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Release Dates: ‘War Horse’ And ‘Tintin’ Changes; ‘Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol’ Opens Early In IMAX; ‘Gangster Squad’ Dated By Russ Fischer/Sept. 29, 2011 6:00 am EST The past few hours saw a whole bunch of release date shuffles as both of Steven Spielberg’s 2011 releases, The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse, got new US dates, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol will now open five days earlier than planned, but will only play in IMAX for those days, and Gangster Squad gets a 2012 release date that positions it for Oscar....

Superhero Bits: The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises, Stan Lee, Black Widow By Germain Lussier/May 9, 2012 1:00 pm EST Why will Avengers 2 be much more difficult to assemble for Disney? Want to read an in-depth interview with composer Alan Silvestri? Does Matthew Modine think The Dark Knight Rises will beat The Avengers at the box office? Would you like to see a bunch of new images from The Amazing Spider-Man?...

SXSW 2016 Movies: Feature Film Lineup Announced By Angie Han/Feb. 2, 2016 1:30 pm EST We only just closed the book on Sundance 2016, but it’s already time to look ahead to one of the year’s other major festivals: South by Southwest, which takes place in Austin, Texas from March 11-19. This year’s lineup includes 139 movies in total, including 89 world premieres and 52 feature debuts. Among the highlights are Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some, Ti West’s In a Valley of Violence, and Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice....

Theme Park Bits: ‘Frozen’ On Stage, ‘The Jungle Book: Alive With Magic,’ And A Brief Glimpse Of ‘Skull Island: Reign Of Kong’ By Jacob Hall/June 2, 2016 10:00 am EST In today’s Theme Park Bits: Watch footage from Frozen: Live at the Hyperion. Explore the new The Jungle Book: Alive With Magic Show. A look at the problems plaguing Shanghai Disneyland. Watch Shanghai Disneyland’s stunning fireworks show. Universal Studios offers a tiny tease of Skull Island: Reign of Kong....

Theme Park Bits: Sea World Announces ‘Sesame Street’ Land, New Previews Inside Florida’s ‘Toy Story’ Land By Joshua Meyer/May 6, 2018 9:00 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: See the star-studded grand opening of Fast & Furious – Supercharged at Universal Orlando. A land themed to Sesame Street is coming to Sea World Orlando. The Ferris wheel at Disney California Adventure has a new name. Explore 360-degree ride footage of Avatar – Flight of Passage....

This Week In Trailers: My Name Is Khan, Jerry Cotton, Bushido 16, 9:06, Celine: Through The Eyes Of The World And More By Christopher Stipp/Jan. 9, 2010 6:13 am EST There was no column last week, so what better way to kick off a year that saw so many great trailers than by giving you a double-dose of some of the most noteworthy trailers so far in 2010? North Face Trailer...

What Secrets Lie Within These ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Posters? By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 11, 2017 1:30 pm EST Come along then, let us be on our way to scrutinize the marketing material for Star Wars: The Last Jedi! We’ve already attempted to dissect the secrets within the recent trailer, but what about the new posters? Both the new poster and a new IMAX standee seem to hold secrets, and only you and I can decode them, dear reader....

‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ Interviews: John Goodman And Mary Elizabeth Winstead Offer Tips For Surviving The Apocalypse By Angie Han/March 9, 2016 7:00 am EST The Cloverfield connection is definitely helping build buzz for 10 Cloverfield Lane, even if it’s more of a spiritual link than a narrative one. But in truth, we were sold on this movie long before we knew what it’d be called. Dan Trachtenberg’s directorial debut brings together three top-notch talents – John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and John Gallagher Jr....

‘Better Call Saul’ Finds Jimmy McGill About To Go Up In ‘Smoke’ By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 7, 2018 7:00 am EST Welcome to our weekly review-recaps of Better Call Saul season 4. Each week, we’ll delve deep into the Breaking Bad prequel series, with spoilers galore. This week kicks-off with the season 4 premiere, “Smoke.” “Gene” Every Better Call Saul season checks-in on the current whereabouts of the man formerly known as Jimmy McGill and Saul Goodman....

Davos Picks a Side When the credits roll at the end of “The Red Woman,” Jon Snow, the murdered Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, is still dead. His return can’t help but feel inevitable, but the how and when of it will have to wait for another episode. All that matters right now is his assassination has divided the Watch and transformed Castle Black into a low-key siege story. Alliser Thorne and the other mutineers aren’t going to let those loyal to the bastard of Winterfell hole in the Lord Commander’s chambers with Jon’s dead body forever…and those inside know they have to last long enough for Edd to return with the Wildling reinforcements he has rushed out to recruit....

By Angie Han/March 1, 2017 12:30 pm EST Last night, Marvel Studios premiered the new trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. And because we are nothing if not predictable, you know what that means: it’s time to comb through this footage frame by frame and figure out what it tells us about the new movie. (The fact that it doubles as an excuse to coo at all the new shots of Baby Groot is just the icing on the cake....

‘Inferno’ Review: Another Cold And Distant Robert Langdon Movie By Jack Giroux/Oct. 28, 2016 7:30 am EST Inferno is similar to Ron Howard’s past Dan Brown adaptations, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. Again, there’s top-tier talent both in front of and behind the camera, but the final result doesn’t reach the level of quality we typically expect from Howard and Tom Hanks. Their latest collaboration is held back by some tedious exposition, repetitive foot chases, some underwhelming twists and turns, and one sorely underused talented actor....

‘Lights Out’ Filmmakers Talk Hiding The Monster And Honoring The Short [Wondercon] By Fred Topel/March 29, 2016 5:00 am EST While James Wan was at Wondercon presenting his own sequel The Conjuring 2, he also presented a new horror film he produced. Lights Out is based on a Swedish short film of the same name that has garnered over 150 million views online. /Film spoke to the director, David F. Sandberg, producer Lawrence Grey, actor Maria Bello and Sandberg’s wife Lotta Losten, who starred in the short and recreated a different version of the two minute scene in the feature film....

‘Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday’ Director John Lee On Being The Right Kind Of Monster [SXSW Interview] By Jacob Hall/March 23, 2016 8:00 am EST Director John Lee seems, at first, to be an odd fit for a Pee-wee Herman movie. With writing and directing credits that include Wonder Showzen, Inside Amy Schumer, Broad City, and The Heart, She Holler, Lee seems to exist in a darker, more pointed universe than the colorful, silly world of Paul Reubens’ iconic character....

‘Saturday Night Live’ And Kevin Hart Deliver One Disappointing Christmas Episode By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 17, 2017 9:00 am EST Usually the Christmas episode of Saturday Night Live is an exciting, joyous, hilarious star-studded affair. With Kevin Hart hosting the final episode of 2017, it seemed like a safe bet that this episode would deliver the goods, maybe even with some help from his Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle co-stars Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black and Karen Gllian....

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Ditches The Iron Spider Suit, May Hint At Tragedy In ‘Avengers 4’ By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 2, 2018 9:30 am EST Spider-Man: Far From Home is in production right now in London. Tom Holland and the rest of the cast are on set and hard at work to bring the second installment of the Spider-Man franchise to theaters in the summer of 2019. Details are sparse on the sequel other than the fact that it will take Peter Parker and his classmates abroad for a summer vacation, hence the title that Tom Holland “accidentally” revealed not too long ago....

‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Brings Multiple Dimensions Together, Including Spider-Ham [Comic-Con 2018] By Ethan Anderton/July 20, 2018 8:36 pm EST We’ve had three big screen versions of Spider-Man over the past couple decades, but we’ve never had a wallcrawler like the one we’ll see in this fall’s animated comic book movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. This time, it’s young Miles Morales (Shameik Moore of Dope) taking the mantle of Spider-Man, but he’s not the only one with spider-like super powers....

‘Star Trek 4’ Will Bring Back Chris Hemsworth As Captain Kirk’s Father By Ethan Anderton/July 18, 2016 8:40 am EST UPDATE: Paramount has officially announced that a fourth Star Trek movie is in development and that yes, it will somehow find a way to bring Chris Hemsworth’s George Kirk into the fold. Time travel has played a major role throughout Star Trek’s 50-year history (heck, it played a major role in the mere existence of these newest movies), so this unlikely reunion is perfectly in line with what has come before....

‘The Leftovers’: Damon Lindelof Teases Final Scene, Season 3 To Premiere In 2017 By Jack Giroux/June 24, 2016 3:30 pm EST With season two of HBO’s The Leftovers, showrunner Damon Lindelof and all involved were telling a story about geography. The show picked up and moved to Jarden, Texas, for thematic reasons, and, by moving to Australia, season three is pulling a similar move. In December, it was announced season three is the final season of The Leftovers, which, Lindelof says, will conclude with an ending they’ve structured the entire upcoming chapter around....

12 Directors We Want For ‘Mission: Impossible 6’ By Angie Han/Aug. 28, 2015 9:15 am EST Two decades and five installments in, the Mission: Impossible franchise might be stronger than ever. In part, that’s because of the series’ commitment to working with great directors who put their own stamp on the series. The most recent, Rogue Nation, was helmed by Jack Reacher’s Chris McQuarrie, following in the footsteps of Brad Bird, J....