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Ron Howard Had Guidance From George Lucas On ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Set By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 9, 2018 1:30 pm EST Ron Howard has grown up in show business. He began his acting career at a young age as one of the main characters on The Andy Griffith Show and countless appearances on plenty of other classic TV shows. He was able to ride that wave through his teens, 20s and 30s before beginning a career behind the camera as a feature filmmaker....

Star Wars Bits: Hyperspace Mountain, Force Unleashed 3, Battle Of Yavin On Apple TV, More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 7, 2015 12:00 pm EST Twisted by the Dark Side, young Skywalker has become. The boy you trained, gone he is… Consumed by Star Wars Bits. This edition of news from a galaxy far, far away includes: A glimpse at Space Mountain’s Star Wars makeover at Disneyland New interactive Star Wars event planned for Walt Disney Resort Preview of Disney Infinity 3....

Superhero Bits: S.H.I.E.L.D, Kick-Ass 2, Man Of Steel, Stan Lee, Dredd 3D, Dark Knight Returns By Germain Lussier/Sept. 24, 2012 12:00 pm EST What did one man do to get noticed for a job on Joss Whedon’s S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show? How did Dredd 3D do at the box office? Which Pixar Easter Egg made it into The Avengers? Will Kevin Feige be taking risks with Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2? Is Marvel canceling The Amazing Spider-Man?...

The Best And Worst Sketches From Adam Driver’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 17, 2016 2:30 pm EST Last night brought the first new Saturday Night Live of 2016, and it just so happens that Adam Driver hosted during the first box office weekend that Star Wars: The Force Awakens didn’t take the #1 spot. However, The Force Awakens was still the talk of the weekend with a hilarious new sketch taking aim at Kylo Ren, and it wasn’t the only reference made to Star Wars during the episode....

The Best Recent Oscar Nominees You Probably Haven’t Seen By Jordan Hoffman/Feb. 24, 2012 7:00 am EST The Academy Awards are this Sunday and if you are anything like me you have a. . .mild interest in watching. Competition in the arts is, lets face it, a little silly. The Descendants and Tree of Life are both about troubled families, and are both brilliant, but how on earth do you compare the two?...

The Winners And Losers Of The 2017 Oscars (And The /Film Oscar Prediction Contest Results) By Jacob Hall/Feb. 27, 2017 8:00 am EST Predicting the Oscars is like predicting the weather. You can look at the charts and determine the general course of the storm, but it’s impossible to tell if the wind is going to knock a tree through your living room window. Last night’s ceremony was peak Oscars. Everything went exactly how it was supposed to go before finding time to also uproot the oak in your front yard and cave-in one of walls with it....

Tim Burton Retrospective At MOMA By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2009 10:54 am EST New York’s Museum of Modern Art will present an exhibition of the art from director Tim Burton’s career, beginning November 22, 2009, through April 26, 2010. The exhibition will include “over 700 examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, and includes an extensive film series spanning Burton’s 27-year career....

Will Darth Vader Or Inquisitors Appear In ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Season 3? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2016 7:30 am EST The trailer for Star Wars Rebels Season 3 premiered at Star Wars Celebration Europe 2016, revealing a new villain for our heroes. But with Grand Admiral Thrawn resurrected from Legends back into Star Wars canon, what does this mean for Darth Vader and his Inquisitors? Will we see the Jedi-turned-Sith leader or his Force-empowered Jedi hunter team of Inquisitors in the third season of the acclaimed Disney XD series?...

‘Arrival’ Screenwriter Eric Heisserer Will Write ‘Secret Weapons’ For Valiant Comics By Jacob Hall/Feb. 2, 2017 12:00 pm EST The average moviegoer may not be familiar with Valiant Comics and its universe of characters, but the publisher is looking to change that. They may not have the name recognition of Marvel or DC, but Valiant has been on fire (in a good way!) since they relaunched in 2012. While the Big Two have seen their fair share of creative ups and downs, their smaller competitor has been releasing consistently strong superhero comics starring diverse and strange characters I’ve learned to care about....

‘Justice League’ Synopsis Teases “Catastrophic” Threat; New Logo Revealed By Angie Han/June 21, 2016 11:30 am EST After the polarizing reception to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Warner Bros. has taken great pains to restore fans’ faith in the fledgling DC Extended Universe. We’ve heard about corporate restructuring, personnel changes, and even rumors of reshoots. The latest play in the studio’s ongoing effort to earn back some goodwill was the Justice League set visit....

‘King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword’ Clips: Watch Nearly 10 Minutes Of Guy Ritchie’s Medieval Epic By Ethan Anderton/May 1, 2017 4:00 pm EST Warner Bros. Pictures is hoping their investment in the medieval epic King Arthur: Legend of the Sword will pay off when the movie from director Guy Ritchie hits theaters in a couple of weeks. The studio recently enlisted the help of the movie-going public by having 200 AMC Theatres locations around the United States host free sneak preview screenings for members of their AMC Stubs rewards program....

‘Resident Evil’ Series Recap: Everything You Need To Remember Before ‘The Final Chapter’ By Jack Giroux/Jan. 27, 2017 8:00 am EST Over the course of five Resident Evil movies, we still haven’t learned a whole lot about Alice (Milla Jovovich). She’s a character driven more by action, but her actions often don’t define her in any substantial or tangible ways. She’s often shooting her way through these movies — mostly surviving, rarely evolving....

‘Star Wars: Vader Immortal’ Trailer: ILMxLab Unveils David Goyer’s Darth Vader VR Project By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 26, 2018 11:40 am EST As the Star Wars universe keeps expanding, so too do the ways we experience it. There’s the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge theme park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California coming soon; there are comics, TV, movies, and a whole bunch of titles on the upcoming Disney streaming service. But the most innovative way that Lucasfilm will be expanding on Star Wars will be in virtual reality....

‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1’ Trailer Will Premiere At Comic-Con And Select Best Buys By Germain Lussier/July 18, 2014 9:50 am EST Don’t worry fans, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 is in fact coming to San Diego Comic-Con. It’s just also coming to a mobile device near you, and your local Best Buy, all at the same time. While the film won’t be presented in Hall H (probably because the cast has been filming for six months straight) it will have a presence both on the show floor and outside....

2014 Emmy Nominations Announced By Angie Han/July 10, 2014 6:00 am EST 2013-2014 has been such a strong year in television, you could easily double the number of Emmy nominees in some categories and still wind up snubbing some worthy contenders. But tough choices must be made, and this morning Mindy Kaling and Carson Daly got up early to reveal which Emmy hopefuls made the cut. Get the 2014 Emmy nominations after the jump....

2017 Oscar Nominations: ‘La La Land’ Leads The Pack With A Record-Tying 14 Nominations By Jacob Hall/Jan. 24, 2017 5:20 am EST Well, here we are: the nominations for the 89th Annual Academy Awards are here. For some of you, this is one of the biggest days of the year. For others, it’s an excuse to look at the ground, stick your fingers in your ears, and hum. But one thing is for certain: we’re going to spend the next month talking all about these nominated films, right up until those little golden statuettes are handed out on February 26, 2017....

All Of Your ‘Stranger Things’ Questions Answered (To Some Extent) By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2016 8:00 am EST Netflix’s latest television series Stranger Things is filled with mystery and leaves viewers with many fun questions. Having just binge-watched my way through the first season post-Comic Con, I found myself searching the web to obtain some answers. What follows is a list of 11 questions (eleven? how appropriate) and the possible answers compiled from quotes fro many interviews with showrunners/writers/directors The Duffer Brothers and producer Shawn Levy, and we also dive into some fan theories from various forums....

Batman The Animated Series Blu-ray Box Set Aside from the assembly of every single episode of Batman: The Animated Series, the box set comes with a handful of collectibles, including three Funko POP mini figures of Batman, The Joker and Harley Quinn, as well as seven lenticular cards. They’re all housed in a layflat-book with a special slipcase. But honestly, it’s the content on the discs that makes this box set worthwhile....

J.J. Abrams Teases Droid Hand As ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Raises $5 Million For UNICEF By Germain Lussier/Aug. 11, 2014 9:24 am EST Several months ago, J.J. Abrams kicked off Star Wars: Force For Change, an initiative to raise money for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) with the prize being a trip to the set of Star Wars Episode VII. The first video revealed a brand new creature from the world....

Kevin Smith Has An Ambitious Shortlist Of Directors For MGM’s ‘Buckaroo Bonzai’ TV Series By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 1, 2016 6:30 am EST In case you haven’t heard, Kevin Smith is working on a TV series adaptation of the MGM cult classic sci-fi adventure The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension from 1984. It was Smith’s work directing an episode of The CW series The Flash last year that turned some heads at MGM, and now he’s deep in development on the project with an eye on some filmmakers he hopes to recruit to direct some episodes....