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Watch: A Cool Interactive Trailer for 'Snow White and the Huntsman'

By Ethan Anderton

Sure seeing the newest footage from big blockbusters is pretty great, especially on the big screen (such as the case with The Amazing Spider-Man showing six-minutes of footage before IMAX 3D screenings of Men in Black 3), but sometimes audiences want to dive a little deeper into the film. Sometimes featurettes and promotional videos do that just fine, but Universal has gone the extra mile to toss out a new interactive trailer for Snow White and the Huntsman, which rehashes the most recent trailer, but when you hover over the video, it has links to photo galleries, clips, featurettes and facts about the film. Check it out below!

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› Posted 12 hours ago in To Watch, Trailers | 10 Comments

Paul Dano and Scoot McNairy Join McQueen's 'Twelve Years a Slave'

By Ben Pearson

After tackling the difficult subject of sex addiction in 2011's Shame, writer/director Steve McQueen isn't shying away from taboo subjects for his next project. He's co-writing and directing Twelve Years A Slave, based on Solomon Northrup's 1853 account of being born a free black man and detailing his capture and time as a slave later in life. The project already has an extremely impressive cast, including Serenity star Chiwetel Ejiofor, Shame's Michael Fassbender, and Brad Pitt, and now Deadline says indie favorite Paul Dano is joining the cast and Variety says Monsters star Scoot McNairy has also signed on. More below!

› Posted 13 hours ago in Casting, Development, Movie News | 1 Comment

James McAvoy Replacing Joel Edgerton in Two 'Eleanor Rigby' Films

By Ben Pearson

Earlier this year, we wrote about a double feature called The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers where each film will tell the story of a couple, Conor and Eleanor, during a difficult time in their marriage from each of their perspectives. Joel Edgerton was set to play restaurant owner Conor, but Deadline reports James McAvoy has replaced him and he'll star opposite Jessica Chastain, whose character goes back to college. Also, each film is now titled The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him & The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her. Read on!

› Posted 13 hours ago in Casting, Movie News | 6 Comments

Disney Pulls the Plug on Snow White Themed 'Order of the Seven'

By Ben Pearson

Once upon a time, the "alternate take on a classic story" was still a fresh idea in Hollywood. But that concept has been crowding the field a bit as of late, and fairy tale movies have been all the rage since Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland kicked the global box office in the teeth and joined the Billion Dollar Club. So it's not much of a surprise that THR reports Order of the Seven (formerly known as Snow and the Seven) has been given the boot at the Mouse House. It's a shame, too, considering that one sounded like it had the most promise among the recent Mirror, Mirror and Snow White & The Huntsman competitors. More below!

› Posted 15 hours ago in Development, Movie News | 5 Comments

The First Trailer for Baz Luhrmann's 'The Great Gatsby' Adaptation

By Ethan Anderton

Australian director Baz Luhrmann has already delivered tragic romance in the form of Moulin Rouge and his contemporary set adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, but now the filmmaker is telling another classic story in the form of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, in 3D no less. With an amazing main cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton, the adaptation already sounded fantastic, but now the first trailer affirms our excitement with a contemporary feel (a Jay-Z and Kanye West song helps) next to the period setting and story that just works. Watch below!

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› Posted 16 hours ago in To Watch, Trailers | 47 Comments

Watch: Bill Murray Drunkenly Touring the 'Moonrise Kingdom' Set

By Ethan Anderton

This weekend, Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, the director's return to live-action films after adapting The Fantastic Mr. Fox, hits limited theaters. Alex already gave a mostly positive review of the film from Cannes (follow all his coverage right here), and now we have a hilarious piece of promotional video for the film. Frequent Anderson collaborator Bill Murray gives viewers an inebriated tour through the set and story of Moonrise Kingdom with the kind of commentary that only the star of Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and What About Bob? can deliver. It's a funny way to promote the film, so be sure to watch it below!

› Posted 18 hours ago in Featurettes, Humor, Hype, To Watch | 6 Comments

Interview: 'Lovely Molly' & 'Exists' Writer/Director Eduardo Sánchez

By Jeremy Kirk

Horror feature Lovely Molly, from writer/director Eduardo Sánchez, is one of those wicked, little, indie horror/thrillers that stick with you days after you see it. The personal hell its lead character, Molly, played with strength and a certain allure of danger by Gretchen Lodge, goes through is ambiguous enough for vast interpretations. The imagery he inflicts on viewers is crafty yet terrifying as the film becomes a twisted, haunted house tale in one woman's mind. With Exists, Sanchez's next film for which he is co-writing with Lovely Molly co-writer Jamie Nash, the once Blair Witch Project wunderkind has returned to indie horror.

› Posted 18 hours ago in Hype, Indies, Interviews | 2 Comments

New 'Dark Knight Rises' Character Posters Have Inclement Weather

By Ethan Anderton

Yesterday, we got a new poster for The Dark Knight Rises, and while it's not terrible, many fans seemed to be disappointed in the poster, if only because it didn't seem all that inspiring or exciting (and it's apparently extremely easy to make in Photoshop). Well, perhaps in an effort to redeem themselves, Warner Bros. has unleashed six new character posters for Christopher Nolan's anticipated conclusion to the Dark Knight legend giving Batman, Bane and Catwoman two different posters, each with very bad weather. The batch with the rain instead of the snow seem to be the coolest, but they're not amazing. Look below!

› Posted 19 hours ago in Featured, Hype, Posters, TDKR News | 37 Comments

Natalie Portman is Heading into the Wild West for 'Jane Got a Gun'

By Ethan Anderton

In the past couple years, Natalie Portman has been genre jumping from the twisted horror drama of Black Swan to the raunchy romantic comedy of No Strings Attached and the fantasy stoner laughs of Your Highness and the Marvel comic book action of Thor (with a fleeting mention in The Avengers). Now she's going to head into the western genre for the first time (unless you consider Cold Mountain to fit in that classification) in a film called Jane Got a Gun, which she'll also produce. The script from Brian Duffield was on the Black List and now We Need to Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsey is attached to helm.

› Posted 21 hours ago in Casting, Development, Movie News | 10 Comments

Timberlake to Score 'Devil in the Deep Blue Sea' Starring Jessica Biel

By Ethan Anderton

In the real world, singer turned actor Justin Timberlake and actress Jessica Biel are engaged, but now in Hollywood, the two will also have a professional relationship as well. THR has confirmed that Biel and Chloe Moretz will star in The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea, a new drama from Bill Purple, an assistant director on films like Green Lantern and Bad Teacher, making his feature film debut. In addition, Timberlake is venturing into a new job in film as he will compose the soundtrack for the film and act as the music supervisor as well. Could we be looking at a whole new career for Timberlake yet again? More below!

› Posted 21 hours ago in Casting, Development, Movie News | No Comments Yet

Kevin Smith Will Spill Blockbuster 'Spoilers' on Hulu This Summer

By Ben Pearson

To say writer/director Kevin Smith has had a contentious relationship with film critics over the past few years might be an understatement. After his film Cop Out was trashed by reviewers, Smith went on a tirade decrying the fairness of critics getting to see films at early press screenings, claiming they should be paying customers like everyone else. Now, Indiewire has a press release from the streaming service Hulu that Smith will become a quasi-film critic himself as the host of "Spoilers," his own 30-minute show in which he and an audience see a summer blockbuster on opening night and talk about it on camera. See a teaser below!

› Posted 22 hours ago in Movie News, To Watch | 7 Comments

Cannes 2012 Review: Andrew Dominik's Brutal 'Killing Them Softly'

By Alex Billington

This film can really be summed up in one word: brutal. But there's other words that work just as well: cool, or badass, or violent, or grim, or smart, or criminal. Killing Them Softly, formerly known as Cogan's Trade (the title of George V. Higgins's book it's based on), is the latest from director Andrew Dominik, of Chopper and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford previously. This time he gathers up an ensemble lead by Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, Ben Mendelsohn and Scoot McNairy to tell a more straightforward crime story. Another typical hit-then-kill (as I call it) kind of story, with too thin of a plot.

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› Posted 23 hours ago in Cannes Film Festival 12, Reviews | 7 Comments

Cannes 2012 Review: Abbas Kiarostami's Film 'Like Someone in Love'

By Alex Billington

Through all the tragedy and killing and hopelessness seen at Cannes so far (there's a lot this year), it's a refreshing relief to see something with a little bit of insightful charm. Enough charm to make me smile and laugh while watching, then grow warmly within me the more I think back to it. Like Someone in Love is openly my first experience with Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (Homework, Certified Copy) and, coincidentally, it's also his first experience shooting in Japan with a fully Japanese cast. The results aren't perfect, but despite its flaws, I've fallen in love with this film. Or maybe just its characters, odd as they are.

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› Posted 23 hours ago in Cannes Film Festival 12, Reviews | 2 Comments

Watch: A Teaser for Jamie Benning's 'Inside Jaws' Fan Documentary

By Ethan Anderton

Back in September, we posted the complete collection of fan-made Star Wars Trilogy documentaries from hardcore and passionate franchise lover Jamie Benning. Then earlier this year we featured Raiding the Lost Ark, yet another feature length filmumentary, this time highlighting George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's iconic adventure flick Raiders of the Lost Ark which introduced the world to Indiana Jones. Now this time Benning is focusing on Spielberg alone with Inside Jaws, looking at the classic 1975 film Jaws. It's a simple tease with snippets of voiceover from Spielberg, but I can't wait to see the whole thing.

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› Posted 23 hours ago in To Watch, Trailers | 2 Comments

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