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‘Mulan’ Brings Honor To Both The Animated Film And The Chinese Myth [Set Visit Report] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 27, 2020 9:00 am EST Resplendently armored Chinese army generals sit atop horses in a valley nestled in the middle of a mighty mountainscape, fluttering yellow and red flags surrounding them and dust billowing in from a wind machine. Not that they need one — the natural wind of the New Zealand countryside acting as the Chinese battlefield on the set of the live-action remake of Mulan is strong enough....

‘On The Trail’ Trailer Follows Journalists As They Cover The Insanity Of The 2020 Presidential Primaries By Ethan Anderton/July 31, 2020 4:00 pm EST The political landscape delivers us a fresh hell from which there seems to be no escape. Thankfully, we don’t always have to engulf ourselves in the nightmare that is American government, because we can turn off the news. But there are those who don’t have that luxury because it’s their job to report on the events unfolding from within the political circus everyday, and a new documentary film coming to HBO Max will show how insane the scene truly is....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Novelization Reveals Ben Solo’s Final Words To Rey By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 2, 2020 1:00 pm EST Ah, the cinematic mystery of the unknown whisper. It’s the kind of tantalizing move that has made certain movies into classics, like the long-debated Lost in Translation whisper between Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. What did they say? We can’t know, and that’s the point: it’s a moment made just for those characters, away from the voyeuristic gaze of the camera....

‘The Batman’ Resumes Production After Robert Pattinson Recovers From COVID-19 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 17, 2020 9:30 am EST The Batman is resuming production. Robert Pattinson has been cleared to once again stalk the streets of Gotham City after his positive COVID-19 test brought production to a screeching halt just three days after the Warner Bros. comic book film had resumed filming in London.Variety reports that The Batman production has resumed once again after Pattinson had recuperated following his positive COVID-19 test in early September....

‘The Last Dance’ Clips Remember The 1990s Chicago Bulls As They Went Into Their Final Championship Season By Ethan Anderton/April 18, 2020 12:00 pm EST This weekend brings the debut of the ESPN documentary series The Last Dance, chronicling NBA superstar Michael Jordan and the rest of the multi-championship-winning players of the 1990s Chicago Bulls as they head into their 1997-1998 season when they would win their final championship together....

‘The Outsider’ Featurette Goes Behind-The-Scenes With Stephen King By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 15, 2019 11:00 am EST The Outsider is the latest Stephen King adaptation headed our way, and it looks to be a particularly good one. The HBO series starts off with an unspeakable crime – but a crime that appears to be open and shut. There’s a mountain of evidence pointing towards a guilty party. And yet…there’s also plenty of evidence that seems to point to that same person’s innocence....

‘The Prom’ Trailer: Ryan Murphy Has A Full Blown Glitzy And Glamorous Musical Here By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 22, 2020 8:30 am EST It’s been a little while since we had a full-blown musical on the big screen. Unfortunately, with studios still hesitant to send movie to theaters due to the coronavirus, that will probably be the case for a little while longer. But Netflix will help remedy that by sending Ryan Murphy’s big adaptation of the Broadway musical The Prom to limited theaters and their streaming library on the same day in December, and the first trailer has just arrived....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 29, 2019 6:00 pm EST Transparent Musicale Finale Trailer For Transparent, there’s no better way to wave goodbye than with some jazz hands. “This was our chance to heal together,” said creator Jill Soloway, who had wanted to create a musical with her sister Faith, a writer and consulting producer on the show. “Every time we improvised, sang, or danced together, we were trying to work back to that holy belief of what was important....

‘Tron’ Sequel Moving Forward With Garth Davis Directing Jared Leto By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 10, 2020 9:30 am EST Ten years after Tron: Legacy and 38 years after the first Tron, Disney appears ready to make yet another Tron movie. Garth Davis (Lion) is set to helm the new Tron sequel and Jared Leto will star, and while this will no doubt excite fans who have been clamoring for another Tron flick, I have to ask: are these two choices really the best Disney could do here?...

‘We Are Little Zombies’ Review: Pop Video Game Mayhem That’s Hard To Resist [Sundance] By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 26, 2019 10:00 am EST Sometimes, a movie comes along that’s so jarring, so visually explosive, and so utterly madcap that you can’t help but fall in love with it, even if you don’t quite like it. We Are Little Zombies is one of those films. Writer/director/composer Makoto Nagahisa is the mad scientist behind this concoction, which plays out like someone plugged a fever dream directly into a console video system, and then set it on fire....

‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Is A Movie Again And No Longer A Miniseries, According To Snyder Himself By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 18, 2021 7:00 am EST Zack Snyder’s Justice League has transformed from a movie, to a years-long internet campaign, to a miniseries, and now, back to a movie again. That is, according to the filmmaker himself, who revealed a few new details of his highly anticipated “Snyder Cut” of Justice League, which is coming to HBO Max this year....

By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 2020 11:30 am EST Al Pacino brought plenty of gravitas to the series that also starred Logan Lerman, Jerrika Hinton, Josh Radnor, Kate Mulvany, Tiffany Boone, Greg Austin, Louis Ozawa, Carol Kane, Saul Rubinek, Dylan Baker and Lena Olin. We’re not sure if all of the surviving characters they played will be returning for the second season, but since the first season had such an all-star cast, it’s likely that we might see some more big names recruited to expand the story even more....

Cool Stuff: New ‘Jurassic Park’ Statue Recreates One Of The Film’s Best Shots By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 17, 2019 6:00 am EST There have been a lot of Jurassic Park collectibles released over the years, but few bring it to life in a way that truly captures the epic nature of the movie. However, a new 1/8 scale statue from Prime 1 Studio perfectly recreates one of the film’s best shots featuring the Tyrannosaurus Rex roaring in victory after taking down a couple velociraptors, and a banner that says “When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth” falling in front of her....

Disney Delays ‘Black Widow’ Over Coronavirus Concerns By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 17, 2020 10:28 am EST Disney has officially delayed the release of Marvel’s Black Widow. The Marvel comic book movie was initially set to hit theaters on May 1, but has now been postponed indefinitely amidst growing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. Black Widow has been delayed indefinitely. The film’s release, which was originally slated for May 1, will be held back out of concern for public health and safety....

First Look: Spider-Man Ride Vehicle For New Disneyland Attraction By Ben Pearson/July 24, 2019 12:00 pm EST We’ve known for a while that a Spider-Man attraction is coming to Disney California Adventure and Disneyland Paris as part of the company’s embracing of Marvel properties in its theme parks. Now, a new piece of concept art has surfaced which reveals our first look at the Spider-Man ride vehicle from the new attraction....

Funko Movie From Warner Bros. Animation Lands Pixar And Disney Filmmakers By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 16, 2019 10:30 am EST At the beginning of the year, we found out there was a Funko movie in development at Warner Bros. Animation. The collectible toy company has turned tons of characters from movies, TV shows, video games and more into collectible figures in their extensive POP line of vinyl figures, but they have a wide variety of stylized figures besides that....

How #MeToo Influenced Cathy Yan’s Pitch For ‘Birds Of Prey’ [Set Visit] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 9, 2019 10:45 am EST Birds of Prey was pitched as an “R-rated girl gang film” led by Harley Quinn, which is still an accurate description of the upcoming comic book movie. In Birds of Prey, directed by Cathy Yan and written by Christina Hodson, Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn teams up with several other crime-fighting women to take down Black Mask, a crime lord who controls Gotham City....

Netflix Raising Prices On Their Standard And Premium Streaming Plans Starting In November By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 30, 2020 9:30 am EST Netflix either sees that people are desperate for more streaming content and knows that they’ll pay for it while movie theaters don’t have much new to play, or they’re not making as much money as they’d like to be, and are going to get what they can from their current subscribers....

New ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Poster Pays Tribute To Rare ‘Revenge Of The Jedi’ Poster By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 12, 2019 9:30 am EST We’re exactly one week away from the arrival of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Sneak preview screenings will begin on Thursday night next week and likely go well into the early morning. But Disney and Lucasfilm are showing no signs of slowing down their marketing mayhem yet....

Paul Schrader’s ‘The Card Counter’ Cast Adds Tiffany Haddish, Willem Dafoe, And Tye Sheridan Alongside Oscar Isaac By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 2, 2020 11:00 am EST During an interview with Metrograph, Paul Schrader opened up a bit about his new film The Card Counter: The Card Counter “follows William Tell (Isaac), a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past....