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Friday Harvest: Predators trailer, The Expendables, and more!

Happy Friday Harvest, a weekly round-up of the best pictures, posters, and videos that have become available for viewing/download on Rotten Tomatoes. Each section features the favorite or most interesting item we've added for the week, along with several other new highlights. Enjoy! Pictures Picture Gallery of the Week: Your Highness Fire up the synth electro remixes on iTunes, dudebros, it's time for 80s edition! First up is a pic from Your Highness, a fantasy comedy from David Gordon Green that promises to pay homage to flicks like Krull and Dragonslayer. Browse the gallery.

Weekly Ketchup: More Captain America and Tim Burton's latest

This Week's Ketchup includes casting news for Green Lantern and The First Avenger: Captain America, as well as new roles for Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey, Jr., Jennifer Lopez, Woody Harrelson and Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl from Kick-Ass).

Critics Consensus: Wimpy Kid Gets Picked On

This week at the movies, we've got a scheming tween (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, starring Zachary Gordon and Steve Zahn); squabbling exes (The Bounty Hunter, starring Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston); and hazardous healthcare (Repo Men, starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker). What do the critics have to say? It's a (debatable) maxim that the book is always better than the movie. That certainly seems to be the case with Diary of a Wimpy Kid, which critics say contains moments of insight and humor but never fleshes out its middle school characters with the same empathy as Jeff Kinney's...

Total Recall: Jennifer Aniston's Best Movies

Making the jump from sitcom lead to film star is tricky -- just ask former Friends stars David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Courteney Cox Arquette, Lisa Kudrow, and Matthew Perry, all of whom have found that the big screen can be a rather inhospitable place. But there's an exception for every rule, and although her filmography is not without its share of failures (Love Happens, anyone?), Jennifer Aniston has shown an impressive ability to balance commercial hits (The Break-Up) with critical winners (The Good Girl). With her latest effort, the action comedy The Bounty Hunter, hitting theaters this weekend, we took...

Tomatometer Watch: Critics Love Kick-Ass!

From surprisingly positive MacGruber early reaction to a 100% Tomatometer out of the gate with Cyrus, the SXSW festival has been making critics happy. And perhaps no one movie more so than Kick-Ass. From its showstopping introduction at last year's Comic-Con, buzz and awareness of this freewheeling adaptation of the violent comic series has spread from geek comment boards to mainstream pop culture. With ecstatic reviews from the recent SXSW premiere coming in, Kick-Ass seems all but solidified as another genre triumph for director Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, Stardust) and distributor Lionsgate come April 16th.

Warners Gets Serious About DC Heroes

With the Harry Potter franchise drawing to an end, Warner Bros. needs a new cash cow -- and according to studio president Alan Horn, they're looking to the DC universe for answers.

Greg Berlanti Talks Green Lantern

Greg Berlanti is out promoting "Life As We Know It," but he also wrote the "Green Lantern" script. Fortunately, he was willing to discuss both projects in a recent Collider interview.

Warners Maps Another Final Destination

You didn't think the last "Final Destination" was really going to be the end of the series, did you?

Paramount Reconvenes The Monster Squad

Paramount and Platinum Dunes are readying a "Monster Squad" remake, with Rob Cohen potentially on board to direct.

Disney Finds A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle's young adult classic "A Wrinkle in Time" is headed for theaters courtesy of a deal between Disney and Bedrock Studios, with Jeff Stockwell ("The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys") writing the screenplay.

Jennifer Lopez Throws Herself Overboard

Signaling that a "Captain Ron" remake can't be far away, the Hollywood Reporter has announced that Jennifer Lopez is in talks to star in a remake of the 1987 Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell comedy "Overboard."

Cesar Chavez Biopic in the Works

Screenwriter Keir Pearson ("Hotel Rwanda") has been hired to pen the script for a biopic about civil rights activist Cesar Chavez for Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna's Canana Films.

Bryan Singer Talks X-Men: First Class

The Los Angeles Times sat down with Bryan Singer recently to discuss the tenth anniversary of "X-Men" -- and his plans for the upcoming "X-Men: First Class."

Fess Parker: 1924-2010

Fess Parker, the actor best known for playing Disney's Davy Crockett, has passed away at the age of 85.

Columbia Trying to Make Ghostbusters III Without Reitman?

Did Columbia start developing "Ghostbusters III" while planning to call a younger director? That's the scoop from New York Magazine's Vulture -- but sources say Ivan Reitman's contract will make things tough for the studio.

Tim Burton Adopts The Addams Family

According to Deadline Hollywood's sources, Tim Burton has signed a deal to direct a 3-D stop-motion animated movie based on Charles Addams' "Addams Family" drawings.

Jamie Foxx Joins Kane & Lynch

According to screenwriter Kyle Ward, the upcoming "Kane & Lynch" adaptation now has its Lynch: Jamie Foxx.

Reese Witherspoon Considers Life As a Pioneer Woman

Reese Witherspoon is eyeing the starring role in Columbia Pictures' upcoming feature based on the adventures of The Pioneer Woman, a blogger who met the "cowboy of her dreams" in Oklahoma.

McG and Amanda Seyfried Will Con the Ivy League

Amanda Seyfried is attached to star in "The Girl Who Conned the Ivy League," a McG-directed biopic about a woman who used identity theft to get her way into multiple colleges.

Blockbuster Contemplates Bankruptcy

After years of declining performance, tightening studio credit could force the once-mighty video rental chain Blockbuster into bankruptcy.

Check out next month's blockbusters in the RT Summer Movie Preview.

The summer movie season is generally a time when the studios pull out their big guns, and 2009 is no exception. In this year's Summer Movie Preview, we've got superheroes (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and a couple reboots of classic sci-fi franchises (Star Trek and Terminator Salvation). We've got wizards (Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince) and real American heroes (GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra). We've got brand new films from Pixar (Up), Judd Apatow (Funny People), and Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds). For those who prefer romance to explosions, there's something for you, too...