Disney has released a new behind-the-scenes featurette for director Gore Verbinski’s upcoming film The Lone Ranger.  The story focuses on John Reid (Armie Hammer) surviving an attack, being saved by Native American warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp), and the two teaming up to fight injustice.  This new featurette chronicles the heavy location-based production, as we see the enormous lengths to which Verbinski went in order to make the majority of The Lone Ranger practically.  In fact, this featurette shows Depp falling completely off of his horse mid-stride during a stunt, and we get a look at the actor’s bruising that occurred as a result.

Hit the jump to watch the featurette.  The film also stars Tom Wilkinson, Ruth Wilson, William Fichtner, Barry Pepper, James Badge Dale, and Helena Bonham Carter.  The Lone Ranger opens July 3rd.

We’ve got some new TV spots and featurettes for the following films:

• The Conjuring – James Wan’s horror thriller based on the real life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga).  This first TV spot introduces audiences to the ghost hunters and the evil that lurks inside the Perron family home.  The Conjuring opens July 19th.
• Pacific Rim - Guillermo del Toro’s robots-vs-monsters epic starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi and Charlie Day.  A new TV spot gives an extended look at the film and a new featurette takes viewers behind the scenes of Jaeger design.  Pacific Rim opens July 12th.

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Disney has released a new featurette for The Lone Ranger.  The story focuses on John Reid (Armie Hammer) surviving an attack, being saved by Native American warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp), and the two teaming up to fight injustice.  The new featurette focuses on the “cowboy bootcamp” where Hammer and co-star Ruth Wilson had to learn how to ride horses and lasso chairs.  The former might be more important than the latter.  Depp is nowhere to be seen, so either he went to Native American bootcamp, or innately knows how to ride a horse and throw a loop of rope over furniture.

Hit the jump to check out the featurette.   The film also stars Tom Wilkinson, William Fichtner, Barry Pepper, James Badge Dale, and Helena Bonham Carter.  The Lone Ranger opens July 3rd.

A new featurette has been released for Ron Howard‘s racing drama, Rush.  The film takes place in the world of Formula One racing, and chronicles the 1970s rivalry between Austrian driver Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) and British driver James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth).  Like an earlier trailer, we’re treated to almost the entire arc of the plot, but we also get Hemsworth, Bruhl, and Howard breaking down what they found compelling about the story and the characters.  I’m not sure what’s going to push this movie beyond a standard sports rivalry other than the life-or-death stakes, but I’m curious about the contrast between Hunt’s flamboyant personality and the serious Lauda.

Hit the jump to check out the featurette.  The film also stars Olivia Wilde.  Rush opens September 20th.

The team-up between DreamWorks Pictures and video game developer EA is bringing a live-action adaptation of street racing franchise Need for Speed to the screen.  Now we have the first idea of what that will look like.  A new behind-the-scenes featurette shows off some top-of-the-line racecars caught up in a high-octane race from the cops, along with commentary from director Scott Waugh (Act of Valor) and shots of star Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) in the driver’s seat.

Also starring Dominic Cooper, Ramon Rodriguez, Rami Malek, Imogen Poots, Dakota Johnson and Scott Mescudi, Need for Speed opens March 14, 2014.  Hit the jump to watch the featurette.

We’re a few months away from season four of AMC’s The Walking Dead, but that’s no reason not to enjoy this behind-the-scenes preview of the in-production series.  This particular video talks about the selection process for the director of the season four premiere, along with a funny little anecdote about how the news was delivered to the lucky soul.  There are plenty of shots from both last year’s episodes and footage from the current production accompanied by commentary from The Walking Dead comic creator Robert Kirkman, and producers Greg Nicotero and Gale Anne Hurd.  Hit the jump to watch the preview and find out who will be behind the lens for the season four premiere of The Walking Dead.

HBO has released a couple of featurettes that center around the most recent episode of Game of Thrones (read Allison’s recap here).  While the network regularly posts such featurettes after the most recent episodes of some of their shows, these two are of particular interest given the surprising turn of events that occurred in “The Rains of Castamere.”  We see series creators/showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff discuss the episode and how the corresponding chapter in the book was one of the main reasons they wanted to turn Game of Thrones into a TV series in the first place, and we also see them talk about the emotional impact of actually filming the episode.

Hit the jump to watch the trailer, but beware of major spoilers for “The Rains of Castamere,” obviously.  The season finale of Game of Thrones airs on HBO this coming Sunday, June 9th.

Disney has released a new featurette for the upcoming feature The Lone Ranger, and it’s an excellent example of why I’m looking forward to the film.  In this featurette, we see Armie Hammer performing a pretty hairy-looking stunt that involves standing atop a towering platform in the middle of the Utah desert, with only a harness keeping him from plummeting to the bottom of a canyon.  Most directors would shoot this sequence on a soundstage with plenty of green screen, but The Lone Ranger’s Gore Verbinski has shown a fantastic propensity for crazy practical stuntwork in his previous three Pirates of the Caribbean films, and I’m eager to see that same production value on the screen in The Lone Ranger.

Hit the jump to watch the featurette.  The film also stars Johnny Depp, Tom Wilkinson, William Fichtner, Barry Pepper, James Badge Dale, Ruth Wilson, and Helena Bonham Carter.  The Lone Ranger opens July 3rd.

The marketing blitz for Warner Bros.’ highly anticipated Superman film Man of Steel is now wholeheartedly in full swing, and in case you haven’t gotten enough of the pic by way of our extensive set visit coverage, Easter Egg reveals, TV spots, and nearly 50 images from the film, a new extended featurette has made its way online to entice fans even further.  Running at over 13-minutes in length, the behind-the-scenes featurette has interviews with a number of key people from the production, including director Zack Snyder and star Henry Cavill, as well as a bounty of footage from the film.  If your anticipation level for Man of Steel is so high that you absolutely cannot wait another two weeks to see more from the film, then this featurette should be right up your alley.

Hit the jump to watch the extended featurette.  Man of Steel opens in 3D on June 14th.

“The action in the movie is what you would have dreamt to see when you were eleven years old.”  That’s Guillermo del Toro’s sales pitch in the opening of a new featurette for Pacific Rim.  It’s important to note that Del Toro has about $200 million from Warner Bros. to make those dreams come true.  The story follows the pilots who control giant robots (called Jaegers) to fight off giant sea monsters.  This featurette takes you inside the head of the Jaeger where the pilots strap in to go into battle.  Del Toro wanted to achieve as much as possible with practical effects—he compares the resulting four-story set as both a “little amusement park simulator” and a “torture machine” for the actors.

Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day and Ron Perlman star.  Pacific Rim opens July 12.  Watch the featurette after the jump.

Judging by the trailer, Roland Emmerich‘s White House Down looks like loads of fun, and while Emmerich’s movies have a reputation for being silly, a new featurette shows the creation of the President’s limo to be downright ridiculous.  Dubbed “The Beast”, this featurette impressed the hell out of me as the crew explains how they were able to extrapolate the vehicle’s dimensions from a headlight, fortify the limo like a tank, and then make the car do all of the maneuvers Emmerich required for the action scene.  Even if you’re not excited for White House Down (although you should be) you’ll find this featurette fascinating.

Hit the jump to check out the featurette.  The film stars Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Woods, Richard Jenkins, Joey King, Jake Weber, Lance Reddick, and Jason Clarke.  White House Down opens June 28th.

Sony Pictures has released a new featurette for director Roland Emmerich’s upcoming actioner White House Down.  The story follows a rejected Secret Service applicant (Channing Tatum) who must save the President (Jamie Foxx) when a heavily-armed paramilitary group takes over the White House.  We saw in the most recent trailer that the pic has an almost buddy cop feel to it, and this featurette shows off a few new bits of footage that continue to be promising.  We also get a fascinating look behind the scenes at the massive sets that Emmerich built in order to re-create the White House, as he shot almost exclusively on soundstages for the film.

Hit the jump to watch the featurette, and if you missed any of Steve’s set visit coverage be sure to check out 35 things to know and his interviews with Tatum, Emmerich, producers Brad Fischer and Reid Carolin, producer Harold Kloser, and production designer Kirk M. Petruecelli.  The film also stars Jason Clarke, James Woods, and Maggie Gyllenhaal and opens on June 28th.

The techno-speak in Guillermo del Toro’s giant robot movie Pacific Rim might take a bit of getting used to, so the director has put together this new featurette that explains some of the terms.  Ever wanted to know why it takes two people to pilot a Jaeger?  Want to know what a “neural handshake” is or what “drift space” means?  Check out the new video to find out!

The new featurette, introduced by del Toro, features Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Robert Kazinsky and Max Martini.  Hit the jump to watch it.  Pacific Rim opens July 12th.

With J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness, now open stateside, new information on John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch) has leaked in the form of a redacted Starfleet Memorandum.  For those who have seen the movie already, feel free to read along as there are probably spoilers present.  You should also check out Matt’s review of the film here.  And if spoilers don’t bother you, then you might also enjoy these new behind-the-scenes character featurettes that highlight Bones (Karl Urban), Sulu (John Cho) and Scotty (Simon Pegg).

Also starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Alice Eve and Anton Yelchin, Star Trek Into Darkness is now playing in theaters.  Hit the jump to check out the John Harrison documents and character featurettes.

Warner Bros. has unveiled three brand new behind-the-scenes featurettes and a new TV spot for director Zack Snyder’s Superman film Man of Steel, highlighting some great new footage alongside interviews with members of the cast and crew.  Each of the three featurettes focuses on one of the film’s themes, so we’ve got Speed focusing on Superman’s intensely quick movements, Strength focusing on the two different approaches to Supes’ abilities from his two fathers (Russell Crowe’s Jor-El and Kevin Costner’s Pa Kent), and finally the self-explanatory Flight.  Along with new footage, we see Henry Cavill, Diane Lane, Crowe, Snyder, and producers Deborah Snyder and Charles Roven talking about the film.

Hit the jump to take a look at the featurettes and new TV spot.  Man of Steel opens in 3D on June 14th.