Hard to believe it was a full year ago that notoriously reclusive auteur Terrence Malick's first film since 2005's The New World premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to equal parts enrapture and befuddlement.  Now, a year after The Tree of Life's first screening, we have word that the writer-director's next project now has an official title and an MPAA rating, both of which give an indication that the film, which stars Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams, is pretty much ready to go.

With four blockbusters in the bag and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 ready to cap off the hugely profitable film series, Summit Entertainment could probably market the last film in the franchise with nothing more than classified ads reading, "One last Twilight, November 16th."  Nonetheless, there will be giant marketing campaign to ensure that the second half is Breaking Dawn is appropriately huge, and today's two new images are but a hint of the promotional fatigue that will set in by Thanksgiving.

Opening in theater son April 20th is a new film from director Dennis Lee (Fireflies in the Garden) and executive producer Julia Roberts (Mirror Mirror) called Jesus Henry Christ. The film stars an excellent cast of actors including Toni Collette (In Her Shoes, The Sixth Sense), Michael Sheen (Midnight in Paris, Tron: Legacy), Frank Moore (The Long Kiss Goodnight), as well as relative newcomers Jason Spevack, and Samantha Weinstein.

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had a chance to sit down with director Dennis Lee to discuss his work on Jesus Henry Christ. The director discussed the new film, how its loosely based on his first short film, why he decided to make it into a feature now, the torture of having a photographic memory, casting the film's young stars, Toni Collette's character, working with Michael Sheen, and his relationship with executive producer Julia Roberts.  

After an almost comedically abrupt hype-building glimpse last week, the first teaser for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 has arrived online in full.  It's probably a moot point, though, since this trailer was attached to The Hunger Games, and it looks as though pretty much everybody in America went to see that novel adaptation, meaning y'all have probably already laid eyes on Kristen Stewart as the now-vampiric Bella Swan.

Ladies and gentlemen – but let's be honest here, mostly ladies – here we have a teaser to a teaser trailer for a movie based on half of a book.  By which I mean to say that a video excerpt from the teaser trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2. 

It's a really quick look, clocking in at under twenty seconds and consisting of basically five shots.  Not a word of dialogue is spoken, nor does anything overly dramatic happen, but presumably fans of Stephenie Meyer's novels and the films will see much to get them psyched.

Opening in theaters on November 18th is the first installment of the final chapter of the Twilight film franchise, based on the extremely popular novels by author Stephenie Meyer, entitled The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. Returning to pen the last two movies in the series is screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who wrote the preceding films, and taking over the director's chair is Oscar-winner Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Dreamgirls). The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 features the franchises returning stars Kristen Stewart (The Runaways), Robert Pattinson (Water for Elephants), and Taylor Lautner (Abduction), as well as actors Nikki Reed (Thirteen), Peter Facinelli (Can't Hardly Wait), Elizabeth Reaser (TV's Grey's Anatomy), Ashley Greene (Skateland), Kellan Lutz (Immortals), Jackson Rathbone (The Last Airbender), Julia Jones (Jonah Hex), Billy Burke (Drive Angry 3D), Sarah Clarke (TV's 24), Maggie Grace (TV's Lost), and Michael Sheen (Tron: Legacy). 

IAR's managing editor Jami Philbrick recently had a chance to sit down with screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, as well as actor Peter Facinelli to discuss their work on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. They talked about the new film, first time Twilight director Bill Condon, how to split the book into two different movies, the eventual introduction of actress Mackenzie Foy as Renesmee Cullen, the much anticipated wedding scene, and why the ladies love Edward. 

As you've probably seen through various gossip sites and all manner of social media, fans have spent the last several days camped out in Los Angeles hoping to get a decent vantage point for the world premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1.  Well, the premiere is going down tonight, Monday November 14th, and those Twilight fans might be irked to discover that the best view of the glamorous premiere doesn't require that you camp out on concrete for days at a time.  Instead, NowLive and Yahoo! are allowing anyone the world over to get in on the Breaking Dawn gala as it happens, with livestream coverage of the event that kicks off at 5:00 pm Pacific Time and 8:00 pm Eastern Time.  Check back here at that time for the best view of all the red carpet festivities and, of course, the stars, including Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner.

What with the big happenings like interspecies marriage and vampire baby-making, so far the marketing for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 has been focused squarely on Bella Swan/Cullen and Edward Cullen, the newlyweds played by Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.  Yesterday, for example, the first official clip from the film teased their honeymoon, with their pre-coital arrival at a South American love nest.  Today, though, Summit Entertainment has dropped a promotional spot that puts the focus on werewolf also-ran Jacob Black, played once again by erstwhile Sharkboy Taylor Lautner. 

Mostly, Jacob is making like a downtrodden Charlie Brown in this spot.  Understandable, given that his lady love is gets a) hitched and b) knocked up by a filthy vampire with inferior abdominal muscles.  Towards the end, though, he starts getting his righteous werewolf on, going toe to toe with some other murderous werewolves.

At San Diego Comic-Con in July, a jam-packed Hall H was treated to several clips during the panel for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1.  At the first sight of the honeymoon bed – a neatly-made, unremarkable bed on which vampire-human copulation would later happen – the crowd let out plenty of catcalls and suggestive sounds.  Now you too can growl, "Ohhhh," from the comfort of your own home, as Summit Entertainment has released the first official clip from the penultimate film in the Twilight movie franchise.

It's a truncated version of the aforementioned Comic-Con clip, with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as Bella and Edward, respectively, arriving at their South American honeymoon love-nest, a far cry from the overcast environs of Forks, Washington.  All the Hall H excitement was based on the fact that these two exceedingly good looking people have been repressing their sexual desires for three consecutive movies, but now that they're safely within the bounds of marriage, they'll be rogering roundly in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1.

Though it all leads to a pregnancy that is a horrific ordeal for the bride and a traumatically gory, scarring vampire birth, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 kicks off with a fairytale interspecies wedding between Bella and Edward, the two lovebirds played by Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson since 2008's Twilight.  Though the two characters have repressed their unquenchable sexual desires for one another for three movies, their ostentatious union gives way to a thoroughly romantic honeymoon, which in turn leads to the whole vampire-pregnancy debacle.  A new behind-the-scenes featurette limits its scope to the wedding itself, as Stewart, Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Elizabeth Reaser, and Ashley Greene discuss the nuptials, to the accompaniment of new wedding footage.