Blog Posts by Matt McDaniel

Lake Bell in 'In a World...' (Photo: Roadside Attractions)

You've heard it countless times. The lights go down; the trailer starts; a sonorous, commanding voice sets the scene. And two things are always the same: the voice begins by saying, "In a world…," and the voice is always male.

With the exception of the trailer for "Gone in 60 Seconds," which, 13 years ago, featured a female narrator, voice-overs for film previews have been almost exclusively performed by men. Why is that? Lake Bell ("No Strings Attached") wanted to find out. And her search for answer led to her writing, directing, and starring in the aptly named upcoming film "In a World…"

"The male voice is just deemed, 'the omniscient voice,'" Bell told Yahoo! Movies in a phone interview. "Whether it's because we coin God as a He, and it could [be] that sort of culturally significant, or it’s just literally the resonance and the are easier and more authoritative to hear. Which both are interesting conversations, and ones that I wanted to explore in the movie.

"It’s naturally fodder for comedy, because obviously hearing a

Clark Gregg and Joss Whedon (Photo: Jeff Vespa/WireImage)

Let's say you were working on a very high-profile project for months on end without a break. So when you finally got a small window of time to yourself, would you (A) go take your spouse on a relaxing vacation, or (B) spend every free minute working on an entirely different thing?

If you answered (A), that's just one of the many reasons why you are not Joss Whedon.

Whedon had a short break in between filming and editing the enormous production that was "Marvel's The Avengers," and he originally intended to take his wife Kai Cole on a vacation to Venice. What they did instead was film a whole different movie: a black-and-white adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing. It was

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie hit the red carpet for the global premiere of his epic thriller "World War Z" in London, and you can watch the whole thing again in this full rebroadcast of the event.

'White House Down' director Roland Emmerich (Photo: Columbia Pictures)

Roland Emmerich doesn't want to just be known as the guy who destroys the White House. But he's just too good at it to stop.

Believe it or not, the director who blew up 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. with an alien laser in "Independence Day" and dropped an aircraft carrier on it in "2012" actually had some misgivings about trashing the place again for his new movie "White House Down."

Director Edgar Wright (Photo: Michael Buckner, Getty Images)

Tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT we'll be premiering the new U.S. trailer for "The World's End" right here on Yahoo! Movies and to get you ready for it, co-writer/director Edgar Wright has answered questions submitted by fans over Twitter and in our comments.

"The World's End" is the third chapter in Wright's "Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy" -- named after the ice cream brand that appears in each movie -- which starring Simon Pegg (who also co-writes). This one has Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, and Eddie Marsan as old pals who try to recreate a legendary pub crawl from their youth, only to discover an event of galactic proportions is happening at the same time.

See what Wright had to say about the inspiration for "The World's End," which actor he always wanted to work with but hasn't, and who in the cast would win a drinking contest.

@yahoomovies @simonpegg @edgarwright What was your inspiration? #TheWorldsEnd

— Kellie Huynh (@KellieSHuynh) May 20, 2013

Edgar Wright: Going back to my hometown and finding that nothing had

Director Edgar Wright (Photo: Michael Buckner, Getty Images)

In under a decade, director Edgar Wright has established himself as a major director with a trio of funny, exciting, and visually inventive movies: "Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuzz" and "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World." Now he's collaborating with his old pal and screenwriting partner Simon Pegg again for "The World's End," the third chapter of their "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy.

Also starring Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, and Eddie Marsan, "The World's End" tells the story of a group of old friends attempting to recreate an epic pub crawl from their youth, only to find an even more epic event is going on around them.

We'll have the exclusive premiere of the new trailer for "The World's End" this coming Wednesday, and to get ready for it, we'll be taking questions from fans that Edgar Wright will answer. Leave your question in the comments, or tweet to @YahooMovies with the hashtag #TheWorldsEnd. We'll post Edgar's answers on Tuesday.

"The World's End" opens in the U.S. on

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Sure, Tony Stark has his pick of mechanized suits of armor, but do any of his stand 250 feet tall?

The latest trailer for "Pacific Rim" was unleashed today online, and to call it big would be an understatement. The preview for this sci-fi action flick literally rises above the competition, making it the most massive -- and dare we say, best -- trailer of the summer.

But why talk about giant robots fighting giant monsters when you can see it for yourself?

Margot Kidder and Christopher Reeve in 1978's

Before Iron Man had Pepper, another big-screen comic book adaptation set the stage for bringing to life both costumed heroes and the spunky ladies in their lives. And like the electric on-screen relationship between Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow, the romance at the heart of 1978's "Superman" thrived because of the innate chemistry between stars Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder.

But would the love triangle (of sorts) between Lois Lane, Clark Kent, and Superman have worked so well with another lady in the role? Specifically, a "Pink Lady"?