A Good Day to Die Hard, the fifth entry in the Die Hard series, hits theaters on February 14.  The well-timed 2013 release also marks the 25th anniversary of the original Die Hard, released in 1988.  To mark the occasion, Fox unveiled a giant mural of Bruce Willis crawling through the vent on the studio lot, and we have a grab bag of Die Hard bits:

• A timelapse video of the mural installation.
• A neat Die Hard: With a Vengeance infographic.
• The interactive Good Day to Die Hard “Ode to Destruction” site.

All this after the jump.

With a couple weeks to go before it hits theaters, A Good Day to Die Hard marketing has gone on overdrive.  In the past couple weeks, we’ve seen TV spots, new images, a new clip, and now a four-minute featurette has been released.  The big takeaway from the featurette: the action movie is an action movie.  My main concern isn’t the amount of action, but how John McClane (Bruce Willis) relates to that action.  The guy who took down a fighter jet in Live Free or Die Hard isn’t John McClane.  The appeal is that he’s an everyman who kills lots of bad guys and barely survives.  I’ve seen all the marketing, and I’m still not sure which McClane is going to show up, but I hope it’s the latter.

Hit the jump to check out the featurette.  The film also stars Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Yulia Snigir, Cole Hauser, Amaury Nolasco, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Anne Vyalitsyna, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.  A Good Day to Die Hard opens February 14th.

We’ve got a couple of quick news stories for you this afternoon.  First up, Bruce Campbell has tweeted that Fede Alvarez‘ remake of Evil Dead has taken up The Heat‘s vacated April 5th date, which means it will be going up against Jurassic Park 3D at the box office.  So who would win a fight: deadites or dinosaurs?  [Answer: Dinosaurs.  Dinosaurs always win unless they're faced with their natural enemy, Meteors.]  Evil Dead, which originally had an NC-17 rating, will premiere at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival.

In other news, The Playlist reports that A Good Day to Die Hard will be by far the shortest Die Hard yet with a runtime of 97 minutes.  For comparison, Die Hard is 131 minutes, Die Hard 2 is 124 minutes, Die Hard with a Vengeance is 131 minutes, and Live Free or Die Hard is 128 minutes.  So Die Hard 1 and 3 are the best in the series and they both run 131 minutes.  Coincidence?  Yes.

20th Century Fox has released a new clip from A Good Day to Die Hard.  The fifth Die Hard film has John McClane (Bruce Willis) teaming up with his son Jack (Jai Courtney) in Moscow to right Russian baddies.  I’m still not sure what the plot is, but this clip shows that it’s still the same old John McClane when it comes to laughing in the face of danger before blowing danger’s head off.  The end of the clip is a bit of a missed opportunity since McClane tells his son they’re not going to die, and Jack should have responded, “But Dad! It’s a good day,” [looks directly into the camera] “TO DIE HARD.” [explosion]

Hit the jump to check out the clip.  The film also stars Sebastian Koch, Yulia Snigir, Cole Hauser, Amaury Nolasco, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Anne Vyalitsyna, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.  A Good Day to Die Hard opens February 14th.

We have some new TV spots today from the following pictures:

• A Good Day to Die Hard - The fifth installment in the Die Hard franchise teams John McClane (Bruce Willis) with his son, Jack (Jai Courtney) against the entire country of Russia.  John Moore’s A Good Day to Die Hard opens February 14th.
• Oz the Great and Powerful – Sam Raimi’s take on the L. Frank Baum classic stars James Franco, Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams and Rachel Weisz.  Oz the Great and Powerful opens March 8th.
• Jack the Giant Slayer – The first TV spot for Bryan Singer’s fantasy adventure features great looks at the giants in action as they chase down the titular hero, played by Nicholas Hoult.  Jack the Giant Slayer opens March 1st.

Hit the jump to watch all of the TV spots, plus a new banner from Jack the Giant Slayer.

We’ve grown pretty familiar with John McClane (Bruce Willis) over the course of the twenty-five-year Die Hard franchise, but the next installment will introduce some new faces.  In A Good Day to Die Hard,  Jai Courtney (Jack Reacher) will get in on the action as McClane’s son, Jack, and Yuliya Snigir (Inhabited Island) will play Irina, the…uh…attractive Russian woman, a role which she plays quite well.  Directed by John Moore (Max Payne), the fifth installment in the Die Hard series also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead (The Thing) as McClane’s daughter, Lucy.  We’ve got 16 new images from the movie to share with you after the jump.

Some new images have cropped up today for John Moore’s A Good Day to Die Hard and James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now.  The fifth installment in the Die Hard series features John McClane (Bruce Willis) and his son Jack (Jai Courtney), who are seen amidst a lot of destruction in this new image.  We also have an infographic from the original 1988 film, which is the first in a series that will be released for each film leading up to the February 14th release of A Good Day to Die Hard.

We’ve also got some new images that feature Shailene Woodley (The Descendants) and Miles Teller (Project X) being all young and cute in The Spectacular Now.  Also starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kyle Chandler, Brie Larson and Jennifer Jason Leigh, the picture  debuts at Sundance this Friday.  Hit the jump to see the new images.

Fans looking forward to the release of the upcoming fifth film in the Die Hard franchise, A Good Day to Die Hard, now have the opportunity to experience the absolute maximum amount of Die Hard before watching the new film.  20th Century Fox announced today that a five-film Die Hard marathon will be playing in theaters on February 13th.  Fans will watch Die Hard, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Die Hard with a Vengeance, and Live Free or Die Hard back-to-back, leading up to a screening of director John Moore’s A Good Day to Die Hard a few hours before it opens wide.  That’s a lot of Die Hard.

Hit the jump to check out a poster for the event.  Further details will be announced soon.  A Good Day to Die Hard hits theaters on February 14th.

Just yesterday we brought you the good news that A Good Day to Die Hard would be rated R.  Today, a new TV spot for the John Moore film, the fifth in the Die Hard series, confirms that rating.  The commercial doesn’t show much in the way of new footage, especially if you’ve already seen the previously released TV spots, but there is, of course, a new one-liner.

Starring Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, A Good Day to Die Hard opens February 14th.  Hit the jump to watch the new TV spot.

Why is John McClane (Bruce Willis) smiling? Because our sources have informed us that A Good Day to Die Hard is rated R!  This means that McClane and son (Jai Courtney) are about to go apeshit on a bunch of Russian criminals and are free to curse as loud as they want and shed as much blood as possible along the way.  Fans had been a little worried that director John Moore’s picture, the fifth in the Die Hard series, would be rated PG-13 like its predecessor, Live Free or Die Hard.  Rest assured that the new film should look a lot more like the originals if the R rating is any indication.

Also starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, A Good Day to Die Hard opens February 14th.  Hit the jump to watch the most recent trailer for A Good Day to Die Hard. 

Fox has released a new trailer for A Good Day to Die Hard.  Usually at this point, the trailers begin to reveal the basic plot (and some go too far and reveal the whole movie).  However, the fifth Die Hard is a little over a month away, and I still don’t know what the plot is beyond “McClane n’ Son fight bad Russians.”  The Die Hard movies have never been complex, but the villain always has a clear motive, so we know what John McClane is trying to stop.  I think the bad guy in this movie wants nukes or something, but even that seems kind of vague.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer.  The film stars Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Yulia Snigir, Cole Hauser, Amaury Nolasco, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Anne Vyalitsyna, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.  A Good Day to Die Hard opens February 14th.

Fox has released the first TV spot for A Good Day to Die Hard.  Like the trailer, the thirty-second commercial features a bunch of quick cuts set to “Ode to Joy.”  It is a nice, distinctive hook for the marketing campaign to keep things fresh for the fifth entry of the Die Hard series that finds John McClane (Bruce Willis) and his CIA operative son (Jai Courtney) teaming up in Russia to stop a nuclear weapons heist.

Sebastian Koch, Yulia Snigir, Cole Hauser, Amaury Nolasco, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Anne Vyalitsyna, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead also star in the sequel directed by John Moore.  A Good Day to Die Hard opens February 14, 2013.  Watch the TV spot after the jump. [Update: 20th Century Fox has now released a second TV spot, which is included after the jump.]

Our latest poster round-up includes the following films:

• New character posters for director Baz Lurhmann’s The Great Gatsby feature Isla Fisher front and center as Myrtle Wilson and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan. The Great Gatsby opens May 10, 2013.
• A slightly tweaked UK version of the recent poster for A Good Day to Die Hard features tell-tale Eastern Orthodox church structures in the background because…Russia. A Good Day to Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis and Jai Courtney, opens stateside February 14, 2013.
• A new poster for A Haunted House, the horror-comedy starring Marlon Wayans that spoofs the Paranormal Activity films. A Haunted House opens January 11, 2013.
• The animated space adventure Escape from Planet Earth has launched a new poster. Featuring the voices of Brendan Fraser, Jessica Alba, Sarah Jessica Parker, James Gandolfini and Jane Lynch. Escape from Planet Earth opens February 14, 2013.

Hit the jump to see the new posters along with the films’ synopses. 

A new poster for the upcoming fifth film in the Die Hard franchise, A Good Day to Die Hard, has been released online.  The story takes place in Moscow and sees Bruce Willis’ John McClane teaming up with his estranged son (Jai Courtney) to take on some Russian baddies.  This tagline-free poster is simple, as it just features McClane Sr. and McClane Jr. holding some big guns and mean muggin’.  Embedded in this poster, though, is the news that this will be the first Die Hard film to get the IMAX treatment, so fans will get the chance to see some really, really big explosions.  The film’s first trailer was pleasantly surprising, so hopefully director John Moore delivers the goods when the full film hits theaters.

Hit the jump to check out the poster.  The film also stars Sebastian Koch, Yulia Snigir, Cole Hauser, Amaury Nolasco, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Anne Vyalitsyna, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.  A Good Day to Die Hard opens February 14, 2013. [Update: We've updated the article with a new featurette focusing on Jai Courtney that includes some new footage.]

A new behind-the-scenes featurette has been released for the upcoming Die Hard sequel, A Good Day to Die Hard.  The story takes place in Moscow and sees Bruce Willis’ John McClane teaming up with his estranged son (Jai Courtney) to take on some Russian baddies.  In this featurette, Courtney talks about how it’s fun to work with Bruce Willis and how the movie will be a blast.  We’re still a few months away from the film’s release date, so it’s likely we’ll get another featurette that’s a little meatier than “actor enjoys film he’s working on.”

Hit the jump to check out the featurette.  The film also stars Sebastian Koch, Yulia Snigir, Cole Hauser, Amaury Nolasco, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Anne Vyalitsyna, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.  A Good Day to Die Hard opens on February 14, 2013.