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There Will Be Blood Review By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 6, 2007 1:25 pm EST I flew back from the junket-filled weekend in Los Angeles to attend a super special screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood at the famous Castro Theater in San Francisco. There were no advance ticket sales, only cash at the door, with the proceeds going to charity. One fan waited in line from 7:30am to see the film, and when I arrived at 5:30pm for the 7:30pm screening, the line was down the street, and around the block, into a parking lot behind the theater....

Toy Fair 2018: Check Out The Coolest Movie & TV Toys Coming To Shelves By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 20, 2018 9:00 am EST This past weekend, Toy Fair 2018 kicked off in New York City. Tons of new toys were shown off by a myriad of manufacturers, and that includes new action figures and collectibles from some of our favorite movies and TV shows. Here are the best reveals for new releases from Stranger Things 2, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Infinity War, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Stephen King’s It, Black Panther, Star Wars, The Real Ghostbusters, and more....

Song Selection The most successful live musicals come from beloved, enduring stories. The ratings bear this out. Of the modern iterations, The Sound of Music is still tops, followed by Grease with 12.206 million viewers and The Wiz with 11.498 million viewers. But if you look at the musicals with the worst ratings, you’ll see some less familiar faces.A Christmas Story drew the smallest audience to date, with just 4.481 million viewers — and it’s hard to imagine any other outcome....

‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ Viral Begins To Reveal Backstory Connections To ‘Cloverfield’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2016 12:00 pm EST A viral campaign for 10 Cloverfield Lane has begun, and it seems to connect directly with the augmented reality game (ARG) for Matt Reeves’ original Cloverfield. Earlier this month we explained how Tagruato (the Japanese drilling company that produced Slusho that was likely responsible for unleashing the Cloverfield monster on New York City) had new activity on the interwebs....

‘Blindspotting’ Co-Writer And Star Rafael Casal On His Hothead Character And The Gentrification Of Oakland [Interview] By Joi Childs/Aug. 3, 2018 8:00 am EST Rafael Casal has a lot to say in limited time. His film Blindspotting premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year and was released in theaters in late July. The Oakland artist, in every sense of the word, co-wrote the film’s script with his friend, collaborator and co-star Daveed Diggs (of Hamilton fame)....

‘DuckTales’ Cast Adds Paul F. Tompkins, Jim Rash, Margo Martindale & More By Ethan Anderton/June 8, 2017 1:00 pm EST We’ve already gotten a glimpse at the upcoming reboot of the animated series DuckTales coming to Disney XD sometime this August, along with details on the cast that includes plenty of fantastic talent like David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck and Danny Pudi, Ben Schwartz, and Bobby Moynihan as his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie....

‘Friday The 13th’ Sequel May Investigate Jason’s Immortality; Producer Offers Story And Budget Update By Germain Lussier/Feb. 13, 2015 11:00 am EST Today is Friday the 13th and you’re probably seen images of Jason Voorhees, the killer at the center of the crazy successful Friday the 13th franchise, all over social media. The last film in the series was released in 2009 and a sequel has been in works since then....

‘Mr. Robot’ - The 10 Biggest Questions From “Kernel Panic” By Corey Atad/July 21, 2016 11:00 am EST I saw some people down on Mr. Robot’s season premiere last week. While most were right back on board, it seemed like a good number were itching for something a bit more… substantial. The forward momentum, and constantly shifting ground present in the first season seemed to have been halted. Which is a somewhat ridiculous notion considering the state of things in the premiere was all almost entirely new, a recalibration of the story’s status quo in the wake of the events of the finale....

‘Mr. Robot’ - The 5 Things We Learned In The Season 2 Finale By Corey Atad/Sept. 22, 2016 8:45 am EST I strongly suspect Mr. Robot’s second season finale is going to be divisive. The episode itself was actually quite straightforward—hardly the mindtrip we got last week, which sent some viewers into a tizzy over whether the show might just be too much for them. The trouble the Mr. Robot has run into, rather, is that its first season was merely the beginning of something larger, and now that we’re piecing together that larger story, the smaller moments can come across as less consequential....

‘Prison Break’ Revival Is “All Killer, No Filler” [Comic-Con 2016] By Fred Topel/July 26, 2016 6:00 am EST San Diego Comic-Con got a first look at the upcoming limited series Prison Break, picking up after the original four seasons and straight to video movie. Series creator Paul Scheuring got the band back together, after leaving the show in capable hands for seasons three and four. We spoke to the new series’ producers Vaun Wilmott and Michael Horowitz in a roundtable about bringing Prison Break back....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Trailer Breakdown: A Frame-By-Frame Examination Of The New Footage By Jacob Hall/Oct. 10, 2017 10:00 am EST In case you didn’t notice, the new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi arrived last night. But of course, you noticed. You’ve probably watched it a hundred times by now. And you know what that means: it’s time for a Star Wars The Last Jedi trailer breakdown where we go through the whole thing frame-by-frame to talk over the tiny details....

‘Westworld’ Season 2 Will Arrive In The Spring Of 2018 [Updated] By Jacob Hall/July 27, 2017 11:07 am EST Update: Fresh off the first trailer from Comic-Con, HBO has announced that Westworld season 2 will arrive in the Spring of 2018. Not exact date has been given yet. Our original Comic-Con post, complete with the new trailer, continues below. Westworld season 2 has only been filming for a week, but that didn’t stop HBO’s ambitious science fiction series from bringing a few minutes of footage to Comic-Con 2017....

Celebrate Veteran’s Day With ‘The Finest Hours’ Trailer; Chris Pine Talks Romance And Real-Life Inspiration By Angie Han/Nov. 11, 2015 6:00 am EST Jack Ryan, Star Trek, and now Wonder Woman star Chris Pine is no stranger to hero roles, but there’s something a little different about his next one. The Finest Hours stars Pine as real-life figure Bernie Webber, who on a bitterly cold winter day in 1952 led one of the greatest rescues in the history of the U....

Hulk Hogan Vs. Gawker Movie Coming From ‘Red Sparrow’ Director And ‘Big Short’ Writer By Chris Evangelista/June 11, 2018 4:00 pm EST The Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker trial is getting the big screen treatment from Red Sparrow director Francis Lawrence and Big Short screenwriter Charles Randolph. The film will dramatize wrestler Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media – a lawsuit that sent Gawker into bankruptcy, and closed down the website for good....

I Survived ‘This Is Real,’ The Immersive Experience Where You Escape From A Horror Movie By Alex Riviello/Oct. 16, 2017 10:00 am EST How do you like to spend your free time? Do you enjoy solving puzzles? Making new friends? What about hiding out in a fridge full of dead cockroaches, concealing yourself from a masked, hammer-wielding killer that’s hunting you down? If you’ve ever wanted to experience your very own horror movie you could go to a haunted house…or you could check out This Is Real, a new horror experience from the mastermind behind the legendary Nightmare New York....

Interview With Chuck Palahniuk By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 24, 2008 9:06 pm EST As you probably know, I’m a huge fan of Chuck Palahniuk, best known as the author of Fight Club. I’ve attended, god knows how many of his public events over the years, and got the chance to sit down with Palahniuk in Park City Utah at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to talk about the big screen adaptation of his novel Choke....

Is ‘Total Recall’ The Least Essential Film Of The Summer? By Angie Han/Aug. 6, 2012 11:00 am EST In yet another year brimming with sequels, prequels, remakes, reimaginings, and reboots, it’s all too easy to complain about Hollywood’s lack of creativity. It’s also inaccurate. The Dark Knight Rises may be a threequel based on a comic book, but it’s also an exhilarating, thoughtful realization of one auteur’s vision. 21 Jump Street may very well have started out as a bottom line-obsessed exec’s idea of an quick cash grab, but Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Jonah Hill, Michael Bacall, and Channing Tatum turned it into one of the year’s brightest comedies....

Is Universal Making A New ‘Doom’ Movie? By Ben Pearson/April 20, 2018 1:30 pm EST News about a major Hollywood studio making a new film adaption of a popular video game property is typically revealed through either a splashy official announcement or a journalist’s reporting. But we may have just learned that Universal is making a new Doom movie through a tweet from an actress who’s supposedly involved. Find out more below....

Jon Snow’s True Birth Name Revealed, Plus A Book Update From George R.R. Martin By Ben Pearson/June 16, 2017 3:30 pm EST Season six of HBO’s mega-hit fantasy series Game of Thrones finally answered a question that fans of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels had been speculating about for years: the identity of Jon Snow’s true parents. But a popular publication may have just confirmed something else that’s been the subject of speculation for years: Jon Snow’s real name....

Lucasfilm Delivered One Of The Best Comic-Con Surprises Of All Time By Ethan Anderton/July 13, 2015 8:30 am EST At Comic-Con in San Diego, the panel for Star Wars: The Force Awakens was a nice blend of the new and old. New cast members John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Gwendoline Christie and Domhnall Gleeson were on hand, and classic heroes Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher were also present....