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Well, the long, hot, sweaty, kinky, naughty wait is over and a director has been found to tie up audiences cinematically and bring them to Pleasure Down in the big screen adaptation of "Fifty Shades Of Grey." Nope it's not more interesting choices like Gus Van Sant or Joe Wright, but instead it's Aaron Taylor-Johnson's better half.Yes, Sam Taylor-Johnson, the artist and helmer behind "Nowhere Boy," has landed the gig that will bring your favorite mainstr...

So yeah, here are some surprising casting updates, both of which are surprising for various reasons....First, it turns out that Shailene Woodley isn't just being bumped from "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" -- she's out of the franchise entirely. WTF. Indeed, hot on the heels of the news that her character, Mary Jane Watson has having her scenes removed from the super sequel, THR reports that when "The Amazing Spider-Man 3" rolls around, "It is like...

This weekend Pixar's latest digital marvel, "Monsters University," roars into theaters (you can read our review here). Few studios can claim the kind of quality that Pixar often does - for a while there it was the most critically and commercially adored studio in the history of cinema (though they are not without their faults). And for good reason. It seemed like year after year they would commit a new classic, an endlessly re-watchable delight full of characters that will be beloved by children the world over for decades to come. In fact, the amount of excellence made ...

Remakes of Asian films about ectoplasm terrorizing the living were popular undertakings in Hollywood a few years ago ("The Ring," "The Grudge," "Pulse," "The Eye," "Dark Water"). But apparently, we are not done yet. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Adam Sandler and director Chris Columbus will be teaming up to remake the 2010 South Korean film "Hello Ghost." People who are in for a good fright will be disappointed as this is the remake of a...

It seems there's not stopping Michael Cera at the moment. Dude is on a tear with "Arrested Development" now back with a new season, a hit comedy in theaters ("This Is The End," in which he features in a great cameo) and various web efforts courtesy of JASH including shorts "Gregory Go Boom" and "Failure." And that's not mention his arthouse movies, including the upcoming "Magic Magic" (trailer here) and now "Crystal Fairy" (renamed ...

There are vaults around the world filled with movies that time forgotten, ambitious endeavors that missed their mark and seeming failures that are actually perfect midnight movie programming. And 1979's "The Visitor" might be all there and we're going to soon find out.Wildly described as a mix between "The Omen," "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind," "The Birds," "Rosemary's Baby," "The Fury" and "Star Wars" -- seriously, WTF -- the film stars the legendary John Huston as (get this) "an intergalactic warriorbattling alongside a cosmic Christ figure against a demonic eig...

Whether you've seen "The Bling Ring" or read the film's track listing, you'll know that the soundtrack included a few Kanye West tracks. In an interview with Pitchfork, Sofia Coppola and her long-time musical supervisor Brian Retzell revealed that not only did West's involvement help get the others (Frank Ocean and Rick Ross in particular) to sign on for the 'Bling' soundtrack, but that Coppola and Retzell originally had approached West for a much more i...

So, now that the filmmakers have it coming down from on high that Sony wants a fourth entry in "The Amazing Spider-man" series -- numbers three and four both got release dates this week -- are they finding their hand forced in stretching the story? Are we going to see the stories stretched out unnecessarily like the finales to "Harry Potter," "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games"? Are they just making it up as they go along?Last fall, rising star Shailene Woodley ("The Descendants," "The Spectacular Now") bagged the role of Mary Jane Watson for "The Amazing Spider-Man 2." B...

With "World War Z" (our review is here) opening this weekend, come Monday there will be box office pudding to prove how much, if at all, negative advance word may have affected the overbudget Brad Pitt-starring would-be franchise starter. Aside from reports of cost overruns, the buzz around the film was also tainted by reports of on-set feuding between producer/star Pitt and director Marc Forster during the shooting stages. The two seem to have laid t...

Awards season is right around the corner, and one of the possible contenders is actor (and now director) Joseph Gordon-Levitt's latest film, "Don Jon." The actor's directorial debut sees him playing a man struggling to have a stable relationship while fighting an increasing addiction to pornography. When the film played at Sundance, our own Rodrigo Perez gave the film an in-between rating of B and B+, calling it a "beguiling romantic...

We've been keeping an eye on Miles Teller, ever since he impressed us opposite Nicole Kidman in the underappreciated "Rabbit Hole." Hollywood has taken notice as well, with the actor's day planner getting increasing filled with gigs and projects, and he's got no less than three movies in post ("Get A Job," "Two Night Stand" and "Are We Dating Yet?") along with an imminent blockbuster as well ("Divergent"). But before all that is a movie that will surely bag him more phone calls.The first trailer for "Smashed" director James Ponsoldt's "The Spectacular Now" has arrived, ...

If you're looking for a little humor, romance, and horror in your day, you might want to give actors Michael Cera and Aubrey Plaza four-minutes of your time. Cera is part of a YouTube comedy collective known as JASH, which includes members Sarah Silverman and Tim & Eric and more, and the group has put out quite a number short films and oddball videos in its brief history. This latest short is directed by Cera himself and is entitled "Failure." It f...

When director Paul Feig isn't breaking fans' hearts by shooting down rumors of a "Freaks and Geeks" movie, he's working behind the camera; his latest film, "The Heat," comes out next Friday. With that, let's discuss Feig's possible next project, and look at a few clips from his upcoming film.The Wrap reports that Feig has signed on, and is ramping up production, on his next project; a spy film entitled "Susan Cooper" (not connected to the author of the same name). Described as a "realistic comedy about a female James Bond," Feig is searching for a leading lady to play ...

Sure, "Man Of Steel" might have already been released last weekend but that doesn't mean the marketing machine stops. Warner Bros. has released a new featurette focusing on Hans Zimmer's efforts to score the reboot -- which was one of the elements we were fans of -- but that's not all, James Franco has decided to weigh in on the film with his own thoughts. Yeah, we're not surprised either.First, let's start with the multi-hyphenate Franco. It's not t...

One of the great things about the internet is the availability of obscure videos and TV shows that might have once been lost to time. Case in point, a BBC special from 1997 has surfaced online that focuses on masters of horror, David Cronenberg and George A. Romero.Running a half-hour, "David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme" features interviews with Cronenberg, Romero and "Repo Man" director Alex Cox. Although it's pretty brief, it's still great to watch some of the great directors of horror genre waxing about their thoughts on the history of the genre and on i...

It's been quite some time since we last saw Harry and Lloyd. Yes, there was that abysmal "Dumb and Dumberer" prequel and there was even a Saturday morning cartoon series which was terrible in its own way, but forgivable from a nostalgic point of view. As far as we were concerned the real Harold and Lloyd were where we last left them at the end of "Dumb and Dumber," wandering the desert in search of fame and fortune. However, thanks to Universal Pictures, a proper sequel to the comedy classic is finally on the horizon. Deadline has learned that Universal Pictures has in...

Well, a week hasn't even passed from "Man Of Steel" hitting theaters, and the movie continues to be broken down and studied over. We've already gone into our Best & Worst Of 'Man of Steel', and lots more information has arrived about the approach to the movie from Christopher Nolan's initial resistance to the ending, the tally of just how much damage was done in the wake of the big 9/11-esque action scenes, and the six DC Comics characters teased in the movie. But had it gone writer David S. Goyer's way, there would have been yet another. And duh, in case it isn't o...

"There was a time, a time before cable. When the local anchorman reigned supreme. When people believed everything they heard on TV. This was an age when only men were allowed to read the news. And in San Diego, one anchorman was more man then the rest. His name was Ron Burgundy. He was like a god walking amongst mere mortals. He had a voice that could make a wolverine purr and suits so fine they made Sinatra look like a hobo. In other words, Ron Burgundy was the balls."And yes, "Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy" is still the balls, an unrelentingly quotable and fla...

"After 'Hot Fuzz' we always thought it would be rude not to wrap the films up in a neat trilogy," director Edgar Wright recently told Yahoo! Movies about "The World's End," the upcoming last film in his mooted Cornetto trilogy (a British ice cream that features in all three movies). "I think it's a theme that haunts me and Simon [Pegg], the dubious dream of perpetual adolescence and the idea that someone is always younger than you. I think we finally finish this arc with this movie. The adolescence is over here." So what's this film about then beside arrested developmen...

A movie by U.K. helmer Steve McQueen is always cause for celebration, but this one sounds like it's going to be his most brutal. And it's not like "Hunger," "Shame" were easy walks in the park either. Based in a true story, McQueen's latest, "12 Years A Slave," is just what it sounds like, a harsh slave drama set in the South. In fact, someone on Twitter the other day says a friend saw it and described it like, "Django Unchained" without the comedy. Sounds like a bundle of laughs, right? Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor the actor plays Solomon Northup, a free man tricked, cap...