Someone at 20th Century Fox is going to be fired. Late last night, Twitter and the IMDB forums were alive with chatter as a DVD quality workprint of X-Men Origins: Wolverine found its way online.

In no way is this an April Fool's joke, but it's serious business. Several other sites have verified its legit, and I took a glance at it myself at a couple minutes at different points in the movie, and it's certainly a working edit of the film.

But what a lot of people are pointing out, and this is something I agree with to a certain extent, that this won't exactly be the film we'll see on May 1st. Apparently this cut does not include any of the new footage that director Gavin Hood and the cast shot when there were worrying re-shoots in Vancouver months ago. Also along this note, the print also has unfinished effects including completely unfinished CG models of characters, green screen work and more.

We're not going to link to where you can find this leak or anything like that. If you really, REALLY want to find it, then I'm sure you will. But let me just say, that if you're looking to enjoy the movie, just hold off and in exactly one month, you'll get to see it on the big screen. It's not like you don't know what's going to happen anyway. Wolverine will get his claws out menacingly, be sarcastic, cut some stuff, blow some things up, and then Ryan Reynolds will make another joke. Game over.

Labels: 20th Century Fox, Gavin Hood, Hugh Jackman, Wolverine, X-Men Origins: Wolverine

A remake of the 80's hit Back to the Future is in perfect hands as it was announced that it will be directed by one of the original trilogy's producers, Steven Spielberg. And who better to fill the shoes of the young time traveler Marty McFly then his golden boy Shia LaBeouf.

Spielberg took the time to make this announcement himself to quell any fear some of us loyal Back to the Future fans may have, and he said he will be very true to the original, besides the stuff that he decides to change. It will be updated for modern day, and so the time machine will "most likely take the form of a Hybrid of some sort. If you're going to time travel today, you're going to have to be green about it," Spielberg said in his announcement.

But the big question is who will step into the eccentric, 1.21 jiggawatt fueled shows of Dr. Emmett L. Brown? Spielberg saves that for last as he says, none other than Johnny Depp will step into the shoes once filled by Christopher Lloyd. It took some real convicing according to Spielberg, but it was the money that got him. Real pirates gold from what I'm told. And finally, one more thing, who's taking on the role of big buff meathead Biff Tannen? None other than the muscle man himself Vin Diesel. I simply cannot wait to see this come together.

The announcement video is over at Spielberg's official site. What do you guys think?

Labels: Back to the Future, Johnny Depp, Marty McFly, Shia LaBeouf, Steven Spielberg, Vin Diesel

Big news from Fox Network for two of its high profile shows. It was announced today that for the season finales of the action-drama 24 and the medical-drama House M.D. that these two worlds will collide for one big 2 hour finale event.

Not all details were revealed since there's still no word on how 24 plans to wrap up the terrorist plans currently on-going, but here's what is known as of now:

• Dr. Gregory House will first be called upon to attempt to cure and ailing Jack Bauer (after he recently came into contact with a biological weapon) giving House the most difficult task he's had yet: creating a cure.
  
  
• The outcome of the above is given even less time when House must diagnose a terrorist suspect when he suddenly becomes ill in typical House M.D. fashion where no one is sure what the diagnosis is.
  
  
• House's team will not be with him (as House travels to FBI headquarters to meet Jack Bauer) but they will be in contact via phone.
  
  
• The dynamic between Bauer and House will be hilarious and tense.
  
  
• Finally, this will most assuredly be in real time, so House is really working against the clock without any commercials to pass more that five minutes time.

This is the best thing to happen to television since The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones. Fans of one show who happen to not be fans of the other won't be confused as an hour long clip show will play before the finale to give people some insight into the characters they may not be so familiar with. If you'd like to see a teaser trailer for this epic television event, head right over here to the official Fox website, because unfortunately the trailer cannot be embedded. Does this get you excited?

Labels: 24, Dr. House, Fox, Gregory House, House, House M.D., Hugh Laurie, Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland

MSN Movies UK shot up this new poster for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince along with five other single character posters. Each of them are cool in their own right, and would be great lined up one right next to the other. This one is obviously Harry Potter standing in the London Underground with copies of the Daily Prophet blowing in the wind. You can see Lucius Malfoy on that one in the lower left hand corner and another one has a headline about a Death Eater attack targeting Muggles that we've seen evidence of in the previous trailers.

The other posters feature Albus Dumbledore (Michael Gambon)looking ready to kick some ass, Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) looking sly and cute at the same time, Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) decked out in Quidditch garb, Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) looking disappointed like my parents, and Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) looking like a hardcore wizard James Bond.

This is one of my most anticipated films of the summer, and these posters maintain my hype. I wonder when they'll have the poster of Dumbledore kissing a dude, or Hermione at the point in her life when she starts living at Muggle truck stops giving out "favors" for "Fizzing Whizbees."

Labels: Alan Rickman, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Harry Potter, Harry Potter 6, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Michael Gambon, Posters, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton

This post has been long overdue for a few weeks. This trailer came out of nowhere when I went to my midnight screening of Watchmen awhile back and I've been waiting for it ever since. I give you, The Hangover.

This looks like a great, chaotic comedy and may even be a sleeper hit of the summer. The film stars Ed Helms (NBC's The Office), Bradley Cooper (Wedding Crashers) and Zach Galifianakis (The Comedians of Comedy) as three groomsmen who lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures, then must retrace their steps in order to find him.

There's a mysterious baby, a missing tooth, and Mike Tyson air drumming to Phil Collins "In the Air Tonight." It's everything anyone could ask for. I've been wanting to see more of Galifianakis in films since seeing his stand-up a couple years back, and Ed Helms is always a good addition. Bradley Cooper is certainly making a name for himself, but it's hard to see him outside of his douchebag role in Wedding Crashers. It's an odd trio, and none of them are really big names, but that's what makes this even more interesting.

Anyway, this comedy looks like a blast, and I'm looking forward to seeing it when it comes out June 5. It's not everyday you get to see a trailer that depicts your future life. What do you guys think?

Labels: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Mike Tyson, Summer, The Hangover, Trailers, Zach Galifianakis

George Lopez has become one of the most popular Mexican-American comedians working today. While I personally don't enjoy too much of his comedy, any Mexican is better than Carlos Mencia, who is really only a pretend-Mexican.

Well now, according to Variety, George Lopez is getting a huge chance to gain an even bigger following when he steps into the already crowded late night talk-show ring for TBS later this year. This move follows TBS recent dive into original content production after creating shows like 10 Items or Less and the comedian led Frank TV (led by the superb impressionist, but not so great comedian Frank Caliendo of Mad TV fame).

While Lopez has a large niche audience in the growing Hispanic population (no that's not a dig at immigration, in fact, I myself am half-Mexican), I'm not sure if he'll be able to last very long. His late night show won't have a strong lead-in like other late night start-ups on network television, and though he's pretty much a household name after his successful sitcom run, Lopez just isn't that strong of a comedian to catch my attention. Though it can't be any worse than Jimmy Fallon's attempt, a point and time might come when TBS will have to change their slogan to "TBS...Very Funny...Well Sometimes...Mostly Not...Whatever."

The show is supposed to start airing its 34-week initial run sometime this November. Will you guys be checking it out?

Labels: Carlos Mencia, Frank Caliendo, Frank TV, George Lopez, Jimmy Fallon, Late Night, Talk Show

Last week, Netflix announced some news that allows you to push your Netflix activity to your Internet social circle via Facebook, as well as the new face of rating genres on the Netflix site.

First, the Facebook integration is a nice new little feature, but as of now it only pushes your ratings to your Facebook news feed. It would be nice to see integration of updates on what you've added to your queue, or when you watch something via Instant Viewing. Maybe that's just further down the road. Linking Facebook with your Netflix account is easy. All you have to do is click right here, to be taken to a page on the Netflix site where you input your Facebook login information, and just like that it's done. Obviously you must have both a Netflix account and a Facebook account for this to work.

Second, Netflix is changing the way we rate genres. The way it used to go is the same 5 Star System used to rate individual movies was used to rate genres and sub-genres. Netflix has changed this up a bit, and now allows for more specific and accurate suggestions from both your individual movie ratings and a new genre rating system called "Taste Preferences."

Originally this was just a small test (that I was somehow chosen to be a part of) but last week Netflix announced that this new feature would be rolled out to all users this week. Below is some brief information about this new feature, but if you want, head over to Hacking Netflix to read a full write-up that I sent their way about Taste Preferences. But here's the short version.

You'll be able to find this new feature under the Movies You'll Love tab.


Then from there you will be able to rate your Taste Preferences. No longer will you use the 5 Star System for rating but a new ratings system saying how often you like to see movie with certain elements, styles or storylines (Often, Sometimes, or Never).


After you rate this Taste Preferences you'll begin to see more specific and niche-oriented suggestions on your main page much like the one below.

This new feature should roll out to everyone this week, so keep an eye out so you can start rating your personal Taste Preferences. If you're a Netflix user, what do you think of these new features?

Labels: Facebook, Genres, Netflix, Ratings

Here's a new poster for this summer's Star Trek, and it goes to light speed...at least I think so. This could be a pretty butterfly, or an arm with a hammer coming out of its sleeve. It's a cool enough design, but it looks like a Rorschach test, or the Enterprise flying through a bunch of liquid adamantium.

This week, three other posters were released as well. They are all international posters, and the imagery is much cooler than this one. Two of them you can check out here and here. Both of them are similar to other blockbuster "floating head" style posters like this Iron Man poster. The final one is my favorite, and it's reminiscent of the Independence Day poster.

Anyway, it's not the posters that keep getting me excited for the movie. It's the amazing trailers. May 8 can't get here soon enough if only because this will give hardcore nerds a break from furious masturbation for a a couple hours.

Labels: Chris Pine, J.J. Abrams, Posters, Simon Pegg, Star Trek, Zachary Quinto

After we had the spectacular trailer premiere for Where the Wild Things Are, now comes a look at another film based on yet another beloved book from my childhood, the computer animated film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

The premise is simple, wacky and allows for plenty of fun. A scientist trying to solve world hunger encounters a problem of global proportions in the town of Chewandswallow, after he invents a machine that causes food to rain from the sky.

The animation style is a bit different then what we're used to seeing, and while the trailer makes the film seem somewhat childish (I know it's based on a kids book, but it can still have quality content) there's a certain charm to it. Combined with the fact that there's sure to be plenty of gags with the different kinds of food falling from the sky (in 3D no less), this looks like a very promising family film.

On top of that the cast is what has my attention. Bill Hader puts to use his commanding voice talents as goofy scientist Flint Lockwood and plays along with the voices of Andy Samberg, Tracy Morgan, Anna Faris, James Caan and even the infamous Mr. T.

You can check out the trailer below, and the recently released poster for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs right here. What do you guys think?

Labels: Andy Samberg, Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, James Caan, Mr T, Posters, Tracy Morgan, Trailers

Demetri Martin is currently known as a breath of fresh comedy with his brilliant use of drawings and wordplay in his stand-up, as well as channeling the late Mitch Hedburg in his quirky everyday observations on his Comedy Central show, Important Things with Demetri Martin. While he looks like a young and upcoming comedian in his early 20's, Martin is actually 36 years old. He's appeared on HBO's Flight of the Conchords and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and had a small part in The Rocker, but now he's taking to the big screen with the lead role in Ang Lee's new film Taking Woodstock.

This period comedy follows the story of Elliot Tiber, stuck working at his parents failing motel in the Catskills in the summer of 1969. But when he finds out that some sort of hippie gathering called Woodstock needs a place to go down, he gladly offers a helping hand to help bring some tourism to his family's failing business. Based on a true story and book of the same name by Elliot Tiber himself, Ang Lee's throwing a curveball here with a movie completely unlike anything he's done before.

The trailer has all sorts of great moments, many of them involving a cast of oddballs at Woodstock including Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy and for some reason Liev Schreiber in drag. The film looks like a lot of fun, and I'm really looking forward to see what Ang Lee can do with some comedic, not-so-steamy subject matter. But of course it's Woodstock so there's bound to be some sex. Trailer is below and the film comes out August 14th of this year. What do you guys think?

Labels: Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy, Liev Schreiber, Trailers