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"This is not who I am, it's simply what I know." Verizon just released yet another new viral video for Ridley Scott's Prometheus, following the amazing TED2023 Talk with Peter Weyland and the David 8 android introduction from Michael Fassbender. This video, debuted on the Verizon FiOS Facebook and called "Quiet Eye", focuses on Noomi Rapace as Elizabeth Shaw, one of the crew on Prometheus who might be the one that reveals the location they travel to. This is one of the best story-focused viral campaigns in quite a while and they're wrapping up by adding even more mystery and questions. You will want to see this video.

› Posted 25 mins ago in SciFi, To Watch, Viral News | 2 Comments

First Teaser Poster for 'Anchorman: The Legend Continues' Unveiled

For those who caught some midnight screenings of The Dictator last night, a special treat was delivered in the form of a teaser trailer for Anchorman: The Legend Continues, the sequel to the 2004 comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. The script is still being written so that aforementioned teaser trailer was shot just to get the hype machine rolling, but the film will apparently follow the start of the 24-hour news cycle. Now we also have a teaser poster for the highly anticipated comedy sequel that doesn't need the faces of Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and David Koechner to get people excited.

› Posted 1 hour ago in Featured, Humor, Hype, Posters | 2 Comments

Luscious Promo Banner for Brandon Cronenberg's 'Antiviral' in Cannes

Sex sells, especially in Europe, there's no doubt about that. As I was walking back, I couldn't help (I mean, come on) but notice this new promo banner that had just been installed. Today is officially the first day of the Cannes Film Festival and construction/installation is being finished completely. Antiviral, the first film from David Cronenberg's son Brandon Cronenberg, is premiering in the festival line-up later this week, and it's a film that seems to be on everyone's mind, for the sake of curiosity more than anything. How will it turn out? What is it really about? This banner only brings more mystery and intrigue - check it out below.

› Posted 2 hours ago in Cannes Film Festival 12, First Look, Indies, Posters | No Comments Yet

'Men in Black 3' Viral Concludes with Bugeyes Getting His MIB Suit

We haven't been following the Men in Black 3 viral campaign that closely these last few months, mostly because it has been a bit lackluster, to be totally honest. But with the new sequel out in just a few weeks, its finally wrapped up and concluded, and the last delivery to the kid known as "Bugeyes" (@.@) who has been running the whole thing is a MIB suit itself. "The last suit you'll ever wear." Our friends at MovieViral have been following closely (full rundown here) and posted the final video, which comes from Bugeyes' blog at TheMeninBlackSuitsAreReal.com, titled "We did it!" You can see the final video he's posted just below.

› Posted 8 hours ago in Hype, To Watch, Viral News | 2 Comments

Aaron Sorkin Confirmed to Adapt 'Steve Jobs' Biography for New Film

After it was said last fall that Sony Pictures wanted The Social Network and A Few Good Men scribe Aaron Sorkin to adapt Walter Isaacson's best-selling biography Steve Jobs about the late, iconic Apple and Pixar co-founder, it sounds like the studio's dream has come true. An official press release from Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures, and Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures has announced that Sorkin will indeed adapt the book for a big screen biopic. But the question is just how soon the film will come together in the wake of Ashton Kutcher's indie biopic Jobs, which is already in production. More below!

› Posted 11 hours ago in Development, Movie News | 2 Comments

Bradley Cooper and Kristen Bell in First Trailer for 'Hit & Run' Comedy

Besides Fanboys and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, actress Kristen Bell hasn't been delivering very many quality films on the big screen. In fact her TV endeavors have actually proven to be much more fruitful. Maybe she can spice things up a bit with a new comedy called Hit & Run which has her on the run with her When in Rome co-star Dax Shepard from a dreadlocked Bradley Cooper. The film follows former getaway driver Charlie Bronson (Shepard) who jeopardizes his Witness Protection to help his girlfriend get to LA, but his former crew (led by Cooper) and a U.S. marshal are hot on his trail in the first trailer. Watch!

› Posted 14 hours ago in To Watch, Trailers | 16 Comments

'Contagion' Writer Will Script 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' Sequel

Following the success of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, there was plenty of buzz about a sequel coming together sooner than later. Director Rupert Wyatt had the option for a sequel built into his initial contract, and last November, Fox made sure to lock down Andy Serkis to reprise his role as the revolutionary ape Caesar. Since then, development has been somewhat stagnant. But now THR reports Contagion and The Bourne Ultimatum writer Scott Z. Burns has been hired to script the sequel picking up after the apes have started to overthrow San Francisco and a virus starts to spread across the world and destroy civilization.

› Posted 15 hours ago in Development, Movie News | 13 Comments

Alamo Drafthouse's Zack Carlson Brings Lord Humungus on TV News

"There has been too much violence, too much pain. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror." Who doesn't love Road Warrior, I mean come on? Crazy badass characters like this, Mel Gibson as the Road Warrior, tons of awesome cars, lots of action, Australian backcountry, what more could you ask for? As we've featured before, the Alamo Drafthouse is hosting a Summer of 1982 retrospective this summer, playing each movie from that summer all over again. Coming up this weekend is Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior and Zack Carlson went on the local TV news to promote it, with Lord Humungus himself in tow.

› Posted 16 hours ago in Events, Humor, Hype, To Watch | No Comments Yet

First Trailer for Duplass Brothers' 'The Do-Deca-Pentathlon' Comedy

"It's not just sports between the two of you." Red Flag Releasing has debuted the first official trailer for the indie comedy The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, written and directed by brothers Jay & Mark Duplass (who I interviewed earlier this year for their other film Jeff Who Lives at Home), starring Mark Kelly and Steve Zissis as brothers. The two compete in their own homemade, private 25-event Olympics competition, and that's about it. I was curious to see this, but not impressed by the trailer, it looks rather mediocre and these two guys don't see that funny to me. But this humor may work better with other moviegoers. Take a look!

› Posted 17 hours ago in Indies, To Watch, Trailers | 2 Comments

Amy Adams Heads to Some 'Dark Places' for New Thriller Adaptation

By Ben Pearson

The lovely and talented Amy Adams will soon be best known to audiences as Lois Lane in Zack Snyder's upcoming Superman film Man of Steel, but the generally perky actress has just signed on for a movie that will take her far from Metropolis and closer to Smallville (geographically, anyway). Deadline reports that Adams will play the lead in Dark Places, a story about a young girl in Kansas who survives a massacre of her family, testifies against her brother as the murderer, and is visited 25 years later by a secret society that claims her brother is innocent. Somehow, reliving the incident is the only way to find out the real truth.

› Posted 19 hours ago in Casting, Development, Movie News | 1 Comment

A Trailer for the Oscar-Nominated Animated Feature 'A Cat in Paris'

When the Academy Award nominations were announced earlier this year, there was plenty of head scratching. Aside from the snubs which we're talked about on various occasions before, in the animated feature film category, one nomination came out of left field with A Cat in Paris. Barely anybody had heard of the film, and it was disappointing that The Adventures of Tintin didn't get a nod instead. However, for all we know the film is an animated treasure, and audiences can find out soon enough as the first trailer for the English-dubbed version, featuring Anjelica Huston and Marcia Gay Harden has arrived. Watch below!

› Posted 19 hours ago in To Watch, Trailers | 3 Comments

Watch: First Trailer for Michel Gondry's Peculiar 'The We and the I'

For awhile we've heard various details about Michel Gondry's newest film The We and the I, which will be making its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this month (stay tuned right here for all of Alex's coverage). Previously we heard that the film would follow a group of unknown actors as a group of school kids who travel into the future by mistake and discover a machine that keeps people younger. Sounded like a Gondry film to us, but with the first trailer just revealed, this looks like a Spike Lee movie, but a bit more uplifting and with a coming-of-age charm at the heart of it. At the very least, it seems refreshing. Watch it!

› Posted 20 hours ago in Cannes Film Festival 12, To Watch, Trailers | 4 Comments

Charles Dickens Getting a Parkour Update in 3D Action Film 'Twist'

By Ben Pearson

The line between fake movie premises and real ones is becoming increasingly small in today's movie landscape. A few years ago, it was obvious that certain films were never going to get a greenlight because their concepts were simply too ludicrous to imagine. But this news story has me scratching my head and rethinking what is possible in the movie industry today. Variety reports that Red Bull's media branch is producing a 3D parkour movie called Twist, based on Charles Dickens' classic novel Oliver Twist. The modern-day story sees the kids in the Fagin Gang using parkour to pull off a series of art heists. Um, what?

› Posted 20 hours ago in Development, Movie News | 5 Comments

Two More 'Amazing Spider-Man' Posters Continue to Be Impressive