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Toy Story 3 is going to be having screenings next month near lots of American Universities, oddly only showing the first 65 minutes in what they are calling Cliffhanger Edition screenings. Waiting two months for the film to come out so you can see the end seems a bit painful to me.

Why is this important to you? If you go the the sign up site here you can see three new teasers for the film. They’re a little different, one spoofing Saw, and a little amusing. To see all three keep refreshing the page.

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J. D. Shapiro has apologised for writing the notoriously bad Battlefield Earth after it won the Razzie award for Worst Movie of the Decade last month.

Shapiro explains that the reason for the script even being written was his quest for sex and the Church of Scientology whose founder wrote the novel Battlefield Earth is based on. Shapiro initially went to the Celebrity Centre of Scientology looking for eligible women to seduce and would up adapting a novel into a screenplay. Hollywood is weird.

Shapiro is a little bit proud of the film as “out of all the sucky movies, mine is the suckiest.”

When is Jeff Buhler going to apologise for The Midnight Meat Train?

Perhaps I don’t understand Cannes but I was surprised to read that Robin Hood would be opening Cannes Film Festival this year. Admittedly I was surprised when Up opened last year too.

Though neither are or were in competition my vision of Cannes does not allow for the inclusion of such mainstream films. However Southland Tales competing in 2006, and getting critically ripped to shreds, was an altogether more ridiculous choice.

Maybe I have a warped view of Cannes or even of Robin Hood as it could actually be good. Do I just think of Cannes as arty because it’s french or because it is known for its honest and vocal reaction to bad films?

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Thought the awards season was over? Well yesterday Empire Magazine held their own awards ceremony and the results are mostly horrible.

Avatar won both best film and best director with Zoe Saldana picking up best actress. Another major mistake was Sherlock Holmes winning Best Thriller. Without getting into a debate about what constitutes a thriller I dispute Holmes being a better film than Inglourious Basterds.

On the plus side In The Loop finally won something as it acheived Best Comedy beating out a four more successful, but less brilliant films. Sadly Moon and District 9 were again overlooked in favour of the more flashy Star Trek, at least Cameron didn’t get this one. The full list of winners can be seen here.

What happened Empire? You used to be cool man!

It makes me wonder when the Mild Concern awards are.

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There is just one reason to see Clash of the Titans and it isn’t Gemma Arterton. It is this:

Or if you want to cut to the chase:

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