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Showtime Stand Alone Streaming Service Undercuts HBO Now By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2015 10:35 am EST Showtime has finally announced their stand alone streaming service which allow viewers to enjoy every episode of every season of the pay cabler’s original series and select movies without a cable subscription. The Showtime streaming service will undercut HBO’s streaming service HBO Now. Fine out the details, after the jump. Showtime’s Streaming Service which will just be called “Showtime” will only cost consumers $10....

Star Wars Bits: ‘The Last Jedi’ Leaks, More ‘Battlefront 2’ News, Another Actor For Obi-Wan By Lucas Siegel/June 16, 2017 9:30 am EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: The Last Jedi leaks describe characters and more Battlefront 2 book tie-in and voice actors news Donald Glover rocks a 70s Lando ‘stache And more! The new Darth Vader comic by Charles Soule and Giuseppe Camuncoli launched from Marvel Comics last week and it’s chock full of new canon goodness....

Star Wars Bits: Netflix TV Shows, Force Awakens Bit Parts, Rogue One Script And More By Ethan Anderton/July 30, 2015 8:00 am EST I’ve outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers mind you, I’m talking about the big Star Wars Bits now. Here’s the updates we have from a galaxy far, far away this time: Are three live-action Star Wars shows planned for Netflix? Bob Iger has already seen The Force Awakens…mostly....

Superhero Bits: ‘Captain Marvel’ Alternate Timeline Theory, ‘Deadpool 2’ Box Office Tracking & More By Ethan Anderton/March 28, 2018 5:30 pm EST Any interest in playing Marvel Strike Force? Could Green Lantern make an appearance on Krypton? Did you know Emily Blunt was never offered the role of Captain Marvel? How is Deadpool 2 tracking with box office analysts right now? When will social media reactions and review for Avengers: Infinity War hit the web?...

Superhero Bits: Amazing Spider-Man, The Wolverine, Man Of Steel, Thor 2, Dark Knight Rises By Germain Lussier/May 21, 2012 3:00 pm EST Want to see a ton of behind the scenes images from The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man? Why are Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone singing? When does The Wolverine start filming? Will Loki be redeemed in Thor 2? Who is rumored to play Lobo in a new movie? What’s the link between the NBA and The Dark Knight Rises?...

Superhero Bits: Silver & Black Details, Tom Holland’s Pick For Uncle Ben, Marvel Powers United VR & More By Ethan Anderton/July 19, 2017 5:00 pm EST Want to see an alternate Spider-Man: Homecoming suit inspired by Superior Spider-Man? What other Marvel Comics characters will be part of the Silver & Black spin-off movie? Have you heard about Marvel’s new VR game Marvel Powers United? Will Sebastian Stan appear in Black Panther as The Winter Soldier?...

SXSW Movie Review: Stop-Loss By Mel Valentin/March 16, 2008 12:05 am EST Directed and co-written by Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry, The Last Good Breath), Stop Loss dramatizes the U.S. military’s “stop-loss” policy that allows the military to postpone the honorable discharge of U.S. soldiers and send them back to Iraq and Afghanistan for another tour of duty (usually a year to eighteen months). Alas, Stop Loss proves the adage that “good politics don’t make good art....

The Best Teaser Trailers Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2014 5:32 pm EST I love teaser trailers. We live in a day and age where most Hollywood trailers show too much, valuing cool footage over mystery, surprise and a well-constructed edit. There is an art to the teaser trailer. Some filmmakers such as Brad Bird, Christopher Nolan, JJ Abrams, and, yes, Michael Bay, are still able to take creative control over the early marketing and cut awesome packages that are big on excitement and mystery without revealing too much....

TV Bits: ‘The Office’, ‘Bates Motel’, ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Vegas’, ‘Girls’, ‘Californication’, ‘Shameless’, ‘The Walking Dead’, Emmys, And More By Angie Han/Sept. 17, 2012 2:47 pm EST Today’s TV Bits consists of a bit of casting info, some scheduling notes, and several interesting promos. After the jump: Bates Motel casts the Charlie & the Chocolate Factory kid as Norman Isla Fisher and Terry Crews have been added to Arrested Development Breaking Bad’s Jonathan Banks will go gangster on CBS’ Vegas Shameless, House of Lies, and Californication return in January HBO and CBS lead the Creative Arts Emmys with 17 and 13 wins, respectively Revisit familiar faces in the first teaser for Season 2 of Girls See The Office’s newest additions in a new promo for Season 9 Still more American Horror Story: Asylum teasers hit the web Everyone is exhausted in new Walking Dead teaser and stills Bates Motel follows Norman’s teen years, showing how the twisted relationship between the boy and his mother drives him to murder....

Universal And Best Buy Want You To Use Your Cell Phone During Despicable Me!? By Adam Quigley/July 7, 2010 3:00 pm EST Hollywood is in a dark place right now. The world is changing around it, and movie studios are struggling to adapt. We’ve already seen how studios have been trying to incorporate current technology-based trends and developments into everyday practice—whether it be through harnessing the power of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, or combating piracy with digital downloads—but so far none of these attempts have been met with much success or enthusiasm....

What Do You Make Of This ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Theory About Darth Vader And Kylo Ren? By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 21, 2015 7:30 am EST We’re just under three months away from the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and just last week we actually got confirmation that we’ll be able to see the movie a little earlier than December 18th with showings beginning at 7pm at some theaters on December 17th (as expected)....

‘A Quiet Place’ Is A Step Forward For Disabled Characters In Hollywood Movies By Kristen Lopez/April 9, 2018 9:00 am EST As audiences become more adept at understanding misrepresentations of women, race, and sexuality, the landscape is slowly turning towards acknowledging the lack of proper representation of disabled people. More than any genre, interestingly, it is horror that has covered disability in new and unique ways. Last year, Jordan Peele’s Get Out subtly interrogated the nuances between race and disability between its main character Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and Stephen Root’s blind Jim Hudson....

‘American Crime Story’ Review: ‘Ascent’ Marks The Beginning Of The End By Chris Evangelista/March 8, 2018 8:00 am EST This week’s American Crime Story review takes a look at the latest episode of The Assassination of Gianni Versace, “Ascent.” Spoilers follow. 1992 The two intertwined plotlines on this week’s American Crime Story involve future serial killer Andrew Cunanan and future fashion designer Donatella Versace both coming into their own, in very different ways....

‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ Finds Marvel’s Emotional Core And Its Greatest Hero By Siddhant Adlakha/April 6, 2018 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Road to Infinity War, a new series where we revisit the first 18 movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and ask “How did we get here?” In this edition: Captain America: The First Avenger offers Marvel Studios a proper moral compass.) Steve Rogers is the heart and soul of the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

‘Cars 3’ Early Buzz: Is It The First ‘Cars’ Film Worthy Of The Pixar Brand? By Peter Sciretta/June 12, 2017 10:00 am EST Cars 3 premiered over the weekend in Anaheim, California and I was in attendance, despite the fact this Pixar mega-fan does not love the Cars franchise. So, what did I think? And what are the other critics saying? Read on to check out the reaction to Pixar’s latest in the first Cars 3 reviews....

‘Ender’s Game’ Set Visit: 30 Things We Learned About The Film And Battle Room [Video Blog] By Germain Lussier/Aug. 28, 2013 10:00 am EST When meeting Harrison Ford isn’t the highlight of your day, that’s a day for the ages. On the New Orleans set of Ender’s Game, the man who played Han Solo, Indiana Jones and Rick Deckard was there and I shook his hand. Incredibly, though, that moment was topped when I realized director Gavin Hood had figured out a way to make kids fly in zero gravity....

/Film Goes To Disneyland, Club 33 And The Disney Animation Research Library By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2009 10:48 am EST A couple weeks ago I traveled down to Los Angeles for a very unusual press day for Disney Animation Studio’s new film The Princess and the Frog. Disney is really hoping to promote the return to hand drawn animation with an old school Disney look and feel, and took a group of online journalists on a day trip to Disneyland where we went behind the scenes, back to the Walt Disney Archives in Burbank, before seeing some never before seen footage from Frog, and talking to directors Ron Clements and John Musker....

‘Flight’ Review: Robert Zemeckis Pilots A Bumpy Return To Live-Action [NYFF] By Angie Han/Oct. 16, 2012 12:00 pm EST After a dozen-year stretch in Uncanny Valley, Robert Zemeckis has returned to the world of live-action with the substance abuse drama Flight. It’s not the smoothest ride. The film’s alcoholism plotline veers toward the generic, the symbolism is often so blunt as to be laughable, and the supporting players are mostly one-note....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 6 Trailer Breakdown: Serious Spoilers, Crazy Theories, And Wild Speculation By Jacob Hall/March 9, 2016 10:00 am EST Yesterday, the trailer for Game of Thrones season 6 arrived. And you know what that means for today: we’re going to take a deep dive into this thing, explore every nook and cranny, and see what secrets we can find. And trust me. this preview is chock-full of goodness....

‘Guardians’ Director James Gunn’s Top 50 Horror Movies Of All Time By Ben Pearson/Oct. 24, 2017 3:00 pm EST James Gunn knows a thing or two about horror movies. Before he became known for his work on the Guardians of the Galaxy movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he got his start working for the low-budget studio Troma, where he wrote Tromeo & Juliet, and he went on to write the fantastic 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead and made his feature directorial debut with 2006’s Slither, a creature feature starring Nathan Fillion....