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‘Just A Breath Away’ Is ‘The Mist’ Meets ‘A Quiet Place’ In Paris [Fantasia Film Festival] By Sarah Foulkes/July 17, 2018 7:00 am EST Supposedly, if you want to know how wealthy someone is in Beijing, you simply ask them what floor they live on. The bigger the number, the wealthier they are. To live above the air pollution is a much coveted position, one which, in the case of the protagonists of Dans La Brume (the film’s English title is Just a Breath Away), can be a fate changer....

‘New Kids Turbo’ And ‘Penumbra’ Mini-Reviews [Fantastic Fest 2011] By Germain Lussier/Sept. 26, 2011 2:00 pm EST I’d be willing to be a very small percentage of you have heard of either New Kids Turbo or Penumbra, which makes sense as neither is from a huge hot bed of film. New Kids Turbo is hard-R rated, gross out comedy from the Netherlands based on a successful sketch TV show and Penumbra is an Argentinian film about a real estate deal gone horribly, horribly wrong....

‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Trailer Breakdown: Going Through The First Teaser Frame-By-Frame By Jacob Hall/April 7, 2016 8:00 am EST Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has been flying under the radar, waiting for everyone to fully exhaust themselves on Star Wars: The Force Awakens before revealing itself. And oh boy, has it revealed itself. The first trailer is here and it’s a doozy, filled with all kinds of incredible imagery, promising characters, and, for the lack of a more elegant phrase, really cool stuff....

‘Spectre’ Could Be Longest Bond Movie Ever; Regal Unveils $100 Unlimited ‘Spectre’ Ticket By Angie Han/Sept. 15, 2015 7:30 am EST Not only are we being treated to a new Bond movie this fall, we may be getting more Bond than ever before. Spectre has a reported running time approaching three hours, making it the lengthiest 007 installment to date. But if that’s still not enough Bond for you, you’re in luck....

‘The Haunting’ TV Series Coming From Netflix And Director Mike Flanagan By Jacob Hall/April 10, 2017 2:00 pm EST It looks like Netflix is happy to stay in the Mike Flanagan business. The ever-busy horror director has signed on to make a 10-episode series based on Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House, which has been previously adapted for the big screen twice, once in 1963 and once in 1999....

‘The Muppets’ Early Buzz: Kermit And Miss Piggy’s Return To Primetime Garners Mixed Reviews By Angie Han/Sept. 18, 2015 6:30 am EST Now that 2011’s The Muppets and 2014’s Muppets Most Wanted have revitalized the Muppets brand, Kermit and company are heading back to their home turf: television. ABC’s new The Muppets series unfolds behind the scenes of Up Late With Miss Piggy, following the trials and tribulations of its cast and crew....

Acquisitions: Relativity Picks Up Edgar Allan Poe Thriller ‘The Raven;’ Sony Takes Morgan Spurlock’s ‘The Greatest Movie Ever Sold’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 20, 2011 12:00 pm EST James McTeigue (V For Vendetta, Ninja Assassin) is putting the finishing touches on The Raven, which stars John Cusack as author Edgar Allan Poe. The story is a fictionalized look at the writer’s last days, when he embarks upon a search for a killer who may be copying events from Poe’s novels....

After ‘Atomic Blonde’ And ‘Girls Trip,’ It’s Time To Redefine ‘Chick Flick’ By Vanessa Bogart/Aug. 9, 2017 1:15 pm EST (Welcome to What Women Watch, a series exploring what modern women are watching, and loving, on the big and small screens. In this edition, we examine how the films being made for women are changing for the better, as seen in movies like Atomic Blonde and Girls Trip.) Last week, I went to see Atomic Blonde and I left that theater feeling like a badass....

Bong Joon-Ho Talks About Using Violence, Writing An English Script, And Getting Final Cut For ‘Snowpiercer’ By David Chen/June 27, 2014 9:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After some protracted disagreements with the Weinstein Company, Bong Joon-Ho’s Snowpiercer will finally hit theaters this weekend in the form that Bong intended. I’ve been a huge fan of Bong Joon-Ho since I saw Memories of Murder on DVD years ago....

Bryan Singer Says ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Will “Fix” ‘X-Men: The Last Stand;’ Also Talks Larger X-Men Universe, Returning Characters And More By Germain Lussier/Feb. 22, 2013 11:33 am EST Bryan Singer’s first two X-Men movies are generally very well-regarded. They were so well-regarded, in fact, that Singer was given the keys to the biggest superhero of them all: Superman, leaving the door open for Brett Ratner to direct the third film, X-Men: The Last Stand....

Darren Lynn Bousman Returns For SAW 4 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 20, 2007 5:44 am EST Darren Lynn Bousman has signed on to return for SAW 4. Bousman directed the two previous popular SAW sequels. Late last year Lionsgate announced that a fourth film would be released on October 26th 2007. Bousman’s return seems like a last ditch move. Especially considering the fact that Bousman publicly announced his departure from the SAW series late last year....

Disney Confirms Robert Zemeckis’ 3D Yellow Submarine By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 11, 2009 12:26 pm EST Walt Disney Studios has confirmed trade reports that Robert Zemeckis will be directing a performance capture 3D adaptation of the 1968 film Yellow Submarine, which will include 16 licensed Beatles songs. Full details are included in the press release below. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETHE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS, THE BEATLES’ APPLE CORPS LTD. , AND OSCAR®-WINNING FILMMAKER ROBERT ZEMECKIS DIVE INTO NEW MAGICAL 3D ADAPTATION OF THE 1968 CLASSIC YELLOW SUBMARINE Anaheim, California — September 11, 2009 — The Walt Disney Studios has made a deal with Apple Corps Ltd....

Godzilla 2 Will Be “Bigger” And “Better”, Japan’s ‘Godzilla’ Reboot Will Feature Amazing Hybrid Effects By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 11, 2015 11:30 am EST Godzilla scribe Max Borenstein, who was brought back to script Godzilla 2, is speaking out for the first time giving us an idea of what we might expect from the monster sequel — and he’s throwing around words like “bigger” and “better”. Also we learn the details behind the hybrid visual effects that will make up Toho’s Godzilla reboot....

Guillermo Del Toro Has Discussed ‘Star Wars’ Ideas With Kathleen Kennedy And John Knoll By Ethan Anderton/April 11, 2017 1:30 pm EST Director Guillermo del Toro is known for having dozens of projects in development while only a few ever come to fruition. Because of that, he’s become a little cautious about discussing any ideas that he has for movies because, as he says, “My IMDB page is made of headlines of a lot of stuff that I’ll never do....

J.J. Abrams Opens Up About ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Problems By Jack Giroux/Dec. 16, 2015 5:00 pm EST Director J.J. Abrams successfully relaunched the Trek franchise with 2009’s Star Trek, and he left audiences excited to go on more adventures with this new crew. But the sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness didn’t ignite the same level of affection that its 2009 predecessor did. It disappointed some fans and audiences, earning even less money, domestically, than the first film....

Jason Reitman’s All-Female Live Read Of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Transcends Gender With Brilliant Performances By Germain Lussier/Feb. 22, 2013 11:00 am EST Maybe it was David Mamet’s script. Maybe it was Jason Reitman’s casting. Most likely it was a combination of both, but the latest live read at Los Angeles County Museum of Art was the stuff of legend. Six women – Mae Whitman, Carla Gugino, Robin Wright, Catherine O’Hara, Melanie Lynskey and Maria Bello – reading the screenplay for Glengarry Glen Ross was the perfect mix of material, personality, chemistry, and energy....

Miles Morales’ Spider-Man Finally Enters The Real Marvel Universe, Still Isn’t In The Movies By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2015 8:45 am EST Its been almost four years since Marvel revealed they would be introducing a half-Black, half-Hispanic Spider-Man named Miles Morales. But the character was part of the Ultimate Marvel Universe, which means that he remained part of a side universe sector of the Marvel Universe, which also included its own version of the classic Peter Parker character....

Movie Trailer: ‘Rabbit Hole’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 22, 2010 2:15 pm EST Based on the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, Rabbit Hole is a drama directed by John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as parents dealing with the death of their child. It premiered earlier this year at the Toronto International Film Festival where Lionsgate picked it up to release for Oscar consideration....

Netflix’s ‘Sabrina’ Is Officially Titled ‘Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina’ By Chris Evangelista/May 2, 2018 2:00 pm EST Netflix’s Untitled Sabrina Project now has a title: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. The show will be an adaptation of the Archie Comics series of the same name, adapted from the classic Sabrina the Teenage Witch comics. More on the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina show below. Netflix has finally given a name to their horror-centric update of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and what a familiar name it is....

Netflix Scares Up ‘The Haunting Of Hill House’ Images, Reveals Halloween Season Release Date By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 27, 2018 7:30 am EST Mike Flanagan is bringing Shirley Jackson’s classic haunted house novel The Haunting of Hill House to Netflix – just in time for Halloween. New, enigmatic Haunting of Hill House images have arrived online, and with them, the official release date of the new series from the director of Oculus and Gerald’s Game....