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This Week In Trailers: Pearl Jam Twenty, Kill List, The Enemy Within, El Congo Manuel, Rebirth By Christopher Stipp/July 29, 2011 6:00 pm EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: Prevenge, Denial, Brillo Box (3 Cents Off), Werewolf, Nothing Grows Here By Christopher Stipp/Dec. 31, 2016 10:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: Que Pena Tu Vida (Fu*k My Life), Tamara Drewe, Yo, Tambien (Me, Too), Who Killed Captain Alex By Christopher Stipp/Aug. 13, 2010 5:00 pm EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: The Man From Nowhere, The Horde, Legend Of The Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen, The Kid, The Amateur Monster Movie By Christopher Stipp/Sept. 10, 2010 5:00 pm EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Warner Bros. To Restructure DC Comics, Expect New Movement On DC Movies As A Result By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2009 8:25 am EST Big news on the DC Comics front this morning, as word comes in that Warner Bros Pictures Group president Jeff Robinov, whose contract was just renewed, is finally putting through a plan he’s quietly developed over the past couple of years: DC Comics will now report directly to him and Diane Nelson, the woman who shepherded WB’s take on Harry Potter since 2000....

Why The Time Is Right For “Screenlife” Movies Like ‘Searching’ And ‘Unfriended’ By Andrew Todd/Aug. 28, 2018 10:00 am EST Everything happens on the internet now, and that poses problems for filmmakers.For decades, movies and TV have struggled with how to depict the decidedly un-cinematic act of using computers. In the ’80s, ’90s and early 2000s, the typical approaches were to hype up the user interface with animation and 3D graphics, put the user in virtual reality, or make the computer talk....

‘Doctor Who’ Anniversary Prelude ‘Night Of The Doctor’ Explained [Video] By Russ Fischer/Nov. 14, 2013 2:00 pm EST Doctor Who is legendary as a long-running sci-fi series, and the show has all the convoluted continuity you’d expect from a show about to celebrate its 50th anniversary. That special day will be commemorated next week with a new special episode, called The Day of the Doctor. But it is preceded today by The Night of the Doctor, a six-minute short that sets up a very important part of the storyline....

‘Halloween’ Novelization Will Give Readers One Good Scare This October By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 27, 2018 2:00 pm EST If watching the new Halloween movie won’t be enough to satisfy your Michael Myers craving this October, you’re in luck: an official Halloween novelization is arriving to coincide with the film release. John Passarella penned the novelization, which will hit bookstores a few days after Halloween opens in theaters everywhere. Movie novelizations have become something of a niche item in recent years, but there was a period when virtually every major Hollywood production would commission one – I even remember having a novelization of the Arnold Schwarzenegger horror movie End of Days when I was younger....

‘Let The Corpses Tan’ Review: A Brain-Breaking (For Better And Worse) Midnight Movie [TIFF] By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 19, 2017 8:00 am EST Anyone who can bear to stare directly into Let the Corpses Tan may walk away with the sensation that their eyelids are burning, almost as if someone seared them with a scalding hot poker. That’s by design. And for those who don’t mind the pain, the embrace of directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani will provide a masochistic thrill....

‘Riverdale’ Preview: Who The Hell Are You, Ms. Grundy? By Jack Giroux/Feb. 14, 2017 4:00 pm EST Riverdale is a town no one should ever want to visit. In this dreary, evil setting, the four leads — Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead — know they can depend on each other, but they have to watch who else they choose to trust in The CW’s adaptation of the Archie comics. One character not to be trusted, Ms....

‘Sharknado 4’ Is Coming: You Decide If Tara Reid Survives By Ethan Anderton/July 23, 2015 9:15 am EST Last night brought the premiere of Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, the third installment in the intentionally stupid disaster comedy about sharks terrorizing and killing people as they’re blown around by tornadoes. While fans were expecting the usual terrible special effects, “celebrity” cameos and brutal deaths, they probably weren’t expecting a cliffhanger ending....

‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’ Brings Disney Princesses Together With Marvel & Star Wars [D23 Expo 2017] By Ethan Anderton/July 14, 2017 4:03 pm EST Just earlier this year, the official title for the anticipated Wreck-It Ralph sequel was announced at CinemaCon, and it basically tells us what the movie is about. Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 will follow the titular not-so-bad video game bad guy (voiced by John C. Reilly) as he escapes the arcade and finds himself on the web....

AMC Orders Pilot For ‘Walking Dead’ Companion Series By Germain Lussier/Sept. 5, 2014 10:05 am EST The Walking Dead is such a big hit for AMC, it’s kind of surprising it’s taken so long for the channel to branch out with it. Sure they have merchandise, the original comic books, webisodes, and the Talking Dead. Now the network has finally announced it will be attempting a spinoff. A pilot episode has just been ordered for a Walking Dead companion series....

Dave Bautista Talks ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ From The Set By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2017 12:00 pm EST While on the set of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 last year, we talked with Dave Bautista who returns as Drax The Destroyer in the sequel. We talked to Dave about how the process of applying his tattoos has completely changed, his relationship with Mantis in the new film, how Drax has changed since the first film, being more prominently used in the sequel, what it’s like working with Kurt Russell, his thoughts on the Escape From New York reboot and Drax’s sibling rivalry with Baby Groot....

Frightfest Days 2 & 3: The Horseman, Landis, Trick ‘R Treat, Giallo, Hierro And More By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 30, 2009 5:52 pm EST The third day of the Film 4 Frightfest has come to a blood-soaked close and I’ve made it back safely to camp. From where I’m sitting now (slouched, in fact, and really quite exhausted from all of this sitting in the dark) this year’s Frightfest is already one of the two or three best yet, and Frightfest itself has bloomed into the single most exciting genre fest in the UK....

Green Hornet Director Michel Gondry Describes Kato’s ‘Energy Transference’ Fight Scenes By Russ Fischer/July 21, 2010 10:00 am EST When Michel Gondry was hired to direct Seth Rogen and Jay Chou in The Green Hornet (based on Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s script) it seemed like a weird move. No matter that Gondry had once been part of a previous Green Hornet development team that fell apart. He just doesn’t seem like the superhero/action movie sort of guy....

Han Solo Movie Was In Development With George Lucas And Lawrence Kasdan Before Disney Bought Lucasfilm By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 12, 2018 3:30 pm EST Did we almost have a Han Solo movie before Disney bought Lucasfilm? It certainly seems that way. In a revealing new interview about the inspirations behind Solo: A Star Wars Story, co-writer Lawrence Kasdan reveals he was hired to write a Han Solo film before the big Disney purchase of Lucasfilm....

Harley Quinn’s ‘Birds Of Prey’ Line-Up Revealed: Black Canary, Huntress, Cassandra Cain, And Renee Montoya By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 16, 2018 12:52 pm EST The girls in Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn girl gang movie has been revealed. Reports say that the Birds of Prey line-up will include Black Canary, Huntress, Cassandra Cain, and Renee Montoya, plus a Batman comics villain who has never before appeared on the big screen. The Wrap has reports that the Harley Quinn solo film directed by Cathy Yan and penned by Christina Hodson has finalized its line-up....

Jimmy Fallon Ride Officially Announced For Universal Studios Orlando By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 28, 2015 11:00 am EST In July 2015, we reported a rumor that Universal Studios Orlando was planning a new motion simulator ride to replace Twister which would take place in the mind of Jimmy Fallon on the set of The Tonight Show. Well, the report was mostly right. The new attraction will replace Twister…Ride It Out and will star Jimmy Fallon....

Josh Brolin Plots His Escape In First Clip From Jason Reitman’s ‘Labor Day’ By Angie Han/Sept. 9, 2013 5:00 pm EST If Jason Reitman’s first four films – Thank You For Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air, and Young Adult — had one thing in common, it was a sharp sense of humor. Even when things got emotional, there was always room for a hamburger phone or a cancer/“can sir” pun....