‘Game Of Thrones’ Featurettes Take Us Back To Westeros Before Season 8 By Ben Pearson/March 27, 2019 3:30 pm EST We’re only 20 days away from the final season of Game of Thrones, and HBO is easing us back into the fantasy world of Westeros with a pair of featurettes. Winter has come, and it has brought along these videos about the camera work and stunts of the biggest show on television....
‘Guys And Dolls’ Remake Laces Up Its Dancing Shoes At TriStar By Ben Pearson/March 26, 2019 4:00 pm EST The popular Broadway show Guys and Dolls was adapted into a movie in 1950 with Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra in the lead roles, and Hollywood has been trying to remake it for years. Now the rights have been scooped up by TriStar Pictures, who hopes to finally bring the song-filled story of gamblers and dames to the big screen once again....
‘Hobbs And Shaw’ Trailer: Can Dwayne Johnson And Jason Statham Save The Summer? By Ethan Anderton/June 28, 2019 8:09 am EST If the last trailer for Hobbs and Shaw wasn’t enough to convince you to check out this blockbuster madness in theaters, then we don’t know what to tell you. That positively insane and silly trailer is one of the best pieces of entertainment of the year. But for everyone else out there who isn’t sure they need a movie starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham in their life, a new Hobbs and Shaw trailer has been released....
‘John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum’ Featurette Takes A Look At The High Speed Motorcycle Chase By Ethan Anderton/May 3, 2019 8:30 am EST John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum is only a couple short weeks away. And even though the final battle in Avengers: Endgame was truly something special to behold, we’re betting the Keanu Reeves sequel is going offer up something even more impressive in the action department....
‘King Richard’, The Will Smith Movie About Venus And Serena Williams, Finds A Director And A Release Date By Chris Evangelista/June 13, 2019 5:30 pm EST King Richard, the biopic starring Will Smith as the father and coach of tennis greats Venus and Serena Williams, has served a release date and a director. The film will bounce into theaters next November, with Reinaldo Marcus Green calling the shots. The film will track how Richard Williams trained his daughters Venus and Serena to be the best tennis players in the world....
‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Christmas Songs Being Released This Week; Hear ‘Spidey-Bells’ Now By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 20, 2018 1:30 pm EST One of the funniest gags in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is A Very Spidey Christmas, the Christmas album released by everyone’s favorite web-slinger. At first, the album is presented as a quick joke. But during the end credits, we get to hear one of the songs in full – as sung by Chris Pine....
‘Stranger Things’ Season 3 Story Details And Possible Villain Accidentally Revealed By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 18, 2018 11:30 am EST Stranger Things season 3 story details are still locked up safe in the Upside Down, but a slip-up on IMDb might have just given away part of the game. While the following details are very vague, and just speculation at best, if you want to remain as spoiler-free as humanly possible, you might want to turn back now....
2019 Critics Choice Awards Nominations Love ‘The Favourite’ And ‘Black Panther’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 10, 2018 1:30 pm EST The long march through awards season continues today with the announcement of the 24th Critics Choice Awards nominations. It might seem predictable that a period film like The Favourite came out on top of the pack with 14 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and nominations for the three stars, Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, you might be surprised that the Marvel Studios blockbuster Black Panther wasn’t far behind with 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay....
Bonus /Filmcast Ep. - Today’s Marvel Event And Marvel Studios’ Phase Three Slate By Slashfilmcast/Oct. 28, 2014 10:52 pm EST In this bonus episode of the /Filmcast, David, Jeff, and Peter Sciretta discuss today’s big announcements from Marvel. Read all of /Film’s coverage of today’s news and watch Kevin Feige answer all your Phase Three questions. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....
Cool Stuff: Super 7 ‘Masters Of The Universe’ Snake Mountain Playset Is Truly Amazing By Ethan Anderton/May 3, 2019 6:00 am EST If you were a kid in the 1980s, there’s a good chance that at one time you were desperate to play with the toys from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. These classic ripped action figures were a staple of toys during that decade, and in recent years, the toy company Super 7 has been releasing new, retro versions of those figures for collectors....
Elisabeth Moss Considering Appearing In ‘Invisible Man’ Remake From Leigh Whannell By Chris Evangelista/March 1, 2019 12:30 pm EST Now that the Dark Universe is dead (sheds a tear), Universal is retooling their plans for future Universal Monsters movies. For now, they’ve teamed with Blumhouse and Upgrade filmmaker Leigh Whannell to concoct an Invisible Man remake. And it looks like that film is attracting some impressive talent. A report indicates Elisabeth Moss, of Mad Men and The Handmaid’s Tale fame, is circling the project....
Netflix Heading To E3 To Adapt More TV Shows Into Video Games; Which Shows Are Good Candidates? By Ben Pearson/May 14, 2019 1:30 pm EST E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, is an industry trade show devoted to video games, so it’s common to see companies like Sony and Microsoft promoting their upcoming games every year. But a new player is about to enter the fray: Netflix is attending the convention this year, and the streaming service plans to adapt some of its popular television shows into video games....
Original Pixar Film ‘Soul’ Arrives In 2020, Read The Official Synopsis By Ben Pearson/June 19, 2019 9:43 am EST Pixar has made some serious money with its sequels lately – Finding Dory was a box office smash, The Incredibles 2 had the biggest opening weekend of any animated movie ever, and Toy Story 4 is poised to beat that record – but the studio has two original films in a row coming out next year....
Paul Feig Heading To Ghostbusters Fan Fest For Panel With Ivan Reitman And Jason Reitman By Ethan Anderton/May 14, 2019 9:30 am EST For the first time ever, Ghostbusters franchise directors from the past, present and future will be together for a panel at the first ever Ghostbusters Fan Fest next month. Wizard World has announced that Ghostbusters: Answer the Call director Paul Feig has been added to the line-up of special guests at Ghostbusters Fan Fest....
Rumor Control: Taika Waititi Will Not Direct ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 3’ [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/Feb. 4, 2019 12:48 pm EST When Disney fired James Gunn from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 over old, offensive tweets, one of the rumors was that Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi could take over. It made sense since Waititi brought comedy to the Thor franchise and seemed like a good fit. Marvel also asked Adam McKay to consider Guardians 3....
Seeking Pleasure In The Painful Direct-To-Video ‘Hellraiser’ Sequels [Part 1] By Rob Hunter/Oct. 16, 2018 7:00 am EST (Welcome to DTV Descent, a series that explores the weird and wild world of direct-to-video sequels to theatrically released movies. In this edition, we travel deep into the bowels of hell for the first three – of six! – DTV sequels to Clive Barker’s Hellraiser.) “I have seen the future of horror, and his name is Clive Barker,” said Stephen King about the young Brit’s six-volume collection of horror tales, Books of Blood, and Barker never looked back....
Streaming News: Apple TV+ Original Programing Schedule, PlayStation Vue Raises Prices By Ben Pearson/July 3, 2019 3:00 pm EST Here’s a quick update from the world of streaming entertainment. After a splashy announcement presentation earlier this year which was surprisingly light on concrete details, we finally have a better idea about the Apple TV+ schedule for the new service’s original programming. Meanwhile, Sony is raising the prices for PlayStation Vue subscribers across the board, causing groans heard ‘round the world....
What Would Have Changed? But how would the new Halloween differ if Halloween II remained in canon? For one thing, Michael Myers would be blind. At the end of Halloween II, Laurie shoots both of his eyes out. Then again, in subsequent Halloween sequels that follow Halloween II, this was completely ignored, so perhaps it could’ve been ignored here as well. Michael would also have burns all over his body, as the sequel concluded with the Shape going up in flames....
Video: We Stayed At Universal Orlando’s Hotel Of The Future And Previewed Big Fire At Citywalk By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2019 10:45 am EST While we were in Orlando for the opening of Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure, we also got to get a sneak preview of the food, drinks, and venue for Bigfire American Fare, a new restaurant coming to Citywalk in Universal Orlando Resort. During the trip, we stayed at Universal Orlando’s relatively new Aventura hotel....
‘Abominable’ Trailer: Dreamworks’ New Yeti Movie Actually Looks Pretty Magical By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 23, 2019 2:30 pm EST Hollywood works in cycles, which means there is indeed a third animated yeti movie coming to theaters in the span of a year. But Dreamworks’ Abominable looks like it deserves much, much more than to be fodder for a meme. On the heels of Warner Animation’s Smallfoot and Laika’s Missing Link comes Abominable, an animated film about a girl in modern-day Shanghai who accidentally stumbles upon a yeti separated from its homeland....
