Source: Michigan Film Office | Posted By: Dan Geer

Up until today, not much was known about Michael Bay’s Transformers 4. We already knew that it would star Mark Walberg and Jack Reynor, with Brenton Thwaites and Nicola Peltz, and that the story will pick up four years later after the battle that took place in Chicago in the previous film, Tranformers: Dark of the Moon.

Now, after a press release from the Michigan Film Office revealed today that the film has been awarded a tax incentive of $20 million to shoot in Detroit, with a projection of approximately $81 million of in-state expenditures, a nice official plot synopsis for the film has been made public as well. Hit the jump for details!

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Source: Deadline | Collider | Posted By: Dan Geer

Colin Trevorrow, who made his directorial debut with the critically-acclaimed Saftey Not Guaranteed at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, is taking a giant leap into one of the biggest franchises in movie history by stepping into the director’s chair for Universal’s Jurassic Park 4, which is set to debut June 13, 2014.

While producer Kathleen Kennedy has left the project to focus on Star Wars: Episode VII, Frank Marshall is still producing along with Patrick Crowley and Executive Producer Steven Spielberg. Rise of the Planet of the Apes scribes Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver have written the script, and now that a director has been chosen, the project should start shooting very soon. Hit the jump for the full press release!

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Source: Yahoo! Movies | Posted By: Dan Geer

Joseph Kosinski’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi film Oblivion, starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman, is hitting theaters April 12th, and to help gear up for the new film (which looks fantastic, by the way), Yahoo! Movies has released a new featurette with Kosinski and Cruise discussing the plot and setting of the film.

The featurette is really nothing more than an extended trailer for the film, but should still prove to be interesting for those looking forward to the film. Hit the jump to check it out!

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Source: Star Wars Official Website | Posted By: Dan Geer

Ever since Disney acquired Lucasfilm back in October last year and announced that Star Wars: Episodes VII-IX would be produced, fans of Cartoon Network’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars have been wondering for quite some time now what the fate of the show would be. At first, people thought that maybe the show would continue on a Disney network, but after the recent announcement that the 3D re-releases of Star Wars: Episodes II & III would be postponed in order to focus all efforts on the new live-action Star Wars films, we then suspected that Disney/Lucasfilm would see fit to end The Clone Wars after it ended its fifth season since their focus obviously lies somewhere else.

As it turns out, the rumors were basically true, in that yes, Star Wars: The Clone Wars is coming to an end. However, it is simply winding down, meaning that we will get more episodes of the show in the future, which we have already known were in production for quite some time before Season Five even ended. These new episodes, however, will not air on Cartoon Network (the network only signed a five-season deal), and an announcement is imminent as to where fans can find these all-new episodes. This decision, as well as the postponement of Seth Green and Matthew Senreich’s Star Wars: Detours, have both been made in light of not only Disney/Lucasfilm’s setting their sights on the new Star Wars films, but also an entirely new animated series set in an era of the Star Wars universe previously unexplored on film or television.

Hit the jump for the official press release, as well as a video from Star Wars: The Clone Wars supervising director Dave Filoni discussing the future of the show, and presenting an all-new clip from an upcoming episode!

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Source: Collider | Posted By: Dan Geer

If you were able to get to your local movie theater this weekend to check out Sam Raimi’s fantastic Oz the Great and Powerful, you may have already seen the latest teaser for J.J. Abrams’ latest film, Star Trek Into Darkness. But don’t worry, even if you were not able to catch the teaser in the theater, it has now been made available to watch online.

This latest teaser for the film runs only a little over a minute long, but crams in as much action as it can, all the while focusing mainly on Captain Kirk and his story. Hit the jump to check it out!

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Written By: Dan Geer

Not since Disney’s Return to Oz in 1985 have we visited the world of author L. Frank Baum’s classic series of Oz novels on the big screen. Needless to say, many fans of both Baum’s works and the original 1939 musical, The Wizard of Oz, have been waiting a long time for someone to take on the series again, and to do it justice at that. Of course, other fans may just want to leave well enough alone out of fear of ruining a classic. After all, the 1939 musical is one of those films that has stood the test of time for decades and still resonates with families all over the world today, and so to create a film that acts as a quasi-prequel to such a beloved classic is simply asking for the most harshest of criticisms. It’s inevitable. How could anyone possibly produce a new film that does justice to Baum’s novels and director Victor Fleming’s original 1939 film? Believe it or not, Disney may have just pulled it off with Oz the Great and Powerful.

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Source: Apple | Posted By: Dan Geer

It’s time for another look at M. Night Shyamalan’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi film, After Earth, starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith as a father and son who crash land on Earth, which has been abandoned for 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity to leave. Jaden Smith’s character, Kitai, must face the wild, as well as an alien lifeform that escaped during the crash, as he sets out on a quest to send out a signal for help for himself and his injured father.

Will this be the film that redeems Shyamalan as a director? In all honesty, I really hope so. This is a director who has made a few good films, but whose writing ability seems to have steadily declined with each film he makes. It is really an uphill battle for him as a director to make a great film again at this point. But perhaps through the excellent choice of casting Will Smith in the film, as well as bringing in other writers to help with the script, this film might just prove to be Shyamalan’s big comeback. Wouldn’t that be something? Hit the jump to watch the new trailer!

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Source: Yahoo! Movies | Posted By: Dan Geer

You’ve seen the first trailer, as well as the Super Bowl TV spot, but you have not seen anything until you have watched this latest trailer for Iron Man 3, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies. It focuses much more on The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), the latest adversary for Iron Man, and lets us know more than ever that the stakes are higher than they’ve ever been for Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) as he faces off against this new enemy to protect those he cares about.

It feels like this film will be much more of a character study on Stark than the previous films were, which is completely welcome in my book. But don’t worry, this latest trailer also lets us know that there will still be plenty of eye-popping action to get our adrenaline going. Hit the jump to watch!

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Source: NBC | X-Files News | Posted By: Dan Geer

The Tonight Show crowd erupted in applause the other night when X-Files actor David Duchovny answered Jay Leno’s question of whether or not a third film in the popular sci-fi franchise would ever see the light of day.

In short, Duchovny continues to show a great interest in returning to the franchise, and still encourages fans to campaign for The X-Files 3 by writing to 20th Century Fox. Hit the jump to watch the clip from The Tonight Show and find out more on how you can help bring Fox Mulder and Dana Scully back to the big screen!

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Source: Apple | Posted By: Dan Geer

A new trailer has debuted online for Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful, directed by Sam Raimi, and it really packs a punch for being the shortest trailer yet for the film, cramming as much action as possible into less than one minute of footage. The trailer even features a few new shots from The Wizard of Oz prequel, including more of the wicked witch, so it is definitely worth a look. Hit the jump to watch the new trailer!

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