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This Week In Trailers: Death Of A Ladies Man, Canvas, Assassins, The Surgeon’s Cut, The Ripper By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 21, 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?...

Video: Knott’s Berry Farms New ‘Calico River Rapids’ Ride Is A Big Improvement Over ‘Bigfoot Rapids’ By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2019 12:31 pm EST Over the weekend, we traveled to Knotts Berry Farm to experience Ghost Town Alive on National Cowboy Day. If you want to see a video of that experience, click here. Also, while we were in Ghost Town, we experienced Calico River Rapids, the renovated water raft ride at Knott’s Berry Farm....

Watch ‘Watchmen’ Artist Dave Gibbons Draw A New ‘Watchmen’ Character From The HBO Series By Ben Pearson/Oct. 18, 2019 4:30 pm EST Damon Lindelof’s hyper-anticipated sequel/remix series Watchmen premieres on HBO this weekend, and it’s already been getting terrific reviews – including our own rave, which says it’s “destined to be one of the year’s most compelling shows.” To celebrate the forthcoming premiere, original Watchmen illustrator Dave Gibbons broke out his tools and drew his version of one of the new show’s characters: Sister Night, the vigilante played by Regina King....

Wong Kar-Wai Sets ‘Blossoms Shanghai’ As His First TV Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 3, 2020 5:00 pm EST Written by award-winning Shanghainese screenwriter Qin Wen and shot by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon cinematographer Peter Pau, Blossoms Shanghai is set to star Hu Ge (2019 Cannes darling The Wild Goose Lake) as an “enigmatic, self-made millionaire, Mr. Bao,” on “his journey of reinvention from a young opportunist with a troubled past to the heights of the gilded city of Shanghai....

‘American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story’ Will Have Zachary Levi Tackle Football And Faith By Ethan Anderton/July 2, 2020 2:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Lionstage has found that churches love to round up the congregation and see movies that use faith as a backbone for powerful drama. That’s why the studio has a deal with Kingdom Story Company, a film and television studio specializing in movies with Christian themes....

‘Creepshow’ Star Jeffrey Combs On Playing An Evil Nazi Battling American Werewolves During World War II [Set Visit Interview] By Jacob Hall/Sept. 18, 2019 7:00 am EST With 136 film and television credits to his name, Jeffrey Combs has proven himself to be one of the most reliable and fascinating character actors of the past few decades. But to horror fans, he’s nothing short of a legend. With credits that include Re-Animator, Bride of Re-Animator, From Beyond, The Frighteners and so much more, he’s a natural fit for Shudder’s revival of Creepshow....

‘Drunk History’ Canceled At Comedy Central, Nixing Previously Announced Season 7 Renewal By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 20, 2020 9:30 am EST It’s time for Drunk History to sober up. Despite landing a seventh season renewal last summer, the inebriated reenactments of great moments in history have come to an end. Comedy Central has pulled back their initial order of more episodes of Drunk History, and the previously aired sixth season of the series now marks the end of the series from executive producers Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner....

‘Free Guy’ Trailer: Ryan Reynolds Lives Inside A Video Game By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 7, 2019 12:04 pm EST Ryan Reynolds leads an impressive cast in Free Guy, a new comedy from Stranger Things and Arrival producer Shawn Levy. In the high-concept comedy, Reynolds plays a bank teller who suddenly realizes he’s a background character in a video game. And to make matters worse, the game is about to go offline. Watch the Free Guy trailer below....

By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 21, 2021 12:30 pm EST The video game company Epic Games is rolling in the dough, especially with the success of their battle royale title Fortnite. Now the company is expanding their media presence a bit, or at least helping to get more multimedia projects off the ground. The video game company’s new endeavor in the feature film arena will be providing a grant for the production of the animated movie Gilgamesh, inspired by the epic hero from ancient Mesopotamian mythology....

‘Gremlins 3’ Writer Teases An Abandoned Sequel With The Same Vibe As The Original By Ethan Anderton/June 23, 2020 1:30 pm EST For the longest time, fans of Gremlins and the weird but satisfying sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch have wanted to see the Mogwai and the slimy monsters they turn into make a return to the big screen. While there were rumblings of Gremlins 3 for years, Warner Bros....

‘The Last Of Us’ TV Series Will Expand And Enhance The Video Game’s Story, Says Writer/Producer Craig Mazin By Ben Pearson/July 31, 2020 2:30 pm EST The Last of Us, the mega-popular PlayStation game which received a sequel earlier this year, is soon heading to HBO as a television series. Writer/producer Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) has given a brief update about the TV adaptation, promising that it won’t “undo” what fans love about the video game’s story....

‘The Reckoning’ Trailer: Neil Marshall Goes On A Witch Hunt In New Horror Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 5, 2021 11:30 am EST Neil Marshall made a splash in the early 2000s with the werewolf horror movie Dog Soldiers and the claustrophobic classic The Descent. But then the British filmmaker made his way over to TV, directing episodes of Westworld, Lost in Space, and most famously, Game of Thrones. His big-budget break wouldn’t be quite the success it was anticipated to be, with 2019’s Hellboy tanking both critically and commercially....

‘To Your Last Death’ Review: Gory And Darkly Funny Animated Horror [FrightFest 2019] By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 28, 2019 8:00 am EST While animation is a vast medium that allows filmmakers to explore a wide range of stories and genres, horror is one particular genre that traditionally hasn’t done well in the medium. Sure, there are a few outliers like the work of Satoshi Kon and Watership Down, but most animated movies and series fail to scare in the same level as live-action and instead resort to gore and shock value instead of fear to impact the audience....

‘Uncut Gems’ Directors The Safdie Brothers Set TV Deal With HBO And A24 By Ben Pearson/May 26, 2020 4:00 pm EST Josh and Benny Safdie, the writer/directors behind anxiety-inducing indie thrillers like Good Time and Uncut Gems, are heading to premium cable. The duo and their Elara Pictures production shingle have set up a two year first look deal with HBO, and A24 – the company that produced and distributed their two biggest movies – is also involved....

Chris Evans Says He Probably Wouldn’t Play Captain America Again And The ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Writers Are Against Bringing Him Back By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 11, 2019 3:30 pm EST Chris Evans is done playing Captain America. You know this, I know this, and he knows this. Still, the actor is bound to be asked about returning to the MCU for the rest of his days, because that’s the world we live in now....

Cool Stuff: Devin Schoeffler’s New ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy Posters Feel Like Long-Lost VHS Artwork By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 12, 2020 8:30 am EST Pretty much every week there’s a new piece of art dedicated to the Star Wars universe. This week, Bottleneck Gallery is releasing a new set of Star Wars trilogy posters from artist Devin Schoeffler. Actually, they’re re-releasing this set of prints, because ACME Archives was first to release them over the summer....

Peter Jackson Penned A Heartfelt Farewell To The Late ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Star Ian Holm By Ethan Anderton/June 21, 2020 9:00 am EST Here’s what Peter Jackson posted to Facebook, where you can see more photos like the one above: Ian was such a delightful, generous man. Quiet, but cheeky, with a lovely twinkle in his eye. I’m feeling very sad at the passing of Sir Ian Holm. Back in early 2000, before we started shooting our Bilbo scenes for The Fellowship of the Ring, I was nervous about working with such an esteemed actor, but he immediately put me at ease....

Ray Parker Jr. On The Legacy Of ‘Ghostbusters’, Passing On ‘Spaceballs’ And His Wild Oscars Performance [Interview] By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 18, 2020 3:00 pm EST Ray Parker Jr. is best known as the singer and songwriter of the Ghostbusters theme song, but the musician has an entire career outside of the supernatural comedy. A new documentary titled Who You Gonna Call? is premiering at the Zurich Film Festival later this month, and in addition to spotlighting his work on Ghostbusters, it dives into the life and career of Ray Parker Jr....

Searchlight Pictures Announces New Release Dates For ‘Antlers’, ‘Nightmare Alley’, ‘The Night House’, And ‘The Eyes Of Tammy Faye’ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 21, 2021 12:00 pm EST The Night House, a horror film directed by David Bruckner and starring Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Evan Jonigkeit, Stacy Martin, and Vondie Curtis Hall, will arrive in theaters on July 16, 2021. The film follows “a widow (Rebecca Hall) who begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets....

Superhero Bits: ‘Baymax Dreams’ Animated Short Arrives, David F. Sandberg Creates Fake ‘Shazam 2’ Trailer & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 17, 2020 6:00 pm EST Is the Court of Owls pursuing Batman in a new video game? Would you like to see a Black Canary TV series? Did you know there are new Big Hero 6 shorts called Baymax Dreams? Does Avengers: Endgame sneakily set up the introduction of X-Men in the MCU?...