Sony Pictures kicked off this week with a big, multi-city global event for The Amazing Spider-Man, screening a sizzle reel for exceedingly lucky attendees in cities including New York City, Los Angles, Rio de Janeiro, and London.  Of course, that event exhibited and served to hype the midnight unveiling of the of the full theatrical trailer to the franchise reboot.  Said trailer, the first since the July teaser that dropped to a fairly lukewarm reception, is now online and ready to view.

So The Artist emerged as the odds-on favorite to win this year's big awards at the Oscars, what with the critical adulation and consistent wins in all manner of prize-giving ceremonies.  But Hugo racked up more Academy Award nominations than any other film, be it a silent film homage or a Hawaii-set familial drama.  So Paramount isn't about to let The Weinsteins Company snag all those potentially profitable awards, and the studio is pushing Hugo in a big way. 

A new behind the scenes featurette, for example, plays up nearly every aspect of the film in six convenient minutes, playing up Martin Scorsese's masterful work, the movie's love of cinema, and the technical merits of the film.  You'll find plenty of footage from the film, as well as talking head interviews with the likes of producer Graham King, screenwriter John Logan, Art Directors Guild Award winner Dante Ferretti, and stars Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen.  Of course, there's also the master himself.

After much nominating and talk of "buzz," we're now in that part of the annual awards season that involves actual awards.  Earlier today, you may have read that Rango cleaned up at the Annie Awards, and now we know who won at the Art Directors Guild Awards.  The nominations were announced more than a month ago, and now the nation can finally stop holding its breath in anticipation. 

Judge Joseph Dredd, a character who has been kicking ass since writer Carlos Ezquerra and artist John Wagner introduced him in the pages of 2000 A.D. thirty-five years ago, didn't get a fair shake at cinematic representation in 1996's Judge Dredd.  Now, though, a new effort to capture the Judge's authoritarian greatness is on the way, and it will hopefully wipe out the memory of Sylvester Stallone and Rob Schneider as a comedic duo.  It's been a few months since we've heard anything from Dredd, but today four new images show off Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby as judges.

Awards season rolls on, and it's looking more and more like Rango is going to take the cake in the animated feature category at the big show, the Oscar ceremony on February 26th.  The first animated feature for both director Gore Verbinski and legendary visual effects house Industrial Light & Magic just fairly well swept the feature categories at the 2012 Annie Awards, celebrating the very best of animation across different media.

Modern audiences are very much familiar with Edgar Rice Burroughs' hero Tarzan, but not so much with his other heavy hitter, the Civil War soldier-turned Martian messiah John Carter, who first appeared in A Princess of Mars almost a century ago.  Disney has been trying to get the name out there, as evidenced by yesterday's Super Bowl TV spot for John Carter in which the name was sort of the central image, despite all the aliens and epic happenings. 

A new batch of seven images from the film include no names, but quite a few digital aliens, such as Tars Tarka and Carter's sidekick Woola.  More importantly, the Princess of Barsoom herself, Dejah Thoris, is front and center.

Super Bowl XLVI is in the books, ladies and gentlemen.  The Vince Lombardi Trophy will spend the next year hanging out with the New York Giants, while Bill Belichick is currently taking an Imperial Shuttle back to the second Death Star so he can brood over the loss in his throne room.  Over the course of the game, though, there were plenty of high-profile TV spots for some of this year's biggest movies.  We've collected them here so that you can view said TV spots without all that, you know, football.

If you're watching the Super Bowl – the most popular televised event in America – right now, then you no doubt saw that thirty-second TV spot for The Avengers, with its superheroes uniting and Samuel L. Jackson giving some good gravitas.  That spot will be included in our inevitable Super Bowl Spot Roundup, but guess what, Marvel Studios and Disney also just premiered an extended version of the commercial online, and it's way better than the one that was actually on TV.

Spider-Man is an atypically chatty superhero, given to making wisecracks and running off at the mouth in the midst of all his superheroics and villain-battling.  This aspect of Peter Parker wasn't too big a part of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, as the Tobey Maguire Parker was more of the sweater vest-wearing nerdlinger originally envisioned by Stan Lee and Steve Dikto.  In this summer's franchise reboot The Amazing Spider-Man, though, it seems that the new Peter, played by Andrew Garfield, will be plenty quippy.