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Mysterious Sony/Marvel Movie Arriving In 2021 By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 12, 2020 7:30 am EST Hello there, release date fiends. If you’re reading this that can only mean one thing: you love release date news. Well, good, because we’ve got some. Sony has dated a mysterious Untitled Sony/Marvel movie for the year 2021, should we all be lucky enough to make it that far. What could this be? We don’t know, but we’re going to speculate, because we want to quench your thirst for hot, hot release date gossip....

New Live-Action ‘Inspector Gadget’ Movie In The Works At Disney By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 4, 2019 3:32 pm EST Are you ready for another live-action Inspector Gadget movie? Well, too bad, you’re getting one anyway. Aladdin producers Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich are set to produce the movie for Disney, with Saturday Night Live writers Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell handling the script. The film is based on the animated series of the same name, created in 1983....

Superhero Bits: ‘Stargirl’ Coming To The CW Too, Doctor Strange And Iron Man Swapped In Concept Art & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 21, 2019 6:00 pm EST Can you help fund funeral services for the late Christopher Dennis, aka Hollywood’s Superman? Want to see some Watchmen Easter eggs from the fifth episode of the series? Did you hear Stargirl was also going to air on The CW? Which Disney+ series are the Russo Brothers interested in playing around with?...

The Best TV Shows And Movies Leaving Netflix In October 2019 By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 20, 2019 3:30 pm EST September is almost gone. Good! Get the hell out of here, summer! It’s time to make way for autumn! Which means it’s also time to make way for new movies on Netflix. But the arrival of new titles comes with a bitter price: other movies have to leave. Which means if you’ve had the movies below sitting in your queue for the last few months, you might want to get around to watching them before they up and vanish....

The Emperor Reborn: How The ‘Star Wars’ Prequels And The New Disney Canon Reshape Palpatine By Adam Frazier/Nov. 6, 2019 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Emperor Reborn, a three-part series examining the role of Sheev Palpatine and the long shadow he casts over the Skywalker Saga, including the upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.) In chapter two of The Emperor Reborn, we take a look at the Emperor’s role in the prequel trilogy and how he’s been expanded in the new, Disney-approved canon....

The Making Of Seth Rogen’s Dual Roles In ‘An American Pickle’ Is More Impressive Than You Thought By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 14, 2020 2:00 pm EST Plenty of actors have played multiple characters that appear on screen together in the movies. Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor, Mike Myers in Austin Powers, and Michael Keaton in Multiplicity are just a few of the more famous examples. Traditionally this is achieved through a split screen process where the actor shoots the same scene multiple times as each different character on the same day and uses stand-ins for over-the-shoulder shots....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘6 Days To Air’ Dives Into The Fast-Paced Making Of ‘South Park’ By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 9, 2020 9:00 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: 6 Days to Air: The Making of South ParkWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: Most animated TV shows take months to create....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Orphan’ Wants You To Know There’s Something Wrong With Esther By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 10, 2020 7:00 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: OrphanWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: Wealthy couple Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard adopt seemingly sweet orphan Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) and quickly come to regret it after Esther turns out to be one bad seed....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Stay Tuned’ Is A Very ’90s Comedy About Getting Sucked Into A TV (And An Ideal Candidate For A Remake) By Ben Pearson/June 10, 2020 8:00 am EST While the film is incredibly cheesy in its satire of television, I actually had a pretty good time with it. Plus, I found myself thinking about what another filmmaker might do with this hook in 2020, and I came to the conclusion that this is a perfect candidate for a modern remake....

Theme Park Bits: Gusteau’s In Epcot, Mardi Gras At Universal, And More By Josh Spiegel/Jan. 23, 2020 1:30 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Universal Orlando has announced its Mardi Gras lineup. Take a look at Gusteau’s in Epcot. And more! In 2020, Epcot is getting a facelift or two in the form of intellectual property. One of the big areas that’s getting updated — for good or ill, depending on how you look at it — is the France pavilion in World Showcase....

This Week In Trailers: Ottolenghi And The Cakes Of Versailles, Gunda, Baby God, Tiger, We Are The Champions By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 14, 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?...

VOTD: ‘Conan’ Explores Ghana’s Totally Insane Movie Poster Art Industry By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 11, 2019 6:00 am EST Movie posters have lost some of their artistic value in recent years as studios opt foe cheap Photoshop jobs instead of stunning illustrations. But in case you haven’t heard, artists in Ghana have breathed new life into the world of movie posters by making movies look ieven more intriguing and enticing than the real marketing campaigns....

‘Ad Astra’ Spoiler Review: Brad Pitt’s Zany Episodic Adventures In Cosmic Navel-Gazing By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 24, 2019 8:00 am EST For much of his career, Brad Pitt has eschewed the path of the traditional leading man. A recent Buzzfeed article pegged Pitt as “a character actor trapped in a movie star’s body.” If you look back at his filmography, there’s a clear pattern of Pitt playing off other actors as a kind of co-lead or ensemble head....

‘Come Away’ Trailer: A Whimsical, Wondrous Fairy Tale Origin Story From The Director Of ‘Brave’ By Ben Pearson/Oct. 9, 2020 5:30 pm EST Brenda Chapman, the filmmaker behind Prince of Egypt and Pixar’s Brave, makes her live-action directing debut with Come Away, a delightful film which chronicles the adventures of Peter and Alice growing up as brother and sister, before they go off to experience the fairy tale worlds of Neverland and Wonderland....

‘Donnie Darko’ Director Richard Kelly Plotting A Comeback With A Rod Serling Biopic By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 4, 2019 3:00 pm EST Director Richard Kelly shot onto the Hollywood scene with the psychological thriller Donnie Darko starring Jake Gyllenhaal in 2001. A few years later, he returned with the fascinating but underwhelming Southland Tales, followed by the odd, cautionary tale The Box. Since then he’s pretty much disappeared, popping up only as a producer for Operation: Endgame back in 2010....

‘Mulan’ Is Rated PG-13, A First For Disney’s Live-Action Remakes By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 19, 2020 9:30 am EST As you might have noticed, all of Disney’s recent live-action remakes of their animated films have scored PG ratings – until now. Mulan just landed a PG-13 rating, making it the first of these remakes to suggest something slightly more mature than what we’ve seen from Disney so far. The rating is due to “sequences of violence”, which makes sense since the story involves the main character going off to war....

‘New York Will Eat You Alive’: Colin Firth Will Star In ‘Zombie Brother’ Adaptation By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 6, 2020 4:00 pm EST Colin Firth will star in New York Will Eat You Alive, an adaptation of the digital comic Zombie Brother. Todd Strauss-Schulson, director of the excellent horror-comedy The Final Girls, is helming the film, which is about a group of New Yorkers trying to survive a monster apocalypse. Alex Rubens (Keanu), Dan Gregor (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), and Doug Mand (Dolittle) all had a hand in the script....

‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Spoiler Review: Quentin Tarantino’s Funny, Melancholy Masterwork By Chris Evangelista/July 29, 2019 8:00 am EST Who could’ve guessed that Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, once thought of as “Quentin Tarantino’s Charles Manson movie”, would end up being one of the sweetest films of the director’s career? Beneath the rampant speculation, beneath the True Crime trappings, beneath the bursts of shockingly graphic violence, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has a warm, loving heart....

‘Parasite’ Expanding Into 2,000 Theaters After Best Picture Win At The Oscars By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 11, 2020 1:30 pm EST Parasite was first released in limited theaters all the way back in October 2019 before expanding to a wider release in November. Since then, it’s been kicking around movie theaters as it picked up more and more awards season buzz. Now that the movie has been named Best Picture at the Academy Awards, it’s getting its widest theatrical release yet, with NEON expanding the movie to over 2,000 theaters this weekend, giving everybody a chance to see it on the big screen....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Clip Is So Good, But You May Want To Avoid It By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 12, 2019 12:25 pm EST Lucasfilm has released a new clip from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and oh boy, is it a doozy. The short Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker clip appears to take place early in the film’s runtime and centers around Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). But if we tell you any more, that would be treading into spoiler territory....