Captain America Has $4 Million Midnight
Good news for Marvel and the team behind Captain America: The First Avenger: The summer's latest major comics-hero tentpole also had the genre's best midnight showing of…
9 Scorching Films to Help Survive the Hellish Heat Wave of 2011
The heat wave bearing down on the United States has turned much of the eastern half of the country into a hellish furnace of death, despair and crisis. Today in New York…
Nonsense Casting Rumor of the Day: Zac Efron as Namor the Sub-Mariner
Riiiiiight: "Zac Efron could become the latest actor to play a superhero in a movie based on a Marvel comic book character. [...] There's just one tiny little problem -…
Weekend Forecast: Captain, Friends Take on Billionaire Boy Wizard
Comic heroes and A-list romcoms aside, you might call this weekend a lull between the sheer Pottermania of last weekend and the sheer multitude of new titles facing…
Samuel L. Jackson Joins Up with Big-Screen Afro Samurai Adaptation
Just in time for Comic-Con comes word that Afro Samurai, the popular manga whose two successful TV mini-series featured the voice of Samuel L. Jackson as the…
REVIEW: Another Earth Isn't One You'd Want to Visit
A mindbending darling of this year's Sundance Film Festival, Another Earth arrives in theaters this week on a wave of laurelled adulation for its contributions to the…
Help Caption the First Look at Emile Hirsch (and Red Square) in The Darkest Hour
It only took about a year and a half, but the slow build has commenced for The Darkest Hour, the Timur Bekmambetov-produced, Chris Gorak-directed tale of five young…
Harry Potter Finale Breaks $200M, Falls Just Short of 5-Day Record
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 this week became only the third film to surpass the $200 million mark domestically within five days of release. Not bad…
Future of Movies Condensed to Single, Destabilizing Sentence
"Lionsgate has announced director John Lussenhop (Takers) has selected newcomer Dan Yeager to play Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D, a new installment in…
Forthcoming Clockwork Orange Musical 'Pretty Close to West Side Story'
More than 20 years after noted show-tune geniuses Bono and The Edge botched their own adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, a new musical based on Anthony Burgess's…
It's a Bird! It's an 'Eh?' Captain Canuck Movie Officially in the Works
Yanks can't have all the fun this week with the pending opening of Captain America: The First Avenger. Enter the creators of Captain Canuck, the Canadian comic-book hero…
Harry Potter's Wizardry Still Drawing Right-Wing Wrath
The Harry Potter book and movie series may have concluded last week, but a new American survey reveals that for some respondents, at least one attitude toward the Potter…
Today in Less-Distinguished Anniversaries: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey Turns 20
Just as not every news story this morning can breathlessly follow the Murdoch/Brooks hearings presently overtaking Parliament, not every movie anniversary of note this…
Hugh Grant Finally Expresses Remorse For Nine Months
But not for the reason you might think (or want): The actor, twice a victim of News Corporation phone hackers who has since embarked on a very public crusade against the…
Rupert Grint Got His Harry Potter Part the Hard Way
Ah, memories: "I was a fish in Noah's ark in the school play, and now I'm in Harry Potter. It's a big step. I first found out about the auditions in Newsround. They said…
