In Watchmen, Billy Crudup is tasked with bringing Dr. Manhattan to life.

A former physicist that underwent a life-altering accident, this layered super hero can see the future. As Crudup told Entertainment Weekly, though, such ominiscience creates a problem for the doctor: he cares less and less for mere mortrals.

"Why bother with human beings when you can peer into a star?" the actor said, adding that the role and situation is "a thrilling thought experiment."

Watchmen fans certainly agree. The movie comes out on March 6, 2009.

It's official:

The Dark Knight isn't just a hit; it's a hit of historical proportions.

The latest Batman movie has knocked Spider-Man 3 off the top spot for the biggest opening weekend of all-time. Check out tally below, as we list the top five movies at the box office this weekend:

1. The Dark Knight - $155.3 million
2. Mamma Mia! - $27.6 million
3. Hancock - $14 million
4. Journey to the Center of the Earth - $11.9 million
5. Hellboy II - $10 million

Tropic Thunder actor Brandon T. Jackson knows that co-star Robert Downey Jr. might receive some criticism from his unusual role in the comedy. But Jackson has a message to those that have a problem with the caucasian Downey painting his face black for most of the movie.

"To be honest, he played a black dude better than anybody I've seen!" Jackson told People Magazine about Downey's performance in the Ben Stiller-directed film.

Yes, that's Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder.

Jackson did admit to having initial hesitations about Downey's part. In the movie, Downey portrays Kirk Lazarus, an Academy Award-winning actor that's cast in the most expensive Vietnam war film ever.

However, Lazarus's character, Sgt. Osiris, was originally written as an African-American. So Lazarus dyes his skin to play the role.

"When I first read the script, I was like: What? Black face? But when I saw him [act] he, like, became a black man," Jackson said. ""It was weird on the set because he would keep going with the character. He's a method actor."

A Japanese poster for the big scren version Dragonball - featuring Justin Chatwin as Goku - has been released.

Opening April 10, 2009, the movie adaptation stars James Marsters, Jamie Chung, Emmy Rossum, Eriko Tamura, Joon Park, Chow Yun-Fat, Texas Battle, Randall Duk Kim and Ernie Hudson.

Malin Akerman may have gotten a lot of attention for her role in 27 Dresses alongside Katherine Heigl.

But that's nothing compared to the hype she and her co-stars will soon start receiving for their parts in Watchmen, the highly-anticipated movie version of the beloved DC Comic.

Akerman takes on the role of Silk Spectre in the film, a super hero forced into the world of spandex by her parents. She recently talked to Entertainment Weekly about the character:

"She has to go through that journey of finding herself," Akerman said.

As for Silk Spectre's costume?

"[It] was like wearing a wet bathing suit with a cinched corset," Akerman said of the skin-clinching tights, giving guys yet another reason to go see Watchmen.

Two major movies open this weekend, with one being a study in counter-programming.

While most of the free world will be watching The Dark Knight in awe, a few females will go see Mamma Mia! Here's a brief rundown of both...

The Dark Knight
Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart
Quick synopsis: Batman is back! And he's batting The Joker and Two-Face in this franchise follow-up.
Prediction: One of the top 10 highest grossing films of all-time.

Mamma Mia!
Stars: Meryl Streep
Quick synopsis: The Broadway musical, featuring songs by Abba, comes to the big screen.
Prediction: Female super hero haters will ensure this movie doesn't totally tank.

In a recent profile of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Gillian Anderson told MoviesOnline that the return to Dana Scully was not as simple as she'd been assuming it would be.

"On the first day of shooting, I was pretty confident about returning to the role," Anderson said. "I am usually terrified when I start a project, but that wasn't the case with this one."

However, the challenge of slipping back into a character Anderson thought she'd abandoned years ago quickly became immediately apparent.

"I had a really difficult first couple of days [of shooting the film]. I was having a really hard time finding Scully's voice, and I think part of that is because since the show ended, I've been doing everything in my power to take on roles that were very different from Scully.

The work I've been doing [since the show ended] has involved creating new characters from scratch."

The actress, does, of course, find her voice again as Scully. You can see her doing so when The X-Files: I Want to Believe opens on July 25.

Say this about Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers, whose previous movies - Meet Dave and The Love Guru - completely tanked:

They're persisent.

Each recently talked to MTV News about their future projects, each sounding excited to put past failures behind them.

“This picture I’m doing now called A Thousand Words is like nothing I’ve ever done before. It’s not a kids movie, a family movie. It’s a really, funny smart picture. Different,” Murphy said. “I play this literary agent who finds out he only has 1000 words left to say and then he’s going to die.”

Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers teamed up to voice characters in Shrek. The career paths of these actors have been on a downward spiral ever since.

Yes, it’s high concept project from the actor .Forget about the debate over Beverly Hills Cop 4, and whether it will or will not contain profanity; the second half of this movie won’t contain words. At all.

“The whole second half of the picture, my character can’t talk," Murphy said.' This is a guy who’s used his mouth. He’s always fast talking, and all of a sudden he has to shut the f—k up,” Murphy said. “It turns into this like charade.”

Meanwhile, follow this article's jump now to read aboutMyers’ long-in-development film on legendary Who drummer Keith Moon...

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As Star Wars: The Clone Wars gets closer to its August release date, expect many more promotional images from this latest entry in this famous film franchise.

With that in mind, here's a new one-sheet poster for the animated feature:

Roland Kickinger is a former bodybuilder that's inheriting a movie role made famous by another former bodybuilder.

According to The Clinton News-Record, Kickinger will portray the T-800 in Terminator Salvation. The muscle-bound actor talked about his role in the film (warning: slight spoilers ahead!):

"There's a very strong scene in the film where John Connor for the first time meets the Terminator, and he doesn't know if he's a good guy or a bad guy," said Kickinger. "It's Arnold's character in the first Terminator. That's basically my role, but 20 years before, so it establishes how the Terminator [came] about."

See if you can spot Roland Kickinger in the Terminator Salvation trailer.