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‘The Photograph’ Trailer: Issa Rae And LaKeith Stanfield Get Romantic By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 29, 2020 4:00 pm EST Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield lead The Photograph, a romantic film that looks like it’s designed to make you swoon. Rae plays the daughter of a famed photographer, and Stanfield is a reporter with some questions for her. In the process, the two strike up a relationship. Watch the latest The Photograph trailer below, ahead of the film’s Valentine’s Day release....

‘Tiger King’ Honest Trailer: It’s Like The Coen Brothers And Christopher Guest Had A Redneck Baby By Ethan Anderton/April 22, 2020 6:00 am EST If you haven’t heard about Netflix’s totally bonkers true crime documentary series Tiger King by now, then you must have been in a coma. It’s a trashy television sensation telling the story of some of the craziest people you will ever meet, their exploits in breeding and “caring” for large exotic cats and other unlikely pets, and of course, murder and intrigue....

‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Volume 2 Trailer: Deaths, Disappearances, And Ghosts By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 8, 2020 12:30 pm EST Unsolved Mysteries is back with new episodes. Don’t call it a second season – call it Volume 2, because these are technically part of the 12 new episodes Netflix ordered. Rather than air them all at once, the streaming service broke them up into two parts, and now the remaining six episodes are arriving just in time for Halloween season....

‘Watchmen’ Exclusive: All Of Your Burning Questions About The Robert Redford Administration Have Been Answered By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 20, 2019 7:00 am EST Here is the true history of President Robert Redford in the world of Watchmen. Now that Robert Redford is President of the United States, what is the status of the Sundance Film Festival? The essay that accompanies The Book of Rorschach provides some insight into the Sundance situation....

A History Of The Darksaber And Why It Matters To The Future Of ‘Star Wars’ By Bryan Young/Dec. 30, 2019 1:00 pm EST Without spoiling where it appears, there’s been a recent resurgence of interest in the black lightsaber known as the Darksaber in the Star Wars lore. So we’re here to break down the Darksaber’s significance and give you some a deep dive into everything you need to understand about why this weapon is important, why its recent appearance was nothing short of jaw-dropping, and how it could factor in to future Star Wars projects....

Disney+ Announces Premiere Dates For ‘Marvel’s 616’ & More, Promises ‘WandaVision’ Is Coming This Year By Ben Pearson/Sept. 16, 2020 12:00 pm EST Disney+ has unveiled its upcoming calendar of releases for the streaming platform, with legacy titles like the Tom Hanks classic Big and brand new shows like the anthology documentary series Marvel’s 616 locking down slots in the coming months. Find out what else is coming to the platform below, including the news that the original series WandaVision is still on track for 2020....

Disney Is Spending A Ton Of Money On Disney+, Including An Almost $1 Billion Original Content Budget By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 16, 2019 12:30 pm EST “The first thing I did was make sure that the library was going to be ready for our launch,” Senior VP of Content Agnes Chu tells THR. “It was everything from going into our vault and physically looking at things that had not yet been restored to [paging through] binders of pieces of paper with legal deals....

Edgar Wright To Direct ‘Stage 13’, A Movie About A Ghost Who Haunts A Film Studio By Ben Pearson/July 22, 2020 11:00 am EST Writer/director Edgar Wright is lined up to direct his first ghost story. Wright, the beloved filmmaker behind movies like Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver, has signed on to develop, executive produce, and direct a film called Stage 13, an adaptation of one of novelist/screenwriter Simon Rich’s recent short stories....

The Great Soundtrack The Great is a satirical series about the rise of Catherine the Great, as played by Elle Fanning. The show hails from Tony McNamara, writer of The Favourite, and it certainly appears to be in a similar style as that film. Here’s the synopsis: A fictionalized, fun and anachronistic story of an idealistic, romantic young girl, who arrives in Russia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter....

Howard Ashman And Wolfgang Puck Documentaries Coming To Disney+ From Don Hahn & ‘Jiro Dreams Of Sushi’ Filmmaker By Ben Pearson/Oct. 18, 2019 2:00 pm EST Today, I attended a Disney+ presentation in Hollywood, where we learned that the upcoming streaming service will be the home of two interesting documentaries. Don Hahn, the producer of Disney animation movies like The Lion King and The Hunchback of Notre Dame and a talented director in his own right, directed a film about the life of Howard Ashman, the acclaimed lyricist behind films like Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, and that movie will be available next year on Disney+....

Is Marvel Studios Pushing Out Marvel Television For Bigger-Budgeted, Cinematic-Looking Shows? By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 27, 2019 3:22 pm EST As Disney+ gets ready to launch its slew of Marvel-based television shows via Marvel Studios, the fate of Marvel Television is up in the air. Marvel Television was previously leading the TV-based Marvel entertainment, including now-canceled Netflix shows like Daredevil. But insiders are reporting that Kevin Feige’s Marvel Studios is taking the reigns on the TV projects, especially those for Disney+....

Joe Carnahan Time-Loop Action Movie ‘Boss Level’ Gets March Release Date On Hulu By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 12, 2021 11:00 am EST Joe Carnahan’s action film Boss Level has been waiting since 2019 for someone to release it, and now Hulu has finally set a date: March 5. The time loop film features Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, and Naomi Watts, and follows a former special forces agent who keeps repeating the same day: the day of his murder....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: ‘Deathstroke’ Animated Series Trailer, Burt Ward’s Hollywood Walk Of Fame Ceremony & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 10, 2020 6:00 pm EST Here’s more of the Spectacular Sidney in a clip from the latest episode of the Marvel Hero Project on Disney+. There have been a lot of comic book characters named Eightball over the years for some reason. Check them out....

The Pandemic Could Kill Mid-Budget Films At The Box Office For Good By Chris Evangelista/June 4, 2020 1:00 pm EST There’s a lot going on in the world right now, so you might’ve forgotten there’s a deadly pandemic still in our midst. The coronavirus hasn’t gone anywhere, and Hollywood is still trying to figure out how to swim in these uncharted waters. Even before the coronavirus, the mid-budget movie – that is, a standalone film that wasn’t meant to be a big, franchise-launching blockbuster – was a dying breed....

Weekend Box Office: ‘The Grudge’ Fails To Scare Up Much Of An Audience By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 6, 2020 2:00 pm EST Here we are, in the dead days of January. It’s the time of year where studios dump movies they’re not entirely confident about. That doesn’t mean the movies are bad, per se. But it doesn’t they’re good, either. The biggest new release last weekend was the horror reboot The Grudge, which didn’t draw much of a crowd....

Why ‘Doctor Sleep’ Director Mike Flanagan Makes Horror Movies About Family, Trauma And Redemption [Set Visit] By Jacob Hall/Sept. 5, 2019 2:00 pm EST What if one of the best modern horror filmmakers also had a big, gooey heart? That seems to the case with Mike Flanagan, whose work blends visceral scares with shattering humanism. With The Haunting of Hill House, Gerald’s Game, Hush, and more, Flanagan has proven adept at breaking hearts and eliciting scares in equal measure, something that will surely serve him well with the upcoming Doctor Sleep....

‘Army Of The Dead: Lost Vegas’: Netflix’s Anime Spin-Off Adds Joe Manganiello, Christian Slater, And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 2, 2020 10:30 am EST Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas, Netflix’s anime spin-off series of Zack Snyder’s upcoming zombie action heist movie, has recruited quite a few Hollywood stars to battle the undead. Joe Manganiello, Christian Slater, and Vanessa Hudgens are among the big names to join the Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas cast, joining already-announced stars like Dave Bautista, Ana De La Reguera, Tig Notaro....

By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 27, 2019 11:00 am EST Opening like a video game (an aesthetic that remains throughout the film’s runtime), Away begins with a young boy – who shall remain our nameless protagonist throughout the film – who wakes up hanging from a parachute in the middle of a forest. We have no idea about his surroundings and neither does he. Before he can free himself and find his way out of this strange place, our hero must face a large behemoth of a monster that follows the kid wherever he goes....

‘Creepshow’ Season 2 Starts Production, Will Premiere In 2021 By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 10, 2020 3:30 pm EST The Creep will return in 2021. Creepshow season 2 has officially begun production, with plans for the series to return to Shudder in 2021. Greg Nicotero is back as showrunner, and the cast for season 2 so far includes Anna Camp, Keith David, Ashley Laurence, Josh McDermitt, and Adam Pally. The series is based on the George A....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 VFX Reel: Witness The Fall Of King’s Landing By Ben Pearson/July 27, 2019 12:00 pm EST I’m apparently in the minority in thinking that HBO’s Game of Thrones wrapped up in ways that, given the annoyingly increased pacing of the final seasons, I found to be largely satisfying. It’s been slightly more than two months since our last trip to Westeros, which is just enough time for the dust of the reactions to settle, the blazing hot takes to cool down, and a clear-eyed, macro-focused appraisal to become a slight possibility....