In the world of movie advertising, there's a hierarchy involved in choosing which critics to quote on your poster. Ideally, you want Roger Ebert, or someone from the New York Times or Entertainment Weekly -- someone with a lot of name recognition that audiences will respond to. If it's a young, hip ...

If you're a fan of either man (or both), I bet the question Is Judd Apatow this generation's John Hughes? inspires an immediate, gut-level "yes" or "no." It's either a valid comparison or a terrible insult. But let's talk about it. The two filmmakers are similarly prolific. Between 1984 and 1991, Hu...

Back in December, I told you about a new film that was about to go into production under the title Hot Tub Time Machine . You agreed with me that Hot Tub Time Machine is a fantastic title for a movie. You also loved the premise: three grown-up guys visit the hot tub where they once partied, discover...

Cinematical is live-blogging the Academy Awards, and first up is Eric D. Snider. Follow along down below, and don't forget to keep refreshing this page. Head over to Moviefone for additional Oscar coverage. Click here for a full list of Academy Award winners updated in real time FIRST HOUR IS DONE -...

Heaven help me, this Madea character is starting to grow on me. In Madea Goes to Jail , Tyler Perry's latest adaptation of one of his innumerable stage plays, his giant, pistol-packing alter ego finally runs afoul of the law one too many times and finds herself in the big house (not Big Momma's Hous...

What does the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have against music? First they only nominated three songs instead of five in the Best Original Song category -- omitting such obviously worthy choices as Bruce Springsteen's title number from The Wrestler -- and now they're drastically reduci...

One of the minor eyebrow-raisers at this year's Sundance Film Festival was that the fest ended without its most acclaimed film being picked up by a distributor. That would be Push: Based on a Novel by Sapphire (not to be confused with that Chris Evans/Dakota Fanning super-power thing coming out this...

Filed under: Drama, Independent, Deals, Sundance, Lionsgate Films, Festival Reports, Distribution One of the minor eyebrow-raisers at this year's Sundance Film Festival was that the fest ended without its most acclaimed film being picked up by a distributor. That would be Push: Based on a Novel by S...

When the Oscar nominations are announced, it almost always causes an uptick in the box office for whichever titles are still in theaters. This increase in attention also leads more people to rate the films at the Internet Movie Database (whether they've actually seen them or not), and Ryan Adams at ...

If I told you that Adam was about a man with Asperger syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism, you would instantly lose all interest in seeing it, right? Yeah, that's what I thought. If Fox Searchlight's marketers are smart, they'll keep a lid on that aspect of the film, because it's actually a ...