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Superhero Bits: Wyatt Russell Suits Up As Captain America, Fanmade ‘Marvel Zombies’ Trailer & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 22, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to see a fanmade trailer for a prospective Marvel Zombies movie? How about some Falcon and the Winter Soldier set photos with Wyatt Russell suited up as Captain America? Will you get some new Funko POPs of the villains from Batman Returns and Batman Forever? Want to listen to a message from John Constantine from DC’s Legends of Tomorrow?...

The Clock Tower: Most Of The Arrowverse Concludes For The Season As ‘Batwoman’ Loses Ruby Rose By Amelia Emberwing/May 21, 2020 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Clock Tower, where we’ll break down the goings on of the The CW network’s Arrowverse. We’ll touch on things like themes, cultural impact, lead-ins to major events, ships, and more every week! Warning: this Clock Tower is filled with spoilers. Proceed at your own risk....

The Clock Tower: The Arrowverse Broke A Lot Of Hearts And Took A Lot Of Lives This Week By Amelia Emberwing/Oct. 25, 2019 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Clock Tower, where we’ll break down the goings on of the The CW network’s Arrowverse. We’ll touch on things like themes, cultural impact, lead-ins to major events, ships, and more every other week! Warning: this Clock Tower is filled with spoilers. Proceed at your own risk....

The Morning Watch: ‘The Simpsons’ New Orleans Food Tour, Creating ‘The Lion King’ Remake & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 4, 2019 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, take a look behind the scenes at the making of The Lion King remake, including the various ways performances were captured and created....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Annabelle Comes Home’ Is A Halloween Haunted House In Movie Form By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 5, 2020 10:00 am EST While the main Conjuring films have been strong, the spin-offs have been hit or miss, and mostly miss. The Annabelle series got off on the wrong foot with the first Annabelle film, which was kind of awful. The ship righted itself with Annabelle: Creation, and then got even better with Annabelle Comes Home....

Untitled Spider-Man Spin-Off In The Works With ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Writer Roberto Orci By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 10, 2020 4:31 pm EST Sony is adding another solo movie to its Spider-Man universe. Sony has tapped The Amazing Spider-Man 2 writer Roberto Orci to pen an untitled Spider-Man spin-off film which would take place in the studio’s universe of Spider-Man-related titles like Venom and Morbius. The Wrap broke the news that Sony has tapped Roberto Orci, best known for co-writing The Amazing Spider-Man 2, to pen the script for a yet-untitled Spider-Man spin-off movie....

Writer’s Room: The 100 Best Movies Of The Last Decade, Part 2 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 12, 2019 3:15 pm EST Opening Banter: We have 34 movies locked it. 4 movies in discussion, and another 122 in consideration. Half of those movies will not make it to the final list.In Our Feature Presentation: The 100 Best movies of the last decade.LOCKED IN IN DISCUSSIONWhiplash (4)Portrait of a Lady on FireFast FivePhantom Thread (2)NOMINEES21 Jump Street (2)50/50About Time (2)AnomalisaAttack the BlockAvengers, The (2)Avengers: Infinity warBabadook, TheBeing ElmoBig Sick, The (2)BlacKkKlansmanBlindspottingBlue RuinBooksmartBoyhood (3)Bridesmaids (2)Bridge of SpiesBrooklynBurning (2)Can You Ever Forgive MeCaptain America: Civil War (2)Carol (2)Cloud Atlas (2)Coco (2)ColumbusCrimson PeakCure For Wellness, ADawn of the planet of the apesDopeDriveDunkirk (2)Edge of Tomorrow (2)Eighth GradeEverybody Wants Some!...

‘A Parks And Recreation Special’ Clip Finds Leslie Checking On Ron During The Coronavirus Pandemic By Ethan Anderton/April 30, 2020 9:30 am EST Tonight brings the surprise return of Parks and Recreation in the form of a special episode that is set during the current coroanvirus pandemic. The episode was produced remotely with Amy Poehler and the rest of the cast returning with scenes shot from their homes, with a bit of TV magic involved....

‘Bill And Ted Face The Music’ Writers Ed Solomon And Chris Matheson Look On Their Excellent Adventure, Scenes That Didn’t Make It, And More [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 27, 2020 12:00 pm EST If Chris Matheson could go back to 1987 when he and Ed Solomon were first writing the screenplay for Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, he would tell himself, “Don’t write that gay joke.” Even while trying to seriously ponder what he would tell his 26-year-old self, Matheson can’t help but crack a joke, which pretty much embodies the tone of the good-hearted sci-fi comedy Bill and Ted Face the Music....

‘Horizon Line’ Trailer: Allison Williams And Alexander Dreymon Need To Get Off This Plane By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 9, 2020 4:30 pm EST Allison Williams and Alexander Dreymon are in trouble in Horizon Line, a contained thriller that traps the two leads on a single-engine plane over the ocean. When the pilot dies of a heart attack, our heroes have to find a way to land the plane while surviving all sorts of aerial dangers....

‘Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous’ Teaser Reveals September Premiere Date For Animated Netflix Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 28, 2020 8:00 am EST A Jurassic World animated series for kids? Sure, why not. Nothing screams family-friendly like a couple dozen dinosaurs running wild in a Netflix animated series trying to devour a group of spunky kids on the “most amazing camp” trip ever. That’s the premise of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, a new animated series from executive producers Steven Spielberg, Colin Trevorrow and Frank Marshall and showrunners Scott Kreamer and Aaron Hammersley....

‘Mamma Mia!’ May Get Another Sequel To Complete An Unlikely Trilogy By Ethan Anderton/June 21, 2020 12:00 pm EST Mamma Mia! was a sensation on stage that was turned into a big screen musical. Featuring the music of ABBA, the 2008 film follows a young girl named Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) as she hopes to figure out who her father is by inviting her mother Donna’s (Meryl Streep) three former lovers (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgård) to her upcoming wedding....

‘National Treasure 3’ Is Apparently Happening, ‘Bad Boys For Life’ Screenwriter Penning Script By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 17, 2020 12:20 pm EST But by 2012, star Nicolas Cage was quoted as saying, “I have not heard any news about a third one at this time.” And come 2016, Disney CEO Bob Iger seemed to throw cold water on the entire idea, stating: “We have done two, and yes they were really fine movies....

‘No Time To Die’ Trailer: James Bond Is Back For His 25th Adventure By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 4, 2019 5:49 am EST Daniel Craig is ready to slip on his tux one last time for No Time to Die, the last of the James Bond films likely to star as the super-spy. In this 25th Bond entry, 007 comes out of retirement when an old pal from the CIA enlists his help in finding a missing scientist....

‘One Perfect Shot’ TV Series Coming To HBO Max With Ava DuVernay Narrating By Ben Pearson/Aug. 7, 2020 10:59 am EST One Perfect Shot, the Twitter account which celebrates iconic moments of cinematography in films and TV shows, soon might be able to have the meta experience of sharing a photo from its own show. HBO Max has greenlit a new documentary series inspired by the account, which will give directors the visual tools to put them inside a 360 recreation of one of their most memorable shots....

‘Ready Player One’ Spoiler Review: This Is Steven Spielberg’s Worst Movie By Chris Evangelista/April 2, 2018 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: Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One.)Steven Spielberg has spent nearly his entire career proving his critics wrong. When the filmmaker rose to prominence as a blockbuster wunderkind, there was a prevailing sense among critics that Spielberg was little more than a purveyor of harmless, artless pop – not a serious filmmaker....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Trailer Breakdown: Our Journey Nears Its End By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 26, 2019 8:00 am EST This morning, the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker footage that played exclusively for The D23 Expo crowd on Saturday was released online. Taking a cue from the marketing campaign for Avengers: Endgame, half of the new sneak peek is a montage of footage from the previous films in the series before we get to see just under a minute of new footage from the final movie in the Skywalker saga....

‘The King Of Staten Island’ Skipping Theaters And Heading Straight To VOD By Chris Evangelista/April 27, 2020 1:00 pm EST The King of Staten Island, the latest from Judd Apatow, is heading straight to VOD. The Pete Davidson-starring film was still holding onto its June theatrical release date, but since there’s no sign that movie theaters will reopen by then, Universal made the decision to send the movie to digital. This might indicate a distinct shift in studio thinking, as up until now, many have held fast to the idea of eventual theatrical release for their major titles, delaying certain films by months, or even an entire year....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 1 Recap: Get Caught Up Before Season 2 Begins This Week By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 28, 2020 10:00 am EST The second season of The Mandalorian arrives on October 30, giving us quite the treat before Halloween weekend. But what if you’re not caught up on the first season of the Star Wars series? Or you have some friends who want to jump on the bandwagon without watching all eight of the episodes in the first season?...

‘The New Mutants’ Director Josh Boone Confirms The Final Film Is His Original Cut; No Reshoots Took Place By Jacob Hall/July 23, 2020 4:00 pm EST In our phone conversation, Boone seemed oddly at peace with the entire New Mutants release situation. While he’s undeniably frustrated, he also feels that the film’s tone is unique enough to allow it to stand out and credits Disney for letting him complete the film as he originally envisioned it:...