A Confederacy of Dunces, an adaptation of John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning comedic novel, has been a would-be since not long after the book's publication.  Over the decades, though, no attempt to get a movie based on the sprawling tale of Ignatius J. Reilly has been successful, with big-time comedic teams trying to no avail.  The latest guys to tackle A Confederacy of Dunces are director James Bobin and Zach Galifiankis, who would play Ignatius.

The twelfth installment in the theatrical Star Trek franchise has been in production for three months, and despite the intense interest, leaks have been kept to a minimum, with just one instance of unofficial photos showing up from the set back in February.  Now, we have another look from the Star Trek 2 set, which is going down under the typically secretive direction of J.J. Abrams.  If you're spoiler-averse and wish to remain encased within the Abrams Mystery Box, go no further.

Believe it or not, news regarding the reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles just keeps coming.  Though the pizza-loving, totally tubular anthropomorphized haven't had a live-action adventure since 1993's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, but they've been in cartoon series and an animated film.  Apparently, their return to live-action will be referred to by an altogether simpler title, as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been abbreviated to Ninja Turtles.

It's been almost twenty years since live-action shelled, anthropomorphized, martial arts-trained heroes graced cinema screens in 1993's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, but as we learned last week, Paramount Pictures has set a December 25th, 2013 release date for a rebooted Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature.  The film, which will be accompanied by a CGI television series on Nickelodeon, is evidently going to be a major overhaul of the titular Turtles' origin story.

Opening in theaters on March 16th is the latest comedy from directors Jay and Mark Duplass (Cyrus) called Jeff, Who Lives at Home. The film stars an impressive cast of comedic and veteran actors including Jason Segel (The Muppets), Ed Helms (The Lorax), Judy Greer (The Descendants), Rae Dawn Chong (The Color Purple), and Academy Award-winner Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking). 

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had a chance to sit down and speak with the delightfully funny Judy Greer about her work in Jeff, Who Lives at Home, as well as the upcoming Arrested Development mini-series and film. The hilarious actress discussed the new film, her character, the directors unique filmmaking style, Ed Helms commitment to acting, why Jason Segel is the only actor who could play the film's title role, and what she would like to see her Arrested Development character - Kitty Sanchez - do in the upcoming mini-series and film. 

All throughout the lead up to Transformers: Dark of the Moon's release, franchise director Michael Bay made no bones about his reluctance to return following two consecutive films about extraterrestrial robots chasing cosmic MacGuffins through nonsensical storylines.  By all indications, Dark of the Moon was to be his Hasbro swan song, but now it appears that Paramount Pictures backed up the money truck to Casa de Bay, as it's official: the studio will finance his passion project Pain & Gain, after which he'll direct Transformers 4 for a release date of June 29, 2014.

The Big News: Now that it has an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, this Friday Paramount Pictures will theatrically re-release Rango, the animated feature from Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski and star Johnny Depp.  The Fine Print: the re-release is a one-week only exclusive engagement at a single theater, the outstanding ArcLight Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard here in sunny Los Angeles.

After spending the last weekend of 2011, and the first weekend of 2012 atop the charts, Tom Cruise’s extremely successful Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol was unseated as the champion of the box office by an unlikely competitor … The Devil Inside. Paramount’s documentary-style, found footage, supernatural, horror film cost less than $1 million to make yet it earned $34.5 million in its opening weekend and has gone on to earn over $46 million in just two weeks at the box office. While the film has done quite well financially, it has also received some complaints from fans regarding its abrupt ending and use of a website to tie up the film’s loose ends. None-the-less, that hasn’t stopped audiences from seeing the new movie, which is currently playing in theaters across the country.

The Devil Inside is directed by William Brent Bell, and co-written by Bell and producer Matthew Peterman, the duo behind the 2006 horror film Stay Alive starring Adam Goldberg, and Sophia Bush. The film features a cast of basically unknown actors including Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmth, Ionut Grama, Suzan Crowley, and Bonnie Morgan. The Devil Inside tells the story of Isabella (Andrade), a documentary filmmaker, and her mother Maria (Suzan Crowly), who committed a triple homicide over twenty years ago as the result of an exorcism gone terribly wrong. The Catholic Church intervened and Maria has been in a Catholic psychiatric hospital in Rome ever since. But when Isabella decides to make a film about exorcism and travels to Rome to find out more about her mother’s condition, she discovers a horrifying truth about the Catholic religion that she never could have imagined.

I recently had an opportunity to speak with William Brent Bell and Matthew Peterman about The Devil Inside and their work on the project. They discussed the film, its surprising opening weekend, the controversial ending, found footage, the Catholic Church, and the possibility of a sequel.

As soon as Paranormal Activity 3 showed that the franchise could continue making dumptrucks full of money at minuscule budgets, it was abundantly obvious that Paramount Pictures would have Paranormal Activity 4 at multiplexes across the nation just in time for Halloween 2012.  So for months its been a foregone conclusion that Paranormal Activity would be the new Halloween horror standby after years of the Saw franchise's grisly reign.  Now, the fourth installment has a release date and a pair of familiar directors.

A year ago, it looked unlikely that World War Z would get made.  The adaptation of author Max Brooks's fictitious oral history of a nearly-apocalyptic global zombie infestation was stuck in development with a price tag big enough that Paramount Picture wasn't willing to roll the dice, even with bestselling source material, Brad Pitt attached to star and produce, and Marc Forster set to direct.  Now, with the film in post-production for a release in December of this year, it looks like Paramount is keen on turning the film it almost didn't make into a franchise, with the World War Z story spanning three films.