Finally, after several long months of production blogs and fan hype, the first official trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World has premiered online. The film, written and directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) and based on the popular indie comic by Bryan Lee O’Malley, looks like it is staggeringly close [...]

Tom Cruise and producer J.J. Abrams (also the director of 2006′s Mission: Impossible 3) have been searching the film world to find the right person to helm the next chapter in the blockbuster spy series, but of all the possible names and contenders, I don’t think anyone would have expected Brad Bird! Oscar-winner Bird has [...]

It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like the reigning king of crass-geekdom, Kevin Smith (Dogma, Zach and Miri Make a Porno, this year’s Cop Out,) may finally be painting the state red! Smith has long been talking about a project named Red State which has, so far, only existed as an unproduced script [...]

It’s been about a month since Disney announced that Ian McShane (HBO’s Deadwood) and Penelope Cruz (Vanilla Sky, last year’s Broken Embraces) would be joining the cast of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. McShane was immediately revealed to be playing legendary pirate Captain Blackbeard, the film’s central antagonist to Johnny Depp’s now classic [...]

A few months ago, Bryan Singer, the man responsible for dragging the comic-book story of a group of superpowered mutants in a prejudiced world, known as The X-Men, kicking and screaming onto the big screen announced that he would be returning to the franchise after two disappointing sequels (X3 and last year’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine.) [...]

Comic book fans have been clamoring for a look at director Edgar Wright’s (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) adaptation of the popular cult comic series Scott Pilgrim, and today they finally got to check out the first poster. The film, based on the cult-hit comic by writer/artist Bryan Lee O’Malley, follows Scott Pilgrim (Michael [...]

It’s really starting to look like the rampaging Hollywood parade of “hip” vampire films is never going to end, and now the queen of the “hip” film comedy, Amy Heckerling is throwing her trendy, stylish hat in the ring with Vamps. The movie’s plot reads like Sex and the City with fangs and (more) bloodsucking, and it [...]

With Marvel bosses and director Joe Johnston still hard at work on apparently auditioning every young male actor in Hollywood for the titular role in The First Avenger: Captain America, it seems that some other casting news has just dropped. In a decision that comes as both surprising and wholly appropriate, Cap’s arch-nemesis, the Red [...]