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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’: Why Luke Is In Hiding And How He Got There By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 9, 2017 10:19 am EST “It’s time for the Jedi to end.” How did Luke Skywalker, once a wide-eyed ingenue who only wanted to become a Jedi Master like his father before him, become so downtrodden that he would deny his heritage and the rest of the galaxy by going into hiding? We’ll find out in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the latest entry in the Star Wars franchise that was brought into the modern era with 2015’s The Force Awakens....

‘Star Wars Identities’ Revealed: It’s A New Museum Exhibit By Germain Lussier/Nov. 21, 2011 3:30 pm EST If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times. Domain registration rules. While major corporations are keen to hide so many of their secrets from us, their adoring public, it’s more difficult to hide the public internet domains they register. They regularly give us an idea of upcoming projects or titles and just last week, I reported Lucasfilm registered domains for something called Star Wars: Identities....

30 Movies We Can’t Wait To See At The 2016 Sundance Film Festival By Angie Han/Jan. 19, 2016 8:15 am EST January doesn’t tend to be a great month for movies if you’re surveying the options at your local multiplex, but it’s one of the best times of the year for film lovers lucky enough to attend the Sundance Film Festival. This year, three of us — Peter Sciretta, Ethan Anderton, and myself — will be on the scene for /Film, taking in some of the best of this year’s independent cinema....

Brad Bird ‘Tomorrowland’ Interview: ‘The Iron Giant’ Blu-Ray, Epcot, NASA, Space Mountain, ‘Incredibles 2’ And Disneyland By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2015 8:30 am EST A couple weeks back I got a chance to chat briefly with director Brad Bird and talk about his newest film Tomorrowland. I asked for an update on the long-rumored Iron Giant blu-ray release, what it means and doesn’t necessarily mean to be a live-action Disney film, the super slick modern look of Tomorrowland vs....

Can You Escape This Mission Impossible Escape Room? By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2015 3:30 pm EST A big emerging trend in gaming is the concept of an Escape Room, a cooperative game that puts you with a group working together to solve puzzles to escape a carefully designed puzzle of a room before a certain time.Paramount Pictures and Skydance have announced they are teaming with AMX and IMC to launch escape rooms at four theaters in major cities around the United States to promote the upcoming release of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation....

Chadwick Boseman Promises No “Damsels In Distress” In ‘Black Panther’ [Set Visit Interview] By Angie Han/Jan. 24, 2018 10:00 am EST In the two years since we met Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War, we’ve only grown more eager to get to know him. And when we spoke with Chadwick Boseman on the set of Black Panther in early 2017, he sounded pretty eager to show the world what T’Challa’s made of....

Collapse Movie Trailer (The Best Reviewed “End Is Near” Documentary Of The Year?) By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 25, 2009 5:31 pm EST Bill Murray recently offered the following skepticism at a press junket, “I saw a guy talking about the end of the world a couple of years ago, and I haven’t seen that either.” Many notable critics feel that the new documentary entitled Collapse, from the well-regarded director behind American Movie and The Yes Men, more or less informs the world, Murray included, that the end in the form of total economic collapse is once again near....

Damon Lindelof On ‘The Leftovers’ And The Side Effects Of Binge-Watching [Interview] By Jack Giroux/April 18, 2017 11:00 am EST There are a few questions raised at the start of season 3, but the characters continue to drive Damon Lindelof and Perrotta’s story. The new season is set three years after the events of season two, and some of them have changed and grown, but others still find themselves lost in this fish-out-of-water chapter of The Leftovers....

Dan Harmon Explains ‘Rick And Morty’ Season 3 Delay By Ethan Anderton/June 26, 2017 4:00 pm EST After the surprise third season premiere debuted on Adult Swim on April Fools’ Day, fans are still waiting to find out when the rest of the episodes of Rick and Morty will make their debut this summer. With no release date officially announced, there’s no telling how much longer we’ll have to wait, but co-creator Dan Harmon recently took to Twitter in a hangover-inspired stream of updates to let fans know why this new season has taken so long to come together....

From Voodoo Rituals To Industrial Fans: All 67 ‘Child’s Play’ Kills Ranked By Matt Donato/Oct. 23, 2017 12:00 pm EST Let’s save wordcount and cut any intro fluff – I have ranked every single Child’s Play kill. From Charles Lee Ray’s very first “death” transference to the final frame of Don Mancini’s latest installation, Cult Of Chucky. Window drops, airbag nail bombs, heart attacks. The works. Why Because Child’s Play helped invigorate a glorious era of slasher dominance and has been inventively tallying a body count for almost 30 years....

Grappling With Disney’s ‘Peter Pan’ On Its 65th Anniversary By Josh Spiegel/Feb. 5, 2018 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Disney Discourse, a recurring feature where Josh Spiegel discusses the latest in Disney news. He goes deep on everything from the animated classics to the theme parks to live-action franchises. In this edition: Peter Pan turns 65 and it’s time to grapple with this popular but problematic classic.) Few stories have endured throughout the last 100-plus years more than the tale of a boy who could fly and never had to grow up....

J.J. Abrams Says The Future Of ‘Star Wars’ Movies Will Include Gay Characters And It’s About Time By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 28, 2016 12:00 pm EST Star Wars: The Force Awakens was important not just because it was the beginning of a new era for the sci-fi saga, but because it began to diversify the franchise to make it inclusive for people of all kinds. Daisy Ridley took the mantle as the strong, lead female character Rey, John Boyega arrived to finally make for another lead black character, and Oscar Isaac brought some Guatemalan flare to the Star Wars universe....

Paul Verhoeven Developing Big Screen Adaptation Of… Jordan Mechner’s Video Game The Last Express? By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2010 10:32 am EST Paul Verhoeven, a director best known for films like Robocop, Starship Troopers, Total Recall and Basic Instinct, hasn’t stepped behind the camera for a few years (2006’s Black Book). But is now appears the filmmaker is developing a big screen adaptation of a video game. The filmmaker told MTV:...

Rian Johnson Turns To The Sacred Jedi Texts To School ‘Last Jedi’ Complainers By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 19, 2018 10:30 am EST Well, well, well. Look what we have here! Rian Johnson, director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, has spent a lot of the promotional time for his hit new Star Wars film having to deflect fan outrage. Long story short: some hardcore Star Wars fans are angry that Johnson took liberties with what they consider to be established Star-lore....

Roger Rabbit 2 Update And 1998 CGI Test Uncovered By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 21, 2010 9:00 am EST Robert Zemeckis has been hinting for years about the possibility of a Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel. In April 2009 he said that he had a good idea for the second installment; on July 22nd he said he’d been discussing the film with Bob Hoskins; and later that month he revealed that the original screenwriters Peter Seaman and Jeffrey Price were working on a script for the follow-up....

Sequel Bits: Magic Mike XXL, Star Trek 3, The Incredibles 2, Ted 2: Raging Bear By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 10, 2014 9:30 am EST In today’s edition of Sequel Bits: Stephen ’tWitch’ Boss has joined the cast of Magic Mike XXL. Bruce Greenwood talks possible Star Trek 3 return. Brad Bird talks about how The Incredibles 2 is progressing. John Cho says Bob Orci is “going to blow people away” with Star Trek 3 All this and more, after the jump....

Star Wars Bits: Ahsoka Tano Gets A Book, ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Questions Answered, And The Secrets Of Building A Great Lightsaber By Jacob Hall/April 13, 2016 4:30 pm EST In today’s edition of Star Wars Bits: Our own Peter Sciretta stops by the Collider Jedi Council. Ahsoka Tano is getting a novel to explain where she went for thirty years. Star Wars Rebels executive producer Dave Filoni answers some burning questions....

Star Wars Bits: Force Awakens, Shattered Empire, Rebels Season 2, BB-8 And Much More By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 4, 2015 12:30 pm EST It has been a long time since that last Star Wars Bits, but Force Friday week has resulted in a lot of front page stand alone Star Wars stories that I’m not sure that you mind. Here is what you can find in today’s edition of Star Wars Bits:...

Star Wars Bits: Force Awakens Trailer Impact, BB-8, Josh Trank, Rogue One, R2-D2 By Germain Lussier/April 21, 2015 10:30 am EST We begin to chronicle the aftermath of Star Wars Celebration in this edition of Star Wars Bits. Below, we’ll discuss the following: An iPhone controlled BB-8 is coming to stores, and a larger version is coming to Disney Parks. Why didn’t Josh Trank come to Star Wars Celebration? Learn the code name for the Josh Trank Star Wars Anthology film....

Superhero Bits: Iron Man 3, Man Of Steel, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Red 2, Amazing Spider-Man 2 By Germain Lussier/April 25, 2013 3:30 pm EST Want to see some character posters for Red 2? Who is the latest actress rumored for X-Men: Days of Future Past? Has the primary filming location for Captain America: The Winter Soldier changed? Which street did Spider-Man hang over shooting The Amazing Spider-Man 2? How much did Michael Shannon like the script for Man of Steel?...