Sacha Baron Cohen is brilliant when it comes to the marketing of his films. We've seen Baron Cohen teabag Eminem at the MTV Video Music awards, spill the "ashes" of the late Kim Jong-il on pretty boy Ryan Seacrest at the Oscars, and now "murder" a model/actress. The latest Baron Cohen stunt that is making headlines today involves him in character as Admiral General Aladeen (The... Read More »

Like Gangster Squad, here's another movie that we didn't have on our Most Anticipated Movies of 2012 list, but we most likely would have if this trailer had existed half a year ago. Director Rian Johnson reunites with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, whom he previously worked with on his rookie effort (the excellent neo-noir Brick), in another movie with film noir elements except this tim... Read More »

After smashing box office and MediaStinger records in its debut last week, The Avengers easily repeated at the top of the domestic box office this weekend while breaking even more records. Its estimated $103.2 million take in its second weekend was the highest ever for a sophomore score, shattering the previous second-weekend high of $75.6 million by Avatar. Since last week,... Read More »

Gangster Squad is a movie that we didn't have on our Most Anticipated Movies of 2012 list, but most likely would have added if we had seen this trailer before compiling the list. Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer's latest period piece follows a squad of Los Angeles cops (Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi, and Anthony Mackie) who are attempting to keep Eas... Read More »

The first summer blockbuster of 2012 is officially on its way to become one of the biggest ever as it denied Think Like A Man the second three-peat of the year. The Avengers accomplished what The Hunger Games couldn't a couple months ago, when its opening feast was big enough for third place all-time. Marvel's team of superheroes didn't just break... it shattered the record for... Read More »

Marvel's Avengers hits theaters in a few days, but leave it to the comic-book studio's historic rival, DC's and Warner Bros.' Batman, to try to suck the air out of The Avengers hype this week. The latest trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, our top pick for Most Anticipated Movie of 2012, just dropped, and there's plenty of teasing reveals along with some stuff we've seen previou... Read More »

After ending the four-week reign of The Hunger Games atop the domestic box office last week, Think Like A Man remained strong enough to repeat. It held off four new challengers in the last spring weekend before the summer season kicks off Friday with The Avengers, one of our most anticipated films of the year. The biggest competition the reigning champ faced was from Aardman... Read More »

The rise of Taylor Kitsch will continue this summer in Oliver Stone's new crime-thriller film, Savages. Last seen as John Carter and scheduled to dock in domestic theaters in next month's Battleship, Kitsch plays one half of a marijuana-growing team while the other half is played by Aaron Johnson of Kick-Ass. They go Army of Two and take on a Mexican drug cartel when their shar... Read More »

After topping the weekend domestic box office for four consecutive weeks (a feat not accomplished since Avatar), popular young adult book series adaptation The Hunger Games was finally defeated by a couple of surprising newcomers, both of which are also literary adaptations. African-American comedy Think Like A Man, which is based on Steve Harvey's self-help book, claimed the g... Read More »

The Hunger Games, which scored the first three-peat of 2012 at the domestic box office over Easter weekend, extended its winning streak to four last weekend (and becoming the first movie since Avatar to four-peat) over three newcomers. Most of the leftovers were claimed by The Farrelly Brothers' introduction of The Three Stooges to younger generations, but "horror" thriller The... Read More »

The Hunger Games scored the first three-peat of 2012 at the domestic box office over Easter weekend, and it also became first movie of the year to cross $300 million and the fastest non-summer/non-holiday movie to do so (seventh fastest overall), doing it in 17 days. Like last week, The Hunger Games nearly matched the combined grosses of the two runners-up, both newcomers. A... Read More »

With two new releases underperforming at the domestic box office last weekend, the odds were once again in the champion's favor. After breaking various records in its widely acclaimed and celebrated debut last week, The Hunger Games enjoyed another serving of plump grosses atop the box office, gobbling up another $58.6 million, nearly as much as the opening takes of newcomers W... Read More »

Die-hard early '90s film fans have been furious ever since learning of a Lens Wiseman PG-13 remake to one of the best and most violent sci-fi thrillers of all time. But even without a Mars setting or an R rating like Paul Verhoeven's original take on the novel We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, Wiseman's Total Recall remake looks more and more promising as we see more of it,... Read More »

After going to space, the hood, and even back 2 the hood, WWE Studios and Lionsgate are once again bringing the iconic killer Leprechaun back. WWE's Hornswoggle (Dylan Postl) will be playing the part of the evil Leprechaun after playing a family-friendly one catering to WWE's younger fans for the past five years. Although WWE's Hornswoggle was a character geared towards childre... Read More »

After Paramount officially passed on the film back in 2010, Will Ferrell went on "Conan" last night as Ron Burgundy to play the flute, joke on Conan, and officially announce that the news team will once again assemble with Paramount for a sequel to one of the most quoted films of all time in Anchorman 2. According to Variety, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, David Koechner, and the res... Read More »

Following last week's 21 Jump Street was another highly acclaimed serving as The Hunger Games opened with a records-stuffed feast at the domestic box office this weekend. The adaptation of the massively popular young adult book series debuted above any of the Twilight, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Shrek, Toy Story, Transformers, or Marvel superhero mo... Read More »