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‘Almost Famous’ Getting 4K Release And Incredible Soundtrack Rerelease For Belated 20th Anniversary By Ben Pearson/May 21, 2021 2:00 pm EST Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous is celebrating its 21st birthday this year, and Paramount is releasing a newly remastered 4K version of the film on home video this summer, which includes both the theatrical and the “bootleg” cuts along with new bonus content. That alone should be exciting to fans of the music-centric drama, but just wait until you get a look at the upcoming Almost Famous 20th anniversary limited edition box set of the soundtrack, which includes everything the most diehard Stillwater fan could possibly desire....

‘Bright,’ ‘Yes Day’ Sequels Coming To Netflix, But Don’t Expect A ‘6 Underground 2’ By Jeremy Mathai/July 29, 2021 6:44 am EST If there was ever a studio best-equipped to withstand the uncertainty and trying times of a modern pandemic, you’d be hard-pressed to find any better answers than Netflix. Theaters are shut down? No problem, just release some buzzy titles straight to streaming and rake in the views with little to no competition....

‘Hardcore’: ‘Godzilla Vs. Kong’ Director Adam Wingard To Direct Film Adaptation Of Robert Kirkman’s Comic By Ben Pearson/May 24, 2021 1:00 pm EST Adam Wingard continues to pile up potential projects. The Godzilla vs. Kong filmmaker has just been hired to direct Hardcore, a movie adaptation of a comic created by The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman and Marc Silvestri (Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine). If you’ve never read the comic, just think about the premise of Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor, and it’s basically the same thing....

‘Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous’ Season 3 Teaser Introduces The Birth Of A New Threat By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 11, 2021 3:30 pm EST The world’s worst camp continues, with the teen members of Camp Cretaceous facing off against more dino terrors in Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous season 3. But little do they know, they’ll be witnessing the birth of a brand new dinosaur threat. Watch the Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous season 3 teaser below....

‘Knives Out’ Clips: A Murder Mystery Is Afoot And Everyone Seems To Be Inconvenienced By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 13, 2019 5:00 pm EST The buzz is strong for Knives Out, the latest film from Looper and Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson. This time he’s reaching back to his roots by tackling another murder mystery. But instead of the film noir set in high school that we got with Brick, this time it’s a whodunit set squarely in the center of an affluent family, where all the members seem to be extremely inconvenienced by the mere prospect of a murder investigation, especially since it appears the family patriarch committed suicide....

‘Last Night In Soho’ Trailer: Edgar Wright’s Psychological Thriller Has Time-Hopping Terror By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 25, 2021 8:04 am EST Any new movie from Edgar Wright is worth the wait, though Last Night in Soho has admittedly had a long one. Initially set to be released in 2020, the psychological horror movie from the Baby Driver and Shaun of the Dead director was hit with delay after delay due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....

‘Peacemaker’ Series “Turns Up The Volume” On ‘The Suicide Squad,’ John Cena Says By Danielle Ryan/July 14, 2021 2:25 pm EST John Cena’s strange superhero/supervillain will do more on his new Peacemaker series than eat a bunch of empanadas.The Peacemaker series will be a spin-off of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, coming to theaters and HBOMax on August 6. The Suicide Squad is already looking like it will be absolutely wild, so when Cena says the TV series will “turn up the volume,” it got my attention....

‘Raya And The Last Dragon’ International Trailer Unveils New Footage From The Animated Fantasy Adventure By Ben Pearson/Feb. 10, 2021 12:30 pm EST Raya and the Last Dragon, the latest movie from Walt Disney Animation, just premiered a brief new TV spot during the Super Bowl this past weekend. But that was only 30 seconds long, and Disney knows it’s going to need to showcase more than that if the company wants this film to be a bonafide hit....

‘The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers’ Clip Reunites Gordon Bombay With A Grown-Up Duck By Ethan Anderton/April 29, 2021 8:30 am EST The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers is bringing in some familiar faces this week to help turn around a grumpy Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez). Before the episode debuts on Disney+ on April 30 (that’s tomorrow), the first clip from the episode has debuted featuring a chance encounter with one of Bombay’s young hockey discoveries whose now all grown up…but he still has a penchant for breaking the passenger side windows of Bombay’s vehicles....

‘The Witcher’ Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Will Keep On Making Stuff For Netflix As Part Of New Deal By Vanessa Armstrong/Aug. 20, 2021 10:27 am EST We already knew that Netflix is all in for The Witcher. It appears, however, that the streaming platform isn’t just about Witcher spin-offs and WitcherCon. They’re also into The Witcher showrunner, Lauren Schmidt Hissrich. Netflix Tossed (Many) A Coin to Schmidt Hissrich During Netflix’s TCA session yesterday, the company announced it had struck a multi-year overall deal with Schmidt Hissrich....

A24 Launches Virtual Screening Room; Virtual Screenings Of ‘Minari’ Begin On February 12 By Ben Pearson/Feb. 5, 2021 8:00 am EST If you’ve been dying to see Minari, here’s a great way to do it safely. Film distribution company A24 has launched the A24 Screening Room, a website where film fans can access virtual screenings of their new movies. The only title listed so far is Minari, writer/director Lee Isaac Chung’s excellent family drama, but presumably we’ll be able to watch upcoming films there as well....

C’mon C’mon Director Mike Mills On Joaquin Phoenix’s Hair & His Therapist’s Filmmaking Advice [Interview] A24 By Jack Giroux/Nov. 28, 2021 3:55 pm EST Mike Mills’ movies are vivid portraits of a time and place. “Beginners,” “20th Century Women,” and Mills’ latest film, “C’Mon C’Mon,” are almost like time capsules. They’re about people looking back, especially at the figures and days that defined them. “I have to do more therapy about why memory trips me out so much,” Mills told us....

Encanto: Release Date, Cast And More By Shania Russell/July 19, 2021 4:03 pm EST Go crazy, Disney Animation fans — we’re getting two movies in one year! It’s been a pretty weird time for film releases, with more delays in the past 12 months than we can count. But with things finally getting back on track, it only makes sense that a Disney movie is there to greet us in theaters....

First Look: Idris Elba In Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ By Angie Han/June 8, 2012 9:00 am EST Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim has been in the works for a couple of years now, and entered production several months ago. But at this point the film’s moved into post and we still don’t have much of an idea as to what it looks like. Happily, that’s slowly changing. Earlier this spring, we got to see some footage of the sci-fi epic’s Toronto-as-Toyko set, and now have our first look at one of the stars, Idris Elba, in costume....

HBO’s The Last Of Us Series Introduces A New Original Character HBO By Shania Russell/Nov. 3, 2021 1:16 pm EST HBO is bringing the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic world of “The Last of Us” to life, with plenty of people coming along for the ride. Production on this video game adaptation is well underway, with details remaining pretty tight (sans a few sneak peeks here and there), but every now and then, we get news of another cast member added to the team....

Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street Hitting 4K In Time For The Film’s Eighth Anniversary Paramount Pictures By Max Evry/Sept. 14, 2021 12:49 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Martin Scorsese’s 2013 biopic “The Wolf of Wall Street” may be the greatest embodiment of William Blake’s quote, “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom… You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough....

Michael B. Jordan To Produce This Broken Earth Adaptation Sony Pictures Entertainment The Earth is broken and it’s about to get a whole lot more broken, if Michael B. Jordan has anything to say about it. Jordan’s production company, Outlier Society, has now boarded TriStar’s film adaptation of “The Broken Earth” book trilogy by N.K Jemisin. Deadline reports that Jemisin herself is writing the script and Jordan will co-produce the adaptation....

PHOTO: ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Composer Alan Menken Brings Music To Seth Rogen’s ‘Sausage Party’ By Angie Han/Nov. 12, 2015 7:30 am EST If you grew up in the ’90s, you grew up listening to Alan Menken’s work. The composer was behind some of the biggest hits of the Disney Renaissance era, including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin, as well as non-animated classics like Little Shop of Horrors and Newsies....

Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City Director Wants To See Chris Redfield Punch A Boulder In A Sequel Sony Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 29, 2021 8:43 am EST Few things bring greater joy than realizing the director chosen for the adaptation of a beloved video game series is as much of a nerd about it as the fans. Johannes Roberts (“47 Meters Down,” “The Strangers: Prey at Night”) was chosen to direct the reboot of the cinematic version of the “Resident Evil” games with “Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City,” and there’s no doubt his fandom for the video game franchise had something to do with it....

Special ‘Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian’ Episode Will Explore Luke Skywalker’s Grand Return By Vanessa Armstrong/July 13, 2021 12:20 pm EST The end of The Mandalorian season 2 had a big reveal. If you know (or read the headline for this article), you know. It might not as big as the reveal at the end of the show’s first episode (it’s hard to beat Grogu), but it’s a big reveal nonetheless. I’m talking, of course, about a young Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) showing up and saving the day....