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A New Sci-Fi Movie Will Star An Artificially Intelligent Robot Named Erica, Programmed In Method Acting By Ethan Anderton/June 24, 2020 2:00 pm EST A lot of people are wondering how safe it will be for Hollywood to get back to work in the age of the coronavirus, especially since we’re still very much in the first wave and the number of cases in the United States has been rising. An upcoming sci-fi production will make things slightly safer for the cast and crew, because one of the lead roles will be taken by a robot named Erica, who has been created to simulate method acting through artificial intelligence....

Acclaimed Film ‘One Cut Of The Dead’ Hits Shudder Next Week By Ben Pearson/Sept. 20, 2019 6:00 am EST This year’s Fantastic Fest is officially underway in Austin, Texas, but one of last year’s big festival hits will finally be available to stream very soon. One Cut of the Dead, the Japanese zombie comedy that written, edited, and directed by Shinichiro Ueda, is a low-budget indie that won the Audience Award and Best Director at the 2018 genre festival, and ended up earning more than 1,000 times its budget in Japanese theaters....

Apple TV+ Reveals ‘Amazing Stories’ Premiere Date And First Look [TCA 2020] By Fred Topel/Jan. 19, 2020 1:00 pm EST UPDATE: The original version of this story inaccurately mentioned a second season renewal for Amazing Stories, but this was a misconception by our reporter at the TCAs. Our corrected story follows below. Apple TV+ presented panels on the last day of the Television Critics Association winter press tour. The streamer finally announced premiere date for the long-awaited reboot of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories....

Cool Stuff: New ‘Star Wars’ Vintage Collection Playset Helps Bring Darth Vader’s Badass ‘Rogue One’ Moment To Life By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 22, 2020 11:00 am EST Hasbro announced an awesome new playset in the Star Wars Vintage Collection that brings the first interior location we ever see in the saga to your shelf. The hallway of the Tantive IV that Darth Vader infiltrates with his Stormtroopers is being released as a playset scaled to the 3....

Everything Coming To Disney+ At Launch Teased In 197-Minute Video By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 14, 2019 11:00 am EST After Disney+ made an early debut over in The Netherlands, a complete list of titles available on the streaming service made its way online. But today, Disney decided to draw out the process of revealing the streaming library by individually tweeting pretty much every single title, from television to movies, that you’ll be able to watch starting on November 12....

Netflix Is Testing Your “Physical Activity” Now By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 31, 2019 4:30 pm EST So much for Netflix and chill. For Android users, there will be no more chilling while you have the Netflix app playing, at least if you don’t want the streaming company to think that you’re a lazy couch potato. New reports suggest that Netflix has started tracking “physical activity” for certain Android users, to test how it “can improve video playback quality when a member is on the go....

New ‘Mandalorian’ Trailer Reveals Ming-Na Wen’s Character (And Nick Nolte’s Voice) By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 4, 2019 9:26 am EST We’re closer than ever to the debut of The Mandalorian, the new Star Wars streaming series arriving on Disney+. Ahead of next week’s premiere, a new Mandalorian trailer has provided us with our first look at Ming-Na Wen’s character, assassin Fennec Shand. We also get to hear Nick Nolte’s very distinct voice – the type of voice that sounds as if Nolte washed down a breakfast of broken glass with a tall glass of motor oil....

The Clock Tower: Here’s What You Need To Know To Prepare For ‘Crisis On Infinite Earths’ By Amelia Emberwing/Dec. 5, 2019 10:00 am EST (Welcome to The Clock Tower, where we’ll break down the goings on of the The CW network’s Arrowverse. We’ll touch on things like themes, cultural impact, lead-ins to major events, ships, and more every other week! Warning: this Clock Tower is filled with spoilers. Proceed at your own risk....

The Morning Watch: Creating Snake Jazz For ‘Rick And Morty’, Fact-Checking ‘The Crown’ & More By Ethan Anderton/April 17, 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. In this edition, find out about the creation of “Snake Jazz” from one of the season four episodes of Rick and Morty....

The Quarantine Stream: Help, I’ve Started Watching ‘Supermarket Sweep’ And I Can’t Stop, Please Kill Me By Jacob Hall/July 15, 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 Series: Supermarket SweepWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: Supermarket Sweep is a game show from the world of RoboCop that somehow escaped into our reality, where contestants show off their knowledge of food brands, solve puzzles involving those food brands, and then run through a fake supermarket to spend as much money as possible, focusing on brands brands brands!...

The Quarantine Stream: Take A Delicious Trip Around The World With ‘The Endless Adventure’ By Peter Sciretta/March 30, 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 Series: The Endless AdventureWhere You Can Stream It: YouTubeThe Pitch: “Greetings adventurers! We’re Eric & Allison, a travel couple on a journey to find the most interesting places and unique foods this planet has to offer!...

Todd Phillips Thinks ‘Joker’ Can Win Venice Film Festival’s Top Prize, Festival Director Thinks It’s Heading For Oscars By Ben Pearson/July 26, 2019 11:15 am EST It’s still a bit too early for us to be seriously thinking about next year’s Oscar ceremony, but it’s apparently not too early for Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera. In a new interview, he says director Todd Phillips’ upcoming Joker movie is the most surprising film at this year’s festival, predicts that it will go “straight to the Oscars,” and explains how Phillips himself is confident that his movie can win The Golden Lion, the festival’s top prize....

UPDATED: ‘The Batman’ Production Halted Temporarily After Robert Pattinson Tests Positive For COVID-19 By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 3, 2020 10:30 am EST It’s been just three days since The Batman production restarted in the United Kingdom at the Warner Bros. studio in Leavesden. But the movie directed by Matt Reeves and starring Robert Pattinson is temporarily suspending principal photography after one of the crew members tested positive for COVID-19. UPDATE: It turns out Robert Pattinson is the one who tested positive for COVID-19, according to Vanity Fair....

Upright Citizens Brigade Shutting Down New York Theater And Training Center Locations Permanently By Ethan Anderton/April 22, 2020 4:00 pm EST When the coronavirus pandemic started shutting down various entertainment venues, the famed Upright Citizens Brigade improv and sketch comedy theater was quick to shutter their doors. But it also came with unfortunate layoffs for theater employees in Los Angeles and New York in order to save as much money as possible while there weren’t any shows to bring in revenue....

Video: Are The New Food & Drinks At Jurassic Cafe & Isla Nu-Bar Any Good? [Jurassic World At Universal Studios Hollywood] By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2019 1:00 pm EST We rode Jurassic World: The Ride. We encountered baby Raptors and triceratops and explored all the new merch. And today completes our initial adventures to Jurassic World as we take a look at the new food options. Universal Studios Hollywood has completely revamped the menu for the Jurassic Cafe and built a new bar with the puntastic name Isla Nu-bar....

‘Artemis Fowl’ Actor Nonso Anozie Trained In Kendo Fighting And “Troll Fighting” [Set Visit Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 10, 2020 10:00 am EST There are some unusual requirements to play a bodyguard to a 12-year-old criminal mastermind. For Nonso Anozie, who reunites with his Cinderella director Kenneth Branagh in the upcoming Disney fantasy movie Artemis Fowl, a few things he had to add to his resume were kendo fighting and “troll fighting....

‘Fast And Furious Crossroads’ Trailer Gives Vin Diesel A Ride Through The Uncanny Valley By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 13, 2019 1:30 pm EST If you’ve ever wanted to see a remake of The Polar Express starring Vin Diesel as one of the creepy, dead-eyed cartoon people, here’s the next best thing. The video game Fast and Furious Crossroads gives us a weirdly off-putting digital Diesel reprising his role as Dom Toretto. The game will allow players to race around and perform missions, and will also allow the lifeless computer recreation of Diesel to haunt your dreams....

By Chris Evangelista/July 29, 2019 3:30 pm EST Released in 1997, I Know What You Did Last Sumer came at the beginning of the slasher movie revival craze kicked-off by 1996’s Scream. While nowhere near as good, or as clever as Scream, both films were written by the same individual – Kevin Williamson. Both also told similar stories about teens dealing with past traumatic events while also grappling with a killer in disguise....

Jurassic World 3 Animatronic Dinosaur next steps pic.twitter.com/8B62vFtDBY — Colin Trevorrow (@colintrevorrow) January 31, 2020 We’re not sure if that’s a baby Triceratops, or perhaps more likely, an animatronic version of the baby Nasutoceratops we saw in the Jurassic World short film Battle at Big Rock last fall. The short film was created as a sort of bridge between Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World 3, so seeing one of the dinosaurs from the short in the next movie would make perfect sense....

‘Lockdown’: Doug Liman’s Pandemic Heist Film Heads To HBO Max By Ben Pearson/Dec. 2, 2020 4:00 pm EST Director Doug Liman’s star-studded pandemic heist film is going straight to streaming. The worldwide rights to Lockdown, Liman’s new mixture of heist film and romantic comedy, has been acquired by Warner Bros. Pictures, which has a plan to release the film on HBO in early 2021. Read on for a refresher of the plot and all of the A-list talent who appear in this this movie....