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Colin Trevorrow Talks Leaving ‘Star Wars,’ Cruise And Pitt Almost Starred In ‘Ford V. Ferrari,’ And Other Fun Stories From The Directors Panel [Comic-Con 2020] By Ben Pearson/July 23, 2020 3:56 pm EST Our friends over at Collider hosted a Directors on Directing panel during this year’s Comic-Con at Home, where Robert Rodriguez (We Can Be Heroes), Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World: Dominion), and Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) spoke about their past, present, and upcoming work....

Cool Stuff: Cross The Streams With ‘Ghostbusters’ Monopoly, Including New Gameplay Elements By Ethan Anderton/April 23, 2020 6:00 am EST Along with pretty much every other pop culture property, Ghostbusters already got a special edition of Monopoly with a game board and pieces referencing the classic 1984 sci-fi comedy. But Hasbro has announced a new Ghostbusters Monopoly that introduces some brand new gameplay elements, different game pieces, and a Ghost Trap card holder....

Disney+ Will Turn Trick-Or-Treat Into Chaos With A Supernatural Comedy Called ‘Spooked’ By Ethan Anderton/July 25, 2020 12:00 pm EST When Disney+ launched last year, one of their big original movies was the Christmas comedy Noelle. Now they’re heading into Halloween territory with new supernatural comedy movie called Spooked, and the premise sounds like it has the potential to be a lot of fun. The Hollywood Reporter has news on the Spooked movie that is currently in the works at Disney+....

Film And TV Production Studios In The U.K. And Asia Are Starting To Re-Open By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 4, 2020 3:00 pm EST International production studios are beginning to re-open after months of shutdowns in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We’ve seen countries like New Zealand, which had a notably tough response to the outbreak, the Czech Republic, and France begin to slowly resume film and TV productions, but studios in the U....

Judd Apatow’s George Carlin Documentary Heads To HBO, Will Be Two Parts By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 10, 2020 4:00 pm EST Back in June, Judd Apatow revealed he was working on a documentary about legendary comedian George Carlin. Now we have official word on what Apatow and company are cooking up: a two-part documentary headed to HBO reuniting the key creative team behind HBO’s The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling, which Apatow also directed....

Netflix Is Testing A Curated Linear-Style TV And Movie Channel In France By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 6, 2020 2:30 pm EST For the decision-averse, Netflix is rolling out a new feature: a TV channel. But only for France. Netflix is launching Direct, a new linear-style 24/7 content channel similar to the kind of programming you get with standard broadcast and cable TV, which will be tested with its subscribers in France....

New ‘The Mandalorian’ Funko POPs Include More Baby Yoda, Moff Gideon With The Darksaber & More By Ethan Anderton/April 30, 2020 9:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. With Star Wars Day just around the corner, another round of The Mandalorian Funko POPs have just been made available for pre-order at various retailers. Even though Lucasfilm was late to get Baby Yoda merchandise out to the masses in order to preserve the secret of the little guy from the Disney+ Star Wars series, they’re making up for it by giving us even ore Baby Yoda Funko POPs, each one with a signature snack, as well as a diorama scene featuring Mando and Baby Yoda, and the new villain Moff Gideon wielding the legendary Darksaber....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 2, 2020 6:00 pm EST Could The Falcon and the Winter Soldier get pushed to early 2021? Did you hear that a Superman comic used in a famous court case is going up for auction? Which Marvel cameo actor got punched by Captain America in a deleted scene? Want to see a fanmade trailer for a live-action Spider-Man Noir movie?...

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Boys State’ Paints An Infuriating Yet Hopeful Portrait Of American Politics By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 10, 2020 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Series: Boys StateWhere You Can Stream It: Apple TV+The Pitch: In Boys State, a thousand Texas high school seniors gather for an elaborate mock exercise: building their own state government....

TV Bits: ‘The Mysterious Benedict Society’, ‘Lucifer’, ‘Langdon’, ‘The Brides’ By Chris Evangelista/March 5, 2020 4:00 pm EST In this edition of TV Bits: Tony Hale will star in Hulu’s The Mysterious Benedict Society. The original creative team is down for Lucifer season 6 (if Netflix wants it). The Da Vinci Code-inspired TV series has found its Robert Langdon. Gina Torres is one of The Brides of Dracula. What is The Mysterious Benedict Society?...

Vince Gilligan Teases Some ‘El Camino’ Deleted Scenes, Admits The Movie “Does Not Need To Exist” By Ben Pearson/Oct. 15, 2019 4:30 pm EST El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie hit Netflix and limited theaters last Friday, and the general consensus about the film is that it’s well-executed but ultimately inessential. Turns out writer/director Vince Gilligan agrees about that last part; in a new interview, he admits that “this movie, strictly speaking, does not need to exist....

VOTD: ‘Black Panther’ On Disney+ Honors Chadwick Boseman With Custom Marvel Studios Logo By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 29, 2020 12:00 pm EST Today would have been Chadwick Boseman’s 44th birthday, but the Black Panther actor unfortunately passed away earlier this year after a four-year battle with colon cancer. But Marvel Studios went out of their way to celebrate the late actor by giving a little update to Black Panther on Disney+. Fans watching the movie on the streaming service today will notice that the Marvel Studios production logo that accompanies all of their movies has been updated with a custom version that is a tribute to Chadwick Boseman’s role as the African superhero....

Weekend Box Office: Audiences Stay Out Of ‘The Kitchen’, Embrace ‘Scary Stories’ By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 12, 2019 1:30 pm EST The weekend box office results are in, and things didn’t turn out so well for The Kitchen. The Elisabeth Moss, Melissa McCarthy, and Tiffany Haddish comic adaptation flopped, as the paltry summer movie season keeps on devouring non-franchise films whole. The only new title to do well over the weekend was the horror adaptation Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, which came in second to reigning box office champ Hobbs and Shaw....

‘A.P. Bio’ Season 3 Trailer Gets Wilder, Weirder, And Wronger Over At Peacock By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 10, 2020 5:30 pm EST A.P. Bio started out at NBC, but the third season of the hilarious high school comedy series is coming to Peacock next month. Glenn Howerton (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) stars in the series as disgraced Harvard philosophy professor-turned-high school A.P. biology teacher Jack Griffin. Throughout the series so far, he has been coming up with schemes on how to further his career and using his students to help him, all while avoiding any lessons about biology....

‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Clip Treads Very Carefully As Tickets Go On Sale By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 28, 2020 11:30 am EST A Quiet Place Part II is one of the most anticipated movies of 2020, and it’s just a few weeks away from arriving in theaters. That means it’s time for you to round up your friends as quietly as possible and pick up tickets that just went on sale today....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Final Battle Oral History: How The Biggest Scene In Comic Book Movie History Came Together By Ben Pearson/Nov. 1, 2019 8:00 am EST As the narrative conclusion of 22 films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers: Endgame needed to end with a scene so large, it could contain the dozens of characters who’d been established by that point. The film’s colossal final battle fit the bill: it’s a gargantuan confrontation with Thanos and his alien armies on one side and Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, and all of the surviving heroes on the other....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Spin-Off Concept Art: Meet The Dragons Of ‘House Of The Dragon’ By Ben Pearson/Dec. 3, 2020 1:30 pm EST Are you ready to get excited about Westeros again? After revealing the game-changing news about how Warner Bros. is going to handle releasing its film slate in 2021, WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar wasn’t done. No, he still had one more thing to unleash upon the world: the first ever concept art for House of the Dragon, the upcoming Game of Thrones spin-off show that’s intended to debut on HBO sometime in 2022....

‘GLOW’ Renewed For Fourth And Final Season At Netflix By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 20, 2019 9:15 am EST Those Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling are heading into their last match. Netflix brought some bittersweet news to the table today with the announcement of a fourth season of GLOW ordered. But unfortunately, the fourth season will also be the last for this wrestling comedy starring Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, and Marc Maron. Netflix announced the renewal of GLOW in a press release today....

‘Ip Man 4’ Trailer: They Got Donnie Yen To Come Back For One Final Round By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 19, 2019 3:30 pm EST Donnie Yen has been playing Ip Man for more than a decade. Now the saga of Yen’s Wing Chun grandmaster is coming to an end, just as Ip Man comes to America in Ip Man 4. Ip Man 4 follows the martial arts master as he arrives in San Francisco where his famous student, Bruce Lee, has shaken up the local martial arts community by opening a Wing Chun school....

‘Jojo Rabbit’ And Hollywood’s Long Struggle To Tell Accessible Stories About The Darkest Era Of Modern Humanity By Amelia Emberwing/Oct. 21, 2019 7:30 am EST The responsibility that we as a species have to ensure history lives on is a complicated one, and the role art plays in that gets even messier. With events like the Holocaust, the obligation to tell that story responsibly becomes even more critical. But that’s not to say that fiction has no place in the narrative....