**Mr. Popper's Penguins International Trailer **The Help Trailer **Looper Is Most Important Film of My Career Says Joseph Gordon-Levitt **X-Men: First Class Photo Featuring Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique **Abduction Photos Featuring Taylor Lautner and Lily Collins **X-Men: First Class TV Spot and Photo **The Help Photos Featuring Emma Stone and Viola Davis **Three The Help Photos with Bryce Dallas Howard and Viola Davis

Mr. Popper's Penguins International Trailer
Apr 18, 2011 by Brian Gallagher
An international trailer has just been released for the 20th Century Fox comedy Mr. Popper's Penguins, which will arrive in theaters nationwide on June 17. Click on the video player below for a new glimpse at this penguin-out-of-water comedy, which stars Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, and Angela Lansbury.
Mr. Popper's Penguins comes to theaters June 17th, 2011 and stars Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Madeline Carroll, Angela Lansbury, Ophelia Lovibond, Philip Baker Hall, Maxwell Perry Cotton, James Tupper. The film is directed by Mark Waters.
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The Help Trailer
Apr 18, 2011 by Brian Gallagher
The first trailer has debuted for The Help, which arrives in theaters nationwide on August 12. Click on the video player below for your first glimpse at this drama starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Bryce Dallas Howard.
The Help comes to theaters August 12th, 2011 and stars Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mike Vogel, Allison Janney, Sissy Spacek, Jessica Chastain, Chris Lowell, Viola Davis. The film is directed by Tate Taylor.




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Looper Is Most Important Film of My Career Says Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Apr 17, 2011 by B. Alan Orange
Joseph Gordon-Levitt calls Looper most important film of his careerLooper is a sci-fi time travel thriller that finds a group of hit men traveling into the past to kill their victims before they can commit their crimes. We haven't heard much about the movie at this point. Now, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, while promoting Inception in Shanghai, has called Looper, perhaps, the most important film of his career.


Here is what Joseph Gordon-Levitt had to say about Looper.




"I feel now, doing 'Looper,' is the result of what happened with 'Inception.' It is something I have been working for my whole life. It is like nothing I have seen before. It has action. It has romance. It also deals with philosophy. I really like it."




Looper comes to theaters in 2011 and stars Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan, Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo. The film is directed by Rian Johnson.




Sources: The Canadian Press




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X-Men: First Class Photo Featuring Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique

Apr 18, 2011 by Brian Gallagher

A new photo has arrived from X-Men: First Class, which features actress Jennifer Lawrence in full costume as Mystique. Click on the photo below, which features the actress wearing the iconic yellow X-Men jacket, to access our growing gallery.

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Abduction Photos Featuring Taylor Lautner and Lily Collins

Apr 18, 2011 by Brian Gallagher

Lionsgate has debuted two new photos from the highly-anticipated thriller Abduction, which hits theaters nationwide on September 23. Click on these photos below, which feature Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, and Denzel Whitaker, to access our growing gallery.

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X-Men: First Class TV Spot and Photo

Apr 18, 2011 by Brian Gallagher

20th Century Fox has released a new TV spot and photo from X-Men: First Class, which arrives in theaters nationwide on June 3. Click on the video below, as well as take a look at the photo featuring Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy as Magneto and Professor Xavier.

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The Help Photos Featuring Emma Stone and Viola Davis

Walt Disney Pictures has just released nine brand new photos from the new drama The Help, which will be released on August 12, 2011. Click on any of these new images below, which feature Emma Stone and Viola Davis, to access our growing gallery:

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Three The Help Photos with Bryce Dallas Howard and Viola Davis

Apr 18, 2011 by Brian Gallagher

DreamWorks Pictures has released three new photos from the upcoming drama The Help, which will debut in theaters on August 12. The first trailer will also be released later today, so keep your eyes peeled for that. In the meantime, you can click on these photos below, which feature Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Octavia Spencer, to access our gallery.


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**First Look at Ewan McGregor and Eddie Marsan in Byran Singer’s JACK THE GIANT KILLER **New Posters for PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES and ABDUCTION **First Images from WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly

First Look at Ewan McGregor and Eddie Marsan in Byran Singer’s JACK THE GIANT KILLER

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: April 15th, 2011

Cameras have started rolling on Bryan Singer’s upcoming 3D action-adventure flick Jack the Giant Killer and the first images from the set have gone online.  For those unfamiliar with the project, the story is a reimagining of “Jack and the Beanstalk” and stars Nicholas Hoult (A Single Man) as the titular hero who leads an expedition to free a princess (Eleanor Tomlinson) taken hostage by a giant, a situation that threatens the uneasy peace between humans and giants.  The film’s impressive cast also includes Ewan McGregor, Eddie Marsan, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, and Bill Nighy.

Hit the jump to check out an image of McGregor and Marsan as members of the King’s elite guard.  Jack the Giant Killer opens June 15, 2012.

Image via Daily Mail.

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New Posters for PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES and ABDUCTION

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: April 15th, 2011

New posters have been released for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Abduction.  The Pirates poster is basically a reprint of a previous poster but this one lets you know that the movie will be in IMAX 3D, or as the poster puts it: “IMA-[Pirates of the Caribbean logo] 3D,” which is really the best kind of 3D.

As for the Abduction poster, it gives you a very strong indication of the final film in that it shows you the single facial expression Taylor Lautner will have for the movie’s full runtime.  I watched the trailer yesterday and I struggled to believe that I ever liked him in parts of New Moon.

Hit the jump to check out the posters.  Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides opens May 20th.  Abduction gets released on September 23rd.

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First Images from WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: April 15th, 2011

The first images from Lynne Ramsay’s indie drama We Need to Talk about Kevin have gone online.  The film stars Tilda Swinton as the mother of a teenager who goes on a high-school killing spree and her attempt to sort out her anger and grief by writing to her estranged husband (John C. Reilly).

Hit the jump to check out the images.  We Need to Talk about Kevin will play in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 11 – 22nd.  Click here and here for our interviews with Swinton and Reilly where they talk about the movie.

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**DEXTER Creator to Helm LOVE, SCOTCH AND DEATH Starring Michael C. Hall and Vera Farmiga **Drew Barrymore Talks Next Directorial Project HOW TO BE SINGLE **First Trailer for ABDUCTION Starring Taylor Lautner **Olga Kurylenko and Liana Liberato Join Aaron Eckhart in THE EXPATRIATE

DEXTER Creator to Helm LOVE, SCOTCH AND DEATH Starring Michael C. Hall and Vera Farmiga
by Adam Chitwood Posted: April 13th, 2011
James Manos Jr., who created the Showtime series Dexter, is poised to make his feature directorial debut with Love, Scotch and Death. The semi-autobiographical film was written by Manos and will star Michael C. Hall and Vera Farmiga. Deadline reports that the story follows a very strange week in the protagonist’s life. Hall’s character returns home from a stressful vacation to find out that his parents have died, leading him on a bizarre path where he encounters “an unsympathetic funeral director, his bewildered children and manic wife, an eccentric priest, and some over-sexed neighbors.”


Filming is scheduled to begin on the independent film this November, after Hall wraps the latest season of Dexter. Manos previously wrote for The Sopranos, winning an Emmy for co-writing the classic first season episode “College.”
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Drew Barrymore Talks Next Directorial Project HOW TO BE SINGLE
by Adam Chitwood Posted: April 13th, 2011
Drew Barrymore is poised to make her second feature as a director (after 2009’s Whip It) with the adaptation of Liz Tuccillo’s novel How to Be Single. The romantic comedy follows the “love lives and break-ups of a group of New Yorkers over the span of ten years.” Barrymore recently spoke a bit about the project:


“This has a very wide palette that I really really like. I’m so interested in so many different types of people and lifestyles that there is kind of a lovely mosaic, like a little bit for everybody.”


The screenwriting team from He’s Just Not That Into You, Marc Silverstein and Abby Kohn, are set to script the film. Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen (who also produced He’s Just Not That Into You) will produce. Hit the jump for more from Barrymore, including why How to Be Single is not really a romantic comedy, and a synopsis of the novel.
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First Trailer for ABDUCTION Starring Taylor Lautner
by Adam Chitwood Posted: April 13th, 2011
The first trailer for the action thriller Abduction, starring Taylor Lautner, has been released. Directed by John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood) the thriller centers around a young man who sets out to uncover the truth after finding a baby photo of himself listed on a missing persons website. While Lautner’s acting still seems a bit too ham-fisted to be taken seriously, the supporting cast is fairly impressive and some of the action sequences actually looked pretty cool. I understand Lautner’s desire to move on to bigger and better things post-Twilight, but the guy’s no Tom Cruise.


Abduction stars Lautner, Lily Collins, Sigourney Weaver, Danny Glover, Alfred Molina, Michael Nyqvist, Maria Bello, and Jason Isaacs. The film is set to be released on September 23rd. Hit the jump to watch the trailer.
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Olga Kurylenko and Liana Liberato Join Aaron Eckhart in THE EXPATRIATE
by Brendan Bettinger Posted: April 13th, 2011
Since he was first cast in the spy thriller The Expatriate last November, Aaron Eckhart has become a bona fide action star thanks to Battle: Los Angeles ($105 million worldwide and counting). Appropriately, Eckhart will be awarded his own Bond girl for his follow-up. Variety reports Quantum of Solace siren Olga Kurylenko will play “a CIA agent assigned to track down her former CIA partner and lover (Eckhart).” Additionally, Liana Liberato (Trust) has been cast as Eckhart’s daughter. Director Philipp Stölzl is currently filming The Expatriate in Montreal; production will shift to Brussels in May.


Read more about the project after the break.
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***New Image of Ian McShane as Blackbeard in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES ***Greg Kinnear and Jane Curtin Join I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT ***New Images from ABDUCTION Starring Taylor Lautner ***Drake in Talks to Join Eva Green in ARBITRAGE

New Image of Ian McShane as Blackbeard in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: January 21st, 2011

Arrrggghhh!!! May is fast approaching and that means that the latest installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is merely months away from release (and millions upon millions upon millions of dollars, of course).  Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides hits theaters on May 20^th in 3D, and a new image from the flick has hit the net. This one gives us a good look at new villain Blackbeard, played by Ian McShane in a pitch-perfect casting move. As you can see, the filmmakers really want you to know that this is 3D, so Blackbeard conveniently points his sword toward the camera.

The fourth film in the franchise is helmed by Rob Marshall (Chicago) and stars McShane, Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush and Keith Richards.  In this adventure, Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow sets out to find the Fountain of Youth, but obviously runs into a bit of trouble along the way. Hit the jump to check out the full image.

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Greg Kinnear and Jane Curtin are the latest additions to the adaptation of Allison Pearson’s novel I Don’t Know How She Does It.  The current cast includes Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Bronsnan and Kelsey Grammar, as well as recent additions Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), Olivia Munn (The Daily Show), and Seth Meyers (SNL). Douglas McGrath (Infamous) directs from a script by Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada).

I Don’t Know How She Does It tells the story of a working mom (Parker) trying to balance the many competing elements of her life. Variety reports that Kinnear will play Parker’s husband, while Curtin will take on the role of Kinnear’s mother. The Weinstein Company will produce.  Hit the jump for a synopsis of Pearson’s novel.

Here’s the synopsis of I Don’t Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson:

Meet Kate Reddy, hedge-fund manager and mother of two. She can juggle nine different currencies in five different time zones and get herself and two children washed and dressed and out of the house in half an hour. In Kate’s life, Everything Goes Perfectly as long as Everything Goes Perfectly. She lies to her own mother about how much time she spends with her kids; practices pelvic floor squeezes in the boardroom; applies tips from Toddler Taming to soothe her irascible boss; uses her cell phone in the office bathroom to procure a hamster for her daughter’s birthday (“Any working mother who says she doesn’t bribe her kids can add Liar to her résumé”); and cries into the laundry hamper when she misses her children’s bedtime. [Amazon]

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New Images from ABDUCTION Starring Taylor Lautner

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: January 21st, 2011

A batch of official images from the new Taylor Lautner film Abduction have hit the web. We previously brought you the first image from the flick back in November, but subsequently had to remove them. Directed by John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood) The film is a thriller which centers around a young man who sets out to uncover the truth after finding a baby photo of himself listed on a missing persons website. The cast includes Lautner, Sigourney Weaver, Lily Collins, Danny Glover, Alfred Molina, Michael Nyqvist, Maria Bello, and Jason Isaacs.

Hit the jump to check out the images, as well as read a synopsis for the film. Abduction is set to hit theaters on September 23^rd.

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Drake in Talks to Join Eva Green in ARBITRAGE

by Jason Barr    Posted: January 21st, 2011

Teen-actor-turned-hip-hop-star Drake may soon be returning to his former profession.  The former Degrassi: The Next Generation star is currently in talks to join writer/director Nicholas Jarecki’s (The Informers) financial thriller Arbitrage.  If the deal goes through, Drake (whose full name is Aubrey Drake Graham) would join a solid cast that already features Eva Green and Susan Sarandon.

According to TheWrap, Arbitrage will center on a hedge fund magnate who is “desperate to complete the sale of his shady trading empire before his fraud is revealed.”  As the story goes, an unexpected turn of events causes him to look for help from an unlikely source.  The film is currently scheduled to begin shooting this March in New York.  As for Drake, he has a previous film credit due to a minor role in 2007’s Charlie Bartlett.

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***New Images from THE HANGOVER PART II, SOURCE CODE, SCREAM 4, and More

New Images from THE HANGOVER PART II, SOURCE CODE, SCREAM 4, and More

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: January 17th, 2011

New images from Sucker Punch, Source Code, Scream 4, The Hangover Part II, Larry Crowne, The Help, Abduction, Footloose, and Tower Heist have gone online.  Hit the jump to check out the images along with info on all of these films.

All images via LA Times.

SUCKER PUNCH (March 25th)

Director: Zack Snyder (Watchmen);

Cast: Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm, Scott Glenn, Oscar Isaac

Synopsis: Close your eyes. Open your mind. You will be unprepared. “Sucker Punch” is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality. Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, and her incredible adventures blur the lines between what’s real and what is imaginary. She has been locked away against her will, but Babydoll (Emily Browning) has not lost her will to survive. Determined to fight for her freedom, she urges four other young girls–the outspoken Rocket (Jena Malone), the street-smart Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), the fiercely loyal Amber (Jamie Chung) and the reluctant Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish)–to band together and try to escape their terrible fate at the hands of their captors, Blue (Oscar Isaac), Madam Gorski (Carla Gugino) and the High Roller (Jon Hamm). Led by Babydoll, the girls engage in fantastical warfare against everything from samurais to serpents, with a virtual arsenal at their disposal. Together, they must decide what they are willing to sacrifice in order to stay alive. But with the help of a Wise Man (Scott Glenn), their unbelievable journey–if they succeed–will set them free.

SOURCE CODE (April 1st)

Director: Duncan Jones (Moon);

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright

Synopsis: When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assignment unlike any he’s ever known, he learns he’s part of a government experiment called the Source Code, a program that enables him to cross over into another man’s identity in the last 8 minutes of his life. With a second, much larger target threatening to kill millions in downtown Chicago, Colter re-lives the incident over and over again, gathering clues each time, until he can solve the mystery of who is behind the bombs and prevent the next attack. Filled with mind-boggling twists and heart-pounding suspense, Source Code is a smart action-thriller directed by Duncan Jones (Moon) also starring Michelle Monaghan (Eagle Eye, Due Date), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, The Departed), and Jeffrey Wright (Quantum of Solace, Syriana).

SCREAM 4 (April 15th)

Director: Wes Craven (Scream)

Cast: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox Arquette, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Hayden Panettiere

Synopsis: Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey (David Arquette) and Gale (Courteney Cox), who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill (Emma Roberts) and her Aunt Kate (Mary McDonnell). Unfortunately Sidney’s appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface, putting Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, along with Jill, her friends, and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger.

THE HANGOVER PART II (May 26th)

Director: Todd Phillips (The Hangover)

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Jeffrey Tambor, Mike Tyson, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong

Synopsis:  In the follow-up to the record-breaking hit comedy “The Hangover,” Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Doug (Justin Bartha) travel to exotic Thailand for Stu’s wedding. After the unforgettable bachelor party in Las Vegas, Stu is taking no chances and has opted for a safe, subdued pre-wedding brunch. However, things don’t always go as planned. What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in Bangkok can’t even be imagined.

LARRY CROWNE (July 1st)

Director: Tom Hanks (That Thing You Do)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Bryan Cranston, Rami Malek, Taraji P. Henson

Synopsis: When appealing everyman LARRY CROWNE (Tom Hanks) is inexplicably fired from his job as a big box store clerk, he realizes it’s time for some meaningful change in his life.  Deeply in debt and without direction, he returns to college where he befriends a group of scooter-riding students and eventually develops a real affection for his beautiful speech class instructor, MERCEDES TAINOT (Julia Roberts).

THE HELP (August 12th)

Director: Tate Taylor (Pretty Ugly People)

Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Sissy Spacek, Allison Janney, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard

Synopsis: Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, “The Help” stars Emma Stone (star of the breakout hit, “Zombieland”) as Skeeter, a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends’ lives—and a small Mississippi town—upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Academy Award® nominee Viola Davis (“Eat Pray Love”) stars as Aibileen, Skeeter’s best friend’s housekeeper, who is the first to open up—to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter’s life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories—and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly—and unwillingly—caught up in the changing times.

ABDUCTION (September 23rd)

Director: John Singleton (Four Brothers)

Cast: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Danny Glover, Alfred Molina, Michael Nyqvist, Maria Bello, Jason Isaacs

Synopsis: What would you do if you found your own picture on a missing persons website?  Teen Nathan Harper (Taylor Lautner) finds himself facing this very dilemma. Setting out to uncover his real identity, Nathan quickly learns his parents are far from who they say they are. When the police, government agents and shadowy figures start to pursue him, Nathan’s quest for the truth erupts into a full-blown “Bourne”-like man-on-the-run thriller.

TOWER HEIST (November 4th)

Director: Brett Ratner (Rush Hour)

Cast: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Tea Leoni, Casey Affleck, Judd Hirsch, Alan Alda

Synopsis: An overworked manager (Ben Stiller) of an illustrious tower residence who leads a team of defrauded workers in a heist of its penthouse tenant (Alan Alda), a Bernie Madoff-type Wall Street capitalist who pulled a Ponzi scheme and swindled the staff.

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