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‘Tully’ Early Buzz: Charlize Theron Stuns In Another Stellar Jason Reitman/Diablo Cody Collaboration Diablo CodyandJason Reitmanare something of an indie dream team. The duo’s first collaboration produced the sharply funnyJuno, which became one of the most over-quoted films in the last decade, and helped catapult Cody and stars Ellen Page and Michael Cera to fame. While their second film together, the bleak and sardonicYoung Adult, didn’t quite permeate pop culture likeJuno, it established the duo’s easy, whip-smart rapport....

10 Things We Learned From “Breaking Bad” S5E09 “Blood Money” As we promised in"The Ones Who Knock" Kickstarter, I will be doing weekly recaps here of each episode ofBreaking Bad. For those of you unfamiliar with my recapping style, it’s less of a straightforward plot summary and more a distillation of the most interesting elements of each week’s episode. The recaps will spoil everything up through the current episode (S5E09 “Blood Money”), but won’t spoil any future episodes or even scenes from the “Next Time” segments of the show....

A Very Weird Video Promoting Bong Joon-Ho ‘Okja’: Won’t Anyone Think About The Pigs? Bless Netflix for giving South Korean filmmakerBong Joon-ho$50 million to make his latest movie,Okja. The marketing materials, includingthe teaser, are promising what looks like another uncompromised movie from theSnowpiercerandThe Hostdirector. A new video featuring CEO of Mirando Corporation, Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton), is the exact type of weirdness and hilarity we want to see from Swinton and Joon-ho....

Alex Garland Came Up With The Story Idea For ‘28 Months Later’ Ex MachinadirectorAlex Garland’s second major film was28 Days Later, which he wrote for directorDanny Boyle. The sequel to that film was only exec produced by Garland, and in general the writer/producer/director hasn’t seemed much interested in making sequels. But there is talk of another sequel, and as it turns out, if that film does actually shoot the28 Months Laterstory will be based on an idea Garland came up with....

Barry Sonnenfeld Says ‘Men In Black 3’ Concludes The Trilogy, And Sets Up Reboot Men in Black 3, which opens in May, has a convoluted history. Conceptualized back during the production of the second film,MiB3started to shoot last year, but began rolling cameras with a script that was only partially finished, and a schedule that featured an extensive break to work out how the last two thirds of the movie would go....

Brad Pitt Racing Project From Producer Jerry Bruckheimer Starts A Bidding War Audiences like racing movies. The studios know this, so it’s no surprise that not only is one of the biggest movie stars working today attaching himself to a new one, but all the studios are lining up to bid each other up on the package. The Hollywood Reportersays that studios and streamers are fighting each other for the rights to this as-yet-untitled racing film starring Pitt and directed by “Tron: Legacy” filmmaker Joseph Kosinski....

British Trailer For Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, And News Of An Alternative, Modern Holmes A new British trailer for theSherlock Holmespicture byGuy Ritchiehas been let loose, timed to coincide with the release of the newHarry Potter. As well as running in our cinemas it is of course online, and you can see it after the break. While the overall structure of the thing and much of the material is the same as the US cut, there is quite a lot of new mucking about too....

Children Of Men Screenwriters Are Developing Live-Action Akira Movie Warner Bros' live-action adaptation ofAkiraisnot deadafterall.Colliderhas confirmed that screenwritersMark FergusandHawk Ostbyare hard at work on the project. Fergus and Ostby wrote earlier drafts ofChildren of Menand are credited withIron Man.The screenplay is set in a post-apocalyptic “New Manhattan” and will feature Akira’s famous red motorcycle. The original Katsuhiro Otomo anime was set in a futuristic and post-war city, Neo-Tokyo, in 2019. Let’s just hope it doesn’t end up looking likeTHIS....

Clint Eastwood’s ‘Sully’ Trailer: Tom Hanks Is Captain Sully The last few moviesClint Eastwoodmade based on real people didn’t turn out so well.J. Edgar,The Jersey Boys, and even his biggest hit as a filmmaker,AmericanSniper,are strangely cold and clinical movies. The same goes forChangelingandInvictus, but let’s hope that’s not the case withSully, which comes out later this yearand starsTom Hanks. Below, check out the firstSullytrailer to see Tom Hanks' transformation into Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger....

Cool Stuff: Hot Toys Reveals Kylo Ren’s Life-Size Burnt Darth Vader Helmet Perhaps one of the most coveted collectibles forStar Warsfans is the helmet ofDarth Vader. It’s the signature accessory of one of the most iconic villains that the big screen has ever seen. And if you worship Darth Vader as much as his angry grandson Kylo Ren, thenHot Toyshas an incredible new collectible that you’ll want to get your hands on....

Dane Cook Joins Starz’s Adaptation Of ‘American Gods’ We recently got ourfirst lookat Starz’s adaptation ofNeil Gaiman’s “American Gods.” The photos revealedRicky Whittleas Shadow Moon andIan McShaneas Mr. Wednesday, andDane Cookwill soon accompany both actors. The actor and comedian will play Shadow Moon’s friend and boss at Muscle Farm, Robbie. Below, learn more about theAmerican Godscast. Deadlinebroke the news of Cook’s casting. Robbie watches after Shadow’s wife, Laura (Emily Browning), while he’s away in prison....

Darth Vader (As An Action Figure) Almost Had A Cameo In ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Guardians of the Galaxyalmost wasn’t the musically-driven ode to the ’80s that we know and love today. Instead, the film’s nod to Peter Quill being the lone human in a wacky space opera would have been a Darth Vader cameo. Or rather, a Darth Vader action figure cameo. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige is famously a hugeStar Warsnerd and wanted to originally incorporate that into 2014’sGuardians of the Galaxy....

Director Doug Liman Talks Time Travel, Intergalactic Plot For Jumper 2 Word of mouth onJumperisn’t too positive, but the general consensus is that the premise still kinda rocks. Moreover, the image above is worth a hundred sci-fi strike-outs likeNext, and hey, it’s not a remake. But the film, which opened to $38 million over the long weekend, has long been keyed in as the first in a so-trendy trilogy, and now directorDoug Liman(The Bourne Identity,Swingers) has discussed a sequel withCollider’s Frosty in a super-caffeinated interview....