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The ‘Avatar’ Sequels Won’t Leave Pandora, Expect More Crossover Between Film And Theme Park By Jacob Hall/Aug. 13, 2018 12:00 pm EST The weird and wild thing about Walt Disney World’s Pandora: The World of Avatar is that it’s a spoiler for movies that haven’t even been made yet. The theme park land, located at the Animal Kingdom park in Orlando, Florida, is “set” decades after the events of James Cameron’s un-made Avatar sequels....

The Best Liam Neeson Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen By Jordan Hoffman/May 18, 2012 10:00 am EST Everybody loves Liam Neeson. It’s impossible not to. He’s a badass, he’s handsome, he’s got the cool accent, he seems like a smart guy and he’s starred in some of the best movies of the past quarter century. Even when he shows up for a quick and dirty paycheck like in Battleship it’s hard to begrudge the guy....

The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen Featuring Poisoned Milk! By Rob Hunter/Aug. 23, 2018 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, a series that takes a look at slightly more obscure, under-the-radar, or simply under-appreciated movies. In this edition, we go swimming in bad milk. Not like, evil milk, but milk that’s gone bad at the hands of man. More specifically, it’s… milk… poisoning!) If you’re like me, you spend a few minutes each day thinking about Joan Fontaine....

The Toy Box: Scott Pilgrim, Star Trek Beyond, Labyrinth, South Park, Indiana Jones & More By Ethan Anderton/July 1, 2016 8:00 am EST The Toy Box is a weekly feature at /Film that will round up some of the newest and coolest collectibles, decorations, gadgets and other memorabilia that you nerds might want for your shelves. This week brings a new assembly of Star Wars and Star Trek items, as well as some new Funko POP Vinyls for characters from Labyrinth and the first ever Indiana Jones figure in the collectible line....

Tron Legacy Set Interview: Steven Lisberger, Creator Of Tron By Peter Sciretta/March 17, 2010 6:00 am EST In June 2009, I had the opportunity to visit the Vancouver set of Tron Legacy (you can watch our set visit preview video blog here). Over the course of the next couple days I’ll be posting a few of the transcripts of the roundtable interviews that we conducted on the set with the cast and crew, with a lot more to come in a few months....

Warner Bros Reveals 2016 Comic Con Line-Up By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2016 6:30 am EST Conan O”Brien will host the two hour presentation which will highlight movies including Wonder Woman, Suicide Squad, The LEGO Batman Movie, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Kong: Skull Island and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. A full list of filmmakers and actors who will be in attendance can be found below in the full press release....

Will Grand Theft Auto 4 Hurt Iron Man’s Box Office? By Peter Sciretta/April 28, 2008 3:04 am EST Will Grand Theft Auto 4 Hurt Iron Man’s Box Office? This is a question I’ve been thinking about for a while now. When I wrote the post Rant: Sorry Mario, Video Games Will NEVER Overtake Movies last month, I intended to include a section on how a video game release could never negatively effect the release of a theatrical movie....

Zack Snyder Leaves ‘Justice League’ Due To Family Tragedy; Joss Whedon To Replace Him By Ben Pearson/May 22, 2017 4:10 pm EST A horrible tragedy has occurred in the lives of director Zack Snyder and his producing partner/wife Deborah: in March of this year, their 20-year-old daughter Autumn committed suicide. After diving headfirst into work in an attempt to keep his mind off of his unthinkable loss, Snyder has now decided to step down from Warner Bros....

‘Days Of Hate’ And ‘The New World’ Use Comics To Explore America’s Chaotic Future By Siddhant Adlakha/July 24, 2018 8:00 am EST It’s a stacked week for Aleš Kot. The Czechoslovakia-born writer (now the Czech Repbulic), who you may know from his run on Marvel’s Bucky Barnes: Winter Soldier, just had a six-issue Image trade paperback hit shelves this past Wednesday, July 18th. Days of Hate: Act One, created with artist Danijel Zezelj, captures a gloomy, divided, radicalized America in the immediate future....

‘The Deuce’ Season Finale Review: ‘My Name Is Ruby’ By Karen Han/Oct. 30, 2017 8:30 am EST (We’re going to kickstart our weekly discussion of HBO’s The Deuce by answering one simple question: who or what is the “best bet” in this week’s episode?) As with any show in which there are so many moving pieces, it’s impossible to say that The Deuce did right by every single one of them, but it did its damnedest....

‘The Matrix’ Reboot Director: 13 Filmmakers Who Could Actually Get Us Interested By Alex Riviello/March 16, 2017 8:13 am EST When news hit that Warner Bros. is in the early stages of rebooting The Matrix, the world groaned as one. Is no film safe? Not if it’s over 10 years old, it appears. A reboot of what’s almost universally regarded as a terrific, trend-setting film is a genuinely terrible idea, especially since the Wachowskis aren’t even involved....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Director Talks Doctor Strange Cameo Rumors; New ‘Doctor Strange’ Synopsis Revealed By Angie Han/Sept. 16, 2016 1:41 pm EST Taika Waititi may be new to the Marvel universe, but he’s already an old pro at dodging questions. Last month, a Thor: Ragnarok set photo seemingly revealed a connection to another upcoming Marvel movie, Doctor Strange. Now, however, the director is trying his best to downplay any speculation about a possible cameo or crossover, suggesting the Easter egg was “maybe a tease just for people who wanted to zoom into that photo....

‘Total Recall’ Review: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle By Russ Fischer/Aug. 3, 2012 6:54 pm EST “Grim ’n’ gritty” is the roiling cloud that settled over the comics industry after Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns became a runaway success. Like a resolute storm front, it has moved on to menace other media. Miller used grim as satire, and gritty as provocation, but for so many others they’re empty buzzwords, dull style guidelines with scant meaning and stunted wit....

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Is Not A Sequel, But A Whole New Chapter [Comic-Con 2018] By Chris Evangelista/July 21, 2018 12:16 pm EST Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot, and Chris Pine put in a high-energy appearance at Comic-Con to talk up Wonder Woman 1984. The film has only been shooting for three weeks, yet Jenkins and company still managed to blow the roof off Hall H. Read what went down in the Wonder Woman 1984 Comic-Con panel below....

Alamo Drafthouse Announces New York City Expansion For 2013 [Updated With Tim League Q&A] By Russ Fischer/April 5, 2012 3:45 pm EST As the Austin, TX-based Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has become one of the major templates for a movie theater chain that pleases filmmakers and audiences alike, film lovers in other cities have hoped the company might find a home in places outside Texas. An early expansion of the chain didn’t exactly go without a hitch, as founders Tim and Karrie League sold the brand name, which led to some expansions in Texas that weren’t quite up to spec....

Box Office Tracking: I Am Legend Gunning For $60M; Alvin Has A Shot At $20M By Steve Mason/Dec. 14, 2007 3:47 am EST It has been a dismal fall at America’s multiplexes. Aside from November releases American Gangster (Universal) with $126.2M domestic and Bee Movie (Dreamworks/Paramount) with $121.4M, most everything else has met with responses ranging from lukewarm to indifferent. There have been a few upside surprises like This Christmas (Sony), which has a $43....

Breaking: Spider-Man 3 Numbers BIGGER Than First Reported By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2007 12:30 pm EST We just got word from our Sony source that the final Spider-Man 3 opening weekend numbers are BIGGER than first reported. $151 million Domestic $231 million International $382 million Worldwide That’s $7 million more than originally reported. The film made $3 million more than Sony expected on Sunday in the states. There you have it....

Comic-Con Considering Broadcasting Hall H And Archival Panels By Fred Topel/April 12, 2016 4:00 pm EST Comic-Con International is launching their own SVOD platform May 7 called Comic-Con HQ. They used the recent WonderCon convention to launch their alpha, and that’s where we spoke to Executive Vice President and General Manager of Comic-Con HQ, Seth Laderman. The big question is: Could Comic-Con HQ stream Hall H panels for people who don’t get in, or aren’t even in San Diego, to see?...

Early Buzz: Clint Eastwood’s Invictus By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 27, 2009 12:57 pm EST The first reviews of Clint Eastwood’s new film Invictus have begun to appear online. The story tells the “inspiring true story” of how the newly elected President Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s underdog rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match, to help unite their country....

Exclusive: Frank Booth And Flaming Nipples In Red-Band Deleted Scene From ‘Blue Velvet’ Blu-Ray By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2011 3:24 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. This is as good a Friday treat as we’re ever likely to offer. Just as I celebrated the 25th anniversary of the film this summer, it was announced that fifty minutes of deleted scenes had been recovered for David Lynch’s seminal 1986 film Blue Velvet....