Rick Santorum may not be the president of the United States, but he’s about to become the king of Hollywood. Or a Dallas-based, Christian version of it, anyway.

The former Pennsylvania senator has been named CEO of EchoLight Studios, a production company that aims to make “honest, uplifting content” like 2011′s Soul Surfer, only without “water[ing] down the truth.”

Hmm. Okay. I am certainly not Santorum’s biggest fan, but maybe he can do something cool here, who knows.

Specifically, that means movies like EchoLight’s first theatrical release The Redemption of Henry Myers, a Western…

Yes, this is from May 10. I’m a little behind the times. This highlights the fact that I’m not actually subscribed to these videos in any meaningful way (like RSS) so I can be aware when new ones come out. I must fix that.

Anyway, this was pretty good and though I liked the film, this does highlight some of the problems I had with the end fo the film. And, as usual, it’s funny. I always thought the end of that film was just a little problematic — both the way Jack got onto the alien ship thing, and the fact that only one of the other ones showed up. So watch this video, and don’t let it…

When a zombie pandemic begins sweeping the globe, retired U.N. special agent Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) finds himself in the unenviable position of trying to stop it.

A lesser man would point out that facing down ravenous undead hordes was most emphatically not in the original job description. But Gerry’s better than that. He may not be the best man for the job, but he’s probably the best man alive for the job - and he’s willing to take a shot at saving humanity if it secures his family refuge aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier.

Within hours, he’s on a flight to Camp Humphreys, a military base…

Cosmic Book News is claiming an exclusive that says director Zack Snyder wants British actor Mark Strong to play Luthor. Strong has prior comic book experience having played the villain in KICK-ASS as well as Sinestro in GREEN LANTERN. If Strong does get the part as Luthor, I would expect that to put the final nail in the coffin for Ryan Reynolds to play Hal Jordan in the JUSTICE LEAGUE movie.

Strong would make an excellent Luthor. While I have a childhood connection to Gene Hackman as Luthor, his take on the villain never felt like much of a threat to Superman. Strong is physically more…

Over the past few weeks, Brad Pitt has been cautiously optimistic about a potential sequel to his new zombie film, World War Z. He knows there’s more story to tell and more parts of Max Brooks’ novel to explore, but he was unsure about how the public would embrace the film.

Well, after a $112 million opening weekend ($66 million in the US and $46 million international), which is also the biggest of Pitt’s career, Paramount has decided to move forward on a sequel to World War Z.

Well, you know, I’m hearing good things about this first film and the big opening is surely a huge…

As much as I did not like the film, and by the same token didn’t care for the music as much as I wanted to, I still find this featurette fun and fascinating. It’s definitely an interesting concept to pull a bunch of drummers together with the same idea as putting a string section together to give it a big, full sound. Frankly in listening to the score you don’t really think about it having drums in any traditional sense. Using what amounts to a “drum section” really did work well.

There is a clear winner for this weeks Box Office “scare off” (yeah, I’m not proud of myself for that one but it had to be done). But the other big film release this weekend wasn’t too far behind, but is it enough to propel World War Z to success? We’ll have to wait a couple more weekends to see about that.

#1 - Monsters University

Budget: N/A
Totals: $82 Million Domestic Opening Weekend / $54.5 Foreign Total / $136.5 Million Worldwide Total
Week Number: 1

As expected Monsters University has already brought in quite a haul, and I expect it will still have a pretty good weekend…

Have I mentioned that I’m looking forward to this one a lot?

Obviously returning to the franchise are Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker and John Malkovich. Newcomers are Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung Hun Lee, Brian Cox and Neal McDonough.

The first film was a lot of fun and I expect no different from this film. To speed us along in that way of thinking we have here six clips from the upcoming film.

RED 2 comes to theaters on July 19^th.

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR MAN OF STEEL FOLLOW!

To begin at the end; the final confrontation between Superman and General Zod in Man of Steel is a source of considerable controversy. The fight ends when Zod tries to kill innocents and promises to kill everyone if Superman doesn’t stop him, and Superman accepts Zod’s ultimatum by snapping his neck.

Some might look at that scene and ask, “What else could Superman have done?” Others might offer alternative endings to the scene. It’s not a useful conversation. It’s the usual, “Who would win in a fight?” The answer is always that the outcome is…