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‘Knives Out’ Director Rian Johnson On The Beauty Of A Killer Monologue And Crafting A Mystery Evocative Of 2019 [Interview] By Jacob Hall/Nov. 25, 2019 7:00 am EST When I sat down to speak with director Rian Johnson the day after his new murder mystery thriller, Knives Out, closed Fantastic Fest 2019, I had one question on the top of my tongue. That question: “What defines a Rian Johnson movie?” After all, Johnson has spent his career leaping between genres, from grim modern noirs like Brick to quirky comedies like The Brothers Bloom to serious-minded science fiction like Looper and even giant blockbusters like Star Wars: The Last Jedi....

‘Marvel’s Storyboards’ Coming To Disney+; Hugh Jackman & Others To Appear As Guests By Ben Pearson/July 16, 2019 3:00 pm EST When you’re done scrolling through the gold mines of Disney, Pixar, and Star Wars content on Disney+, Marvel hopes you’re going to be interested enough in its brand to check out a newly-announced non-fiction series called Marvel’s Storyboards. Sadly, this is not a deep dive into the art of creating storyboards for comics or movies (although that sounds like it’d be entertaining, too)....

‘Nobody Knows I’m Here’ Trailer: Jorge Garcia Is A Former Child Star In Chilean Drama By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 17, 2020 5:30 pm EST Netflix has released a trailer for the Chilean film Nobody Knows I’m Here, which stars Jorge Garcia as Memo Garrido, a lonely former child singer living a life of isolation in southern Chile. This means this is the Lost star’s first major Spanish-language feature film. Nobody Knows I’m Here also marks the first feature by filmmaker Gaspar Antillo, a formerly short film director who is backed by acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain, who produces....

‘Servant’ Trailer: M. Night Shyamalan Brings Us A New Terrifying Baby Doll By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 14, 2019 8:30 am EST M. Night Shyamalan may have fumbled the anticipated Unbreakable sequel Glass earlier this year, but the director still has plenty of twists up his sleeve. This time he’s bringing thrills to Apple TV+ with a new original series called Servant. While there have been plenty of creepy dolls used in film and television before, none have been as realistic and unnerving as the Reborn Doll at the center of this story of unspeakable tragedy turned unsettling terror....

‘She-Hulk’ Will Be A Half-Hour Legal Comedy, Kevin Feige Reveals By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 21, 2020 2:30 pm EST In a feature for Emmy Magazine about upcoming Marvel projects on Disney+, Kevin Feige revealed that the She-Hulk series will be a “half-hour legal comedy,” and something that Marvel Studios has “never done before.” The series – which will star Orphan Black breakout Tatiana Maslany in the title role — follows Jennifer Walters, an “attorney and cousin of Bruce Banner, AKA the Hulk, she gets her powers via an emergency blood transfusion from her cousin....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Leaked Funko POP Figure Reveals BB-8 Is Missing Something By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 2019 4:30 pm EST Tomorrow, we’ll get a much better glimpse of the new toys coming to shelves for not just Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but also The Mandalorian and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. It’s all part of the upcoming Triple Force Friday. But as has become custom for Star Wars merchandise releases, some of the toys that are already waiting in the stockroom of various retailers across the globe have been accidentally put on shelves and images are surfacing online....

By Ben Pearson/Sept. 29, 2020 1:30 pm EST I’ll leave it at that for now, but trust me: you’re going to want to see this movie. It was the sexiest film I saw at Sundance 2020, and not only are Thompson and Asomugha both incredibly charismatic and vibrant performers, but their chemistry is through the roof here. It’s all captured with gorgeous, lush cinematography, costumes, and production design which effortlessly transport you into the heart of this story....

‘The Lost Daughter’: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Directorial Debut Will Star Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, And More By Ben Pearson/Feb. 12, 2020 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Today, we found out who will star in Gyllenhaal’s new movie. Oscar winner Olivia Colman is set to play the lead role, and she’ll be joined by Dakota Johnson (Bad Times at the El Royale), Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose), and Peter Sarsgaard (Green Lantern)....

‘Tom And Jerry’ And Other Warner Bros. Movies May Go To HBO Max; ‘The King’s Man’ Could Also Go To Streaming By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 2, 2020 9:30 am EST Even though we’re on the verge of a coronavirus vaccine being released, the early months of 2021 still aren’t looking great for movie theaters getting back to normal operations. Some movies originally intended for release early next year have already shifted to later in the year, such as Ghostbusters: Afterlife and the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, but studios are considering sending some releases from the first quarter of 2021 to streaming, such as the live-action/animated hybrid Tom and Jerry and the previously delayed Kingsman franchise prequel The King’s Man....

‘Wrinkles The Clown’ Director Michael Beach Nichols On Internet Urban Legends And Why We’re Afraid Of Clowns [Interview] By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 3, 2019 2:00 pm EST Right in-between Pennywise the Dancing Clown and Joaquin Phoenix’ Clown Prince of Crime, a different type of clown wants to make it to the big screen – Wrinkles the Clown. Director Michael Beach Nichols takes a hard look at one of the most fascinating Internet legends of the past few years, a clown that is apparently hired by parents to scare their kids....

2020 BAFTA Winners: Surprising No One, ‘1917’ And Director Sam Mendes Come Out On Top By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 3, 2020 7:30 am EST Our friends across the pond have handed out their equivalent of the Academy Awards with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards, or the BAFTAs. Since these are British-centric awards, more love is typically given to movies made by U.K. filmmakers, so it should come as no surprise that 1917 and director Sam Mendes walked away with Best Film and Best Director, as well as Outstanding British film, and a handful of other awards too....

Cool Stuff: ‘Animal House’ And ‘Stripes’ Funko POPs Celebrate Slobs Beating The Snobs By Ethan Anderton/March 23, 2020 6:00 am EST Since the characters of Caddyshack have already been given the Funko POPs treatment, it’s time for the other movies in the “slobs vs snobs” subgenre of comedies to get their due. Thankfully, Funko will keep them coming with new collectible vinyl figures dedicated to the military comedy Stripes directed by and starring the late Harold Ramis, as well as the John Landis-directed fraternity comedy that the Ghostbusters star penned, National Lampoon’s Animal House....

David Ayer Wants His ‘The Dirty Dozen’ Remake To Kickstart A Franchise By Ben Pearson/Jan. 2, 2020 1:30 pm EST A couple of weeks ago, word came out that Suicide Squad director David Ayer was in negotiations to write and direct a remake of The Dirty Dozen, the 1967 classic about an Army major who must lead twelve dangerous convicts behind enemy lines for an assassination mission during World War II....

Disney Aiming To Crack Down On Password Sharing With Charter Communications Cable Company By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 19, 2019 10:30 am EST It’s a widely known fact that people like to share passwords for streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, HBO Now, and more in order to avoid paying their own subscription fee. However, with The Walt Disney Company soon entering the streaming game with Disney+, there might soon be a crackdown on password sharing, forcing you to pay your own subscription if you want to watch Disney’s mash-up prequel of Hocus Pocus and The Three Musketeers or whatever they’re going to announce next....

Disney’s Controversial ‘Song Of The South’ Is The Subject Of ‘You Must Remember This’ Podcast’s New Season By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 21, 2019 6:00 am EST Released in 1946, Song of the South hasn’t been shown by Disney in any format since it hit theaters again in 1986 for the movie’s 40th anniversary (and it certainly won’t be coming to Disney+), and that’s because it’s considered to be quite antiquated, careless in its depiction of history, and even (albeit unintentionally) racist....

Gerard Butler Disaster Movie ‘Greenland’ Delayed In The U.S., Now Opening Overseas First By Chris Evangelista/July 24, 2020 11:01 am EST Is this a sign of things to come? Or just a smart business decision? Greenland, the latest disaster pic featuring Gerard Butler, will now open overseas before it comes to American shores. This is a relatively small production from STX Films, but larger studios – like Warner Bros. – might soon be taking similar approaches to big movies....

Hoai-Tran Bui’s Top 10 Films Of 2020 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 6, 2021 8:00 am EST There’s the temptation every year to say, “This was a bad year for movies,” which is rarely ever the case. But 2020 certainly flirted with that idea, with the pandemic pushing many studio films to next year and making all other films nearly impossible to watch without a press badge at a film festival. More than anything, it was a weird year for movies, a year where entertainment became a safe haven from the horrors of reality and where we all flocked to films that either comforted us, or numbed us, or dared us to find the awful parallels in our entertainment and the real world....

J.K. Simmons Returns As J. Jonah Jameson On The Daily Bugle Website For ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 2019 4:00 pm EST The mid-credits scene for Spider-Man: Far From Home brought quite the shocking development to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a number of ways (even though the webslinger is no longer part of the Marvel Studios roster of superheroes). But one of the biggest revelations was the return of J....

Kevin Hart And Wesley Snipes To Play Brothers In Hart’s Netflix Limited Series ‘True Story’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 9, 2020 5:30 pm EST Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes are going to play brothers in a new Netflix limited series loosely based on Hart’s career. Hart and Snipes are set to headline True Story, a fictional Netflix limited series in which Hart will play a version of himself who faces “a matter of life and death” during a tour stop in his hometown of Philadelphia....

MTV Movie Awards Postponed Indefinitely But Could Move To December By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 9, 2020 5:00 pm EST We may never find out who wins Best Kiss — though we may not want to find out, in the age of coronavirus-induced social distancing. This year’s MTV Movie Awards, which are usually held in June, have been postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. But there may be a chance that this glitzy awards ceremony will be pushed to December....