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New ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ Teaser Mashes Up The Looney Tunes With ‘Mad Max,’ ‘The Matrix,’ And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 25, 2021 10:54 am EST You can’t have a Looney Tunes movie without a few winks and nudges at other beloved pieces of pop culture. Those mischievous cartoons have long made a habit of satirizing classic movies and TV shows (see: Carrotblanca), and their appearance in Space Jam: A New Legacy will be no exception — though this time, the Tunes will be straight up crashing movies like Mad Max: Fury Road and The Matrix....

Goldstein’s “Final Statement on the Matter” My final statement on the matter: pic.twitter.com/YPzNnOu4mg — Brett Goldstein (@brettgoldstein) September 2, 2021 “I just want to clear up something once and for all,” a Memoji-clad Goldstein says in the video. “I am a completely real, normal human man who just happens to live in a VFX house and does normal human basic things, like rendering and buffering and transferring data.” Goldstein has been a comedian for years, so naturally he has a good sense of humor about all of this nonsense....

The Best Streaming Horror Movies You Should Watch Right Now By /Film Staff/June 11, 2021 10:47 am EST (Welcome to Now Scream This, a column where horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato tell you what scary, spooky, and spine-tingling movies are streaming and where you can watch them.)Matt: Welcome back to Now Scream This, your one-stop shop for streaming horror recommendations. The haze of summer swelter is upon us, and for those days where air conditioner breezes better combat Mr....

Venom: Let There Be Carnage Is Officially Rated PG-13, Only Allowing For A Little Carnage Sony Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 1, 2021 10:52 am EST When “Venom” was released back in 2018, it became a box office behemoth. Despite the silliness on display (or perhaps because of it), the Marvel Comics movie starring Tom Hardy raked in over $856 million worldwide. A big part of that success was the fact that “Venom” came with a PG-13 rating, letting many younger kids see the movie, despite the fact that Venom was one of the more violent villains from the pages of Spider-Man comics....

VOTD: How Marvel’s ‘WandaVision’ Should Have Ended By Ethan Anderton/April 28, 2021 6:00 am EST Marvel’s WandaVision was the first Disney+ original series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and viewers had a lot of fun watching the mystery of the genre-bending unfold. But now that we’ve seen how the limited series came to an end, it’s time to see How WandaVision Should Have Ended, and it should come as no surprise that all the confusion and classic television madness could have been stopped a lot sooner....

“That Connection Is Truly Everything to Me.” 20th Century Studios Zegler went on to emphasize just how young Sondheim was when he enjoyed his breakout success with “West Side Story” — a detail some may have only recently become aware of thanks to “tick, tick… BOOM!” (itself a movie adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s stage musical that even features a sneaky vocal cameo by the real Sondheim) — and how fortunate she feels to have gotten to spend some time with him while he was still alive:...

Why Steven Spielberg Didn’t Use Subtitles For The Spanish-Language Scenes In West Side Story 20th Century Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 6, 2021 4:14 pm EST “Why remake a classic?” Every time word comes in of a new remake of a movie that everyone loved the first time around, inevitably the question turns to who this is ostensibly for. Only a brash and arrogant director, the narrative goes, would have enough of an ego to assume that they could possibly improve on perfection....

‘Better Call Saul’ Review: Jimmy Is “The Guy For This”, But This Week’s Episode Belongs To Kim By Chris Evangelista/March 3, 2020 7:00 am EST This week’s Better Call Saul, “The Guy For This”, has nearly all the characters at rock-bottom, or at least as close to it as they’ve ever been. Jimmy takes a giant leap towards his inevitable criminal lifestyle; Kim’s pro bono work isn’t enough to assuage her guilt; Nacho is caught between two warring drug lords; and Mike crawls even further into the bottle....

By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 16, 2020 4:00 pm EST Stop me if you heard this one: Geroge Clooney, Jon Grisham, and Bob Dylan get together and say, “Let’s make a movie!” No, this isn’t the set-up of a joke. Instead, it’s news about a new movie. George Clooney is considering directing Calico Joe, a film adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name. And Bob Dylan’s Grey Water Park Productions is set to produce....

/Filmcast Ep. 30 - The Day The Earth Stood Still (GUESTS: Laremy Legel, Devin Faraci, And Neha Tiwari) By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 16, 2008 7:47 pm EST In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Devindra and Adam discuss their apprehensiveness about a Crow remake, ponder the cheesiness of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine trailer, and debate the choice of Chris Weitz to take over New Moon. Special guests Neha Tiwari and Laremy Legel (from the Film....

‘Ford V Ferrari’ Director James Mangold Explains How Too Much Research Can Hurt A Movie By Jason Gorber/Nov. 29, 2019 4:00 pm EST James Mangold directs Matt Damon and Christian Bale in Ford v Ferrari, a film known at Le Mans ‘66 in Europe and other regions where that famous endurance race is more religion than sport. Damon plays Carroll Shelby, an ex-driver who has channeled his competitive edge into building cars....

‘Free Guy’ Ending Explained: What Happens To Ryan Reynolds And His Video Game World? By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 16, 2021 9:18 am EST In a blend of Ready Player One, Last Action Hero, The LEGO Movie, and The Truman Show, the video game action comedy Free Guy finds Ryan Reynolds breaking from his non-player bank teller character routine in the Grand Theft Auto-inspired video game world of Free City to inadvertently becoming the key to stopping the game from being completely destroyed by its douchebag creator (Taika Waititi)....

‘Pet Sematary’ Star Amy Seimetz On Her Favorite Passage From The Book And A Special Night At A Childish Gambino Concert [Interview] By Jack Giroux/April 12, 2019 5:00 pm EST The new version of Pet Sematary is a little more intimate than the average horror movie. Staying true to the spirit of Stephen King’s book, there’s about as much drama as horror in Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer new version of the classic story....

‘Riddick 4’ Could Actually Happen, Promises Vin Diesel Promoter Vin Diesel By Chris Evangelista/June 29, 2021 12:14 pm EST Vin Diesel loves to talk about Vin Diesel projects, and who can blame him? You’d do the same if you were Vin Diesel. One of Diesel’s favorite topics involves sequels to his various films. Hell, last year he even teased a potential sequel to The Last Witch Hunter, which I’m pretty sure no one but Diesel has any interest in....

‘The Little Mermaid’ Reveals First Look At Halle Bailey As Ariel As Filming Wraps By Ben Pearson/July 12, 2021 1:49 pm EST Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid has been in the works for five years, and singer/actress Halle Bailey was cast in the lead role at the tail end of 2019. (Get it? “Tail” end? She’s playing a mermaid, and mermaids have tails!) We’re now mid-way through 2021 and filming on the movie has finally come to an end, and today Bailey shared the first look at her iteration of the headstrong and adventurous Ariel to mark the occasion....

‘The Space Between’ Trailer: Kelsey Grammer Is A Has-Been Rock Star By Chris Evangelista/April 22, 2021 4:30 pm EST Kelsey Grammer becomes a long-haired, washed-up, kind of creepy has-been rock star in The Space Between, a drama that just happens to feature music from Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo. The trailer you’re about to see is interesting, in that it starts off rather silly, with Grammer’s zonked-out musician recording an album that’s nothing more than the sound of a refrigerator door opening and closing....

‘Vivo’ Clip: Lin Manuel Miranda Gets Tied Up In Netflix’s Musical Adventure By Shania Russell/Aug. 11, 2021 11:00 am EST In Netflix’s new animated musical, a kinkajou goes on an exciting — and occasionally very dangerous — journey. This musical adventure takes the titular Vivo from Cuba to Miami, and for all its vibrant, colorful fun, it’s not without a few threatening obstacles. You might expect Vivo’s journey to be worry-free, especially since he’s voiced by the ever likable and extremely talented Lin Manuel Miranda....

5 Marvel Characters We’d Love To See Keanu Reeves Play In The MCU Lionsgate By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Dec. 5, 2021 3:10 pm EST Keanu Reeves has officially announced that it would be an “honor” for him to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Good sir, the honor would be ours. In an interview with Esquire, the “Matrix Resurrections” actor revealed: “It would be an honor [to join the MCU] … There’s some really amazing directors, and visionaries, and they’re doing something no one’s ever really done....

AFI Launches Virtual Gallery Of Beloved TCM Host Robert Osborne’s Film Intros By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 5, 2021 3:30 pm EST Robert Osborne was a staple of Turner Classic Movies for years, offering sparkling and smart introductions to the classic movies aired on the channel. Now, on what would have been his 89th birthday, AFI is launching a virtual gallery of Osborne’s introductions, coinciding nicely with this year’s virtual TCM Film Festival, running through this weekend....

Alice Braga On The Staying Power Of ‘City Of God,’ 20 Years After The Brazilian Crime Classic Was Shot By Jack Giroux/Aug. 11, 2021 7:03 am EST City of God was Alice Braga’s first film. Could a first acting job get much better than that? Co-directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, City of God remains a special movie, a raw, bruising portrait of life in the crime-ridden Cidade de Deus suburb of Rio de Janeiro....