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  • The Hangover Part III Reviews - What Did You Think?!
    Warner Bros. Pictures' The Hangover Part III is now playing in theaters and we've created this spot for you to tell us and your fellow moviegoers what you thought about Todd Phillips' third and final film in the comedy franchise, starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong, Heather Graham, Jeffrey Tambor, Justin Bartha, John Goodman, Sasha Barrese, Gillian Vigman and Jamie Chung. You can use the comments below to write your mini-review for the film! What did you think?!

  • Hi-Res Versions of Man of Steel Images Now Online
    Throughout our coverage of Man of Steel , many of the images that we've posted have been from magazines and thus not at the quality that we've come to expect. We now have high-res versions of many of these images as well as a few news ones! You can click here or on the image below to see our fully gallery of Man of Steel  images. Hitting 3D, 2D and IMAX theaters on June 14, the action adventure stars Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Antje Traue, Ayelet Zurer, Christopher Meloni, Russell Crowe, Michael Kelly, Harry Lennix and Richard Schiff.   Man of Steel , a young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and...

  • The Weekend Warrior: Fast & Furious 6, The Hangover Part III & Epic
    Anyone who's been reading this column since its inception knows the significance of Memorial Day weekend as a holiday that not only represents for many the real kick-off of summer--a time for family fun and parades and picnics and such--but also a three-day weekend to go to the movies to see some of the big blockbuster sequels everyone's been waiting for. This weekend, we get two big sequels to two big movies that are certainly going to split some audiences although one is going to have a clear advantage with young males, as well as African-American and Latino audiences who've proven themselves able to bring big business to the box office. We also get our first new family movie in nearly two months, and we'll just have to see if there are enough people willing and able to pay to see two...

  • Costume Designer Michael Kaplan Confirmed for Star Wars: Episode VII
    Costume Designer Michael Kaplan has confirmed with Clothes on Film that he will be the costume designer for the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII . “I am very excited to be working on Star Wars,” Kaplan said “ I’m so looking forward to collaborating, once again, with JJ.” Kaplan has previously worked with Abrams on both Star Trek flms and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol . His impressive resume extends even further as Kaplan designed the costumes for cult classics Fight Club and Blade Runner . Star Wars: Episode VII  will be directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Michael Arndt and is scheduled for a 2015 release.

  • Timecop Planned for Big Screen Reboot
    Dark Horse Comics' Timecop is heading back the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Universal Pictures is currently developing the property for a franchise reboot with Marc Shmuger and Tom McNulty producing. "What a dream: to travel through time," Dark Horse's official description of the series reads, "You can change the past, the future, your future. Then imagine Max Walker, one of the Time Enforcement Commission's toughest and most extreme cops. But as nasty as Walker's methods are, even he may not be able to stop a nefarious plot to destroy the future as we know it." Originally published as a three-part story in the "Dark Horse Comics" anthology series, Timecop was adapted for the big screen in 1994 with Jean-Claude...

  • BTJA Announces Nominations for the 3rd Annual Critics' Choice Television Awards
    The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA), of which ComingSoon.net is a member, today announced nominations for the 3rd annual Critics' Choice Television Awards, which will be held the evening of Monday, June 10, 2013 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. For the first time the award show will be webcast live on UStream . Fan favorite actress and stand-up comedian Retta, currently starring as Donna Meagle on "Parks and Recreation," will host. She has appeared in numerous films and television shows, and has performed on Comedy Central's "Premium Blend." HBO leads the networks in nominations with 21, followed closely by FX which collected 19. Topping the list of nominated series are "American Horror Story: Asylum" (FX) and "The Big Bang...

  • Check Out Red and Green Band Trailers for We're the Millers
    Warner Bros. Pictures has just debuted both Red and Green Band trailers and the poster for the upcoming Rawson Marshall Thurber comedy We're the Millers , set to hit theaters August 9. Check the regular trailer out in the top player below and the R-rated version in the bottom one! Starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, Will Poulter and Ed Helms, the road trip action comedy follows David Burke (Sudeikis), a small-time pot dealer whose clientele includes chefs and soccer moms, but no kids—after all, he has his scruples. So what could go wrong? Plenty. Preferring to keep a low profile for obvious reasons, he learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished when he tries to help out some local teens and winds up getting jumped by a...

  • Batman: Arkham Origins Reveals a New Teaser Image
    Following the full trailer for the game released earlier this week , Batman: Arkham Origins has revealed a stylish new teaser image that has the Caped Crusader's villains reflected in his darker side. Check it out below! Developed by Warner Bros. Games Montreal, Batman: Arkham Origins features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline occurring several years before the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City . Taking place before the rise of Gotham City's most dangerous villains and assassins, the game showcases a young, raw, unrefined Batman as he faces a defining moment in his early career as a crime fighter that sets his path to becoming the Dark Knight. As the story unfolds, witness identities being formed and key relationships...

  • Check Out the Trailer for Metallica Through the Never
    The trailer for the concert documentary Metallica Through the Never is now online and you can check it out in the player below, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies . Starring Metallica, a cast of thousands of their fans and breakout star Dane DeHaan ( Chronicle , The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ), Metallica Through the Never is written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Nimród Antal ( Predators , Kontroll ) and produced by former IMAX film producer Charlotte Huggins ( Journey to the Center of the Earth ). The film marries groundbreaking footage and editing techniques with a compelling narrative, in which a band crew member (played by DeHaan) is sent out on a mission during Metallica's roaring live set in front of a sold-out arena. While on this mission, he unexpectedly has his life...

  • First Teaser for Delivery Man, Starring Vince Vaughn
    DreamWorks Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for Delivery Man , the Ken Scott comedy starring Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt, Cobie Smulders and Britt Robertson. Opening in theaters on November 22, Delivery Man is the story of affable underachiever David Wozniak, whose mundane life is turned upside down when he finds out that he fathered 533 children through sperm donations he made twenty years earlier. In debt to the mob, rejected by his pregnant girlfriend, things couldn't look worse for David when he is hit with a lawsuit from 142 of the 533 twenty-somethings who want to know the identity of the donor. As David struggles to decide whether or not he should reveal his true identity, he embarks on a journey that leads him to discover not only his true self but the...

  • Things Get Apocalyptic in a Red-Band TV Spot for This is the End
    Columbia Pictures has released a Red-Band TV spot from the R-rated This is the End , hitting theaters on June 12. Written and directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, the movie stars Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride and Jonah Hill. This is the End follows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Once they discover that they are experiencing the Apocalypse, they must come to terms with why they were left behind. Eventually they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.

  • Lionsgate Achieves Record Sales of $250 Million at Cannes
    Lionsgate continued to dazzle its international distribution partners with its lineup of films for the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, achieving a company record of more than $250 million in sales for nine titles that included The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 , Step Up 5 and upcoming Lionsgate and Summit titles such as Draft Day , The Last Witch Hunter , Lionsgate UK's A Little Chaos and Reawakening . The record total surpassed last year's mark by more than 50% and doesn't include the expected revenue from territories where Lionsgate distributes directly, such as the UK, or through distribution partnerships such as its 50/50 joint venture with IDC in Latin America and its partnership with Universal Pictures in India. "Our...

  • A New Set Photo Hints at Godzilla's Path of Destruction
    Legendary has tweeted a new image from the set of Gareth Edwards' upcoming Godzilla and it implies that we'll see the evacuation of the Farallon Islands, an area of land roughly 30 miles from the coast of San Francisco, where an attack by the Kaiju beast has been confirmed for the 2014 release. If we're to assume that Godzilla is moving west to east in the film, it's a good bet (although unconfirmed) that the creature's origins will fall somewhere in the vicinity of Japan. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Bryan Cranston and Sally Hawkins, Godzilla hits the big screen May 16, 2014. A presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, Godzilla will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a...

  • The Weinsteins Scoop Up Two Keanu Movies
    The Weinstein Company and its spinoff RADiUS-TWC have been very busy scooping things up at the Cannes Film Festival and their latest acquisitions are two Keanu Reeves showcase films, as The Weinstein Company bought the rights to the long-in-development sci-fi film Passengers , co-starring Reese Witherspoon, while RADiUS-TWC will distribute Keanu's directorial debut, the martial arts flick, The Man of Tai Chi . Written by Jon Spaihts ( Prometheus ), Passengers has been a long-time passion project for Reeves that was offered for pre-sale at Cannes. The plot involves a spacecraft transporting thousands of people to a distant colony planet that has a malfunction in one of its sleep chambers so that one passenger wakes up 90 years before anyone else. Lonely, he decides to wake up...

  • Elijah Wood is a Maniac in a New Trailer
    A new trailer for director Franck Khalfoun's Maniac is now online and you can check it out in the player below. Starring Elijah Wood and Nora Arnezeder, the thriller is set for a limited theatrical bow and VOD debut on June 21st. Written and produced by Alex Aja and Gregory Levasseur, the film finds Wood playing Frank, a man - haunted by seedy memories of his promiscuous mother - who works in a mannequin shop by day and stalks 'n kills women by night. Things take a turn in his life when he meets a beautiful photographer (Arnezeder). Maniac is a remake of William Lustig's 1980 cult classic.

  • CBS Brings Bad Teacher to Series
    CBS has just announced that it has ordered the single-camera comedy "Bad Teacher," first announced for development as a pilot last fall , for the 2013-2014 season. Based on the hit feature film of the same name, "Bad Teacher" stars Ari Graynor as an always inappropriate, fearless and unapologetic former trophy wife who masquerades as a teacher in order to find a new man after her wealthy husband leaves her penniless. Hilary Winston, Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky, Sam Hansen, Jimmy Miller and Michael Lasker are executive producers for Sony Pictures Television in association with CBS Television Studios and Mosaic Media Group.

  • New Monsters University Trailer Features Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso's Roar
    Walt Disney Pictures has released this new trailer for Monsters University which features "Roar," by Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso of Swedish House Mafia. Also featuring a score by Randy Newman, the Dan Scanlon-directed prequel opens in theaters on June 21. Ever since college-bound Mike Wazowski (voice of Billy Crystal) was a little monster, he has dreamed of becoming a Scarer—and he knows better than anyone that the best Scarers come from Monsters University (MU). But during his first semester at MU, Mike's plans are derailed when he crosses paths with hotshot James P. Sullivan, "Sulley" (voice of John Goodman), a natural-born Scarer. The pair's out-of-control competitive spirit gets them both kicked out of the University's elite Scare Program. To make matters...

  • Todd Haynes to Direct Cate Blanchett & Mia Wasikowska in Carol
    Todd Haynes, the director behind films like Velvet Goldmine and I'm Not There , has signed on to direct Carol , Screen Daily reports. He replaces the previously-announced John Crowley. The project re-teams Haynes with his I'm Not There star Cate Blanchett as well as Mia Wasikowska ( Alice in Wonderland ) in the adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novella "The Price of Salt." Adapted by Phyllis Nagy, the story of a lesbian romance in the '50s written by Highsmith (under the pseudonym Claire Morgan), is being produced by Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley at Number 9 Films along with Film4 with filming scheduled to start in London and New York. The rather unprecedented homosexual love story--for the time in which it was written--follows the relationship...

  • Toby Jones on Arnim Zola's Return in Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    Actor Toby Jones has played a lot of interesting parts in his career, but definitely one that got a lot of fans excited was when he appeared as the Red Skull’s right hand man, Arnim Zola, in Captain America: The First Avenger . That was the '40s incarnation of Zola where he was a scientist, but when it was announced Jones would be returning for the upcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier , fans of the Cap villain probably got more excited that we might see him in his more recognizable robotic form. When we spoke with Jones earlier today about his creepy new thriller Berberian Sound Studio , he wouldn’t tell us how big a part he has in the new Cap movie, but he did give us a brief tease that fans of the character should be happy with the way that Zola is brought back....

  • Check Out the Trailer for Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon
    The trailer for Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut, Don Jon is now online and can be viewed in the player below. Set to hit theaters October 18 through Relativity Media, Don Jon follows Jon Martello (Gordon-Levitt), a strong, handsome, good old fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to "pull" a different woman every weekend, but even the finest fling doesn't compare to the bliss he finds alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) is a bright, beautiful, good old fashioned girl. Raised on romantic Hollywood movies, she's determined to find her Prince Charming and ride off into the sunset. Wrestling with good old fashioned expectations of the opposite sex, Jon and Barbara struggle against a...

  • New Restricted Clip From Only God Forgives
    CraveOnline has debuted this new restricted clip from Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives , starring Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas and Vithaya Pansringarm. In the July 19 release, Julian (Ryan Gosling) is a former kickboxer and gangster living in Bangkok. When his brother is murdered by a ruthless Thai police lieutenant, Julian is forced to seek vengeance or risk his own death.

  • Interview: Luke Evans on Giving the Fast & Furious Franchise a Nemesis
    "I wanted to create an antagonist that had a valid philosophy," Fast & Furious 6 director Justin Lin told ComingSoon.net in an interview last week . "He can stand right across from Dom and really challenge his philosophy. In doing that, I was fortunate to find someone of the stature and talent that they could stand there and deliver these lines opposite Vin and Dom. We've never had that before." Stepping into the role of the villainous Shaw is Luke Evans, best known for roles in films like Immortals , Clash of the Titans and The Three Musketeers . Coming up, his slate gets even more diverse as he's set to play Bard the Bowman in December 13th's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug before moving on to the title roles in both Gary Shore's Dracula and...

  • The New Trailer for Edgar Wright's The World's End!
    We got to see two new posters yesterday and today Focus Features has released the new domestic trailer for The World's End , the August 23 release directed by Edgar Wright and starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan and Rosamund Pike. In “The World’s End,” 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by Gary King (Simon Pegg), a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub – The World’s End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not...

  • Grown Ups 2 Goes International with a New Trailer
    A new international trailer for Sony Pictures' Grown Ups 2 is now online and you can check it out in the player below! Opening in theaters on July 12, the sequel stars Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Maya Rudolph, Maria Bello and Nick Swardson. The all-star comedy cast from Grown Ups returns for more summertime laughs. Lenny (Adam Sandler) has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school.

  • Dignity Film Finance Options Novel The God of Driving
    Film production and finance company Dignity Film Finance (DFF) has optioned the novel "The God of Driving: How I Overcame Fear and Put Myself in the Driver's Seat (with the Help of a Good and Mysterious Man)," by Vanity Fair special correspondent Amy Fine Collins. The novel was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011. DFF, headed by President Maggie Monteith, is fully financing the feature film production based on the novel. Sue Kramer ( Gray Matters ) wrote and will direct the comedy. Jill Footlick ( Greetings From Tim Buckley ) will produce and Marina Grasic ( Crash ) is executive producing. Casting is currently underway with the project set to start shooting in Spring 2014. Sales will launch at Berlin 2014. “As a writer/director, I was completely captivated...

  • AMC CEO Says No End to The Walking Dead in Sight
    The cast and crew of The Walking Dead are back in Atlanta, Georgia as you read this, prepping and working on the fourth season of the ever popular AMC series. When series creator Robert Kirkman brought the series to life in comic book form, he invisioned it as the "never ending zombie story," which seems to be the mantra being brought to the television series. “We hope that zombies live forever and we’ve just begun to find out what the post-apocalyptic world is like,” said AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan (via The Hollywood Reporter ), “so that we’ll be sitting here at the Barclays conference in 2022 discussing the fact that Walking Dead is not over." Do you think  The Walking Dead  will stick around for over ten seasons? Would you want...

  • Lionsgate Acquires U.S. Distribution to Blood Ties
    Lionsgate has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Blood Ties from Worldview Entertainment. The film premiered at the 2013 Cannes Festival and the studio will release through its sister company Roadside Attractions. Directed by Guillaume Canet from a screenplay written by Canet and James Gray, the film is based on the screenplay "Les Liens du sang" by Jaques Maillot, Pierre Chosson, and Eric Veniard, and the novel "Deux Freres, un flic, un truand" by Michel and Bruno Papet. The film stars Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Maroin Cotillard, Domenick Lombardozzi, Mila Kunis, Matthias Schoenaerts, Zoé Saldana and James Caan. Lionsgate UK acquired UK rights to the film prior to its premiere in Cannes. The deal for Blood Ties makes the movie the biggest sale to date...

  • Fast & Furious 7 Will Return to Where it All Began
    Although Fast & Furious 6 doesn't hit theaters until this Friday, May 24, work is already underway for a seventh big screen entry, planned for July 11, 2014. Speaking today with Variety , franchise star Vin Diesel says that, while the past few films have played up international locales, Fast & Furious 7 will take the action back to where it all began. "We are bringing it back to Los Angeles,” he says. Continuing the global exploits in the franchise built on speed, Diesel and Paul Walker lead the returning cast of Fast & Furious 7 with more actors expected to be confirmed soon. James Wan directs this chapter of the hugely successful series, and Diesel and Neal H. Moritz return as producers.

  • Two New Posters for The Smurfs 2 Revealed
    Sony Pictures Animation has released two new posters for The Smurfs 2 . The first features Grouchy and Vexy and the second poster features Hackus and Smurfette. In the July 31 sequel, the evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties that he hopes will let him harness the all-powerful, magical Smurf-essence. But when he discovers that only a real Smurf can give him what he wants, and only a secret spell that Smurfette knows can turn the Naughties into real Smurfs, Gargamel kidnaps Smurfette and brings her to Paris, where he has been winning the adoration of millions as the world's greatest sorcerer. It's up to Papa, Clumsy, Grouchy, and Vanity to return to our time, reunite with their human friends Patrick and Grace Winslow, and...

  • Two More TV Spots for World War Z
    Following the TV spot earlier today , Paramount Pictures has released two more spots for World War Z which you can watch below! Hitting theaters on June 21, the Marc Forster-directed action thriller stars Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale, Matthew Fox and David Morse. The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself.