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Huge Plot Spoilers For ‘Iron Man 3’ And ‘Thor: The Dark World’ Revealed By Germain Lussier/Oct. 23, 2012 12:45 pm EST While Marvel has recently released official plot descriptions for Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World, they’re both filled with lots of double speak. Sweeping claims that give absolutely no specifics about the characters or situations in the movie. This, of course, is by design because most people don’t want to read spoilers so far removed from the film’s release, especially when each movie is still shooting....

Interview: JJ Abrams Talks 10 Cloverfield Lane, The “Clover-Verse”, Cannibal Airlines And More By Peter Sciretta/March 10, 2016 11:30 am EST J.J. Abrams is a busy man. Not only did he direct, produce and co-write Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but he still found some time left over in his day to produce a follow-up to Matt Reeves’ POV monster movie Cloverfield.Dan Trachtenberg’s 10 Cloverfield Lane might not be a sequel (although Abrams seems to suggest one could still happen one day), so how does it connect to the original Cloverfield movie?...

Kevin Smith To Direct An Episode Of ‘The Flash’, ‘Vixen’ Star Coming To ‘Arrow’, And More Updates From The CW By Fred Topel/Jan. 10, 2016 9:47 am EST This morning, The CW presented panels to the Television Critics Association. During the Executive Session with president Mark Pedowitz, they made several announcements that will be exciting to fans of their DC properties. Megalyn E.K., who provides the voice of Vixen in the animated CW Seed series of the same title, will be reprise her role in live-action on an episode of Arrow....

Paramount Pictures Pulls ‘The Little Prince’ One Week Before Release In The US By Ethan Anderton/March 13, 2016 2:00 pm EST One week before the animated film was slated to hit theaters in the United States, Paramount Pictures has pulled The Little Prince from its schedule release date of March 18th, 2016. The film has been waiting to hit theaters in the US since debuting at the Cannes Film Festival last year and hitting various international markets afterwards....

Reaction: Harry Potter And The Escape From Gringotts Is Amazing By Peter Sciretta/June 19, 2014 6:00 am EST Last night I attended a special advance preview of Universal Orlando’s The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Diagon Alley expansion. The new land, which opens in Universal Studios Orlando park on July 8th 2014, is incredible. I’ll detail the land further in future posts, but for now I will say this — its much bigger than you could ever expect and contains so much entertainment, so many cool experiences, and pieces of unique merchandise and cool food options....

Star Wars Bits: Force Awakens Opening Crawl? BB-8 Plane, Disneyland Casting Call, JJ Abrams And More By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2015 3:00 pm EST In today’s edition of Star Wars Bits we will take a look at: A sneak preview of the possible opening crawl for Star Wars: The Force Awakens JJ Abrams remembers the first time he saw Star Wars. Disneyland is casting for performers for Star Wars Launch Bay opening in October or November 2015 New Star Wars credit cards that will give cardholders exclusive access to Star Wars meet-and-greets in Disney theme parks....

Star Wars Bits: J.J. Abrams Fulfills The Wish Of A Dying Fan And Jar Jar Binks Gets Exposed As An Evil Mastermind By Jacob Hall/Nov. 6, 2015 12:30 pm EST You want heartwarming Star Wars stories? We’ve got ’em. You want new posters? We’ve got ’em. You want insane fan theories about how Jar Jar Binks is actually a super villain? We’ve got that too! In this edition of Star Wars Bits:...

The Church Steeple In ‘Westworld’: What Does It Mean? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 26, 2016 9:30 am EST We first saw the church steeple we saw in episode 2 “Chestnut” with Anthony Hopkins’ character Doctor Ford leading a boy he met on the outskirts of Westworld to an empty field, where a church steeple stands buried in the sand. We are left wondering what this church steeple represents. Why was Ford admiring it?...

The Mike Judge Interview: Part 1: Extract As Semi-Autobiographical, The Film’s Epic Bong Scene, The Origination Of His Ball Humor, And Issues With Realism In Modern Movies By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 5, 2009 3:24 pm EST Renowned American writer/animator/director Mike Judge and hype often seem like complete strangers. As noted in the press, Judge’s friendly, calm demeanor is devoid of Hollywood pretension; his preference for living and working in Austin, Texas posits him by choice away from the center of the pop-cult radar....

Theme Park Bits: Universal’s New Haunted House, Bobcat Brings The ‘Pain’ To World Of Color, R.I.P. Straws At Disney By Joshua Meyer/July 30, 2018 5:30 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Find out about the newest haunted house coming to Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights. Is a Halloween-themed version of World of Color on the way at Disney California Adventure? Sucking down drinks from a disposable plastic straw at Disney will soon be a thing of the past....

This Week In Trailers: Nostalgia De La Luz (Nostalgia For The Light), How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?, Blood Ties, Tornado Alley By Christopher Stipp/Jan. 14, 2011 5:00 pm 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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

TV Bits: ‘American Horror Story’, ‘Girls’, ‘Parenthood’, ‘Hannibal’, Chuck Lorre, Ricky Gervais, And More By Angie Han/Aug. 2, 2012 7:00 am EST Alums of Friday Night Lights, Roswell, and Wonderfalls find new jobs in this edition of TV Bits. After the jump: American Horror Story’s second season gets titled Shiri Appleby will romance Hannah’s ex on Girls … which, along with Enlightened, will return in January Parenthood adds yet another Friday Night Lights alum Wonderfalls star Caroline Dhavernas joins Hannibal Chuck Lorre will release a $100 coffee table book Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington have a new web series The series will return to FX in October....

Wile E. Coyote Movie In The Works At Warner Bros. By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 29, 2018 7:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Wile E. Coyote may have never been able to catch that jerk the Road Runner, but he is about to land his own feature film. Warner Bros. is developing Coyote Vs. Acme, and they’ve hired Jon and Josh Silberman to pen the script....

‘A Series Of Unfortunate Events’ Review: A Delightfully Unhappy Show By Jack Giroux/Jan. 20, 2017 10:00 am EST Netflix’s adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events is pure Lemony Snicket (a.k.a. Daniel Handler). The author wrote much of season one, based on the first four entries in his 13-part series, and he’s remained appropriately faithful to his melancholic stories. The Netflix series doesn’t shy away from the darker themes found in the Baudelaire children’s journey, but it does go for considerably more laughs than the 2004 film adaptation, making it an entertainingly peculiar mix of slapstick and sadness....

/Film Interview: Kevin Feige Talks Death In The MCU, Comic-Con, Phase Three Rumors And Thanos By Germain Lussier/July 22, 2014 9:23 am EST Over the course of my interview with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, we spoke about two spoilers in Guardians of the Galaxy. Those have been removed to be published at a later date. What remains is an interesting exchange about what’s coming up at Marvel Studios starting as soon as this week’s San Diego Comic-Con, and out to 2019....

/Film UK By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 4, 2009 1:00 am EST Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the cinematic comings and goings here in UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already played in the US, other times it will be films that won’t make it to the States US for a good while yet, and from time to time you’ll read about films that will never make it to the US at all....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Showrunners Get Honest About The Awful Pilot They Had To Reshoot By Jacob Hall/Feb. 4, 2016 12:00 pm EST Game of Thrones is one of those great, unlikely Hollywood success stories. Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss took a complicated series of fantasy novels and, under the care of HBO, crafted a cultural phenomenon. At its best, Game of Thrones makes incorporating dense, compelling characters, and a wide scope into a single package look easy....

‘Generation Wealth’ Review: A Fascinating And Horrifying Examination Of Cultural Excess [Sundance] By Ben Pearson/Jan. 19, 2018 1:45 pm EST “Societies accrue their greatest wealth at the moment they face death,” says one of the talking heads in the opening seconds of Generation Wealth, setting the tone for a documentary that takes a deep dive into the excesses of societies across the globe and surfaces with some disturbing results. You may recognize Lauren Greenfield as the filmmaker behind the 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles, which documented a mega-rich Florida family’s attempt to construct the largest house in the United States....

‘Krypton’ Stumbles Near The Finish Line With “Hope” By Monique Jones/May 17, 2018 9:00 am EST We’re only one episode away from the end of the first season of Krypton, and it feels like this episode,“Hope”, regressed mightily in its attempt to progress the story. Things happened just because. You can clearly tell the writing team was ramping up all of their plotpoints faster than necessary just to get to the point where Brainiac finally shows his true form....

‘Peterloo’ Review: A Different Kind Of Historical Epic [TIFF] By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 16, 2018 12:00 pm EST Mike Leigh intentionally delayed the production and release of his film Peterloo to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the event it portrays, a massacre of peaceful protestors in Manchester by the British Army. Yet its historic status should not obscure that Peterloo is less a moment in time preserved in amber and more of an ongoing struggle....