Can you speak whale? Well, Dory can, and you may get to see even more of her famous dialect in the upcoming "Finding Dory," slated for a Nov. 25, 2015 release.

The bumbling, blue, forgetful tang fish voiced by Ellen DeGeneres will be the focus of the "Finding Nemo" sequel according to a release from Disney Publicity Studios on April 2.

"I have waited for this day for a long, long, long, long, long, long time," DeGeneres said in the press release. "I'm not mad it took this long. I know the people at Pixar were busy creating 'Toy Story 16.' But the time they took was worth it. The script is fantastic. And it has everything I loved about the first one: It's got a lot of heart, it's really funny, and the best part is—it's got a lot more Dory."

We're guessing that Dory just kept swimming, because the upcoming feature is set in the California coastline, far from the Australian waters we remember. Fans of the film will recognize Marlin, Nemo, and the Tank Gang (from the dentist office fish tank), as well as a slew of new characters.

"Finding Nemo," which won the 2004 Oscar for best animated feature, was incredibly popular after its 2003 release and grossed $380,838,870 at the box office in the U.S. alone, according to IMDB.

Are you excited for the new film? Were you a fan of the first one? Let us know in the comments!

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Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx star in the upcoming presidential thriller, "White House Down," and we have an exclusive first look at the film's trailer.

Tatum plays John Cale, a Capitol police officer who is taking his daughter on a tour of the White House when it is struck by paramilitary invaders. Cale's mission: to protect the president (Foxx) and get his daughter, Emily (Joey King), to safety.

The movie premieres in theaters on June 28. IMDB has more info.

What do you think of the trailer? Are you planning to see the movie? Let us know in the comments.

Universal and Illumination Entertainment released the trailer for "Despicable Me 2," the upcoming sequel to the 2010 animated super-villain flick by the same name. Funny guy Steve Carell reprises his role as evil mastermind with a heart of gold, Gru, while Miranda Cosgrove returns as the eldest of his three adopted daughters, Margo. Kristen Wiig and Russell Brand also rejoin the cast to reprise their roles, while Al Pacino pipes in as a villain.

The film opens July 3 and will be followed by a third 3D film, featuring the minions in December 2014.

What do you think of the trailer? Did you see the first film? Will you see the sequel? Comment here.

If you ever wanted to see Hermione Granger bask in the glory of bottle service, the upcoming Sofia Coppola flick might be the place to do. The teaser trailer for "The Bling Ring" was released and shows Emma Watson slathering on the lip gloss, getting down in the club, and of course, ransacking the closets of the rich and famous with her fellow label-loving L.A. friends. Watson plays a character inspired by "Bling Ring" member, Alexis Neiers, who goes by the name "Nicki" in the film.

The film is based on Vanity Fair's profile of the crimes of Hollywood's Bling Ring, a group of teens who robbed the homes of the likes of Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr, Lindsay Lohan, and Rachel Bilson in 2008-2009. According to the profile, they primarily stole designer goods and cash to the tune of more than $3 million and were tried for their various crimes in 2010.

Coppola's film faced scrutiny when it was revealed in December that members of the Ring and members of the LAPD who had assisted in the investigation were on payroll to consult for the movie.

The film will be in limited release June 14.

Will you see this film? Sound off here.

Halle Berry will be reprising her role as Marvel character Storm in the 2014 film, "X-Men: Day of Future Past," according to the film's producer Bryan Singer.

Singer tweeted the news to more than 44,000 followers on his personal Twitter account today.

Couldn't be more excited that #HalleBerry has joined the cast of #XMen #DaysofFuturePast. Hopefully she can improve the weather in Montreal.

— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) March 4, 2013

The newest "X-Men" film will focus on chronicling the lives of the mutants who have to travel back in time to change an event that could have a global "impact on man and mutant kind," according to IMBD.

Original "X-Men" (2000) castmates Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, Hugh Jackman, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, and Anna Paquin have already signed on for the project, as well as Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence and her former beau Nicholas Hoult, who costarred in 2011's "X-Men: First Class."

Check out what Hoult thinks of the upcoming project in the video below.

Do you plan to see the newest "X-Men" film? Let us know in the comments.

Globe movie critic Ty Burr will be online Monday, Feb. 25, at noon to chat about all things Oscars, including the night's biggest wins, snubs, and other stand-out moments. Submit your questions or comments in the field below before or during the chat.

Class wins out: How about that? After the dust settled on the third annual Boston.com "Romance Rumble," Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca" stands tall as the greatest leading man in movie history, besting contenders like Steve McQueen, Harrison Ford, and Jack Nicholson, not to mention such Johnny-come-latelies as Ryan Gosling and Robert Pattinson.

Now, see, Meredith's pretty annoyed at me, because when I suggested Bogie and "Casablanca" as part of my initial 16-man squad, she mentioned that the film had won the very first Rumble, for "Most Romantic Film," two years ago. No way he could win a second time, I said, clearly underestimating the eternal charisma that makes everybody come to Rick's sooner or later. So, yes, we're screening "Casablanca" at 7 p.m. on Monday, February 25th, at Theatre 1 at the Revere Hotel Boston Common, with both Meredith and myself in attendance. And, yes, maybe I should have picked "The Maltese Falcon" or "To Have and Have Not" or "The African Queen."

But, still, how often do you get to see the single greatest product of the Hollywood studio era on a big screen? And it's not just Bogart, but the incandescent Ingrid Bergman and the heroic (and, admit it, kinda dull) Paul Henreid and all those marvelous Warner Brothers character actors, from slick Claude Rains to loyal Dooley Wilson to Peter Lorre going out in a screaming fit, his preferred mode of exit. "Casablanca" is classic Hollywood cinema firing on all cylinders, and at its center is a unique star: A prep-school drop-out who kicked around the film industry for years before he finally matured -- like a good scotch -- into the last honorable man in the movies. Come to Theatre 1 on Monday and bring a Bogart newbie. It'll be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

As we await Will Ferrell's "Anchorman" sequel (now co-starring another "Saturday Night Live" veteran, Kristen Wiig), the quirky funnyman is keeping his name in the headlines in Hollywood.

Decked out in a red jacket and donning a sizable mustache, Ferrell posed as a security guard at last night's basketball game at Staples Center in Los Angeles, even ejecting former Lakers and Celtics center (and known comedy fan) Shaquille O'Neal.

During a break in the action between the Lakers and Phoenix Suns, Ferrell escorted Shaq from his seat. See the video below.

Kristen Wiig, former "Saturday Night Live" cast member and star of the silver screen comedy "Bridesmaids," signed on to the "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" sequel, "Anchorman: The Legend Continues," according to the film's director, Adam McKay.

McKay, who also directed "Step Brothers," tweeted the news yesterday.

Just found out Kristen Wiig officially on board for Anchorman 2.Cannonball!

— Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) February 5, 2013

One of the film's stars, Christina Applegate, tweeted her excitement about the addition to the cast.

So excited Kristen Wiig has joined our cast for anchorman2. Going 2 b best movie ever made. Besides the best movies ever made.

— christina applegate (@1capplegate) February 5, 2013

Fans of characters Brick, Veronica, Ron, and Brian will have to wait a few more months for the much-anticipated release. The film is due out Dec. 20, just in time for the holiday movie rush, more than nine years after its predecessor.

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Singer Barbra Streisand performed at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Oct. 11, 2012. She will hit the Academy Awards stage on Feb. 24 for her second performance at the Oscars, and her first in 36 years.

Babs is back -- at the Academy Awards.

Barbra Streisand will perform at the Feb. 24 award show for the first time in nearly four decades, the organizers announced today. In 1977, she sang the best song winning "Evergreen" from "A Star is Born," her only previous Oscars performance. While the tune she will belt out this year was not released, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron deemed it a "very special performance" in a statement.

"In an evening that celebrates the artistry of movies and music, how could the telecast be complete without Barbra Streisand?" Zadan and Meron said.

On this year's Oscars bill, the 70-year-old Streisand will join two modern day sirens crooning best song nominees, Adele, singing her "Skyfall" theme, and Norah Jones, performing "Everybody Needs a Friend" from "Ted."

Streisand has been nominated for Oscars five times, including two best song nods, and won twice. In 1969, she shared best actress honors for "Funny Girl" with "The Lion in Winter" star Katharine Hepburn. While she hasn't even walked the red carpet at the Academy Awards since 2010, she hasn't been totally out of the spotlight. She recently appeared in 2012's "The Guilt Trip" alongside Seth Rogen.

Check out our full Academy Awards section and tell us what you expect from Streisand's performance in the comments section.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger at the European premiere of "The Last Stand" in central London on January 22.

In fairness, he did warn us he'd be back.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Hollywood leading man comeback tour kicked off last week with "The Last Stand" and it appears he's returning to several of his old franchises, including possibly "Terminator." The former governor of California reportedly told a journalist at a London press junket for "The Last Stand" that the fifth installment of the "Terminator" series is on his to-do list, along with the previously announced "Conan the Barbarian" follow-up and a "Twins" sequel entitled "Triplets."

Schwarzenegger starred in the first three "Terminator" films, starting with the debut in 1984, but he skipped 2009's "Terminator Salvation." In a video webchat with The Sun, Ahh-nold assured fans that a script for "Terminator 5" will be finished "soon."

What do you think of Schwarzenegger re-enlisting in "Terminator"? Are you excited to see the fifth movie? Twenty-nine years after the initial release, how do you think Schwarzenegger will fit the role?

In Ty Burr's review of the new Oscar-nominated film "Amour," the Globe critic gave the movie a full four stars. Which other films have gotten such a rare rating? Take a look below, and watch Burr and Wesley Morris discuss "Amour."

Ty Burr's recent four-star reviews:

"Amour"

"Zero Dark Thirty"

"Oslo, August 31"

"Beasts of the Southern Wild"

"Frankenweenie"

"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry"

"The Kid With a Bike"

"This is Not a Film"

Wesley Morris's four-star reviews:

"A Separation"

"Polisse"

"Moonrise Kingdom"

"The Master"

"How to Survive a Plague"

Do you disagree with any of the films getting a four-star review? Tell us what you think in the comments.

Time to make your voice heard. Which of the nine nominees should take home a golden statue at the Oscars on Feb. 24?

Will it be Michael Haneke's touching "Amour," Ben Affleck's harrowing escape drama "Argo," the post-hurricane fairytale "Beasts of the Southern Wild," Quentin Tarantino's bloody "Django Unchained," the re-imagined "Les Miserables," Ang Lee's visually-spectacular "Life of Pi," Steven Spielberg's talkative "Lincoln," David O. Russell's ensemble comedy "Silver Linings Playbook," or Kathryn Bigelow's hunt for bin Laden tale "Zero Dark Thirty"? Vote below.

The nominations for the Oscars were announced Thursday morning at 8:38 a.m. ET. Comedian Seth MacFarlane, who will host the awards on Feb. 24., presented the nods with actress Emma Stone.

Steven Spielberg's biopic "Lincoln" leads the pack with 12 nods. Here are the nominations:

Best picture
“Lincoln”
“Zero Dark Thirty”
“Argo”
“Les Miserables”
“Silver Linings Playbook”
“Life of Pi”
“Django Unchained”
“Amour”
“Beasts of the Southern Wild”

Best director
Steven Spielberg, “Lincoln”
Ang Lee, “Life of Pi”
Michael Haneke, “Amour”
David O. Russell, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Benh Zeitlin, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

Best actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln”
John Hawkes, “The Sessions”
Denzel Washington, “Flight”
Bradley Cooper, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Joaquin Phoenix, “The Master”
Hugh Jackman, “Les Miserables”

Best actress
Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty”
Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Naomi Watts, “The Impossible”
Emmanuelle Riva, “Amour”
Quvenzhane Wallis, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

Best supporting actor
Tommy Lee Jones, “Lincoln”
Philip Seymour Hoffman, “The Master”
Alan Arkin, “Argo”
Robert De Niro, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Christoph Waltz, “Django Unchained”

Best supporting actress
Anne Hathaway, “Les Miserables”
Sally Field, “Lincoln”
Helen Hunt, “The Sessions”
Amy Adams, “The Master”
Jacki Weaver, “Silver Linings Playbook”

For a complete list, visit the official Academy Awards site.

Jay-Z, meet Jay Gatsby.

The hip-hop mogul is teaming up with up-and-coming act The Bullitts to score the upcoming film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel "The Great Gatsby." Jeymes Samuel, the man behind The Bullitts, announced the news on Twitter on Dec. 30.

Jay-Z and myself have been working tirelessly on the score for the upcoming #CLASSIC The Great Gatsby! It is too DOPE for words!

— THE BULLITTS (@TheBullitts) December 30, 2012

The film, which stars Leonard DiCaprio, Isla Fisher, Carey Mulligan, and Tobey Maguire, is due out this May. If you're questioning how modern hip-hop would fit into a movie set in the roaring '20s, take a look at the film's trailer. Jay-Z's collaboration with Kanye West, "No Church in the Wild," is featured at the top of the clip.

What do you think of Jay-Z and The Bullitts scoring "The Great Gatsby"? Are you excited for the film? Tell us in the comments below.

Little more than a week after "Twilight" actress Kristen Stewart confirmed her role in the upcoming film "Focus," Ben Affleck has dropped out, Variety reports. The Boston-bred actor was signed up to to costar in the movie, playing the role of a grifter who takes in a young, attractive apprentice with whom he later becomes romantically involved.

The father of three and the 2012 GQ filmmaker of the year doesn't have time for the production, according to the Variety post.

Affleck is reportedly working on his next directorial project, "Live By Night."

Are you disappointed that you won't see a pairing of "Besten Affwart"? (Vulture dubbed the acting duo by this name, which we think is worth noting.) Discuss in the comments!

Below, Stewart confirmed her role in the film.

Ready for "Les Misérables"? Before its Christmas Day opening, get a sneak preview of director Tom Hooper's live-singing mandate in the first full performance from the film adaptation.

In the clip (below), the cast belts out the iconic, swelling "One Day More." Hugh Jackman kicks things off, Eddie Redmayne ("My Week with Marilyn") impresses by doing the heavy lifting, Amanda Seyfried and newcomer Samantha Barks hold their own, and Russell Crowe appears over his head, half-grunting through his verses.

Take a look at the video and tell us what you think.

The Golden Globes often seem to come out of nowhere. Not the nominations, per se (although there are always those) but the announcement itself. Weren't we just in August? Nonetheless, those fine, starstruck men and women of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association -- that 68-year-old media outfit that cooks up the Golden Globe awards -- boldly asked Jessica Alba and Megan Fox to read the 2012 nominees (for what it's worth, Ed Helms was there, too).

The headline news included the seven nominations for "Lincoln," Steven Spielberg's 13th Amendment drama. Before it even opened, its award-worthiness was somewhat preordained. Its excellence makes it a more than tolerable companion for the next three months of acceptance speeches, red carpets, and decolletage that will culminate with the Academy Awards broadcast at the end of February.

Lincoln is about the abolition of slavery. The surprise of the day was the strong showing for Quentin Tarantino's grisly exploitation film about a former slave on a mission to rescue his enslaved wife. Yes, "Django Unchained" received five nominations (it opens Christmas Day), although none was for its black actors, which is an uncomfortable irony best discussed in the future. The movie hasn't opened yet, and it's sparked curiosity, excitement, and preemptive outrage. "Lincoln," which opened last month, has also annoyed people for its omission of black Americans' participation in the passing of the amendment. So we'll have great controversy for the next three months, too.

It was a strong end of the year for Hollywood and the Foreign Press's obsession with its movies. Ben Affleck's hit Iranian hostage drama, "Argo," also had five nominations, including for Affleck's directing. Tom Hooper's desperately anticipated revolution-and-romance musical "Les Misérables" (it, too, opens Christmas Day); David O. Russell's ensemble romantic sports comedy, "Silver Linings Playbook"; and "Zero Dark Thirty," Kathryn Bigelow's yet-to-open thriller about the manhunt for Osama bin Laden, each had four. Ang Lee's "The Life of Pi" and Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" scored three.

The happy surprise on the acting side of things continues to be the mounting enthusiasm for whatever Nicole Kidman was doing in Lee Daniels' superbly filthy racial bomb, "The Paperboy." And Rachel Weisz's best actress nomination for Terence Davis's romantic drama "The Deep Blue Sea" makes it hard to dismiss the Foreign Press as a band of nitwits. Sometimes they're toeing the movie-industry line. But they get a lot right, too.

That said, there was nothing for a critically beloved, made-from-scratch movie like "Beasts of the Southern Wild." It was ineligible for the Screen Actors Guild Awards (none of the cast is in the union!), but it did well in last month's Independent Spirit Award nominations. The movie will likely speak to enough voters to figure into the Academy Award nominations, which have been defensively (albeit understandably) moved up about two weeks to January 10th, before the Globes broadcast on the 13th, because nobody puts Oscar in a corner. Not this year, anyway.

Matthew Gilbert wrote about the television nominees and the full list of nominees is here.

"Twilight" actress Kristen Stewart confirmed an earlier rumor that she would be costarring with Ben Affleck in a comedy called "Focus."

"I'm really excited about it. We start shooting in April," Stewart told the Huffington Post.

"Focus" will follow a grifter and a younger, attractive woman that the criminal takes under his wing. We're guessing that the grifter will be Affleck and the younger woman will be Stewart--unless there's another actor coming into the mix. Plot twist: things start to get messy when romance becomes a factor. Check out more details on IMDB.

The film was written by "Crazy, Stupid, Love" directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa.

Stewart has had a busy year promoting "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2" as well as her next project, the Jack Kerouac-based film "On the Road," which hits theaters nationwide on Dec. 21.

Are you excited about "Focus"? What do you think the chemistry will be like between our Boston boy and the vampire saga star? Let us know in the comments below.

Had enough of Star Trek yet? Too bad.

"Star Trek Into Darkness" is coming from J.J. Abrams next May whether you want it or not. And a new abbreviated trailer was released Thursday. Watch it here.

What's it about? Hard to say exactly other than a really scary voice narrates the trailer and asks: "You think your world is safe? It is an illusion." This is the official plot summary:

In Summer 2013, pioneering director J.J. Abrams will deliver an explosive action thriller that takes "Star Trek Into Darkness."

As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

Much of the same cast from the last Star Trek movie will be back, most especially Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Zoe Saldana.