Michel Gondry's next film is a world away from his last big budget flick, The Green Hornet, and back to what he does best with his trademark cinemalism. This doesn't mean you should expect whimsical cardboard boxes creating the scenery, however. The film, premiering at Cannes later this month, takes place almost entirely inside of a New York City bus in the Bronx. more ›

If we've learned anything from the latest super-length trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man it's that no matter how many times we've seen edge-of-your-seat action scenes on one of the city's bridges it never gets old. It's a testament to the action genre, and specifically the comic book-turned-summer blockbuster genre. Why... just the other day in the latest Dark Knight Rises trailer we saw the Williamsburg Bridge get blown up, but the structure is under Hollywood's spotlight in more than one IMAX-friendly movie this year—in the below four-minute trailer you'll see Spider-Man and a number of vehicles hanging from it... more ›

Shuttered club CBGB is back in the zeitgeist this year! In January we broke the news that the current owners would be reopening the venue, then in March it was announced that they'd be having a festival this summer, and now the club is under Hollywood's shining spotlight, with the biopic on the venue finally moving forward. more ›

These two Ghostbusters nerds are putting a smile on our faces today. The duo, from Bleeding Cool, took a tour of spots the movie filmed at in Manhattan, recreating scenes at most of them. The result is a pretty servicey guide for fellow fans of the film, including eight stops which took about six hours to travel to... this includes breaks, getting lost, and an occasional run in with Zuul. more ›

Men In Black III will be helping to kick off summer blockbuster season on May 25th, and they've got some unique ways to get you interested in the flick. more ›

The third and final chapter in Christopher Nolan's retelling of the Batman story, The Dark Knight Rises, will hit theaters (including IMAX screens) on July 20th. Warner Bros. just released the latest trailer, which is by far the best glimpse we've gotten at the new film. more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] Years ago Woody Allen commented on his cinematic abandonment of New York City, the backdrop for so many of his classic films. He said, "I could do another 50 pictures about New York, but I can't afford to do it. New York itself is very inspiring. If I take a walk in the morning on Madison Avenue and I look at people going to work and kids going to school, I'm full of ideas about wanting to do stories about the city." Good news: Vulture reported today that, despite rumors his next venture would bring him overseas again, Allen told a crowd last night at a screening of To Rome With Love that he's coming back to the States for his next flick, which he'll film in both New York and San Francisco. more ›

The Christmas tree vendors in New York City are pretty fascinating—so much so that we did an entire series on them years ago. Now they're headed to the big screen, where two French Canadian Christmas tree salesmen who travel to New York to sell trees, will be portrayed by Paul Rudd and Paul Giamatti. more ›

The erotica series that's been capturing the attention of women on the Upper East Side (and everywhere) will be made into a movie, naturally. According to Deadline, Universal Pictures and Focus Features have acquired screen rights to the E.L. James novel Fifty Shades Of Grey, the first in a trilogy of books by the author. We've actually read this book (for journalism) and can tell you it's basically The Fountainhead (the characters are sort of very thin impersonations of a Howard Roark and Dominique Francon) meets the Lifetime network (there's a miniseries type vibe to the storytelling)... meets BDSM (hardcore sex scenes, repeated every few pages or so). Deadline discusses the big deal, noting: more ›

Earlier today we noted that Daniel Radcliffe would be in Brooklyn portraying Allen Ginsberg for the new movie Kill Your Darlings, yet another flick about the beat poet in just a handful of years. We headed over to the scene, and found Radcliffe walking down Smith Street flanked by a blond-haired security guard, while press photographers ran ahead, telephoto lenses in hand to get their shot. Radcliffe parked up in a tent guarded on the outside by crew members. more ›

The latest actor to take on the role of Allen Ginsberg on the big screen is none other than Daniel Radcliffe. Currently the flick, Kill Your Darlings, is filming around Court Street and Union Street, Smith and Sackett, and Carroll Park in Brooklyn (groupies take note). Signs have also spotted around around West 3rd Street/Bleecker and Sullivan/Thompson in Manhattan. We've sent a photographer out on a paparazzi mission to capture what Harry Potter as the Beat icon looks like, and we'll update if she succeeds. Update: Mission ACCOMPLISHED. We got a photograph of him in costume! more ›

With 21 Jump Street (a franchise reboot of the 1980s TV show) hitting theaters today, we looked around for what we assumed would be some terrible reviews... only to find many, many surprisingly positive ones. So if you want to avoid the St. Patrick's Day debauchery this weekend, guess you can always head over to Jump Street. Here's what reviewers had to say about the movie, which features the emotionless, dead-eyed Channing Tatum. more ›

It's been nearly a year since Will Smith and his massive private trailer were evicted from the SoHo streets during the filming of Men In Black III. So it's time to move forward, forget about the mobile McMansion, and focus on the finished product. In December the first trailer for the movie dropped, but now there's a much more substantial one, which was released today. In it, you'll see Smith and Tommy Lee Jones go back to a 1969 New York City, where Smith declares at a party: "Y'know, I don't have no problem pimp-slapping the shiznit outta Andy Warhol." (Really! He says that.) more ›

Preparations are underway for Whitney Houston's funeral tomorrow in New Jersey, which will be private and by invitation only, but here in New York at least one theater is offering up a public remembrance. The Clearview Cinemas (on 23rd Street between 7th and 8th) will screen The Bodyguard at midnight tonight and tomorrow night, "to honor Whitney Houston and pay tribute to one of her finest pieces of work." more ›

Have you heard of the movie Dorothy and the Witches of Oz? The low-budget flick is coming out on Friday and looks wicked bad. The movie (of which there may also be an alternate television mini-series version) puts Dorothy in Manhattan, sipping on cosmos. "The Witches of Oz follows the exploits of the grown Dorothy Gale, now a successful children's book author, as she moves from Kansas to present day New York City. Dorothy quickly learns that her popular books are based on repressed childhood memories, and that the wonders of Oz are very, very real. When the Wicked Witch of the West shows up in Times Square, Dorothy must find the inner courage to stop her." more ›

Sometimes viral marketing campaigns can be pretty awesome, even if they go a little unnoticed. We haven't received any tips from New Yorkers who saw people flying around the city, but it happened, and now there's video. more ›

Earlier this year, Demi Moore was slated to play feminist icon Gloria Steinem in a film about Deep Throat porn star Linda Lovelace. But since Moore is "suffering from exhaustion" (or from doing whip-its or smoking an incense-like product), she has dropped out of the film. Now the filmmakers say they have found a new Gloria, and it's our one and only Carrie Bradshaw. more ›

New Year's Eve and Valentine's Day are the Hallmark of Hollywood productions—rom coms centered around holidays in which ensemble casts play out their microscopic plotlines which somehow generate lots and lots of manufactured feelings. They're totally manipulative! And lucrative. And now they've got some competition from the folks at 30 Rock, where on the show Jenna Maroney is starring in Martin Luther King Day. Check out the trailer, where you'll also spot: Nick Cannon, Emma Stone, Andy Samberg, Liam Neeson, Kristen Bell, R2D2, John Krasinski, Hugh Grant, and so many more. What, no Ashton Kutcher? more ›

But at least the movie usually plays: a tipster wrote us about an unfortunate experience seeing Martin Scorsese's Hugo at the Regal Union Square last night. "This occurred after the film broke twice during the screening and we had been sitting in the theater for 3.5 hours," he said. "It's quite the mashup. Considering the movie is a tribute to film and film preservation, it was especially hysterical and at the same time a total travesty." more ›

In 1957 Jack Kerouac wrote a letter to Marlon Brando (which just sold for over $33,000 at Christies) asking him to buy the rights to On The Road and make a movie out of it, noting that they could both star in it. In his vision, the novel would be reworked to a "perfectly acceptable movie-type structure," compressing all of the separate voyages into one large journey across the country. He began the letter: more ›

According to a National Enquirer source (so take this with a grain of sensationalized salt), Bill Murray received the Ghostbusters III script, which we've been hearing about for years, with Dan Aykroyd recently confirming its existence. more ›

Ben Folds, Aubrey Plaza, Harry Crane... these are all people who show up in the teaser for Improv Everywhere's documentary. The film is a work in progress, and the troupe has launched a Kickstarter to help raise the $125,000 they need to complete it. That may seem a little steep when you're confronted with lines like "And from there we took our pants off, and the rest is history," but they do have to cover over a decade of pranks. more ›