James Gandolfini, a prolific actor best known as Tony Soprano in The Sopranos but also for key, memorable roles in True Romance and Where the Wild Things Are has passed away in Italy. Early reports say the 51-year-old, who was beginning work on a new series called Criminal Justice, suffered a sudden heart attack ... Discuss

You probably know Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal as the first movie to give you an honest nightmare, but it could also be your ticket to fame, as the Jim Henson Company is on the market for someone to write a prequel to the 1987 cult classic. Just head over to darkcrystal.com, enter the contest and start writing—whoever pens the winning prequel gets $10,000 (which sounds like a lot, until you start thinking about how much money most people who write prequels probably make) Discuss

There's been a lot of talk about all the Christological parallels in Man of Steel and, if you've seen it, you know the filmmakers embraced the metaphor whole-heartedly. But the Man of Steel marketing team was even more enthusiastic about it, going so far as to pay Craig Detweiler at Pepperdine University to write a sermon called "Jesus: the Original Superhero" that pastors could use. On the one hand, sure. The parallels are certainly there (we at RELEVANT certainly didn't ignore them) and they should be discussed from the pulpit. On the other hand, having a sermon written at the request of a film's marketing campaign is raising some eyebrows. What do you think? ... Discuss

After being dropped by New Line and Warner Bros., the sequel to the Jim Carrey/Jeff Daniels buddy comedy Dumb and Dumber has found a new home at Universal and Red Granite. Production will start this summer, and the film is currently slated for a 2014 release date—the 20th anniversary of the original movie’s release. You read that correctly: Dumb and Dumber came out 20 years ago … Discuss

Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson and Nick Offerman all help voice what’s being billed as the “biggest movie ever assembled.” (See what they did there?) Even if you don’t still play with LEGOs, the cast alone makes the movie look pretty amazing … Discuss

Veronica Mars and Zach Braff have proved that the public has an appetite for funding unfathomably wealthy celebrity's pet projects, so it was only a matter of time before more stars start bringing their film ideas to the public. Leading the charge is James Franco, who's looking to film a $500,000 trilogy about his high school years. Sure. Sounds great. To his credit, Franco is promising to donate any profit his films make to charity, so at least he's paying it all forward ... Discuss