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‘New Mutants’ Director Josh Boone Says His Original Cut Is The One Being Released This Year By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 2, 2020 12:30 pm EST The strange saga of The New Mutants movie continues! Josh Boone’s horror-infused X-Men spin-off has been shuffled from one release date to the next, with reports of massive reshoots and other behind-the-scenes tomfoolery rumored. The movie is now set to open this year, and there’s even a new trailer on the way next week....

‘Onward’ Trailer: Tom Holland And Chris Pratt Are Elf Teens On A Quest For Their Dad By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 17, 2019 7:30 am EST Tom Holland and Chris Pratt’s elf teens are going on a quest to recover the (literal) missing half of their father, so they’ll naturally run into all manner of wacky characters and dangerous obstacles along the way. Three of those wacky characters are introduced in the latest Onward trailer, which comes with several new character posters....

‘Russian Doll’ Will Likely End After Season 3, Natasha Lyonne Says By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 12, 2019 2:30 pm EST Three seasons, what a concept. But it’s the concept that creator and star Natasha Lyonne is envisioning for her high-concept sci-fi series Russian Doll, which debuted to rave reviews this past February and has already been renewed for a second season. But Lyonne says that the Groundhog Day-esque series likely won’t go much further than that, based on her plans for the Russian Doll ending....

‘Tenet’ Takes No. 1 At The Box Office As The Lowest-Grossing Chart Topper In 32 Years By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 29, 2020 10:30 am EST If a movie makes it to No. 1 at a box office during a pandemic, does it make a sound? Because the fate of the Autumn movie slate and struggling cinemas depend on the box office success of Tenet, it kind of does. But right now, it’s just a quiet thump....

‘The Banker’ Trailer: Samuel L. Jackson And Anthony Mackie Lead The Apple TV+ Movie Coming To Theaters By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 4, 2019 3:00 pm EST Apple TV+ has already launched, and with it has come a handful of new shows for subscribers to users to take a chance on. But Apple isn’t just making new TV shows. They’ve got original movies on the way too, and the first major theatrical release from the tech company will be arriving next month....

‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Trailer Breakdown: “The Legacy Of That Shield Is Complicated” By Ben Pearson/Dec. 11, 2020 12:00 pm EST Last night, Disney debuted the first full trailer for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, one of several big Marvel Studios shows that are being made specifically for the Disney+ streaming service. Now that the whirlwind of Marvel news has quieted down to a whisper, let’s take a few minutes and take a closer look at the details from this trailer that we all might have missed upon first viewing....

‘The Others’ Remake Is Happening For Some Reason By Chris Evangelista/April 8, 2020 12:00 pm EST Hey, you know which movie doesn’t need a remake? The Others, the spooky, atmospheric ghost story starring Nicole Kidman. So, of course, we’re getting a remake. The Others remake is now in the works, after Sentient Entertainment won the rights to the project. And, just to make things extra silly, this remake is going to be “modernized....

‘Wolfwalkers’ Review: A Dazzling Display Of The Best That Animation Can Achieve By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 13, 2020 8:00 am EST Hand-drawn animation is a fast-disappearing art in a medium that has come to value mass appeal and mass production over the careful study of tradition. It’s a bittersweet reality that resonates strongly with Cartoon Saloon’s latest animation masterwork, Wolfwalkers. A dazzling, majestic love letter to the disappearing Irish folklore that was once so prevalent all over the country, and that once nestled in the hearts of all its people, Wolfwalkers is about that last gasp of a bygone era and the wonder that it still holds....

A Never Before Seen ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Movie Deleted Scene Has Surfaced By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 18, 2019 12:00 pm EST Super Mario Bros. The Movie is one of the weirdest and most mystifying major studio releases of all-time. In an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the Nintendo video game franchise of the same name, Hollywood Pictures and Buena Vista Pictures, the movie brought the game to life in one of the most perplexing fashions, trying to shoehorn as many references to the original game as possible in a nonsensical way....

Bob Iger Knows The Child’s Real Name In ‘The Mandalorian’, But Once Called Him Baby Yoda Like Us By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 29, 2019 10:00 am EST The Mandalorian is a big hit for Disney and Lucasfilm, so much that the second season was officially announced to arrive in the fall of 2020 just as the first season came to an end this past week. While fans are loving the titular character of the series, there’s one clear breakout from the show: Baby Yoda....

Borat Responds To The Controversial “Sexy Time Encounter” In ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 23, 2020 10:30 am EST Borat Responds to Borat 2 Rudy Giuliani Scene OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM BORAT SAGDIYEV pic.twitter.com/vM92Lam5vV — Borat (@BoratSagdiyev) October 23, 2020 Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) directly addresses the scene featuring Rudy Giuliani, calling it “an innocent sexy time encounter between a consenting man and my 15-year old daughter have been turned into something disgusting by fake news media....

Comcast Has A $100 Million Plan To Fight Injustice And Social Inequality By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 8, 2020 4:00 pm EST Hollywood has been wrestling with how to better improve its diversity efforts for years, with small steps forward being made in the years since the 2014 Ferguson protests and #OscarsSoWhite. But with Black Lives Matter protests sweeping the nation — and the world — it’s clear that progress is still miniscule....

Hulu Takes Down An Episode Of ‘Golden Girls’ Over Blackface Concerns By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 29, 2020 4:00 pm EST Hulu has removed an episode of The Golden Girls over blackface concerns amid Hollywood’s grappling with troubling portrayals of race in film and TV. But as streamers have taken a machete to episodes featuring blackface like 30 Rock, Scrubs, and the Netflix comedy sketch series With Bob and David, and late-night hosts like Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel have publicly apologized for past uses of blackface, criticism has started to emerge that Hollywood is “overcorrecting” without actually addressing the real problems of racism in the entertainment industry....

New ‘Rick And Morty’ Loot Crate Brings The Existential Crisis Of The Butter Robot To Your Dinner Table By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 15, 2020 2:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The fourth season of Rick and Morty has come and gone, and it’s already available on Blu-ray and DVD. While fans are eagerly anticipating the show’s return for season five (whenever that may be), Loot Crate will attempt to hold them over with a new box of exclusive Rick and Morty gear and collectibles to kick off 2021....

Sean Connery, Famed James Bond Actor And Oscar Winner, Has Died At 90 By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 31, 2020 9:36 am EST For many, the quintessential image of James Bond comes from Sean Connery, the iconic actor who played the British spy across seven total films in the franchise but did so with his trademark Scottish accent. Sadly, the star of Dr. No and From Russian with Love has passed away at age 90, leaving behind a long legacy of memorable roles....

Snap Snap: ‘The Addams Family 2’ Is Coming To Theaters In 2021 By Ben Pearson/Oct. 15, 2019 11:30 am EST Everyone knows the Addams Family is creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky, altogether ooky, but now we can add “enduring” to the eerie family’s list of descriptors. The characters originated in a comic strip in the 1930s before making the jump to live-action in a popular 1960s sitcom and hopping into two live-action feature films in the ’90s, but the brand new animated film has already proven popular enough to warrant a theatrical sequel....

Sorry, ‘Tenet’ Is Not Skipping Theaters And Going Straight To Streaming By Ben Pearson/July 23, 2020 8:30 am EST In an ongoing global pandemic, some have wondered if Warner Bros. would stop messing around with shifting its theatrical release date for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet and instead bite the bullet and drop the film directly onto the newly-launched HBO Max streaming service. But on a conference call today, John Stankey, the CEO of Warner Bros....

Star Wars Bits: A Preview Of ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Kylo Ren #1’, Deaf Actor Troy Kotsur In ‘The Mandalorian’, Rian Johnson On Writing ‘The Last Jedi’, Porsche’s Women Of Lucasfilm Panel, And More! By Adam Frazier/Dec. 12, 2019 5:00 pm EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: A preview of Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren #1 Deaf actor Troy Kotsur makes his Star Wars debut in The Mandalorian Porche’s “Women of Lucasfilm – What Drives You?...

Superhero Bits: ‘Spider-Man: Miles Morales’ Ultimate Edition, Songbird Possibly Coming To The MCU & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 17, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to see how to draw Ghost Rider? When will Spider-Man: Miles Morales be available for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4? What can fans expect from the third season of the Big Hero 6 animated series? What’s the reported reason Ray Fisher decided to lash out at Warner Bros....

The Morning Watch: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ VFX Breakdown, Meet Hollywood Stuntwoman Shauna Duggins & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 29, 2019 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. In this edition, check out an Avengers: Endgame breakdown which reveals some surprising things that were created in post-production that you probably never would have guessed....