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‘Star Wars: Hunters’ Will Bring Galactic Arena Battles To The Nintendo Switch Later This Year By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 18, 2021 9:30 am EST Earlier this year, Lucasfilm Games announced a new open-world Star Wars video game was in the works, and fans couldn’t be more thrilled about the prospect of exploring a galaxy far, far away. But in the meantime, Lucasfilm Games has teamed up with online and mobile game creator Zynga to deliver a new video game called Star Wars: Hunters, coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Star David Dastmalchian Is Accomplishing His Dreams, And He Wants The Same For You [Interview] By Jack Giroux/July 8, 2021 7:39 am EST Plus, the actor recently finished writing a script for a horror movie he sounds jazzed about. Genre is his jam, having grownup with horror movies and comic books. He even wrote a Dark Horse Comic, Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter, which was a dream come true for him....

By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 29, 2020 4:00 pm EST Deadline says that Netflix is set to turn Uglies into a film directed by McG and starring Joey King. I’m not entirely sure why Netflix keeps throwing work at Mr. McG, but there are some mysteries we’ll never solve, I guess. Published in 2005, Uglies is a dystopian YA story with elements that sound culled from other dystopian YA stories, with a little extreme plastic surgery thrown in for good measure:...

2021 Golden Globes Winners: ‘Nomadland’, ‘The Crown’, ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’, ‘Ted Lasso’ & More Take Big Awards By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 28, 2021 4:03 pm EST The 78th annual Golden Globes Awards unfolded virtually on Sunday night, hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Though the questionable behavior of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association overshadowed the ceremony a bit, fans were still interested to see who walks home with a trophy from this year’s impressive assembly of films and TV shows....

Alamo Drafthouse To Reopen 15 Locations, Including Theaters In Brooklyn, Los Angeles, And Dallas By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 29, 2021 11:30 am EST Matthew McConaughey’s promise that “the big screen is back,” is coming true. Alamo Drafthouse, whose South Lamar location in Austin was the backdrop for McConaughey’s moviegoing PSA during the Oscars telecast, is reopening 15 of its locations this summer. That includes major locations in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Dallas, and more....

Annette: Release Date, Cast And More By Ben Pearson/June 29, 2021 12:18 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.) First announced back in 2016, the long-awaited musical Annette looks like it will be well worth the wait. You’ll find everything you need to know about Annette below....

BJ Colangelo’s Favorite Movies Of All Time New Line Cinema By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 2, 2021 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Hello /Film Readers and welcome to another edition of Thunderdome, err, getting to know the writers here by judging us mercilessly by our taste in cinema. I’ve been professionally writing about film for over a decade, and there were times in my life where I was afraid that I’d lose credibility if I waxed poetic about films that weren’t “Film Twitter Approved....

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 Is Getting A Score From The Suicide Squad Composer Disney+ By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 13, 2021 4:47 pm EST Filmmaker James Gunn has made a name for himself as someone whose work is heavily reliant on music. His keen sense of where and when to use needle-drops gets all the attention, but equally as important has been the underlying score for his movies. His collaboration with Marvel on both of the “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies has featured Tyler Bates as his regular composer, but that partnership will apparently come to an end with “Volume 3....

New York City Movie Theaters To Reopen Next Month At Limited Capacity By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 22, 2021 2:00 pm EST After nearly a year of being completely shut down because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, New York City movie theaters are reopening. Starting early March, New York City movie theaters will be permitted to reopen at limited capacity — with strict restrictions in place, of course. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced at a press conference Monday that New York City movie theaters will be allowed to reopen starting March 5, at at a 25% limited capacity, or no more than 50 people in one auditorium....

Promised Land: Release Date, Cast, And More ABC Signature By Soham Gadre/Nov. 10, 2021 5:50 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.) With pilot season having come to a close, networks and studios are marking the books for which shows are going to be added to the new years’ schedule and which ones are going to get cut....

Star Wars Bits: War Of The Bounty Hunters, The Mandalorian, Rangers Of The New Republic, The Bad Batch, And More! By Adam Frazier/May 28, 2021 3:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters #1 preview Star Wars: The Mandalorian Funko Pop! bobbleheads Star Wars: Rangers of the New Republic is now longer in development Star Wars podcast & YouTube round-up And more!...

Zack Snyder Says There’s A ‘Sucker Punch’ Director’s Cut That Hasn’t Been Released By Chris Evangelista/May 20, 2021 2:00 pm EST Looks like some fans have another excuse to demand someone #ReleaseTheSnyderCut. Only this time it’s not Justice League we’re talking about. Instead, Zack Snyder has revealed there’s an unreleased Sucker Punch director’s cut out there, just waiting to be seen. Snyder’s 2011 sci-fi action fantasy extravaganza did receive an “extended cut” on home video, but this director’s cut is apparently something completely different....

‘22 Vs. Earth’ Clip: Tina Fey’s ‘Soul’ Character Recruits An Unstoppable Gang For Disney+ Short Film By Ben Pearson/April 27, 2021 1:30 pm EST This past weekend, Pixar took home another Best Animated Feature award at the Oscars for Soul, the studio’s surprisingly unconventional movie about the forces and inspirations that fuel our passions. Tina Fey voiced a character character named 22, an irascible soul who has spent millennia living on a vast plane of existence known as The Great Before, and now she takes center stage in 22 vs....

‘Assassination Nation’ Red Band Trailer: The Internet Creates A Blood-Soaked Witch Hunt In A Small Town By Ethan Anderton/July 17, 2018 2:30 pm EST Prepare for something totally insane coming to theaters this fall. The Sundance selected thriller Assassination Nation turns a small town into a bloodbath when a hacker starts leaking the most intimate e-mails, texts, pictures and internet search histories of a few key community figures before unleashing an absolute barrage of hacked goods....

‘Black Panther 2’ Cast Adds ‘I May Destroy You’ Star Michaela Coel By Chris Evangelista/July 21, 2021 3:09 pm EST Black Panther 2, AKA Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, has a new cast member: Michaela Coel, the creator and star of acclaimed series I May Destroy You, has joined the Ryan Coogler-directed sequel. Like a lot of info surrounding the film, details about Coel’s character are non-existent and secretive at the moment....

‘Clue’ Animated Series In The Works At Fox By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 12, 2021 9:30 am EST Since then, there’s been talk of a movie reboot. At one point, Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski was attached to produce and direct. That version never came together. Later, Jason Bateman was announced as director, with Ryan Reynolds starring and Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick tackling the script. Bateman is no longer involved, however, and it’s unclear where that film stands right now....

‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Director Colin Trevorrow On Embracing Feathered Dinosaurs, Taking The Series In A Fresh Direction, And Having Sympathy For The T-Rex [Interview] By Vanessa Armstrong/June 10, 2021 7:28 am EST It’s no surprise that Colin Trevorrow — director of Jurassic World and the upcoming Jurassic World: Dominion — loves dinosaurs. And while Dominion, thanks to the pandemic, won’t come out until June 10, 2022, there will be an extended preview of the film in IMAX theaters before screenings of F9 later this month....

‘Room 104’ Review: “The Knockandoo” Brings The Weirdest And Wildest Episode Yet By Kristin Hunt/Aug. 14, 2017 10:00 am EST (Each week, we’ll kick off discussion about Room 104 by answering one simple question: what’s the strangest thing in Room 104?)If there’s one lesson to be learned from this week’s Room 104, it’s this: never go with a cult priest to a second location. In “The Knockandoo,” a fragile woman is hoping to leave this world for a higher plane of existence – and she’s paid a questionable “practitioner” to help get her there....

‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ Will Haunt Your Blu-Ray Player In August By Chris Evangelista/July 6, 2021 3:04 pm EST Ghost hunting husband and wife Ed and Lorraine Warren are coming home this August. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, the third entry in the main Conjuring franchise, has set a home media release, with the film hitting digital in July before coming to Blu-ray and 4K in August....

‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Season 3 Won’t Bring Back Jackie Daytona By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 14, 2021 9:20 am EST Bad news, Jackie Daytona fans. Sure, What We Do in the Shadows is about to return for a third season, and like an immortal bloodsucker, the FX mockumentary series has already had its life extended with a fourth season renewal. That, of course, is good news, but if you were hoping to see Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry) go on the run again and coach more women’s volleyball as Jackie Daytona, it sounds like they’re putting that particular joke to rest (in a vampire coffin) for now....