Infographics are a dime a dozen nowadays, as the world figured out that if you want modern society to read things, they have to be splashy and colorful, or be about adolescent wizards. This infographic falls into the former camp, and visualizes what the most pirated movies of all time are, so you can have that information handy when you’re trying to convince your friends that the movie industry is on the way out because of torrents. Or something. Full infographic after the jump.

Matthew Butterick is very devoted to his job as a typographer, where he concerns himself with the design of fonts and finding just the right look for words. Apparently, Mr. Butterick is so very devoted to his job as he was unable to fully immerse himself in The Incredibles director Brad Bird’s latest film Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol due to a critical choice of fonts. It seems that during the film, the font Verdana made a few appearances which Butterick saw as a huge mistake. Obviously, he had to bring this to the director’s attention.

One of the better “awkward workplace comedies,” Party Down, originally aired on Starz and only lasted two seasons, so you may not have heard of it — though each new episode did release on Netflix Instant the night it aired on Starz thanks to a sweet deal Netflix had once upon a time. It was fantastic, so it got canceled, because that’s frequently how that goes. Former casty member Megan Mullally, however, recently confirmed that the series will continue on in movie fashion, similar to Firefly and Serenity, and the movie will pick of where the season two finale left off. If you like things that are funny, this is good news.

The perpetually troubled Men in Black III finally has an official trailer. The story features Will Smith traveling back in time to save Tommy Lee Jones from, I don’t know, extinction? Unfortunately, that seems to mean that Tommy Lee Jones will not be in the movie as much as fans would like, as Will Smith deals with a younger Agent K, played by Josh Brolin. Either way, the trailer looks like your par-for-the-course Men in Black humor and Will Smith being charming. Hitting theaters May 25, 2012.

One of the best games of the young console video game industry, city destruction simulator Rampage, is currently under development by New Line Cinema to hit the silver screen. The game, which has been remade a few times since its initial arcade release in 1986, featured a small cast of the usual suspects of big monsters from movies that destroy cities — a big gorilla, and a big lizard — and also a giant wolfman because why not. The goal of the game is to destroy buildings by punching them and eat people, and when one city is sufficiently destroyed, the troupe of monsters would move to the next. This is now being developed as a movie.

Phoenix Wright is a weird little game franchise. You click menus and watch anime stereotypes be lawyers in such a way that makes U.S. lawyers say things like “I don’t know the Japanese legal system too well, but that’s not how court works here, and it can’t possibly work like that over there.” Regardless, it’s a fairly popular franchise, even making its way to smartphones. Now, it is making its way to live action film. This particular trailer has subtitles, so you guys can enjoy the fake, anime hair lawyering even if you don’t speak Japanese.

Back in March, there was news of a new plan featuring major studios to stream “premium” movies via DirecTV a mere 60 days after their premiere in theaters. With the backing of Warner Bros., Sony, Universal, and 20th Century Fox, studios hoped to head off the rise of streaming and declining DVD sales without upsetting theater owners too much. The only catch was that these so-called Home Premiere movies would cost viewers about $30 per movie. Now, DirecTV CEO Michael White is saying that those prices are “awfully high.”

From Bloomberg:

Few customers will purchase the premium rentals unless the quality of the movies improves and the price comes down, White said in an interview.

“They’re priced too high for consumers,” White said. “We didn’t choose that price, but that’s where the studios forced us to be.”

This could be good news for Netflix, which has been on the ropes in terms of retaining its content, and other streaming services looking to make gains in this new marketplace. Hopefully this will be the death knell of this completely wigged out scheme, and we can stop worrying about paying double a movie ticket to stream a flick.

(Bloomberg via TechDirt)

When was the last time you saw an ad for a showing of a new movie release with subtitles? Probably never, unless you’re actively looking for them. That might not be a big deal for you, but it’s something deaf people struggle with all the time. The majority of people with adequate hearing dislike subtitled movies (I count myself in the minority), so theaters have a vested interest in not “ruining” prime time showings with them. As a result, if you’re deaf, you have access to a handful of annoying alternatives like waiting for a DVD release or catching an awkwardly-timed showing.

Well, no longer, hopefully. Sony has been working on subtitle glasses that should allow deaf viewers to have their own personal subtitles without other viewers having to be distracted by them. While it seems like a pretty simple concept, the real trick is ensuring that the viewer doesn’t constantly have to switch focus from the glasses, to the screen, to the glasses, to the screen. These glasses manage to provide the subtitles in such a way that they appear to be projected on the screen, in the same field of view as the action of the movie.

Not only is Moviepass a website that has popcorn pop with a satisfying sound each time someone signs up to the service and a manual popcorn generation button, but it actually offers a service that is like Netflix, but for tangible movie theaters, as opposed to your iPad or PlayStation 3. The service, which costs $50-per-month (an additional $3 for each IMAX or 3D movie), allows subscribers to watch unlimited movies in actual theaters using their smartphones as tickets. Using an HTML5 application (with the native app coming soon), users can search for a movie, find local showtimes and watch the flick after they check into the theater. Aside from the $50 unlimited service, Moviepass is also planning on offering a four-movie-per-month $30 limited pass.

The newest release in the long-winded Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise is now in theatres. I’m sure, somewhere, somebody is rejoicing that fact. It’s probably worth mentioning that my despair didn’t stop said movie from raking in boatloads of cash. Literal boatloads. Okay, not really. But still, a lot of money was made.  My despair also had nothing to do with Roger Ebert giving the most recent iteration fewer stars than Mel Gibson’s latest outing, The Beaver. Yes, the one where he wears a beaver puppet on his hand throughout the film. That is what scored more favorably.

This turn of events brought to mind other movie franchises that managed the trifecta but couldn’t quite pull off the fourth. Also, just to get it out of the way, I am fairly positive The Matrix would be included here were it not for the remarkably sane decision to stop at three.