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By Steve Mason/April 3, 2009 11:21 pm EST With 400,000 Americans showing up every year at the Indy 500 and 200,000 more buying tickets to see NASCAR’s premiere event The Daytona 500, you would think that the most creative minds in Hollywood would be looking for a way to cash in with more movies about car racing and car culture. NASCAR has an estimated 75 million fans, and it is second only to the National Football League in terms of television ratings, so where are all the good racing movies?...

California Love: Ranking The Films Of Paul Thomas Anderson By Germain Lussier/Dec. 12, 2014 8:31 am EST Two movies. That’s all it took for every single Paul Thomas Anderson movie to become an event. His first film, Hard Eight, opened with relatively little fanfare. His second, Boogie Nights, announced to the world that Anderson would be a filmmaker to celebrate. One whose work we would anticipate, possibly revere. With each subsequent film, film fans everywhere have salivated to find out what Anderson has in store for us next....

Court Rules Luc Besson’s ‘Lockout’ Totally Ripped Off John Carpenter’s ‘Escape From New York’ By Ethan Anderton/July 30, 2016 12:00 pm EST When the sci-fi action flick Lockout arrived in theaters in 2012, many reviews pegged the film written by Luc Besson as a half-ass remake of John Carpenter’s 1981 classic Escape from New York with the action transported to a space prison instead of a dark future. It appears critics weren’t the only ones annoyed with the similarities between the two films because director John Carpenter actually ended up suing writer Luc Besson because the script plagiarized the 1981 movie....

Did The French Short Film Above Then Beyond Inspire Pixar’s Up? By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2010 3:07 pm EST In 2005, students of the French academy ESRA (Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle) started production on a computer animated short film called Above then Beyond. The film was completed a year later. In 2009, Pixar released their tenth computer animated feature film Up. A year later, people have begun to notice the similarities between the two films....

First Look: See A Photo Of Paul Rudd In Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 19, 2014 8:19 am EST Peyton Reed has only been in production on Ant-Man for a day, but the first photo is now out. It shows Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, hanging out in a ratty outfit next to the Golden Gate Bridge. Check out the first Paul Rudd Ant-Man photo below. Thanks to USA Today for the photo....

Four Transcendent Adam McKay Audio Commentaries By Jack Giroux/March 5, 2018 8:00 am EST If there’s one director who takes audio commentaries to a whole other level, it’s Adam McKay. The Academy Award-nominated director has a commentary that’s a musical scored by Jon Brion (Punch-Drunk Love), one set in the year 2031, and another with a series of arguments and feuds that end with Paul Rudd and Christina Applegate feeling slighted....

Harvey Weinstein Fired After Reports Of Sexual Harassment By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 9, 2017 8:00 am EST Harvey Weinstein has been fired from his position at The Weinstein Company after allegations of sexual harassment stretching back decades have surfaced. In a scathing New York Times report published last week, the Weinstein Company co-founder and movie producer was accused by multiple women of exposing himself, inappropriately touching them, and paying off accusers who came forward....

Hero Complex Film Festival Wrap Up: Dick Tracy, Star Trek, Superman, Iron Man, Pixar By Germain Lussier/June 14, 2011 12:00 pm EST It’s always nice to spend a weekend with old friends. It’s even better when those friends are Dick Tracy, Captain Kirk, Clark Kent, Mr. Incredible and Tony Stark. The Los Angeles Times hosted their second annual Hero Complex Film Festival in Hollywood this weekend, screening classic superhero and genre films with their filmmakers in attendance....

Interview: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Director Miguel Sapochnik On How He Constructed The Battle Of The Bastards By Jack Giroux/July 1, 2016 9:00 am EST During the fifth season of Game of Thrones, Repo Men director Miguel Sapochnik left a huge impression with “Hardhome.” HBO and the key talent involved with the series were clearly impressed enough to invite Sapochnik back to direct two of season six’s biggest episodes, “Battle of the Bastards” and the season finale, “The Winds of Winter....

Interview: ‘Logan’ Producers On Saying Goodbye To Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine And The Future Of ‘X-Men’ By Angie Han/March 3, 2017 7:30 am EST If Logan really and truly is Hugh Jackman’s last Wolverine movie — and so far, everyone’s still insisting it is — it’s tough to imagine a better way for him to go out. After 17 years, this is the finale he deserves: intense, emotional, and perfectly true to the character....

Movie Poster Round-Up: ‘Suicide Squad’, ‘Moana’, ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’ & More By Ethan Anderton/June 20, 2016 12:00 pm EST There’s been an influx of new movie posters for some of the films coming in the second half of this year, including the later part of summer and up through this fall. The new one sheets include two Suicide Squad posters featuring tasty cereal and a mushroom cloud; a Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sheet with a shimmering glimpse at Eddie Redmayne; a foreign teaser poster for Moana; a celebratory Father’s Day promo for Baywatch; an alternate Captain Fantastic poster designed by Shepard Fairey; and a colorful Korean poster for Ghostbusters....

Munich And The Dark Knight Actors Join ‘Blade Runner 2’ By Peter Sciretta/July 13, 2016 10:27 am EST David Dastmalchian and Hiam Abbass have joined the cast of the yet-to-be-titled Blade Runner sequel. They join a cast which already includes Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Carla Juri, Mackenzie Davis, Barkhad Abdi and Dave Bautista. Find out more details after the jump. Dastmalchian played one of the Joker’s thug’s in The Dark Knight, Kurt in Marvel’s Ant-Man (pictured left in the photo above) and Bob Taylor in Prisoners....

New Red Band ‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’ Trailer Plus Comic-Con 2014 Panel Recap By Germain Lussier/July 28, 2014 9:20 am EST UPDATE: We’ve added the new, red band Sin City: A Dame to Kill For trailer to this post, which played at the end of the panel. Full panel coverage remains.Robert Rodriguez and Comic Con go together like Spielberg and sharks. The two are forever linked because of the memorable panels he’s had on multiple films, primarily the first Sin City....

New Teaser Trailer: The People Vs. George Lucas By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 4, 2010 8:00 am EST Last night the full feature line-up for the 2010 SXSW Film Festival was announced, which includes the premiere of the Star Wars fan documentary The People vs. George Lucas. With that announcement, we have also been given a new teaser trailer, embedded after the jump. Official Information from the producers: THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS explores the titanic struggle between a Godlike filmmaker and his legions of fans over the most popular franchise in movie history....

Our 12 Most Anticipated Returning Fall 2015 TV Shows By Angie Han/Sept. 15, 2015 8:00 am EST It’s not like we were short on stuff to watch this summer (hello, UnREAL, nice to see you, Mr. Robot), but when it comes to TV there’s no time like the fall. Along with the annual onslaught of new shows competing for our attention, we’re ready to welcome a bunch of old favorites back to our DVRs....

Rogue One Bits: A Chinese Trailer Brings More Footage, A New Clip Introduces Orson Krennic, And A New Theory About Darth Vader By Jacob Hall/Dec. 6, 2016 12:00 pm EST In this edition of Rogue One Bits: A new Chinese trailer introduces more footage. Three new TV spots promise lots of doom and a little bit of hope. A new clip shows off a conversation between Ben Mendelsohn and Mads Mikkelsen....

Rogue One Bits: New Saw Gerrera And Jyn Erso Details, New U-Wing Toy, And A Few Fan-Made Trailers By Jacob Hall/Aug. 18, 2016 5:00 am EST In this edition of Rogue One Bits: Details on the massive launch of the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer. Forest Whitaker explains why Saw Gerrera is like Darth Vader. Felicity Jones and Gareth Edwards talk Jyn Erso. Two fan-made trailers have already arrived in the wake of the new official preview....

Scream 2009 Awards Nominations By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 31, 2009 2:00 pm EST Spike TV has released the list of nominees for the fourth annual Scream Awards, which is billed as “the first and only global event of its kind to honor the best in sci-fi, fantasy, horror and comic genres.” The award show will tape on Saturday, October 17 at The Greek Theater in Los Angeles, CA, and will be broadcast on Spike TV on Tuesday, October 27 (10:00 PM-Midnight, ET/PT)....

Sequel Bits: Justin Lin Denies ‘Terminator 5’ Casting Rumors; ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5’ Script Is Done By Germain Lussier/May 5, 2011 6:00 am EST The fifth movies in two franchises both have significant updates today. Justin Lin, who just finished another fifth franchise movie with Fast Five, exclusively spoke to MTV about his plans for Terminator 5, which he’ll direct with Arnold Schwarzenegger reprising his role. Not not only did he deny recent reports that the original cast will be back for the new film but hinted that he doesn’t want to be beholden to the continuity of the third and fourth films in the series: Terminator: Rise of the Machines directed by Jonathan Mostow and Terminator Salvation directed by McG....

Star Wars Bits: College Student Reportedly Joins ‘Episode VII,’ Plus Audition Pages And Production Designer Speaks By Germain Lussier/Nov. 21, 2013 10:00 am EST A college newspaper in Michigan is reporting one of its students has been cast in Star Wars Episode VII. Could it be true? Read more about it, and these bits, after the jump. Hillsdale College senior Joseph Craig might have been cast in Star Wars Episode VII....