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Praising (And Criticizing) ‘The Strain’ On The Eve Of Its Final Season By Karen Han/July 14, 2017 8:00 am EST This Sunday, The Strain heads into its fourth and final season. Created by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, it’s a horror drama with enviable pedigree and made waves at the time of its premiere in 2014 with its unsettling ad campaign (most of the promo images for the first season featured a worm making its way into an unfortunate victim’s eye, which was eventually taken out of circulation due to complaints) and its new take on vampires....

Rian Johnson Talks With Terry Gilliam About ‘Star Wars Episode VIII’ [Updated With More] By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 19, 2014 9:55 am EST Update from Editor Peter Sciretta: The first part of the podcast was published yesterday, which is what we originally reported on. The second part of the conversation is now online, and I have updated the bottom of this story with additional information including Episode VIII shooting schedule, the process of writing the script and shooting location....

Roger Ebert On “Why I Hate 3-D (And You Should Too)” By Peter Sciretta/April 29, 2010 4:20 pm EST Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic Roger Ebert has been extremely vocal of his dislike of 3D movies. This time he’s even venturing outside his home at the Chicago Sun-Times to write an op-ed piece for Newsweek titled “Why I Hate 3-D (And You Should Too)”. Here is an excerpt of the first paragraph:...

Sequel Bits: ‘Star Trek 4’, ‘Maleficent 2’, ‘Sharknado’, ‘Wreck-It-Ralph 2’, ‘Bumblebee’, ‘The Predator’, ‘To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before’ By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 3, 2018 3:00 pm EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: John Cho is still waiting on info about Star Trek 4 Maleficent 2 wraps production There’s now a Sharknado VR game Hey, do you want to see a photo of the Wreck-It-Ralph 2 score being recorded? David Sobolov, who has contributed voice work to various Transformers games and cartoons, has a role in Bumblebee The Predator gets an IMAX poster There might be a To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before sequel...

Sequel Bits: Spectre, Bridget Jones 3, Neighbors 2, Mallrats 2 By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2015 10:30 am EST There’s a new poster for the James Bond film Spectre, and a couple new banners as well. Check those out below, along with these other stories: Selena Gomez joins Neighbors 2, and Patrick Dempsey joins Bridget Jones’s Baby, Kevin Smith has found his new mall for Mallrats 2, Titles for Ash vs Evil Dead episodes are revealed, Rumor says the Pacific Rim 2 shoot is delayed, Now that Terminator: Genisys is a global success, what about the sequel?...

Star Wars Bits: ‘Episode VII’, Stephen Colbert, NASA, And ‘Splinter Of The Mind’s Eye’ By Angie Han/May 1, 2014 4:30 pm EST We don’t need to tell you that this is a big, big week for Star Wars Episode VII news, starting with the cast announcement yesterday and ending with Star Wars Day on Sunday. After the jump: How did J.J. Abrams manage to pull that cast together? Episode VII won’t keep Adam Driver from Girls Stephen Colbert is not happy with that table read photo Could Star Wars Episode VII cross the $2 billion mark?...

Superhero Bits: Injustice 2 Release Date, Team Thor Part 2, Crossbones Is Dead & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 6, 2017 5:00 pm EST Is there still a chance for Frank Grillo to return as Crossbones in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? When will you be able to see even more of Thor hanging out with his roommate Daryl? What are the most critically acclaimed superhero movies? Will Justice League take us to Arkham Asylum?...

Superhero Bits: The Avengers, Dark Knight Rises, Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men By Germain Lussier/May 7, 2012 11:30 am EST We’ve been away for a few days, but Superhero Bits is back and, predictably, it’s a little Avengers heavy. Want to know more about its box office records? Care to see a sneak peak at the Art Of Avengers book? How can you get The Amazing Spider-Man to crawl up your own wall?...

Tarsem Singh’s ‘Immortals’ Trailer Revealed At WonderCon By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2011 8:00 am EST Tarsem Singh’s Immortals had its coming out party at WonderCon in San Francisco this weekend. On Friday they revealed the first character posters for the film, and at the panel on Saturday they screened the first teaser trailer for the film. Find out the details after the jump. While they called it a teaser trailer, it may as well have been a full length trailer as it showed everything....

The Weinstein Company’s ‘Bully’ Battle Heats Up As Exhibitor Organization Threatens To Treat The Film As NC-17 By Russ Fischer/Feb. 28, 2012 5:00 pm EST OK, this is getting absurd. First, let’s recap. Lee Hirsch made a documentary called Bully that takes on the issue of bullying in schools, spurred in part by the suicides of several kids who were victims of bullying. The Weinstein Company is distributing the film, but found the picture tagged with an R rating by the MPAA, thanks to scenes in which kids talk like kids....

TV Bits: ‘Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’, ‘Into The Badlands’, ‘One Day At A Time’ And More By Chris Evangelista/March 29, 2018 5:30 am EST In this edition of TV bits: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles now has a trailer Into the Badlands season 3 has a trailer, too And so does SuperMansion season 3 A new Series of Unfortunate Events featurette One Day at a Time Renewed for Season 3 at Netflix Starz greenlights Gregg Araki and Steven Soderbergh series Now Apocalypse Connie Britton will star in Bravo’s Dirty John...

UPDATED: Andrew DeGraff Maps ‘Lord Of The Rings,’ ‘Star Trek 2,’ ‘Shining’ And Others For Gallery 1988 By Germain Lussier/March 25, 2014 2:00 pm EST The best movie posters transport us into their world. In a single image, they sum up the characters, settings and emotions of a two hour movie. Most posters do this pretty easily, with a crucial image or actor from the movie, but others take the long way....

/Answers: The Dormant Or Failed Movie Series You Want To See Come Back By /Film Staff/Oct. 27, 2017 10:00 am EST Every week in /Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. With Jigsaw reviving the Saw series after a lengthy hibernation period, this week’s edition asks “Which dormant or failed movie series do you want to see make a comeback?” Ben Pearson: F/X I’m guessing most of you haven’t seen the 1986 thriller F/X or its 1991 follow-up F/X 2, but I’d love to see the F/X franchise make a comeback....

‘Captain Marvel’ Bringing Back Clark Gregg As Agent Coulson And A Couple ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Actors By Ethan Anderton/March 26, 2018 10:43 am EST Captain Marvel has been shooting for a few weeks now, but Marvel Studios has just sent out a press release announcing the start of production. That press release also includes the full cast for the film starring Brie Larson as the new cosmic superhero of the title, and it includes a couple characters from Guardians of the Galaxy and a beloved character we haven’t seen since he was killed off in The Avengers in 2012....

‘Cars 3’ Features Unheard Voice Work From The Late Paul Newman As Doc Hudson By Ethan Anderton/June 6, 2017 12:30 pm EST Today, some of the entertainment sites around the web are reporting Paul Newman being credited as one of the many voices in Cars 3. That really shouldn’t be surprising since we heard his voice in one of the trailers for the movie already, but some are questioning what his role may be since Paul Newman passed away back in 2008, making it impossible for any new dialogue to be recorded for his character Doc Hudson, the aged racer who mentored Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson)....

‘Disobedience’ Review: Rachel McAdams Thrillingly Rages Against The Patriarchal Machine [Tribeca] By Marshall Shaffer/April 25, 2018 10:00 am EST It’s easy to remember Rachel McAdams’ most iconic performance, Regina George in Mean Girls, as little more than the ruthlessly hilarious one-liners and cutting GIF-worthy glances on the surface. But there’s so much more bubbling underneath in her performance that makes it iconic. McAdams is a master of presenting a confident, assured front while meaning or feeling something entirely different....

‘Jason Bourne’ - What Did You Think? By Angie Han/July 29, 2016 4:00 pm EST 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum brought Jason Bourne’s saga to a tidy conclusion, but left the door open for a potential return just in case. Nine years later, Universal has finally convinced Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass to fling that door open and reveal exactly what our favorite amnesiac spy has been up to. The answer? Brooding, boxing, and still not knowing a whole lot about his past....

‘Star Wars’ And ‘Star Trek’ Virtual Reality Experiences Reignite Everyone’s Favorite Geeky Debate By Vanessa Armstrong/May 23, 2018 9:00 am EST Dogs vs. Cats. Laurel vs. Yanny. Star Wars vs. Star Trek. These are the debates of our time. The controversy I really care about, however, is the one nerds across the internet argue about constantly: which universe is better — Star Wars or Star Trek? Also, the other two debates are easy: dogs are better and it’s Yanny....

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Tips Into Misery Porn With “Seeds” By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 17, 2018 7:00 am EST (We’re going to kickstart our weekly The Handmaid’s Tale review by answering one simple question: Who suffered the most?) Misery porn isn’t a term that I like to throw around lightly, but man, does The Handmaid’s Tale make me want to. I’m running out of synonyms for “bleak” at this point. It’s no surprise that the show’s sophomore season doubled down on the Emmy-nominated first season’s brilliantly bleak reflection of society, but there comes a tipping point when the despair starts to feel hollow....

‘The Hobbit’ To Be Shot In 3D On New RED Digital Cinema Cameras By Russ Fischer/Nov. 28, 2010 10:00 pm EST There was originally a great deal of speculation about whether or not Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit will be shot in 3D. When Guillermo del Toro was directing the film he seemed resistant to 3D, though he admitted that conversations had taken place about using the tech. Since his departure, remaining producer and new director Peter Jackson has not spoken at length about 3D, though the official press release announcing the green light for the films mentioned that they “will be filmed in Digital 3-D, using the latest camera and stereo technology....