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Chloé Zhao Approached Marvel About Making ‘Eternals’, Not The Other Way Around By Ben Pearson/Dec. 17, 2020 1:30 pm EST There’s a perception in the comic book movie fandom that Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and his team of executives hand-pick talented, up-and-coming filmmakers from the independent film scene to become directors of big budget superhero movies. But that wasn’t the case with Chloé Zhao, the talented, up-and-coming indie filmmaker behind films like The Rider and the forthcoming Nomadland....

Everything You Should Watch After You Stream ‘Howard’ On Disney+ By Josh Spiegel/Aug. 6, 2020 10:00 am EST Howard Ashman is, hyperbole be damned, one of the most important figures in the history of animation. It’s an impressive feat considering that he never once drew a character or directed an animated feature. You may not know his name, but Howard Ashman’s words have given life to some of the most beloved characters of modern Disney animation....

First Look: ‘Cobra Kai’ Season 3 Footage; New Season Hits Netflix Next Year By Ben Pearson/Aug. 24, 2020 9:30 am EST Like Karate Kid franchise protagonist Daniel LaRusso, the sequel series Cobra Kai has proven to be something of an underdog success story. Abandoned by YouTube in the wake of the video giant’s pivot away from scripted original content, the series was picked up by Netflix earlier this summer, and a third season is officially on the way....

Hugh Jackman Dodged A ‘Cats’-Shaped Bullet; Rules Out Playing Wolverine Again For The 100th Time By Chris Evangelista/April 16, 2020 3:30 pm EST Hugh Jackman, the Greatest Showman himself, took some time to speak with The Daily Beast recently, and the subject of Cats came up. Jackman previously appeared in the film adaptation of Les Misérables, which was helmed by Cats director Tom Hooper. Jackman was asked flat-out if he turned down a role in Cats, and Jackman gave a reply that’s pretty funny in its tact and simplicity: “Umm… yep....

How About The Rock’s Wrestling Career? Wrestling was Dwayne Johnson’s launching pad to become a mogul. He parlayed his wrestling persona The Rock into an international blockbuster movie career, and now produces movies and TV shows of his own including HBO’s Ballers and NBC’s competition The Titan Games. Young Rock will portray the early days of Johnson’s wrestling career. John confirmed that we’d see “Young Rock as a professional wrestler, and not in the bright lights and big success in the WWE but more importantly the critical times before I got to WWE....

New ‘Soul’ Teaser Shows Off Stunning Animation And A Wonderful Soundtrack By Ethan Anderton/June 28, 2020 10:00 am EST Pixar Animation’s new film Soul was intended to be released earlier this month, but the coronavirus put a stop to that. But now the movie is slated to arrive in November, and even though that’s a long way off, Pixar wanted to show off a little more of the movie while we wait....

New ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Photo Gets Smoky With The Knights Of Ren By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 28, 2019 1:00 pm EST If last week’s reveal of the first merchandise arriving next week for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker wasn’t enough of a sneak peek to help hold you over until the next trailer arrives, maybe a new photo from the movie itself will do the trick. Aside from any discernible plot information about The Rise of Skywalker, one of the biggest mysteries in this new trilogy of Star Wars movies has been the Knights of Ren....

Notes From The 2019 Los Cabos International Film Festival By Jason Gorber/Nov. 28, 2019 8:00 am EST Does it make sense to fly to a tropical paradise and spend your time inside watching movies? Well, it helps if you’re invited to once again cover the Los Cabos International Film Festival, a jewel of Mexico’s fest slate located the tip of the Baja peninsula, home to some of the greatest films of the year making their local debut amongst the sand and palm trees....

Quibi Created A New Viewing Experience Called “Turnstyle” By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 8, 2020 3:30 pm EST All the kids can’t stop talking about Quibi! Go out on any street corner in any city and all you’ll hear is “Quibi this” and “Quibi that”! As we draw closer to the launch of the new streaming service designed to provide short-form content, the people demand more info. And that info is here. During CES in Las Vegas today, " Tom Conrad, Quibi Chief Product Officer, revealed that the streaming service has developed a whole new viewing experience called “Turnstyle” that enables users to flip their phone back and forth between landscape and portrait view....

Ron Cobb, Designer Of ‘Back To The Future’ DeLorean And Much More, Dead At Age 83 By Ben Pearson/Sept. 22, 2020 7:00 am EST Ron Cobb, who designed the DeLorean time machine for Robert Zemeckis’s Back to the Future, the Nostromo ship for Ridley Scott’s Alien, and more, has died at the age of 83. Celebrate his life by reading about several of his biggest on-screen accomplishments below.The Hollywood Reporter says that the multi-talented filmmaker passed away today of Lewy body dementia, according to Cobb’s wife....

That ‘Snake Eyes’ Movie Has Found Its Baroness In ‘Money Heist’ Star Úrsula Corberó By Jacob Hall/Sept. 27, 2019 7:30 am EST The upcoming Snake Eyes movie is starting to sound less like a prequel following that silent masked ninja and more like a total reboot of the G.I. Joe movie franchise. After all, how else are they going to explain the inclusion of Baroness, the longtime villain who appeared in a previous film played by a completely different person?...

The Short Of It: Reviewing The 2020 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts By Leigh Monson/Jan. 30, 2020 2:00 pm EST Documentary shorts are perhaps the least glamorized category of films to be recognized at the Academy Awards. With very little chance of theatrical release and usually produced as television programming, documentary shorts are often the result of hours upon hours of filmmaking without the attention that feature documentaries receive and without comparable monetary or professional recognition for the documentarians’ efforts....

Theme Park Bits: Anakin At Galaxy’s Edge, Harry Potter Holiday Makeover, And More By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 7, 2019 12:30 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: An old friend visits Galaxy’s Edge. The hybrid food names at Galaxy’s Edge have made their way to Disneyland. Universal Studios Japan is getting a holiday makeover. And more! No, your eyes do not deceive you. The photo above really is of Hayden Christensen, standing in the Millennium Falcon that you can find at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at the Disneyland Resort....

TV Bits: ‘American Dad!’, ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’, ‘The World According To Jeff Goldblum’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 20, 2020 12:30 pm EST In this edition of TV Bits: Rob McElhenney says he’ll do It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia forever The World According to Jeff Goldblum gets good news from Disney+ American Dad! will be sticking around And more First up, TBS has ordered two more seasons of Seth MacFarlane’s animated series American Dad!...

‘Bored’ Review: A Promising TV Pilot About Love, Youth And Brexit [SXSW] By Amelia Emberwing/April 3, 2020 11:00 am EST (The SXSW Film Festival may have been cancelled, but our coverage will go on with reviews of films and TV shows made available to our critics.)There’s this weird in-between time when you’ve put in the work for a thing but the work for said thing hasn’t paid off just yet. That feeling manages to be one of the most nagging, frustrating sensations on the spectrum of nagging and frustrating sensations....

‘Call Your Mother’ Trailer: Comedy Central Shines A Light On The Mothers Of Famous Comedians By Ethan Anderton/March 8, 2020 10:00 am EST There are countless documentary films about comedians, their stand-up tours, and their lives in show business. But Comedy Central will soon shine a light on a sparsely seen side of the lives of nearly two dozen comedians. Call Your Mother is a new documentary created by Comedy Central and Loki Films that pays tribute to the mothers of comedians like Jim Gaffigan, Judah Friedlander, Jen Kirkman, Kristen Schaal, Tig Notaro, Norm MacDonald, David Spade, Roy Wood Jr....

‘Candyman’ Teaser: Nia DaCosta Unveils A Haunting New Look At Her Horror Update By Chris Evangelista/June 17, 2020 11:00 am EST The new Candyman reboot/sequel was supposed to arrive in theaters last weekend, but the coronavirus changed that. Now, Nia DaCosta’s new take on the classic horror tale is due out in September, which still seems like a long time from now. In the meantime, DaCosta has uploaded a haunting Candyman teaser that re-tells the Candyman origin story while also recounting stories of Black people being persecuted – and prosecuted – a theme that’s all too familiar right now....

‘Clueless’ Pop-Up Coming To Los Angeles To Celebrate The Film’s 25th Anniversary By Ben Pearson/March 4, 2020 4:30 pm EST This year marks the 25th anniversary of Clueless, writer/director Amy Heckerling’s 1990s comedy classic starring Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, the late Brittany Murphy, and the immortal Paul Rudd. To celebrate, Paramount Pictures has announced a Clueless pop-up (called, appropriately, “As If”) will be opening in Los Angeles for a limited engagement starting on March 31, 2020....

‘Halloween Kills’ Is “Bigger, Badder, And Meaner” Than 2018’s ‘Halloween’ By Chris Evangelista/April 22, 2020 4:30 pm EST All has been quiet on the Halloween Kills front for the last few months, so we’ll take any piece of news about the sequel we can get. During a recent interview, Scott Teems, who co-wrote the Halloween Kills script with David Gordon Green and Danny McBride, talked up the upcoming horror movie, promising something “bigger, badder, and meaner” than 2018’s Halloween....

By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 9, 2020 2:00 pm EST Hoops has been canceled after one season. The animated series premiered in August, and based on reports, Netflix wasn’t confident enough in the viewership stats to give Hoops another shot. The series follows “a hot-headed, foul-mouthed high school basketball coach (Jake Johnson) who thinks turning around his god awful team will take him to the ‘big leagues’ and turn his miserable life around....