarnations of his show, and has sat down for many other interviews with the host....

Watch ‘Jane LA’ From Max Landis: A Short Film About A Girl And Her Art Project By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 16, 2014 11:00 am EST Max Landis (Chronicle, and the upcoming American Ultra and Victor Frankenstein) has released a new short film called Jane LA. The 12-minute short film is a documentary/found footage-style story about a girl named Jane who claims to be creating a bomb as an art project. How much of her plan is a joke and how much of it is real?...

Watch The ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Blooper Reel By Germain Lussier/Dec. 12, 2014 7:00 am EST If you’re one of the many people who raced out to stores this week to pick up the Guardians of the Galaxy Blu-ray, then you’ve probably already seen this. If not, then you’re in for a treat. Marvel officially released the Guardians of the Galaxy blooper reel online and it’s quite amusing. Lee Pace has some issues, even Rocket and Groot get into the action....

Watch The Fan Created Back To The Future Prequel Trailer ‘1.21 Gigawatts’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2016 1:00 pm EST Last year, screenwriter Bob Gale and IDW teamed to create a new Back to the Future comic book series. Under the subtitle “Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines,” it lets fans experience some of the events that happened off screen, or in alternate timelines. For example, in the first issue we find out how Doc Brown and Marty McFly first meet and learn about Doc’s involvement in the super-secret Manhattan Project....

‘A Very Murray Christmas’ Teaser: Bill Murray Is Back With Chris Rock, George Clooney & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 14, 2015 8:30 am EST This holiday season will be filled with a little extra Yuletide joy and cheer, as Bill Murray is reteaming with his Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola for a Christmas special that will be exclusively available on Netflix. So far we’ve only gotten a brief glimpse of the special, but a new A Very Murray Christmas teaser has just popped up online showing off some of the famous faces who will be helping Murray out....

‘Focus’ Australian Trailer: Will Smith Can Convince Anyone Of Anything By Russ Fischer/Feb. 13, 2015 8:30 am EST This Focus Australian trailer is cut very differently from the US trailer for the film, and even though it uses a lot of the same footage that we’ve seen in the previous two US trailers, it is much more about cons, plans, and distraction than anything else. The romantic angle between characters played by Will Smith and Margot Robbie is still here, but it comes across as more like part of the big machinery of the film’s cons than anything else....

‘Homeland’ Season 5 Teaser Trailer: The More Things Change… By Angie Han/July 9, 2015 12:30 pm EST Carrie Mathison is back, whether she likes it or not. The first Homeland Season 5 teaser trailer has her out of the CIA, and working for a philanthropist in Berlin. But judging by all the explosions, kidnappings, and stern lectures in the trailer, it seems leaving the past behind may be easier said than done for our unstable heroine (played by Claire Danes)....

‘Hot Pursuit’ Trailer: Reese Witherspoon Escorts Sofia Vergara By Russ Fischer/Feb. 12, 2015 5:00 pm EST We’ve seen the “cop on the run with an endangered witness” plot before, but with Reese Witherspoon as the cop and Sofia Vergara as the witness, things take a couple turns that are probably new to the genre. Hot Pursuit casts Witherspoon as a straight-laced, possibly inept cop who is charged with escorting Vergara, the widow of a drug dealer, to a safe location....

‘Kill Me Three Times’ Trailer: Simon Pegg Is An Assassin With A Major Problem By Germain Lussier/Dec. 19, 2014 1:00 pm EST Kill Me Three Times stars Simon Pegg as an assassin. Already, you’re probably interested. But Kill Me Three Times apparently has much, much more to offer than just that. Directed by Kriv Stenders, the film stars Pegg as an assassin hired by a husband (Callan Mulvey) to kill his wife (Alice Braga)....

‘Star Trek 3’ Likely Titled ‘Star Trek Beyond’ By Germain Lussier/April 21, 2015 9:44 pm EST The crew of the starship Enterprise always hopes to go where no one has gone before. For the third movie, that might be “Beyond.” The third film in the recently rebooted Star Trek series now has a likely title. After Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek 3 is likely to be called Star Trek Beyond....

‘Star Wars: Episode 8’ Wraps Production By Jacob Hall/July 22, 2016 9:30 am EST A week after a lavish wrap party for the cast and crew that saw Mark Hamill taking selfies with everything that has a pulse and dancing Stormtroopers doing their thing on stage, Star Wars: Episode 8 has officially wrapped production. All that remains now is a year and a half of post-production. And the inevitable reshoots, because that’s a luxury Lucasfilm can afford....

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Photo Reveals First Order AT-AT? By Angie Han/Aug. 10, 2015 11:45 am EST Star Wars: The Force Awakens isn’t just looking to conquer the U.S., it wants to dominate the worldwide box office when it opens later this year. So our latest peek at the film comes from the South Korean market, in the form of a new TV spot that reveals a sliver of new footage....

‘The Path’ Trailer: Aaron Paul Can’t Live A Life Of Lies Anymore By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 9, 2016 3:30 pm EST Cults seem to be all the rage on television right now. Whether they’re a catalyst for a show like The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt or a driving force of the story as in The Leftovers, strange organizations of people just looking for something to believe in have gotten plenty of attention. And now one more is on the way from Hulu....

‘Zoolander 2’ Casts Penelope Cruz By Russ Fischer/Nov. 20, 2014 1:00 pm EST Zoolander 2 is one of those films that has been talked about for years, with original director and star Ben Stiller saying it is developing, if slowly. Now there’s a script, but still the wheels have been slow to turn. But we’ve had two other high-profile comedy sequels, Anchorman 2 and Dumb and Dumber To, and they might be empowering Stiller’s own idiot alter-ego Derek Zoolander to travel back to the screen....

Creating BB-8’s Voice: Ben Schwartz Helped Write Real Dialogue For The Ball Droid By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 11, 2016 5:00 am EST Shortly after the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a cool little behind the scenes detail regarding the beloved ball droid BB-8 surfaced, specifically with regards to how the character’s voice was created. Sure, like R2-D2 and some of the other droids we’ve seen in the Star Wars universe, BB-8 communicates with a series of bleeps and bloops....

Deadpool Christmas Trailers: Red And Green Band Presents Await By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 25, 2015 12:49 am EST The Deadpool Christmas trailers play with the idea of a superhero movie, and do a good job of selling this story as something different. We get an extended look at Colossus and a better look at the violent stylized action. Hit the jump now to watch both the new NSFW red band and SFW green band trailers for Deadpool....

Director Alex Proyas Calls ‘The Crow’ Remake “Unnecessary” By Jack Giroux/March 1, 2016 4:30 pm EST The past week must’ve been rough for director Alex Proyas. His career has had its ups and downs, including his scrapped adaptation of Paradise Lost, but these last few days, in particular, haven’t been great. Critics ripped Gods of Egypt apart and audiences didn’t show up for the pricey adventure movie. Following the disastrous opening, Proyas then wrote a Facebook post criticizing reviewers of his latest, making both fair and unfair points....