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Director Takashi Miike says shooting an action movie in Japan is a lot harder than it looks.

Quentin Tarantino's violent slave-revenge movie "Django Unchained" has returned to Chinese theaters a month after it was pulled on opening day for unspecified "technical reasons."

Hey, it's an Ghostbusters 3 update, meaning someone asked Dan Aykroyd about the movie while he's out and about promoting that Crystal Head vodka of his. What's new? According to Aykroyd, the movie is shooting early next year. At least, he thinks so. read more

This weekend will bear witness to something strange and rare—it doesn’t happen often, and only with large releases, but it is a true occurrence nonetheless: a weekend with only one new release. read more

Disney has been pretty slow to release official information about its slate of upcoming Star Wars sequels, but nobody gets out of CinemaCon without making a few big announcements, and this one's sort of a doozy, albeit in classically circumspect Mouse House fashion: Episode VII is indeed coming to theaters in 2015, with a new Star Wars-related film to follow every summer. read more

He's a brilliant visual stylist, but the knock on Zack Snyder as a director is that he too often neglects real storytelling in favor of pretty pictures. The latest Man of Steel trailer, however, suggests he may have made a quantum leap as a filmmaker. read more

It won't be out until November, but The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is one of the most highly anticipated sequels of the year, so Lionsgate isn't wasting any time whetting audiences' appetites with trailers. To that end, the studio opted to release its first Catching Fire clip last night (April 14) during the 2013 MTV Movie Awards, ensuring plenty of film fans' eyeballs would be trained to the tube when Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) embarked on the victory tour they earned after emerging victorious in The Hunger Games. read more

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With District 9, writer/director Neill Blomkamp made us want to believe that satisfyingly smart sci-fi could make money at the box office. Now, with the first trailer for Elysium, he's making us think his last film's success may have only been the beginning. read more

Fittingly, Roger Ebert's last movie review was of a film he thoroughly enjoyed. The esteemed critic died Thursday at age 70, and his longtime employer, the Chicago Sun-Times published his final review in Sunday's paper. Appropriately enough for the critic who so loved film, it was a good one -- three-and-a-half stars.Ebert's final review is of "To the Wonder," a romantic drama from director Terren

Up 'til now, Marvel's been focusing on the grimmer aspects of Iron Man 3 -- including the epic whooping that Ol' Shell-Head's going to take from the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley). But as the latest clip Marvel's doled out makes clear, Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) can give as good as he gets. read more

This week is looking supremely unpromising for those in search of a decent movie—this week’s new releases have received abysmal ratings from many critics. Yesterday introduced us to the years-overdue sequel to the first G.I. Joe film: G.I. Joe: Retaliation. This film picks up right where the last left off, with the Joes facing not only the ever-persistent Cobra, but infiltrators in the US government as well. read more

Harrison Ford isn't ready — "yet" — to talk about his reported part in Disney's planned "Star Wars" sequel, but he praises its director, J.J. Abrams. "I think he's fantastic," Ford said in a recent interview.