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‘Cold Pursuit’ Review: Liam Neeson Wants Revenge In This Quirky, Off-Beat Comedy By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 4, 2019 7:00 am EST After Taken, Liam Neeson’s career changed drastically. He went from being the dramatic actor from Schindler’s List to an official ass-kicker, inhabiting action movies that could best be described as Dad Rock – films tailor-made for fathers across the land to enjoy. This newfound reputation occasionally backfires, though. The most obvious example is The Grey, a fantastic, haunting movie about death and grief that was marketed as Liam Neeson Fights Wolves....

‘Goonies’ TV Series Will Follow Kids Creating A Shot-For-Shot Remake Of The ’80s Adventure Film By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 13, 2020 10:30 am EST Look, I know lots of people my age love The Goonies. I’m not one of them. I sort of enjoyed the film when I was a kid, but have you watched this thing recently? Folks, it does not hold up. Sure, it has some fun Amblin-style thrills, but it’s also kind of annoying....

‘Indiana Jones 5’ Script Back In The Hands Of David Koepp Again By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 23, 2019 9:30 am EST It’s been a long road of development for Indiana Jones 5 so far. The project was first officially announced early in 2017, and at the time it was slated for release in the summer of 2019. Obviously that didn’t happen, and now the movie is slated for release in July 9, 2021....

‘Knight Rider’ Movie Speeds Back Into Development With James Wan By Ben Pearson/Aug. 6, 2020 1:30 pm EST Knight Rider is one of those properties Hollywood can’t seem to ever fully shake. The notion of a crime fighter using an artificially intelligent, technologically advanced car is evidently just too enticing to let comfortably settle into the ether of ’80s nostalgia, and for the past decade, studios have been trying to make a Knight Rider movie....

‘Playmobil: The Movie’ Trailer Does A 180 From Previous Trailer, Tries To Obscure The Film’s Actual Plot By Ben Pearson/July 26, 2019 2:00 pm EST Here’s one way to make sure film marketing piques my interest: completely change approaches from one trailer to the next in the hopes of obscuring a movie’s actual premise. I honestly wouldn’t have given a second thought to the animated feature Playmobil: The Movie after seeing its first trailer, but today’s new one got my attention for the way it hides the premise explored the first time around....

‘Pocahontas’ Was Supposed To Be A Disney Crown Jewel – Here’s How It Failed By Josh Spiegel/Aug. 13, 2019 8:00 am EST (Revisiting the Renaissance is a bi-weekly series in which Josh Spiegel looks back at the history and making of the 13 films of the Disney Renaissance, released between 1986 and 1999. In today’s column, he discusses the 1995 film Pocahontas.)A perfect storm combined to create a film that now serves as an awkward midpoint in the history of Walt Disney Feature Animation’s representation of non-White characters....

‘Star Trek: Picard’ Creators Say Every New ‘Trek’ Show Will Be Different [TCA 2020] By Fred Topel/Jan. 13, 2020 11:00 am EST CBS All Access presented a Television Critics Association panel for Star Trek: Picard. The long-awaited streaming series features Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard again. Co-stars Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis have been confirmed, along with Jeri Ryan and Jonathan Del Arco too. Executive producers Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, Heather Kadin and showrunner Michael Chabon sat behind Stewart and his new co-stars during the panel....

‘Star Wars: The High Republic’ Is A Promising Expansion Of The Universe And A Must-Read For Fans Old And New By Bryan Young/Dec. 14, 2020 9:12 am EST Star Wars: The High Republic is the bold new transmedia initiative from Lucasfilm that takes Star Wars hundreds of years into the past. Set a couple of centuries before the events of The Phantom Menace, The High Republic shows us a Republic and Jedi Order at the height of their power....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Art Book Has Been Delayed Until Spring 2020, Presumably To Avoid Spoiler Leaks By Ben Pearson/Dec. 12, 2019 11:00 am EST Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hits theaters in just a few days, and while some fans were expecting to be able to watch the movie and then quickly dig into a new “art of” book similar to the ones that have accompanied the other entries in the Disney-era Skywalker saga, The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has now been delayed until spring 2020....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Will Reveal Some Of Poe Dameron’s Surprising Past By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 1, 2019 9:00 am EST Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will be the final chapter of the Skywalker saga that began all the way back in 1977 with Star Wars: A New Hope. But there are plenty of characters who don’t share the last name (or bloodline) of the family that sends the galaxy into chaos every few decades....

‘The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance’ Blooper Reel Is A Real Scream By Ben Pearson/Sept. 26, 2019 1:30 pm EST I still can’t believe Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance exists. It’s an expensive, puppet-centric series that relies heavily on practical effects and elaborately-crafted physical worlds and goes light on the CGI, which basically amounts to a minor miracle in the 2019 entertainment landscape. We’ve sang the praises of this show on the site many times already, and now Netflix has released a blooper reel which gives us a humorous behind-the-scenes look at what happened when things went wrong on the set....

‘Transformers: War For Cybertron’ Trailer: Netflix Unveils A Look At Part One Of Its New Anime Series By Ben Pearson/Feb. 24, 2020 6:00 am EST Netflix has carved out a nice chunk of territory for itself with anime shows based on recognizable properties like Castlevania, Dragon Quest, Godzilla, and Ultraman, and soon the streaming service will take audiences to Cybertron in a Transformers anime series. During New York Toy Fair this past weekend, the first trailer debuted for part one of Netflix’s Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy, entitled Siege, which takes us back to the intense planetary battle between the Autobots and Decepticons that’s rarely been seen in the live-action movies....

‘Turner & Hooch’ Casts Lyndsy Fonseca And Carra Patterson As Female Leads Opposite Josh Peck By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 26, 2020 6:00 pm EST Fonseca, who has appeared in genre shows like Agent Carter and Nikita, will be playing Turner’s sister Laura, a mother of a 7-year-old son. Here is the description of Laura Turner per Deadline: “Like the rest of her family, Laura is still coming to terms with the death of their father....

‘VFW’ Featurette Focuses On The Practical Bloody Effects Of This Brutal Splatterfest [Exclusive] By Ethan Anderton/March 26, 2020 8:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s not often that you see extremely bloody, gory practical effects utilized in movies at the level that director Joe Begos does in his grindhouse-inspired splatterfest VFW. The movie focuses on a battle royale that breaks out in the local VFW after a teen girl runs into the bar with a load of stolen drugs, looking for protection from a group of punks who are all hopped up on a drug called “Hype....

By Ethan Anderton/June 22, 2020 3:30 pm EST In the first season of Workaholics, an episode titled “To Friend a Predator” has Chris D’Elia playing a character named Topher who is believed to be a child molester lurking on a Justin Bieber fansite created by Blake, one of the main characters. In the episode, the main characters played by Adam Devine, Anders Holm and Blake Anderson plan to bust him, but then get the impression that he might not be a creep and befriend him....

A ‘Pacific Rim’ Dark Experience Ride Is Opening In The Trans Studio Cibubur Indonesian Theme Park By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 1, 2019 5:30 pm EST Pacific Rim may have first begun as Guillermo del Toro’s cinematic love letter to mecha anime, but it seems destined to be turned into some kind of franchise by Legendary. While the feature film sequel Pacific Rim Uprising didn’t succeed in this cause, perhaps the franchise’s future is in theme parks....

AMC Is Not Happy With Warner Bros. 2021 HBO Max Release Plans, Other Major Exhibitors React By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 4, 2020 7:30 am EST The entire theatrical landscape shifted yesterday when Warner Bros. announced that it would be releasing its entire 2021 theatrical slate day-and-date in theaters and on HBO Max. The film world was left reeling by this game-changing decision, most of all theater exhibitors — many of whom received a heads up only an hour before Warner Bros....

Grey Matter Art New York Comic-Con Releases Day 1 Into the Spider-Verse Foil Edition by Guillaume Morellec 24" x 36" Hand-Numbered Screen Print Edition of 175 Printed by Vahalla $50 (6 – 8 weeks estimated shipping) Into the Spider-Verse Paper Variant Edition by Guillaume Morellec 24" x 36" Hand-Numbered Screen Print Edition of 75 Printed by Vahalla $60 (6 – 8 weeks estimated shipping) Next up, we’ve got this Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse print by Guillaume Morellec....

Coronavirus Updates: Chinese Theaters To Re-Release ‘Avatar’ And ‘Avengers’; U.K. Studios Mull Whether To Close; Animated Series Going Strong By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 25, 2020 10:30 am EST We’re several weeks into coronavirus (COVID-19) being declared a pandemic and having wide-reaching ramifications on the entertainment industry across the globe. But while China, which has managed to curb the virus’ spread, is starting to return to normal life and slowly open its movie theaters, the U....

Eli Roth Producing Halloween Horror Film ‘10-31’, Says It Has One Of The “Scariest Premises For A Horror Film” In Years By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 2, 2019 3:00 pm EST Eli Roth doesn’t do much directing these days, and after his last film Knock Knock, that’s probably a good thing. He is still producing, though, and he’s got what sounds like an exciting new project lined up. Roth will produce 10-31, based on a story by Laurie Ashbourne and screen story by Kathy Charles....