A new trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained features a track from hit recording artist, John Legend. We also get a little bit of new footage that shows Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) training up Django (Jamie Foxx) in the ways of gun-fighting and bounty-hunting.

The film also stars Kerry Washington, Leonard DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, M.C. Gainey, Walton Goggins, Garrett Dillahunt, Dennis Christopher, Gerald McRaney, Laura Cayouette, and Tom Savini.  Django Unchained opens on Christmas Day. More information on the Django Unchained soundtrack can be found right here. Hit the jump to watch the new trailer and listen to Legend’s track, “Who Did That To You?”

Here’s an early Christmas present for all the good boys and girls out there: three new clips from Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. Two of the three clips center on Jamie Foxx’s titular character and his bounty-hunting partner, played by Christoph Waltz. The third clip highlights a scene between Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson.

Hit the jump to check out the clips. The film also stars Leonard DiCaprio, M.C. Gainey, Walton Goggins, Garrett Dillahunt, Dennis Christopher, Gerald McRaney, Laura Cayouette, and Tom Savini.  Django Unchained opens on Christmas Day.

Back in 2009, Quentin Tarantino seemed to be fairly up on the idea of Kill Bill Vol. 3.  A possible premise involved Vernita Green’s (Vivica A. Fox) daughter growing up and coming after The Bride (Uma Thurman) for revenge.  At one point, Tarantino said he wanted to wait until that actress was old enough to play the role, and nine years later, that time could be now…except Tarantino is no longer interested.  Speaking to We Got This Covered, Tarantino says,

“I don’t know if there’s ever going to be a Kill Bill. Vol 3. We’ll see, probably not though.”

Hit the jump for more including why Tarantino will never make a James Bond movie.

As lame as it may sound, I used this weekend’s Friday night to take in my second viewing of The Dark Knight Rises. Moreover, while the last thing a picture that made over $1 billion at the worldwide box office needs is a voice in its corner, I have to say that I enjoyed TDKR more the second-time around. While some aspects still bothered me (the final mix on Bane’s voice, why Jim Gordon would carry around in his coat pocket a confession written on giant-sized paper that he knows will have dire consequences, etc.), I found other elements to be better than I remembered (scenes between Bruce Wayne and Alfred, the brutality of Bane and Batman’s first fight, etc.). While it’s not without its problems, I stand by my belief that TDKR was the best superhero movie of the summer and a fitting end to a historic trilogy.

Random Batman thoughts aside, on tap this week is the first teaser trailer and poster for director J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness, a plethora of The Hobbit coverage including Dave’s review of An Unexpected Journey, a new poster for Zack Snyder‘s Man of Steel, first reactions to Django Unchained, and what could very well be one of the final Top 5 entries for the oft and aforementioned The Dark Knight Rises. A brief recap and link to each awaits should you choose to pursue it after the jump.

A batch of funstuffs from writer/director Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Django Unchained has landed online.  Don Johnson appeared on The Tonight Show last night, where he debuted the first clip from Tarantino’s highly anticipated (that’s an understatement) Western.  The clip is downright great, as we see Jamie Foxx’s Django and Christoph Waltz’s Colonel Shultz riding up to an estate owned by a very Colonel Sanders-esque Johnson.  December 25th simply cannot get here soon enough.

Hit the jump to check out the clip, as well as a new TV spot and a couple of new images.  The film also stars Kerry Washington, Leonard DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, M.C. Gainey, Walton Goggins, Garrett Dillahunt, Dennis Christopher, Gerald McRaney, Laura Cayouette, and Tom Savini.  Django Unchained opens on Christmas Day.

It’s only been three years since writer/director Quentin Tarantino’s last masterwork hit screens, but the wait for his Inglourious Basterds follow-up has nevertheless felt much longer.  At last Django Unchained is set to be unleashed across the country over the upcoming Christmas holiday, but the first screenings of the film took place this past weekend.  Tarantino has yet to make an outright bad movie (the quality of Death Proof may or may not be a point of contention), so hopes have been high for the Western Django Unchained.  Full reviews are still under embargo, but a few well-respected professionals provided some quick reactions on Twitter following the first screenings, and it appears that QT has delivered yet another winner with an especially keen sense of humor.  Moreover, the runtime has been revealed to be a lengthy 2 hours and 40 minutes. Hit the jump to read some reactions.

The final trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained has landed and it’s punctuated with gun shots and one-liners. There’s not much here you haven’t seen already but that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable. And if you liked the song that accompanied the trailer (Rick Ross’ “100 Black Coffins”), you’ll be happy to find the full soundtrack listing and info on how to pre-order it after the jump.

Starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Kerry Washington, Leonard DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, M.C. Gainey, Walton Goggins, Garrett Dillahunt, Dennis Christopher, Gerald McRaney, Laura Cayouette, Don Johnson, and Tom Savini,  Django Unchained opens on December 25th. Hit the jump to watch the trailer and find out more about the soundtrack.

If you hadn’t already noticed, we’re knee-deep in Oscar season now.  Though many are put off by the awards race in general, one of the highlights of the year is always THR’s roundtable interviews with “the contenders.”  This year’s directors roundtable is really something, as the one-hour conversation involves Quentin Tarantino, Ben Affleck, Ang Lee, Tom Hooper, David O. Russell, and Gus Van Sant.  Though the entire interview is well worth watching, we figured our readers would be interested in a particular nugget from Tarantino in which he describes Death Proof as the “worst” film he’s ever made.

Hit the jump for more on that comment and to watch the full roundtable interview.

I first discovered him in college twenty years ago, getting my first real taste of what cinema was all about. We delved into deep esoteric films, the sort that never showed up at your friendly neighborhood Blockbuster. They were directed by men with complex Eastern European names and featured content designed to alternately expand and confound our expectations. Class after class, semester after semester, we studied them with all the seriousness our young minds could muster. They were Important. They were Art. We needed to understand them if we hoped to grasp the secrets that this medium held.  Then, in the middle of it all, my friend Shanan knock on my door, gripped me by the coat lapels and spoke in the soft, serious tones one normally associates with rooftop snipers. “We went to this movie called Reservoir Dogs. You have to see it. Right. Fucking. Now.”  Hit the jump for my full review.

Here’s where things get interesting.  Over that past few days we’ve been taking an early look at the 2013 Oscar race, running down the contenders in a number of categories including Best Supporting Actor and Actress, Best Actor and Best Actress, and Best Animated Feature, Screenplay, and technological category quick picks.  We’ve now come to our final installment, Best Picture and Best Director, and these two races are shaping up to be incredibly interesting. Hit the jump for the full rundown.

We’re continuing on with our weeklong preview of the upcoming 85th Academy Awards, and after running down both acting categories it’s time to take look at some of the other races.  Today we’ll be looking at the Best Animated Feature, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Screenplay categories in depth, and I’ll also make some way-too-early quick picks in the technical categories.  The fun begins after the jump.

The Mondo drop schedule is often surprising, but one thing that it isn’t is unpredictable.  With very few exceptions, Limited Paper readers know—as sure as day leads to night, as sure as tequila leads to bad decisions, as sure as Michael Bay leads to explosions—that Thursdays in Poster World lead to new Mondo prints:  announcements usually arrive on Tuesday, panic tends to set in on Wednesday, and once Thursday rolls around…well, that’s when the page-refreshing begins.  It’s like having Christmas every week, only you never know if Christmas is going to be massively frustrating or wildly euphoric.

And so, you can imagine our surprise when—in the middle of a Monday afternoon—Mondo dropped a Ken Taylor-shaped bombshell in all of our laps:  this week, we’re all going to be celebrating Thursday on Tuesday.  Find out why after the jump, my fellow poster nerds.

Lucky for you, I read Playboy (for the articles…) or I never would have come across this interview with visionary director Quentin Tarantino where he talks candidly about all things Django Unchained. Early on, it was reported that Will Smith was in talks for the title role, but passed on the offer for a number of reasons. But did you know that Tarantino also considered Idris Elba (Thor), Chris Tucker (Rush Hour), Terrence Howard (Iron Man) and more, but once he met Jamie Foxx, it was all over? Perhaps you’re worried about Tarantino’s plans to leave filmmaking before he’s an “old man,” or you’re curious to see if you’ve got what it takes to fit his idea for a “perfect wife.” Well, all those answers and more await you after the jump!

Mondo’s late-October screening of Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs took place at Tarantino’s own New Beverly Cinema, and—by all accounts—it was a raucous, electrified crowd that greeted the film that night:  with Mondo’s Justin Ishmael and Mo Shafeek in the house, a poster was bound to make an appearance sooner or later, and if the common assumption turned out to be true, then everyone in the room that night would be going home with a Tyler Stout Reservoir Dogs poster once the movie wrapped.

Since this all happened weeks ago, you surely already know that, yup, a Stout Reservoir Dogs poster did drop that night.  And if you weren’t there, the odds are that you’ve been waiting for Mondo to release the remaining regular editions of the poster (and the now-confirmed “bloody” variant) ever since.  Well, it can now be made official:  your wait is over.  Meet me after the jump to find out how you can snag one of Tyler Stout’s gorgeous Reservoir Dogs posters online tomorrow.

The website for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Django Unchained has recently been relaunched, and subsequently a batch of new goodies have also been released.  Included in the grab bag is a handful of character-centered wallpapers and a new 60-second preview that features a few flashes of new footage.  The images give us new looks at the cast (Walton Goggins!) and serve to only increase some already high anticipation for the pic.  Moreover, the new website is a lot of fun to play around with, so I highly suggest checking it out.

Hit the jump to take a look at the new wallpapers along with the preview.  The film also stars Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Don Johnson, and Samuel L. Jackson.  Django Unchained opens on Christmas Day.