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Star Wars Bits: Curling With BB-8, Lucasfilm’s Porg Cake, And ‘Battlefront II’ Easter Eggs By Rosie Knight/Feb. 28, 2018 4:00 pm EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: BB-8 Goes to the Winter Olympics Lucasfilm loses their minds over a very creepy porg cake J.J. Abrams drops some unexpected Episode 9 news A lot of Star Wars: Rebels spoilers, so fans beware! And much more. If you’ve been on the internet at any point in the last week, you’ve probably been swept up in Winter Olympics fever, and like any other pop culture event, it’s already crossed the streams with Star Wars!...

Superhero Bits: The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises, Black Widow, Green Lantern By Germain Lussier/Feb. 7, 2012 1:00 pm EST What would it look like if other filmmakers took over the Batman franchise after Christopher Nolan? Want to see a new promo shot of the full Avengers team? What are the hidden clues in the new trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man? How much can you buy a Dark Knight Rises “themed” potato chip for?...

Sylvester Stallone Confirms The Return Of Ivan Drago For ‘Creed 2’ [Updated] By Ethan Anderton/July 24, 2017 8:05 am EST Update: This past weekend, Sylvester Stallone posted a photo on Instagram with the hashtag #drago, which is yet another piece of confirmation that a member of the Drago family will be a character in Creed 2. Read our original article from July 5 below for speculation about how this might play out in the sequel....

The First Poster For Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’ Is Here By Jacob Hall/Dec. 12, 2016 9:00 am EST UPDATE: A second teaser poster has been released and we’ve added it below. How about we imagine a modern movie poster? Close you eyes. Now conjure up the proper poster shape. That’s the blank canvas upon which we will mentally photoshop our eye-catching motion picture advertisement. Think hard. What do we need? How about text calling attention to the director’s past work?...

Theme Park Bits: ‘Star Wars’ VR Experience Preview, ‘Peanuts’ Celebration At Knott’s Berry Farm, And More By Joshua Meyer/Jan. 7, 2018 7:00 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Get a sneak peek of the VR attraction Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire. The Edison is now open and drawing 5-star reviews at Disney Springs. Find out about the Wrinkle in Time preview coming to Disney parks. See video of the Hogwarts New Year’s Eve fireworks at Universal Studios....

This Week In Trailers: Pick It Up! Ska In The ’90s, Skate Kitchen, The King, Volcano, The Belly Of The Whale By Christopher Stipp/June 23, 2018 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Trivia: Chris Columbus Almost Directed ‘Spider-Man’ Instead Of Sam Raimi By Ethan Anderton/July 30, 2015 5:30 am EST Back in the year 2000, director Steven Spielberg had been slated to direct Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, but he passed on the project, opting to take his career in a different direction by taking on both A.I. Artificial Intelligence (check out a recent visual study of the film) and Minority Report (which is being turned into a TV series)....

TV Bits: ‘Community’, ‘The Office’, ‘Revolution’, ‘Mockingbird Lane’, ‘The Following’, ‘Magic City’, ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ricky Gervais, And More By Angie Han/Jan. 7, 2013 10:17 am EST With the semi-annual Television Critics Association press tour in full swing, there’s no shortage of TV news at the start of this week. After the jump: Ryan Murphy’s Normal Heart is coming to HBO Ricky Gervais’ Life’s Too Short will end this season Sarah Michelle Gellar is returning to TV with a comedy NBC explains why it passed on Mockingbird Lane Community’s fourth season will have “more heart” Up All Night loses its creator as it undergoes a revamp Steve Carell will probably never return to The Office Revolution’s midseason premiere gets a new trailer Watch a promo for Kevin Williamson’s The Following Starz offers trailers for Magic City and Da Vinci’s Demons While Stephen Merchant plugs away at his upcoming HBO series Hello Ladies, he’s also preparing to say goodbye to his old HBO show Life’s Too Short....

‘30 Minutes Or Less’ Set Visit And Interview With Director Ruben Fleischer By Adam Quigley/May 11, 2011 10:30 am EST Many of you have likely heard the perplexing tale of Brian Wells, a pizza delivery man who had a bomb strapped to his chest and was instructed to rob a bank. (For those who are unfamiliar, Wired wrote a fascinating and thorough recap of the event.) Such a tragic story would not seem to lend itself to a comedy, and yet, that very premise is serving as the basis for this summer’s 30 Minutes or Less....

‘A Dark Song’ Makes Occult Magic Scary (And Human) Again [Fantastic Fest Review] By Jacob Hall/Sept. 29, 2016 2:30 pm EST If your average horror movie is an indication, the occult is a piece of cake. Grab a dusty old tome from your local library, pick up a Ouija board, light a candle or two and voila! You’re ready to open a portal, summon a demon, or cleanse a house of a vengeful spirit....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’: The Russo Brothers Reveal Three Relationships They Want To Explore By Jack Giroux/May 5, 2016 7:00 am EST It’s no secret Avengers: Infinity War – Part 1 and Part II are going to be big movies. Directors Anthony & Joe Russo have called the sequels the Nashville of superhero movies, “a culmination of everything that’s occurred in the Marvel Universe up to the point where the Marvel Universe is released....

‘Clerks’ Director Kevin Smith Is Recovering From A Massive Heart Attack By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 26, 2018 7:30 am EST Over the weekend, we almost lost a beloved director who has become an influential voice in the world of geekdom through a media empire that spans film, television and podcasts. Kevin Smith, best known for directing the indie comedy Clerks and building his own movie universe with films like Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma and Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, suffered a massive heart attack while doing a couple stand-up shows over the weekend in Glendale, California....

‘Cloud Atlas’ Six Minute Trailer: A Quick Guide To The Genre-Hopping Epic From Tom Tykwer And The Wachowskis By Russ Fischer/July 26, 2012 9:30 am EST We’ve finally got a chance to see footage from Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski’s genre-hopping and centuries-spanning epic Cloud Atlas. If you just want to watch the footage, hit the jump now. But once you’ve seen that, I expect those who haven’t read the book might be wondering just what the hell is going on....

‘Foxtrot’ Review: Tragedy And Comedy Intermingle In One Of The Best Movies Of 2017 [TIFF] By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 18, 2017 3:00 pm EST Comedy and tragedy are usually treated as two wildly different emotions – the Golden Globes even consider them so different as to break up their film awards into two tracks on those lines. But for a writer/director like Samuel Maoz, the dichotomy is not so clear-cut. His new film Foxtrot, the stealth sensation of 2017’s fall festival season, evinces how these two experiences are not opposites, but rather two sides of the same coin....

‘Sharp Objects’: The Shiny “Cherry” With A Dark, Hard Pit By Meredith Borders/Aug. 13, 2018 7:00 am EST This week’s Sharp Objects is all about the ways that we take our pain out on ourselves instead of others. Camille turns all of her anguish, grief, rage and guilt inwards, while the women in her life – Adora, Amma, even Jackie – use it as a weapon on those that surround them....

‘Sing’ Extended Trailer: Cute Animated Animals Sing Slightly Stale Pop Hits By Angie Han/July 7, 2016 1:30 pm EST If you’re a big fan of movies about animated animals doing stuff, 2016 must be a banner year for you. We’ve already seen Kung Fu Panda 3, Zootopia, Angry Birds, and Finding Dory, and The Secret Life of Pets and Ice Age: Collision Course still on the way this summer. Then the end of the year brings Sing, Illumination Entertainment’s take on an American Idol-style show....

‘Soul Surfer’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2011 1:30 pm EST Earlier this month, a in-house promotional teaser trailer leaked for Soul Surfer, a drama about young, teenage surfer girl (played by Bridge To Terabithia/Race To Witch Mountain’s AnnaSophia Robb) who “summons the courage to go back into the ocean after losing an arm in a shark attack.” When I posted the teaser, I was kind of weirded out that it contained no hint of a shark attack — the teaser made it out like the film is just a happy-go-lucky story about a teenage girl surfer....

‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Villains Could Rewrite Franchise History By Germain Lussier/Aug. 15, 2014 11:14 am EST Rumors surrounding the villains of Star Wars Episode VII have been running rampant since before the cast was announced. Could Han Solo and Princess Leia’s kid become a Sith, much like in the Expanded Universe? Would Luke Skywalker himself turn to the dark side? When the cast was announced, we examined the photo trying to guess who the bad guy would be....

‘The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies’ Early Buzz: Peter Jackson Ends His Journey In Middle-Earth By Germain Lussier/Dec. 1, 2014 4:00 pm EST December is upon us, which means there are mere days until the final Peter Jackson Middle-Earth film comes to theaters. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies opens December 17 and the review embargo just broke. Let’s just say the notes aren’t as good as the ones for the final Lord of the Rings film, which won 11 Oscars including Best Picture....

‘The Master’ Trivia: Paul Thomas Anderson Reworked Unused ‘There Will Be Blood’ Ideas, Laments Focus On Scientology Connection [Updated With Clip And San Francisco Screening Info] By Russ Fischer/Aug. 20, 2012 2:56 pm EST A new Paul Thomas Anderson film is an event, and his latest, The Master, is already the subject of intense scrutiny even before the film opens. That opening date is September 14 in some cities, September 21 in others, but screenings have taken place in Santa Monica, Chicago, and New York....