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Warner Bros. made news recently when it announced Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was moving from a November 2008 release date to summer of 2009, but that wasn’t the only schedule change they had planned.

A small, CGI-animated bird from Dreamworks recently dropped a present into Cinema Blend’s inbox with potential news on Shrek Goes Fourth.

I literally have no idea where I’ll be or what I’ll be doing nine hours from now… but Guillermo Del Toro is already planning ahead nine years into the future. He makes the rest of us look so lazy and unmotivated.

Stephen Chow tugs at our heartstrings with poop jokes in his first family film.

Kevin Smith may have won the war a few weeks ago when he successfully appealed his new film’s rating from an ‘NC-17′ to a commercially viable ‘R’, but he’s apparently lost the battle.

Please note the question mark in the title above as there has been no official announcement regarding Vin Diesel playing a super villain in the Marvel universe… but that may change soon if he has anything to say about it.

The Fall 2008 television season is almost upon us, but in all the coverage you’ll be seeing here at FSR and elsewhere one show is conspicuously (and criminally) absent.

Over the years I did manage to sneak a peek at several of these illustrated books, and one series in particular caught my eye. That series was Preacher, and between the bright, breathing art of Steve Dillon and the sharp and hilarious writing of Garth Ennis.

Get ready for flying fruit, knives, and fat kids… there’s a ton of ass-kicking coming out of Thailand.

Perception is everything in Hollywood, up to and including being more important than reality. And when a major production goes into a period of reshoots, that is often perceived as a bad thing.

Matthieu Kassovitz is an unhappy Frenchman. He is unhappy because, as he explains, his upcoming film Babylon A.D. starring Vin Diesel is a big pile of crap, thanks to some bad handling by 20th Century Fox.

As far as I know, Kevin Smith hasn’t really seen Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen yet. It’s still filming so I wouldn’t expect this headline to come true for another few months.

Okay, he’s actually just shirtless in these pics from the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, but would you have clicked on the story if I said Shia was in the half buff?

After Warner Bros. announced they were moving Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’s release from November 2007 to July 2008, other studios started shuffling dates in response.

In honor of Michael Phelps, I wanted to pick a film that shared his enthusiasm for water sports. I knew my search was over when I came across The Girls Rebel Force of Competitive Swimmers.

Vin Diesel is in New York doing press for the pretty cool looking Babylon A.D. and he shared an interesting bit of news with ComingSoon.net regarding another upcoming project.

MGM’s Poltergeist remake is inching closer to the light with the announcement that two curiously named writers are set to tackle the new screenplay.

Poor Uwe Boll. He gets no respect, no accolades, no love… nothing but grief and German financing to keep churning out movies. And now he’s gone and directed yet another one.

The upcoming Robert De Niro/Al Pacino thriller, Righteous Kill, has a new redband trailer. Watch it below and then see if you agree with some assumptions about the movie.

Tarantino continues the casting confusion as Simon Pegg drops out of Inglorious Bastards.

The power trio behind Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer sat down recently to talk with FSR about the film, the future, and Freddy Krueger’s tool. You just can’t plan ahead for some answers…

Warner Bros. announced today that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is no longer on their 2008 release schedule, and instead will open July 17, 2009.

A wise man once said, “French films are… too French.” For those who agree, here’s a list of eleven French films that will make you want to break out your DVD player’s poor, neglected subtitle option.

What a horribly misguided and dangerous attempt at viral marketing this is… Rainn Wilson, star of The Office and the upcoming big-screen comedy The Rocker has apparently kidnapped his perky co-star from The Office, Jenna Fischer.

Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to highlight films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Japan!

For reasons known only to him and his dietitian, Tom Cruise has decided to pass on Edwin A. Salt, the CIA spy thriller that has also seen at least four big name directors come and go in the past year. Instead, he will be starting a ‘Food Fight.’

File this one squarely under the rumor heading for now as there’s nothing to back it up aside from one offhand comment sandwiched between vulvas and vibrators on a late night radio sex show.

It takes true talent behind the camera and a little bit of movie magic to make Pittsburgh look this bad.

Thanks to the wonders of the internet and the scruple-less folks who traverse it, YouTube has a leaked copy of the theme song three months before the film’s release… In a manner of speaking.

You have to give Ang Lee credit for being a wily and unpredictable filmmaker. He has jumped from genre to genre throughout his careers. And his next jump will land him in a very strange place.