The Woman in Black is getting a sequel entitled Angels of Death. Daniel Radcliffe will not be in the sequel, so all you fans of the former Harry Potter star have to refrain your excitement. The first film arrived in late fall 2011 and scared up a pretty decent domestic box office of $53 million and $58 million internationally. The film was the highest grossing British horror film in the last two decades and anticipation is high across the pond for the sequel.

Author Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black: Angels of Death continues the series of hauntings that began with her first book, reflected in the Radcliffe-starring flick about a small UK village with more than a few scary secrets.

Pixar has debuted four new character posters over at Entertainment Weekly in anticipation of the June 22 arrival of the animated studio’s latest, Brave. The film is their first featuring a female lead in Merida (Kelly Macdonald). Don’t tell the film’s director, Mark Andrews, that she’s a Disney princess. “Merida just happens to be, by default, in the society of a princess. We don’t really call her princess often in the movie,” Andrews told EW. “She’s trying to reconcile this difference between how the world wants her to be, and how she sees herself. Ultimately, she’s going to have to look inside herself, and what she finds in the mirror is not exactly what she expected. That’s kind of our definition of ‘brave’ in the movie -- looking inside yourself and coming to grips with who exactly you are.”

Movie Fanatic is heading up to Pixar today to talk to the creative team behind Brave. Stay tuned!

Chris Klein and Mena Suvari are back together in American Reunion. But… are their characters together? “When I read the first draft, I was honestly really impressed. I thought it was absolutely hilarious, and it’s turned out to be my favorite of the whole series. I liked how it didn’t just go into the reunion with the obvious, that Heather and Oz would be together,” Suvari said to Movie Fanatic. “I liked that twist. I also really enjoyed how they gave Heather this moment of really breaking out of her shell and sticking up for herself and showing this different side to her. That was really refreshing. Of course, I think it’s only natural for Oz and Heather to come back together again.”

“It’s a beautiful thing,” Klein added and smiled. “I think that it’s beautiful that they do, indeed, rekindle this flame that was their first love, and the innocence of that. They’ve gone through some life and come back in a reunion -- that innocence and first love still exists and is being rekindled. If we’re going to explore those themes in American Pie, Oz and Heather are the character to do it. I was excited to play that.”

“How could I let him go, with those dance moves?” asked Suvari. The actress is referring to how Klein’s character goes on a Dancing with the Stars-type show as he has become quite the celebrity as a national sports news anchor. The bit with him on the dance competition is among the film’s funniest, and that is saying something.

“I worked hard on that,” Klein admitted of his dance training. 

Suvari said that when the cast got back together for the first time in almost a decade, they just clicked… again. “Everybody is right back on the same page and it’s like no time has passed, but then it has and it’s been so many years. At the end of American Reunion, there are a lot of photos from the first and second American Pie films in there. When you do look at those, it becomes a reality that it has been that long, but there’s so much of this essence that it hasn’t been that long. It feels like no time has passed at all. We have so much chemistry with one another that it’s so natural. It’s the same vibe.”

The studio even had the cast shoot the poster for American Reunion in exactly the same format as the original American Pie -- something that didn’t occur to Klein until he took his position at the shoot. "At first, I didn’t get it! I was like, ‘Wait a minute! What’s going on? This feels strangely familiar.’ I think I missed the note that we were creating the very first poster again,” Klein said and laughed.

“It really was surreal,” Suvari added.

American Reunion Red Band Trailer 2

The gang is getting back together for, you guessed it, their high school reunion. Stifler is still living in the same town, but everyone else has to return home for the get together of a lifetime. Jim and Michelle (Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan) are married with a baby. Finch has been “traveling the world.” Regardless of what everyone’s character has been up to, Klein believes there’s an affinity for them all with the movie-going public. “The universe has been incredibly kind to this franchise, in that, organically, the premise of the very first movie lends itself to all of us moving forward and growing up,” he said. “The universal themes that the first American Pie deals with -- sex and relationships, and all of those things -- are wonderful. What American Pie also does, in such a unique way with our brand, is that we laugh at that. Man, we get ourselves into some hectic situations, but it’s okay, it happens. Ten years ago, we saw Jim Levenstein turn around, and he had a pie in his crotch. Ten years later, we see him turn around, and we see his penis. Things are only getting worse, or better, depending on your perspective.”

Can Woody Allen achieve the same success with To Rome with Love as he did with Midnight in Paris? Judging by the film’s first trailer, the legendary filmmaker is on the right track. All-star cast? Check! The film stars Allen himself, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penelope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page. Humor, romance and stellar European locales? Check, check and check!

From Rome with Love Trailer

The latest Allen film lands in theaters June 22.

Robert Pattinson makes women swoon, that much is a fact. But in the film Bel Ami, he’s doing it to further advance his social status. The film’s trailer has premiered and gives us a look at Pattinson as Georges Duroy, an 1890s Parisian who will seduce anyone to get ahead.

Bel Ami Trailer 2

Look for the film that also stars Christina Ricci, Uma Thurman and Kristin Scott Thomas to hit theaters June 8, and debut on VOD May 4.

The non-humans have our attention this week with the new releases on DVD, Blu-Ray and On Demand. Steven Spielberg’s latest war epic War Horse premieres after its Best Picture Oscar-nominated run, Matt Damon and Cameron Crowe combine on We Bought a Zoo and a stellar documentary goes behind the scenes with the man behind Elmo.

War Horse: Jeremy Irvine stars as a young man who bonds with a wild horse he tames to farm his rock-laden landscape in pre-World War I Britain. When war breaks out, his horse is pulled into service and the boy must watch his beloved companion and co-worker head off to war. The film follows his story, as well as the animals as it deals with the first few years of the First World War. Eventually Irvine is old enough to enlist and his war story parallels his horse until a fateful ending. The Blu-Ray extras are highlighted by a documentary called A Filmmaking Journey where the award-winning helmer takes viewers inside the making of War Horse. Also of note is the rare look at an acting extra who provides a unique take on the making of a movie from the standpoint of someone normally placed in the background.

War Horse Trailer

We Bought a Zoo: Cameron Crowe triumphed with his return to directing in We Bought a Zoo. He got a pretty stellar cast for his true story of a widower who buys a Southern California zoo to try to save his family after his wife’s tragic death. Matt Damon leads, while Scarlett Johansson and Thomas Haden Church turn in great supporting roles. Extras abound, but the best has to be the commentary provided by Crowe. There are three behind-the-scenes featurettes that are sure to dazzle -- and an astonishing list of deleted or extended scenes are also included. Seriously, there are twenty!

We Bought a Zoo Trailer

Being Elmo: The man behind Elmo, Kevin Clash, gets a close-up in this amazing documentary. Everyone knows Elmo, but few know the man behind the magic. The film follows a man and his dream to work for Jim Henson. Not only did he get that chance, but he created the character that could arguably be Henson Studios’ most popular.

Being Elmo Blu-Ray Trailer

It has been confirmed in a bold stroke of casting: Russell Crowe is set to play that biblical hero, Noah. That’s right -- the Australian actor has taken on the role of the man who, according to the beloved Bible story, gathered the world’s creatures two-by-two when told by God that he was set to flood the world.

Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky has signed on to direct and we believe the combination of those two talents will make for one truly special film.

Not that Movie Fanatic ever had an image in mind of what the Ark-master would look like, but given Crowe’s rugged good looks, we think we have a match made in… well, heaven!

April movies have us knocking on the door for the best time of year for moviegoers: Summer! There are sequels, wildly original films, thrillers, two nature films to mark Earth Day, two romantic comedies -- one from the producer of Bridesmaids and another based on the bestseller by Steve Harvey, and an animated flick from the award-winning team that brought us Wallace and Gromit, Arthur Christmas and Chicken Run.

So, we're polling our esteemed readers to find out which film out of the following has you most excited to get into the theaters and finally see it!

When it comes to movie stills, sometimes you get an indelible image. Such is the case with a new still from Stephenie Meyer’s The Host of star Saoirse Ronan. Knowing the story of alien possession and how one can tell when another is compromised by the color circle that surrounds their eyes, the latest picture from the film is truly haunting.

We recently premiered the film’s trailer, and have to say: Given the fact that the film is due March 29, 2013, that’s a long time for us to wait for something that seems so awesome.

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are back in black and Columbia Pictures has unleashed their latest TV trailer, fresh off the heels of the first TV trailer, which debuted just days ago.

Men in Black III TV Trailer

The guys are joined in the cast by Josh Brolin. The No Country for Old Men actor portrays Jones’ Agent K in the 1960s. We know from the Men in Black 3 trailer that Smith’s Agent J has to go back in time to solve the mystery of the third film. We cannot think of a better actor to nail the younger version of the icon that is Jones.

The flick lands in 3D, IMAX 3D and 2D May 25.

In Damsels in Distress, writer-director Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco, Barcelona) relies heavily on the acting brilliance of Greta Gerwig (Arthur). She takes the challenge and delivers her best performance… period. Movie Fanatic caught up with the pair for an exclusive video interview that takes us inside the majesty that is their new film -- a comedy and drama that impeccably captures a college world that few have ever seen.

Greta Gerwig and Whit Stillman Exclusive Interview

Grammy winner Katy Perry is set to add movie star to her resume with the release of her 3D concert documentary Katy Perry: Part of Me. The film’s first trailer has premiered below and shows off what fans can expect from the July 5 arriving film.

Katy Perry Part of Me Trailer

The film gives a front row seat to all the hits including California Gurls, I Kissed a Girl and Firework. But, the movie also takes viewers behind the curtain for the rarest of looks inside Perry’s off-stage life.

“I’ll keep going until they tell me to stop,” Daniel Craig says in a new behind-the-scenes video from the set of the latest James Bond film Skyfall. The BBC tracked down the superspy who talks about making the latest film the best of his personal Bond trilogy.

Skyfall: Behind the Scenes with Daniel Craig

Skyfall also sports an all-star cast that includes Oscar winner Judi Dench as M, Ralph Fiennes as a mysterious agent aiming for M’s job -- perhaps -- and Javier Bardem as the icon that is the James Bond villain.

Look for the twenty-third Bond flick on November 9.

Seth MacFarlane knows how to skewer our society as good as anyone working today. Evidence of that talent is all over the green band trailer for his live action film Ted. Movie Fanatic premiered the Ted red band trailer earlier this week and whether naughty or nice, these teasers have gotten our interest peaked.

Ted Trailer

Mark Wahlberg plays a man whose childhood teddy bear is alive and well and still following him around. He walks, talks and is a burly fellow who hasn’t seen a party methodology he didn’t embrace. Issues arise when Wahlberg’s character meets a girl (Mila Kunis). How will Ted the teddy bear take it?

Check out the film when it arrives July 13 to see how that goes!

A new clip has arrived from Disney and Marvel Studios for The Avengers and it gives us more of a look at Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow. In the spot, the actress has her hands tied behind her back and still manages to kick some serious butt.

The Avengers Clip: Black Widow Fights Back

Look for the clips, teasers and more to come at us fast and furiously as the May 4 release date of the film draws ever closer.

Marvel Studios and Disney have released a new picture of Chris Evans as Captain America from their wildly anticipated film The Avengers. They also have given fans of Captain Rogers and his alter-ego an early treat: We have a release date for Captain America 2.

Look for the continuing adventures of Captain America when the film’s sequel lands in theaters April 4, 2014.

Rumors had abounded that filmmakers felt there were many adventures Cap had during the first Captain America that were not shown on film that involved him fighting for freedom in a World War II-set world. Now, the studio has stated that, “The second installment will pick-up where the highly anticipated Marvel’s The Avengers leaves off, as Steve Rogers continues his affiliation with Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. and struggles to embrace his role in the modern world.”

We find that last part very interesting… “in the modern world.” It was wondered how Captain America’s film future would be handled as a franchise as the first film completed with Evans in a very modern Times Square looking utterly confused. Much of the lore of the hero involved him fighting for justice in the mid-twentieth century. Guess it’s true… you can’t go back in time.

American Reunion allowed two characters who do not have names beyond their parental monikers to truly work together for the first time in the American Pie series: Eugene Levy and Jennifer Coolidge. The pair are not strangers, they are both veterans of Christopher Guest’s acting troupe and have appeared together in such films as Best in Show and For Your Consideration.

Levy originated the role of Jim’s Dad in the 1999 original film, as did Coolidge with her iconic Stifler’s Mom character. When both heard about the possibility that their characters would not only be finally sharing scenes, but possibly be engaged in a little hanky panky… one was intrigued and the other was not so sure.

“Well, I first heard it in a story pitch, when I had lunch with (writer-directors) Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg. They were laying out what their idea for the story was. They were talking me through the entire thing, and I was just loving everything that I was hearing. The fact that Jim’s dad is now a widower, I thought, ‘Wow, that’s really interesting. Shocking, but interesting.’ Now, the tables are turning and Jim is giving a pep talk to his dad about the idea that it’s okay to start going out and start dating. And then, he gets to go to this party that they talk him into going to, and he wanders around and opens a door and Stifler’s mom turns around,” Levy said.

“I just said, 'Wow, that is brilliant! That’s so great!' It seemed like a no-brainer, in a way, to get Jim’s dad and Stifler’s mom together, but he’s always been married. That was a great thing that these two characters are now going to get together. It was so exciting, that prospect.”

Coolidge was down with the idea of her character having a romantic rendezvous with Levy’s, but she had one request. “I thought I should sleep with Finch one last time before I do some other stuff. I did want that to happen, and I was very firm about it,” Coolidge said with the straightest of faces. Hurwitz and Schlossberg eventually sold her on the idea as a form of her character growing well beyond what she did in the first movie. “They said, ‘Jennifer, Stifler’s mom needs to evolve and grow, and she can’t just be sleeping with this young boy occasionally.’ I don’t know how they convinced me because I’m really stubborn, not that I wasn’t thrilled to sleep with Eugene!”

We wondered where Coolidge thought her Stifler’s Mom character would be thirteen years after the original film debuted. “I always pictured myself having sex with Oz (Chris Klein). I thought that Stifler’s mom would move on to some other kids. The only one I wouldn’t sleep with was Stifler because they wouldn’t go that far, but I have to say that I wouldn’t mind that, at all,” she said and laughed. “But it never, in a million years, occurred to me that they would hook me up with an adult. I’m glad it all worked out, but it had never occurred to me that I could end up with Jim’s dad. Seducing Finch was great because he didn’t know what he was doing, but it’s even better to seduce an older man that doesn’t know what he’s doing.”

It’s hard to believe, given the fact that Levy is the only performer in the franchise who has been in every single Pie movie -- even the direct-to-DVD ones -- that the actor had to be convinced to even consider appearing in that initial instant classic. “When I first read the script, it scared me. I said, 'No, I can’t do this movie.' My manager, at the time, said, 'Well, you should go and take a meeting.' I said, 'Why? It’s just too out there for me. This is a kids’ movie. Why would I want to be in a movie I wouldn’t go see?' He said, 'Just go talk to the directors.' So, I finally went in and met the Weitz brothers, and that was the turning point for me,” Levy said.

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“They were really smart and really had a great sense of comedy, and they were really two young, brilliant guys. American Pie could have gone either way. It was so raw, sexually speaking, that under the wrong type of supervision, it could have crossed the line into territory that turned off audiences. Paul and Chris Weitz kept everything exactly where it should be. They were doing a movie that could have been bad taste, but it wasn’t bad taste. They kept it on the right side of bad taste. They were also character-oriented. The script was really an amazing script, and it was a smart movie. It wasn’t just a series of sex jokes. It was a movie where indelible characters were created and the movie-going public fell in love with these characters.”

Now that this reunion is over, will there be any reunion anytime soon of the Christopher Guest troupe in a new full-length film comedy?
 
“Well, we had a little reunion at the Oscars,” Levy proudly states.

“But, to answer that question, there’s nothing on the horizon. We really didn’t want to do another movie that’s a cookie-cutter movie, where you’ve got the same kind of style, but you just change the subject. Everybody is doing that fake documentary style now. Even TV shows are using that fake documentary style. So, there’s nothing novel about that, anymore. And we haven’t really hit on an idea that moves us and that we both agree on, but we’re always talking.”

For fans waiting for the next chapter in the saga of the character of Riddick, as played by Vin Diesel, the waiting just got a little shorter. Writer-director David Twohy has announced that principal photography is complete on the third film in the series -- simply called Riddick -- and tweeted a photo of himself with members of the crew of Santana (Jordi Molla) on the set.

“It was a challenging schedule we had for this latest installment of Riddick,” he said in his tweet. “A scant 47 days, but we managed to get what we needed (and more), thanks to a skilled crew and a gifted and willing cast. I’m packing up now to return to L.A. after five months here, but the memories of Montreal are already piling up in my head in a way that I know will haunt me, happily, for years to come.”

We don’t have a release date yet for the film, so stay tuned. The flick also stars Karl Urban, Matt Nable, Katee Sackhoff and Keri Hilson.

Wrath of the Titans scored in that it was leagues better than the 2010 reboot of the series, but also managed to make the 3D genre good to watch with stellar work on that front. The story of gods, titans and the humans who toil on Earth was rich with Greek myths, and as such, some memorable lines.

Sam Worthington is back as Perseus, the half-human, half-god son of Zeus (Liam Neeson). Ralph Fiennes is also back as Hades, who more than has a grudge towards his brother Zeus. Joining the franchise is Andromeda (Rosamund Pike) who gets in her own Wrath of the Titans quotes.

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Perseus: [chains the Chimera] What are you waiting for? Burn me! | permalink

Zeus: Why are you doing this?
Hades: You want me to say it, brother? You want me to say I'm afraid? Doesn't that go without saying? When mortals die, their souls go somewhere - there's no place where gods go when they die! There's nothing, just oblivion... | permalink

Andromeda: We may not be gods. But we do what people say can't be done, we hope when there isn't any... whatever odds we face, we prevail. | permalink

Perseus: We can't do this...
Agenor: [smacks him] Two days ago, I was locked up in a cell trying, I admit, to escape being the son of Poseidon! Look at me now: in the bowels of Tartarus, saving the universe. Just follow the Navigator. | permalink

Helius: It'll be nice to be back home. A fisherman doesn't sound so bad...
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Movie Fanatic has gotten our hands on ten new stills from Ridley Scott’s first foray into science fiction since Blade Runner. Prometheus has caused quite a buzz since it was even first announced with many believing it to be a prequel of some sort to Alien. That remains to be seen, but what we do have is a slew of images giving us more clues into the mystery that is Scott’s latest flick. The pics have all the movie’s big stars represented including Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace. Look for the space journey to begin June 8.