‘X-Men: First Class’ Trailer Hits Tomorrow, Full Logo And New Magneto Photo Revealed 20th Century Fox has announced that the first teaser trailer forMatthew Vaughn’sX-Men: First Classwill be released tomorrow, Thursday, February 10th 2011. They have also released a new photo of Magneto to get you excited, and a full look at the film’s logo. Yes, it’s basically a non-zoomed in version of what we saw on the theatrical teaser poster....

2009 Frightfest Films Unveiled, New Images And Details The line-up for this year’s August Bank HolidayFilm 4 Frightfesthas been unveiled and it looks like a bumper crop for the gorehounds of London. After the break I’ll post the full list of what’s planned, point out my top five picks and share some new images from a couple of the most keenly anticipated horror pictures of the year. All that, and details on Andy Nyman’s 100 Best Kills coming right up…...

Ben Kingsley Joins Sacha Baron Cohen In ‘The Dictator’ Not counting hisAli G Showcreations and the trio of feature efforts that followed,Sacha Baron Cohen’s winning presence has been put to use in only two films thus far, first inTalladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobbyand not long after inSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. That’s going to be changing in the next couple of years though, as he adds two more films to his roster — the appreciably shorter-titledHugo Cabret(directed by Martin Scorsese) andThe Dictator....

Blake Masters Rewriting ‘Colossus: The Forbin Project’ Remake Coincidence or not: on the same day that we learn Universal has passed on theDark Toweradaptation that Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman and Brian Grazer were trying to make at Imagine Entertainment, we get word that another old Imagine project at Universal has new life through a new screenwriter. Years ago the company got the rights to remake the 1968 (released in ‘70) tech thrillerColossus: The Forbin Project— a sort of ‘computer develops sentience’ thriller that paved the way forWar Gamesand other films — but for a very long time it has seemed basically dormant....

Box Office: Fast & Furious May Race To $48M Opening Weekend Universal’s Fast & Furious will be “burning rubber” this weekend at America’s multiplexes as the original street-racing cast reunites after some sub-par chapters of the franchise. The original The Fast & The Furious hit theatres in 2001 under the direction of Rob Cohen who had shown a knack for action with Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story ($35M US cume) and Sly Stallone’s Daylight ($33M US cume) and a savvy feel for bigger-than-life characters in his Golden Globe winning biopic The Rat Pack (which, if you’ve never seen you should put in your Netflix cue and prepare to be amazed by Don Cheadle’s turn as Sammy Davis, Jr....

Box Office: Game Plan $22.2M; Kingdom $17.2M; Darjeeling And Lust, Caution Open Huge! Much of the industry had predicted THE KINGDOM would win the weekend. I predicted an upset for THE GAME PLAN, and, as it turns out, it will coast to an easy 3-day win. DARJEELING LIMITED has opened huge Saturday with almost $37,000 per location and Ang Lee’s LUST, CAUTION picked up another $23,000 at its single NYC engagement....

Coronavirus May Force George R.R. Martin To Finally Finish ‘The Winds Of Winter’ Who knew it would take a pandemic-induced quarantine to getGeorge R.R. Martinto finally finish his long-awaited sixth novel in his ongoingA Song of Ice and Fireseries? Honestly, we wouldn’t expect anything less from the notorious procrastinator. Martin, whoseA Song of Ice and Firenovels served as the inspiration for HBO’s flagship fantasy seriesGame of Thrones, has long been dithering on his sixth novel in the seven-part series,The Winds of Winter....

Dory Was Almost Not In ‘Finding Nemo’; Learn How Ellen’s Talk Show Helped Cast ‘Finding Dory’ The initial versions of theFinding Nemostory didn’t even feature a fish named Dory. Find out howEllen DeGeneres' appearance on television changed everything, and learn howModern Familyand DeGeneres' talk showThe Ellen DeGeneres Showhas helped with the casting of the sequelFinding Dory. Note: the following report is compiled from roundtable interviews, presentations with Pixar creative leads and a one-on-one interview with directorAndrew Stantonand producerLindsey Collins....

Early Buzz: Avatar: The Video Game The first press screenings ofJames Cameron’sAvatartake place on Thursday, December 10th, so we won’t hear any reactions until then. But reviews for the Avatar Video Game have begun to be published, and it’s not good. The game currently has a 64% positive rating onmetacritic, which equates to “mixed or average reviews”. It should be noted that while the video game takes place in the world of Pandora, and features creatures and technology seen in the movie, the storyline is different — something created just for the game....

Elizabeth Olsen Felt The Classic Scarlet Witch Costume In WandaVision Was Silly And Perfect Remember when Cyclops made a crack about Wolverine preferring to wear yellow spandex in 2000’s “X-Men” movie? Joking about the impractical nature of most superhero attire has become more of a cliche in comic book films since then, but it doesn’t make it any less true. Really, it’s a testament to the skilled costume designers who work on Marvel and DC’s movies that they’ve found ways to not only realize some of the more ridiculous super-suits out there in live-action, but also make thempretty darn snazzy-looking....

First Look: Hailee Steinfeld Does Her Best Hit-Girl In ‘Barely Lethal’ After taking on forbidden love inRomeo & Julietand Battle School inEnder’s Game(above),Hailee Steinfeldis ready for a real challenge: high school. Well, that and killing people. Kyle Newman’s upcoming action-comedyBarely Lethalstars theTrue Gritactress as a teen assassin who’s ready to leave her killer life behind and try her hand at a normal adolescence. Unfortunately, her former handler (Jessica Alba) has other ideas....

How Attack Of The Clones Got Help From A Fruit Bat And Mating Penguins Matthew Wood has probably played more “Star Wars” characters than any other actor. Thanks to his involvement in feature films, TV shows, video games, and ancillary shorts, Wood has played Kylo Ren, Anakin Skywalker, General Grievous, Bib Fortuna, various Battle Droids, IG-88, D-O, Darth Maul, C3-PO, and Magaloof. His voice work, however, is done in addition to his career as a sound designer, a line of work that began for Wood in the early 1990s with the film “Soap Dish” and the series “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles....

How Kim Jee-Woon Pulled Off I Saw The Devil’s Frantic Taxi Scene One of the most tense and memorable scenes in the South Korean serial killer thriller “I Saw the Devil” is set in a moving taxi. The killer, Jang Joo-yun, played by Choi Min-sik of “Oldboy” fame, is walking along the road at night after being beaten up in his greenhouse by Kim Soo-hyun (Lee Byung-hun), the government agent whose wife he murdered....