What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly movie news column that, at least for tonight, will divert your attention away from it being a slow news day by using a rousing round-up of visual stimuli. That’s right, we’re busting out infographics! We begin tonight with one of a few hot-off-the-press photos from Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, featuring the cast. Among them was this shot of dreamy Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace, also dreamy. There’s also some pretty kick-ass science fictiony stuff promised alongside this oozing sexuality.

Often “Best of” lists include a bunch of the Oscar bait roles that we hear about at the end of every year but in 2009 we had some great performances in big movies which sadly isn’t always the case. With this list I tried to balance the two opposing worlds of critical credibility and popularity by considering which roles stuck out in my mind most. This is what I came up with…

He does like to talk, but maybe post-Basterds he’s actually going to become a Woody Allen-like film-a-year kinda guy.

Familiar names like Almodovar, Tarantino, Lee, Von Trier, Noe, Campion, Loach, and Haneke will all be vying for the Palme d’Or.

Neil has his tail between his legs because he hasn’t seen any movies this week, but he still maintains that he is awesome. Kevin enjoyed a nice dose of Zefron, and the Fat Guys remember two important things: If you white, you Ben Affleck; and Chic-fil-A is delicious!

Cannes is just a few months away, and since we’re tired of caring about the Oscars, The Hollywood Reporter has released a list of possibles that’s too good not to dissect.

Rushing to meet the Cannes deadline is now the focus of his Inglorious exploit.

Elfman is in for Terminator: Salvation and Morricone is out for Inglorious Basterds. Does that sound right to you?

Empire Online, as well as plenty of other sites around the webosphere, have put up the first image from the set of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

Quentin Tarantino has kept his fans waiting for his remake of the World War II “Dirtier Dozen” movie, leading some to call him an inglorious bastard himself. Well, the script’s finally out and we’ve learned a lot, including that Brad Pitt may want in, as well as the fact that Tarantino likes to spell ‘bastard’ the wrong way.