Along with the DVDs listed below, Insidious also comes out this week. The Lincoln Lawyer Matthew McConaughey plays Mick Haller in this drama about an attorney who works out of his towncar defending small-time criminals. When he lands a bigger case defending a charismatic playboy (played by Ryan Phillippe), it goes from straightforward to sketchy, and Haller finds his own life in danger. Though Read more

Bradley Cooper and Zack Snyder were no match for a wimpy kid at the box office this weekend, as Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules was the top earner with $24.4 million. Snyder's Sucker Punch proved to be all bark and no bite (perhaps due in part to bad reviews), earning $19 million. Last week's champ Limitless dropped to third with $15.2 million, while Matthew McConaughey's The Lincoln Lawyer Read more

Limitless lived up to its title in its opening weekend by coming in first at the box office. The dizzying drug drama starring Bradley Cooper earned a total of $19 million, besting the rest of the weekend's offerings. In second place was the Johnny Depp-voiced animated film Rango with $15.3 million. In third place was last weekend's champion, action flick Battle: Los Angeles, with a total of Read more

Audiences invaded theaters for the action flick Battle: Los Angeles this weekend, pushing the Aaron Eckhart alien movie to the top of the box office with a winning total of $36 million, despite poor reviews. Following right behind it was last weekend's big winner, animated film Rango, which earned $23 million. Also opening this week was Red Riding Hood, which only managed to come in third with a Read more

ILM lead animator, Maia Kayserr, sat down with me last week to give us an inside look at the making of Rango, and while it seems that this particular project was unique in the way it was made, the life of a feature film animator is one that requires a lot of skill, patience, and a good sense of humor. Maia was first interested in studying medicine, but after seeing Jurassic Park, she was turned Read more

Animated films have been landing on the top of the box office heap for the past couple of weekends now. While Gnomeo and Juliet won last week, this weekend's new release Rango claimed the number one spot. The Johnny Depp-voiced flick earned $38 million, while Matt Damon and Emily Blunt's romantic thriller The Adjustment Bureau trailed it with $20.9 million. Beastly managed to get third place Read more

After talking with ILM lead animator Maia Kayser this week and hearing about how the cast of Rango was filmed acting out the script to give animators even more detail to work with, I wanted to see more. Thankfully, I was able to get my hands on some behind-the-scenes B-roll footage of Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, and others doing their thing before any of the actual animation had been Read more