Last year, we got to see the first six minutes of The Dark Knight Rises early — and the supervillain Bane sounded terrible. Weeks later, director Chris Nolan promised that audience members would be able to understand the villains mumbles, but there's been some controversy over how much, exactly, Bane was overdubbed.

And now, this new comparison audio of last December's "prologue" and the recently released feature film proves that Nolan went back in and did a pretty heavy reworking of Bane's banter. Check it out:

Bane's voice comparison (IMAX prologue vs... by mrstevenrichter

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What is the vampire version of the hangover cure-all, Pedialyte? Because I will have five rounds and an enema of it. That is how ridiculously bloated and weak I feel after watching the plot binge that was last night's True Blood. Sure, it was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed it. But today I'm dealing with a bucket of confusion, disgust and general drunk guilt. What was that?

It's True Blood Pro/Con time! Spoilers ahead...

Picking up RIGHT where it left off, which, is there any time that this show hasn't done this? I know there was the jump in the years when Sookie was in fairyland — but to be fair, her path was totally linear. Seems like every episode ends with a completely ludicrous cliffhanger that is swiftly rectified (remember when Sookie got shot)? This show is literally a night time soap opera. But that's okay, because it opens the doors to ludicrous cliffhangers which we don't have to put much weight in and can just enjoy (oh hey, that was Lilith's boobs... neat!).

Anyway, the show picks up in the hospital, where Luna's assassination has been thwarted by Samuel Sometimes-A-Dog.

Pro: Andy calls the nefarious nurse character (does he have a name? I don't know, character #505?) a butt plug. Good burn, Andy. *Makes the thumbs up winky sign*

Con: The attempt on her life leaves Luna in a fit of strange hyper cuts of emotion. And now she's Sam...

Why? No seriously, why? Because Luna wanted to get out of the hospital? Was that the real reason this show wanted to make two Sams today? Or did they just want the two Sams to kiss? The answer is: two-Sam kiss.

Pro: On the other hand, having a lady Sam means we get to see Lady Sam running around with his hands flipped out at his sides (as the ladies do).

Pro: Then they all try and make the elevator stop by jumping up and down all at once.

Con: And now, back to the stoned vampire blood binge. They're all so stoned. Do you not see how stoned they are? These vampires are stoned experts! Look art them staring vacantly at lights and draping beads over their faces and giggling, like stoners do. Because they're SO stoned!

Con: *SOB*

Pro: Thankfully this whole stoned improv group night was saved by one perfect Newlin gif.

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Con: Now we cut back over Sookie's murder house! Sookie is trying to light-blast herself to normality. Can you imagine how good it would feel if this was the end of the fairy plots? Sookie blasts away her fairy powers, turns to her human golden retriever of a brother and says, "one down, five more to go. Let's go kill that guy from Felicity." That would be nice.

Pro: Also Jason sits down and has a heart-to-heart with Sookie, where he tells her not to "spray her fairy juice all over the yard" or something (ha!). However this is very weird, as he just SHOT SOMEONE IN THE HEAD.

Con: Jessica is "that girl" in the bar.

Pro: Backed to the stoned vampires, and they are STILL SO STONED. "God has the most beautiful tits I've ever seen!" Well, I'm glad someone said it.

Con: "Praise Moses' cock!" Wait, what?

Con: All of the stoned vampires then get the munchies. For babies.

Pro: Heeeeeeey *SPIT TAKE* Alcide's ASS!

Pro: Hey, Alcide humping. So much hey. And... and... is he growling? Is that's hot? No it's definitely hot, and totally not weird if you made a mental sex note to later ask someone to growl at you in bed.

Pro: Alcide asks this lady (character #515?) to be his girlfriend, and then they change their sex from growling to cuddling, because love.

Con: A very important scene? A very important scene.

Pro: Time for another Historical Vampire Flashback! This particular HVF reveals that Bill is kind of a dick. Mr. Compton stops by his daughter's deathbed to wish her a happy death. When she realizes that he is her father and hasn't aged in decades (because she's an intelligent human being and not a house plant) Bill says, "I've missed you, everah howrah of everah dah." She begs him to keep her alive, because she's dying. Bill says "LOL no," and makes this face. What did he think was going to happen? Jerk.

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Pro:Vampire wig's "Just shut up!" move.

Con:New story! Remember Hoyt and Jessica? Remember how their breakup twisted you up inside because for some reason this completely ostentatious series struck gold with this couple? Even when True Blood disintegrated these two down into an ugly pile of mud and tears, it was good — no, great. Jessica and Hoyt was the emotional wheelhouse for True Blood. I cried like I was 16-year-old on a clear plastic phone when Hoyt begged Jessica to just love him again. That's all gone now. Hoyt's new band of friends have kidnapped Jessica and brought her into a house for Hoyt to murder.

Con: But first they lock him in the room so he can do it Bond-villain-style, alone.

Pro: And now we're with Lafayette. I don't mind spending time with Lala. I was complaining a ton in the beginning of this episode that his character had been downgraded into some sort of gay reactionary. But this is much better. It probably didn't need to be cut into tiny bits and sprinkled over six episodes but at least Lala is receiving a moment of peace. It was nice to witness him get a quiet goodbye to the man he loved.

Pro: Back at the police station Sam has turned into a snake.

Con: My Roommate asks:

"So Meloni is dead?"
"Yes."
"Huh."

Pro: Totally called it!

Pro: The two Sams meet, and Andy speaks for us all in this moment, "I hate this god damn town."

Con: Fairies give a lectures about matter and fairy science. The fairy girls decide to hold Jason's hands in a totally normal way.

Con: Cowboy vampire. Yeah I think we're done here. I might have to just start ignoring both the fairies and the ifirt for a while, because this is taking away quality Eric Northman time.

Con: Meanwhile Hoyt has to wait and think, before he decides that he's not going to kill his ex-girlfriend. Jessica actually begs.This is unacceptable. If an ex-boyfriend had me against my will in a room while he was holding a gun, he would be in jail. Jessica even says, "Thank you." For what? For sparing her life. Fuck you, Hoyt. He actually points the gun at her head. This is wildly out of character. People whose hearts are broken do not get free passes to put loaded guns to their ex-girlfriend's heads. I loved Hoyt, and now I want to see him locked away forever. And before you you guys all get in a tizzy because Jason actually SHOT Jessica in the head last week, yes, they both need to go to jail too (not forever I didn't say prison I said jail because I'm fairly certain this would be written off as some sort of self defense action, whereas Hoyt's scene most certainly is not). But I'm more wildly pissed that the sad music and the dialogue and the copious Jessica apologizing seemed to excuse however many minutes Hoyt actually thought about maybe killing Jessica.

I want to forget this happened, forever.

Con: Luna smells what I'm going to assume is Dragon. A big woman. Oh ho ho ho, he smells Maxine Fortenberry! You guys completely predicted this, you're so smart!

Pro: "Hooker, I aint in the helping biz no mo. I'm in the fuck off while I smoke a blunt biz, and business is about to pick way the fuck up." Lafayette singlehandedly saves the show.

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Pro: An excellent Jason line, "I don't give a twirly fuck."

Pro: Because we've only been juggling 18 plots and True Blood is contractually obligated to write in 21 plots an episode, it's Tara time! On the positive side, Pam and Tara are now in the part of their Mother and Daughter relationship where they dress alike.

Con: The fairies have another meeting. Roommate speaks:

"Meloni is really dead, right?
"Right."
"Huh... If I was on this show, I would just carry around a can of bear mace and spray people in the face when they said stuff like, Albert Einstein is a fae."

Con: Werewolf fight night is unbearable. "Shreveport pack, let's make some noise!" Or, hey all 17 people in this barn, make some noise! Werewolf fight night is horrible. Also, now they are killing other humans for sport? Alan Ball's perception of Louisiana is fucked.

Pro: Lala does her best Miss Cleo. It. Is. Fantastic.

Pro: I told you the whole point of this scene was purely to make two Sams kiss. Granted they didn't do it all the way, but still. This scene. Dear god, this scene.

Pro: An excellent Pam quip, "You don't know me that well. My mad face and my happy face are the same." Then Pam gives her a pet!

Con: Another vampire meeting. UGH. Are we going to spend 99% of a show about vampires in a board room? Bill comes up with an idea to bomb all the True Blood factories, to force all the mainstreamers to feed on humans. Great.

Pro: Russell and Steve are certainly getting along very well. That should make a TON of you happy! I hope they stretch it out a bit longer, but who are we kidding?

The end! So we're going to blow up the True Blood factories! Okay! Why not? Look, if we could just stick to one supernatural plot and ditch the werewolves, ifirts or fairies and shifter murdering pack, I would be really very happy. This is getting to be too much. Slow down — especially you, Alcide, but only when you're naked. This series was at its best when its biggest problem was Russell. Now there's just too many vampire plates spinning in the supernatural air. Fingers crossed for Russell eating all the wolves next week! But until then, may a cute, skinny white vampire ride your pony until you can't take it anymore.

Screencaps from Home of the Nutty!

Before Tom Hardy was the exuberant Bane, he was but a clone of Captain Picard in Star Trek: Nemesis. A recently unearthed screen test of Hardy and Patrick Stewart going toe-to-toe shows the early beginnings of the would-be Bat-villain (and the early, elaborate accents). Confession time: we kind of like the screen test Shinzon better than the actual movie's.

Due to The Avengers scaring all other movies back to 2013, Jon M. Chu — director of G.I. Joe: Retaliation — is freed up to make the much-fabled Masters Of The Universe movie (as soon as he's done converting Retaliation into 3D, that is).

Deadline reports that Sony and toymaker Mattel are hot for a He-Man movie, and Chu is in the middle of talks to seal the deal. Yes, this will be live action. The current script was penned by Alex Litvak (The Three Musketeers) and Mike Finch (Exclusively Yours). The script was originally titled Grayskull, but we're assuming the whole thing would be re-written anyways. Someone find a role for actor/Fulbright Scholar Dolph "Showdown in Little Tokyo" Lundgren, and we'll be pleased as punch.

The Avengers had not one, but two extra endings. One featured the crew feasting on shawarma, post-alien battle — and another revealed the future big bad, Thanos! Behold the live action face of Thanos, and the future problem for Earth's Avengers. This clip was released to promote the upcoming Avengers DVD and Blu-ray releases. [via Comic Book Movie]

Some of our favorite movies have left us with long, lingering questions. Like how does Bane eat? And what sort of mental damage does a giant dog dragon inflict on a couple of kids in the real world? And so many other unanswered questions.

Here are the deleted scenes we wish were on the DVDs for our favorite movies.

Warning: Spoilers for The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises below.

Bane Has Dinner - The Dark Knight Rises

How does Bane eat? What does Bane eat? Look at those muscles, you don't bulk up on magical steroids alone, the body needs fuel. But Bane can't even take his mask off. In the film, one displaced tube practically incapacitates the "forever in the friend zone" monster, so his diet would have to pass through the mask. Is this the first villain to be on a permanent juice cleanse? We need to know!

Magneto's Craft Time - X-Men: First Class

Once Erik Lehnsherr has defeated Sebastian Shaw and swipes his fancy telepath-blocking helmet, he reappears in the finale to break Emma Frost out of prison. In this scene the original Shaw headgear has been completely revamped into the classic Magneto helmet from the comics. Which means in between paralyzing Charles Xavier and picking up Emma Frost, Erik sat down to paint his new hat purple (and add a few decorative touches like the horns). We would like to witness Magneto's craft corner.

The Three Sea Shells - Demolition Man

Everybody makes a joke about the "three sea shells" and how primitive and disgusting it is to use toilet paper. But NO ONE SHOWS US HOW THEY WORK? Seriously, we need an instructional video, and no it doesn't have to be disgusting — just use blue liquid like in diaper commercials.

Awkward Adolescent Xenomorphs - Alien/Aliens

What happens after a Chestburster bursts out of their host's chest, and before they become a fully adult Xenomorph? We know they shed off their skin — but what does an adolescent alien look like? Are they mauve? Do they get super awesome HR Giger acne? Show us!

Nick Fury Paints With Blood - The Avengers

Nick Fury's super dramatic, over-the-top throw down of Agent Coulson's precious trading cards (now covered with the fallen S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent's blood) was all a lie. When Agent Hill points out that the cards were in Coulson's locker, we immediately visualized Fury tip toeing around the helicarrier dipping the cards in whatever blood he could find. Or even unzipping Coulson's body bag and just waving his hand around like a grab bag. Art via Palalife.

20 Years Later- The Neverending Story

Bastian's revenge on the school bullies seemed a little extreme, even for the 80s. We're so happy someone else agrees with us and showed us what happened after a giant white dragon tried to eat a trio of children in broad daylight.

How Does This Work? - Galaxy Quest

Thermians sex, come on you've thought about it. How did Fred Kwan know how to make love to Laliari? Wasn't there an, "Oh sorry that's....your eye... my bad" moment?

Bat-Liner - Batman Begins

In the gritty "real" Batman world Chris Nolan was channeling, didn't anyone else think it was strange that Batman still caked on the eye makeup? We want to see Bruce Wayne applying eye makeup before putting on his mask. Kick-Ass made this work, why couldn't Nolan?

Thanks to Team Coco's hilarious Dark Knight Rises post for the inspiration.

Marvel isn't ready to let go of their death grip over all of your money — next stop, the small screen. Rumor has it the comic book heads are eyeing television to expand the Avengers universe.

Deadline reports that this new series' "connection to the Avengers franchise would be light as the project is expected to be set in the universe and feature some of its themes and feel, but may not include any characters from Joss Whedon's blockbuster." So no, you're not going to get Chris Evans on a half-hour adventure to find unobtanium for the financially challenged orphanage.

On the other hand, this could mean a S.H.I.E.L.D. show dedicated to the espionage and defense network tasked with regulating supers across the globe, as Deadline hints that this program could be a "high concept cop show." Fingers crossed for the Marvel Universe equivalent of Reno 911.

The supernatural cash cow Paranormal Activity has churned out another addition to the franchise. After the series covered the original couple, the couple's sister, and went back in time to show what happened when the sisters were babies, we thought they ran plum out of story.

Well, we were wrong! The fourth installment follows the demon-possessed original sister (who killed her old beau) and stolen demon-child Hunter. So what happens when demon babies move in next door? The lights flicker! Riveting stuff here, guys!

Thankfully, this movie is directed by the same pair of fellas who were behind Paranormal Activity 3 — which was actually scary — so we're remaining cautious about the project. We can't believe there's any more new ground to cover, but we loved the scares Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman delivered in the last flick. Paranormal Activity 4 will hit theateres on October 19.

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Now that it has been officially confirmed that Peter Jackson will be making a trilogy out of The Hobbit, everyone is asking one basic question. How is that possible? The Hobbit just isn't as big as Lord of the Rings. But Jackson has sworn up and down that there's plenty of material in the book's appendices that allowed him to expand Middle Earth. So what material is Jackson talking about specifically, and where does that fit in with The Hobbit? We picked through the appendices, Jackson's interviews, and the recent trailer to show you exactly what we think will end up on the big screen.

More Gandalf and friends (The White Council)

Gandalf the Grey is not in The Hobbit very much. In fact sometimes the wizard just vanishes only show up later yelling orders for no discernable reason. But in this trilogy, Jackson has promised that Gandalf isn't going anywhere. In an interview with IGN Jackson reveals the first big addition to the original material from Tolkien's appendices, "In The Hobbit novel Gandalf disappears for long periods of time, you never know where. But in the appendices Tolkien explains exactly what he was doing and where he was going. So we're able to incorporate all of that together." Boom! So where is he? Meeting up with the most powerful people in Middle Earth (the White Council) and helping to reveal the true face of the nefarious necromancer character, AKA Sauron. After beating up Thorin Oakenshield's dad and then telling the awesome elf Elrond (you remember him from LOTR — Agent Smith with a crown) about his experiences at Rivendell, Gandalf calls on the White Council to get to the bottom of these recent dark deeds.

This White Council is made up of Elrond, Galadriel, Saruman and a ton of other excellent Tolkien characters. We've already seen Galadriel in the trailer, so we know she's coming back. And Christopher Lee has already been confirmed to be returning to his role as Saruman. So buckle up for some excellent bickering between Lee and Sir Ian McKellen. Of course eventually Gandalf convinces the council to invade the Necromancer's fortress at Dol Guldur. Which leads to...

The Battle of Dol Guldur

In his statement on Facebook confirming the trilogy Jackson singles out The Battle of Dol Guldur as something he couldn't capture without breaking the book into three parts. This is the battle where Galadriel kicks a lot of ass. They fight orcs who ride werewolves and giant spiders, so yeah, awesome. But Galadriel just rips down the walls. It's impressive, and helps explain why everyone is so petrified of her awesome power in LOTR.

Legolas' Backstory

We've SEEN Legolas shooting arrows in the behind-the-scenes video diaries, and it's rumored that The Hobbit will be fleshing out a bit of this character's backstory. How so? By bringing in his dad! King Thranduil appears in The Hobbit and the Mirkwood elves are a big part of the journey to Lonely Mountain (they kidnap the dwarves and combine forces in the Battle of Five Armies). It's a fairly safe bet that whatever happens to Legolas during the final battle will only motivate his character's allegiance to the Fellowship of the Ring in the future. Don't forget Gimli's father, Glóin, is also on this expedition, and there better be a joke there at some point.

Gandalf Vs. Thrain

It's no secret Jackson loves a flashback-centric prologue (the birth of Gollum continues to haunt us). So why not use a flashback from an appendix to pad out the story and strengthen the relationship between the journey to Lonely Mountain and the epic battle of Dol Guldur? The keen eye of Dizastrus revealed this image from The Hobbit of what could be Thrain (father to Thorin Oakenshield) and Gandalf fighting. One is clearly Gandalf, and the other is too short to be a human, and has the mark of a prosthetic forehead. This could be the scene where Gandalf discovers King Tharin, driven mad by Sauron and forced to hand over the dwarf ring of power (something the audience learned in LOTR). This is also how Gandalf gets the map and key to the Lonely Mountain where Bilbo and the Dwarves of Erebor eventually end their journey. It ties the two stories of Dol Guldur and the Battle of Five Armies together. Also it demonstrates the dark matters at work and excuses Gandalf from the primary mission of Lonely Mountain, because Sauron's back... bitches. Even if Gandalf wasn't aware that the Necromancer and Sauron are connected, the outlandish actions of the Dwarf King and a dark stranger's interest in the rings should lead to the eventual alert of the White Council.

The Story of Smaug and his Gold Belly

We have no proof that this will happen (sorry), but wouldn't it be rad if it did? We can't imagine Jackson will show the dragon face of Smaug until (at the latest) a cliff hanger ending of the second film. And once he's been introduced, doesn't this greedy dragon deserve a bit of backstory? Hell yes he does.

New Characters

On top of all the actual Tolkien appendices and notes, Jackson added new characters into the mix. Evangeline Lily (Lost) is playing Tauriel, a Mirkwood elf, who has some sort of romantic ties to Kili (played by Aidan Turner, the vampire from BBC's Being Human). As we stated before, Mirkwood elves appear twice in this story, even though Tauriel doesn't appear in the original Tolkien. It's already confirmed that Kili will be pursuing Tauriel... but on the battle field, in the woods, inside a barrel? That's another large Mirkwood plotline that doesn't appear in the books.

General Dwarf Fleshing Out

Did you spy the remnants of a spider attack in The Hobbit trailer? If that reveal means the giant spiders will be in the first movie, the majority of the first flick will be an on the road epic with a gaggle of dwarves and Bilbo. We need more personal dialogue and action to flesh out each character, so you care if Bofur is almost sliced open by a Goblin. Oakenshield's ego can't hog the spotlight the whole time, so you can bet that there will be plenty of silly little drunk dwarf moments that will flesh out the gang. Richard Armitage even promised a bunch more dwarf drinking songs!

Big Beautiful Battles

The Battle of Five Armies is not fleshed out in the books — in fact, Bilbo spends most of it unconscious. That won't stand for Jackson. He's got to top Helm's Deep. But then again, this is a battle with five armies. Plus this is the unification of the races: it's the first time that the humans, dwarves and elves stop squabbling over money and join together to fight evil. It's a massive moment both for the characters and just with the sheer size of it. There's no way this doesn't last for at least an hour. That's a lot of fleshing out and additional writing Jackson is going to have to dream up.

Prometheus is moving forward! We're not surprised, since the original made money. But holy space Jesus if the sequel is as needlessly complicated and vapid as the first, we're going to shave Michael Fassbender, Engineer-style.

The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed the sequel:

Fox confirms to THR that Scott and the studio actively are pushing ahead with a follow-up (stars Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace are signed) and are talking to new writers because Prometheus co-scribe Damon Lindelof might not be available. "Ridley is incredibly excited about the movie, but we have to get it right. We can't rush it," says Fox president of production Emma Watts, who also has overseen the successful reboots of the X-Men and Planet of the Apes franchises. A Prometheus sequel would be released in 2014 or 2015.

Now all it needs is a title and a plot.

What if the Nazis had a secret Moon base hiding from the rest of the planet since 1945? And quietly the space Nazi hold outs had been waiting until 2018 to strike the unsuspecting planet. This is the insane plot line for the ridiculous comedy Iron Sky. Get a sneak peek at a Nazi moon base in our exclusive clip from the movie.

Former leather-jacketed Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston is in final talks for the major villain of the second Thor flick, Thor: The Dark World, which wil be helmed by Game of Thrones director Alan Taylor.

Malekith is the ruler of the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim and a trickster and illusionist, which makes him the perfect co-conspirator for Loki. Oh, and he dresses like a Mardi Gras float crashing into a Scandinavian black metal music video — psyched to see Eccleston in such zany regalia! Thor: The Dark World will hit theaters on November 8, 2013.

[Via The Hollywood Reporter]

Check out this sensational cosplay shoot of a tattooed Gwen Stacy lookalike getting attacked and slowly turned into the nefarious Venom. Follow the links to the whole set of images by photographer Adam Jay at SuperHero Photography starring the lovely Freddie Nova.

[Via Geekologie]

Chewie, the script to a behind-the-scenes tale about Star Wars' Wookiee, was one of our favorite screenplays on the 2011 Black List — now it has a director! Kyle Newman of Fanboys has signed on to helm the odd story of Peter Mayhew, hospital worker turned Wookie smuggler. Via Mayhew's Twitter account:

Yes, we're working with Kyle Newman and the team on CHEWIE, The Movie and are hopeful it can move forward. Rumors can begin now, Forcecast!

The Hollywood Reporter confirmed both this news with Newman and that he had purchased the rights, but there's no word on him directing. Either way, having Newman attached to this project is a very good thing. Newman already has a good relationship with George Lucas and was granted use of Star Wars sound effects and more for Fanboys.

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If you've watched the TV spots and trailers for the new Total Recall movie, you've probably noticed a giant metal skyscraper-like elevator, that takes citizens from one side of the planet, to the other. Yes, this movie replaces Mars with an elevator through the center of the Earth, and it's a huge part of the movie.

But how do you actually create an elevator that goes through the middle of the planet? We asked director Len Wiseman, and he explained how it works, and why he wanted it in his movie.

A lot of the set reports have mentioned the giant set piece called the China Falls. What can you tell us about this?

It's called The Fall in the movie. Our film doesn't travel to Mars — that was a big difference between ours and the original. But I still wanted to make sure there was a sense of traveling, almost traveling to space, within our film. So we created this Fall. It's basically a 30-story subway system that travels through the core of the Earth to the other side.

It's the only way to travel to the other side of the planet — with air travel now being restricted because of many things that you'll find in the film. It's not safe and it's toxic [to travel around the world by other means]. So the only way to travel across is through the core. And when you do that you hit the center of the Earth, you hit a zero gravity moment. That gives you the sense of almost space travel. I wanted to give people the feel of traveling to a different universe, even though you were on the same planet. That was really the reasoning behind it. It was very complicated to put together. To put all the engineers and everybody together what would really happen if you took a 30-story building travel it through the center of the Earth, how would the people sit, and how would they rotate. Because when you travel to the other side of the planet, everything has to be reversed. But the actual machine stays the same.

Here's a little glimpse of The Fall that we snagged from the trailer.

The animated "Goonies with zombies" horror flick ParaNorman is stuffed with floating green spirits and an adorable ghost puppy dogs (who've been horrifically sliced in two). In this exclusive featurette, the voice cast of Leslie Mann, Anna Kendrick and Jeff Garlin explain how real experiences with the paranormal and certain real-life ghosts that influenced ParaNorman. Plus, check out lots of new spirit-centric footage tucked away in this featurette.

Also here's an adorable behind-the-scenes look at the insane attention to detail required for making one puppet for this movie.

And another behind-the-scenes look! ParaNorman hits theaters on August 17, 2012.

M. Night Shyamalan is now going to start making television for Syfy. But here's the (welcome) twist! Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Fright Night's Marti Noxon is also attached to the project as a producer/writer. The Hollywood Report explains that the pilot is titled Proof and "centers on the son of a billionaire tech genius who, following an accident that claims his parents' lives, offers a large reward for anyone who can find proof of life after death."

Both Shyamalan and Noxon are co-writing the pilot and will stay on as executive producers. We like the premise, and we love Noxon's work. She might be the perfect person to reign Shyamalan in and prevent this from becoming The Happening 2: The Airbender in the Water.

Via Whedonesque. Image: Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY.

We're not sure what to think about the remake of Red Dawn. The movie was plagued with issues (the villains changed from the Chinese to the North Koreans following a crapload of controversy) and shelved for years, but now it's coming out and this is the very first look at the footage from the flick. And surprise, it's not terrible! Then again, this is a cut of a trailer, so there's nothing we can really base it on other than Chris Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson looking good with guns. We'll update with the trailer as soon as it goes wide!

Check out the shocking first trailer for Cockneys vs. Zombies, starring Brick Top from Snatch.. Here we thought we were dealing with another silly mockbuster — but we were so wrong! Filled with excellent actors like Alan Ford, Rasmus Hardiker, Harry Treadaway, and Michelle Ryan, Cockneys vs. Zombies looks pretty slick, and the old man in the walker made us laugh out loud. Good to see zombies can still be silly, even after Walking Dead beat all the fun out of them with Merle's severed hand. Warning this is a red band trailer, and they mean it!

Holy cow, the future world according to Cloud Atlas is scary as hell, and weird.

A crop of new character portraits from the Cloud Atlas website via Collider have us making frowning and terrified, but hopelessly intrigued.

Is that Asian Hugo Weaving and Jim Sturgess? What is tattooed on Susan Sarandon's face, and is that white Halle Berry? So much insanity. For those of you unaware Cloud Atlas is a story that jumps from century to century from the 1800s all the way up to our post apocalyptic future. The various actors cast in this movie play future and past versions of themselves — hence all the different Hugo Weaving faces.