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Theme Park Bits: Mickey Shorts Theater, Plant-Based Food Options, And More By Josh Spiegel/Oct. 8, 2019 5:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: A new way to watch Mickey Mouse shorts is on the way. The Disneyland Resort has a new spa in the new year. Go plant-based with new menus. And more! 2020 is bringing a lot of changes to the world of Disney theme parks. At Disney’s Hollywood Studios, one of the biggest changes is the arrival of Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway, a new attraction themed to the wild and wacky shorts from Disney XD featuring everyone’s favorite pair of talking mice....

Theme Park Bits: Runaway Railway Poster, Downtown Disney At Christmas, And More By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 24, 2019 11:30 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: A new poster has been revealed for Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway. Take a look at Downtown Disney’s holiday theming. Legoland has some changes afoot. And more! Disney’s Hollywood Studios isn’t just getting a new Star Wars attraction in the weeks to come. They’re also in the works on the Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway attraction, featuring the Disney XD versions of those beloved characters in a ride replacing the venerated Great Movie Ride....

‘Cops’ Canceled At Paramount Network Amid Global Anti-Police Brutality Protests By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 10, 2020 9:30 am EST “Cops is not on the Paramount Network and we don’t have any current or future plans for it to return,” a Paramount Network spokesperson said in a statement. A recent podcast hosted by Dan Taberski, Running From Cops, also went into detail about the shady behind-the-scenes tactics of the show, including coercing people into signing waivers and allowing police to edit and remove anything that would paint them in a negative light....

‘Cruella’ First Look Photo: Emma Stone Plays The Disney Villain In 1970s London [D23] By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 24, 2019 11:36 am EST Though Disney has had plenty of success with their live-action remakes like Aladdin and The Lion King this year, not everything will be carbon copies of their original animated movies. Following in the footsteps of Maleficent, there’s also the upcoming live-action spin-off Cruella, featuring Emma Stone as the fashionista villain from Disney’s animated classic (and previous live-action remake) 101 Dalmatians....

‘David Byrne’s American Utopia’ Review: Spike Lee Turns This Stage Show Into A Cinematic Celebration [TIFF 2020] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 10, 2020 11:00 am EST “Thanks for leaving your house,” David Byrne tells the audience at the start of David Byrne’s American Utopia. He couldn’t have realized it at the time, but the statement is surreal now. This is the opening night film of the Toronto International Film Festival, and many of us can’t leave our houses....

‘El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie’ Behind The Scenes Video: Jesse Pinkman Finally Gets Some Closure By Ben Pearson/Oct. 10, 2019 7:30 am EST Thanks to AMC’s successful ongoing prequel series Better Call Saul, fans of Breaking Bad didn’t have to leave the world of their favorite show behind for long after Breaking Bad ended six years ago. But now they’re finally going to get a chance to find some closure for one of the mothership series’ major characters: Aaron Paul’s Jesse Pinkman, the tortured meth maker who escaped from captivity in the series finale and drove away like a madman into the night....

‘El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie’ Review: Well-Executed, But Unnecessary By Josh Spiegel/Oct. 11, 2019 9:30 am EST Almost a decade ago, the ABC drama Lost came to a controversial conclusion, managing to bother more people than it pleased with a series finale that’s still being misinterpreted. A few months later, the final season was released on DVD with a 12-minute epilogue film titled “The New Man in Charge.” In the epilogue, we learned more about the futures and fates of a few members of the show’s vast ensemble....

‘Fast And Furious: Spy Racers’ Animated Series Reveals Cast (Including Vin Diesel’s Daughter) And New Images By Ben Pearson/Nov. 18, 2019 2:00 pm EST Justin Lin’s Fast & Furious 9 doesn’t hit theaters until May 2020, but if you’re dying for more stories set in the Fast universe, you won’t have to wait nearly that long to see one. Fast and Furious: Spy Racers, the new animated series from Universal and DreamWorks Animation, arrives on Netflix in just over a month, and the studio just sent out a batch of new images from the show as well as the full cast list....

‘His Dark Materials’ Continues Its Ascension With ‘Tower Of Angels’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 8, 2020 9:00 am EST It’s a neat magic trick, what His Dark Materials pulls, of lulling the viewer into thinking they’re in for the typical worlds-crossing fantasy adventure that revolves around a handful of mythical objects. A modern-day crusade of sorts, you might say. But what is a crusade if not a divine quest that brings one closer to God?...

‘Killing Ground’ Review: Never Go Camping, Especially In A Horror Movie [Fantasia Film Festival] By Chris Evangelista/July 25, 2017 9:00 am EST Why do people even bother to go camping anymore? To quote Jim Gaffigan, “The only happy camper is the one leaving the camp ground.” When you head into the woods for a getaway, you have to contend with the heat, bugs, uncomfortable sleeping situations, and, if movies are to be believed, psycho killers....

‘Marriage Story’ Review: Adam Driver And Scarlett Johansson Dazzle In Noah Baumbach’s Heartfelt Drama [TIFF 2019] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 9, 2019 12:00 pm EST It begins with kindness. Through a series of charming montages, we watch – and listen – as married couple Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) list off the things they love about each other – the types of quirks, in-jokes, and eccentricities that two people who have lived together for some time grow so familiar with over time....

‘Matrix 4’ Cast Now Includes A Character You Probably Forgot About By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 17, 2020 2:30 pm EST Hey, remember The Merovingian? The weird vampire (I think?) from The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions? Well, he’s back. Lambert Wilson, who played the character, is reportedly in negotiations to appear in The Matrix 4, the mysterious new sequel being directed by Lana Wachowski. In other Matrix 4 casting news, Eréndira Ibarra, who worked with Wachowski on Sense8, is now part of the team as well....

‘Soulmates’ Trailer: Love Meets Science In New AMC Anthology Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 9, 2020 4:30 pm EST What if you could take a test to find your soulmate? That’s the premise of AMC’s new sci-fi anthology series, Soulmates, which mixes love and science in a combination that could yield heartwarming or devastating results. Comprised of six one-hour episodes, each episode of Soulmates follows a different individual “discovering (or opting not to discover) the results of this new test and the impact of those results on a myriad of relationships....

‘Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’ Trailer: The Latest ‘Star Wars’ Video Game Looks Pretty Darn Cool By Jacob Hall/Sept. 27, 2019 4:00 pm EST I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m ready to love a Star Wars video game again. And from the look of things, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order looks like it could scratch that itch quite nicely. The newest trailer for the game focuses mostly on story points and character moments, but it also shows off some very tantalizing gameplay snippets, including some action beats that make this look unlike any other Star Wars game we’ve played before....

‘Tenet’ Box Office Hits $300 Million Internationally, Needs A Couple Hundred Million More To Break Even By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 6, 2020 3:00 pm EST Hey, remember Tenet? The movie that was going to save movies until it didn’t? Well, it’s still playing, which means it’s still taking in box office dollars, which means I am bound by law to report them. I have no choice in the matter, and neither do you....

‘Tenet’ Release Date Delayed Indefinitely By Chris Evangelista/July 20, 2020 9:35 am EST In a move that virtually everyone saw coming, Warner Bros. has moved the Tenet release date yet again. The big Christopher Nolan action pic was meant to revive the stagnant movie theater industry and single-handedly save the summer movie season by opening in mid-July. However, as coronavirus cases continue to surge across the country, Warners moved the film first to July 31, and then to August 12....

‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Sequel Directors Replaced, And All Of Their Footage Has Been Scrapped By Ben Pearson/Aug. 24, 2020 1:30 pm EST Ryan and Andy Tohill, the duo behind the 2018 British-Irish film The Dig, were hired back in February to direct Legendary’s new Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel, which picks up the story after the events of Tobe Hooper’s original 1974 film. But things went south quickly once they got to the set, because the studio is completely starting over after just a week of production: the duo has now been replaced behind the camera and all of the footage they shot has been thrown out....

‘The Dragon Prince’ Season 3’ Trailer: The Kingdoms Go To War By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 4, 2019 2:30 pm EST War is coming to Xadia, and only the Dragon Prince, master of all four elements, can stop it. Okay, the last half of that sentence is cribbed right from the introduction to Avatar: The Last Airbender, but it wouldn’t be a totally off-base tagline for the upcoming third season of the Netflix animated fantasy show....

‘The Haunting Of Bly Manor’ House Is Now On Zillow By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 7, 2020 2:30 pm EST In the market for something spooky? Netflix has you covered – because they went ahead and put Bly Manor, from the impending The Haunting of Bly Manor, up on real estate database company Zillow. To be fair, you can’t actually buy the house, but this is a neat little bit of marketing that gives you a glimpse of the sprawling manor that takes center stage in the highly-anticipated horror series....

‘The Lost Boys’ Stage Musical Is “Nearly Done”; Listen To The Soundtrack Here By Ben Pearson/July 14, 2020 2:30 pm EST Director Joel Schumacher died last month, and many of the obituaries and appreciation pieces written about his life highlighted his work on the stylish 1987 vampire movie The Lost Boys, which became a generational touchstone for kids of a certain age. The franchise has since expanded with a pair of straight-to-DVD sequels and a comic book series, but it looks like a Lost Boys musical – which fills in some of the backstory before the events of the first movie – is going to be heading to Broadway....