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All Five Seasons Of ‘The Muppet Show’ Are Finally Coming To Disney+ In February By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 19, 2021 7:30 am EST Disney+ is full of the Walt Disney Company’s iconic movies and TV shows, but there’s been one piece of the company’s sprawling library that has been sorely missed. Thankfully, that’s about to change, because all five seasons of Jim Henson’s The Muppet Show will finally be arriving Disney+ starting in February....

By Ben Pearson/Sept. 17, 2019 4:02 pm EST View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@lotronprime) View this post on Instagram View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@lotronprime) According to a press release, pre-production has already begun on the new show and production is set to begin in New Zealand’s capital city of Auckland in the coming months....

Brandon Routh Opens Upon On ‘Superman Returns’ Difficulties With Bryan Singer, Failed Sequel Hopes By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 8, 2020 11:00 am EST With the release of Superman Returns in 2006, star Brandon Routh was poised to become the next big thing. He was taking on the role of a superhero icon in one of the biggest blockbusters of the year, cast partially for his resemblance to the iconic Superman star, Christopher Reeves....

Producers Keith And Jess Wu Calder Share The Biggest Lessons They’ve Learned After 15 Years In The Film Industry [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Dec. 7, 2019 10:00 am EST Keith and Jess Wu Calder have been going strong for 15 years now. The producers behind Snoot Entertainment set out to never repeat themselves, and mission accomplished because they haven’t. Over the course of their producing careers, they’ve given the world Blindspotting, Anomalisa, The Guest, and more....

The Morning Watch: Make Horse Medicine From ‘Bob’s Burgers’, Bob Odenkirk On Creating Matt Foley With Chris Farley & More By Ethan Anderton/May 14, 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....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Batman: Under The Red Hood’ Remains One Of The Best DC Animated Movies By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 4, 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: Batman: Under the Red HoodWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: Back in 1988, DC Comics decided to hold a poll for their readers: dial in and decide the fate of Jason Todd, the new Robin who had stepped into Dick Grayson’s shoes, after he had been kidnapped and held hostage by the Joker....

Theme Park Bits: Cast Members Furloughed, Annual Pass Payments Paused, And More By Josh Spiegel/April 14, 2020 2:30 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Disneyland and Walt Disney World have furloughed thousands of Cast Members. Annual pass payments at major parks have been extended or canceled. And more! I would love to tell you that the news in today’s Theme Park Bits is going to be good, but listen, let’s not pretend otherwise....

This Famous ‘Star Wars’ Poster Was Created In Just 36 Hours By Ben Pearson/Sept. 18, 2020 9:00 am EST Erik Sharkey and Kevin Burke love movie posters so much that they’ve both made movies about them. Erik directed a film about legendary poster artist Drew Struzan titled Drew: The Man Behind the Poster, while Kevin directed 24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters, which examined the birth, death, and resurrection of illustrated movie poster art....

“Anything’s Possible” For Luke Cage To Return, Says Mike Colter [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/Aug. 2, 2019 12:30 pm EST When Netflix began canceling Marvel shows, things didn’t look good for Luke Cage. And sure enough, Mike Colter didn’t even get to play Luke Cage for a third season. Now he is launching a new CBS show, Evil. After Evil’s panel for the Television Critics Association, Colter spoke with reporters about the fate of Luke Cage and its possible future....

‘Chaos Walking’ Delayed Again, Surprising No One By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 17, 2020 8:30 am EST At this point, Chaos Walking is turning into one of those Hollywood urban myths, the kind of movie that we’ll never see, and may not actually exist. But we’ll have to wait until March 2021 to see if we’ll be disproven, because, yes, Chaos Walking has been delayed again. Variety reports that Lionsgate has postponed the Chaos Walking release date once again, to March 5, 2021....

‘Cursed’ Trailer: Katherine Langford Is Sent On A Magical Quest By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 30, 2020 2:30 pm EST Netflix has released a new trailer for Cursed, which dives into how terrible and sexy and terribly sexy the Arthurian YA fantasy series is. Based on the book by Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler, Cursed reimagines Nimue (played by 13 Reasons Why star Katherine Langford), the fabled Lady of the Lake, as the one who is chosen to wield the sword of legend....

‘Dark Army’ Will Be A Universal Monster Movie In The Spirit Of ‘Bride Of Frankenstein’, According To Paul Feig By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 29, 2019 9:30 am EST Universal is sitting on a horror goldmine: the Universal Monsters. Sadly, they haven’t been able to figure out what the hell to do with them. Their initial attempt to launch the Dark Universe with The Mummy failed immediately. Now, they’re taking a different approach....

‘Desperados’ Trailer: A ‘New Girl’ Reunion Gives Us Old Rom-Com Hijinks By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 18, 2020 3:30 pm EST Prank Sinatra has done it again. He’s fooled us into thinking that this isn’t actually a New Girl sequel where Winston and Allie are doing some weird roleplay, in which she is a sad, desperate single and he’s an aloof blind date. But that seems to be all there is to Desperados, a new Netflix comedy starring Nasim Pedrad....

Home Before Dark Interview Dana, can you give me a quick rundown on the exploits of the real Hilde and how she inspired this story? When I first learned about her, it feels like a thousand years ago now, she was this little 9-year-old girl who had fallen in love with journalism through her father, who was also a journalist. He had been reporting on a pretty dark story that had sort of screwed him up, and he had become pretty disillusioned with journalism and had quit his job and said, “You know what?...

‘In The Heights’ Release Date Pushed To Next Summer By Chris Evangelista/April 21, 2020 1:56 pm EST While there are still a few stragglers – Tenet, Mulan, Wonder Woman 1984 – the 2020 summer movie season is fairly decimated due to the coronavirus. It’s disappointing, but also understandable. And now, one of this summer’s most-anticipated movies has become one of next summer’s most-anticipated instead. In the Heights, the big-screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s other hit musical, just moved to summer 2021....

‘Langdon’ TV Series Based On The ‘Da Vinci Code’ And ‘Inferno’ Character Gets NBC Pilot Order By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 30, 2020 2:30 pm EST Call your mom and tell her her favorite beach read character is coming back, baby! Yes, that’s right, Robert Langdon, the guy who is good at solving puzzles or something like that, is getting his own TV show. NBC just put in a pilot order for Langdon, based on the Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol....

‘Mulan’ Featurette And Clips Will Have To Hold Us Over Until The Movie Gets A New Release Date By Ethan Anderton/March 15, 2020 11:00 am EST Unfortunately, Disney’s live-action remake of Mulan was one of the movies pushed back amidst the growing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic currently sweeping the United States. It’s not clear when the movie will get released in theaters, but we can bide our time with a new Mulan featurette and a couple clips from the movie....

‘Raya And The Last Dragon’ Directors And Screenwriter On The Melting Pot Of Southeast Asian Influences In The New Disney Film [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 26, 2021 8:00 am EST Raya and the Last Dragon is being billed as Disney’s next big leap in representation, as it takes place in a fantasy world heavily inspired by Southeast Asia and featuring the House of Mouse’s first Southeast Asian princess. But where do the lines of authenticity starts to blur?...

‘Rogue One’ Director Gareth Edwards Has A New Sci-Fi Film In The Works By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 7, 2020 10:30 am EST Gareth Edwards was one of Hollywood’s most promising rising filmmakers after the success of his low-budget indie sci-fi film Monsters put him on the map in 2010, landing him the directing job for 2014’s big-budget Godzilla for Warner Bros. and Legendary. Soon Lucasfilm came calling, and he stepped up to direct Rogue One: A Star Wars Story....

‘The Art Of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’ Announced, New ‘Star Wars: The High Republic’ Details Teased & More [Comic-Con 2020] By Ethan Anderton/July 24, 2020 2:35 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Lucasfilm Publishing has a major new publishing initiative being added to the Star Wars universe called The High Republic. Set 200 years before the Skywalker saga began, stories will unfold in a time when the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order are at the height of their power, serving as true guardians of peace and justice around the galaxy....