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Theme Park Bits: Universal CityWalk Reopened, Halloween Horror Nights, And More By Josh Spiegel/June 17, 2020 5:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Universal CityWalk Hollywood is back open. How will Universal handle Halloween Horror Nights in a pandemic? And more! We’re now on the other side of the reopening of major theme parks in the United States, such as Universal Studios Orlando and SeaWorld. So far, it’s been a mixed bag – head over to social media, and you’ll see examples of people taking off masks, ignoring social distancing guidelines, and even being told to ignore those guidelines by park employees....

TV Bits: Netflix Opioid Drama, A Show About Dog House Architecture, ‘SpongeBob’ Prequel, Another Season Of ‘The Blacklist’, And More By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 22, 2020 10:00 am EST In this edition of TV Bits: Peter Berg is directing an opioid crisis series for Netflix. Watch a trailer for Feel Good. Get a first look at Ewan McGregor in Ryan Murphy’s Halston. Nickelodeon announced some new shows, including a SpongeBob prequel. Quibi has a show about dog house architecture, and don’t pretend you wouldn’t watch that, because you would....

Stephen Colbert Saved by the Bell Audition Story Around the 3:00 mark in this video, The Late Show guest Ryan Reynolds makes a joke about Saved by the Bell, sparking Colbert’s memory about the time he tried out for the role of Screech and didn’t get it. “I auditioned for Saved by the Bell!” he exclaims. “That was my first professional audition. 1986? [Editor’s note: this must have been when they were auditioning Good Morning, Miss Bliss, which was eventually reworked into the hit show Saved by the Bell....

VOTD: Take A Tour Of The World’s Largest Collection Of ‘Star Wars’ Memorabilia By Ethan Anderton/May 6, 2020 2:00 pm EST Star Wars Day has come and gone, but for super-collector Steve Sansweet, every day is an opportunity to celebrate the beloved sci-fi saga. That’s because he’s the owner of the largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia in the world, officially documented by Guinness World Records. The collection is housed in California in a facility known as Rancho Obi-Wan, and in honor of Star Wars Day earlier this week, a virtual video tour of the massive collection of over 500,000 Star Wars items has been made available....

What Glen Keane Carried With Him From Disney, And From Life, For His Feature Directorial Debut ‘Over The Moon’ [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 23, 2020 12:00 pm EST “I never do this,” Glen Keane muses as he swivels his laptop around his office at Netflix, filled with stacks of drawings and doodles — half thought-out ideas that the legendary animator had while working on his feature directorial debut Over the Moon....

What John August’s Unmade ‘Tower Of Terror’ Movie Would Have Been About By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 21, 2020 11:30 am EST Back in 2015, a movie based on the popular theme park ride The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror was announced to be in development at Disney. But alas, the Tower of Terror movie never came to be. But the ideas behind it live on, and screenwriter John August — the writer of films like Go, Big Fish, and Frankenweenie — is now finally sharing the details on what his unmade Tower of Terror movie would have looked like....

‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6 Might Arrive Next Year, Will Wrap Up The Series With 13 Episodes By Chris Evangelista/April 23, 2020 1:00 pm EST Better Call Saul just ended its best season yet, and – sadly – there’s only one season left. With everything currently shut down due to the coronavirus, there was some concern that it would be a long time before we had a chance to see season 6....

‘Castle Rock’ Season 2 Trailer Ups The Misery In Hulu’s Stephen King Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 30, 2019 10:30 am EST Misery loves company in the second season of Hulu’s Stephen King extravaganza, Castle Rock. Season 2 of the horror series turns its attention to Annie Wilkes, the psychotic nurse from King’s novel Misery, played by Lizzy Caplan. The official Castle Rock season 2 trailer is full of eerie shots of other familiar King places, including the Marsten House from Salem’s Lot....

‘Countdown’ Trailer: Death? There’s An App For That By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 13, 2019 7:00 am EST What if there was an app that could predict the exact date and time of your death? Would you download it? And what if you did download it, only to find that your demise was scheduled to happen very, very soon? That’s the premise of Countdown, a new horror movie about an app that kills people....

‘Da 5 Bloods’ Playlist Features Songs From The Film And Commentary From Director Spike Lee By Chris Evangelista/June 11, 2020 5:30 pm EST In case you forgot (there’s a lot going on right now), we’re getting a new Spike Lee Joint this week, and that’s exciting. Lee’s Da 5 Bloods arrives on Netflix this Friday, telling the story of four African-American Vietnam veterans who return to Vietnam on a mission to retrieve the body of their Squad Leader – and some buried gold, too....

‘Eternals’: Chloe Zhao Is Putting Some Manga In Your Marvel By Ben Pearson/Sept. 2, 2020 2:00 pm EST “I have such deep, strong, manga roots,” Zhao said. “I brought some of that into Eternals. And I look forward to pushing more of that marriage of East and West…how much further and bigger can we go after [Avengers:] Endgame? Because I’m not just making the film as a director. I’m making the film as a fan....

‘Euphoria’ Is Getting A Pandemic-Themed Episode Before Season 2 Arrives; Still No Plans For More ‘Watchmen’ By Ben Pearson/Sept. 22, 2020 10:30 am EST Euphoria, HBO’s sex- and drug-fueled teenaged drama, won’t start shooting its second season until sometime next year. But the news isn’t all bad: fans will get a stepping stone before the second season drops. HBO president Casey Bloys confirmed that a Euphoria pandemic episode, what he’s calling a “special COVID episode,” will air before the second season premieres on the premium cable channel....

‘Haunting Of Hill House’ Director’s Cut Coming To Blu-Ray By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 16, 2019 3:30 pm EST Well this news got out there a LITTLE earlier than we wanted… but yes, it’s true! More details to come, but it was a blast restoring several episodes to their original form. Hope you all enjoy! https://t.co/svyPirSIMi — Mike Flanagan (@flanaganfilm) August 16, 2019 As Flanagan says above, the director’s cut will feature several episodes restored to “their original form....

By Ben Pearson/Sept. 26, 2019 11:21 am EST With the cinematic version of Spider-Man yanked out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and once again under Sony’s full control, the studio is looking to bolster its own Spider-Man universe. A new report says Sony’s latest idea is to make a Madame Web movie about the Spider-Man supporting character, an old blind woman who can see the future, and Morbius writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless have been hired to write the screenplay....

‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Review: A Beguiling Riff On ‘Chinatown’ For New York City [NYFF] By Marshall Shaffer/Oct. 22, 2019 9:00 am EST Edward Norton’s adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel took over twenty years to bring to the screen. But while delays like this are traditionally to a film’s detriment, it actually works in favor of Motherless Brooklyn. The distance allowed by this time in development leads to a movie that is likely significantly more mature and thematically rich than what Norton would have made in 1999....

‘Rick And Morty’ Co-Creator Dan Harmon Left His Starburns Industries Production Company Some Time Ago By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 9, 2020 2:30 pm EST Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon has been hard at work with Justin Roiland on new episodes of the popular Adult Swim animated series. So far we’ve only seen five episodes of the latest fourth season, but with an unprecedented order for 70 total new episodes, we’ve got plenty more to come....

‘Shining Vale’ Horror-Comedy Pilot At Starz Will Star Courteney Cox By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 29, 2020 11:00 am EST Courteney Cox is returning to the horror genre with Shining Vale, a new horror-comedy pilot that hopes to land a series pick-up at Starz. The story involves a family that moves into a house that was the site of some terrifying events. Cox’s character is the only person who notices something scary is going on....

‘Sorry To Bother You’ Director Teases His TV Series About A 13-Foot Tall Black Man In Oakland By Ben Pearson/June 23, 2020 3:00 pm EST Boots Riley, the filmmaker behind 2018’s savage cinematic satire Sorry to Bother You, seems to have found his next project. Earlier today on Twitter, Riley teased that he was developing a new TV series called I’m a Virgo, which is about a 13-foot tall Black man living in Oakland, California....

‘South Park’ Coronavirus Episode Coming This Month, Will Be An Hour Long [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Sept. 30, 2020 10:05 am EST Update: Deadline reports that South Park’s hour-long coronavirus episode, which airs tonight, will be simulcast on Comedy Central, MTV, and MTV2, marking the first time the show has been simulcast across ViacomCBS brands. It will be available to stream on HBO Max 24 hours after it debuts tonight. Our original story follows, along with a new behind-the-scenes video of how the production came together....

‘The Addams Family’: Tim Burton To Get Creepy And Kooky With His First Major Live-Action TV Series By Ben Pearson/Oct. 22, 2020 11:00 am EST Tim Burton is about to become the latest major filmmaker to make the jump to television – and he’s doing it with perhaps the least surprising property of all. Burton is developing a new version of The Addams Family, the classic franchise featuring a creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky family living in suburbia....