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‘Star Wars: Rogue Squadron’ Is An Original Story, Not Based On The Video Game Of The Same Name By Ben Pearson/Dec. 14, 2020 2:30 pm EST Last week, Disney and Lucasfilm announced that Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins will be the first woman to direct a live-action Star Wars feature film – a fighter pilot movie called Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. Now Jenkins has provided a bit of context about the film: namely, that it won’t be based on one of the many fighter pilot video games set in the Star Wars universe....

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Returns And “The Bad Batch” Reminds Us Why The Clone Characters Are The Real Stars By Caroline Cao/Feb. 21, 2020 8:00 am EST After a six-year hiatus and an open-ended conclusion, Star Wars: The Clone Wars is finally back and has a new home on Disney+ for its seventh and final season. Rather than the whole season getting released at once like the previous season, called “The Lost Missions,” which was dropped on Netflix in 2014, Clone Wars is doing weekly releases starting with “The Bad Batch”, the first episode in a new arc....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Writer Wishes The Movie Could Have Been Split In Two By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 30, 2019 9:30 am EST There’s a lot going on in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. From the introduction of several new MacGuffins to the completion of pretty much every single character arc that began in The Force Awakens, the movie is stuffed full of story elements. The result is a story that doesn’t always get enough time to fully resonate or settle with the audience, always moving at break-neck speed....

‘The Spaceman Of Bohemia’ Will Unite The Director Of ‘Chernobyl’ With Adam Sandler By Ben Pearson/Oct. 26, 2020 2:30 pm EST Adam Sandler is heading to space in his next Netflix movie. But despite its somewhat goofy title, The Spaceman of Bohemia will not be a comedy like Hubie Halloween, Murder Mystery, or The Ridiculous 6. Instead, it’s a drama that’s being directed by Johan Renck, the filmmaker behind HBO’s excellent, ultra-serious limited series Chernobyl....

‘The Terror: Infamy’ Gets Extra Bloody With “Gaman” By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 27, 2019 7:00 am EST Have you ever accidentally bitten your tongue? Hurts, doesn’t it? Now – imagine a ghost woman biting your tongue completely off, and think about how damn painful that must be. And if you can’t imagine it, don’t worry: this week’s episode of The Terror: Infamy is here to show it to you. The ghastly, grisly, gory moment comes near the end of “Gaman”, the third installment of the new season....

‘What If?’ Introduces Jeffrey Wright To The MCU, Features Return Of More Than Two Dozen MCU Actors [Comic-Con 2019] By Ben Pearson/July 20, 2019 6:34 pm EST Several months ago, we exclusively revealed that Marvel Studios was developing a What If? animated anthology series that would explore alternate stories in the MCU like “what if Thanos had joined the Avengers?” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced some new details about the series from Comic-Con’s Hall H stage tonight, including the fact that over two dozen MCU actors are coming back to lend their voices to the show and that Jeffrey Wright has joined the cast as The Watcher....

Adam Sandler Thanks Doctors And Nurses In A Catchy Quarantine Song By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 3, 2020 2:30 pm EST When he’s not getting snubbed for an Oscar, Adam Sandler can always be relied on to whip out a funny musical ditty that will lighten our moods during the most trying of times. And these are indeed trying times. During an appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s at-home edition of The Tonight Show, the actor and comedian debuted a quarantine song that paid tribute to the doctors and nurses on the frontlines of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and asked us listeners to appreciate the hard work they do....

Adam Schlesinger, Fountains Of Wayne Co-Founder And Songwriter For ‘That Thing You Do’ And ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,’ Dies Of Coronavirus Complications By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 2, 2020 9:30 am EST Adam Schlesinger, the co-founder of rock band Fountains of Wayne and the Oscar-nominated and Grammy-winning songwriter of That Thing You Do and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, has died from coronavirus-related complications. He was 52. Adam Schlesinger was hospitalized on Tuesday after contracting the coronavirus (COVID-19) amid the global pandemic....

Arnold Schwarzenegger, A Pony, And A Donkey Warn Us About The Coronavirus By Ben Pearson/March 16, 2020 2:00 pm EST Arnold Schwarzenegger is doing his part to spread the word about staying home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. And, ever the entertainer, he’s doing so in a totally unique way: in a dining room, joined by a pony and a donkey. Check it out below. Arnold Schwarzenegger Coronavirus Warning Video...

Christian Bale Says He’s Done Dramatically Losing And Gaining Weight For Roles By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 11, 2019 2:30 pm EST Christian Bale is a great actor, and he’s also the type of actor who likes to go above and beyond for his roles. Over his career, Bale has lost and gained drastic amounts of weight, be it to play a rail-thin insomniac in The Machinist or a portly Dick Cheney in Vice....

Could A ‘Wanted’ Sequel Happen In The Screenlife Format? Director Timur Bekmambetov Hopes So By Ben Pearson/June 9, 2020 4:30 pm EST Timur Bekmambetov, the director of Wanted and the producer of films like Searching and Unfriended, now suggests that a Wanted sequel could be made using that same Screenlife technology utilized for his recent films. Read his comments below. Screenlife, the “everything plays out on laptop and/or phone screens” conceit that we’ve seen in several movies at this point (used most creatively thus far in 2018’s Searching), seems to be here to stay....

Everything We Learned From Ted Raimi’s Online Chat At The Telluride Horror Show By Kalyn Corrigan/Oct. 30, 2020 9:00 am EST “There are monsters out there,” Ted Raimi states emphatically at the Shelter-In-Place edition of Telluride Horror Show. Hosted by Fangoria’s Meredith Borders, Raimi has everyone in stitches in the Deathly Spirits chat, a virtual cocktail hour offering viewers an opportunity to mix Ted’s drink recipes and engage with the genre favorite after the screening of his new short film Red Light....

Get A New Look At The Star Wars: Rise Of The Resistance Attraction Opening At Galaxy’s Edge Soon By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 30, 2019 11:00 am EST Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge will finally be opening their second attraction, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance to the public on December 5 at Disney World’s Hollywood Studios (with Disneyland’s opening coming in January). Before the big ride openes, some new glimpses behind the scenes have been revealed online, showing off some of action you’ll be experience, the new animatronic characters, and the impressive interiors....

If You Thought Our Culture Had Already Reached Peak Nostalgia, The Coronavirus May Take It To A Whole New Level By Ben Pearson/April 10, 2020 9:00 am EST Nostalgia has been the dominant force in filmed entertainment for the entire 21st century. Superhero blockbusters brought childhood comic book reading sessions to life, a slew of remakes have repackaged animation into live-action for a new generation, and the rise of streaming has seen multiple services revive long-cancelled television titles in an attempt to cash in on viewers’ fond memories (while bolstering the services’ media libraries at the same time)....

By Ben Pearson/July 24, 2020 12:45 pm EST Leonard Maltin, one of the world’s most well-known movie critics, is getting his own board game from Mondo, and a few lucky players could end up getting into the real-life movie business themselves thanks to one of the game’s more interesting aspects. Get the details below. During this year’s Comic-Con at Home, Mondo Games unveiled a new game called King of Movies: The Leonard Maltin Game, which is described as “a tabletop casual party game of creative invention and hilarious deception....

New ‘Smurfs’ TV Series Heading To Nickelodeon In 2021 By Ben Pearson/June 18, 2020 4:30 pm EST The Smurfs are making a comeback. The little blue animated creatures evidently can’t stay out of the limelight for long. A new report says that children’s television network Nickelodeon has licensed the global rights to The Smurfs franchise, and is “planning an original CG-animated Smurfs Nickelodeon series for 2021.” And that’s not all: the world is about to be inundated with Smurf merch....

New On Blu-Ray And Digital: ‘Little Women’, ‘Just Mercy’, ‘Me And You And Everyone We Know’, ‘Underwater’, ‘VFW By Chris Evangelista/April 14, 2020 10:00 am EST The coronavirus pandemic is not only effecting movie theaters, it’s also causing some trouble in the home video world, too. As a result, some physical release copies are being delayed while studios push digital. As always, I remain committed to physical media, but for now, I’m going to have to make an exception for some digital releases as well....

Patty Jenkins Slams Joss Whedon’s Cut Of ‘Justice League,’ Making Zack Snyder Stronger, Faster, More Deadly By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 10, 2020 9:30 am EST Patty Jenkins is making the rounds to promote the upcoming release of Wonder Woman 1984 in theaters and on HBO Max on Christmas Day. Since her DC Comics sequel will be debuting at the streaming service that will be making Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League available to the masses, she was inevitably asked about her opinion on the theatrical cut of Justice League put together at the last minute by Joss Whedon....

The ‘Chucky’ TV Series Gets A Straight-To-Series Order At SyFy [TCA 2020] By Fred Topel/Jan. 11, 2020 3:00 pm EST Ahead of SyFy’s panels for the Television Critics Association, the cable channel announced the Chucky television series, based on the Child’s Play horror franchise, had been given a straight-to-series order. /Film has been following the Chucky TV series for a couple years, from creator Don Mancini’s comments after the last film Cult of Chucky, to executive producer Nick Antosca talking about the show last year at the TCAs....

The Morning Watch: ‘Hamilton’ Reunion On ‘The Tonight Show’, VFX Artists React To ‘Scott Pilgrim Vs The World & More By Ethan Anderton/June 29, 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....