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Sony Pictures Shuffles Release Dates For ‘Connected’, ‘Uncharted’, ‘Hotel Transylvania 4’ & More By Ethan Anderton/April 25, 2020 12:00 pm EST After pushing back both Spider-Man 3 and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Sony Pictures has also shuffled around a bunch of other upcoming release dates for movies slated to come out this year and through 2021. Some of the movies hopping around the theatrical release calendar include Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s animated family adventure Connected, the sequel to Escape Room, Adam Sandler’s animated Hotel Transylvania 4, the long-gestating adaptation of the video game Uncharted, and more....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: More ‘The Suicide Squad’ Set Photos, ‘Ms. Marvel’ Rumored To Be Casting ‘Inhumans’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 16, 2019 6:00 pm EST A new creature gets stronger by the minute in “Dead Man Running,” the new episode of The Flash season six. Set photos from the second season of The Boys show off a new member of The Seven and a tribute to another....

Watch New ‘Truth Seekers’ Clips And Learn About Nick Frost’s Real Paranormal Experiences [NYCC] By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 8, 2020 1:30 pm EST Truth Seekers held a panel with Nick Frost and the rest of the show’s cast members (unfortunately without Simon Pegg) to talk about the upcoming series, and we’ve honed in on some of the finer points from their discussion. Plus, you can watch a couple new Truth Seekers clips that show off a little more of the comedy to go with the horror....

‘Birds Of Prey’ Featurette: Go Behind-The-Scenes Ahead Of Next Week’s Digital Release By Chris Evangelista/March 22, 2020 9:00 am EST Birds of Prey is headed to digital next week, and ahead of that release, a surprisingly in-depth featurette has arrived. The video goes behind-the-scenes of the R-rated DC flick, delving into the origins of the script, the hiring of director Cathy Yan, the fight scenes, and more. It’s a crash-course in a crazy film that will hopefully find a larger audience on digital than it did in theaters....

‘Borat 2’ Releases A Very Nice Teaser Tied To The Presidential Debate By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 30, 2020 7:30 am EST If there’s one thing that can be singled out as the key to comedy, it’s timing. And Sacha Baron Cohen certainly timed his teaser for his Borat sequel right, releasing a video from the “Republic of Kazakhstan” praising President Trump’s performance in last night’s U.S. presidential debates. But the funny thing is: he released it before the debate even happened....

‘Don’t Worry Darling’: Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, And Shia LaBeouf To Star In Olivia Wilde’s Psychological Thriller [Updated] By Ben Pearson/May 13, 2020 1:55 pm EST Update: Variety says Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson is joining the cast as well, but there are no details about her character or additional details about the film’s plot. Our original report from April 24, 2020 follows.Olivia Wilde is following up Booksmart, her critically acclaimed feature directorial debut, with a 1950s psychological thriller called Don’t Worry Darling ....

‘Halloween’ Reinvents A Classic With Thrilling Results [TIFF] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 9, 2018 12:28 am EST David Gordon Green’s Halloween is a love-letter to horror fans – a brutal, scary and sometimes funny sequel that gives the long-running franchise the respect and adoration it deserves. After 40 years, Michael Myers is finally coming home. David Gordon Green’s Halloween takes the legacy created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill and rebrands it for a whole new generation....

‘Labyrinth’ Sequel Finds New Life With ‘Doctor Strange’ Director Scott Derrickson By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 26, 2020 10:03 am EST After all these years, Labyrinth still has the power of voodoo over us. Jim Henson’s 1986 cult hit is getting a long-awaited sequel, which has been in the works under TriStar Pictures in some form since at least 2014. But after hiring Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez to helm the sequel in 2017, TriStar Pictures has found a new filmmaker to dance, magic, dance into the director’s chair....

‘London’: Ben Stiller To Direct Oscar Isaac In A “High Concept Thriller” By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 16, 2020 9:30 am EST Ben Stiller hasn’t directed a feature film since the poorly received Zoolander 2, but he’s joined quite a team for his next directorial project. Stiller is set to helm the “high concept thriller” London, which will star Oscar Isaac and be written for the screen by Eric Roth, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind Forrest Gump and most recently, the Oscar-nominated A Star is Born....

‘Mulan’ Featurette And Music Video Get Down To Business By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 28, 2020 4:30 pm EST Mulan is almost ready to get down to business on Disney+, and ahead of that unprecedented release strategy, there are two new things to feast your eyes on. One is a behind-the-scenes featurette for the movie, and the other is a music video featuring Christina Aguilera performing “Reflection,” a song that was prominent in the original animated film....

‘No Time To Die’ Hires Composer Hans Zimmer, Replacing Dan Romer By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 7, 2020 8:30 am EST Hans Zimmer is lending his rock god chops to the new James Bond film. Zimmer is swooping in to take over as the No Time to Die composer, replacing the previously announced Dan Romer, the American composer behind the Netflix series Maniac.Variety reports that Zimmer is taking over as composer for No Time to Die, the 25th film in the 007 franchise and the last James Bond outing for star Daniel Craig....

‘One Night In Miami’ Director Regina King Breaks Down One Of The Film’s Best Scenes By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 22, 2021 1:00 pm EST Even though One Night in Miami missed out on making our collective list of the Top 15 Films of 2020, it’s still one of the best films from last year. The directorial debut of Watchmen star Regina King follows Kingsley Ben-Adir, Leslie Odom Jr., Eli Goree, and Aldis Hodge as activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke, boxer Muhammad Ali and football player Jim Brown as they spend one night together after one of Ali’s victorious boxing matches in 1964....

‘Percy Jackson’ TV Series In Early Stages Of Development At Disney+ By Ethan Anderton/May 14, 2020 1:00 pm EST Here’s the official announcement from Percy Jackson author Rick Riordan and his wife Becky: The video also came with this official statement from the author: Starting fresh from the beginning of the books is the right way to go. Something really cool can be done with the Percy Jackson series, especially if it’s not trying to just ride the coattails of Harry Potter anymore....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Coming To CBS This Fall Thanks To A Lack Of New Original Programming By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 27, 2020 3:00 pm EST Star Trek: Discovery kicked off the new era of the final frontier as the first Trek-related series on the CBS All Access streaming service back in 2017. Not only is a third season on the way, but there’s the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds spin-off coming, too....

‘Suburbicon’ Review: George Clooney Directs Matt Damon In A Waste Of Talent And Time By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 27, 2017 7:00 am EST (This review originally ran during our coverage of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Suburbicon is in theaters today.)It’s not often that one film attempts so many different things and manages to make none of them work, but gosh darn it, Suburbicon somehow makes such blundering seem easy. Director George Clooney packs a whole lot of ideas into his tale of the underbelly of 1950s suburbia, but they’re really bad, lazy ideas, which is a shame because Suburbicon has quite the pedigree....

‘Surface’: Gugu Mbatha-Raw To Star In Psychological Thriller For AppleTV+ By Ben Pearson/Nov. 30, 2020 5:00 pm EST Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who you may know from The Morning Show and Beyond the Lights, is about to headline her own TV show. She’s set to star in Surface, a new psychological thriller for AppleTV+ which hails from creator Veronica West, who was one of the key people behind the cancelled-too-soon Hulu re-imagining of High Fidelity....

‘The Florida Project’ Might Be The Best Movie Of The Year [TIFF] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 9, 2017 1:00 pm EST Baker keeps the camera low to the ground often, putting us firmly into the visual field of a child – we’re down there with them, and the whole adult world is looming above. That adult world includes Bobby, the kindly motel manager played by Willem Dafoe. Dafoe is an acclaimed actor with an impressive career, yet it cannot be overstated how phenomenal he is in this movie....

‘The Grudge’ Review: A Few Atmospheric Scares Aren’t Enough To Salvage This Reboot By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 3, 2020 7:00 am EST The soggy scares of The Grudge are reborn yet again, this time in the hands of Nicolas Pesce, director of the horrifying The Eyes of My Mother. Pesce has a real knack for nasty nightmarish imagery, so handing him this franchise isn’t the worst idea in the world. At least on paper....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Unveils More Footage In New Video By Ben Pearson/Oct. 19, 2020 7:01 pm EST There are less than two weeks until Star Wars fans get to travel back to a galaxy far, far away in the newest season of The Mandalorian, and Disney+ has pumped up the anticipation even further by releasing a brand new look at the season. Check out the new video below. The Mandalorian Season 2 Trailer...

‘The Twentieth Century’ Director Matthew Rankin On Making One Of The Strangest “Biopics” You’ll Ever See [TIFF 2019 Interview] By Jason Gorber/Sept. 10, 2019 5:00 pm EST Matthew Raskin’s film The Twentieth Century is a fever dream of a biopic, using geometric sets and oblique references to historical facts to tell a curiously ahistorical tale about William Lyon Mackenzie King becoming Prime Minister of Canada. Joining a long list of weird and wonderful films to emerge from Winnipeg, Raskin’s film is an audacious and unapologetically odd film....