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Paranormal Activity Director Oren Peli’s Area 51 Gets A Completely Unknown Cast By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 4, 2009 2:09 pm EST While covering the American Film Market, Bloody Disgusting discovered the names of the three main cast members for director Oren Peli’s Area 51, the filmmaker’s follow-up to the indie supernatural thriller viral sensation Paranormal Activity. Peli is not going Hollywood yet, and keeping it low-key, with three virtually unknown actors – Reid Warner, Darrin Bragg and Ben Rovner....

Star Wars Bits: Disneyland Plans Rejected? Box Office Expectations, Braintrust, Force Friday, LEGO Star Destroyer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2015 10:45 am EST In today’s edition of Star Wars Bits: Have the current Disneyland Star Wars Land plans been rejected by the Disney board? Disney head Bob Iger tries to temper huge box office expectations for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Exclusive extras to come with Star Wars Battlefront and Star Wars Disney Infinity bundles at select retailers....

The Best Films Of The 2017 Sundance Film Festival By Angie Han/Jan. 30, 2017 9:00 am EST The reviews have been filed, the awards have been handed out, and the stars and cinephiles have left Park City: it’s time to close the book on the Sundance Film Festival for another year. Last week we brought you our quick impressions of every single film we saw at Sundance 2017. Today we’re rounding out our coverage with a ranked list of our very favorite movies from the fest....

The Stories For ‘Black Mirror’ Season 3 Have Been Revealed (Spoiler-Free) By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2016 1:00 pm EST We’ve been waiting for season three of Black Mirror for quite some time, and we’ve heard episode titles, filmmakers and cast but we haven’t heard much about what kind of stories we can expect from the six new episodes…until now. Hit the jump to find out what the Black Mirror Season 3 episodes will be about....

This Week In Trailers: Le Week-End, Man Vs Snake, League Of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis, The Muslims Are Coming!, Red Obsession, We The Parents By Christopher Stipp/Aug. 30, 2013 3:30 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: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Three Great Tony Scott Audio Commentaries By Jack Giroux/April 10, 2018 12:30 pm EST I miss going to the movies and buying a ticket for a Tony Scott movie. There’s no voice and style like his in the theaters these days. When big-budget movies come across as interchangeable sometimes, a commercial director who polarized and told stories with aggression and grit is missed. Talk about a director who knew how to create momentum and atmosphere!...

TV Bits: ‘Archer’, ‘Bob’s Burgers’, ‘Community’, ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Sons Of Anarchy’, ‘Boardwalk Empire, ‘Homeland’, ‘The Walking Dead’ By Angie Han/Aug. 9, 2012 12:30 pm EST Forget The Bourne Legacy — the Ludlum-inspired story I’m really eager to see is this Bob’s Burgers / Archer crossover. Also after the jump: Dan Harmon has more to say the Community ousting Bridesmaids’ Matt Lucas will teach the Community gang See Joel McHale tangling with SAMCRO on Sons of Anarchy Check out the first pics from Season 3 of Boardwalk Empire Workaholics stars spotted on Arrested Development set New Homeland poster promises Season 2 will “hit home” The whole gang hangs out in Walking Dead Season 3 poster...

What Happened To Lando Calrissian After ‘Return Of The Jedi’? By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 1, 2017 9:30 am EST Right around the time Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit theaters in 2015, beginning a new film trilogy, a new Star Wars book trilogy was launched as well. The series began with Star Wars: Aftermath, continued with Aftermath: Life Debt, and concludes later this month with Aftermath: Empire’s End. All of the Aftermath books are giving us insight into the events that happened between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens....

Why You Should Care That A Director’s Fan Cut Of ‘Justin Bieber: Never Say Never’ Opens February 25th By Germain Lussier/Feb. 21, 2011 8:34 pm EST Who wants more Justin Bieber? How about 40 minutes more? Well, you are in luck. After some deliberating, Paramount has decided to release a 40-minute longer Director’s Fan Cut of the hit concert documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never this Friday, February 25 only in 3D....

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Interview: Robert Downey Jr. Says Chris Evans Does The Heavy Lifting By Ethan Anderton/March 8, 2016 10:00 am EST Speaking to Robert Downey Jr. is an experience. There’s no other way to say it. Like a less obnoxious Robin Williams, his mind moves faster than ours can process, and even when he’s not giving you any valuable information about Captain America: Civil War, he certainly makes you feel like you did....

/Film Reviews The First 4DX Movie Theater In The United States [Photos And Video Blog] By Germain Lussier/June 30, 2014 10:00 am EST The first 4DX movie theater in the United States opened in Los Angeles last weekend. Located in theater 6 at the Regal Cinemas LA Live in Downtown LA, the 104-seat theater books one first-run 3D movie at a time, and augments the showing with real-world physical effects. Those effects are the fourth dimension....

‘First Man’ Early Buzz: Critics Are Over The Moon For Damien Chazelle’s “Revelatory” Biopic By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 29, 2018 12:30 pm EST La La Land and Whiplash director Damien Chazelle has launched another stunner with First Man. The highly anticipated Neil Armstrong biopic starring Ryan Gosling as the historic NASA astronaut made its debut at the Venice International Film Festival, where it was met with rapturous reception. See what critics have to say about in our round-up of the First Man early buzz....

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Review: A Spectacular Return For The Webslinger By Ethan Anderton/July 7, 2017 7:00 am EST For some fans, it goes without saying that Spider-Man: Homecoming isn’t just a title that describes what’s happening in the high school life of the superhero’s young alter ego Peter Parker (Tom Holland). It’s also evocative of the fact that the webslinger is finally back home where he belongs, in the same cinematic universe as his other Marvel Comics comrades, the Avengers....

‘Star Trek Beyond’ Getting An IMAX Release In 2016 By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 24, 2015 11:00 am EST Star Trek Beyond will be the first film in the rebooted sci-fi franchise that isn’t directed by J.J. Abrams. But that doesn’t mean the sequel is boldly going where the previous films haven’t gone before, at least when it comes to the release strategy. Paramount Pictures, Skydance, Bad Robot and IMAX have announced that Star Trek Beyond will be digitally re-mastered for the giant screen format and will hit IMAX screens the same day it hits traditional screens on July 22nd, 2016....

‘The Boondock Saints: Origins’ Prequel TV Series Announced, They Want You To Pay $597.77 For It By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2017 11:30 am EST DCTV is reteaming with The Boondock Saints creator Troy Duffy to reboot the cult classic film franchise for television. They are basically trying to kickstart The Boondock Saints: Origins with an independent pre-sale campaign with ridiculous pledge options. Find out more and watch The Boondock Saints: Origins trailer, after the jump....

The Most Politically Relevant Shows Today Are Old Stories Now, two television adaptations of books written years before the 2016 take up the mantle of “newly timely TV” from The Man in the High Castle: The Handmaid’s Tale and American Gods. The Handmaid’s Tale drew the most attention for its depiction of a not-too-distant future in which the government has sanctioned the systemic rape of women. While that sounds like an implausible future, author Margaret Atwood actually drew much from the past when she wrote the book in 1985....

66th Annual Venice Film Festival Line-Up By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2009 12:30 pm EST The complete line-up for the 66th Annual Venice Film Festival has been announced. The big news is that Michael Moore’s new film Capitalism: A Love Story will premiere at the fest, over a month before its U.S. premiere. The festival includes 71 world premieres, notable additions include: Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant, The Road, Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime, Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant, Joe Dante’s The Hole and Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare at Goats....

Cool Stuff: New ‘Oldboy,’ ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ And ‘El Topo’ Prints By Germain Lussier/Oct. 4, 2010 7:00 am EST A movie poster exhibit recently opened in Montreal, Canada and it comes complete with three beautiful new prints. The exhibit is called “J’ai tué le photographe” (which translates to “I killed the photographer”) and it runs through October 30 at the Cinema du Parc. The three prints made for the show are Oldboy by Rhys Cooper, Full Metal Jacket by Tim Doyle and El Topo by Martin Ansin....

Here Are 15 Actors Who Should Play Young Lando Calrissian In Han Solo’s ‘Star Wars Story’ By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 12, 2016 9:00 am EST This winter brings Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to theaters. It will be the first theatrically release live-action Star Wars feature film that tells a story outside of the traditional trilogy narrative of the saga. Even though we still have months before we see that film in its entirety, the second movie in the Star Wars Story series is already in the works, and it will focus on the famous smuggler Han Solo before he became caught up with the Rebellion in Star Wars: A New Hope....

How Robert Altman’s ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Lives In The DNA Of ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ By Bryan Young/June 14, 2018 11:30 am EST (Welcome to The Movies That Made Star Wars, a series where we explore the films that inspired George Lucas’ iconic universe. In this edition: Robert Altman’s 1971 film McCabe & Mrs. Miller) Roger Ebert called 1971’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller Robert Altman’s only perfect film. Altman had made a lot of great films, but Ebert insisted that this was his only perfect one....