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‘Jungle Cruise’ Review: A Decent Adventure That Owes A Lot To Other Films By Josh Spiegel/July 27, 2021 9:00 am EST Considering its own inspiration, it’s somewhat surprising that the Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland took so long to become the inspiration for a movie of its own. The opening-day attraction was partially inspired by the 1951 romantic comedy/adventure The African Queen, bringing two of the greatest stars of the era, Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, together....

‘See’ Season 2 Trailer Pits Jason Momoa Against Dave Bautista As Apple Renews Series For A Third Season By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 11, 2021 7:37 am EST It’s a battle of the Big Boys in See season 2, which will see blind Jason Momoa go up against the only person who could defeat him in combat, and possibly in size: his brother. Dave Bautista will be playing Edo Voss, the brother of Momoa’s character, Baba Voss, in the second season of Apple TV+’s post-apocalyptic drama, which has just landed a season 3 renewal....

‘Sleeping With Other People’ Trailer: Alison Brie And Jason Sudeikis Are Just Friends By Angie Han/June 25, 2015 7:30 am EST IFC Films has released the first trailer for Sleeping With Other People, director Leslye Hedland’s follow-up to her 2012 indie hit Bachelorette. This one stars Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie as two former hookups who reconnect after twelve years. Seeing as they’re both terrible at relationships, they pledge to stay just friends....

‘The Trip’ Trailer – Steve Coogan And Rob Brydon Bicker In Some Of England’s Finest Restaurants By Angie Han/May 5, 2011 1:00 pm EST A new trailer has been released for Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalized versions of themselves — similar to what they did in 2006’s Tristram Shandy: A C**k and Bull Story. When Coogan’s (fictional) foodie girlfriend dumps him, he reluctantly invites Brydon to join him on a ten-restaurant tour of North England as part of an assignment for The Observer....

The Sword in the Stone The Sword in the Stone, Disney 1963 animated take on King Arthur’s boyhood is on its way to becoming a live-action reboot, because that’s what Disney does these days. I don’t know what reputation this Disney classic has these days – does anyone care about it the way they care about other Disney films from this bygone era? Maybe, maybe not. All I know is that this is the only Arthurian film where Merlin goes on vacation to Bermuda....

Dr. No Eon Productions The hottest rumor around “No Time To Die” is that it’s secretly a remake of “Dr. No,” the very first Bond film. There’s enough smoke to the fire that Rami Malek, who plays supervillain Lyutsifer Safin, had to dodge the question head-on: “I’m not going to bite on that, but I do think it’s interesting.” Whether or not it’s true, the release of Bond #25 is still a worthy occasion to revisit the original Bond flick that started it all....

Asteroid City Is The Title Of Wes Anderson’s Next Movie Focus Features By Max Evry/Oct. 11, 2021 11:22 am EST The title of the next Wes Anderson movie has been revealed, via a slip of the tongue by Bill Murray, of course. The Anderson regular revealed at the BFI London Film Festival screening (per Screen Daily) of their latest collaboration, “The French Dispatch,” that the new Anderson movie will carry the quirky name of “Asteroid City....

Bruce Campbell Heavily Implies That He’s In ‘Doctor Strange 2’ By Ben Pearson/March 1, 2021 11:30 am EST If you were to make a list of the most indelible actor/director pairings of all time, it wouldn’t be complete without mentioning Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi. The duo have worked together multiple times since first teaming up for a short film back in 1976, and now Campbell has taken to Twitter and may have hinted that they’ve just added another tally to their long list of collaborations....

Dave Chappelle Sparks Justified Outrage With New Comedy Special Netflix By SlashFilm Staff/Oct. 7, 2021 2:12 pm EST In his sixth stand-up special for Netflix, “The Closer,” Dave Chappelle has completed his deal with the streamer and gone out on a note so sour, Warheads candies seem sweet by comparison. Upon its release on Tuesday, audiences have been taking to social media to express their outrage, and both GLAAD and The National Black Justice Coalition have called for the special’s removal from the streaming platform, noting the very real harm his words may cause....

Disney’s ‘Peter Pan And Wendy’ Has Started Production In Vancouver By Ethan Anderton/March 16, 2021 9:00 am EST Disney has officially begun shooting Peter Pan and Wendy, another adaptation of the classic fantasy tale written by J.M. Barrie. With inspiration from the 1953 animated adaptation from Disney, director David Lowery (Pete’s Dragon) is at the helm of this new take on the old favorite with Jude Law playing the dastardly Captain Hook....

Early ‘Shang-Chi’ Screenings Coming To IMAX Theaters Tomorrow – Here’s How You Can Get Tickets By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 17, 2021 8:10 am EST Marvel’s definitely feeling confident about their latest. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings just held its Hollywood premiere well in advance of its planned theatrical release and early reactions are wall-to-wall positive. Armed with that goodwill, Marvel Studios has just announced that they will be hosting special early screenings in IMAX as soon as tomorrow, with tickets on sale right now....

Ellen Page Will Be A Serious Gamer In ‘1UP’ eSports Movie From ‘Fanboys’ Director Kyle Newman By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 31, 2020 12:00 pm EST Ellen Page has gotten pregnant in high school, pulled off a heist in someone’s dreams, walked through walls, and roughed some people up in roller derby. Now she’s heading into uncharted territory on the big screen: the world of professional video gaming. BuzzFeed is getting into the movie business with 1UP, an underdog eSports comedy that finds Ellen Page coaching a college a team of misfit women gamers who team up to take down a team of chauvinist ahole players on campus....

Gadzooks! Neon Before “Frozen” landed in theaters and doomed parents across the world to infinite replays of “Let It Go,” Gad was known for his appearances on “The Daily Show” and for starring in NBC’s “1600 Penn” (which he also co-created and produced). Since the massive success of “Frozen” he’s returned as Olaf for “Frozen 2” and several short films, as well as the YouTube series “At Home With Olaf.” Outside of voice-acting roles, Gads played the dwarf Mulch Diggums (albeit under heavy make-up) in “Artemis Fowl” and starred alongside the late Chadwick Boseman in the 2017 biopic “Marshall....

How Paranormal Activity Became The Most Profitable Horror Film Of All Time Blumhouse Productions/Paramount Pictures By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Dec. 15, 2021 1:17 pm EST When I watched “Paranormal Activity” many years ago, it kept me up at night. That’s a big deal, because I grew up watching horror movies. “The Conjuring” is oddly comforting to me, and I can eat “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” and the likes of it for breakfast....

Life on LA? The very first thing we get hit with is the melancholy, and yet also celebratory, keys of David Bowie’s “Life on Mars?” Bowie soundtracks the entire trailer, and the highs and lows of this jam perfectly reflect the sort of languorous chaos PTA is throwing at us in the trailer. We catch Haim walking through what looks like the hallways of a perfectly manicured California school, where Hoffman immediately spots her in the crowd....

Marvel’s ‘What If…?’ Episodes Could Have Included The Rocketeer, Mighty Loki, Captain Hydra, And More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 16, 2021 12:41 pm EST Marvel’s What If…? animated series on Disney+ has started digging into the many possibilities of the multiverse in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by remixing the characters and stories from Marvel Studios. But for every episode that we’ll see debut on the streaming service, there are others that didn’t make the cut, and director Bryan Andrews and head writer A....

The Oscar Isaac Effect Marvel Studios Maybe we shouldn’t even be surprised by now, but Marvel’s “Moon Knight” series for Disney+ has quickly turned from a niche comic-reader talking point to one of the superhero studio’s most fascinating projects currently in-development. Describing the series as something that “doesn’t follow the same … logic of what a lot of superhero films do” was already enough to get full marks in my book, but the inspired casting of Oscar Isaac to star as the unstable superhero dealing with dissociative identity disorder while bringing along an actor like Ethan Hawke, of all people, to play the villain also helps!...

Page 2: Star Trek, Blade Runner, Simpsons, Interstellar, Ratatouille, Muppets, Star Wars, The Descent By Peter Sciretta/March 17, 2015 9:30 am EST Header Photo: USS Enterprise Frisbee With Entire Ship Attached The Complete Guide to Adam Sandler’s Acting Most Valuable Movie Blockbuster Of 2014: The Data Behind The Dollars Blade Runner Model ShopTHE 7 MOST WANTED TV DRAMA PILOT SCRIPTSWhy “It Follows” is the best horror movie in over a decadeAdam Savage’s build notes for his Overlook Hotel maze from The Shining17 MORE TERRIFYING POP CULTURE MOMENTS FROM THE ‘80S (CHOSEN BY YOU!...

The Pitch Disney initially stepped into the TV world in the ’50s, when it entered an agreement with ABC, which would help finance Disneyland in exchange for Disney producing a TV show for the network. In time, Disney would make more shows for ABC like The Mickey Mouse Club, and later the Walt Disney Presents anthology that carried on until the early ’60s when Disney moved its programming to NBC instead....

Rust Weapons Expert Sheds Some Unsurprising Light On The Tragic Shooting Sam Wasson / Getty Images By Anya Stanley/Nov. 30, 2021 10:12 pm EST Questions are still arising from the shooting on the set of the period Western film “Rust” in October, in which actor Alec Baldwin fired a shot from an on-set weapon during rehearsal that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded the film’s director, Joel Souza. The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office has been investigating the cause of the shooting and figuring out how a live round made it into a gun used on the production, and detectives have released an affidavit that answers few questions but spreads the blame around as the lawsuits start coming in against those in charge of production....