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‘Monsters At Work’ Series First Look And Details Reveal A Graduate Joining The Workforce By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 23, 2019 4:27 pm EST Monsters Inc. is coming to Disney+ as part of the Pixar Animation library of films that will be available on the new streaming service. But it’s also getting an animated workplace comedy sequel series that will focus on a new main character working at the Monstropolis corporation at a rather confusing time....

‘Mulan’: Niki Caro Explains Why She Didn’t Need To Be Chinese To Direct The Remake By Ben Pearson/Aug. 31, 2020 4:30 pm EST Until the next round of Marvel movies come along, Disney’s new live-action remake of Mulan stands as the highest budgeted live-action film with a female director behind it, costing a reported $200 million. It was New Zealand-born director Niki Caro who brought the ancient story to life, but many potential audience members were hoping to see someone with Chinese heritage in the director’s chair for this remake, since the project is so inherently linked with Chinese folklore....

‘Silk Road’: Lionsgate Picks Up Crime Thriller For 2021 Release By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 7, 2020 5:30 pm EST Lionsgate has scooped up crime thriller Silk Road and plans to release it in February of 2021. Directed by Tiller Russell, the pic stars Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Alexandra Shipp, Jimmi Simpson, Katie Aselton, Lexi Rabe, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Daniel Stewart, and Paul Walter Hauser, and follows the creation of a dark web website that sells narcotics....

‘Solar Opposites’ Season 2 Clip And Details Revealed, ‘Rick And Morty’ Crossover Hilariously Discussed [Comic-Con 2020] By Ethan Anderton/July 23, 2020 12:30 pm EST Solar Opposites arrived on Hulu earlier this year to rave reviews, and the new series from Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland and writer Mike McMahan already has an order for two more seasons. For Comic-Con at Home, Roiland and McMahan got together virtually with fellow executive producer Josh Bycel, as well as cast members Thomas Middleditch, Sean Giambrone, and Mary Mack, to talk about the first season, share a clip from Solar Opposites season 2, and discuss what it would take to make a Rick and Morty crossover happen....

‘The Boys’ Season 3 Begins Filming Early Next Year By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 15, 2020 9:30 am EST Kripke shared a photo of the title page of The Boys season 3 episode 1 script, titled “Payback.” It’s written by Craig Rosenberg, an executive producer on the series who has written and co-written four previous episodes, including “The Female of the Species” and “The Self-Preservation Society” from season 1, and “Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men” and “Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker” from season 2....

‘The Mandalorian’: Giancarlo Esposito Hints At Why Moff Gideon Wants Baby Yoda By Ben Pearson/Jan. 20, 2020 11:00 am EST Giancarlo Esposito’s character stayed in the shadows for much of The Mandalorian season one, but the actor made a big impact in the final episode. Turns out that the villainous Moff Gideon has intimate knowledge of protagonists like Mando and Cara Dune, but more importantly, he’s willing to use a whole squadron of soldiers to get his hands on Baby Yoda....

‘Western Stars’ Trailer: Bruce Springsteen’s Latest Album Has Its Own Movie By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 24, 2019 12:00 pm EST Since being a music legend and a recent Broadway star isn’t enough for Bruce Springsteen, the Boss is also going to go ahead and add film directing to his resume. Springsteen’s latest album, the melancholy Western Stars, now has a film to go along with it – a film Springsteen co-directed. Western Stars will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month, and Warner Bros....

1992’s ‘Aladdin’ Barely Got Made – And It Only Proved How Unstoppable Disney Animation Had Become By Josh Spiegel/July 16, 2019 8:00 am EST (Revisiting the Renaissance is a bi-weekly series in which Josh Spiegel looks back at the history and making of the 13 films of the Disney Renaissance, released between 1986 and 1999. In today’s column, he discusses the 1992 film Aladdin.)Walt Disney Animation Studios was riding high at the end of 1991 and into early 1992....

31 Nights Of Halloween Schedule On Freeform Includes ‘Hocus Pocus’, ‘The Craft’, ‘Ghostbusters’, ‘Sleepy Hollow’, And More By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 1, 2020 11:00 am EST It’s October, which means it’s officially Halloween season (although I’ll be honest, I’ve been in Halloween season mode since August). It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and it brings with it various networks and streaming services running all sorts of spooktacular content. Freeform just revealed their 31 Nights of Halloween schedule, which includes all sorts of creepy goodness, and also…Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, for some reason....

Another ‘Hill House’ Actor Returns For Season 2, ‘The Haunting Of Bly Manor’ By Chris Evangelista/July 16, 2019 1:30 pm EST Yet another Haunting of Hill House actor is coming back for The Haunting of Bly Manor. Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who played the troubled Luke in Hill House, will join fellow Hill House alum Victoria Pedretti in the second season of Netflix’s anthology series from Mike Flanagan. At this point, Flanagan should just go ahead and give the people what they want: the entire Hill House cast back in new roles....

Cool Stuff: Mondo Gives ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ And ‘Avengers: Endgame’ An Infinity Stone Vinyl Soundtrack Box Set By Ethan Anderton/April 28, 2020 6:00 am EST It’s been one years since Avengers: Endgame hit theaters last year, wrapping up the epic cliffhanger ending offered up by Avengers: Infinity War. In honor of the anniversary, Mondo is giving the back-to-back Marvel Cinematic Universe sequels an incredible vinyl soundtrack with Alan Silvestri’s scores spread across six total records matching the six different colors of the Infinity Stones....

Dwayne Johnson Reflects On Being Passed Over For ‘Jack Reacher’, Which Let Him Make ‘Fast Five’ By Ethan Anderton/April 11, 2020 12:00 pm EST A few years ago, we found out that Dwayne Johnson made a run at playing Jack Reacher in the Paramount Pictures adaptation of the recurring character from Lee Child’s novels. Unfortunately, he got passed over for Tom Cruise, which felt a little weird since the character is supposed to be tall and buff, pretty much just like the wrestler formerly known as The Rock....

Exploring The “Cinematic Unrealism” Of Rian Johnson And Why It Works So Well By Jeremy Mathai/March 4, 2020 11:00 am EST “I just didn’t think it was realistic enough.“How often have you heard someone’s complaints about a movie essentially boil down to this talking point? If you’ve spent enough time on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube comment sections, you’ve heard it. No matter the forum, film-related discourse in the 21st Century undeniably tends to fall back onto realism....

Here’s The Possible Disney+ Launch Time For The Morning Of November 12 [Updated] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 8, 2019 10:19 am EST Update: Despite this information coming from a countdown clock on Marvel’s official website, we’ve heard whispers that Disney+ may not be debuting at 9am EST after all. We’ll update this article again if we get more information, but in the meantime, I guess this is a “wait and see” situation....

How ‘The Expanse’ Season 4 Compares To The Book It’s Based On By Vanessa Armstrong/Dec. 18, 2019 12:00 pm EST Fans of the television series The Expanse likely know that the show is based on the books written by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of co-authors Ty Frank and Daniel Abraham. Each season roughly follows the story from one of the books, and Season 4 is no different; the main plot of the show taken from Cibola Burn, the fourth book in what’s expected to be a nine-volume book series (the eighth book, Tiamat’s Wrath, was published this year, and the final book is expected to come out in 2020)....

Jim Carrey Done Playing Joe Biden At ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 19, 2020 11:00 am EST When Saturday Night Live returned for their 46th season, they kicked things off with a whopping six consecutive episodes from the beginning October through the first week of November. That’s because it was election season, and that’s when SNL does their best to lambast the political scene. To usher in this year’s satire with a splash, they brought in Jim Carrey to play Joe Biden....

Netflix’s ‘Enola Holmes’ And WB’s Will Smith-Starring ‘King Richard’ Hit With Lawsuits By Ben Pearson/June 25, 2020 3:00 pm EST Welcome, welcome, welcome, one and all, to today’s movie lawsuit round-up extravaganza! Can it be an extravaganza if there are only two lawsuits? Let’s not worry about the specifics! Netflix’s Enola Holmes, a movie about Sherlock Holmes’ younger sister, and Warner Bros.’ King Richard, a biopic of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams’ father, have both had suits filed against them....

The 10 Biggest And Best Comeback Films And TV Shows Of The Decade By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 23, 2019 2:00 pm EST (This article is part of our Best of the Decade series.) As the saying goes, everyone loves a comeback. The 2010s saw a number of creative entities emerge from the wilderness to enjoy renewed artistic credibility onscreen. There were so many comeback stories, actually, that this mere list of ten is guaranteed to smack of exclusions....

The Future Of Theaters: Paul Greengrass Believes Cinemas Will Open In 6 Months, Ang Lee Thinks Theaters Need To “Upgrade” To Survive By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 21, 2021 1:30 pm EST The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has gone on for nearly a year now, and movie theaters and exhibition chains have been closed for almost as long. And though everything has been spelling doom for theaters since Day 1 of the pandemic, many have managed to stick around — while the same discussion over their survival is made over and over again....

The Morning Watch: ‘The Boys’ Season 2 Bloopers, Reviewing The Portrayal Of Real Presidents In Movies & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 4, 2020 5:00 am EST In this edition, watch a bunch of flubs and mistakes in the The Boys season 2 blooper reel. Plus, see what a presidential historian thinks about how real life presidents have been portrayed in movies like Lincoln, Pearl Harbor, Vice, Frost/Nixon, and more. Finally, watch the late, great magician Ricky Jay use cards as weapons on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and Jackie Chan is there too....