Though it may not be a prequel in exactly the manner we expect, Prometheus still takes place in the Alien universe, and as such it requires a corporate shill willing to sell out the characters we actually care about.  This time, in the rich tradition of the Aliens human dicksplash Carter Burke, Charlize Theron plays Meredith Vickers, a representative of Weyland-Yutani predecessor Weyland Industries.

The most fun moments in the found footage superhero origin story Chronicle feature the young leads gleefully experimenting with their newfound telekinetic powers.  The trio of high school students played by Dane DeHaan, Michael B. Jordan, and Alex Russell, telekinetically hurl baseballs at each other, build Legos, and, eventually, move automobiles and learn to fly, all while enthusiastically guffawing at the camera and high-fiving.

There are precious few directors who are basically movie stars themselves, whose names and resumes are familiar enough to mass audiences to act as selling points.  Ridley Scott is one of them.  If it does absolutely nothing else, a newly released behind-the-scenes featurette from Prometheus ensures that you're psyched about Scott directing an ambitious new big budget movie, but it's also guaranteed to get your endorphins running over Scott's return to the universe of 1979 classic Alien.

If you're a fan of the Saturday Night Live Digital Shorts created by the Lonely Island boys, then you're doubtless a fan of "Laser Cats."  The perennially but joyously terrible ongoing saga of two warriors played by Andy Samberg and Bill Hader in an apocalyptic future of cats as laser weapons came back this last weekend with the seventh installment, and this one has a very consistent theme: the blockbusters of Steven Spielberg.

Attention, Bondophiles, a bunch of new images from Skyfall have appeared online, along with the latest in the ongoing series of videoblogs.  With the exception of two official images, up until now we've been seeing exclusively spy photos from the set of Bond's 23th cinematic outing, but these are actual stills, giving a sense of how nine-time Oscar nominee/cinematographer extraordinaire Roger Deakins is handling the first Bond feature to be shot digitally.

Last week, we saw two new video blogs promoting Skyfall, both highlighting the lovely ladies of James Bond's latest globe-trotting adventure.  We were introduced to Naomie Harris in intensive weapons training as MI-6 field agent Eve, as well Berenice Marlohe as the probably dangerous or at least-bad guy-affiliated Bond Girl Severine.  Beautiful women are great and all, but what about Ian Fleming's James Bond, the world's foremost spy and unstoppable ladykiller?

This month's The Raven is no ordinary thriller.  The film stars John Cusack as inventor of the detective novel and American literary legend Edgar Allan Poe, with the author hunting down a vicious murderer whose crimes are patterned after Poe's prose and poetry. 

Such a uniquely fictionalized historical story deserves an appropriately singular behind-the-scenes video, and now it has one thanks to the one and only Olga Kay.

It's been just under a decade since a movie in the American Pie franchise graced theatrical screens with 2003's American Wedding, but as American Reunion's release approaches, a new featurette is about to smack your nostalgia bone.  It won't be the 2003 you're pining for, though, it'll be the halcyon days of summer 1999, when the first American Pie first captured a nation's heart. 

That's because American Reunion is tonally more in line with the first film than those that followed it, as promised by the entire cast, together again for the first time.  Most of the major players show up as talking heads in this featurette, which also includes plenty of new footage, words from co-writers and directors Jon Hurtwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, Stifler defecating in a cooler, and, of course, the oh-so nostalgic strains of signature song "Laid" by Matt Nathanson.

When Universal first announced Battleship, an event movie based on the durable Hasbro board game of the same name, most assumed the film would have two earthbound naval forces engaged in an earthbound battle of wills and guesswork.  When it eventually leaked that U.S. Naval forces would, in fact, be up against aliens, the response was largely befuddlement.  A new two-minute featurette from Battleship has arrived online to explain just what the extraterrestrials are doing in the Pacific Ocean.

Next Friday, Wrath of the Titans arrives in two and three dimensions at theaters nationwide, and Warner Bros. has released a new two-minute featurette to get your ass in a seat in a week and a half. 

As a sequel, Wrath of the Titans is obligated to contain certain elements from the first film, and like its predecessor, 2010's Clash of the Titans remake, the new film has no shortage of giant monstrous beasts wreaking havoc on the ancient world.  The Chimera is just one of these destruct-O-monsters, but he/she/it is the first to get their own featurette.