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The Morning Watch: Shang-Chi Honest Trailer, Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Lightsaber Training & More Marvel Studios By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 24, 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, find out how man jabs “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” takes at the hands of the Honest Trailer for the Marvel Studios movie....

The Morning Watch: Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer Gets A Cartoon Mash-Up, Behind The Scenes Of Sweet Girl, And More Disney+ By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 27, 2021 8:00 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....

The Scariest Scene In ‘The Conjuring’ Transforms A Game Into An Exercise In Terror By Ariel Fisher/Aug. 12, 2021 7:36 am EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Matt Donato and Ariel Fisher. In this edition: one of the scariest scenes in The Conjuring isn’t playing games.)Regardless of your opinion on its various spin-offs and the fluctuating quality of the franchise as a whole, director James Wan’s The Conjuring (2013) ushered in a new approach to horror....

This Cut Plotline Would’ve Completely Changed Django Unchained Columbia Pictures By Lyvie Scott/Dec. 2, 2021 1:08 pm EST Quentin Tarantino’s filmography has always been jam-packed with homages and references to some of his favorite films. The director is a massive fan of the spaghetti western — essentially the American western remixed by Italian directors in the ’60s — and uses the classic themes of the genre in most of his work....

Yes, The ‘F9’ Filmmakers Actually Went To NASA For Help On That Final Action Scene By Jeremy Mathai/June 29, 2021 7:07 am EST Spoilers (the non-vehicular kind, at least) for F9 ahead. It wouldn’t be (much of) an exaggeration to claim that F9 boldly goes where no one has gone before… at least as far as the Fast & Furious franchise is concerned. In the very capable hands of series pro Justin Lin, the latest installment of the family saga gleefully satisfies a number of fan expectations — not to mention incessant teases on the cast’s part — steadily building over the years....

‘Black Panther 2’ Director Ryan Coogler Says Chadwick Boseman “Wouldn’t Have Wanted Us To Stop” By Chris Evangelista/April 2, 2021 2:00 pm EST Chadwick Boseman’s death last summer caught almost everyone off-guard as the actor had kept his colon cancer diagnosis private. And Ryan Coogler, who directed Boseman in Black Panther, was one of the many people surprised by Boseman’s death, as he had already been working on the script for Black Panther 2 for Boseman to star in....

‘Bodies, Bodies, Bodies’: Amandla Stenberg And ‘Borat 2’ Oscar Nominee Maria Bakalova To Star In Slasher Film By Ben Pearson/April 7, 2021 5:00 pm EST Actress-turned-writer/director Halina Reijn is set to direct this mysterious new movie. Her 2019 film Instinct, which marked her directorial debut, was selected as the Dutch entry for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. A24 is financing and distributing Bodies, Bodies, Bodies (I love that title), making it, by my count, the tenth horror film the company has made, joining the likes of Tusk, The Witch, Into the Forest, The Monster, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Hereditary, The Hole in the Ground, Midsommar, and Saint Maud....

‘Boiled Angels: The Trial Of Mike Diana’ Interview: How One Man’s Comic Got Him Convicted For Obscenity [Fantasia Film Festival] By Sarah Foulkes/July 19, 2018 1:00 pm EST You know what they say: one man’s obscenity is another man’s art. In the case of cartoonist Mike Diana, it’s both. If you’ve never heard of him, than a new documentary is hoping to change that.In director Frank Henenlotter’s Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana, Diana’s historic 1994 trial is given as much attention as the history of comic book censorship....

‘Color Out Of Space’ Production Company Cuts Ties With Director Richard Stanley After Allegations Of Domestic Abuse By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 18, 2021 1:30 pm EST SpectreVision, the production company behind the 2019 H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space, announced that it has cut ties with the film’s director Richard Stanley after horrifying allegations of domestic abuse emerged about the filmmaker. In a statement posted to Twitter, SpectreVision said it will no longer be working with Stanley after Stanley was accused of abuse by his former partner, Scarlett Amaris....

‘F9’ Writer Daniel Casey Adapting ‘Battle Of The Planets’ For The Big Screen By Jeremy Mathai/July 22, 2021 12:59 pm EST After the Fast & Furious movies boldly went where no other car franchise has gone before (okay, almost no other car franchise), Fast 9 writer Daniel Casey is taking the leap from a brief rocket car-fueled trip to space to…well, a lot more space. Deadline has the news that Casey, who received both screenwriting and story by credit for Fast 9, will be writing the script for the movie adaptation of the Japanese anime Battle of the Planets (which is also known as Science Team Ninja Gatchaman in Japan, or just Gatchaman for short)....

‘Hocus Pocus 2’ Headed To Disney+ Next Year With Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, And Kathy Najimy Returning By Chris Evangelista/May 20, 2021 10:15 am EST Hocus Pocus was a flop when it opened in theaters in 1993, but people revisiting it on home video every Halloween helped turn it into a cult hit. For years now, fans have been hoping for a sequel, and original cast members Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy have all expressed interest in returning....

‘Roads To Freedom’: Workaholic Ridley Scott Is Now Making A 10-Episode World War II Series And Making Us All Feel Lazy By Chris Evangelista/March 17, 2021 3:30 pm EST Good lord, Ridley Scott, can you chill? Scott, who is 83-years-old, just wrapped filming The Last Duel and is already deep into shooting his next movie House of Gucci. You’d think he might want to take a breather, but no – he’s already planning his next feature film Kitbag, and is attached to produce a whole slew of titles....

‘The Gray Man’, The Netflix Russo Brothers Movie With Ryan Gosling And Chris Evans, Has Begun Production By Chris Evangelista/March 16, 2021 2:30 pm EST Now that they have the pretty terrible drama Cherry under their belt, the Russo Brothers are returning to blockbuster-style action with The Gray Man. The Netflix movie stars Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans, and the Russos have announced via social media that production on the pic has just begun....

‘The Haunting Of Hill House’ Is Coming To Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights Event By Joshua Meyer/July 9, 2021 6:04 am EST The door to the Red Room is about to open to theme park guests. Halloween Horror Nights was unfortunately canceled last year at Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood, but the event is set to return in 2021 with an all-new scary maze based on the Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House....

‘The Requin’ Will Pit Alicia Silverstone Against Great White Sharks By Chris Evangelista/March 6, 2021 11:00 am EST Alicia Silverstone is back and she’s ready to fight some sharks in The Requin. Saban Films just hooked themselves the U.S. rights to the pic, which stars Silverstone and James Tupper (Big Little Lies) as a couple on a romantic getaway to Vietnam. A tropical storm blows away their seaside villa and leaves them stranded and injured....

David Gold — Twilight of the Golds Sonar Entertainment Based on the play by Jonathan Tolins, Ross Marks’ “Twilight of the Golds” is a TV film that leaves a memorable impression. The story revolves around Suzanne Stein (Jennifer Beals), a woman who performs a genetic test on her unborn child and discovers that there is a chance that the baby boy will end up gay like her brother, David (played by, of course, Fraser)....

7 ‘Loki’ Episode 6 Easter Eggs And What They Could Mean For The Marvel Cinematic Universe By Ethan Anderton/July 14, 2021 1:25 pm EST The Loki finale has arrived, and there’s plenty for fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to talk about. Not only do we have confirmation that the series will continue with a second season, but we have the perfect set-up for what’s to come in the MCU. Whether you were immensely satisfied with the culmination of Loki’s journey or had a hard time connecting with the God of Mischief due to his deceptive deeds, you’re probably still interested in some Easter eggs throughout the episode....

AMC’s ‘The Beast Must Die’ Trailer Teases A Tense And Dramatic Tale Of Revenge By Marisa Mirabal/June 12, 2021 10:00 am EST Instead of focusing on solving a crime or hunting down a seasoned sexual predator, AMC’s newest show The Beast Must Die features a heartbroken mother out for revenge against the man who killed her son. British actress Cash Jumbo (The Good Fight, Postcard Killings) stars alongside Jared Harris (Mad Men, Chernobyl), who is the target of her grief-fuelled aggression....

“The Great Gatsby On Steroids” Along similar lines as La La Land, Babylon was pitched as an homage to Hollywood’s Golden Age and is set during the transitional 1920s period when silent films were first being joined by “talkies.” As you’d expect from such a massive cast, the movie will follow multiple characters through their respective rises and falls while navigating this particular moment in film history. Previously described as “The Great Gatsby on steroids,” we can only imagine just what Chazelle has in store for us until we get our official first look at the film once filming has completed....

Dune Director Denis Villeneuve Wanted To Make A Movie For Hardcore Fans…and Also His Mother Legendary Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 8, 2021 8:54 am EST Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” is based on a towering work of science fiction lit, but not everyone has read Frank Herbert’s novel, and it sounds like Villeneuve is aiming for a movie that appeals to both fans and non-fans alike. /Film writer Vanessa Armstrong recently attended a roundtable interview with Villeneuve, where he spoke at length about the adaptation process from book to screen....