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‘The Letter For The King’ Trailer: Netflix Series Is Like ‘1917’ But In A Fantasy World, And Without The Long Takes By Ben Pearson/Feb. 26, 2020 5:00 pm EST Dutch author Tonke Dragt’s beloved 1960s fantasy novel De brief voor de Koning, AKA The Letter for the King, has already been adapted into a movie, but now it’s heading to Netflix as a six-episode streaming series. Between this and The Witcher, Netflix is sparing no expense when it comes to feeding fantasy fans’ appetites while they wait for HBO’s Game of Thrones spin-offs....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Will Reunite Nathan Fillion With ‘Slither’ Director James Gunn By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 25, 2019 12:13 pm EST Nathan Fillion has been chums with director James Gunn for a while. The Firefly star led Gunn’s horror comedy Slither back in 2006, he took up post as a sacrilegious hero called the Holy Avenger in the R-rated superhero comedy Super, and he had a small role in Guardians of the Galaxy as one of the alien criminals in the Kyln prison....

‘Trolls World Tour’ Trailer: The Animated Musical Acid Trip Continues With An ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Twist By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 14, 2019 9:30 am EST After being unable to stop the feeling of rhythm in the animated movie Trolls back in 2016, Trolls World Tour finds Poppy (Anna Kendrick) and Branch (Justin Timberlake) learn that there are even more tribes of trolls out in the world, each with their own unique musical tastes....

‘Where The Crawdads Sing’ Adaptation Gives Leading Roles To Rising Stars From ‘The Outpost’ And ‘The King’s Man’ By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 26, 2021 4:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Reese Witherspoon has lined up another promising adaptation with Lauren Neustadter through their Hello Sunshine production banner. Teaming up with 3000 Pictures, they’re producing an adaptation of Where the Crawdads Sing, based on Delia Owens’ best-selling novel of the same name....

Breaking: Marvel’s Kevin Feige Developing New ‘Star Wars’ Movie [Updated] By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 25, 2019 6:47 pm EST Kevin Feige pitched a new Star Wars film to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, Disney head Bob Iger, and studio co-chairmen Alan Horn and Alan Bergman. Kevin Feige is going to be developing a Star Wars film. In response to a query from THR, Walt Disney Studios co-chairman and chief creative officer Alan Horn said, “We are excited about the projects Kathy and the Lucasfilm team are working on, not only in terms of Star Wars but also Indiana Jones and reaching into other parts of the company including Children of Blood and Bone with Emma Watts and Fox....

California Movie Theaters Won’t Reopen For Months, Even As Other States Ease Restrictions By Chris Evangelista/April 28, 2020 3:00 pm EST With some states – we’re looking at you, Georgia and Texas – a-okay with reopening movie theaters this month, curiosity has cropped up regarding when other states might follow. And according to California Governor Gavin Newsom, don’t expect any California movie theaters to reopen anytime soon. Newsom says the stage to reopen movie theaters is “months, not weeks” away....

Christopher Meloni Will Return To The ‘Law And Order’ Universe To Star In An Elliot Stabler Series By Chris Evangelista/March 31, 2020 1:00 pm EST Hot-tempered cop Elliot Stabler is back, baby! Christopher Meloni is returning to his iconic Law and Order: SVU role for a new spin-off series focused on Stabler, a character who abruptly departed SVU after 12 seasons. This new series will find Stabler heading up the organized crime division of the NYPD, and will also presumably feature plenty of scenes where Meloni scowls and possibly violates a suspect’s civil rights, as he was wont to do back in the day....

DC Film And TV Soundtracks Getting Mondo Vinyl Releases This Year By Ben Pearson/Jan. 4, 2021 1:00 pm EST Mondo is kicking off 2021 the only way they know how: by honoring the only superhero movie that features an octopus playing the drums. The company has announced that it will be celebrating the heroes of the DC Universe throughout 2021 with “the premiere vinyl pressings” of soundtracks to multiple DC films and TV shows, beginning with Rupert Gregson-Williams’ score for James Wan’s Aquaman....

Delayed ‘The Walking Dead’ Season Finale Has A Premiere Date, Season 10 To Get Six Additional Episodes [Comic-Con 2020] By Jacob Hall/July 24, 2020 2:52 pm EST It wouldn’t be Comic-Con, at home or otherwise, without The Walking Dead. The AMC series has had a presence at the convention for the past 11 years, always drawing a massive and passionate crowd. Of course, the show is now sparked a full-fledged franchise: Fear the Walking Dead is set to premiere its sixth season and the second spin-off, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, will arrive later this year....

The Pitch There is not a lot of information out there about Casebusters, but it’s a 46-minute film made in 1986 as an episode of the anthology series The Disney Sunday Movie, a continuation of The Wonderful World of Disney. What we do know about is director Wes Craven. Though the horror director famously used the success of Scream to direct a drama starring Maryl Streep (more on that later), Craven had previously been trying to step away from the genre that made him famous, and prove that he could make a kid-friendly film....

Revisiting ‘Darby O’Gill And The Little People’, Disney’s Bizarre Trip To The Emerald Isle Starring A Young Sean Connery By Rafael Motamayor/Dec. 20, 2019 11:00 am EST (Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)While the phrase “Disney classics” usually refers to the Walt Disney Animation Studios output, Walt Disney Pictures did make a fair number of pure live-action films that did pretty well at the time of their release....

Superhero Bits: ‘Agents Of SHIELD’ Will Have More MCU Tie-Ins, New ‘TMNT’ Pinball Machine & More By Ethan Anderton/May 29, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want see all the Batman cameos in Teen Titans Go!? Will there be more Marvel Cinematic Universe tie-ins for the final season of Agents of SHIELD? Are there serious discussions at HBO Max about David Ayer’s cut of Suicide Squad? Did Hugh Jackman ever wear that yellow Wolverine suit?...

Superhero Bits: ‘Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Rumor, ‘Joker’ Runtime Confirmed & More By Ethan Anderton/July 30, 2019 6:00 pm EST Who are The Fresh-Men and why do they even exist? Which character ended up cut from Green Lantern? What is one of the rumored conflicts in Falcon and The Winter Soldier? What was the most expensive shot of Avengers: Endgame? What happens when Wonder Woman meets Scooby-Doo and the gang?...

Taika Waititi Wants Fans To Petition For IG-11 To Come Back In ‘The Mandalorian’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 14, 2020 5:00 pm EST Taika Waititi is one of the busiest people in Hollywood right now, but he would drop it all for IG-11. Well, maybe not all of it, but he would definitely rush to reprise his role as the dangerous assassin droid in The Mandalorian. But nothing is ever over in Star Wars, as we all know, and Waititi believes the power of fan petitions could bring IG-11 back to the Disney+ series....

Community Trick ‘r Dean! Dan Harmon’s brilliant meta-sitcom loses some steam over the course of its run as key characters drop out of the ensemble, but man, those first three seasons are gold. This has become the gold standard for experimenting with genre and form inside a tried-and-true formula, and while some of the comedy and references are a little “of the moment,” the characters and dynamics still hold up incredibly well....

The Morning Watch: Innovation And Fun Facts In ‘The Incredibles’, Tim Heidecker Eulogizes Himself & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 11, 2020 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, learn about some of the innovation that made the state-of-the-art animation of The Incredibles possible, as well as some fun facts about the Pixar movie....

Yet Another Original ‘Halloween’ Cast Member Is Returning For ‘Halloween Kills’ By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 30, 2019 4:30 pm EST Halloween Kills is shaping up to be quiet the reunion. Several characters from John Carpenter’s original Halloween have been announced to return for the upcoming sequel, and now here comes another: Nancy Stephens as Nurse Marion Chambers. Stephens played the character in Carpenter’s 1978 film, Halloween II in 1981, and again in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later in 1998....

‘A Glitch In The Matrix’ Review: ‘Room 237’ Director Explores Simulation Theory [Sundance 2021] By Ben Pearson/Feb. 1, 2021 8:00 am EST Rodney Ascher is still best known as the filmmaker behind the enthralling 2012 documentary Room 237, a deep dive into several unconventional readings of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining that ended up being a movie about obsession. He’s directed a few other projects since then, but now he’s back to explore that same topic from a different perspective with A Glitch in the Matrix, a film which delves into the long-held theory that we’re all living in a simulation....

By Ben Pearson/Dec. 10, 2020 11:00 am EST The Hollywood Reporter says that Legendary TV has hired Brian K. Vaughan to write a Buck Rogers TV series, which is just one cog in the company’s larger plans to jump-start that franchise in multiple forms, including a “prestige television series, a feature film and an anime series.” Don Murphy and Susan Montford (Transformers, Real Steel) will produce through their Angry Films production company, as will Flint Dille, the grandson of original Buck Rogers creator Philip Francis Nowlan....

‘Capone’ Trailer: Josh Trank And Tom Hardy’s Al Capone Movie Gets A New Title As It Heads To Digital By Chris Evangelista/April 15, 2020 2:30 pm EST You might’ve forgotten this, but Josh Trank, director of The Fantastic Four, teamed-up with Tom Hardy to make a movie about Al Capone. The film was previously titled Fonzo, and it sort of fell off the radar for a while. Now it’s back, and it has a trailer, and a new title – Capone....