First Footage From ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Screened [Comic Con 2013] By Angie Han/July 20, 2013 9:06 pm EST One year after Guardians of the Galaxy was officially announced at Comic-Con, the Guardians of the Galaxy cast and crew descended upon Hall H with the first footage from the new movie. Guardians is in Day 13 or 14 of shooting in London, but the team took the day off to fly into San Diego for Comic-Con....
If You Still Want A Sequel To ‘Children Of Men,’ Read ‘The Children Of Men’ By Scott Beggs/June 9, 2017 9:00 am EST The end of Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, with its mournful hope like a cinematic gasp for breath, filled me with two conflicting thoughts when I first saw it. The first, that it absolutely needed a sequel. The second, that no one should ever, ever, ever make a sequel....
Jay Baruchel Wants To Make A ‘Goon’ Sequel That’s ‘Heathers’ Meets ‘Mighty Ducks’ By Jack Giroux/Aug. 29, 2017 12:00 pm EST Below, the director shares an idea for one of the Goon sequels he has in mind. Doug Glatt is beginning to lose some steam in Goon: Last of the Enforcers, with his punch not packing as much heat as it used to. He’s not too far off from his Ross Rhea (Liev Schreiber) days....
Let’s Talk About Alexsandr Kallus, One Of The Most Underrated ‘Star Wars’ Characters Ever By Evan Saathoff/Feb. 22, 2021 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Galaxy-Wide Star Wars Character Guide, where we give proper due to the smaller figures in Star Wars history.)With all the acclaim given to Star Wars: The Clone Wars in recent years, it can be easy to overlook Dave Filoni’s other great animated Star Wars show, Star Wars Rebels....
Lives Of The Mayfair Witches TV Series Officially Moving Forward At AMC Ballantine Books By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 2, 2021 10:18 am EST Start brushing up on your New Orleans history and start shopping for turtlenecks to hide your pretty neck, because 2022 is going to be the year we get a full-blown Anne Rice television universe, courtesy of AMC. According to Deadline, the network has greenlit a series order for “The Lives of the Mayfair Witches,” based on the Rice trilogy of the same name....
Martin Freeman Confirms He’s Back In ‘Black Panther 2’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 18, 2021 8:30 am EST Marvel has no shortage of charming guys in suits, and Martin Freeman’s CIA agent Everett K. Ross was one of those, popping up in Captain America: Civil War before becoming an unexpected part of the Black Panther ensemble. So it was easy to expect that he would return for Black Panther 2 — a return that Freeman himself previously confirmed....
Movie Theater Chains Fight To Survive: AMC Staving Off Bankruptcy, Regal Shattering Release Windows By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 25, 2021 11:30 am EST As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic nears the one-year mark and movie exhibition chains have remained closed for nearly as long, the two biggest theater chains in the U.S. are taking drastic measures to stay afloat. AMC Theaters and Regal Cinemas have both taken action to ensure that they’ll stick around for at least a few more months....
Netflix Lassos The Coen Brothers’ Western Series ‘The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 9, 2017 4:30 pm EST Joel and Ethan Coen’s first TV project, the Western anthology series The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, has landed at Netflix. And on brand for the Coen brothers, they announced the production with some choice words that aren’t publishable in the first paragraph. Avert your children’s ears. “We are streaming motherf***ers!” said Joel Coen and Ethan Coen....
New ‘Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins’ Poster Gets Electric Before The First Trailer Arrives On Sunday By Ethan Anderton/May 14, 2021 11:30 am EST The first photos from the upcoming G.I. Joe Origins movie Snake Eyes arrived yesterday, and it’s just the beginning of the marketing machine for the Paramount Pictures blockbuster. A new Snake Eyes poster has arrived to tease the film’s first trailer, which will debut during the MTV Movie & TV Awards this weekend....
Ruthie Tompson, Disney Animation Pioneer, Dies At 111 The Walt Disney Company By Eric Vespe/Oct. 11, 2021 9:27 pm EST When anyone reaches the age of 111 it’s cause for celebration. Doubly so when it’s someone as pivotal in shaping multiple generations as Ruthie Tompson was. Tompson passed away yesterday, October 10, 2021, at the age of 111, which means she was in her mid-twenties when she was hired by Walt Disney to work in the Ink & Paint department on “Snow White and Seven Dwarfs....
Saturday Night Live Hires Three New Featured Players, Including That Viral Trump Impersonator NBC By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 27, 2021 4:31 pm EST Along with the sad news that Beck Bennett is leaving “Saturday Night Live” after being a cast member for eight seasons, the late night sketch series is bringing in some fresh faces. Since featured players Bowen Yang and Chloe Fineman have been promoted to series regulars, there’s room for a few new cast members in Studio 8H....
Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria Of A Starless Night: Release Date, Cast, And More A-1 Pictures By Shania Russell/Dec. 1, 2021 1:43 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.) “Sword Art Online” has enjoyed explosive popularity in the past few years. What began as a web novel and became a popular anime series now branches off into more directions than many can keep up with: novels, games, films, and a sequel series make this an intimidating franchise to get into....
The 15 Best ‘Animaniacs’ Songs, Ranked From Great To Greatest By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 20, 2020 11:00 am EST This week marks the return of yet another 90s-era show, another piece of nostalgia revived for the hopeful adoration of fans around the world. This one’s a revival for audiences of all ages: it’s Animaniacs, the ultra-zany weekday cartoon that introduced viewers to the Warner Brothers (and the Warner sister), an exceptionally brilliant mouse with plans for world domination, a trio of wise-talking pigeons, and more....
Heart Plus Horror “The Black Phone” had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest last night with director Scott Derrickson and co-writer C. Robert Cargill (who previously collaborated on “Sinister” and “Doctor Strange”) in attendance. I went in optimistic, because Derrickson’s a hell of a shooter, but if I’m being honest, I was a little curious how the adaptation would stretch the central conceit of the not-even-20 page story into a feature....
The Daily Stream: When It Comes To Horror-Comedies, Spree Is A Blissfully Satirical Romp That Does It Right RLJE Films By Lex Briscuso/Oct. 8, 2021 2:13 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “Spree” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: Kurt Kunkle, played by “Stranger Things” breakout Joe Keery, is a desperate kid doing everything he can to become a YouTube sensation while making a living as a rideshare driver for a company called Spree....
The Mandalorian Composer Ludwig Göransson Will Return For The Book Of Boba Fett Disney By Max Evry/Sept. 23, 2021 11:00 am EST Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson has very quickly become one of the most sought-after and prolific musicians in the entertainment biz. Next year alone the “Black Panther” Oscar-winner will return to the Marvel fold with “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” as well as his first score for an animated film with Pixar’s “Turning Red,” and he’s assumed to be returning for the third season of Disney+ series “The Mandalorian....
The Morning Watch: Restoring The Batwing From Tim Burton’s Batman, Tony Leung’s Career Breakdown & More Tested By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 1, 2021 8:15 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, Adam Savage takes a close look at the Batwing miniature prop created for Tim Burton’s “Batman” movie from 1989....
The Worst Spider-Man Movie Villain, According To Our Survey Sony By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 10, 2021 11:36 am EST (Welcome to Survey Says, a feature where we conduct a movie-related survey for a random group of people and explain why they’re completely right, completely wrong, or somewhere in-between.) There’s a new “Spider-Man” movie, “No Way Home,” on the horizon, and it’s bringing back one of the best cinematic Spidey villains: Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus....
With “Bounty Lost,” ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Reminds Us That Omega Is The True MVP By Caroline Cao/June 25, 2021 9:05 am EST This article contains spoilers for the Star Wars: The Bad Batch episode “Bounty Lost.” After a stormy “Reunion,” Crosshair gets backdropped again, literally this time, as his Bad Batch brothers (Dee Bradley Baker) fly after Cad Bane’s (Corey Burton) ship to free Omega (Michelle Ang). If Hunter isn’t a match for Cad, who else can square off with the gunslinging veteran but a rising rookie bounty hunter by the name of Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen)?...
‘Bad Trip’ Trailer: Prank Movie Puts Eric André And Lil Rel Howery In A Compromising Position By Ben Pearson/March 2, 2021 5:30 pm EST Eric André (The Eric André Show, Man Seeking Woman) rarely shies away from comedic extremes in his work, and it appears that streak will continue in Bad Trip, the new prank movie which debuts on Netflix later this month. The streamer has released a new trailer for the film that showcases some pranks we’ve seen in previous marketing materials, but also reveals a new bit involving André and co-star Lil Rel Howery as the two – well, there’s no way to put this delicately – get their dicks stuck in a Chinese finger trap and wander onto a golf course....
