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‘Planet Of The Apes’ Update: New Sequel Could Begin Virtual Production Soon, Says Director Wes Ball By Ben Pearson/May 27, 2020 2:30 pm EST After praising the recent Apes trilogy (“those last three movies are one of the great trilogies we have in modern movie history”), Ball teased his take for the newest entry in the franchise: While it sounds like they’re still working on tweaking the screenplay and developing concept art, Ball also mentioned “we could actually be in virtual production relatively soon because it’s largely a CG movie....

‘Superman And Lois’ TV Series With Tyler Hoechlin And Elizabeth Tulloch In The Works At The CW By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 28, 2019 2:30 pm EST Having popped up in plenty of other DC shows on The CW, Tyler Hoechlin’s Superman and Elizabeth Tulloch’s Lois Lane are about to get their own series. The CW is currently developing a new show called Superman and Lois, which will show how the ace reporter and the Man of Steel deal with being modern parents, which is certainly a new angle for a Superman show....

‘The Expanse’ Season 4 Trailer: The Rocinante Crew Explores Worlds Beyond The Ring Gate By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 5, 2019 11:00 am EST The Expanse Season 4 Trailer Based on the popular sci-fi novels by James S.A. Corey, The Expanse is written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, who also executive produce the series along with Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Laura Lancaster, Sharon Hall, Sean Daniel, Jason Brown, Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Dan Nowak, and Naren Shankar, who also serves as showrunner....

‘The Lighthouse’ Trailer: The Director Of ‘The Witch’ Drives Robert Pattinson And Willem Dafoe Crazy By Chris Evangelista/July 30, 2019 6:00 am EST Facial hair! Accents! A 1.19:1 aspect ratio! A heavy dose of “What the hell am I seeing?” It’s all here in the first trailer for The Lighthouse, the latest tale of terror from Robert Eggers, director of The Witch. In this black-and-white nightmare, Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe play old-timey lighthouse keepers on a remote island....

‘Zombi Child’ Review: A Chilling And Wholly Unique Take On The Walking Dead [NYFF 2019] By Caroline Cao/Oct. 3, 2019 3:00 pm EST A pufferfish is sliced. Poison is stashed into a shoe. An unwitting victim (Mackenson Bijou) puts on that shoe and walks the street of 1962 Haiti. Then he falls dead. He is buried. The corpse appears to hear the beat of dirt shoving on his casket. Inexplicably, the scene cuts to the walking corpse being dragged to a sugarcane farm....

Clint Eastwood To Direct And Star In ‘Cry Macho’ Adaptation At Warner Bros. By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 3, 2020 10:00 am EST Clint Eastwood might be 90 years old in the middle of a pandemic, but the veteran actor and filmmaker isn’t letting that stop him from getting his next film off the ground. The American Sniper and Mystic River director is currently scouting locations for Cry Macho, an adaptation of N....

Cool Stuff: Let ‘Lord Of The Rings’, ‘Harry Potter’, Marvel, DC Comics & More Keep You Puzzled By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 10, 2020 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Look, the holiday season isn’t going to be nearly as joyous as we’d like it to be. Thanks to the continued spread of the coronavirus, it won’t be a good idea to have any massive family gathers, especially in the heart of regular flu season....

Don’t Expect ‘Borat 3’ Anytime Soon Because Sacha Baron Cohen Doesn’t See The Point By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 7, 2021 12:30 pm EST After making waves with Borat in 2006, Sacha Baron Cohen’s fictional reporter from Kazakhstan disappeared for nearly 15 years, even if many of his catchphrases did not. But last year, the ignorant, inappropriate journalist returned in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, and against all odds, it was perhaps even better than Borat’s first big screen outing....

HBO Max Picks Up Two Sexy Literary Gothic Series From The Creator Of ‘Riverdale’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 21, 2019 5:00 pm EST The sexiest new property in the streaming wars is: books! Or at least, the women behind them, per HBO Max’s newest original series from Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina creator Robert Aguirre-Sacasa. Aguirre-Sacasa is developing two sexy Gothic literary series for HBO Max, the first of which offers the sexy Mary Shelley take to compete with Apple’s upcoming sexy Emily Dickinson series....

LAIKA Created An Animated TikTok Fight Challenge Video With ‘Coraline’, Cows & More By Ethan Anderton/May 27, 2020 5:00 pm EST Following in the footsteps, or rather the punches and kicks, of the Boss Bitch Fight Challenge, the stop-motion animation studio LAIKA has created their own rendition of the viral TikTok video sensation that has taken the internet by storm. The video begins with LAIKA’s first big screen character Coraline being thrust towards the camera to knock back a Funko POP from The Boxtrolls, and that’s where the animation kicks in, featuring clay, cows, cubes of ice, lemons, and much more taking shots at each other....

One Night in Miami Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World After Hours Now Streaming on HBO Max Release Date: 1985Genre: Dark ComedyDirector: Martin ScorseseCast: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Thomas Chong, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, John Heard, Richard “Cheech” Marin, Catherine O’Hara Head’s up: Martin Scorsese’s After Hours is leaving HBO Max at the end of the month. But I didn’t want the clock to run out without highlighting this weird and wild gem....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 23, 2020 10:30 am EST For his next stunt, Ryan Gosling will play a stuntman. This wouldn’t be the first time that the First Man actor had played a stuntman, playing characters with the dangerous job in The Place Beyond the Pines and Drive, but this is the first time he’ll be playing a stuntman in a film directed by a former stuntman. Deadpool 2 director and former stuntman David Leitch will be directing the untitled Ryan Gosling stuntman movie, which has just landed at Universal after a heated bidding war....

Steven Soderbergh Re-Editing Three Of His Films, Including ‘Kafka’ By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 27, 2020 9:30 am EST Steven Soderbergh loves to keep busy. Even when he “retired,” he still managed to direct two full seasons of television (The Knick). So in true Soderbergh form, he’s been occupied with work during the pandemic. According to the filmmaker himself, he’s spent these last few months re-editing three of his films. Two of the re-edits – for Schizopolis and Full Frontal – are minor....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: ‘Batman: Soul Of The Dragon’ Trailer, New ‘Loki’ Rumors, ‘Marvel Storyboards’ Season 2 & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 17, 2020 6:00 pm EST The second season of Marvel Storyboards began with actress Gillian Jacobs talking about being a director. The Boys EP Eric Kripke and actor Antony Starr want all Trump supports to know Homelander is bad. Here’s the first teaser for the second season of Batwoman, introducing Ryan Wilder as the show’s new hero....

Superhero Bits: ‘Cloak & Dagger’ Heads To ‘Spider-Man’ Animated Series, ‘Teen Titans Go! Vs Teen Titans’ Clip & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 2019 5:00 pm EST Why are Cloak & Dagger coming to the Spider-Man animated series on Disney XD? Which two characters are having a surprising meeting in Crisis on Infinite Earths? Did Scott Derrickson hint at Scarlet Witch meeting up with Doctor Strange a long time ago? How did Adam Savage craft the perfect Guardians of the Galaxy cosplay?...

Superhero Bits: Batman’s Cowl From George Miller’s ‘Justice League’, Stephen Amell Won’t Return To Arrowverse & More By Ethan Anderton/March 18, 2020 6:00 pm EST What was so unique about a newborn puppy that he had to be named Hulk? Is Brandon Routh’s best work ever in his farewell episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow? Want to see a bust mock-up of Batman’s cowl intended for George Miller’s Justice League? Will Daredevil appear in Spider-Man 3?...

Taika Waititi Wants Michael Fassbender To Star In His Soccer Movie ‘Next Goal Wins’ By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 16, 2019 4:30 pm EST The increasingly busy Taika Waititi already has his next project lined-up, and no, it’s not Thor: Love and Thunder. Before the director returns to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he’ll direct the sports dramedy Next Goal Wins. And that’s not all: Waititi wants Michael Fassbender to star. Fassbender is in talks to join the film, which is based on the documentary of the same name and focuses on the national football team of American Samoa....

The Morning Watch: ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ VFX Breakdown, Analyzing Airplane Crash Scenes Accuracy & More By Ethan Anderton/April 22, 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, visual effects house DNEG provides a look at the work they did on the Fast and Furious spin-off Hobbs & Shaw....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Master And Commander’ Should Have Started One Of This Century’s Great Film Franchises By Ben Pearson/Sept. 1, 2020 7:00 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 Movie: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the WorldWhere You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: The film opens with a piece of text that succinctly and evocatively sets the stage for the action to come....

Video: Get A First Look At Disney+ Thanks To A Preview Launch In The Netherlands By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 12, 2019 11:00 am EST Prominently displayed are the titles of Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic, each with their own carousel of available titles. Weirdly enough, this trial run of Disney+ had 18 of the movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe available to watch, even though only a handful of Marvel Studios movies are supposed to be available at launch....