By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 20, 2020 9:18 am EST Ahead of the DC FanDome, which is sure to provide us with footage, Matt Reeves has revealed The Batman logo along with some cool concept art created by none other than Jim Lee. As far as logos go, it’s more or less what you’d expect – a bat signal, although it’s rougher around the edges than traditional bat logos of the past. Check it out below....
‘The Current War’ Star Michael Shannon On Making A Movie About The Future Set In The Past [Interview] By Steven Prokopy/Nov. 1, 2019 5:00 pm EST Actor Michael Shannon has been a staple on the Chicago theater scene for decades, thanks in large part to his regularly appearing in productions at his own A Red Orchid Theatre company, but most of you know Shannon as a film actor, first appearing in smaller roles in such works as Groundhog Day, Chain Reaction, Pearl Harbor, Vanilla Sky, 8 Mile, and World Trade Center....
‘The Purge 5’ Is Now Titled ‘The Forever Purge’ By Chris Evangelista/April 10, 2020 2:00 pm EST The title of the next Purge sequel has been revealed, and it’s pretty fitting: The Forever Purge. It’s as if the makers of the film realized that we’re already trapped in a never-ending nightmare, and they might as well take advantage of that with this title. The Purge is usually set on the one night of a year where all crime is legal, but throwing “forever” into the title suggests that The Purge has reached a point where it’s become an ongoing, constant source of turmoil....
‘The Sinner’ Season 3 Trailer: Bill Pullman Has Another Strange Mystery On His Hands By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 17, 2019 3:00 pm EST It’s time yet again for Detective Harry Ambrose to solve a weird mystery. The Sinner season 3 brings back Bill Pullman’s bearded detective for a new case: one involving a car crash that looks like an accident but might in fact be…foul play. Cue the ominous music. Matt Bomer and Chris Messina also star....
‘The Woman In The Window’ Trailer: Amy Adams Gets Caught Up In A Dangerous Game By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 19, 2019 6:44 am EST The Woman in the Window, based on the bestseller by A. J. Finn, is cut from the same cloth as stories like Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, which could be good or bad. The Gone Girl film adaptation was wonderful, but the Girl on the Train movie was…not....
‘Twister’ Director Jan De Bont Once Tried To Make A ‘Godzilla’ Movie Before The 1998 Version By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 6, 2020 5:30 pm EST There are so many movie projects that could have been — whole documentaries have been made about some of them, whole cult followings have risen up around axed movies — but every now and then, we get a failed film that might have spared us a little pain in the long run....
‘WandaVision’ Posters Take Us On A Tour Through The Decades, Probably Lead To A New Trailer By Ben Pearson/Dec. 7, 2020 12:30 pm EST Warner Bros. earned Hollywood’s attention last week with its bombshell HBO Max announcement, but Disney is laying a trail of breadcrumbs that suggests all eyes are going to be back on the Mouse House later this week. Over the past few days, the Disney+ Twitter account has been releasing themed WandaVision posters for Marvel Studios’ upcoming superhero series, and it appears that a new trailer is coming this Thursday....
Bill Murray Is Living Through ‘Groundhog Day’ Again For A Super Bowl Commercial By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 28, 2020 3:30 pm EST Talk about déja vu. Bill Murray is reprising his role as the cynical TV weatherman in a Groundhog Day Super Bowl commercial for Jeep, which has been spotted filming in the town of Woodstick, Illinois, where the 1993 comedy classic was first shot. It’s the kind of movie tie-in that Super Bowl advertisers, whose big-budget commercials have payed homage to many a classic movie, could only dream of because this is the year that the annual championship football game falls on the same day as Groundhog Day....
Blumhouse Testing The Post-Pandemic Waters With Low-Budget Film Shoot On Universal Lot By Chris Evangelista/May 18, 2020 4:30 pm EST Almost no movies are currently shooting right now due to the coronavirus, but that could change soon – especially if Blumhouse and Universal have anything to say about it. According to a new report, Blumhouse is trying to figure out a way to shoot a low-budget film on the Universal lot – with new post-coronavirus safety protocols in place....
Cool Stuff: ‘Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’ Steelbook Release Has The Best Artwork By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 16, 2019 11:30 am EST Universal Pictures released Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping in June of 2016, and the movie was completely overshadowed by the rest of blockbuster season. Despite being raucously hilarious, the movie bombed hard with a total domestic box office total of just $9.6 million. But in the three years since then, it’s become a cult favorite – so much that the soundtrack finally got an outstanding vinyl release from Mondo, and now Shout Factory is giving us the Popstar Steelbook Blu-ray release we deserve....
Cool Stuff: ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Statue And NECA Action Figures Fight For The Future By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 6, 2019 6:00 am EST Terminator: Dark Fate may not be an immediate hit at the box office, likely thanks to fans being gunshy about yet another sequel in the Terminator franchise potentially disappointing them again. But the movie has received a good amount of favorable reactions from critics, earning the movie a 70% on Rotten Tomatoes and an even more satisfied 84% audience score....
Damien Chazelle-Directed Apple Ad Shows That Vertical Video Can Be “Vertical Cinema” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 6, 2020 12:30 pm EST Movies shot on the smartphone are becoming all the rage in Hollywood, as auteurs test the limits of what that little piece of handheld technology can do. Sean Baker and Steven Soderbergh proved that iPhone movies could play on the big screen, but what about the format that has become so commonly associated with that handheld device: the vertical video?...
Fantastic Fest 2019 Day One: ‘Sweetheart’ Is A Killer Creature Feature, ‘First Love’ Is The Best Takashi Miike Film In Years, And ‘Guns Akimbo’ Is ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Via Axe Body Spray By Jacob Hall/Sept. 20, 2019 3:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Fantastic Fest Diaries, where we will be chronicling every single movie we see at the United States’ largest genre film festival.) Welcome to Fantastic Fest 2019, day one. In this entry, Guns Akimbo is Scott Pilgrim for assholes, First Love is the best Takashi Miike film in years, and Sweetheart is a thrilling creature feature....
Jenna Fischer And Angela Kinsey Are Getting Back Behind The Desk For The ‘Office Ladies’ Podcast By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 12, 2019 7:30 am EST It’s happening. Everybody stay calm. We’re getting a podcast about The Office. The beloved NBC sitcom aired before the time of podcasts and video essays that picked apart every piece of minutiae, so it’s only fair that one of the most-watched shows on Netflix — and a source of contention between the streaming giant and NBC — is getting the podcast treatment retroactively....
Larry King, Famed Broadcaster Who Appeared In ‘Ghostbusters’ And More, Has Died At 87 By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 23, 2021 9:00 am EST Larry King conducted over 50,000 interviews with celebrities, world leaders, athletes, and average citizens caught up in extraordinary situations with a career that spans a half-century. Because of his fame as a radio and television broadcaster, King often appeared as himself in movies like Ghostbusters, The Contender, Enemy of the State, Bulworth, Contact and more....
M.O.D.O.K. Was Almost An ‘Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Villain, But Marvel Had Other Plans For Him By Ben Pearson/Aug. 13, 2020 3:30 pm EST M.O.D.O.K., the Marvel Comics character whose name is an acronym for the Mental/Mobile/Mechanized Organism Designed Only for Killing, has never appeared in any officially-produced live-action projects. But the bizarre-looking character actually came close: he almost showed up as a villain on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but Marvel ended up revoking the show’s permission to use him before they could work him into the series....
Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’ Has Already Been Renewed For A Second Season By Ben Pearson/Nov. 13, 2019 11:30 am EST There’s still more than a month until the first season of Netflix’s new Game of Thrones-style fantasy series The Witcher debuts, but the streaming service apparently likes what they’ve seen so far, because they’ve already given the show a second season. Showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich confirmed the news on Twitter this morning, sharing that Geralt (Henry Cavill), Yennefer (Anya Chalotra), and Ciri (Freya Allan) will return for more adventures in a second season....
New ‘Treasure Island’ Movie Coming From ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ Director Dean DeBlois By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 3, 2019 8:30 am EST Universal has found the director to captain its Treasure Island adaptation. Dean DeBlois, who has helmed every film in DreamWorks’ acclaimed How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, has been tapped as the Treasure Island movie director in the first big-screen adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel since the ’90s....
Robert Rodriguez Is Still Holding Out Hope For ‘Alita: Battle Angel 2’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 1, 2021 9:00 am EST Alita: Battle Angel is as violent and dark as they come, so it’s probably not likely that Disney would be keen to jump on the franchise for its family-friendly service. But Disney is also fond of familiar IPs, and Alita: Battle Angel has become one thanks to a rabid online fanbase for the 2019 film (as an anime fan, I can attest that the fanbase for the original manga/anime was virtually non-existent until then)....
Shudder’s Streaming ‘Creepshow’ TV Series Will Air On AMC Next Month By Jacob Hall/April 15, 2020 2:00 pm EST If you’re a horror fan, you really should subscribe to the Shudder streaming service. But you don’t need to be a subscriber to check out their latest headlining original show. Creepshow, the series revival of the classic George Romero and Stephen King horror anthology film from 1982, will soon air on the AMC network....
