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Emilio Estevez Officially Joins ‘The Mighty Ducks’ TV Show, See First Images From The Production By Ben Pearson/Feb. 13, 2020 11:30 am EST Gordon Bombay will lace up his skates once again. Emilio Estevez has officially signed on to appear in the Disney+ TV continuation of The Mighty Ducks, reprising his role as the former drunken attorney who cleaned up his act and became a beloved coach of a misfit hockey team....

Focus Features Launches ‘Reel Destinations’ Webseries With A ‘Downton Abbey’-Themed Debut Episode By Ben Pearson/Sept. 12, 2019 4:00 pm EST If you’ve ever wanted to visit filming locations from some of your favorite movies but just haven’t been able to make the trip, Focus Features has a new webseries that lets you vicariously live out your travel dreams. It’s called Reel Destinations, and in its first episode, host Alicia Malone takes audiences inside the real castle that serves as the primary location on the PBS TV series Downton Abbey and Focus’s upcoming movie which continues the story....

Jon Cryer Recalls A Very Different ‘Back To The Future’ Ending When He Auditioned For Marty McFly By Ethan Anderton/July 28, 2020 4:00 pm EST This week, we learned about a new 35th anniversary box set of Back to the Future that will bring the time traveling trilogy home in 4K for the first time. For those who may feel no immediate urge to purchase yet another edition of the Back to the Future trilogy, this new box set comes with some exciting never-before-seen footage of auditions for the film’s cast....

Mark Ruffalo Has Pitched Marvel More Hulk Movies, Would Like To See Hulk Fight Wolverine By Ben Pearson/Nov. 26, 2019 2:30 pm EST At Tokyo Comic Con, Ruffalo told the crowd how he just pitched more Hulk movies to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, and he specifically said he wants to see Hulk face off against Wolverine. Read his quotes below. ComingSoon brings word about Ruffalo’s comments, which you can watch him deliver in the video below:...

Netflix Renews ‘The Movies That Made Us’ For Season 2 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 25, 2020 3:00 pm EST More ’80s nostalgia is coming your way. Netflix has greenlit The Movies That Made Us for a second season, bringing another season of The Nacelle Company’s docuseries that explores beloved ’80s films. The first season visited classics like Die Hard, Ghostbusters, Dirty Dancing, and Home Alone (the latter of which is technically an ’80s movie), but it’s not yet confirmed what films the second season will cover....

Now Scream This: Horror Movies To Stream Before Seeing ‘It Chapter Two’ By /Film Staff/Aug. 29, 2019 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Now Scream This, a column where horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato tell you what scary, spooky, and spine-tingling movies are streaming and where you can watch them.)Matt: With the release of It Chapter 2 next weekend, Chris and I are tackling horror films based on common phobias....

Pop Culture Imports: ‘Train To Busan,’ ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night,’ A Guillermo Del Toro Double Feature, And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 31, 2019 3:00 pm EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) It was just coincidence that this week’s Pop Culture Imports column fell on Halloween, but I couldn’t pass up recommending you folks some foreign frights....

Regal Unlimited Movie Ticket Subscription Launching Before The End Of The Month With Three Tiers By Ethan Anderton/July 26, 2019 7:30 am EST Following in the footsteps of AMC Stubs A-List, the national theater chain Regal Cinemas is introducing their Regal Unlimited movie ticket subscription service, which we first heard about towards the beginning of July. The new service will be available before the end of the month, and it’s coming with three different subscription tiers....

Superhero Bits: ‘Fornite’ May Get An ‘Avenger’ Crossover, ‘Invincible’ Animated Series First Look & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 6, 2020 6:00 pm EST Is there an Avengers crossover coming soon for Fortnite? How did Jurnee Smollett respond to the racist backlash against her being cast as Black Canary? Want a sneak peek at the upcoming Invincible animated series? Have enough money to buy The Thing’s head that Michael Chiklis wore in Fantastic Four?...

Superhero Bits: DC Comics Animated Movie Universe Ending, Arrowverse Return Dates On The CW & More By Ethan Anderton/March 31, 2020 6:00 pm EST Did you hear Justice League Dark: Apokolips War is ending the DC Comics animated movie universe? Did you know Superman once met up with Popeye Doyle from The French Connection? When are the Arrowverse shows coming back to The CW in April? Why did Marc Guggenheim regret mentioning an offer for Nicolas Cage to play Superman in Crisis on Infinite Earths?...

Superhero Bits: Halle Berry Knew ‘Catwoman’ Would Be Bad, ‘The Falcon And The Winter’ Soldier Resumes Shooting & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 15, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to know the Supergirl stunt team’s fitness routine? Which awards did Watchmen win from the 2020 Television Critics Association awards? Did you hear Halle Berry knew Catwoman was going to be bad while she was still shooting? Want to see an extended documentary on the making of The Dark Knight trilogy?...

Superhero Bits: New ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Concept Art, Stan Lee Tried To Adapt ‘Power Rangers’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 27, 2019 6:00 pm EST Did you know Stan Lee and Marvel tried to adapt the show that became Mighty Morphin Power Rangers? Want to see a bunch of Avengers: Endgame concept art? Will Crisis on Infinite Earths end with a cliffhanger for the holiday hiatus? Want to see some photos of Willem Dafoe’s cut cameo in Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League?...

The Criterion Channel Is Offering A Lineup Of Great ’70s Horror Movies This October By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 24, 2020 3:15 pm EST The Criterion Channel just went ahead and programmed your Halloween movie marathon for you. In October, the streaming service is offering a lineup of great horror movies from the 1970s, including The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Don’t Look Now, Deathdream, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and more....

The Morning Watch: ‘TRON Legacy’ Updated With DeepFake, Looking Back At ‘Small Soldiers’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 27, 2020 6:00 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, watch the dated visual effects used to bring young Jeff Bridges to life in TRON Legacy given a makeover with DeepFake technology....

What Happened To Rick Dalton After ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’? Quentin Tarantino Has Some Ideas By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 5, 2019 5:30 pm EST At the end of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the career of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton is at an odd place. After struggling in TV guest star roles, the former cowboy TV star is starting to find lots of successful work in Spaghetti Westerns. The movie comes to a close after Rick and his longtime buddy and stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) have a violent run-in with the Manson Family, and where Rick’s career goes after that is anyone’s guess....

What We Learned About ‘Ford V Ferrari’ While Attending The 24 Hours At Daytona Race By Vanessa Armstrong/Jan. 29, 2020 10:00 am EST Full disclosure: I know nothing about motor sports. I didn’t even know motor sports were called motor sports (it was just car racing in my head) before attending the 24 Hours of Daytona race this weekend. Granted, I knew a little bit about the event going in, but that’s only because I saw Ford v Ferrari, the 2019 Oscar-nominated Best Picture film that, among other things, has Christian Bale (playing historical driver Ken Miles) driving the race in 1966 while Matt Damon (playing car designer Carroll Shelby) urges him on from the sidelines....

‘Avenue 5’ Uses Actual Science To Fuel Its Comedy (And Kills Off Richard Branson For A Gag) [TCA 2020] By Fred Topel/Jan. 16, 2020 12:30 pm EST Armando Iannucci is back on HBO, but this time, he’s not making another political comedy. The Veep mastermind created the science fiction comedy Avenue 5. There series follows a deep space passenger flight in the future where something goes wrong and neither the captain (Hugh Laurie) nor the tech mogul (Josh Gad) who funded it are equipped to handle it....

Carnival Row is an Expansive, Darkly Rich World That is Grounded in the Personal Trials of Its Characters The show’s focus on the seemingly innocuous ongoings of everyday life, however, doesn’t mean that the scope of Carnival Row isn’t expansive—the worldbuilding is impressive here, especially given that the series does not have volumes of original source material to depend on. In the first season, we see human-ruled republic of The Burgue, a magical noir version of Victorian London, as well as the magical fae continent of Anoun where, in the kingdom of Tirnanoc, a genocidal group called The Pact is killing off the faerie population....

‘Chernobyl’ Director Johan Renck To Direct Miniseries Adaptation Of ‘The Magus’ By Ethan Anderton/May 29, 2020 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Neal Street Productions is confirmed to be in talks with Johan Renck to helm of an adaptation of John Fowles’ cult classic 1965 novel The Magus, a famously cryptic tale involving psychological traps and tricks executed on a young Englishman by a reclusive millionaire....

‘Circe’: HBO Looks For Its Next ‘Game Of Thrones’ With A Straight-To-Series Order For Ancient Greek Fantasy By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 31, 2019 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO Max has given Circe a straight-to-series order with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Planet of the Apes, Jurassic World) are on board to write and executive produce the drama series from Chernin Entertainment and Endeavor Content....