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‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Weta Digital Visual Effects Supervisor On Bringing Superhero Action To Life On The Small Screen [Interview] By Adam Frazier/May 24, 2021 10:00 am EST Charles Tait joined Weta Digital in 2000 as a Senior Compositor on The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. In 2004, he was promoted to Compositing Supervisor and spent a year designing the look of King Kong’s rampage through New York in King Kong....

The Voters Have Spoken… Warner Bros. TV “Terra Nova” pulled up the rear — not too surprising, since that show felt like stale leftovers from the moment it premiered. Another time travel-centric show, the ill-fated “Journeyman,” sounds like it should stay in the grave, while Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse,” which showed the occasional flash of promise while it was on, also didn’t inspire much of a passionate reaction from the folks who responded to this survey....

Batman Villain The Penguin Will Get His Own Spin-Off Series On HBO Max Warner Bros. By Ben Pearson/Sept. 13, 2021 5:49 pm EST One of the most popular members of Batman’s rogue’s gallery is about to get his own series. Deadline reports that “The Batman” director Matt Reeves is developing a spin-off series about the Penguin, also known as Oswald Cobblepot, a notable villain who has often been depicted as a Gotham City gangster in Batman-related media....

Cool Stuff: May The Fourth Be With These New ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy And ‘The Mandalorian’ Posters By Ethan Anderton/May 4, 2021 6:00 am EST Happy Star Wars Day! May the Fourth be with you! Now it’s time to spend some money on stuff you don’t need. Bottleneck Gallery has released a big batch of new Star Wars posters by artists Pablo Olivera, Bartosz Kosowski, Lawrence Noble, and Marko Manev. Some of the focus on the original Star Wars trilogy while others dig into the second season of The Mandalorian....

Daily Podcast: 2021 Emmy Awards Winners, Surprises, And Snubs AppleTV+ By Ben Pearson/Sept. 20, 2021 4:44 pm EST Opening Banter: In The News: Also mentioned: The Complete List of 2021 Emmy Winners The 2021 Emmys in Review: Not Great, Bob Netflix Ties Emmy Record for Most Wins in a Single Year Conan O’Brien Was the Funniest Part of the 2021 Emmys The Underground Railroad was shut out Hacks Beat Ted Lasso in Two Key Categories (Writing and Directing) Ewan McGregor in Halston beat Paul Bettany (“WandaVision”), Hugh Grant (“The Undoing”), Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Hamilton”), and Leslie Odom Jr....

Disney’s ‘Jungle Cruise’ Featurette Has Emily Blunt Claiming She Can Bench-Press More Than Dwayne Johnson By Joshua Meyer/July 8, 2021 9:04 am EST According to bench-press.net, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson can lift up to 450 pounds — “on a good day.” Maybe Emily Blunt just caught him on a bad day. The two actors co-star in Jungle Cruise, the latest live-action film adaptation of one of Disney’s theme park attractions. A new featurette takes viewers behind the scenes of the upcoming movie and it also has Blunt setting the record straight about who’s really stronger, her or Johnson....

Encanto Featurette: How Disney Worked Its Magic On The Madrigal Family Walt Disney Studios By Shania Russell/Nov. 12, 2021 11:58 am EST In a mere two weeks, Disney will sprinkle more magic on the world with their latest feature film, “Encanto.” This musical love letter to Colombia comes from Zootopia creators/directors, Byron Howard and Jared Bush, with music by Lin-Manuel Miranda. (The “Hamilton” creator also happens to be involved in three other 2021 musicals, which I guess makes him the new king of the genre....

Here’s Where You Can Stream Or Rent Every ‘Spider-Man’ Movie By Ben Pearson/Aug. 11, 2021 12:52 pm EST (Welcome to Where to Watch, which provides a clear and simple answer to the question, “Hey, where can I watch this thing?” In this edition: every major Spider-Man movie.) With great power comes great responsibility…and with great digital video choices comes great confusion about where the heck you can rent or stream every Spider-Man movie....

Lost In Space Final Season Trailer: Danger, Family Robinson Netflix By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Nov. 10, 2021 3:12 pm EST The Robinson family is back — but they’re lightyears apart. In the new trailer for “Lost in Space” season 3, the final chapter of Netflix’s reboot of the classic sci-fi show, the Robinson kids and Robot are once again left to try and survive on their own, while their parents try to keep the rest of the colonists safe from the race of synthetic aliens attacking them....

No Time To Die Blu-Ray Will Let You Bring Bond Home For Christmas MGM By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 16, 2021 12:30 pm EST “No Time to Die,” Daniel Craig’s final outing as James Bond, is coming to Blu-ray and 4K just in time for Christmas. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, “No Time to Die” goes where no other Bond film has gone before by giving audiences a definitive conclusion to Craig’s entire run as Bond, wrapping up stories first presented back in “Casino Royale....

Page 2: Jaws, Steve Martin, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Leonard Nimoy, Harry Potter, Albert Brooks, Sucker Punch By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2011 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Today’s t-shirt on TeeFury is a Scooby Doo/Doctor Who mash-up. Warner Bros will offer two Harry Potter films, Life as We Know It, Yogi Bear and Inception for rental on Facebook. Watch some behind the scenes filming of Arthur in these B-Roll videos....

Passing: Release Date, Cast, And More Netflix By Ben Pearson/Aug. 24, 2021 12:42 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Rebecca Hall, whose acting credits include films like “The Town,” “The Prestige,” and “Iron Man 3,” recently made her feature directorial debut with “Passing,” a new movie that debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and will soon be available for the public to see....

Queen “Looking At Ideas” For A ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Sequel By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 9, 2021 6:03 pm EST Curly-haired Queen guitarist Brian May has changed his tune on the possibility of a Bohemian Rhapsody sequel. According to him, the band is now “looking at ideas” for one. IndieWire notes that May, portrayed by actor Gwilym Lee in Bohemian Rhapsody, seemed to shoot down the likelihood of a sequel when speaking to Rolling Stone last summer:...

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Will Be A Two-Part Movie, And We’re Not Complaining Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Dec. 6, 2021 3:03 pm EST Surprise! We’re getting not one, but two “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” sequels. That’s right, Marvel fans, the studio has doubled down on the animated multiverse we were first introduced to in 2018 for a pair of sequels, as was revealed in the trailer for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One)....

Star Wars Bits: Ahsoka, The Book Of Boba Fett, War Of The Bounty Hunters, Tempest Runner, And More By Adam Frazier/July 30, 2021 8:00 am EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Potential Casting News for Ahsoka The Book of Boba Fett Directors and Cinematographers War of the Bounty Hunter Previews Lucasfilm Hires Popular Deepfake Artist Star Wars Podcast & YouTube Round-Up And more! Potential Casting News for Ahsoka...

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. By Ethan Anderton/May 25, 2021 6:00 pm EST Did you see the new Batman Forever statues being released by Prime 1 Studio? Did you hear The CW isn’t ordering the Black Lightning spin-off Painkiller? When are the season finales for Batwoman, The Flash and Superman & Lois? What are the biggest rumors about The Flash movie? Did you know The Powerpuff Girls series being re-piloted?...

Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy Video Game Reviews Are In, The Batman Budget & More Marvel By Ryan Scott/Oct. 26, 2021 5:46 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

The 355: Release Date, Cast And More By Jeremy Mathai/July 14, 2021 1:17 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) The movie industry is just starting to recover from pandemic restrictions, making it easier than ever to lose track of specific movies and release dates as they get lost in the shuffle of new releases....

The Final Shot Of The Many Saints Of Newark Was A Reshoot Filmed Against A Green Screen [Exclusive] Warner Bros. By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 12, 2021 1:30 pm EST “The Many Saints of Newark,” the “Sopranos” prequel movie that’s earned mostly mixed reviews (I liked it!), is currently streaming on HBO Max, and it’s been there for a few weeks. With that in mind, I think anyone who wanted to see the movie likely watched it already, right?...

The Green Knight: Release Date, Cast And More By Chris Evangelista/June 18, 2021 12:23 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.)David Lowery’s fantasy epic The Green Knight will finally arrive this summer after being delayed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a highly-anticipated film the features Dev Patel as a knight on a quest, and it’s full of magic, monsters, and talking animals....