It's hard to believe that G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation has become a legitimate summer tentpole from the time of its announcement to its first day of shooting, but that's sorta what happened. Lots of that has to do with J.J. Abrams's inability to get the ball rolling on Star Trek 2 in time for Paramount's planned June 29, 2012 release date -- resulting in Joe landing there -- but with a cast featuring Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Channing Tatum, Adrianne Palicki and possibly Bruce Willis, it has become hard to ignore G.I. Joe 2's potential for box office breakout next summer. Step one on that road is filming, which direct Jon M. Chu has commenced, and Johnson has commemorated on Twitter. Click through for a look.
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After nabbing Oscar nods for their first collaboration, the 2007 indie darling Juno, screenwriter Diablo Cody (who won the Academy Award) and director Jason Reitman reprise their partnership in this December's Young Adult, the story of a YA novel author (Charlize Theron) who returns to her hometown to win back her now-married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). After the jump, get your first look at Theron traveling in a slightly less glamorous getup than we're used to seeing.
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You've already seen the first trailer for Martin Scorsese's 3-D adaptation of Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret, and now Paramount has released the first official photo from the movie that will give Jason Segel's Muppets reboot a run for its money (maybe) this Thanksgiving. Click ahead to check out the artwork and more importantly, rate the creepiness of the robot that holds Asa Butterfield and Chloë Moretz's attention.
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If you're getting bored of all the spy pics from the set of The Dark Knight Rises -- hello, Batwing! -- some good news: The Avengers began shooting on the streets of Cleveland earlier Monday morning (where rain almost forced the production inside), meaning Batman will have some company over the next few weeks. Click through for a look at how director Joss Whedon and his production staff will attempt to make East 9th Street in Cleveland look like Times Square. Hint: it involves yellow cabs!
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There have been so many unofficial images of Leonardo DiCaprio in J. Edgar floating around the Internet that you'd think it he was starring in The Dark Knight Rises. As such, this is a momentous occasion: the first official photo of DiCaprio in the Clint Eastwood-directed biopic of J. Edgar Hoover has shown up online, and... well, it looks a lot like all the spy pics. Click through for a new (old) look.
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If you've seen Niels Arden Oplev's 2009 Swedish adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, you already have faces attached to the cast of characters in the bestselling trilogy-starter. So Sony's smart to roll out 18 character profiles introducing you to the new Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara, managing to look simultaneously different and similar to Noomi Rapace), Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig in scruffy journalist-wear) and their fellow players in David Fincher's December English-language remake.
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Your mind has likely been blown by the sheer number of stars featured in Garry Marshall's New Year's Eve trailer -- including (deep breath) Robert De Niro, Ashton Kutcher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hilary Swank, Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vergara, Jessica Biel, Sarah Jessica Parker, Katherine Heigl, Zac Efron, Josh Duhamel, Jon Bon Jovi, Seth Meyers, Til Schweiger, and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges. But how about a more intimate glimpse at the holiday-themed ensemble rom-com? Warner Bros. has the remedy for that in the form of the film's first official image. Rock on, Lea Michele and Bon Jovi!
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Fresh off an Oscar-friendly release date announcement, the first image from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close -- the Stephen Daldry-directed adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's heartbreaking 9/11 aftermath novel -- has arrived with Mr. Oscar, Tom Hanks, front and center. For those of you still suffering from PTSD after Larry Crowne, fear not! The following photo does not involve a scooter, Dockers pants or a bucket helmet. Just a kid and his dad.
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If the dog days of August -- or maybe the once-again crumbling economy -- have you down, here's a bit of cheer to brighten the afternoon: a first look image of Neil Patrick Harris, Kal Penn and John Cho in the likely ridiculous A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas. Best title since Snakes on a Plane? Check. Photo of the three leads that make the film look like a stoner version of Babes in Toyland? Double check. Click through to see Christmas come early.
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In late July, we previewed a slew of images from films that will be screening at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Among the titles that looked most promising was Friends With Kids, Jennifer Westfeldt's indie drama which stars her real-life boyfriend Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott and Westfeldt herself as a group of best friends in their 30's whose dynamic changes after two of them decide to have a baby...and then date other people. Like Megan Fox's character, who is featured in her first Friends artwork after the jump.
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The memory of Roberto Benigni's 1999 Best Actor Oscar win for Life is Beautiful is still a pleasurable, if slightly unsettling jolt to my synapses. Chair jumping! Hollering! Grand gesturing! That unmistakable air of horniness! More than ten years later, Benigni is exhuming that fervor on the set of Woody Allen's Bop Decameron, where he costars alongside Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Alec Baldwin, and Greta Gerwig. Here are his best five moments of paparazzi-captured craycray.
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Perhaps due to some interoffice jealousy over the fact that Zack Snyder got to release a picture of Henry Cavill as Superman this week -- or perhaps owing to a well-scheduled Google Calendar of marketing teases -- the Dark Knight Rises team over at Warner Bros. has offered up a first look of Anne Hathaway in the Christopher Nolan mega-film. Exciting! How does Hathaway's Selina Kyle compare to Michelle Pfeiffer's iconic incarnation of the mischievous Catwoman in Batman Returns?
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Look, all over your Internet browser. It's not a bird! It's not a plane! It's the first still from Man of Steel! Warner Bros. has released a first official image of Henry Cavill as Superman in the 2013 summer tentpole, and he looks like... well, like the Man of Steel. Click through for your first look.
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You've already seen Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sebastian Bach in character on the set of Adam Shankman's upcoming Rock of Ages, but this pic is sure to get you really excited for the musical adaptation. Constantine Maroulis -- who originated the Rock of Ages lead role of Drew on Broadway, and earned a Tony nomination for his performance -- officially has a small part in the film as well!
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Madonna's directorial feature W.E. seems like a statelier version of Julie and Julia: A woman name Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) living in 1998 New York is enamored by the decades-old romance of Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough) and Prince Edward (James D'Arcy). New stills from the film -- which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival before heading to Toronto -- owe less to, say, The King's Speech and more to movies in Madonna's own oeuvre.
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