Happy Super Bowl Sunday! Did the Giants win yet? While you’re all downing all of the beer, pigs in a blanket and football you can, I’m here to make sure you’ve got your weekly dose of movies news here waiting for you when you’re ready. Let’s face it, there’s just so long the Super Bowl will sustain a conversation at school or work this week. Well, unless the Giants really do win and you’re from New York like myself. Anyway, on the table this week is the return of James Wan’s Insidious as well as some casting updates for the remake of Evil Dead. Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain and Joel…

Last year’s “Insidious” had a strong showing at the box office, garnering a worldwide gross of $97 million and due to the popularity of the film, the film’s writer, Leigh Whannell and director James Wan are returning to create a sequel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. According to Coming Soon, the details on the film are scant, but it could be assumed that Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne will return. The sequel to “Insidious” could start shooting as early as this year. The sequel will probably be released in 2013. Of course, like I said, the first film garnered a huge gross, but does that mean that the sequel will…

I’m not a big fan of the cold, but I’d certainly suck it up for a trip to the Sundance Film Festival. Sadly 2012 isn’t my year, but my intense adversity to chilly temperatures at least makes me appreciate being able to watch from the warmth of my New York City apartment for now. On top of all the latest updates from Park City, this Movie News Cheats Sheet also has the lowdown on all the news circling the Hunger Games franchise as well as a play-by-play of the SOPA backlash. The casting realm has two shining stars this week, Liv Tyler who snagged the lead in Ti West’s The…

Thank You for Smoking, Juno and Up in the Air; can director Jason Reitman do no wrong? Thanks to his latest feature, Young Adult, I’m inclined to believe so. The film stars Charlize Theron as Mavis Gary who quite literally is a young adult. She’s a professional living in the big city, but Mavis hasn’t shaken her high school years. Still believing she’s the popular girl, Mavis heads home to Mercury, Minnesota to claim what she thinks is rightfully hers, her high school sweetheart Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson). Former nerd Matt Freehauf (Patton Oswalt) attempts to talk some sense into her, explaining Buddy’s married with a kid, but thanks to…

Earlier this year saw the wrath of The Alamo Drafthouse when it came to people talking in their theater. The prestigious theater made a PSA after receiving a hilariously angry voicemail from a woman who was kicked out of the theater for using her cell phone. The PSA won a lot of fans (who really likes it when people talk in the theater?). Some of those fans include comedian Patton Oswalt and director Jason Reitman, both a part of the film “Young Adult.” Oswalt and Reitman decided to parody the now-infamous video while at the Drafthouse Cinema for a screening “Young Adult.” You can see the video below the post….

“Young Adult” is getting a lot of good press, particularly for Charlize Theron’s portrayal of an unlikeable YA writer who goes back to her hometown in order to get her “true love”(Patrick Wilson) who’s married with children. For those who are excited about the film and want to see more clips, Paramount has released a new clip called “Bookstore.” You can check it out below the post. The clip is also available for viewing on the film’s Facebook page. “Young Adult” also stars Patton Oswalt and Elizabeth Reaser and is directed by Jason Reitman. The script is by Diablo Cody. The official synopsis of the film is, according to the…

Not many movie directors have the courage or talent to bring an unconventional, passive aggressive protagonist who audiences can ultimately relate to without judging them to the screen. But filmmaker Jason Reitman did just that with his new comedy drama ‘Young Adult,’ which is now in limited theatrical release and is set to expand wide on Friday, December 16, 2011. While on the red carpet of the New York premiere of the film on December 8 at the Ziegelfd Theatre, the helmer and producer took the time to discuss with us the process of shooting the movie. ‘Young Adult’ follows Mavis Gary (played by Charlize Theron), an emotionally immature 37-year-old…

It’s not often an actress can convincingly play a passive aggressive protagonist, who is used to always being given what she wants, but can also elicit empathy and understanding from the audience. But Charlize Theron does exactly that in the new comedy-drama ‘Young Adult,’ which is now playing in select theaters and opens wide on December 16, 2011. At the film’s New York City red carpet premiere on December 8 at the Ziegfeld Theater, several of the Academy Award-winning actress’ co-stars from the film readily praised her ease at playing such an emotionally immature character. ‘Young Adult,’ which was directed and produced by Jason Reitman, follows Theron’s Mavis Gary as…

A review of this week’s new movie releases from your favorite entertainment and celebrity website. This is episode 25 of ShockYa.com Presents Movie Night. This week Rudie Obias and Perri Nemiroff review the new film from director David Gordon Green, “The Sitter,” starring Jonah Hill. They also review the new movie from director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody, “Young Adult,” starring Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt and Patrick Wilson. Please subscribe via iTunes or download and listen. “The Sitter” features Jonah Hill, Max Records, Ari Graynor, J.B. Smoove, Sam Rockwell, Landry Bender, Kevin Hernandez and Kylie Bunbury. Directed by David Gordon Green and written by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka….

Title: Young Adult Director: Jason Reitman Screenwriter: Diablo Cody Cast: Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser Screened: AMC Lincoln Square, NYC, 12/5/11 Opens: December 9, 2011 The usual reason that people give for attending reunions of their high school and college classes is to get together with the folks they knew in better, freer times, see how they look, compare notes on who is successful and who are the flops. There may be subconscious desires to run into their old flames not just to reminisce about old times but actually to hook up. Why not? You can’t do it if you don’t try. But usually people who are…