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James Wan’s Canceled Trench Movie Was A Secret Black Manta Spin-Off Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 25, 2021 9:46 pm EST The coolest scene in “Aquaman,” where our hero contends with the monsters of the Mariana Trench, almost had its own horror movie spin-off — “The Trench” — before Warner Bros. got cold webbed feet and canceled it. The Jason Momoa-led superhero flick still has a sequel on the way called “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” but here’s a fun hypothetical: “The Trench” could have been a backdoor Black Manta movie....

Feeling Blue Sony Pictures The impending release of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” can only mean one thing — Marvel’s Kevin Feige and Sony’s Amy Pascal making the marketing rounds and providing as little actual information or revelations as humanly possible. Though rumors continue to swirl surrounding every potential appearance by Marvel universe characters, most recently involving Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock/Daredevil, Pascal did let slip one fun little tidbit regarding Foxx’s return and MCU debut as Electro....

Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness Is Getting Her Own Marvel Disney+ Show Marvel By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 7, 2021 11:34 am EST Kathryn Hahn has ruled for a while now, but her scene-stealing turn on “WandaVision” seemed to make her more popular than ever. And the folks at Disney and Marvel clearly took note, because Hahn’s “WandaVision” character Agatha Harkness is now likely to get her own Disney+ spin-off series. “WandaVision” showrunner Jac Schaeffer will serve as writer and executive producer on the new show, which is being described as a “dark comedy....

Kevin Bacon Returns To Summer Camp With Blumhouse’s Gay Conversion Horror Movie Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 25, 2021 12:03 pm EST When the prolific performer who would later become the six-degree connective tissue of all of Hollywood first made a name for himself, it wasn’t with his role in “Animal House,” but a little slasher no one in the cast thought anyone would actually see: “Friday the 13th.” Now Kevin Bacon is heading back to summer camp, and this time he’ll come face-to-face with a horror truly worse than any masked killer: gay conversion therapy....

Marvel’s What If…? Plot Hole Explained Marvel Studios In last week’s episode of Marvel’s “What If…?,” the powerful new Ultron who defeated The Avengers obtained all of the Infinity Stones. After destroying a variety of realms in his own universe, the Infinity Stones suddenly made Ultron aware of The Watcher and all the other universes that the cosmic being was observing. This led to an epic comic book battle between Ultron and The Watcher where they were smashing through the alternate universes of the multiverse....

New The Batman Posters Tease The Dark Knight And A Terrifying Riddler Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 15, 2021 12:54 pm EST You may have heard that there’s another “Batman” movie on its way, and that we’re in for quite a bit of new footage to drool over to carefully and rationally analyze within the next 24 hours or so. You know, because we’re adults! The upcoming Matt Reeves movie may still be quite some time away from flying into theaters all dramatic-like, as Batman has a habit of doing, but tomorrow’s DC FanDome promises to be the place to be for all things DC-related....

Quentin Tarantino Wouldn’t Let Christoph Waltz Rehearse With The ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Cast By Joshua Meyer/July 30, 2021 3:52 pm EST There’s a case to be made (we have, in fact, made it) that Inglourious Basterds is Quentin Tarantino’s best film. A big part of what makes the movie work is Christoph Waltz’s Oscar-winning turn as the villainous Hans Landa. At one point, Tarantino himself said, “Landa is the best character I’ve ever written and maybe the best I ever will write....

Roberto Orci Fires Back At ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Haters: “F*** Off!” By Angie Han/Sept. 6, 2013 4:45 pm EST Despite a robust Rotten Tomatoes score of 87%, Star Trek Into Darkness found quite a few detractors when it hit screens. Worse, many of them were longtime Star Trek fans who hated it enough to rank it the worst Star Trek movie of all time in a poll at a recent convention....

Sequel Bits: Top Gun: Maverick, Mission Impossible 7, The Meg 2, And More By Ben Pearson/May 7, 2021 5:00 pm EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: Top Gun: Maverick made quite an impression on Christopher McQuarrie Will a Detective Pikachu sequel ever happen? Tom Cruise hangs off a train in a Mission: Impossible 7 photo The Meg 2 will start production in 2022 And more! Writer/director Christopher McQuarrie is extremely busy making Mission: Impossible movies, but as Tom Cruise’s closest cinematic collaborator, he was also brought onto Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick to help work on the script for that long-anticipated sequel....

Seth Rogen To Star In Donkey Kong Movie Whether You Like It Or Not Nelvana By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 3, 2021 4:07 pm EST Laugh at superstition all you want, but I believe we’re just about to definitively prove that bad news really does come in threes. First came the report that Chris Pratt would be voicing the legendary video game character and stalwart of Italian representation known as Mario for an animated “Super Mario Bros....

When and Where in Middle-earth Are We? The most immediate and major element that sets this series apart from the two film trilogies is the time and the setting. This image hints at a beautiful location that’s home to a great civilization (possibly the city of Tirion) with an intriguing source of light far off in the distance. Look closely in the background, however, and you’ll notice it’s no sunrise or sunset....

The Accountant Sequel Seems To Be Happening With Ben Affleck And Jon Bernthal Returning Warner Bros. By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 3, 2021 2:09 pm EST “The Accountant,” a wildly silly movie that’s also surprisingly fun, is getting a sequel. This isn’t exactly new news – the sequel was first announced back in 2017. However, last year we got word that the sequel might not actually happen, but a TV show spin-off was a possibility....

The Hawkeye Directors Had To Convince Kevin Feige To Let Them Film A One-Take Action Scene [Exclusive] Marvel Studios By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 9, 2021 2:04 pm EST One-shot action sequences are notoriously tricky to pull off, and even more difficult when you add in factors like moving vehicles. Somehow, Bert and Bertie, the directors behind several episodes of the Disney+ series “Hawkeye,” managed to use a single-shot sequence to create one of the most fun sequences in Marvel history, all inside a beat up old sedan....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Greatest Showman’ Is Irresponsible Nonsense Filled With Damn Great Songs By Jacob Hall/Aug. 17, 2020 8:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: The Greatest ShowmanWhere You Can Stream It: Disney+The Pitch: What if the life story of infamous American entrepreneur and entertainer P.T. Barnum got ruthlessly sanitized, stripped of everything that made him messy and despicable, and was told via musical numbers that are, quite frankly, total bangers?...

Walt Disney World’s Entertainment Offerings Are Back In Action Next Month By Josh Spiegel/July 22, 2021 7:19 am EST The magic of the Disney theme parks is that there is genuinely something for everyone. If you’re a fan of the characters, they’re more than easy to spot. If you love good food, there’s options aplenty. And some people love a good show, whether it’s nighttime fireworks or daytime interactions with computer-animated turtles....

Watch SNL Pay Tribute To The Late Norm Macdonald NBC By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 4, 2021 12:14 pm EST “Saturday Night Live” returned for season 47 this past weekend with an okay episode hosted by Owen Wilson (you can read our review here for more). If you missed the season premiere, then you also missed out on a nice tribute that was given to the late Norm Macdonald, who was a cast member on the late night sketch series from 1993 through 1998....

Young People F***ing Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2008 1:27 am EST One of the movies I really wanted to see at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival but never got to, was a little indie called Young People F—ing. The movie could have been sold based on the buzz created by it’s shocking title alone. I’ve heard the actual film is not as sensational. The publicity materials describe the movie as “a smart and fast-paced comedy that intertwines the stories of 5 couples over the course of one sexual encounter....

‘Boyz In The Wood’ Review: It’s The Most Dangerous Game On Acid In This Winningly Outrageous Classist Satire [SXSW] By Matt Donato/March 9, 2019 2:39 pm EST Music videos are descriptively rhythm-driven short films, and short films are just precursory pathways to feature filmmaking, so it shouldn’t surprise when directors bounce between mediums. Take Ninian Doff, for instance. The man behind Miike Snow’s “The Trigger” and Royal Blood’s “Figure It Out” (amongst other musician collaborations) makes his full-length debut with the hip-hop-Highlands survival comedy Boyz In The Wood....

‘Kindred’ TV Series Based On Octavia Butler’s Classic Science Fiction Novel Is Heading To FX By Shania Russell/July 16, 2021 11:07 am EST Octavia Butler was a pioneer in science fiction and her groundbreaking novels are long overdue for more attention. Thankfully, I come bearing good news: FX is adapting Butler’s widely popular 1979 novel Kindred. Production is scheduled to begin in September, so the final product is still some time away — but the TV series is already putting together an exciting roster of cast and crew....

‘Kingsman’ Director Matthew Vaughn Making New Spy Movie With Samuel L. Jackson, Bryce Dallas Howard, And Sam Rockwell By Ben Pearson/July 7, 2021 1:20 pm EST Update: There’s a chance yesterday’s report about this movie may have gotten some details wrong. Here are the official details for this movie, which is titled Argylle. Feel free to disregard the rest of this article.Matthew Vaughn has spent the past seven years working in the spy genre directing his Kingsman films, and he seems to be extremely comfortable in that arena....