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Watch 1 of 4 new 'Monsters University' trailers

On Wednesday, Disney and Pixar released four (yes, four) teaser trailers for the upcoming "Monsters, Inc." prequel. Featuring the voices of Billy Crystal and John Goodman, "Monsters University" finds the Pixar creatures Mike and Sully back in school as bitter rivals. Pic arrives June 21, 2013.

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Watch the Fourth 'Dark Knight Rises' Trailer

First Image of Angelina Jolie as 'Malificent'

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While film production on Disney’s “Malificent” is just getting underway, the first official still of Angelina Jolie as the dark villainous has arrived online.

Story explores the origins of the evil fairy, played by Jolie, and what led her to curse Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning) in Disney's animated classic "Sleeping Beauty."

Directed by Robert Stromberg and produced by Joe Roth (“Alice in Wonderland”), “Malificent” arrives in theaters March 14, 2014.

U goes viral with 'Savages' interrogation vids

In the latest example of studios turning online users into mini-marketeers, Universal is getting the word out on Oliver Stone's "Savages" with a series of interrogation videos featuring characters from the helmer's upcoming drug trafficking thriller.

Below is the latest featuring Salma Hayek a.k.a. 'Elena'

 


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TRAILER: Robert Zemeckis, Denzel take 'Flight'

After a string of motion-capture animated features, director Robert Zemeckis is back in live-action mode with the Paramount drama "Flight." Starring Denzel Washington, pic centers on an airline pilot who saves a flight from crashing, but an investigation into the malfunctions reveals something troubling.

 

First Trailer for Tarantino's 'Django Unchained'

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Break out the Moonshine: the first trailer for Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" is here.

Starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCpario, "Django" ('the 'D' is silent') centers on a freed slave who teams with a German bounty hunter to take on an evil plantation owner in order to retrieve his lost love. Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington and Don Johnson co-star.

The Weinstein Co. debuted footage from the $90 million "Django," which is still filming, last month in Cannes.

Set to the music of Johnny Cash and James Brown, the pic's teaser will play in front of "Prometheus" this weekend.

"Leo is so, so evil," one Weinstein exec coos. "People are gonna go bonkers."

TWC is distributing the pic Stateside while Sony Pictures is handling the overseas release.

Written and directed by Tarantino and produced by Harvey Weinstein, "Django Unchained" arrives Christmas Day.

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VIDEO: A Conversation with Ray Bradbury

RIP Ray Bradbury. The influentiaul science-fiction author, best known for "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles," died Wednesday at 91.

Below: Bradbury discusses his life and literary favorites in a short film for the National Endowment for the arts.

He will be missed...

Watch trailer for Lindsay Lohan short ‘First Point’

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Before tackling bigscreen legend Elizabeth Taylor in “Liz and Dick”, actress Lindsay Lohan toplines artist Richard Phillips’ short, “First Point.”

Co-directed by legendary surf filmmaker Taylor Steel,  “First Point” will screen next Monday at Art Unlimited (Art Basel) in New York. 

Thomas Bangalter from Daft Punk scored the five-minute film.

 


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