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‘The Great North’ Trailer: ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Creator Heads To Alaska With Nick Offerman By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 3, 2020 12:00 pm EST If you’re a fan of Bob’s Burgers, then you’ll probably be interested in the first look at creator Loren Bouchard’s new animated The Great North. Coming to FOX early next year, the new family comedy follows Nick Offerman as a single father living in Alaska as he tries to keep his oddball kids close to him....

‘The Lord Of The Rings’ TV Series Hires ‘Game Of Thrones’ Actor As Its Primary Villain By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 22, 2019 9:30 am EST Deadline has the scoop on Joseph Mawle joining the Lord of the Rings TV series cast as a villain named Oren. What’s Oren’s deal? We don’t know – we just know he’s the show’s “primary villain.” A detailed search through the archives (aka a quick search on the Lord of the Rings Wiki) doesn’t turn up a character named Oren....

‘The Mandalorian’ Clip: The Bounty Hunter Doesn’t Mind Being Outnumbered By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 12, 2019 1:00 pm EST Today brings the launch of Disney+, and with it comes the first episode of the live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian. Just to make sure as many people as possible sign up for the streaming service, Disney and Lucasfilm are teasing the premiere episode with the release of a new clip that shows us just how fearless the titular bounty hunter is, even when he’s outnumbered....

‘The Purge 5’, The Supposedly Last Film In The ‘Purge’ Franchise, Finds Its Director By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 2, 2019 11:30 am EST Ready to put on a weird mask and engage in totally legal crime for 24-hours? Well, you can’t. But you can see that happen in The Purge 5, the latest, and presumably last, Purge movie. The Blumhouse horror sequel is gearing up for production and has found itself a director: Everardo Gout....

‘The World To Come’ Trailer: Katherine Waterston And Vanessa Kirby Have A Fiery Frontier Romance By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 17, 2021 9:00 am EST Another year, another doomed lesbian period romance. At least, that’s what we’re going to assume considering the track record of LGBTQ feature romances following 2019’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which appears to have kicked off a trend of lesbian romances set exclusively in the past, primarily featuring slim white women....

A Guide To The Serial Killers Featured In ‘Mindhunter’ Season 2 By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 19, 2019 9:00 am EST As was the case during the first season, many real-life killers are characters in Mindhunter season 2. Some of these figures – Charles Manson, Son of Sam – will likely be well known to viewers. Others will be a bit more obscure. Below, we provide a Mindhunter season 2 guide to the nefarious killers that figure into the latest season of Netflix’s acclaimed serial killer drama....

Cool Stuff: ‘The Mandalorian’ Funko POPs Line-Up Expands With Mandalorians, Werner Herzog & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 1, 2020 9:00 am EST The line-up of Funko POPs featuring characters from The Mandalorian has been pretty small so far. The titular bounty hunter had two different variations, and back-up came in the form of IG-11, Cara Dune, and Kuiil. But now even more Mandalorians are getting the Funko POP treatment, along with new versions of Mando, fellow bounty hunters like Greef Karga and Q9-Zero, the egg-obsessed offworld Jawas, and even Werner Herzog as The Client....

Dev Patel Is Set To Star In The Financial Thriller ‘Flash Crash’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 20, 2020 4:30 pm EST Hot off the buzzy release of the trailer for the Arthurian thriller The Green Knight, Dev Patel is proving his leading man chops with a starring role in a financial thriller under New Regency. Dev Patel will star in Flash Crash, a dramatic thriller based on Liam Vaughan’s upcoming book based on the true story about an financial outsider who finds a way to beat the stock market....

Disney Announces New Main Street Parade, ‘Frozen’ Coaster, And More [D23] By /Film Staff/Aug. 25, 2019 12:54 pm EST Today’s D23 Expo panel about Disney parks was loaded with tons of new information, from news about a new Avengers-themed ride to the first-ever Mary Poppins attraction. But there are plenty of smaller details that we didn’t want to fall through the cracks, so we’ve gathered them all up in a breezy round-up....

HBO’s New Documentary Slate Includes Black Voices In TV, Growing Up Transgender, A Huge Auto Scam, Tons Of True Crime & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 5, 2020 5:30 pm EST HBO has consistently put out some of the best documentaries for a long time now, and that trend continues throughout the rest of 2020 and in the coming years. The cable channel has just unveiled the upcoming roster of documentary movies and shows that will be premiering in the second half of the year, including plenty of true crime stories....

Horror-Comedy ‘Bad Hair’ Headed To Drive-Ins This Month By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 13, 2020 3:30 pm EST Justin Simien’s horror-satire Bad Hair is headed to Hulu this month, but if you’re craving the theatrical experience, here’s some good news – it’s going to drive-ins, too. Neon will be releasing Bad Hair in drive-in theaters in major markets across the country including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, New Orleans, Detroit, Austin, Sacramento, and Las Vegas, before hitting Hulu on October 23....

How ‘Lupin III: The First’ Director Takashi Yamazaki Brought A Japanese Anime Icon Into 3D [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 16, 2020 10:00 am EST Created by Monkey Punch in 1967, Arsène Lupin III was introduced as the grandson of Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief of Maurice Leblanc’s series of novels. But as a product of the ’60s, Lupin III was daring, sexy, smug, and a little bit silly — a mix of James Bond and Casanova....

Live-Action/CG Hybrid ‘Robin Hood’ Remake In The Works For Disney+ With ‘Blindspotting’ Director Carlos Lopez Estrada By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 10, 2020 1:00 pm EST Disney’s latest “live-action” remake of one of its animated classics is heading straight to Disney+. Disney has set a remake of Robin Hood, the 1973 animated film which imagined Robin Hood as a suave fox and awakened the inner furry in audiences everywhere. The same anthropomorphic charms will be recreated in the Robin Hood remake, which will be a live-action/CG hybrid also starring anthropomorphic animals....

By Ethan Anderton/March 29, 2020 1:00 pm EST Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, kids all around the United States are home from school for the foreseeable future. But some of the younger ones may not fully understand exactly why they’re home, and some parents may not be sure how to best explain it to them. Nickelodeon wants to help with #KidsTogether: The Nickelodeon Town Hall, an hour-long special offering “a kid’s-eye view of life today amid the COVID-19 outbreak....

Revisiting ‘Mars And Beyond’, Disney’s Influential Animated Documentary Short About Space Travel And Life On Mars By Rafael Motamayor/July 31, 2020 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)These days, Disney has become the king of acquiring IPs and turning them into the cash cows of popular entertainment. But once upon a time, they also dared to collaborate with the top scientific minds of the time, and make art that could show us what we could achieve if we set our minds to it — like kickstart the Space Race....

Sony Animation’s ‘Connected’ From Phil Lord & Chris Miller Pushed Back From October Release By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 18, 2020 9:30 am EST Another one bites the dust. Following in the footsteps of the recently delayed Wonder Woman 1984 and Candyman, Sony Animation has decided to move Phil Lord & Chris Miller’s family sci-fi adventure Connected back from the previously set October 23 release date. That will leave October pretty bare when it comes to new releases to get excited about....

The Morning Watch: The Haunting Of Wayne Manor, The Problem With Editing In ‘Mulan’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 21, 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. In this edition, find out what horrors are lurking in the home of The Dark Knight in a trailer mash-up for The Haunting of Wayne Manor....

‘Alien: Covenant’ Spoiler Review: Ridley Scott Makes His ‘Frankenstein’ By Chris Evangelista/May 22, 2017 8:00 am EST (In our Spoiler Reviews, we take a deep dive into a new release and get to the heart of what makes it tick…and every story point is up for discussion. In this entry: Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant.)In 1979, Ridley Scott unleashed Alien on unsuspecting moviegoers, creating something that would end up becoming iconic in the process....

‘Conan’ Returning On March 30 With New Episodes Shot On An iPhone By Ethan Anderton/March 19, 2020 8:30 am EST There’s a documentary called Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop that follows the comedian as he goes on tour following the famous debacle of losing The Tonight Show gig after Jay Leno decided he wanted it back. It sounds like that documentary title still holds truth even in these chaotic times, because Conan will be coming back to TBS with new episodes on March 30, despite the growing coronavirus concerns around the county....

Reunion at a Chinese Restaurant Fans of the original Stephen King novel and the beloved 1990 miniseries will remember this one. 27 years after the events of the first film, the members of the Losers’ Club reunite at a Chinese restaurant called Jade of the Orient. Over giant piles of food, more than a few shots, and plenty of bawdy jokes, the Losers reconnect – and the chemistry that defined the relationships in the first film seems alive and well here....