Netflix Plows Through The Season With A Bunch Of New Original Holiday Movies & TV Shows By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 11, 2020 9:00 am EST Halloween isn’t even here yet and stores are already stocking up on Christmas decorations. So maybe it’s not so crazy that Netflix has unveiled their new wave of original holiday movies and TV shows that will be arriving on the streaming service over the next couple of months....
New ‘Star Tours’ Update Will Take Us To Death Star Remains, Reveals Name Of Planet Where It Crashed By Ben Pearson/Oct. 23, 2019 11:00 am EST When the second Death Star exploded in Return of the Jedi, where exactly did its remains end up? We know from the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailers that many of that film’s characters are going to visit the burned-out husk of that mega weapon, but are they going to an unseen section of a familiar planet or uncharted territory?...
Paramount Pictures Gets Financial Aid For 10 Upcoming Blockbusters, Shifts ‘Love And Monsters’ To PVOD By Ben Pearson/Aug. 20, 2020 1:00 pm EST Paramount Pictures, one of the oldest legacy studios in Hollywood, has not been in an ideal market position in a long, long time. Now the studio is getting some financial aid from New Republic Pictures, a production company whose credits include 1917, Black Swan, and Rocketman, for ten upcoming blockbusters, including Mission: Impossible 7 and Top Gun: Maverick....
Rutger Hauer, Of ‘Blade Runner’ And So Much More, Dead At 75 By Chris Evangelista/July 24, 2019 10:30 am EST Rutger Hauer, one of those one-of-a-kind actors who was always worth watching, no matter what he was starring in, has died. Hauer, perhaps most famous for his work as Roy Batty in Blade Runner, died on July 19 after a short illness. His funeral was held today. Hauer most recently appeared in the underseen 2018 Western The Sisters Brothers....
Sundance 2020 Feature Titles Announced By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 4, 2019 2:00 pm EST Sundance is an exciting festival for many reasons. For one, it’s the first festival of the new year – the film fest that announces the movies we’re bound to be talking about for the months to come. In addition to that, there’s an air of mystery to the whole thing. For film festivals that come later in the year – like TIFF, for instance – information about the titles is more widely known....
Taking ‘The Goldfinch’ From Page To Screen With Editor Kelley Dixon By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 19, 2019 3:00 pm EST Adapting Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Goldfinch for the screen was never going to be an easy task. At 771 pages, it would make a daunting TV miniseries – and director John Crowley managed to whittle it down into an under-two-and-a-half-hour feature film. As any team adapting existing material must, the filmmakers had to make a number of choices as to how they would present the story....
The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Right Stuff’ Made Space Exploration Feel Dangerous By Ben Pearson/July 19, 2020 10:00 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: The Right StuffWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: A chronicling of the early days of the United States space program, the film tracks the journey of test pilot Chuck Yeager (Sam Shepard) as he breaks the sound barrier for the first time....
The Quarantine Stream: Let ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ Celebrity Edition Replace Your Trivia Nights By Ethan Anderton/May 23, 2020 10:00 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: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Celebrity EditionWhere You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: It’s the beloved game show that everyone was obsessed with in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but with famous faces in the hot seat playing for charity....
Theater Owners Launch $2.4 Million Fund For Employees By Ben Pearson/March 30, 2020 5:00 pm EST Nearly two weeks ago, the National Association of Theatre Owners, which represents more than 33,000 movie theaters in the United States, announced that they were pledging $1 million to theater employees affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19). The organization promised that details about the fund would be released shortly, and now it seems they have a two-tiered plan to disburse it to those in need....
This Week In Trailers: Middleditch & Schwartz, A Helical, An Engineer Imagines, Slay The Dragon, After Life Season 2 By Christopher Stipp/April 11, 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: How To Make An Adorable Baby Yoda Cake While You Wait For More ‘The Mandalorian’ Merch By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 26, 2019 6:00 am EST If you’re impatiently waiting for the new wave of The Mandalorian merchandise to arrive with the absolutely adorable Baby Yoda in the form of some kind of toy, we’ve got a good way to pass the time and create your own version of the little guy....
Warner Bros. Sets ‘Mad Max’ Prequel ‘Furiosa’ For 2023 Along With ‘Coyote Vs ACME’ And ‘The Color Purple’ Musical By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 27, 2020 10:00 am EST Warner Bros. Pictures will shake up the theatrical distribution model next year by releasing every single one of their movies simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max. However, for those expecting the studio to keep that model going in years to come, they seem to have rebuked that speculation by setting 2023 global theatrical release dates for the Mad Max prequel Furiosa, the Looney Tunes-inspired live-action/animated hybrid Coyote vs....
‘Burn’: J.J. Abrams And Bad Robot Producing TV Series About A Dragon Who Lives On A Farm During The Cold War By Ben Pearson/Dec. 16, 2020 1:00 pm EST On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm…Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to....
‘Code Geass’ Blends War, Politics, Alternate History, And Teenage Drama Into One Wild Anime By Rafael Motamayor/Dec. 4, 2020 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)Because of its incredibly long and daunting history, it can be really hard to know what mecha shows to watch. On this column, we have already covered an Evangelion-like mecha show, a throwback to Saturday morning cartoons, and the best introduction to the massive Gundam franchise....
‘Escape Room’ Director Teams With Sam Raimi For New Supernatural Thriller By Chris Evangelista/July 31, 2019 3:30 pm EST Escape Room looked like little more than a cheap Saw knock-off on paper, but the finished product turned out to be surprisingly fun. Now, Escape Room director Adam Robitel has caught the attention of Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert and their Ghost House Pictures, who will produce Robitel’s new untitled supernatural thriller for Escape Room distributor Sony Pictures....
‘Game Of Thrones’ Prequel Series ‘House Of The Dragon’ Moves Away From Northern Ireland, Will Film In England Instead By Ben Pearson/Oct. 15, 2020 1:30 pm EST It’s the end of an era. Game of Thrones used the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland as its home base for all eight seasons of its run on HBO, and the expectation was that any prequel or spin-off shows would continue to shoot there....
‘His Dark Materials’ Season 2 Featurette Introduces The All-Powerful Subtle Knife By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 28, 2020 4:30 pm EST There’s never been a better time to escape to a different world, and His Dark Materials has loads of them. But things look pretty dire even in the parallel worlds that populate BBC and HBO’s epic fantasy series, which adapts Philip Pullman’s beloved trilogy of the same name. There’s a war a’brewing that spans multiple worlds, with both sides eying one all-powerful weapon with a not-so-obvious name....
‘Search Party’ Season 4 First Look Photos Reveals Guest Stars Susan Sarandon, Busy Philipps, And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 24, 2020 10:00 am EST Cult hit comedy-thriller series Search Party has found a comfy home at HBO Max, where it aired its third season after two seasons on TBS. The series stars Alia Shawkat as the leader of a group of hip millennials who get involved in various mysteries, with increasingly insane stakes....
‘Tenet’ IMAX Prologue Likely To Play Before ‘The Rise Of Skywalker’ By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 27, 2019 11:30 am EST The trend of Christopher Nolan movie prologue screenings continues with Tenet, Nolan’s latest secretive film. Similar to what happened with The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and Dunkirk, the opening sequence of Nolan’s new movie is headed to IMAX movie screens – in front of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker....
‘The Comey Rule’ Trailer: Jeff Daniels And Brendan Gleeson Face Off In Showtime’s 2016 Election Drama By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 24, 2020 10:30 am EST They say hindsight is 20/20, but we really don’t need hindsight — or a prestigious Showtime limited series — to know what went wrong with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It was documented in the string of increasingly depressing headlines that followed the election of Donald Trump and showed how broken our nation and electoral system really is....
