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Star Wars Bits: ‘Doctor Who’ Joins ‘Star Wars’ Project? Jar Jar Binks Is Disney’s Fault? Rogue One, McQuarrie, Struzan And More By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 17, 2015 3:30 pm EST There was a ton of Star Wars news coming out of D23 Expo 2015, and if you missed any of that from the Star Wars Anthology films getting new branding, to the Star Wars: The Force Awakens poster by artist Drew Struzen, to the first photo and cast from Star Wars: Rogue One, to the director of Star Wars Episode 9, to Star Wars Lands announced for Disney theme parks, head over to our D23 2015 news roundup....

Star Wars Bits: Solo Vs. Deadpool, BB-8 Vs. BB-9E, And Fathiers Vs. Porgs By Allyson Gronowitz/Nov. 3, 2017 2:30 pm EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Characters from Star Wars Rebels and Return of the Jedi collide in Forces of Destiny Seth Green voices a Trandoshan on Star Wars Rebels A cool new The Last Jedi creature is explained Luke joins the dark side…in a new poster And much more!...

Superhero Bits: Dark Knight Rises, Man Of Steel, Iron Man 3, Comic-Con, Guardians Of The Galaxy By Germain Lussier/July 17, 2012 12:30 pm EST After a few days off thanks to Comic-Con, Superhero Bits is back and we’ve got a lot of catching up to do over the next week or two. For now though, we’ll answer some of the following questions. What was Robert Downey Dr. doing in front of big crowds at Comic-Con?...

Superhero Bits: Man Of Steel, Superman IV, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Avengers, Deadpool By Germain Lussier/June 13, 2013 3:49 pm EST Which scenes were deleted from Man of Steel? Did Dominic Cooper understand his part in Captain America: The Winter Soldier? How happy was Clark Gregg to see his Avengers toy? Are the box office projections for Man of Steel this weekend good? Is there another superhero Joss Whedon wishes he could work with?...

Theme Park Bits: ‘Avatar’ Land Updates, ‘Race Through New York’ Opens, And ‘Star Wars’ Events By Jacob Hall/April 6, 2017 12:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: A preview of Universal Studios’ Race Through New York ride. Disney plans new ways of entertaining you with Star Wars. Universal’s flagship Harry Potter ride gets an upgrade. All of the Avatar Land updates your could possibly want. Universal seemingly promises good food at their Volcano Bay water park....

Theme Park Bits - Epcot’s Anniversary Day, Knott’s Scary Farm, Talking Disney Characters Conduct Meet-And-Greets By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 1, 2017 10:00 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Hear a lifesize Donald Duck and Mickey and Minnie Mouse talk. See a new exclusive Guardians of the Galaxy collectible only available at Disney Parks. What does the Day of the Dead look like at a Disney park? See video of a couple of the mazes inside Knott’s Scary Farm....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Crank 2: High Voltage, The Office (Season 5), Fringe (Season 1), And More By Adam Quigley/Sept. 8, 2009 11:49 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. At this point viewers should just accept it: The Office will never be as good as it was in Season 2, or even Season 3. Those two seasons marked the collected efforts of the writer’s best ideas and storylines, and Season 2 in particular is representative of the emotional peak of the show, demonstrated in the strangely heart-wrenching “will they?...

Trailer Round-Up: ‘Supercon’, ‘Dog Days’, ‘Pick Of The Litter’, ‘The Children Act,’ And More By Ben Pearson/June 15, 2018 4:30 pm EST I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but a borderline-excessive amount of trailers were released over the past couple of weeks. In fact, there have been so many that we had to create this article simply to contain them all. So keep reading to catch up with the latest trailers for films like Supercon, Dog Days, Pick of the Litter, Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti, and The Children Act....

TV Bits: ‘Game Of Thrones’, ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Mockingbird Lane’, ‘666 Park Avenue’, ‘Last Resort’, ‘Partners’, ‘The Fighter’, Jesse Plemons, Lauren Ash By Angie Han/Nov. 20, 2012 6:00 am EST Winter is coming, both in the regular winter-related sense and also in the sense that Game of Thrones’ Season 3 premiere is slowly but surely approaching. After the jump: Jesse Plemons heads to HBO’s Cold War series The Missionary Lauren Ash joins Rebel Wilson and Liza Lapira in Super Fun Night Mark Wahlberg creates a The Fighter-inspired reality show for A&E CBS cancels Partners; ABC nixes 666 Park Avenue and Last Resort See some dark early concept art from Bryan Fuller’s Mockingbird Lane HBO reveals its first not very revealing teaser for Game of Thrones Enjoy a trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas special “The Snowmen” Set in 1960s Berlin, the Baltasar Kormakur-directed pilot follows a young American missionary (Walker) who gets involved with the CIA while trying to help a woman escape East Berlin....

TV Bits: Damon Lindelof Discusses That ‘Lost’ Finale, Plus: ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘Dexter’, ‘Fringe’, ‘Smash’, ‘American Horror Story’ By Angie Han/May 23, 2012 9:00 am EST If you’re still scratching your head over that ambiguous Lost finale two years later… well, this new interview with Damon Lindelof probably won’t change that. But if you’re one of the many fans who wondered just what in the hell Lindelof and Carlton Cuse thought they were doing, you’ll want to watch the video after the jump....

VOTD: The Evolution Of Movies From 1878 To 2014 In Just 3 Minutes By Peter Sciretta/April 10, 2014 6:00 am EST /Film reader and Humber College graduate Scott Ewing put together the ultimate epic movie compilation, a chronological look at the evolution of movies, from Eadweard J. Muybridge in 1878 to the upcoming films of 2014. This is what Ewing says about the video montage: This montage began as a labor of love and quickly became an obsession of mine....

Watch The Never Before Seen Original Ending Of Alexander Payne’s ‘Election’ By Peter Sciretta/May 13, 2011 5:00 pm EST One of my favorite films of the 1990’s is Alexander Payne’s brilliant dark comedy Election starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon. For those of you who haven’t seen the film, Broderick stars as a high school civics teacher named Jim McAllister who will not let the school’s annoying overachieving honor student Tracy Flick (Witherspoon) run unopposed for student body president....

We Saw 16 Minutes Of ‘Wonder Woman’ And It Looks Like The Movie DC Needs Right Now By Ethan Anderton/March 6, 2017 9:00 am EST As part of our visit to Warner Bros. post-production facility for Wonder Woman in London, England, director Patty Jenkins sat down to preview some footage from the DC Comics film adaptation. This is the first time the footage has been screened for anyone outside of the film’s post-production crew, so Jenkins was happy to share the result of all the work they’ve been doing....

Weekend Weirdness Review: Police, Adjective (A Superb Dark Comedy About The Absurdity Of A Pot Bust) By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 13, 2010 9:00 am EST It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies, excluding Valentine’s Day starring every safe, boring white actor ever, that offer proof. /Film’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a new trailer for a provocative indie, a mini review or an interview....

What Happened To Mike Flanagan’s Long-Delayed ‘Before I Wake’ By Jack Giroux/Aug. 3, 2017 3:00 pm EST Before I Wake was completed in 2013. Relativity acquired Mike Flanagan’s (Oculus) horror movie a year later and set a release date for May of 2015. The film, which stars Thomas Jane, Kate Bosworth, and Jacob Tremblay, was pushed back four months. After Relativity ran into some serious financial troubles, its release date was scrapped....

What New Kyber Crystal Details Mean For Rey In ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ By Lucas Siegel/July 13, 2017 1:30 pm EST Kyber crystals. Before Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, they were probably not in your lexicon (and might not even be after it). Sure, if you watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars or Star Wars Rebels, you might be a bit more familiar. The Rogue One prequel novel Catalyst, the young adult novel Ahsoka, and the just-launched Darth Vader series set directly after the ending of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith continue the expansion of knowledge....

Wonder Women: Amazing Female Directors And The Comic Books They Should Adapt By Dalin Rowell/June 2, 2017 8:00 am EST Wonder Woman’s Patty Jenkins has quite a weight on her shoulders. Not only is she directing the big screen adaptation of DC’s beloved heroine, but she has to prove something to the world: that women can direct a blockbuster just as well as the big boys in the movie industry. And with all of the positive reviews out there, Patty seems to be winning that battle....

‘Cars 3’ Review: Better Than The Second Movie, Not Quite As Good As Part One By Josh Spiegel/June 16, 2017 7:00 am EST The Cars movies have been the redheaded stepchildren of the Pixar filmography for just over a decade. While the films are a merchandising cash cow, the 2006 original and 2011 sequel are among Pixar’s weakest creative efforts, the latter being their outright worst. A more positive spin on Cars 3 might suggest that the studio has something to prove, that they wanted this movie to exist for reasons aside from selling toys....

‘Luke Cage’ Season 2 Review: Compelling Drama Gives Way To The Usual Netflix Pacing Problems By Chris Evangelista/June 15, 2018 7:00 am EST Marvel and Netflix’s Luke Cage returns for a complex, emotional season that increases the stakes while also suffering the same pacing problems of every other Marvel/Netflix show. What It’s About Luke Cage (Mike Colter), a very muscular man and former cop/ex-con, is a bulletproof, super-strong superhero from Harlem....

‘Star Wars’ Actors And Filmmakers Mourn Carrie Fisher By Jacob Hall/Dec. 28, 2016 8:00 am EST Carrie Fisher passed away yesterday at the age of 60. Although best known for her work as Princess Leia Organa in four Star Wars movies, she was so much more: a tremendous writer, an incredible wit, one of Hollywood’s most prolific script doctors, and a brutally honest personality whose openness about mental illness provided hope and inspiration for many....