"Project Nim" Trailer

From the Oscar-winning team behind MAN ON WIRE comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own – is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.

"The Future" Movie Poster

Vulture has the new poster from the movie that was the talk of Sundance, "The Future".

After four years of being together and with their late thirties looming, Sophie and Jason realize that most of their ambitions have come to naught. That stray cat they've saved from the streets will need a month of veterinary care (and then, untold years of close attention to make sure it doesn't succumb to its internal injuries), and suddenly Sophie realizes that after the cat comes back from the animal hospital, she and Jason will finally have to grow up and get settled. So they make a pact: They'll quit their jobs, unplug the Internet, and squeeze their lifetime dreams into the single month they've got left.

Tucci and Harrelson Join "The Hunger Games"

I was wary of jumping on the bandwagon of another popular book series, having learned my lesson after the whole Twilight debacle a few years ago.  But I recently bought a cheap Kindle copy of The Hunger Games just out of curiosity and it turns out Suzanne Collins' post-apocalyptic, reality show-meets-Gladiator-for-kids tale is actually quite good. 

The movie version of the first book in the series directed by Gary Ross (Seabiscuit) is about to start shooting, and a few new cast announcements were made this week.  First up, Deadline is reporting that the always-terrific Stanley Tucci has signed on to play Caesar Flickerman, the TV host of The Hunger Games.  And in another case of perfect casting, Woody Harrelson has joined the cast as the District 12 Hunger Games mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Tucci and Harrelson join an already enormous cast, which so far includes Oscar-nominee Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Wes Bentley, Elizabeth Banks, and Liam Hemsworth.  The Hunger Games takes place in a distant future where children are forced to compete in a fight to the death in a televised arena.  Harrelson's Abernathy character is a former winner of the games who must mentor Lawrence and Hutcherson - which proves problematic, as Abernathy is usually drunk.

The Hunger Games is scheduled to open in theaters on March 23, 2012.

Real Steel Trailer Might As Well Have Included Burt Young as Paulie

Is this the most over-the-top we've seen Hugh Jackman? Do the robots have artificial-intelligence but have to be controlled by humans during the boxing-game? Why am I talking about a fucking robot boxing-movie, in the first place? Am I taking this too seriously because of the intense heat?

Just some of the burning questions racing through my head while watching the new trailer for Real Steel, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies.

Dinosaurs Versus Aliens Could Be Best Worst Combo Since Nuts & Gum

It's almost like Will Smith and Barry Sonnenfeld have both during the course of this troubled Men in Black 3(D) production looked in the mirror and asked, "What am I doing?"

In the case of Smith, odds are looking good for him to star in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. Yes, Smith's shown he can get past his longtime on-autopilot movie-star "Aw Hell nah!" persona onscreen and deliver a worthwhile performance. It's encouraging to the cause to hear (via Variety) that he's been actively looking to work with filmmakers ready and willing to push him and, best of all in the cast of a production like this, waver his (admittedly well-deserved) top-dollar salary.

So what the Hell is Sonnenfeld doing? According to "TOLDJA," more crap is in his future. He's attached to direct and no, I'm not joking, Dominion: Dinosaurs Versus Aliens. It's said to be based on a forthcoming graphic novel from comics-writer Grant Morrison who will also adapt the story into screenplay form.

Something about a "secret prehistoric world war battle" or some crap involving smarter-than-the-average T-Rex fighting off an alien invasion. To be honest, I can't dog the man too much. He's never been a filmmaker I've personally founding interesting; just a poor man's Tim Burton, and you know how sick and tired of Burton's shtick I am.

Darren Aronofsky To Study 'Human Nature'

Since dropping out of directing The Wolverine some months ago (get my take on that whole situation here), it looks like Darren Aronofsky may have found his next project: Human Nature.

Vulture reports Aronofsky has his sights set on making this fifteen-year old original sci-fi spec his next feature film.  The story is said to revolve around a man who is cryogenically frozen and wakes up years later to find human beings have become pets of another species.

The script is by an unknown screenwriter named Jeff Welch (but hey, it's gotta be good if Aronofsky wants to do it) as well as having George Clooney attached to star (we'll see if that works out).

Word is that Warner Bros.-based producer Akiva Goldsman (I Am Legend) is currently budgeting the movie with an aim to make this Aronofksy's next picture.

I'm all for anything Aronofsky chooses to do, but ideally, get someone else to star besides George Clooney.  No matter what any critic or moviegoer says, the guy can only play one role: George Clooney.

Quick example:

From Dusk Till Dawn - George Clooney with an attitude.

ER - George Clooney as a Doctor.

Syriana - George Clooeny fat and with a beard.

Up in the Air - George Clooney flying around.

The Perfect Storm - George Clooney with a Boston accent.

Ocean films - Pretty sure that was just George Clooney being George Clooney.

Maybe Aronofsky will get Viggo Mortensen instead.  Now that would be great.

New Conan Poster Debuts

IGN has the privilege of debuting the new "Conan The Barbarian" poster. I'm not sure how this movie is going to play with the audience, but it looks like it could be worth a ticket. Action.

Having thrived and evolved for eight consecutive decades in the public imagination- in prose and graphics, on the big screen and small, in games and properties of all kinds- Conan's exploits in the Hyborian Age now come alive like never before in a colossal 3D action-adventure film. A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil.

"Final Destination 5" Poster & Trailer

As long as we keep going to see them, "they" will keep making them. It's the "if you build it they will come" mentality. The last one made $66 million+ on a $40 million budget, so of course there is going to be another one. You can say what you want about these flicks but they provide a fun movie going experience. What more can the general public ask for? Poster above. Trailer below.

New Clips from Pirates 4

Ready or not, we're less than two weeks away from the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and MTV Movies Blog has got some new clips from the film, including the usual Captain Jack madness, the apparently reformed Captain Barbossa, and some Ian McShane-as-Blackbeard awesomeness:

Well, I'm excited to see it...I love these movies.  As with the previous films in the series, Disney welcomed the latest Pirates film with a premiere screening at Disneyland in California this past weekend.  The whole cast and crew was in attendance, and Disney Parks Blog has some great shots of the stars making their way up the red carpet along the park's Main Street to the screening area at Rivers of America.  Love those Disneyland premieres.

Rumor also has it that the ride that inspired the films will be getting another movie addition, with McShane revealing in an interview with SciFi Magazine that he recently filmed footage for a holographic edition of Blackbeard that will join the animatronic pirate crew at the theme parks, possibly replacing the existing holographic Davy Jones that greets guests on the ride now.  While that news might send theme park purists reeling, the additions of Captain Jack and Davy Jones on the latest incarnation of the Pirates ride turned out pretty good, so the more, the merrier as far as I'm concerned.  That damn song on the ride will always stay the same, anyway.

"Columbiana" International Poster

Saldana would play a young woman who, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.