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Interview: ‘Nerdland’ Writer Andrew Kevin Walker On His Labor Of Love, Working With David Fincher, And More By Jack Giroux/Dec. 6, 2016 5:15 am EST Director Chris Prynoski’s (Metalocapylpse) buddy picture sprang from the mind of screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker many years ago. Walker, best known for Se7en, spent plenty of time and money trying to make Nerdland. It was originally planned as a live-action film that David Fincher was going to direct, but after years of hearing “no,” Walker’s story finally got told as an R-rated animated feature, thanks to the fine people at Titmouse Inc....

Kevin Smith Recorded A ‘Jay And Silent Bob Reboot’ Commentary Track, And Put It Online For Everyone By Chris Evangelista/March 28, 2020 1:00 pm EST Jay and Silent Bob Reboot Commentary Track Commentary tracks can be a valuable resource. A good commentary track can almost act like a mini film school, cluing you into how filmmakers put their films together. Sadly, they’re in short supply these days. Most studios are fine with not shelling out the time (and money) to get a track recorded, and that’s a bummer....

New ‘Tenet’ Posters Offer A Different Perspective On The Christopher Nolan Spy Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 12, 2020 1:00 pm EST Time is running out, indeed, for Tenet, which is moving ever closer to its theatrical release first in international markets, then in the U.S. The highly anticipated Christopher Nolan spy film has received a slew of new posters touting the overseas release of Tenet in late August, with territories like Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the U....

Sundance 2021 Planning Online Component And Screenings Outside Of Utah By Chris Evangelista/June 29, 2020 10:00 am EST We’re still many months away from Sundance 2021, but rather than delay the inevitable, the Sundance Film Festival has already begun planning for how they’re going to handle the fest in the age of COVID-19. There was a time not so long ago when we were hoping that the coronavirus would be a distant memory when 2021 rolled around, but that’s clearly not going to happen....

Superhero Bits: ‘Spider-Man: Miles Morales’ Easter Eggs, Chadwick Boseman Gets A Special MTV Movie Award & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 4, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to find out where some cool Easter eggs are in Spider-Man: Miles Morales? How many people played the Galactus event in Marvel’s Fortnite crossover? Did Sony accidentally spoil multiple Spider-Men coming in Spider-Man 3? Could Zack Snyder’s Justice League arrive earlier than we thought? Why is Black Panther star Letitia Wright under fire?...

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Kate Kane Won’t Be Killed Off On ‘Batwoman’, Batman Gets His Own Bat-Train & More By Ethan Anderton/June 10, 2020 6:00 pm EST Luke Wilson sits down to talk about his role in the latest DC Universe/The CW comic book adaptation, Stargirl.Batwoman showrunner Caroline Dries promises they won’t kill off Kate Kane when she’s replaced on the show. An Agent Carter reunion that appears to be happening on the third episode of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD....

The Marvel Land At Disney California Adventure Is Called Avengers Campus – Check Out New Concept Art, Models And More [D23] By Jacob Hall/Aug. 22, 2019 7:47 pm EST A slew of new reveals about the new land were made at the D23 Expo, including a name: Avengers Campus. Here’s what you need to know. /Film’s Peter Sciretta was on-hand for the official reveal of Avengers Campus at D23. As the name implies, the land is themed around a special installation where visitors are being recruited to fight alongside Earth’s Mightiest Heroes....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Dolemite Is My Name’ Is The Perfect Feel-Good, “Let’s Put On A Show!” Movie By Chris Evangelista/April 9, 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 Movie: Dolemite Is My Name.Where You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: A Blaxploitation Ed Wood, Dolemite Is My Name tells the true story of Rudy Ray Moore as he puts together a rag-tag group of amateurs to make a blaxploitation movie....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Takes What Made The Movie So Good And Makes It Even Better By Chris Evangelista/June 17, 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 TV Show: What We Do in the ShadowsWhere You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: The horror-comedy movie What We Do in the Shadows, about a group of clueless vampires sharing an apartment, gets repurposed into a TV series that manages to improve on what was already a pretty great scenario....

‘Angry Birds: Summer Madness’ Series Will Flap Its Way Over To Netflix In 2021 By Ben Pearson/March 25, 2020 1:00 pm EST Netflix is about to go to the birds. The streaming service has teamed up with Rovio Entertainment and a kid-friendly entertainment studio called CAKE and announced that an animated Angry Birds TV series is coming to the streaming service next year, complete with a “fresh new look” you can see in the first image above....

‘Avenue 5’ Teaser: The Creator Of ‘Veep’ Takes Us On A Luxurious Space Cruise With Hugh Laurie And Josh Gad By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 18, 2019 10:30 am EST Veep creator and In the Loop director Armando Ianucci got bored with political satire a little while back, mostly because the real politics of today are far too ludicrous and depressing to effectively make comedy out of them. But that’s not stopping the masterful comedy writer and director from starting a new series....

‘Birds Of Prey’ Is Getting Some New Action Scenes With Help From ‘John Wick’ Director Chad Stahelski By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 16, 2019 2:12 pm EST The forthcoming DC Comics movie Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) has been done shooting for a while, but after working its way through post-production, a round of additional photography is commencing shortly. But when director Cathy Yan gets back to work on the movie starring Margot Robbie as Suicide Squad member Harley Quinn, she’ll have some help crafting new action scenes....

‘Birds Of Prey’ Trailer: Harley Quinn Is Ready For Her Fantabulous Emancipation By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 9, 2020 7:54 am EST Harley Quinn is back in Birds of Prey, the latest entry in the increasingly quirky DC movie film canon. Margot Robbie returns to the role she played in Suicide Squad, and this time, it looks like she’s working with much better material. Birds of Prey teams Robbie’s Harley with Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), and Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), as the ass-kicking women band together to save Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco) from the evil Roman Sionis, aka Black Mask (Ewan McGregor), and Victor Zsasz (Chris Messina)....

‘Cats’ Trailer: Stop What You’re Doing And Watch These Digitally Enhanced Cat People By Chris Evangelista/July 18, 2019 2:08 pm EST Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, James Corden, Rebel Wilson, Jason Derulo, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone, Ian McKellen, and Judi Dench are all playing cats in Cats, the movie adaptation of the Broadway sensation Cats, which is about cats. While the stage production employs furry costumes for its feline characters, this new film from Tom Hooper uses digital enhancements to turn its actors into kitties....

‘El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie’ Spoiler Review: Getting The Band Back Together For A Gunslinging Netflix Coda By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 14, 2019 8:00 am EST The biggest compliment one can pay El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is to say that it doesn’t detract from the legacy of one of the greatest television shows of all time. We knew we were in good hands with Vince Gilligan. Better Call Saul has proven that he, as a showrunner, knows how to play in the Breaking Bad sandbox again without destroying the castle he built before....

‘In The Shadow Of The Moon’ Trailer: Netflix’s New Time-Bending Murder Mystery By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 16, 2019 3:00 pm EST Director Jim Mickle blends multiple genres with In The Shadow of the Moon, a new Netflix movie that looks super stylish and appropriately mysterious. The story concerns a serial killer who appears to be bending time and resurfacing every nine years. An obsessed cop, played by Boyd Holbrook, is on the case....

‘Little Monsters’ Trailer: Lupita Nyong’o Fights Zombies By Chris Evangelista/July 31, 2019 10:30 am EST Lupita Nyong’o has to deal with zombies, children, and children who are zombies in Little Monsters, a horror-comedy that promises to have plenty of blood, gore, and jokes. I’ve heard mixed things about this film from the festival circuit, but I have to admit: it’s hard to resist a movie where Lupita Nyong’o runs around fighting flesh-hungry ghouls....

‘Mel Brooks: Unwrapped’ Trailer: HBO Documentary Looks Back At Legendary Comedy Filmmaker’s Career By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 7, 2019 12:00 pm EST It turns out you don’t have to do much to make one of the funniest documentaries out there. Just point a camera at Mel Brooks and say action. The comedy legend is getting an HBO documentary about his life and career, and already the trailer is funnier than half of today’s comedy movies....

‘Ready Player One’ Star Tye Sheridan Co-Founded Wonder Dynamics, A Company To Help Indie Filmmakers Create VFX On A Small Budget By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 5, 2021 2:00 pm EST It’s not the plot of Ready Player Two – it’s real. Tye Sheridan, who played Wade Watts in Steven Spielberg’s bombastic Ready Player One adaptation, is sticking with digital worlds via Wonder Dynamics, a company he co-founded with visual-effects artist Nikola Todorovic....

‘Run’ Trailer: Merritt Wever And Domhnall Gleeson Run Away Together By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 16, 2020 9:00 am EST Get ready to Run with a trailer for a new HBO series from executive producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson are college sweethearts who haven’t seen each other in over a decade – and that’s about to change. The duo made a pact 17 years ago to run away from whatever their lives may be if they sent each other a one-word text – a pact they now intend to honor....