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Disney World’s Lackluster Plans For Harry Potter Before It Went To Universal Studios By Ben Pearson/Oct. 26, 2018 3:45 pm EST While Universal gave a powerhouse franchise like Potter the full treatment it deserved, the original plan for a Walt Disney World Harry Potter mini-land was laughably sad – it’s easy to see why Potter creator J.K. Rowling wasn’t impressed with their pitch. Learn more about Disney’s failed attempt to incorporate The Boy Who Lived into their park below....

Early Footage From Disney’s ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Ride Puts You Into The Ballroom Dance Scene By Ben Pearson/Dec. 6, 2018 3:00 pm EST You know that feeling when you’re lounging around, watching the Disney animated classic Beauty and the Beast, and thinking to yourself, “Man, I wish I could be inside that ballroom while Belle and the Beast bust a move on that slick-ass dance floor”? Of course you do – it’s a common feeling for all of us....

Exclusive: Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ Plot Synopsis Promises A New Twist On A Familiar Premise By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 9, 2018 11:44 am EST Ever since making his directorial debut with the acclaimed thriller Get Out, comedian and filmmaker Jordan Peele has been endlessly busy with new projects. He’s working on a new iteration of The Twilight Zone, producing a remake of Candyman, voicing a role in Toy Story 4, and more. But the first feature film since his Oscar-winning debut will be called Us, and until now we knew relatively nothing about this project....

Hear Two Exclusive Tracks From The ‘What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali’ Soundtrack By Chris Evangelista/May 20, 2019 8:30 am EST The HBO documentary What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali focuses on the life and challenges of the legendary figher through recordings of his own voice. In anticipation of the doc, we’re debuting two exclusive tracks from the What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali soundtrack, composed by Marcelo Zarvos (Wonder). Hear the tracks below....

New ‘Men In Black International’ Details Promise New Aliens And Locales, Big Action And Laughs By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 10, 2019 11:30 am EST The end of 2018 came with a promising glimpse of the upcoming Men in Black International, a half-sequel, half-reboot of the comic book franchise that started over 21 years ago. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones made the series memorable, even if the sequels never quite measured up to the original....

Paramount Ranch, Filming Location For Hundreds Of Movies & TV Shows, Burns In California Wildfire By Ben Pearson/Nov. 9, 2018 2:30 pm EST Paramount Ranch, which served as a filming location for nearly 500 films and television shows over the years, is the latest casualty of the wildfires that are currently sweeping across California. The historic “western town” area in the mountains outside of Los Angeles, where projects like Westworld, Gunsmoke, Gunfight at the O....

The Morning Watch: Best Supporting Animal, M. Night Shyamalan Dissects ‘Glass’ Fan Theories & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 23, 2019 5:00 am EST In this edition, director M. Night Shyamalan and co-stars James McAvoy and Sarah Paulson break down fan theories from Reddit about Glass. Plus, check out some of the Best Supporting Animals from film and television, and find out how many times the words “yes” and “no” are said in the entire Star Wars franchise....

‘A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding’ Trailer: Netflix’s Cheesy Holiday Hit Is Back By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 16, 2018 9:30 am EST ‘Tis the season for stuffing us with as many sweet confections and cheesy Christmas movies as our bodies can handle. And Netflix is living up to the task of providing us with the latter, blessing us with a Christmas movie sequel we never knew we needed burned in our brains immediately....

‘Big Lebowski’ Spin-Off Gets New Title, Release Date By Chris Evangelista/July 9, 2019 4:00 pm EST John Turturro’s Big Lebowski spin-off has been rolling around since 2016, which seems like a million years ago at this point. Originally titled Going Places, the film followed Turturro Big Lebowski character Jesus Quintana in a whole new story. Word died down about the film, and it appeared Going Places would never actually go anywhere....

‘Black Panther’ Oscar Chances Increase As Disney Limits ‘Infinity War’ To Only One Possible Nomination By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 12, 2018 4:00 pm EST Marvel and Disney are very serious about the King of Wakanda claiming his Oscar crown. In an effort to limit any sort of category split, the House of Mouse is only campaigning Avengers: Infinity War for one Academy Award, while pushing Black Panther for every nomination under the sun....

‘Chambers’ Trailer: Netflix’s New Psychological Horror Series Is Not For The Faint Of Heart By Ethan Anderton/April 10, 2019 12:30 pm EST Netflix continues to have something for everyone, and for all you psychological horror fans, their latest series Chambers will undoubtedly go straight for your heart. Chambers follows a young heart attack survivor (Sivan Alyra Rose) who becomes consumed by not only survivor’s guilt, but a mystery surrounding the circumstances of the heart transplant that saved her life....

/Filmcast Ep. 347 - The Revenant (And Force Awakens Follow-Up) By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 24, 2015 6:00 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff discuss all the discussion around Star Wars: The Force Awakens that’s happened over the past week, praise a great Shakespeare adaptation (not Macbeth), and discuss the cultural damage of Love Actually. Be sure to read up on why Force Awakens is the least interesting Star Wars, why Force Awakens is a deeply broken film, and some crazy Star Wars: Episode VIII theories....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Cinematographer Defends The Dark Lighting Choices Of “The Long Night” By Jacob Hall/April 30, 2019 3:30 pm EST Even if you don’t watch Game of Thrones, you may have heard about “The Long Night,” the biggest battle in the history of the HBO series…and one that many viewers said they couldn’t see. Literally. Rather than stage a traditional war scene, director Miguel Sapochnik chose to cloak much of the conflict in darkness and shadow, pushing many consumer-grade televisions to the brink and leading to ongoing online arguments about whether or not this choice heightens the tension or diminishes it....

‘Little Woods’ Trailer: Tessa Thompson And Lily James Are Sisters Caught In A Bad-To-Worse Situation By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 15, 2019 2:30 pm EST When rising filmmaker Nia DaCosta was announced as the director of the buzzy Jordan Peele-produced Candyman reboot, it might have been odd to some that she didn’t have one feature film under her belt. But she did, and it’s finally making its way to theaters. DaCosta’s dazzling directorial debut, Little Woods, a neo-Western starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James in powerful lead performances as two sisters in an economically depressed North Dakotan town who are on the verge of losing their mother’s home....

‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Director Rob Marshall Breaks Down The New Cast [Set Visit] By Jacob Hall/Nov. 12, 2018 12:00 pm EST I visited the London set of Mary Poppins Returns back in 2017 and came away thoroughly charmed. Director Rob Marshall’s upcoming sequel to the Disney classic looks to have its heart in the right place every step of the way, complete with two thoroughly charming leads, elaborate musical numbers, and even an extended animation sequence where the cast gets to dance with cartoon animals....

‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Sneak Peek: Hear Lin-Manuel Miranda Sing By Ben Pearson/Nov. 15, 2018 10:15 am EST For general audiences, the fact that Mary Poppins Returns exists at all will be reason enough to see it. A slightly smaller subset of fans will want to see it because it stars Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place) taking over the iconic title role. But an even smaller crowd – the people who saw and loved the Broadway musical Hamilton and have listened to its soundtrack countless times – will line up to see Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda in a supporting role as a singing, dancing lamplighter named Jack....

‘Plus One’ Review: An Irresistibly Charming Rom-Com That You’ll Want A Second Date With [Tribeca] By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 13, 2019 12:00 pm EST Thirty years ago, When Harry Met Sally posed the question: Can men and women really be friends? While it never quite provided an answer, it did prove one satisfying thing — friendship may be forever, but watching friends fall in love is timeless. Plus One, which follows two jaded college buddies Ben and Alice (Jack Quaid and Maya Erskine) who make a pact to be each other’s plus ones during a summer of endless weddings, pays appropriate homage to its lauded predecessor, but takes that delightful push-pull dynamic that When Harry Met Sally perfected to another level....

‘Shooting The Mafia’ Review: A Grim Look At Murder Through A Brave Photographer’s Lens [Sundance] By Ben Pearson/Jan. 27, 2019 3:00 pm EST This is the second year in a row I’ve seen a Sundance documentary about a female photographer who revisits her old work and attempts to put it in a proper historical context. But unlike last year’s Generation Wealth, which traced society’s obsession with money and fame, Kim Longinotto’s Shooting the Mafia is all about power: the oppressive power the Mafia imposed over the people of Sicily for decades, and the power of one photographer’s images to show these men for who they truly were....

‘The Hummingbird Project’ Trailer: Jesse Eisenberg And Alexander Skarsgard Want To Make Millions In Milliseconds By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 18, 2019 4:30 pm EST Jesse Eisenberg and a very bald Alexander Skarsgård star in The Hummingbird Project, a thriller about…fiber-optic cable? That may not sound particularly thrilling, but it’s all in the name of making cold, hard cash. The duo want to run the fiber-optic cable to get a jump on the stock market before everyone else – but their task won’t be easy....

‘The Invisibles’ And ‘Survivors’ Club’ TV Shows In The Works Based On The Vertigo Comics By Ben Pearson/Nov. 8, 2018 10:00 am EST A pair of Vertigo Comics properties are in development for the small screen. The CW is working to bring Lauren Beukes, Dale Halverson, and Ryan Kelly’s Survivors’ Club to life, while Universal Cable Productions is looking to make a The Invisibles TV show based on the classic series by author Grant Morrison....