Pre-release tracking has been notably soft for R.I.P.D. considering its $130 million production budget, and it could have a hard time fending off Summit’s adult action pic Red 2 and New Line’s low-budget horror entry The Conjuring. At this point, they are all tracking to open in the $17 million to $20 million range, although those projections could shift when final tracking is released Thursday.

The three movies begin rolling out on Thursday night, while DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox’s Turbo opens Wednesday.

Turbo, looking to benefit from being an original story after…

Whatever you can say about Pacific Rim you cannot say that it lacks vision, guts, story, or monsters (lots of monsters). It also doesn’t have a very complicated plot, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

I went into this film with slightly elevated expectations than I had originally set for myself when I saw the first couple of trailers, but they still weren’t extremely high expectations. The idea of a monster movie with big, crash ‘em, mash ‘em robots sounds like the ultimate summer blockbuster movie in the same legacy left to us by the horrible Transformers franchise. Thankfully,…

Did you ever wonder why there is an Internet? I don’t know about you, but sometimes I sit around and ponder these existential questions. Why am I here, what is the meaning of life, why does it always rain when I need to mow the grass, why is water wet, why is there an Internet. You know, all the important things.

Well, I have found the very reason that the internet exists and I have it here for you now. Over on this Reddit thread is where I found it. It shows how big the Jaegers are in comparison to other well known things. And, well, those things are FREAKING HUGE!

Here, take a look…

Nail, meet hammer head! These seem so much more poignant when I hate the movie that they are about I guess.

In any event, obviously you should probably have watch Man of Steel before you see this, but I highly recommend it. This would have solved a number of my problems with Man of Steel! The problem is, the film would have been far shorter. What the film really needed was a real script. Alas, we didn’t get that…

Well, enjoy this anyway.

Ahead of its debut, actor Ashton Kutcher has taken to the Q&A site Quora to explain why he chose to take on the role of Steve Jobs.

Choosing to take this role was very difficult. I greatly admire the work that Steve Jobs has done and have many friends and colleagues who knew and/or worked for Steve. So, when I read a screen play that was not entirely flattering to his character I had great reservations.  But I chose to take on the role for a couple reasons. 

1. I care. As I read the script I had a knot in my stomach. I imagined actors playing the role and not connecting to the love…

As Del Toro tells Badass Digest, he filmed three different scenarios for the concluding moments with Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi. “When I was working on the movie we had three or four different versions of the relationship between Charlie and Rinko because I wanted to see if I could make a story about two people liking each other without having to end in a kiss,” he explained. “So when I shot the ending we shot three versions. I’ve never done this before, but instinctively I thought we should do three versions. We did one version where they kiss and it almost felt weird. They’re good…

When asked about his role as Spock in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek films, Quinto told the audience:

Star Trek 3 should be filming, I suppose, next year. It’s going to be made a lot quicker than the last one. That’s the plan, although nothing is confirmed yet.

Wow, if that’s true they are anxious to get this next film out the door. Of course I do think part of the reason Star Trek Into Darkness didn’t do as well as hoped is because it came so long after the first one and the hype had died down a bit. So maybe the momentum will help.

At one point in the interview, Quinto mentioned that…

If you had to put your money on an investment in the latest summer blockbuster, or the latest startup of Silicon Valley, which would you choose? Which appears to be a more worthy or risky venture?

Nick Bilton asked this question on NYT’s Bits:

“Hollywood and Silicon Valley really exist because of a few big successes,” Mr. Strebulaev said. “If you take a random movie, it loses money. Hollywood makes money from its big hits. The exact same is true with Silicon Valley; the average investment loses money.” He said both were considered “alternative investments.”

Still, in some ways, the…

I never saw the first one but apparently people liked it and it did well at the box office and all that jaz so they’re making a couple more. So since I don’t really know anything about it, I’ll just quote the official synopsis and embed the teaser below:

The thrilling second chapter of the epic How To Train Your Dragon trilogy brings back the fantastical world of Hiccup and Toothless five years later. While Astrid, Snoutlout and the rest of the gang are challenging each other to dragon races (the island’s new favorite contact sport), the now inseparable pair journey through the skies,…