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Awkwafina And Karen Gillan Reuniting For Action Comedy ‘Shelly’ By Ethan Anderton/May 28, 2020 5:30 pm EST Even though production in Hollywood is still shut down, there are deals being made behind the scenes for future projects. A new action comedy feature called Shelly with Jumanji franchise stars Awkwafina and Karen Gillan attached is among them. Shelly is an original script from up and coming writers Michael Doneger and Liz Storm with television director Jude Weng (Fresh Off the Boat, The Good Place) slated to be at the helm....

Cool Stuff: Celebrate The 25th Anniversary Of ‘Friends’ With An Official Central Perk LEGO Set By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 9, 2019 6:00 am EST This year marks 25 years since we met six New Yorkers who would become the most well known group of Friends in the world. Now the entire gang will be there for you in LEGO form as the building brick company is bringing to life the LEGO Ideas playset of the Central Perk Cafe, the central location of the beloved NBC sitcom that will soon be leaving Netflix....

Mark Ruffalo Was Worried About ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Ruining Hulk And Thor By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 16, 2019 3:00 pm EST Thor: Ragnarok is one of the best movies on Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and that’s largely thanks to director Taika Waititi breathing new life into the comic book franchise and really pushing Thor in an exciting new direction. Chris Hemsworth was very much excited to give the God of Thunder a new path to follow, but not everyone on the cast was quite so confident in this more comedic approach....

New ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Image Lets Poe Dameron Fly The Millennium Falcon By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 18, 2019 12:30 pm EST Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a little over a month away, and if you’re somehow not hyped for the final entry in the Skywalker Saga, maybe this new image will do the trick. It features Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron looking either shocked, thrilled, or both shocked and thrilled to be piloting the Millennium Falcon for the very first time....

Quibi Snapchat Series No Longer Happening By Chris Evangelista/April 16, 2020 1:00 pm EST Quibi has already lost one of its planned shows. The streaming service devoted to short-form content was set to create a Social Network-style series inspired by the creation of Snapchat. Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg announced the show at last year’s SXSW. No official reason has been given for the decision to pull the plug, but it might have something to do with Quibi not having the smoothest of launches....

The ‘Black-Ish’ Episode That ABC Didn’t Want You To See Is Now Streaming On Hulu By Ben Pearson/Aug. 10, 2020 3:00 pm EST In 2018, ABC made a very expensive mistake. After approving the production of an episode of its popular sitcom Black-ish, the network decided to shelve the episode just days before it was supposed to air. That decision did not sit well with the show’s creator, Kenya Barris, who ended up leaving The Walt Disney Company and signing a mega-deal with Netflix instead....

The Haunted Mansion 50th Anniversary Celebration: Inside Disneyland’s Special Event By Eric Vespe/Aug. 16, 2019 10:00 am EST I couldn’t have been older than six or seven years old when I first stepped foot inside The Haunted Mansion. Even at that young age I was already attracted to scary stuff, so on my first trip to Disneyland, I was drawn more to the creepy house in the middle of New Orleans Square than I was to the flying Dumbos or spinning tea cups....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Class Action Park’ Is About A Mind-Bogglingly Dangerous Amusement Park, And Also Childhood Trauma By Jacob Hall/Sept. 2, 2020 8:00 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: Class Action ParkWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: For an entire generation of Americans raised in the New York and New Jersey area, Action Park was the wild and crazy amusement park where the lack of rules and safety regulations forced you to grit your teeth through injuries as you endured water slides designed by maniacs....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Haunt’ Is A Halloween Treat That Should Become A Spooky Season Tradition By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 10, 2020 11:00 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: HauntWhere You Can Stream It: ShudderThe Pitch: College kids go to an extreme haunted house that turns out to be very extreme indeed....

The Quarantine Stream: The New ‘Supermarket Sweep’ Is The Perfect Pandemic Relief By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 19, 2020 10:00 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: Supermarket Sweep (2020)Where You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: Leslie Jones hosts the revival of this classic game show that first started in the 1960s, returned in the mid-1990s, and came back one more time in the early 2000s....

Zack Snyder’s ‘Justice League’ Footage Teased Before Full Trailer Premieres At DC FanDome This Weekend By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 20, 2020 7:06 am EST It’s hard to believe, but Zack Snyder’s Justice League is coming to HBO Max in 2021. Fans clamored for the director’s original vision to get released after the theatrical cut stitched together by Joss Whedon failed to impress. Now that they’re getting their wish, it’s time for the hype machine to get cranked up to 11 with the release of the first trailer for Zack Snyder’s anticipated redux of the DC Comics superhero movie arriving at DC FanDome this weekend....

‘A Christmas Story’ Honest Trailer: A Truly American Tale About Doing Anything To Get A Gun By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 3, 2020 6:00 am EST A Christmas Story has been playing on television so much every holiday season that even people who don’t love the movie probably have it memorized. From the slow-motion “Oh, fuuuuudge!” to the triple dog dare, this movie is chock full of quotable lines. But that has the Honest Trailer begging the question whether this holiday staple is actually a good movie or if we just like it because we know it by heart....

‘Bitter Root’ Movie Coming From Producer Ryan Coogler By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 3, 2019 12:30 pm EST Ryan Coogler is lending his talents to another comic book property. Legendary has tapped Coogler to produce a Bitter Root movie along with Zinzi Evans and Sev Ohanian. The film is based on the Image Comics series created by David F. Walker, Sanford Greene, and Chuck Brown, which focuses on a family of monster hunters living during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s....

‘Demon Slayer’ Surpasses ‘Spirited Away’ As Japan’s Highest-Grossing Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 30, 2020 2:00 pm EST Hayao Miyazaki’s 2001 masterpiece Spirited Away was a major global crossover hit — a critical and commercial success that earned the animated film an Oscar, and the title as Japan’s highest-grossing film in history, beating out Hollywood blockbuster Titanic. But 19 years after its release, Spirited Away has lost its crown to Demon Slayer....

‘District 9’ Director Neill Blomkamp Casts Taylor Kitsch In New Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Inferno’ By Ben Pearson/Oct. 24, 2019 10:00 am EST It’s been four years since District 9 director Neill Blomkamp unleashed Chappie upon the world, and he hasn’t made a feature film since. He’s had a few stops and starts, including flirtations with new Alien and RoboCop movies, and while he still has a few feature projects on his schedule, he’s mostly been spending lots of time creating experimental short films....

‘Jungleland’ Trailer: Charlie Hunnam And Jack O’Connell Are In For The Fight Of Their Lives By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 17, 2020 9:00 am EST In Jungleland, Charlie Hunnam and Jack O’Connell are brothers who travel across the country for a high-stakes fighting tournament. This premise sounds similar to Warrior, the Tom Hardy-Joel Edgerton flick, but based on the trailer below, Jungleland has new things to offer. The film played at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and is headed to Premium Video-On-Demand and for Digital in November....

‘Kill Bill 3’ Is “Definitely In The Cards”, According To Quentin Tarantino By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 11, 2019 8:30 am EST Quentin Tarantino loves to talk about potential projects. I like to imagine he has an entire file cabinet filled with them, and whenever he’s feeling frisky he pops it open to give us a tease. The filmmaker swears that he’s retiring from directing, but he also has several possible films he may or may not make – like a Star Trek movie, for instance....

‘Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.’ First Look: What Does An Evil Floating Head Do On His Days Off? By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 9, 2020 1:00 pm EST We have plenty of gritty superhero shows full of blood, and gore, and realism — maybe it’s time for a comedy that shows what a supervillain does on his days off. That’s the premise of Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K., an adult stop-motion animated comedy on Hulu that stars Patton Oswalt as the titular villainous floating head as he deals with his demanding family and corporate red tape....

‘Operation Christmas Drop’ Trailer: We Regret To Inform You This Is Not An ‘Operation Dumbo Drop’ Sequel By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 12, 2020 3:00 pm EST Happy Holidays! Okay, sure, it’s not even Halloween yet, but that’s not stopping Netflix from hyping up their upcoming holiday titles. One of those titles is Operation Christmas Drop, which, despite its name, is not related to Operation Dumbo Drop. In this Netflix rom-com, “While gathering evidence to support closing a tropical U....

‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ Featurette Shows The Practical Make-Up Process Of Creating The Corpse By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 11, 2019 12:00 pm EST Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark has an intimdating legacy to live up to. The collection of horror stories by Alvin Schwartz has been beloved by nearly four decades of children, with tales that are terrifying enough to be kid friendly but also bring a fright....