Source: Apple | Posted By: Dan Geer

The trailers just don’t stop, do they? Well, at least not during the holiday season anyway.

After seeing the first trailer for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, any trailer that premieres right afterward sure has quite a bit to compete against. However, Ridley Scott’s long-awaited return to science fiction film-making is a pretty big deal as well, so what better act to follow The Hobbit trailer than a teaser for Prometheus – Scott’s “kinda-sorta” prequel to his original 1979 Alien film? It just popped up online over at Apple today, following a series of 30-second behind the scenes clips that were released over the last few days. Hit the jump to watch the teaser and the clips!

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Source: Collider | Posted By: Dan Geer

Life’s Too Short, the new TV comedy from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant (The Office, Extras), has already been successfully entertaining British audiences since its premiere on BBC Two November 10th. While it has been known for a while that the series will premiere in February of next year in the United States on HBO, it was officially announced today that it will indeed premiere on February 19, 2012 at 10:30PM /9:30c.

This hilarious, yet endearing TV series stars actor Warwick Davis (Return of the Jedi, Willow, Harry Potter), who plays a comically fictionalized version of himself as he makes his way in the world of showbiz as well as his own personal life. While Davis is the star of the show, it also showcases numerous appearances by Gervais and Merchant, as well as a number of guest appearances by other high-profile actors such as Liam Neeson, Johnny Depp and Steve Carell. Hit the jump to watch the trailer, as well as a couple of video clips featuring Depp and Neeson!

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Source: Peter Jackson Facebook | Posted By: Dan Geer

It has been since July that we received the third production video for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. Now, finally, we have Production Video #4 (via Jackson’s Facebook page), featuring a 10-minute, extensive look into the filming of The Hobbit in 3-D. Believe me when I say that it is actually broken down in layman’s terms very well, and you will never be more excited for The Hobbit films in 3-D than after watching this video. It is absolutely fascinating.

Not only that, but there is plenty of footage to behold of Gandalf (Ian McKellen), Bilbo (Martin Freeman) and the 13 dwarves venturing through Middle Earth (particularly Mirkwood) as it exists in the studio, which is plenty to get fans of The Lord of the Rings hyped up for when The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits theaters on December 14, 2012. There is even a brief moment with an old familiar face checking out the crew filming in 3-D, and you’ll just have to hit the jump and watch the video to see who it is!

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Source: StarWars.com | EW | Posted By: Dan Geer

Last March, Lucasfilm announced that Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace would be converted to 3-D and released on February 10th, 2012 (providing that it proves successful enough at the box office, the remaining films will also be converted to 3-D and released some time later). Starting next week on October 21st, Star Wars fans can check out a glimpse of it in a new trailer attached to the 3-D release of Paul W.S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers!

Also, while it is not really news to people who watched Season 3 of Cartoon Network’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars, it has been made truly official that Darth Maul, the Sith apprentice that supposedly met his demise at the hand of Obi-Wan Kenobi in The Phantom Menace, will be resurrected for an appearance in The Clone Wars next spring! Hit the jump for details on his return, as well as a look at the new poster for Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 3-D!

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Source: Brad Hanson Films | Posted By: Dan Geer

Are you the type of person who absolutely loves movies series like Star Wars or James Bond and have always wanted to do a marathon of sorts but never had the will power to sit through so many films in a row? Well, as it turns out, there is a group of movie marathoners (about 20-30 people) based out of L.A. that have sat through 4 different movies series thus far, during which they film the whole marathon, rate the films on a scale of 0-10, and neatly present it all in time-lapsed video.

So far, they have gone through the James Bond, Star Wars, Star Trek and Batman series. Watching these guys in time-lapsed video going through so many series makes my Lord of the Rings marathons look like a walk in the park! Check out these amazing videos after the jump!

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Source: MSN | Collider | Posted By: Dan Geer

A new clip has emerged for director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s The Thing that helps establish the fact that it is a prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 film, also called The Thing. The scene shows that the American character, Kate Lloyd (played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead) struggles with the language barrier between her and the Norwegian scientists she meets up with in Antarctica – the same Norwegians whose maimed corpses we see at the beginning of Carpenter’s film. No gore or close-ups of “The Thing” here, but it is an intense scene nonetheless and I think the quality of the acting here shows that the film is aiming for more than just cheap thrills. Hit the jump to watch the clip!

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Source: Deadline | LA Times | Posted By: Dan Geer

It looks like director Kevin Tancharoen‘s Mortal Kombat web series has paid off. It appears that his first unauthorized short film, Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, as well as its corresponding web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy, inadvertently acted as a kind of audition for directing a feature film reboot of the franchise (which first started out as a video game series, followed by a couple of disappointing feature films in the 90s). News hit yesterday via Deadline that New Line Cinema loved what Kevin Tancharoen did with the series, and ended up recruiting him, along with the original writer of the short film and web series, Oren Uziel for a new feature film. Hit the jump for more info, and to watch the Episode 9 of Tancharoen‘s Mortal Kombat: Legacy featuring Cyrax and Sektor (which I somehow completely missed when it debuted online)!

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Source: THR | XFilesNews.com | EmmyTVLegends | Posted By: Dan Geer

This is a day I have been waiting for ever since FOX’s hit sci-fi series The X-Files ended its nine-year run back in 2002. THR is reporting that the show’s creator, Chris Carter, is finally returning to the small screen with a new “female-lead mystery police thriller” with a “supernatural element” to it titled Unique. No word on what network will pick up the show, which is being set up through Media Rights Capital, but my guess is that FOX will be fighting for this one.

Despite being an in-demand director and producer, Carter has pretty much been off the grid since The X-Files ended, with only a brief return to the big screen in 2008 with The X-Files: I Want to Believe, the franchise’s second (and hopefully not final) feature film. After developing such a widely popular TV series that put the FOX network on the map back in the 90s and redefined what could be accomplished on television, it was pretty much inevitable that Carter would return to the small screen.

For a great refresher on the career of Chris Carter, hit the jump to watch his extensive interview with the Archive of American Television!

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Source: Yahoo! Movies | Posted By: Dan Geer

Yahoo! Movies has a new featurette for director Shawn Levy‘s upcoming sci-fi robot boxing movie Real Steel, featuring boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard training Hugh Jackman for the film.

The more we see of this production, the more it becomes clear that the film could very well be the surprise hit of the fall movie season. Not only is the film fully utilizing some of the very best in acting and CGI motion capture technology, but it is also going to great lengths to make sure that the film remains true to the spirit of boxing by bringing in the very best in the sport to help make sure every boxing move feels as real and authentic as possible.

If the story is just as top notch as everything else in the movie, inspiring audiences on an emotional level with an uplifting message throughout, Shawn Levy might very well be the next Sam Raimi or Christopher Nolan when it comes to directing sci-fi and fantasy (he’s already lined up to direct an adaptation of Frankenstein for 20th Century Fox). We’ll certainly find out come October 7th when the film hits theaters. Hit the jump to watch the featurette!

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Source: /Film | Cool Hunting | Posted By: Dan Geer

A little over a year ago, news broke that Nike would be developing the futuristic self-lacing sneakers that Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future Part II, but it was not known at the time when they’d be made available. Well, as of yesterday, the limited edition shoes, called the “Nike Mag” sneakers, officially went up for auction at nikemag.ebay.com to benefit The Michael J. Fox Foundation. However, while Nike filed the Automatic Lacing System patent back in 2009, it appears the current Nike Mag shoes do not actually lace themselves… yet.

Most likely, you won’t be able to afford them, as the price for them is well over $5,000 at this point. But, after the jump, you can read the official press release for the event, as well as watch a great Nike Mag promotional video directed by Back to the Future producer Frank Marshall – which stars NBA Basketball player Kevin Durant, SNL’s Bill Hader, and of course Christopher Lloyd reprising the role of Doctor Emmett L. Brown! The video hints that perhaps the self-lacing mechanism could be put into effect by 2015, which is, of course, when Marty McFly actually obtains the shoes in Back to the Future Part II.

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