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‘Solar Opposites’ Season 2 Teaser: The Aliens Try To Leave Earth When The Series Returns In March By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 7, 2021 9:30 am EST In May of last year, Hulu gave us some reprieve from the nightmare of 2020 with the absolutely hilarious new animated series Solar Opposites. Created by Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland and writer Mike McMahan, the show follows four aliens who have set out to find a new planet to inhabit after their homeworld was destroyed....

‘Surviving Joe Exotic’ Documentary At Animal Planet Keeps The ‘Tiger King’ Mania Going By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 16, 2020 11:00 am EST Nearly four months after Tiger King took the Netflix-viewing world by storm, Joe Exotic is still a curiosity for viewers. The exotic animal zookeeper’s big personality and troubling practices have dominated headlines for much of 2020, often overshadowing the actual animals and creatures that the Netflix docuseries initially set out to cover....

‘The Batman’ Quietly Casts Barry Keoghan As Officer Stanley Merkel By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 24, 2020 8:30 am EST Following the buzzy panel for The Batman at this past weekend’s virtual DC FanDome event (where we learned that Colin Farrell with a ton of prosthetics looks a lot like Richard Kind), Warner Bros. quietly slipped in a new piece of casting news in its press release for the highly anticipated Matt Reeves superhero movie....

‘The Lion King’ Pounces To The Top Of The Box Office With A Massive $185 Million Opening By Ethan Anderton/July 22, 2019 3:00 pm EST Disney had no problem topping the charts again this summer with their release of the remake of The Lion King. Audiences may not be sure whether to call this movie animation or live-action, but they clearly had to see it for themselves to the tune of a $185 million opening weekend at the domestic box office....

‘Yesterday’: Writer Richard Curtis Explains The Changes Danny Boyle Made To The Script By Ben Pearson/July 16, 2019 4:30 pm EST Yesterday, the latest film from director Danny Boyle, had one of the all-time great movie premises: what if a struggling musician woke up to realize that the rest of the world had forgotten the music of The Beatles? The movie hit theaters at the end of last month and has made $68 million worldwide so far on a reported $26 million budget – not exactly a runaway hit, but not a failure, either....

Amanda Seyfried Seemingly Turned Down The Role Of Gamora In ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 12, 2019 12:30 pm EST In the world of Hollywood, sometimes producers reach out to stars for a certain role in a movie, and they get turned down. Some of today’s biggest stars and most memorable characters have come to fruition because another actor or actress turned down a role. And when it comes to a key role in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, it appears one of the Mean Girls turned down the chance to venture into space....

Confirmed: A Life-Sized Spider-Man Animatronic Will Be Flung Through The Air Above Disneyland’s Marvel Land By Ben Pearson/Jan. 30, 2020 12:00 pm EST Fans have long speculated that Disneyland’s Avengers Campus would feature a life-size Spider-Man animatronic doing whatever a spider can, but now Disney has confirmed that a human-sized Spidey will literally be flung through the skies over the Marvel-themed section of the theme park. Check out some new footage of Spidey in his new costume flipping around overhead, as well as some test footage that gives a better idea of how this newfangled contraption actually works....

Cool Stuff: ‘Ghostbusters’ Ecto Goggles Prop Replica May Help You See Spooks, Spectres, And Ghosts By Ethan Anderton/March 12, 2020 6:00 am EST While Hasbro is unveiling a whole new line of Ghostbsuters action figures and bringing back The Real Ghostbusters figures from decades ago, the folks at Hollywood Collectibles are delivering prop replicas inspired by the real gear the boys in beige use to bust spooks, spectres, and ghosts. Their latest addition is a Ghostbusters Ecto Goggles prop replica, modeled after the same set worn by Dr....

Cool Stuff: Spin The Terror Of ‘Halloween II’ And ‘Halloween III’ With A New Set Of Spinatures By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 2, 2020 6:00 am EST Hot on the heels of Waxwork Records kicking off their new collectible line of Spinatures mini-busts with the classic Universal Monsters known as Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, the next wave of spinning characters comes from the Halloween franchise. Michael Myers from Halloween II will stalk your vinyl collection, but he might not last long since he’s been shot several times, with two shots even blinding him....

Disney’s ‘Tarzan’ Was A Hit – So Why Is It Remembered As A Disappointment? By Josh Spiegel/Oct. 8, 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 1999 film Tarzan.)A couple of weeks ago, Robert Iger, CEO of the Walt Disney Company, made news (as the CEO of one of the most powerful companies in the world is wont to do) by implying that Disney and Apple could have merged had Steve Jobs lived longer....

Here Are The 20 Official Contenders For Best Visual Effects At The Next Oscars (And No, ‘Detective Pikachu’ Isn’t Among Them) By Ben Pearson/Dec. 4, 2019 2:30 pm EST When I think of the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, I often think of the loudest and most cacophonous movies to play in a theater in a given year. But perhaps that’s unfair, because upon closer inspection, it seems that those types of films are rarely rewarded with the actual prize....

Hugh Jackman Movie ‘Bad Education’ Sells To HBO For A Record-Breaking Sum By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 17, 2019 3:00 pm EST Deadline is reporting that HBO has purchased Bad Education for a record-breaking sum that nears $20 million. The exact number hasn’t been revealed yet, but the Deadline story states “the deal is in the rarefied range of the $17.5 million at Sundance for The Birth of a Nation, which was the fest record....

Joe Carnahan’s ‘The Raid’ Remake Has A New Title, Will No Longer Be A Remake By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 12, 2020 1:37 pm EST What’s going on with The Raid remake? The project was announced back in 2011, but has yet to materialize (which might not be such a bad thing). Well, now there’s an update from director Joe Carnahan that reveals the film is still happening, and it has a new title....

Kevin Smith’s ‘Mallrats’ Sequel Cast Already Has ‘A.P. Bio’ Star Aparna Brielle On Board As Brodie’s Daughter By Ethan Anderton/May 12, 2020 10:30 am EST Kevin Smith may have only just finished the first draft of the script for the forthcoming Mallrats sequel, but he’s already got one new cast member on board, and it’s someone he’s worked with pretty recently. During a watch party double feature for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and and Jay and Silent Bob Reboot last night, writer/director Kevin Smith announced that Aparna Brielle, who plays one of the new girl gang members in the latter sequel, is already on board to star in Twilight of the Mallrats as the daughter of Brodie Bruce (Jason Lee)....

Martin Scorsese Explains Why You’ll Never See A “Director’s Cut” Of One Of His Films By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 16, 2019 2:00 pm EST Martin Scorsese’s movies are typically long – his latest, The Irishman, clocks in at 209 minutes. But some people (like me!) wouldn’t mind seeing even longer cuts of Scorsese’s films. Director’s cuts, if you will. But according to the man himself, you’re never going to see a Martin Scorsese director’s cut – at least not in the traditional sense....

Marvel’s ‘Loki’ Series Brings In Sophia Di Martino To Co-Star With Tom Hiddleston By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 18, 2019 5:30 am EST We’ve known that Marvel Studios was working on a Loki series for Disney+ since last fall. However, very little is known about what the series will entail other than the return of Tom Hiddleston as the titular god of mischief, who finds himself popping up at various points throughout time as an unlikely influence on historical events....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies To Watch When You See ‘Ad Astra’ By Scott Beggs/Sept. 20, 2019 8:00 am EST Sure, Brad Pitt saving the galaxy from space vibrations is good, but what about Pitt fighting the crushing despair of the endless void? How fun is that? An unofficial sequel to Space Cowboys, James Gray’s Ad Astra represents the newest incarnation of the waxing/waning trend of interstellar travel as metaphor for mankind’s internal search for meaning – a far cry from the rubber-suited aliens of the 20th century....

The ‘Godzilla’ Criterion Collection Box Set Trailer Unleashes Kaiju Carnage By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 27, 2019 12:00 pm EST In case you missed the news, the Criterion Collection is releasing a massive box set containing high-definition digital transfers of all fifteen Godzilla films made between 1954 and 1975, released together for the first time. It’s a big deal, and even to a casual Godzilla fan like myself. The set arrives in October, and ahead of its release, Criterion has cut together a nifty little trailer to show us all what’s in store....

The Clock Tower: Let’s Say Goodbye To ‘Arrow’ By Amelia Emberwing/Jan. 30, 2020 1:00 pm 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.)What an odd week it was! It feels so strange to be finishing this week’s column with the knowledge that the show that sparked it all is done for good....

The Morning Watch: ‘Seek’ Short Film Teaser Trailer, Everything You Didn’t Know About ‘Samurai Jack’ & More By Ethan Anderton/March 6, 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, watch a teaser trailer for a new SXSW-selected horror short called Seek written by SlashFilm contributer Eric Vespe and writer/director Aaron Morgan....