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What would you do to survive? Gravitas Ventures has debuted the first trailer for another contained thriller called Detour, this time taking place almost entirely inside of a car. The story is simply about an "ad man" named Jackson, played by Neil Hopkins, whose car gets trapped in a rock/mudslide and he ends up stuck. Yea it's a lot like Buried or Devil (it even has a two-syllable one-word name), but inside of a car, and it looks like things get crazy. It looks like there's flashbacks, of course, which is where actress Brea Grant comes into play. As wild as this looks, I can't help but say I need to see it to find out what goes on, and how it ends. ›››

Continue reading Watch: First Crazy Trailer for Trapped-Inside-a-Car Thriller 'Detour'

If you could still interview Stanley Kubrick, what kind of questions would you ask him? Last year, a user on Criterion's website compiled a list of what they believe are Stanley Kubrick's Top 15 favorite films. I recently came across the list and thought it was worth sharing, especially if you're looking for classic films to watch. Fan Joshua Warren explains: "Since Kubrick was such a famously reclusive and rarely interviewed person, it's very interesting to get a glimpse what kind of films that inspired and entertained him." This top list is culled from various interviews over the years, where Kubrick revealed what his favorite films were. ›››

Continue reading Criterion Compiled List of Stanley Kubrick's Top 15 Favorite Films

Tomorrow will be a bad day to piss off your significant other (it's Valentine's Day, in case you forgot), but it will also be A Good Day to Die Hard. The fifth film in the long running action franchise starring Bruce Willis returns with a bang in Russia. If you haven't see the most recent trailer or extended featurette, this time John McClane teams up with his son Jack (Jai Courtney) to take down some bad guys. But it's been a long road to get to this point that has taken McClane from Los Angeles to Virginia and New York City to Washington DC. Thankfully, Fox has released some infographics detailing some important numbers in the Die Hard films like how many enemies have been killed, vehicles destroyed and even a mustache count. ›››

Continue reading Damage Report & Kill Infographics on the First Four 'Die Hard' Movies

Time to meet the Iron Patriot! Disney has revealed a character poster for Don Cheadle in Marvel Studio's Iron Man 3, directed by Shane Black, see the first trailer/Super Bowl spot. We've seen endless marketing and footage focused solely on Iron Man (of course he is the title character) but now War Machine gets some attention of his own. The poster was teased and finally debuted on Facebook, so we expect to see more soon. Maybe we'll get character posters for Pepper or The Mandarin or Guy Pearce's " Aldrich Killian" eventually? Maybe there's a new trailer soon? In the meantime take a closer look at the Iron Patriot on the poster below. ›››

Continue reading Don Cheadle's Iron Patriot Revealed on Newest 'Iron Man 3' Poster

Frankly, I've always wanted to see live-action actors do at least one scene from any given animated film they've provided voicework for in the past. When it comes to Wreck-It Ralph, co-star Jane Lynch came close with this cool cosplay as her character Sergeant Tamora Calhoun. But instead of actually seeing John C. Reilly in some overalls and big hair, some young filmmakers have crafted a 60-second live-action recreation of the entire film. There's some impressive effects work for this small production that was made as part of Virgin Radio Fake Film Festival, a Vancouver event where filmmakers just make 60-second versions of their favorite films. You can check out more right here, but see this Wreck-It Ralph video below! ›››

Continue reading Check Out a Live-Action Version of 'Wreck-It Ralph' in Just 60 Seconds

"It's time to learn the truth." Universal has finally revealed a second official trailer for Oblivion, the new sci-fi from Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski, starring Tom Cruise. The first sleek trailer arrived last December, giving us a glimpse of the future world and action, this time we get to see even more of the same. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any of M83's score in this yet, which kind of sucks, but at least the effects are being finished/polished and it's looking better and better as they get closer to release. Morgan Freeman also stars, with Olga Kurylenko & Andrea Riseborough. Give this a look! Epic sci-fi in 2013. ›››

Continue reading Must Watch: Second Trailer for Joe Kosinski's Sci-Fi 'Oblivion' Lands

"You keep the station safe, you keep the code safe. Whatever it takes." Well, here's an nice generic thriller for the spring. In what looks like it could have been a role for Nicolas Cage, this time John Cusack steps back into contemporary thriller territory in this first trailer for The Numbers Station. Teaming up with Malin Akerman (who worked with Cage in Stolen), Cusack is a CIA black ops agent tasked with guarding a code operator, an integral part of how the CIA does business by way of encrypted messages at the titular locations. But of course, a team of bad guys complicates things and they must defend themselves. Watch? ›››

Continue reading John Cusack & Malin Akerman in First 'The Numbers Station' Trailer

If you haven't been watching the sketch comedy shoe "Key & Peele" on Comedy Central, you're missing out on some of the best sketch comedy on television. Simple premises backed up by witty, and often times nerdy, humor are the cornerstone of their show, and it works like gangbusters. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have crafted faux HBO documentary segments like Vincent Clortho's Wizarding School and an intense, energetic sketch featuring two valet parking attendants getting more than a little excited about the career of "Liam Neesons." Now the latter characters are back and couldn't be more excited about A Good Day to Die Hard with Bruce Willy, in theaters on Thursday, and the result is hilarious. Watch! ›››

Continue reading Watch: Key & Peele Hilariously Excited for 'A Good Day to Die Hard'

In the mid-90s, it seemed only a few months would pass until another film adaptation of a John Grisham novel popped up at a multiplex. The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, A Time to Kill, The Chamber, and The Rainmaker all came out between 1993-1997, adding to Grisham's legacy as one of America's most popular thriller writers. The most recent film adaptations of his work, Runaway Jury and Christmas with the Kranks, weren't big successes, but THR reports that a film version of Grisham's newest novel, The Racketeer, will hit the big screen under the direction of Safe House helmer Daniel Espinosa. Read on! ›››

Continue reading Daniel Espinosa to Direct Adaptation of John Grisham's 'Racketeer'

It's common knowledge that Fifty Shades of Grey, the pop culture sensation from British author E.L. James, started out as Twilight fan fiction. Universal snagged the rights to the book series for a film adaptation and the producers of The Social Network jumped on board to try to turn that erotic novel into a box office hit, but that isn't the end of Bella and Edward's influence on pop culture. THR reports that Constantin Films has just bought the rights to Beautiful Bastard, a new novel from Christina Lauren (which is the pen name of writers Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings) that also began as fan fic for the vampire series. Read on! ›››

Continue reading More 'Twilight' Fan Fiction: 'Beautiful Bastard' Gets Film Adaptation

Is The Empire Strikes Back one of your favorite movies? Think it's a flawless sci-fi sequel? Think again. At least this may make you think twice about the military strategies and story choices at the beginning of the film. Wired magazine has posted a fun interactive story online called Inside the Battle of Hoth, written by Spencer Ackerman. It turns out to be a scathing breakdown of the entire opening Battle of Hoth, the ice planet, where the Empire sends a fleet of Star Destroyers and AT-AT walkers to try and destroy the Rebels hiding out there and capture Luke while they still can. But it's a massive failure, and Spencer explains why. ›››

Continue reading Wired Runs a Hilarious But Brilliant Breakdown of the Battle of Hoth

"I could hear my heart beating..." Millennium/PVR Pictures recently unveiled a trailer first brought to our attention by SlashFilm for a film called Writers, also known as Stuck in Love, written & directed by Josh Boone. It seems to be an ensemble romantic comedy addressing the topic of love, at old and young ages, and of course sex and what it all means. The cast is lead by Greg Kinnear as a writer and Lily Collins as his daughter, who are seen in this the most, along with Kristen Bell, Jennifer Connelly, Logan Lerman, Nat Wolff and Liana Liberato. Great cast with fun moments, but I want to see if this all comes together. ›››

Continue reading Watch: Greg Kinnear & Lily Collins in Josh Boone's 'Writers' Trailer

Director Andrew Stanton is returning to the familiar waters of animation after floundering in live action with the infamous 2012 flop John Carter, and he has already locked down Ellen DeGeneres to reprise her role of the forgetful fish Dory for Disney/Pixar's sequel Finding Nemo 2. Though Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive gave Albert Brooks the opportunity to stretch his acting muscles and play a villain, Brooks' voice work in the original Finding Nemo is actually his most famous performance of the past decade, so it's no surprise seeing Deadline report the actor has signed on to voice Nemo's father Marlin again in the sequel. ›››

Continue reading Albert Brooks Returns Under the Sea as Marlin for 'Finding Nemo 2'

They're coming. As much as my fears keep me away, I'm strangely drawn to Dark Skies, something about it that makes me really want to see it. Maybe because it looks insanely creepy and I hate aliens, so there's an odd seduction to something so scary. We've seen a trailer and unimpressive US poster, but now Empire has debuted an official UK quad poster for the film directed by Scott Stewart. It reminds me a bit of the Take Shelter poster with the birds, but I love that it's just these eerie birds and houses at the bottom. This same imagery showed up on a Russian poster, so it's being used in their marketing, and I'm a fan of it. Good work! ›››

Continue reading Mysterious New Quad Poster for Scott Stewart's 'Dark Skies' Debuts

"So she looks like an average-looking redhead with a weird dress on?" Yesterday The Hangover star Zach Galifianakis sat down with several Oscar nominees in the first part of a special episode of his talk show Between Two Ferns. Today he's back with the second part including Jessica Chastain, Sally Field, Daniel Day-Lewis and Bradley Cooper, all appearing after being nominated for Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln and Silver Linings Cookbook respectively. As always, Galifianakis is well-informed and treats each guest with the utmost respect. There's clearly a special bond between him and Cooper. Watch below! ›››

Continue reading Watch: Between Two Ferns Oscar Buzz: Part 2 with Sally Field & More

Keeping up the trend of updating classic tales by turning their protagonists into more hip heroes for adults, like Sherlock Holmes and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Sony has a new take on Oliver Twist. The new project is called Dodge & Twist, but rather than being an adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name, this version is based on an idea by Ahmet Zappa, who produced The Odd Life of Timothy Green and has Museum of the Weird and Enchanted Tiki Room projects in development at Disney. This tale sees Twist 20 years older and encountering Artful Dodger, his pickpocketing rival now on the right side of the law. ›››

Continue reading 'Oliver Twist' Growing Up with 'Dodge & Twist' Heist Project at Sony

Over three years ago, Man on Wire director James Marsh was being lined up to take on the supernatural thriller The Vatican Tapes. Now as Pope Benedict XVI resigns from his post in the real world and a new pope must be found, a new director has been brought on for this project at Lakeshore Entertainment. Variety ran a report about funding for various projects at the production company, and they reveal that Mark Neveldine, one half of the directing duo behind Gamer, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and the two Crank films, will be at the helm of the film, but without his usual co-director Brian Taylor. Read on! ›››

Continue reading Mark Neveldine Going Solo to Direct Supernatual 'The Vatican Tapes'

It's official. Magnolia Pictures has secured US distribution rights to Lars von Trier's already-controversial new film Nymphomaniac, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg as exactly that. Deadline broke the news last night after being tipped off to the late night sale following screening of footage at the Berlin Film Festival. Magnolia has followed up with a full press release today, confirming that they've jumped on this well before anyone in public has seen any footage, which must mean good things already. Along with that news, came a tip that it may not make it to Cannes after all, plus a "second still" showing Gainsbourg naked with two guys. ›››

Continue reading Magnolia Picking Up LvT's 'Nymphomaniac', But It May Miss Cannes

A smuggler bleeds like anyone else. He just gets more chances to prove it. I think what they prove here is how far you can go with a little bit of money. Our friends at The Film Stage have tipped us to a trailer for Down and Dangerous, directed by Zak Forsman and The Sabi Company, a cocaine smuggling drama starring John T. Woods (Heart of Now, S-VHS). Forsman is well known in the crowdfunding world for his many projects, but this is his latest, an impressively well-made microbudget crime thriller called Down and Dangerous that looks like it belongs at major film festivals. Give it a shot, you'll see it actually looks great. ›››

Continue reading Watch: First Trailer for Kickstarter-Funded Film 'Down and Dangerous'

85 Oscars. 85 Years. 85 Best Picture Winners. The Academy (via Awards Daily), as part of the Gallery1988 artwork collaboration, has unveiled the official poster for the 85th Academy Awards this year. The actual official design, which features a new representation of the iconic statuette, shows the "light Oscar" which is based on Gjon Mili's 1949 Life magazine photographs of Pablo Picasso. It also includes the title of all of the nominated films this year. But besides that, they got Olly Moss to create a special 85th Anniversary poster, featuring an iconic character statuette for each and every Best Picture winner over the last 85 years. It's brilliant. This is why I love that the Academy is working with Gallery1988 to create stunning art like this. ›››

Continue reading Olly Moss Reveals Spectacular 85th Anniversary Oscars Poster Art