If you’re one of those that swoons at all things Pattinson, hang on to your knickers. We have a new clip which features your boy in and out of bed, in just some Edwardian boxers and sans shirt, and you know he’s both post and pre-freak with Christina Ricci.

Bel Ami is based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant and tells the story of Georges Duroy (Pattinson), a penniless veteran of the Boer Wars. A period drama set in 1890s Paris, the film follows his fin de sicle rise to power through his manipulation of the most influential and wealthy women in Paris, played by Thurman, Christina Ricci, and Kristin Scott Thomas.

We learn quite a bit from this clip. In it, Georges is reading a letter from his father in the country. We learn that his father cares for his son, even as the son has contempt for the father and his way of life. We also know that when he tells Christina Ricci that she’s the only woman for him, he’s lying his face off.

The film was directed by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod from a screenplay written by Rachel Bennette.  It has  a great supporting cast, including Colm Meaney, Holliday Grainger and Philip Glenister, not to mention stunning, meticulously detailed costumes and sets . Already open in the most of the world, Bel Ami opens in the US on June 8.

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I know what you’re thinking.  “We’ve had Butler and Statham already this morning, what could possibly make this day any better?” How about Taylor Kitsch and Alexander Skarsgard?

We’ve got a new clip (exclusively from ComingSoon) from Peter Berg’s Battleship in which Kitsch and Skarsgard play the Hopper brothers (are they adopted? Seriously, they look NOTHING alike. Oh well, just go with it). It is Kitsch’s character Alex’s birthday. Skarsgard’s Stone is attempting to give him some much needed, but little heeded brotherly advice.  Oh yeah, Brooklyn Decker’s in it too.

We don’t get Battleship here in the US for another 4 ½ weeks. While I still don’t get why Europe got it so much earlier, I can tell you it’s already a hit, having raked in over $58 mil in less than a week. Big, loud special effects work in any language.

Battleship also stars Liam Neeson as Decker’s father (natch), Admiral Shane, Peter MacNichol, Jesse Plemmons (Friday Night Lights Reunion! Woot!), Hamish Linklater and Rihanna in her dramatic debut.

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When was the last time, when given the option, you did NOT skip the ad in front of a video you wanted to see?  I can’t remember either…until this one.

We have a new clip from Boaz Yakin’s Safe featuring Jason Statham being all “Stath-y” with his big guns and fast cars and being noble, rescuing twelve-year old girls and such.  It’s good, don’t get me wrong. It is definitely testosterone-fueled and adrenaline charged action packed.

Sure it's Statham to the rescue and all that, but first, as an amuse bouche, you have to watch the ad in front of it. I think it’s for Tequila, which probably accounts for my craving for something salty…yeah that’s it.  And there’s an adorable kitten. Like the man says, kittens make everything better.  Although here, it’s just overkill really.

Back to the movie…

Safe opens in the US on Friday April 27 and on 4^th May in the UK. It stars our man Statham as well as Robert John Burke, Chris Sarandon, Anson Mount, James Hong, Reggie Lee and Catherine Chan. Enjoy the clip!

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James McTeigue’s The Raven with John Cusack as Edgar Allen Poe, opens Friday April 27 (finally) and we’ve got a couple of gruesome clips to share. They’re both set pieces from the film that are based on Poe stories.

The first, “The Pit and the Pendulum” is pretty self-explanatory. (It also reminded me of a particular scene in Law Abiding Citizen, although it probably shouldn’t have. Poe, after all, came first.)

The second, “The Tell-Tale Heart” features John Cusack reading Poe over a scene from the film in which Alice Eve has been buried alive. In that regard it’s more “The Cask of Amontillado” than “The Tell-Tale Heart” but it’s all kinds of creepy, nonetheless. I can’t wait to see it within the context of the film.

In this gritty thriller, Edgar Allan Poe ( Cusack) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans, Immortals) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders. Directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin), the film also stars Alice Eve (Sex and the City 2), Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Faster).When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered in 19th century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields (Evans) makes a startling discovery: the crime resembles a fictional murder described in gory detail in the local newspaper—part of a collection of stories penned by struggling writer and social pariah Edgar Allan Poe. But even as Poe is questioned by police, another grisly murder occurs, also inspired by a popular Poe story.

Realizing a serial killer is on the loose using Poe’s writings as the backdrop for his bloody rampage, Fields enlists the author’s help in stopping the attacks. But when it appears someone close to Poe may become the murderer’s next victim, the stakes become even higher and the inventor of the detective story calls on his own powers of deduction to try to solve the case before it’s too late.

We also have some fantastic images from the film featuring Cusack, Evans, Eve, Gleeson and Jackson-Cohen. Relativity, which doesn’t seem to know its ass from its elbow lately, opened The Raven in the UK more than a month ago and it opens in the US on April 27.

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Apparently it’s Michael Fassbender Day (again!) here at I Need My Fix. I’m not complaining, are you? (lalalala I can’t heaaaaar youuuu).

Something that may have escaped all but the most savvy of movie/entertainment watchers, is that last year amidst all of the hullabaloo surrounding Shame, not to mention, A Dangerous Method, Haywire, X-Men: First Class, Jane Eyre (did I miss any?), Michael Fassbender also appeared, along with his friend Liam Cunningham (currently appearing in A Game of Thrones as Ser Davos Seaworth ) with whom he starred in Steve McQueen’s Hunger, made an award winning short with filmmaker John Maclean.

Pitch Black Heist, which won the BAFTA for Best Short Film, will screen at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival and we have (via EW) have a preview for you.  The film centers on a couple of thieves whose next job will require them to pull it off in complete darkness.  Maclean told EW, “One of my favorite films is Rififi, this 1950s heist film where there’s a stretch where they can’t make a sound. When I watched it a few years ago I thought it would be good to do it pitch black with sound. Plus it’s cheap”.

I'm hoping the whole thing comes online at some point, otherwise, very few of us will ever get to see it. Fassbender and Maclean previously worked together on another short, Man On A Motorcyle, and  are reportedly working on a feature film as well.

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We have yet another example of a brilliant move on the part of those behind the marketing campaign for Sir Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.

Late last month we showed you a little snippet of an ad for the Weyland Corporation for their artificial intelligence market with Fassbender as a newly minted android, in the form of a viral video that was mere seconds long and yet still packed a powerful punch thanks to a voice-over by Fassbender (and that eerie movement at the end.)  Today we have the full length version of that ad wherein Fassbender’s David answers an unseen interviewer’s questions about his abilities and his usefulness, adding that he’s not only capable of thought, but of performing duties that we mere mortals might find “distressing” or even “unethical”. How clever of Weyland to design a robot capable of comprehending ethics! When the interviewer asks him when he feels “sad”, he replies when he thinks about “war, poverty, cruelty, unnecessary violence." He sheds a tear as he explains that he “understands emotion” even though he isn’t capable of it.” If he were a human, he’d be considered a sociopath. Good thing he’s one of the good guys!

Everything released in connection with this movie has been steadily amping up the anticipation, and revealing very little in terms of the plot along the way. Prometheus, with Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Idris Elba, Sean Harris, Rafe Spall and Guy Pearce opens 1st June in the UK and June 8 in the US. 7 ½ weeks! (But who’s counting?)

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Back on April 1st we showed you a first look at always adorable Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Dave Franco in Louis Leterrier’s Now You See Me about a group of magicians, who also happen to be accomplished bank robbers, and the FBI agent, played by Mark Ruffalo, on their trail.

Today we have some images from recent shooting in Las Vegas, as well as a video from Entertainment Tonight (via AOL) and some caps of the vid (courtesy of Collider.)

We also have the official synopsis:

The Four Horsemen, a magic super-group led by the charismatic ATLAS (Jesse Eisenberg), perform a pair of high-tech magic shows, first astonishing audiences by robbing a bank on another continent, and then exposing a white-collar criminal and funneling his millions into the audience members’ bank accounts.

FBI Special Agent DYLAN (Mark Ruffalo) is determined to make the magicians pay for their crimes—and to stop them before they pull off what promises to be an even more audacious heist. But he’s forced to partner with ALMA (Melanie Laurent), an Interpol detective about whom he is instantly suspicious. Out of desperation he turns to THADDEUS (Morgan Freeman), a famed magic debunker, who claims the bank heist was accomplished using disguises and video trickery. One thing Dylan and Alma agree on is that the Horsemen must have an outside point person, and that finding him (or her) is key to ending the magicians’ crime spree. Could it be Thaddeus? Or Alma? Or could it really be…magic?

As pressure mounts and the world awaits the Horsemen’s spectacular final trick, Dylan and Alma race to find an answer. But it soon becomes painfully clear that staying one step ahead of these masters of illusion is beyond the skills of any one man—or woman.

Despite the phenomenal leading cast, here’s what makes me nervous about this. Leterrier is best known for the universally derided Clash of the Titans (which nevertheless made enough money to warrant a sequel), The Incredible Hulk (the one with Edward Norton) and a couple of Transporter flicks. None of that inspires a lot of confidence but someone keeps giving him money with which to make movies. (In this case its Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Another thing that makes me nervous is that there are no less than five credited writers on this thing. None of whom have anything to recommend them other than that they have had scripts produced. I guess that’s something.  Finally, the release date has been announced as January 13, 2013. January. Unless you’re an award contender just opening wide after the holidays, a January release date still has a lot of stigma attached. Why purposefully book a film that is still in production into January right off the bat?  We’ll see.

Also in the cast: Michael Caine, Melanie Laurent, Morgan Freeman, Common and Michael Kelly. Now You See Me is slated for release in the US on January 13 and in the UK on 1st February 2013. Enjoy!

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We have lot of goodies to share from Nick Stoller’s The Five Year Engagement, which has been picked to open The Tribeca Film Festival next week.. The romantic comedy, which stars Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, will kick off the festival, which runs from April 18-29, just a little over a week before the film's April 27 opening. To celebrate, we have new pics, tow funny new clips and a behind-the-scenes B-roll!

The director and writer/star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall reteam for the irreverent comedy The Five-Year Engagement. Beginning where most romantic comedies end, the new film from director Nicholas Stoller, producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Rodney Rothman (Get Him to the Greek) looks at what happens when an engaged couple, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle. The film was written by Segel and Stoller. 

The Five Year Engagement charts the ups and downs of an engaged couple's relationship. Romantic comedies in general work or don't based on the chemistry of the leads, regardless of what situation a film contrives for them. Segel and Blunt do seem to have a sweet chemistry. It also, at first blush, appears to be a little less cliched than some examples of the genre.

This first clip tries to turn one such cliched theme on its head:

The second clip hints at why Brie and Pratt are so popular on their respective tv sitcoms:

The B-roll is longer than most clips but, if you're at all like me, you'll find this behind-the-scenes stuff fascinating.

The film stars, in addition to Blunt, Segel,  Brie and Pratt, Rhys Ifans, Kevin Hart, Mindy Kaling, Chris Parnell, Mimi Kennedy, David Paymer, Jacki Weaver and Dakota Johnson (daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith). It opens in the US on April 27, but not until22nd June in the UK. Enjoy the pics and clips!

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