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Interview: Director Joe Johnston Talks ‘Captain America’ By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2011 3:00 pm EST Over the weekend I got the chance to sit down and talk with Captain America: The First Avenger director Joe Johnston. Johnston started at LucasFilm and created the final designs for iconic characters Boba Fett and Yoda. Johnston made his directorial debut with the fx heavy Honey I Shrunk The Kids. His filmography includes: The Rocketeer, Jumanji, October Sky, Jurassic Park III, Hidalgo, and The Wolfman (and yes, Johnston does talk about his experience on that movie)....

Is 2015 The Summer Hollywood Finally Bet Big On Women? By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2015 8:00 am EST Hollywood has a woman problem, both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. There isn’t enough female filmmakers making big movies, and there aren’t enough big-budget films centering on — or even featuring — complex female characters. This is something discussed many times in recent years here and on other sites....

New York Comic-Con: A Description Of The First 18 Minutes Of Watchmen (Plus One Bonus Scene)! By David Chen/Feb. 7, 2009 10:21 am EST When Devindra and I sat down at the Warner Brothers panel this morning, I don’t think either of us were expecting too much. While artist Dave Gibbons (who seems like an extremely nice and talented individual) was here to answer questions, Zack Snyder was not going to be making an appearance, nor would any cast....

Our Top 15 Favorite Theme Park Movies And Scenes By Ethan Anderton/May 21, 2015 8:00 am EST This weekend, director Brad Bird takes into a whole new world with the Disney sci-fi adventure Tomorrowland. The film starring Britt Robertson and George Clooney is influenced and inspired by the real-life Disney theme park attraction of the same name (even if references to Walt Disney were cut out of the movie). Therefore, this seems like the perfect time to take a look back at some of our favorite theme park movies and scenes from the big screen....

Ron Howard To Direct Controversial Trump’s America Memoir ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ By Jack Giroux/April 10, 2017 4:30 pm EST Director Ron Howard may have found his next project, an adaptation of J.D. Vance’s memoir “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.” Imagine Entertainment acquired the book after producers Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins pursued it. They’ll both produce the film alongside Howard. Below, learn more about the Hillbilly Elegy movie....

Rotten Tomatoes Fandango Flixster Press Release FANDANGO CREATES ULTIMATE DIGITAL NETWORK FOR ALL THINGS MOVIES WITH ADDITION OF ICONIC MOVIE BRANDS FLIXSTER AND ROTTEN TOMATOESUnion of Best-in-Class Digital Properties to Serve Entire Movie Lifecycle, Reaching More Than 63 Million Unique Visitors Per Month — Plus More Than 100 Million Mobile App DownloadsWarner Bros. Entertainment, Current Owner of Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes, to Take Equity Positionin Fandango and Become Ongoing Strategic PartnerLOS ANGELES (February 17, 2016) – Fandango, the nation’s leading digital platform serving consumers across the entire movie lifecycle, announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes, which includes the world famous professional movie critic rating tool, the Tomatometer™, from Warner Bros....

Star Wars Bits: Chewbacca Without Hair? Han Solo’s Past Confirmed? New Star Wars Rebels Image And More By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2015 11:30 am EST In today’s edition of Star Wars Bits: See what Chewbacca looks like without hair. Watch the Disney Infinity Star Wars Twilight of the Republic trailer. See some of the best art from the Star Wars Art Awakens contest so far. A new image from Star Wars Rebels season 2 and information on the 2015 New York Comic Con presentation....

Star Wars Bits: Daisy Ridley ‘Spoils’ ‘The Last Jedi,’ Space Battle Details, And Yes, More Porg News By Jacob Hall/Oct. 11, 2017 2:30 pm EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Rian Johnson once again confirms who “the last Jedi” is. Daisy Ridley spoils Star Wars: The Last Jedi (but not really). An interview with new Star Wars actress Kelly Marie Tran. Details on The Last Jedi’s big space battle....

Superhero Bits: Injustice 2 Line-Up & Marvel Vs Capcom Rumors, 8-Bit Doctor Strange & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 28, 2016 5:00 pm EST Who should play Cable in the Deadpool sequel? Will the Watchmen be part of the line-up of characters for Injustice 2? Is there a Marvel vs Capcom 4 video game announcement coming soon? Which superhero received write-in votes for President of the United States? Does John Cena have a cameo in Thor: Ragnarok?...

The Best & Worst Sketches From Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/April 17, 2016 3:06 pm EST This weekend, Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus returned to Saturday Night Live as host for the third time. Since SNL is on NBC it should come as no surprise that there a little bit of Seinfeld made it into one of the sketches, and it even included another alum from the iconic comedy series....

This Week In Trailers: When You’re Strange, 9 To 5: Days In Porn, 4 3 2 1, EV, The Exploding Girl By Christopher Stipp/Feb. 19, 2010 2:00 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?...

‘Desolation’ Review: There’s A New Killer In The Woods [LAFF] By Ben Pearson/June 22, 2017 3:00 pm EST A mysterious man with reflective glasses stalks a trio of isolated campers in Desolation, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Sam Patton. When Abby (Jaimi Paige) loses her husband to sickness, she takes her 13-year-old son Sam (Toby Nichols) and her best friend Jenn (Alyshia Ochse) on a multi-day hiking trip to spread her husband’s ashes at the top of a mountain....

‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’ Has A New Kind Of Witch With Special Magical Abilities By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 8, 2016 6:00 am EST This fall brings the Harry Potter franchise spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to theaters. However, this spin-off won’t be following any of the iconic characters from the eight film franchise, and instead follows an expelled Hogwarts student named Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) who heads to 1920s New York City with a magical briefcase full of creatures from the wizarding world....

‘Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle ’ Early Buzz: Surprisingly, A Totally Fun And Funny Romp By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 27, 2017 9:00 am EST Nostalgia-infused remakes are a dime a dozen, but successful ones are another story. Surprisingly, it seems like Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is the latter. It’s a huge burden to live up to a Robin Williams performance, and one that is beloved by every ’90s kid at that....

‘Sausage Party’ Allegedly Forced Animators To Work Overtime For Free, Refused To Credit Artists By Angie Han/Aug. 15, 2016 3:30 pm EST In a summer marked by one cinematic disappointment after another, Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon’s Sausage Party has emerged as a rare success story: a truly original feature that got great reviews and great box office. Even more impressively, Sausage Party managed all that on a reported budget of under $20 million....

Box Office: Treasure With $8.86M Sat & $20.81M Weekend; Juno Aims For #2 With $16.6M By Steve Mason/Jan. 6, 2008 1:21 am EST The awards caliber, critically-hailed comedy Juno, written by former stripper Diablo Cody and starring sure-fire Best Actress nominee Ellen Page, should have a stronger Sunday than Legend and Alvin and finish with a monstrous $16.6M weekend with its expansion to 1,925 locations. I expect the Will Smith blockbuster to finish 3rd with an estimated $16....

Cool Stuff: Hot Toys The Dark Knight Batman Armory Sixth Scale Figure Set By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2015 9:00 am EST Sideshow Collectibles sent me a sample of Hot Toys’ The Dark Knight Batman Armory Sixth Scale Figure set. Lets unbox this figure and take a look at whats inside the box. After the jump you will find photos of the Hot Toys The Dark Knight Batman Armory Sixth Scale Figure Set, alongside my thoughts on the product....

Early Buzz: First Test Screening Review Of ‘Skyfall’?; Venice Reactions To Terrence Malick’s ‘To The Wonder’ By Angie Han/Sept. 4, 2012 10:18 am EST With Labor Day weekend marking the end of the summer movie season — actually, make that the traditional end of summer, period — it’s time to look ahead at the fall and winter offerings on the horizon. We’ve got early buzz on two very different entertainments coming up, Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder and Sam Mendes’ Skyfall....

Five Michael Bay Audio Commentary Recommendations By Jack Giroux/June 29, 2017 8:00 am EST Michael Bay’s commentaries are great entertainment. He never disappoints with his tracks. He’ll tell you when someone wasn’t doing their job. He’ll tell you when he had to yell. And he’ll always tell you when he was “the first” to use a new camera, government aircraft, or whatever super-expensive new toy he got to play with....

Interview: ‘Arrival’ Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson On How You Score First Contact By Jacob Hall/Nov. 11, 2016 10:30 am EST Arrival is one of 2016’s best movies, an intelligent and humane science fiction epic powered by big ideas that ultimately reveals a big, beautiful, and deeply heartfelt soul. And the soundtrack to those ideas, the key to that soul, comes courtesy of composer (and two-time Academy Award nominee) Jóhann Jóhannsson. This is Jóhannsson’s third collaboration with director Denis Villeneuve, following Prisoners and Sicario, the latter of which earned him one of those Oscar nods....