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‘Annabelle Comes Home’ Director Gary Dauberman On Exposing His Kid To Horror And The Fate Of ‘Swamp Thing’ [Interview] By Fred Topel/June 27, 2019 7:00 am EST Gary Dauberman has become a key figure in the horror world, and particularly the Conjuring Universe having written all three Annabelle films and The Nun, plus the two-part Stephen King adaptation It. He makes his directorial debut with the third Annabelle spin-off, Annabelle Comes Home....

/Filmcast Ep. 108 - Predators (GUEST: C. Robert Cargill From Ain’t It Cool News) By Slashfilmcast/July 13, 2010 2:45 pm EST This week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss the dickishness of Kevin Feige, praise the sublime The Kids Are Alright, and try to figure out why Despicable Me isn’t as good as a Pixar film. Special guest C. Robert Cargill (AKA Massawyrm) joins us from Ain’t It Cool News....

/Filmcast Episode 7: Hancock By Slashfilmcast/July 8, 2008 8:42 pm EST In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Peter, Adam, and Devindra lament the damage that Joel Schumacher has done to the Batman series, get excited about the possibility of an Apatow-produced Sherlock Holmes, and try to make sense of Hancock. Also, Peter reports on the geekgasm that was his trip to LA. Special Guests include the illustrious Adam Kempenaar from the Filmspotting podcast as well as Andy Sorcini from The Drill Down....

‘How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ Trailer Finds A New Paradise For Dragons By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 25, 2018 7:43 am EST Since the next chapter of the How to Train Your Dragon franchise will be the last, DreamWorks Animation is pulling out all the stops when it comes to getting people on board for one last flight with Hiccup and his trusty dragon, Toothless. Even though it feels like we’ve seen plenty of footage from How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, a new trailer arrived today showing off more of the final adventure for our Viking heroes and their fire-breathing friends....

‘Kingsman’ Prequel Film Coming In 2020, With ‘Kingsman 3’ To Follow By Ben Pearson/Feb. 26, 2019 4:30 pm EST The Hollywood Reporter says that the Kingsman prequel (which may or may not be subtitled The Great Game) has been shifted from its original date of November 15, 2019 back to February 14, 2020. There was no official reason given for the move, although Fox’s untitled Ford vs. Ferrari movie (directed by Logan’s James Mangold) has now been slotted into that prime November slot, indicating that the studio believes it has awards potential when the Kingsman prequel wouldn’t....

‘Love Life’ Anthology Series Reunites ‘A Simple Favor’s Paul Feig And Anna Kendrick On WarnerMedia’s Streaming Service By Ben Pearson/May 27, 2019 1:00 pm EST TheWrap reports that Love Life will consist of 10 half-hour episodes and be “about the journey from first love to last love, and how the people we’re with along the way make us into who we are when we finally end up with someone forever.” Lionsgate TV is producing the series, which “will follow a different protagonist’s quest for love each season, with each half-hour episode telling the story of one of their relationships....

‘Sherlock Holmes 3’ Release Date Pushed To 2021, My Dear Watson By Chris Evangelista/March 5, 2019 7:30 am EST The game is afoot…eventually. Deadline reports that Sherlock Holmes 3 has been bumped to December 22, 2021, which will presumably give everyone a lot more time to think of an actual story to tell. The first Sherlock Holmes opened in 2009, with Guy Ritchie at the helm and Robert Downey Jr. playing the socially inept sleuth....

‘Super Mario Bros.’ Animated Movie In The Works From ‘Despicable Me’ Studio [Updated] By Jacob Hall/Jan. 31, 2018 8:05 pm EST Update 2: Today, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa revealed that this adaptation is targeting a 2022 release date. No other details were given.Update: Tonight, Nintendo confirmed that a Mario movie is indeed in the works: Nintendo and Illumination are partnering on a movie starring Mario, co-produced by Shigeru Miyamoto and Chris Meledandri!...

‘The Boys’ Teaser Trailer Gives The Middle Finger To Superheroes By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 6, 2018 10:30 am EST The Boys Teaser Trailer At the NYCC panel, Goldberg described The Boys as “something based more in our reality and something is a little more easy to relate to.” “The superhero metaphor,” Kripke added, “works for certain politicians, it works for certain celebrities, it works for professional athletes, it works for our media-saturated culture....

‘The Predator Holiday Special’ Has Stop-Motion Predators Fighting Santa And His Armed Reindeer By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 20, 2018 12:30 pm EST If Shane Black’s Predator sequel/reboot The Predator didn’t satisfy your blood lust, may I interest you in The Predator Holiday Special? This silly stop-motion short has a group of Predators invading the North Pole and engaging in violent battle with Santa Claus, his reindeer, and more. It’s kind of stupid!...

‘Us’ Clips: The Home Invasion Begins In Jordan Peele’s Horror Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 16, 2019 11:00 am EST Us pits Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke against some of humanity’s worst fears: ourselves. The doppelgangers at the center of Jordan Peele’s highly anticipated follow-up to his breakout 2017 hit Get Out are part of a long tradition of doppelgangers in horror movies. But they take on a whole new terrifying layer in Us, a psychological horror thriller/home invasion movie....

Cool Stuff: Grab NECA’s New Michael Myers Figure From ‘Halloween’ 2018, You Know, For Christmas By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 13, 2018 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s not exactly in the spirit of Christmas to get excited about an action figure of one of the most notorious slashers from the big screen. But this new action figure of Michael Myers from the recent Halloween revival directed by David Gordon Green is just too perfect not to highlight as a potential Christmas gift for the horror fanatic in your life....

Pixar Co-Founder Ed Catmull To Retire After Nearly 40 Years In Animation By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 24, 2018 12:30 pm EST After decades at the helm of Pixar, co-founder Ed Catmull is retiring. The 73-year-old co-founded Pixar in 1986 alongside Steve Jobs and John Lasseter, and helped shepherd the cutting-edge computer animation studio into becoming the global animation giant it is today. Ed Catmull retires from his role as the president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios after 32 years at the helm of Pixar and nearly 40 years in the animation technology industry, Variety reports....

Review: ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’ Shops Offer Awesome Merchandise For Casual Fans And Serious Collectors Alike By Peter Sciretta/May 30, 2019 8:27 am EST (Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opens this week and it’s too big and too immersive to be contained in a single review. Our extensive coverage will be collected here.) The heart of Black Spire Outpost on the Planet Batuu (actually Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland) is a quaint indoor marketplace that feels like the Star Wars version of an international bazaar....

Sorry, ‘Star Wars’: Science Proves ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ Is The Most Influential Movie Ever Made By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 30, 2018 4:30 pm EST A bunch of nerds in Italy put their big brains together to determine the most influential movie of all time, and the answer might surprise you. According to their findings, the 1939 The Wizard of Oz is the most influential film ever made, while Star Wars is second....

Superhero Bits: New ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Merchandise, New ‘Birds Of Prey’ Set Video & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 7, 2019 6:00 pm EST When will the third season of Jessica Jones come to Netflix? Who will the villains be in the Batman prequel series Pennyworth? What is the one thing Anthony & Joe Russo regret about their two Avengers movies? How did Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds end their social media feud?...

S02E01 “Out of Time” What happens in the first season of Legends of Tomorrow? There are a couple of major sacrifices, Rip Hunter and Captain Cold in particular, but apart from that it doesn’t really matter. “Out of Time” relaunches the show through the eyes of historian Nate Heywood (Nick Zano), who notices the history books are changing because the Legends, well… they messed with time a little too much....

Time For Yet Another ‘Amityville Horror’ Movie, Because People Love Stories About Long Island By Chris Evangelista/June 18, 2019 4:00 pm EST To paraphrase the original film, for god’s sake, stop making Amityville Horror movies. When you include direct-to-video titles, there have been 23 films based on The Amityville Horror. And if you add documentaries to the mix, that number gets even higher. The story has been told, and told again, and again, since the 1970s....

VOTD: Watch ‘Holesum’, A Sexy, Electric Musical Short From ‘Isn’t It Romantic’ Director Todd Strauss-Schulson By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 14, 2019 6:00 am EST Right now you can see the crowd-pleasing Isn’t It Romantic? in theaters to give your Valentine’s Day a little spark. The charming, hilarious new movie starring Rebel Wilson, Adam DeVine, Liam Hemsworth and Priyanka Chopra is a love letter to romantic comedies and a great way to spend this greeting card holiday, whether or not you have a date....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Runtime Currently 3 Hours Long And Could Stay That Long Based On Test Audience Reactions By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 6, 2019 8:00 am EST Avengers: Endgame could beat Infinity War’s record as the longest Marvel Cinematic Universe movie yet. It’s not uncommon for rough cuts of movies to exceed three hours, but with the film’s April release date closing in, it seems likely that the fourth Avengers movie will be a three-hour epic....