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By Ben Pearson/Aug. 7, 2020 6:30 pm EST In 2017, Netflix acquired famed comic book creator Mark Millar’s Millarworld company to mine it for film and TV projects. Last year, the streaming service announced it would produce an original film version of Millar’s sci-fi fantasy comic Reborn, with Chris McKay (The LEGO Batman Movie) directing and Oscar winner Sandra Bullock producing. Now, more than a year later, the project has finally found its writer: up-and-coming scribe Bek Smith, who has previously worked at Marvel Studios....

Marvel’s Teen TV Superheroes Will Be Teaming Up In A ‘Runaways’ And ‘Cloak & Dagger’ Crossover Episode By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 1, 2019 1:30 pm EST Marvel’s Runaways and Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger have little in common apart from sharing the Marvel banner and teenaged casts. Until now. Marvel’s two teenage superhero teams will finally be uniting in a Runaways and Cloak and Dagger crossover episode coming to Hulu this December in Runaways’ upcoming third season....

New ‘Spider-Man’ Animated Series Coming From Marvel By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 26, 2019 3:30 pm EST The fate of Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is in serious doubt right now thanks to a contractual spat between Marvel and Sony. But that doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last of the web-slinger under the Marvel banner. A new Spider-Man animated series, Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends, is headed to Disney Junior in 2021....

Quibi Drops Out Of The Top 40 Free Apps On U.S. App Store Charts By Ben Pearson/April 15, 2020 4:00 pm EST Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman bet big on Quibi, locking down a billion dollars in funding, the support of every major Hollywood studio, and hiring some of the biggest names in entertainment to make content for the mobile-only streaming service. But what they couldn’t have foreseen was a global pandemic coinciding with the launch of their service....

Stephen King’s ‘Roadwork’ Movie Now Under Construction, With ‘It’ Team Producing By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 12, 2019 4:00 pm EST Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, the team behind the wildly successful adaptation of Stephen King’s It, have set their sights on a new King adaptation. The duo will produce Roadwork, based on the 1981 novel King published under the pseudonym, Richard Bachman. The story follows a man slowly losing his mind after the construction of a major highway costs him both his job and his house....

The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To ‘Where The Wild Things Are’, What If The Muppets Did ‘Hamilton’? & More By Ethan Anderton/July 14, 2020 5:00 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, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows....

This Week In Trailers: Rockfield: The Studio On The Farm, Truffle Hunters, The Great American Lie, Mandibles, Billie By Christopher Stipp/Sept. 12, 2020 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

TV Bits: ‘Supergirl’ Season 5 Trailer, ‘Doom Patrol’ Renewed, ‘The Orville’ Moves To Hulu, And More By Ben Pearson/July 28, 2019 10:00 am EST I guess the writers of Supergirl really hate technology, huh? The show returns to The CW for its fifth season on Sunday, October 6, 2019. A different superhero series, Doom Patrol, has been picked up for a second season, and its season 2 episodes will be available to stream simultaneously on the DC Universe streaming platform and Warner Bros....

UK Broadcast Network Sky Adds Disclaimers To ‘Aladdin’, ‘The Last Samurai’, And More Warning Viewers Of “Outdated Attitudes” By Ben Pearson/June 23, 2020 2:30 pm EST Sky, the United Kingdom’s largest pay-TV broadcaster, has added new disclaimers in front of movies like Aladdin, The Last Samurai, The Jungle Book, Flash Gordon, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s to warn potential viewers that the films contain “outdated attitudes” that could end up offending them....

Which Ice Planet Was In The Latest ‘The Mandalorian’ Episode? By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 12, 2020 2:00 pm EST In the recently-aired season 2, episode two of The Mandalorian, “Chapter Ten: The Passenger,” Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and the Child crash land on a mysterious, deserted ice planet. An ice planet that was teased in the trailer for The Mandalorian season 2, and which sent the minds of Star Wars fans’ racing: was it Ilum, the future location of the Starkiller Base in Star Wars: The Force Awakens?...

‘Empire Records’ Is A Love Letter To Small Business Culture And A Reminder To Damn The Man And Support Local By Marisa Mirabal/Sept. 22, 2020 9:00 am EST More than 100,000 small businesses have met their demise as a result of the Covid pandemic. Independent businesses represent multiple aspects of freedom and supporting local is more important now than ever before. Freedom of expression is of utmost importance and allows work to become a place of solace because of the supportive, collaborative environment among coworkers....

‘Frozen 2’ Arrives On Blu-Ray, DVD And Digital In February, Includes A Deleted Song From Olaf By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 21, 2020 4:30 pm EST Frozen 2 was one of Disney’s biggest hits last year, becoming the highest grossing animated film of all time. And next month, the animated musical sequel is coming home on digital, 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD, just before winter starts wrapping up. The Frozen 2 Blu-ray, DVD and digital release will include a slew of deleted scenes, Easter eggs, outtakes, and a sing-along version of the movie for your kids to drive you crazy with....

‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Wraps Filming, Colin Trevorrow And Cast Celebrate By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 9, 2020 7:30 am EST Jurassic World: Dominion has had a long road to the screen. The third movie in the Jurassic World continuation of the Jurassic Park franchise has been hit by delays and temporary pauses amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, with a shoot spanning nine months as the production implemented a variety of on-set measures to keep the cast and crew safe....

‘Last Night In Soho’ Will “Feel Very Different” From Edgar Wright’s Past Films By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 7, 2020 9:30 am EST Despite flirting with the genre at the beginning of his career with 2004’s Shaun of the Dead, Edgar Wright has never made a full-fledged horror film. But that’s all going to change when his highly anticipated psychological thriller Last Night in Soho hits theaters next year. Wright has been hailed for his singular grasp on visual comedy and sleek action filmmaking, but psychological horror is something that he hasn’t really dipped his toes in....

‘Mulan’ Remake Honest Trailer: Everything You Loved About The Original Disney Movie…Is Gone By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 16, 2020 6:00 am EST If Disney was going to do one thing right, you’d think that it would be giving Mulan a worthy live-action remake that let’s an all-Asian cast shine in an epic retelling of one of China’s most famous legends. But nope! Instead, they take everything you loved about the original animated adventure, shove it to the side, and try to create a Chinese fantasy war drama with sparks of female empowerment, all in a package that’s tame enough for the whole family....

‘Pretend It’s A City’ Trailer: Martin Scorsese Presents A Surprise Documentary Featuring Writer Fran Lebowitz By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 28, 2020 1:00 pm EST Ten years after Martin Scorsese teamed up with writer and essayist Fran Lebowitz for the HBO series Public Speaking, the filmmaker has unveiled a surprise follow-up documentary for Netflix, titled Pretend It’s a City. Lebowitz, who executive produced the documentary, appears again in her famously sardonic glory alongside Scorsese as they take on (a pre-COVID) New York City....

‘SpongeBob Squarepants’ Cast Reuniting For Virtual Table Read By Chris Evangelista/May 17, 2020 12:00 pm EST SpongeBob Squarepants, a franchise that refuses to ever go away, will give fans something to look forward to this June. The Stars of SpongeBob Fan Favorites Special will reunite the cast for a virtual table read of several favorite scenes that were picked by fans. Voting is still underway, so if you have a favorite scene you’d like to see make the cut, here’s your chance....

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Breakdown: The Details And History That Enrich “Shattered” By Bryan Young/May 1, 2020 10:00 am EST The penultimate episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars takes the show into some of the darkest territory it’s seen. Order 66 is declared and all hell breaks loose. Ahsoka Tano is forced to turn on the Clones who were so loyal to her that they painted her face design on their helmets and she has to quickly unravel the mystery of Palpatine’s most dangerous machinations....

‘Strawberry Mansion’ Review: An Anti-Capitalism Fever Dream That’s A Real Snooze [Sundance 2021] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 30, 2021 10:00 am EST A defeated-looking businessman (co-writer and co-director Kentucker Audley) sits in a Pepto Bismol-pink house, full of pink utensils and pink food, nothing real except his despair and a bucket of fried chicken wings that his “Buddy” (Linas Phillips) enthusiastically hawks to him. “Juicy and delicious!” Buddy says before biting into the chicken, smacking his lips obscenely and violently....

‘The Boys’ Season 2 Trailer: The Boys Are Back And More Bloody Than Ever By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 5, 2019 3:00 pm EST The Boys are back in town with The Boys season 2. The second season of the anti-superhero series will arrive in 2020, but for now, fans can make do with this trailer that promises another violent, off-the-wall season. Based on the comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys is set in a world where superheroes exist – and most of them are anything but heroic....