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A Taste Of Disney+: How Are The First Episodes Of The Streaming Service’s Original Shows? By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 4, 2019 8:00 am EST Disney+ will officially join the streaming wars in just over a week on November 12. With it comes hundreds of The Walt Disney Company’s movies and television shows from over the decades, but there’s also a wave of original programming along with it. The most anticipated show is undoubtedly the live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian....

iTunes Onward (Disney) Jumanji: The Next Level (Sony) Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Disney) Contagion (Warner Bros.) Knives Out (Lionsgate) Spies in Disguise (20th Century Fox) Bombshell (Lionsgate) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Sony) Ford v Ferrari (20th Century Fox) 1917 (Universal) Spectrum Bombshell (Lionsgate) Frozen II (Disney) Knives Out (Lionsgate) Jumanji: The Next Level (Sony) Spies in Disguise (20th Century Fox) Uncut Gems (A24) Ford v Ferrari (20th Century Fox) Midway (Lionsgate) Dark Waters (Focus) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Sony) As you can see, Onward is the only “current” theatrical release to crack any of the lists, and it topped the iTunes chart....

Both ‘Mission: Impossible’ Sequels Bringing Back Henry Czerny As Kittridge From The First Movie By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 1, 2020 10:00 am EST Just when you thought the cast of the upcoming back-to-back Mission: Impossible sequels couldn’t get any better, director Christopher McQuarrie digs back into the past for a real stunner. In the original Mission: Impossible, agent Ethan Hunt was framed as a mole in the IMF, and he was pursued aggressively by agency director Eugene Kittridge....

Damien Chazelle Shopping ‘Babylon’ Around Studios With Emma Stone And Brad Pitt Circling By Ethan Anderton/July 15, 2019 11:00 am EST Director Damien Chazelle didn’t get nearly as much acclaim as he deserved for last year’s biographical historical drama First Man. The chronicle of Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon and the key moments that led to it was much more than your average account of NASA’s exploits in the space race, but the film only garnered a few technical award nominations at the Oscars....

DC FanDome Unveils Interactive Schedule: Here Are The Panels You Need To Know About By Ben Pearson/Aug. 14, 2020 6:00 am EST If you’re a fan of DC Comics, the DC Extended Universe, and/or The CW’s Arrowverse of TV shows, clear your schedule for Saturday, August 22, 2020. DC FanDome, Warner Bros.’ upcoming event celebrating all things DC Comics-related, has released its complete schedule for the entire event, and it’s full of panels dedicated to huge movies like The Batman, Wonder Woman 1984, and Black Adam, and tons of shows ranging from The Flash to the animated Harley Quinn series....

James Gunn’s ‘The Suicide Squad’ Title Was Suggested As A Joke, But Then It Became Real By Ben Pearson/June 16, 2020 12:00 pm EST The Suicide Squad title was initially brought up as a joke title for the new movie, but it eventually became real. James Gunn’s next film isn’t exactly a direct sequel to David Ayer’s 2016 movie Suicide Squad, so a simple title like “Suicide Squad 2” wouldn’t really be appropriate....

Mark Rylance Will Play Four Versions Of Satan In New Terrence Malick Movie By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 12, 2019 4:30 pm EST Terrence Malick is already at work on his next film, The Last Planet, which finds the acclaimed director telling the story of everyone’s favorite holy carpenter, Jesus H. Christ. And since you usually can’t tell a story about Jesus without Satan popping-up somewhere, it looks like Old Scratch is going to be represented in the film as played by Mark Rylance....

New ‘Saturday Night Live At Home’ Gets Help From Brad Pitt, Adam Sandler, Paul Rudd, And Lots Of Graphics By Ethan Anderton/April 26, 2020 10:00 am EST Saturday Night Live At Home returned with another set of remotely produced sketches this weekend, and you can tell that the cast and crew learned some lessons from their first outing, and they improved the quality of the sketches, both in content and in presentation....

Superhero Bits: Adrianne Palicki Wants A Mockingbird Series, New ‘Bloodshot’ Trailer Tomorrow & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 13, 2020 6:00 pm EST Did you hear Shredder is becoming Green Ranger in the TMNT/Power Rangers limited comic series? Would you watch a Disney+ series with Adrianne Palicki as Mockingbird? Is New Mutants connected to the MCU or not? Ready for a new Bloodshot trailer tomorrow? Which European city will be used for Gotham City in some Batmobile scenes in The Batman?...

The 2019 Summer Movie Season And Why The IP Bubble Is About To Burst By Josh Spiegel/Aug. 29, 2019 10:00 am EST The summer-movie season of 2019 has ended with something akin to a whimper, in spite of some of the biggest possible successes amidst the dross. This year, more than most, has overwhelmed audiences with intellectual property. “Intellectual property”, of course, is the phrase that you use because saying “sequels, prequels, adaptations, sidequels, remakes, reboots, re-imaginings, and revivals” just takes too long....

Watch: ‘Jurassic World’ Short Film ‘Battle At Big Rock’ Brings Dinosaurs To The U.S. Mainland By Ben Pearson/Sept. 16, 2019 6:35 am EST Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom ended with a fascinating cliffhanger: dinosaurs were set free and roaming around the United States. Jurassic World 3 won’t hit theaters until 2021, but you can see how filmmaker Colin Trevorrow capitalizes on that cliffhanger ending in Battle at Big Rock, a new Jurassic World short film that aired on FX last night....

‘Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm’ Honest Trailer: The Dark Knight Is A Collection Of Shapes And Feelings By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 14, 2020 6:00 am EST It’s no secret that Batman: The Animated Series is one of the best adaptations of the DC Comics character that has ever been done. So it should come as no surprise that the movie that brought Paul Dini’s cartoon take on The Caped Crusader to the big screen is also top notch comic book fare....

‘Bill And Ted’s Keanu Reeves And Alex Winter Make An Excellent Surprise Appearance At San Dimas’ Virtual Graduation By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 4, 2020 7:30 am EST The Bill & Ted series is known as the nicest sci-fi comedy about a pair of stoners who travel through time. And in trying times as these, we need a little nice every now and then. Bill & Ted stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are living up to their films’ reputation by making a surprise appearance at the virtual graduation ceremony of San Dimas High School, the same school where Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure takes place....

‘Feels Good Man’ Review: An Infamous Meme And The Guy Behind It Get The Documentary Treatment [True/False 2020] By Abby Olcese/March 12, 2020 9:00 am EST Legacy was an interesting sub-theme of this year’s True/False Festival. Several of the films in this year’s lineup consider the impact a person’s life and/or work have on family, fans and the world at large. Some of these movies, like Mucho Mucho Amor and Dick Johnson is Dead dealt with this topic in conjunction with the end of their subjects’ lives....

‘Fresh Off The Boat’ Team To Develop Freeform Comedy ‘Asian Descent’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 4, 2020 5:00 pm EST Variety reports that Fresh Off the Boat executive producers Melvin Mar and Jake Kasdan and Fresh Off the Boat writer and co-producer Cindy Fang are developing the Freeform comedy series Asian Descent. Fang is writing the new series while Mar and Kasdan are on board as executive producers. Described as a “dark comedy,” Asian Descent follows “an aspiring musician who sets aside her dreams and pride by moving back home with her immigrant parents and leans on her high school friends to figure out the next chapter of her life....

By Chris Evangelista/July 12, 2019 2:59 pm EST John Carpenter is bringing his talent for terror to Gotham’s Crime Prince of Crime with a one-shot Joker comic. Part of DC’s “Year of the Villain” event, the comic is titled The Joker: Year of the Villain #1, and will be written by Carpenter and Anthony Burch, with art by Philip Tan and Marc Deering. I’m of the opinion that the Joker has been a bit overused as a character, and there’s not much more to say about Batman’s arch nemesis....

‘Snake Eyes: G.I. Origins’ Screening Had Star Henry Golding “Grinning From Ear To Ear” By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 11, 2020 11:30 am EST Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins would have brought the Hasbro toy franchise back to the big screen this year for the first time in over six years. Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic has forced Paramount Pictures to delay the movie from its fall release this year to an unknown date sometime in 2021....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Ticket Sales On Par With ‘The Last Jedi’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 18, 2019 12:30 pm EST With just one day before Thursday night previews bring Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to entire world, it looks like online ticket sales for the movie’s opening weekend are pretty much on par with where The Last Jedi was at the same time in the sales cycle. What do The Rise of Skywalker ticket sales numbers mean for the box office success of the movie?...

‘Star Wars Resistance’ Is Back To Charming Civilian Idyllics And Death Gangs In “Kaz’s Curse” By Caroline Cao/Dec. 8, 2019 5:45 pm EST The day on the Colossus starts off idyllic in this episode of Star Wars Resistance. While no spoken attention is brought to it, the Colossus citizens seem to be enjoying a spurt of economic activity after the Aces’ racing stint in “The Voxx Vortex 5000.” Kaz (Christopher Sean) is blithely gambling against a pirate....

By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 16, 2020 9:00 am EST Unlike the movie, which attempted to tell a new story that continued out of the mythology of the books (which were mostly glossed over in the adaptation), this new series would have been much more faithful to the books by telling the origin story of Roland Deschain the Gunslinger and his first conflict with a villain known as The Man in Black. Sam Strike played the protagonist and Jasper Pääkkönen was his foil....