So much for leading with your best foot forward. Summit releases inexplicably funny still grab for Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Granted, Summit is not the first studio to release god-awful production stills from a major franchise (the first static shots of the first X...

Wondering about The Wolfman? Well, remember The Alamo.

I admit my dislike of the finished Wolfman film colors my perceptions regarding its delays, but this is not the first time that studios hav...

Money well spent? How exactly Universal spent an extra 14 months and $60 million on The Wolfman and why it was likely a waste of both.

There is a nice article in Time Out London concerning the cause and effect of the years of delays, expensive reshoots, and countless re-ed...

Are Batman Begins and Iron Man the same movie?

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor . Of course, this hugely simplifies the narratives of both pictures, but it made ...

Valentine's Day (the movie) sets record over Valentine's Day (the long weekend). Weekend box office review for 02/15/10.

It wasn't terribly difficult to predict that a star-studded romantic comedy would rule over the long Valentine's Day weekend , espec...

Review: The Wolfman (2010)

The Wolfman 2010 102 minutes Rated R by Scott Mendelson It is a rare thing when a big-budget genre picture can be accused of attempting to b...

A director's sandbox: In praise of the Mission: Impossible franchise.

As was announced a few days ago, Paramount is fast-tracking a new Mission: Impossible picture for a May 27th, 2011 release date (literally ...

Toy Story 3D gets a (happier) second trailer.

If the embed goes offline, go here for the official version. This full-length trailer is not nearly as dark and morose as the teaser (whic...

M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender gets a full trailer.

As I mentioned last week, I know very little about the source material.  Unfortunately, this full-length trailer doesn't seem to illumi...

To the shock of two (possibly three) people, Spider Man reboot to go 3D.

Yes, yes, Spider-Man 2.0 (or whatever it's going to be called) will be coming to 3D.  I can't say anyone didn't see that coming...

Does the world need a Superman (movie)?

Today's big news was of course the announcement that Warner Bros is in fact going ahead with yet another Superman reboot. That's no...

Wait a minute... which movie was the 'chick flick' again?

Further lending credence to the fallacy of the whole 'boys vs. girls' narrative regarding the weekend box office?  Avatar actually ...

All of the Super Bowl movie trailers in one place...

Oddly enough, there were no spots for any of the major summer contenders ( Iron Man 2 , Toy Story 3 , Eclipse , Sex and the City 2 , etc). ...

Dear John scores $32.4 million opening weekend. Avatar falls to second place. Why it's not a 'girls vs. boys' story. Weekend box office review (02/07/10)

Dear John opened at number one this weekend , with a stellar $30.4 million debut weekend. That gives the picture a mediocre 2.2x weekend m...

OMG!! Dear John's opening weekend may be bigger than Avatar's eighth weekend!

We'll see tomorrow whether Dear John actually succeeds in dethroning Avatar from the top of the weekend box office, but the Nicolas Sp...

M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender gets a Super Bowl commercial.

I've often said that agree with most of the moral reasons that causes people to become vegetarians, but I just like meat too much.  On t...

The most satisfying Oscar nominations in recent history?

Sure, everyone and their brother is going to have opinions about this morning's Oscar nominations , but you clicked on this link, so you...

The in-house commercial that should be shown in front of every movie.

I'm not exactly sure what this is ( Aqua Teen Hunger Force ?), but it made me laugh out loud.  Enjoy. Scott Mendelson