Source: Apple | Posted By: Dan Geer

The April 19th release date is vastly approaching for Joseph Kosinski’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi film, Oblivion, starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman. Therefore, even though the second trailer for the film was just released a couple of weeks ago, today saw the debut of an incredible third trailer for the film, which is definitely not to be missed by anyone who loves this genre. Hit the jump to read the official synopsis for the film and watch the new trailer!

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Source: Collider | Posted By: Dan Geer

While The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second entry in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Trilogy, is not due out until December 13th, fans were originally only expecting to wait until the following summer for the third film, The Hobbit: There and Back Again. Now it seems that we will just have to wait another year for the third film, as Collider is reporting that the film is being pushed back five months to December 17th, 2014.

With this new Decemeber release date, X-Men: Days of Future Past will now have less competition, as that film is slated for There and Back Again‘s original July 18th, 2014 release date. However, other December 17, 2014 releases, such as Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland, will have to go up against The Hobbit.

Something tells me that one of these films will back down and find another release date.

Source: ET Online (via Yahoo!) | Posted By: Dan Geer

Last week, Latino Review dished out a big rumor that Harrison Ford will be back as Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode VII, which was quickly revealed to be unconfirmed by Entertainment Weekly’s Geoff Boucher.

Now it appears that Mark Hamill has given further confirmation on this, as he has revealed via ET Online that none of the cast from the Original Trilogy have been officially signed on for the new films at this point. However, he does say that they have been approached to be in them. Read on for all the juicy details, as well as where he thinks the story should go!

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Source: Yahoo! Movies | Posted By: Dan Geer

A film that I have been cautiously optimistic about is director Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful, starring James Franco as Oscar Diggs, a small-time magician with “dubious ethics” who gets whisked away in a hot air balloon from his dusty Kansas home to the Land of Oz, where he becomes the wonderful Wizard we all know from the original 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz. Based on what we see in the trailers for the film, this could end up being an enjoyable, family-friendly fantasy film (say that ten times fast), or a visual disaster like Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. After all, the film is from the producers of Burton’s 2010 film, and one of his production designers also worked on Oz.

However, this new featurette, which discusses the costumes and makeup of the film, really shows us that it has the potential to succeed where Alice in Wonderland failed. It simply conveys a sense of confidence in the material and world being created here, and shows us that, through a healthy combination of practical sets and CGI (a technique Burton could have used more of with Alice), we may just have a movie worthy of author L. Frank Baum’s classic Wizard of Oz series, and maybe even the original 1939 film. Hit the jump to check out the featurette!

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Source: MSN UK | Posted By: Dan Geer

The second trailer for Joseph Kosinski’s (Tron: Legacy) science fiction film Oblivion has landed online, bringing us much more of the action this time around with Tom Cruise front and center as Jack Harper, one of the last few drone repairmen left on a future Earth after decades of war with a alien threat that devastated our planet.

This second trailer for the film really sets the tone for the film, and lets us know that Harper is not the man to mess with when it comes to saving the fate of humanity. Check out the trailer below!

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Source: CNBC | Official Star Wars Website | TheForce.net | Posted By: Dan Geer

Today, Disney CEO Bob Iger has confirmed that screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back) and Simon Kinberg (Sherlock Holmes) are writing spinoff Star Wars films, validating rumors that have been circulating the web for the last few months. Not only that, but Iger also reveals that Disney plans to release said spinoff films within the six-year timetable of Star Wars: Episodes VII-IX, anywhere from 2015-2021. Hit the jump to watch his interview with CNBC on the matter! (Updated with official announcement from Lucasfilm, as well as EW‘s report on the stories of the spinoffs).

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Source: TheOneRing.net | Posted By: Dan Geer

It appears March is going to be quite a fantastic time for fans of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, as it has been announced that the theatrical version of the film will be available for digital download on March 12th, with the Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, and DVD combo packs arriving one week later on March 19th! Not only that, but those who purchase any of the home video releases will have access to a first look at the second film in the trilogy, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, via the Ultraviolet code included with each set. Hit the jump for the official press release with all the details, including info on the release of the Extended Edition (via TheOneRing.net)!

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Source: IDW | Comics Alliance | X-Files News | Posted By: Dan Geer

For X-Philes who have been waiting patiently to see what happens after The X-Files: I Want to Believe, they will be getting the next best thing to a third feature film very soon.

IDW, the company behind 2009’s incredibly awesome X-Files/30 Days of Night crossover comic series (co-published by DC/Wildstorm), has announced that they are creating a whole new line of comics for The X-Files, picking up right where I Want to Believe left off. Not only that, but the company is also reprinting the classic Topps and DC/Wildstorm X-Files comics that ran sporadically from 1995-2009. Read on for official statements from IDW and Fox staff members.

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Posted By: Dan Geer

This year promises to give movie goers some amazing films to check out. Disney has their hands in three highly-anticipated films set to debut in the first half of 2013, with The Lone Ranger, Oz the Great and Powerful, and Marvel’s Iron Man 3, and Paramount is also set to debut director J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness in May. In addition, actor Brad Pitt’s zombie flick World War Z, which was originally slated for release this past December, is finally hitting theaters this June.

All of these films (as well as a few other less-anticipated ones) get to fill the much-coveted Super Bowl commercial time slots these year, and you can check out all of them below!

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Source: The Playlist | Collider | Posted By: Dan Geer

Even though J.J. Abrams’ upcoming gig as the director of Star Wars: Episode VII is on everyone’s radar right now, his next film, Star Trek Into Darkness, is only a few months away, so let’s at least give this other little film of his a little more time in the spotlight, shall we?

Paramount Pictures has just released a behind-the-scenes featurette for the film, which highlights the IMAX and 3D formats of the movie, and discusses how this film will up the ante in terms of visuals and storytelling. We can definitely expect a bigger film this time around. Hopefully it’ll be even better than the first. Hit the jump to watch!

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