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‘McMafia’ Creators Hossein Amini And James Watkins On How Their Show Is ‘Game Of Thrones’ With Mobs [Interview] By Fred Topel/Feb. 22, 2018 12:30 pm EST The network that brought us Breaking Bad is now taking a bigger picture look at crime. Where the tale of Walter White was the saga of an individual crime empire, AMC’s McMafia looks at organized crime on a global scale. Based on the book by Misha Glenny, the TV adaptation from Hossein Amini stars James Norton as a British businessman who becomes drawn into the eastern European and middle Eastern mobs with which his family had been connected in the past....

‘Teen Wolf’ Isn’t Even Done Yet, And MTV Is Going To Reboot It As…a Podcast? [Comic-Con 2017] By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 21, 2017 4:00 pm EST MTV’s television reboot of Teen Wolf hasn’t even shed its claws yet, and the cable network is already looking to reboot it again…but this time as a podcast. Um, what? You read that right: Teen Wolf, which itself was a gritty TV reboot of a 1985 camp classic film starring Michael J....

‘The Avengers’ Super Bowl Commercial Tease, Twitter Chat Recap, IMAX Announcement By Germain Lussier/Jan. 31, 2012 12:30 pm EST For the past week, Marvel had been pimping a live, Twitter chat featuring Joss Whedon, Clark Gregg, Tom Hiddleston and Samuel L. Jackson regarding The Avengers. We’ll it’s now over and it was very uneventful. The two biggest revelations were Whedon confirmed there’s not a Spider-Man cameo in the Disney movie and Samuel L....

‘Transcendence’ Review: Wally Pfister’s Debut Is More Machine Than Man By Angie Han/April 17, 2014 1:00 pm EST In his directorial debut, Christopher Nolan’s longtime DP Wally Pfister serves up a dire warning about all the things that can go wrong when someone other than Christopher Nolan tries to make a Christopher Nolan movie. Transcendence is Inception, in spirit if not in plot, only without the heart, style, intelligence, or grace....

12 Things You Should Know About ‘Baby Driver’ Director Edgar Wright By Alex Riviello/June 26, 2017 9:00 am EST Few filmmakers have a track record like Edgar Wright. His “Cornetto Trilogy” of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End are easily some of the most rewatchable and expertly crafted comedies of all time. Spaced is a near-perfect TV show. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World has rightfully become a beloved movie in the years since its theatrical release....

Adam Driver Hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ Season 44 Premiere, Three Featured Players Promoted By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 17, 2018 5:00 pm EST Saturday Night Live has two levels of cast members. Either you’re a full-fledged repertory player, or you’re a featured member of the cast, which basically means your involvement in the show is renewed on a season-by-season basis. Every season, there’s a chance that a featured player gets fired (like Luke Null recently did), or gets promoted to the regular cast....

Director Peyton Reed On The Movies That Inspired ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’, Magic, Easter Eggs And The Editing Process [Interview] By Peter Sciretta/July 6, 2018 12:00 pm EST Ant-Man and the Wasp is in theaters and I can now share with you my interview with director Peyton Reed. We get sidetracked talking about E.T., and then discuss how the development process of the sequel was different from the first film, the film’s close-up magic subplot, the films the inspired the sequel, how they accomplished the shrinking effects for the film, hidden easter eggs to look out for, the editing process, and how much longer the assembly edit of the film was....

Does This Winter Soldier Deleted Scene Tease A Black Widow Movie Prequel? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2014 3:30 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures has released a new deleted/extended scene from Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The scene, which would have taken place in the second half of the movie (so, yeah, spoiler warning) features Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) disabling security protocols and dumping S.H.I.E.L.D. data onto the internet. Everything on Hydra, everything on S....

Final Draft 9 Review: An Improvement But Still Stuck In The 90s By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 22, 2014 6:00 am EST Note from Editor Peter Sciretta: While I was once an aspiring screenwriter, its been many years since I’ve stared at that blank white page with the cursor blinking next to “FADE IN:”. So when Final Draft offered us the chance to review their latest software release, I asked my friend Zach Lipovsky if he would be interested putting it through a couple laps....

MovieSwap: Finally A Subscription Service That Allows You To Watch Any Movie Ever? By Peter Sciretta/March 11, 2016 2:30 pm EST I check Kickstarter every day. I often back projects in the tabletop and tech areas, but I also will check to see what projects are popular on the site each week. The other day I came across a project called MovieSwap, which has already met its funding goal on the crowdfunding website....

Pixar’s Up To Open Cannes By Peter Sciretta/March 19, 2009 9:31 am EST Disney/Pixar’s Up will be the Opening Ceremony film of the 62nd Festival de Cannes. This is not only the first Walt Disney Picture to Open the Cannes Film Festival, but the first animated film to open at the fest. It’s also the first 3-D film to open the festival, but I think that might be more obvious. Full press release after the jump including quotes from Dick Cook and John Lasseter....

Rumor: Edgar Wright Left Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man’ Over Major Script Rewrite By Germain Lussier/May 24, 2014 9:03 am EST We interrupt your Memorial Day weekend for a potential update on Friday’s biggest story. Late Friday afternoon Marvel announced director Edgar Wright left Ant-Man, a film he’d been attached to since 2006, “due to differences in their vision of the film.” The statement said “The decision to move on is amicable and does not impact the release date on July 17, 2015....

Sequel Bits: ‘Jack Reacher’ Needs Asian Coin To Buy A Sequel, Plus Possible Dan Brown Movies, ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation,’ ‘Twins 2’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 15, 2013 10:13 pm EST When Christopher McQuarrie was set to direct One Shot, which eventually became Jack Reacher starring Tom Cruise, the idea was to launch a franchise based on the dozen-plus Reacher books by Lee Child. Turns out that Jack Reacher may be the character’s one shot at the big screen, at least in this incarnation....

Star Wars Bits: ‘Revenge Of The Sith’ 3D Screening, ‘Force Awakens’ Toys, Aaron Paul, Concept Art By Germain Lussier/Jan. 5, 2015 1:00 pm EST Star Wars: The Force Awakens gets closer and closer in this edition of Star Wars Bits, where you can read about the following: Star Wars Celebration will feature the first ever 3D screening of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. They will also screen the Original Trilogy on the big screen....

Star Wars Bits: Carrie Fisher Signed For Episode 7? ‘Star Wars 1313’, ‘Star Wars Pinball’, ‘The Making Of The Empire Strikes Back’, George Lucas, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones By Angie Han/March 5, 2013 5:07 pm EST Carrie Fisher gets ready to star in another Star Wars movie, while George Lucas considers the exciting world of museum curating. Also after the jump: Billy Dee Williams wants in on Episode VII … as does Darth Vader voice James Earl Jones Obama doesn’t know Star Wars from Star Trek Disney delays the Star Wars 1313 video game See a trailer for the Boba Fett pinball table Watch part of a doc about Empire Strikes Back What if Michael Haneke directed Star Wars?...

Superhero Bits: ‘Wonder Woman’ Coming To HBO, James Mangold Doubles Down On Credits Scene Disdain & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 5, 2018 5:00 pm EST When will Wonder Woman be available to watch on HBO? How does Joel Kinnaman feel about the tattoo Will Smith gave him on the set of Suicide Squad? Will Evangeline Lilly have a role in Avengers 4? Did you know there’s a Groundhog Day Easter egg in Doctor Strange?...

The Message In ‘Zootopia’ Came From Story & Character, Not Politics By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2016 8:00 am EST When Disney Animation Studios began work on Zootopia, they didn’t know the film would pack the sophisticated social political message thats being praised by critics. In fact, they didn’t even know that the Ginnifer Goodwin-voiced bunny character Judy Hopps would be the main character — Jason Bateman’s fox character Nick Wilde was originally supposed be be the lead....

Theme Park Bits: A Terrifying Monorail Trip And Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Seen From Space By Joshua Meyer/Jan. 14, 2018 7:00 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: What’s it like to ride the monorail at Disney World with the door hanging wide open? Find out about the connection between Disney Springs and Prohibition-era rum-runners. See time-lapse satellite imagery of the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge construction site. A new patent would seem to indicate lightsaber-wielding could be in the future for Disney parkgoers....

Three Different ‘Rogue One’ Endings: Everything We Know About Each Version Of The Final Battle By Jacob Hall/March 20, 2017 11:00 am EST Star Wars fans love legends. They love the expansive, complex, and seemingly infinite universe that George Lucas built 40 years ago. But they also love the mythology surrounding the moves themselves, the stories of the creative decisions behind iconic moments and the tales of how certain characters came to be....

‘Pacific Rim’ WonderCon 2013 Panel: “Go Big, Or Go Extinct” By Germain Lussier/March 30, 2013 5:23 pm EST Guillermo Del Toro took the stage at WonderCon 2013 and received a hero’s welcome. Ever since he wowed audiences at San Diego Comic-Con 2012 with the first footage form his upcoming film, Pacific Rim, we’ve been happily devouring any image or information we could get on the film pitting giant Jaeger robots against giant Kaiju monsters....