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A new Inglourious Basterds poster to consider before watching the film tomorrow night

Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds will be in theaters tomorrow. But for folks in Austin, Texas, the party’s already begun, with a regional premiere at the famous Alamo Drafthouse. Their tee design shop Mondo Tees, commissioned artist Tyler Stout to create the beautiful movie poster below, which are unfortunately sold out. But it’s just incredible, in ….

The Avatar madness is already starting with new video and photos online

Just ahead of the free 3-D footage screenings of Avatar Day, Fox has released a flurry of new peeks at what’s in store when the sci-fi spectacular Avatar hits screens on December 18, 2009. Let’s get right to it. First bit of greatness from Avatar – Michelle Rodriguez posted the first image of herself from ….

Photos from the set of Robert Rodriguez’ star-filled grindhouse thriller Machete

BloodyDisgusting first got wind of these on-set photos from the now-filming Machete, which is lensing in Austin, Texas with Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert De Niro, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson and Jeff Fahey. Machete revolves around the namesake former Federale and undercover day-laborer, who’s hired by ….

New behind-the-scenes images emerge from comic adaptation The Losers

ComingSoon nabbed the above photo of Idris Elba and Jeffrey Dean Morgan shooting an action scene in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico for Stomp the Yard director Sylvain White’s comic book adaptation The Losers, which will be in theaters on April 9, 2010. Hancock director Peter Berg wrote the script for The Losers, based on Andy ….

Tickets to Avatar’s free IMAX preview are available on Monday

According to AICN, tickets to the free Avatar preview become available on Monday. I assume they’re talking about the IMAX preview (DETAILS HERE) that James Cameron and producer Jon Landau discussed during the Avatar Comic-Con panel. They also posted the sweet new image above, featuring star Sam Worthington gazing at his own ‘Avatar’ figure, which ….

Writer of The Usual Suspects to pen Wolverine sequel script

Christopher McQuarrie, who wrote scripts for Bran Singer’s The Usual Suspects as well as X-Men, has been tapped to write the screenplay for Fox’s sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, according to THR. Hugh Jackman will return as Logan, the mutant with healing powers and an adamantium-dipped endoskeleton. Jackman will again produce the film, along with ….

Crime thriller La Soga (The Butcher’s Son) to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival

This September marks the World Premiere of La Soga, which is set to screen at The Toronto Film Festival. La Soga has the distinction of being the first movie ever from the Dominican Republic to screen at the prestigious international festival. Josh Crook (The Fittest, Sucker Punch) directed La Soga from a script by the ….

Age-restricted trailer for the scriptural sci-fi action thriller Legion

In the supernatural action thriller Legion, a remote diner becomes the unlikely last stand for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring about the Apocalypse. Humanity’s only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a diner out in the desert, ….

Cult Cinema Icons: Not Quite Hollywood grindhouse movie trailers

I found this great playlist that was created to honor the recently released grindhouse documentary Not Quite Hollywood. Not Quite Hollywood is the wild, wonderful, untold story of “Ozploitation” films. It irreverently documents an era when Australian cinema got its gear off and showed the world a full-frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and foot-to-the-floor ….

Hurt Locker director headed for a Triple Frontier with new crime thriller

Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow (Blue Steel, Point Break) has struck a deal with Paramount Pictures to direct a new film titled Triple Frontier according to various reports on the net, which may have originated at Variety. Few plot details about the new film have been released, except that it’s described as an adventure set ….

Major film studios bidding for the right to Kick-Ass

Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass is close to securing a distributor, according to THR’s Risky Business blog. Three studios, including Lionsgate, Paramount and Universal, are currently eyeing the brutal comic-book adaptation. According to the report, the winner will have to pony up a high seven-figure sum, plus back-end residuals. Heavy interest was apparently sparked after the film’s ….

Hugh Jackman heading to Japan for next Wolverine, which will be based on Frank Miller origin tale

Hugh Jackman revealed to MTV at the Teen Choice Awards over the weekend that development on the follow-up to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which was critically blasted but financially successful, is now well underway. The actor/producer also confirmed previously rumored intentions to have the next film set largely in Japan, and that the story-line will be ….