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Cool Stuff: The Star Wars Deluxe Edition Hardcover Collection By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 11, 2014 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Dark Horse Comics has released The Star Wars Deluxe Hardcover Collection, which compiles The Star Wars comic book mini series. Based on George Lucas’s original rough draft screenplay for Star Wars, the comic adapts Ralph McQuarrie’s early concept designs to bring the un filmed version of the story to life....

Dwayne Johnson Offers A Little Peek At ‘Fast 8’ And ‘Moana’ By Angie Han/May 31, 2016 10:00 am EST If you’re a fan of Dwayne Johnson (and who isn’t?) you may already be aware that his Instagram is the best source of updates on any and all Dwayne Johnson-related projects. It’s where we got some of our first looks at Central Intelligence and Baywatch, and where we learned Johnson had officially been cast in Shane Black’s Doc Savage, and where we once got that amazing photo of The Rock rescuing his puppies from the pool....

First Impressions On 20 Minutes Of David Fincher’s Benjamin Button By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 30, 2008 1:32 am EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/tell11.flv 300 226] I just got out of the David Fincher tribute (which I will write about at length later) but for now I want to share my first impressions on the 20 minutes of footage from Fincher’s new film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was screened at the event. First off, I want to say that I’m a die hard Fincher fan....

First Look At ‘It’ Star Sophia Lillis As The Mystery-Solving Icon In ‘Nancy Drew And The Hidden Staircase’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 7, 2018 10:30 am EST Our favorite teen girl detective is coming to the big screen again. Production has started on Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, and with that comes our exciting first look at It breakout star Sophia Lillis’s debut as the feminist mystery-solving icon. Will she be rocking the headband?...

How ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’ Shows A Different Side Of The Legendary Sci-Fi Writer [Interview] By Fred Topel/Jan. 11, 2018 6:30 am EST Another sci-fi veteran, Ronald D. Moore, is bringing more Philip K. Dick to television. Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams is an anthology series featuring a different Dick adaptation each episode. Moore created the 2004 Battlestar Galactica reboot and began his career on Star Trek: The Next Generation....

By Germain Lussier/March 10, 2012 12:42 pm EST If you want to appear in movies, the absolute worst job you can have is writing about them. Writers don’t aspire to be actors because we’re not particularly photogenic and much prefer the experience of film from the outside looking in rather than vice versa. That equation flipped for me, though, on the opening night of South by Southwest 2012. While most of the film fans in Texas were watching The Cabin in the Woods I was around the corner, waiting to see a poster documentary called Just Like Being There, which I appear in as myself....

Interview: ‘Gotham’ Producer On Leaving Gotham City, Valerie Vale And Council Of Owls By Fred Topel/Sept. 19, 2016 6:00 am EST Gotham returns for its third season tonight. What began as “Batman without Batman,” the story of Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie)’s rise to commissioner in the Gotham City Police Department, has embraced its comic book roots. Season two featured “Rise of the Villains” and “Wrath of the Villains.” The third season’s “Mad City” promises to see Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) prepare to suit up and introduce characters like Valerie Vale (Jamie Chung) and an aged up Poison Ivy (Maggie Geha), with the Council of Owls enacting their machinations throughout the season....

Joss Whedon And Mark Ruffalo Clarify ‘Hulk’ Comments; Plus Whedon Talks DC, ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’ And ‘Star Wars’ By Germain Lussier/March 8, 2013 9:00 am EST Joss Whedon said it’s “nonsense.” Mark Ruffalo said it’s “not in the works.” Yet the idea of a standalone Hulk movie, maybe even a Planet Hulk movie, keeps coming up. The rumor gained real traction when Latino Review said The Avengers 2 would set up a Phase Three standalone movie with Hulk on a planet by himself, setting up an Avengers vs....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies You Should Watch With ‘Red Sparrow’ By Scott Beggs/March 2, 2018 8:30 am EST In the grand tradition of Spy vs Spy, Jennifer Lawrence plays a ballerina-turned-undercover-operative in Red Sparrow, a Russian agent who falls for CIA spook Nate Nash (“Nash, out!”), played by Joel Edgerton. It’s also a glowering action reunion for her and director Francis Lawrence, who helmed a triptych of Hunger Games movies, and, by most accounts, is a Soviet tank-full of style over substance....

New ‘Civil War’ Image Shows Captain America, Iron Man, And Black Panther Standing Tall By Angie Han/Dec. 2, 2015 9:00 am EST Last week’s Captain America: Civil War trailer was our first good look at the movie, but it’s really just the first drop in what’s sure to be a flood of marketing material. Today, we have another new look at the Marvel superhero showdown, in the form of an Entertainment Weekly cover featuring Captain America (Chris Evans), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr....

Playing ‘The Game’ On Its 20th Anniversary - David Fincher’s 1997 Film Still Holds Up By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 12, 2017 11:00 am EST More than any other mainstream filmmaker, David Fincher is the one who has had his finger on the pulse of our generational concerns. If you Google Fincher’s name and the word “zeitgeist,” it will immediately turn up countless think pieces talking about how his films — especially Fight Club and The Social Network — have captured the zeitgeist, reflecting the spirit of their time the way The Graduate did for the 1960s....

See Set Designs For Stage Production ‘Batman Live’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 3, 2011 1:00 pm EST With Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark fully revealed to the public (and struggling to evolve into a show worth paying more attention to) it’s time to get more detail on the next superhero stage spectacular. That would be Batman Live, which is planned to premiere in Manchester this July, and which will then embark upon a tour of arenas in the UK and Europe before moving to US arenas in summer 2012....

Skull Island: Reign Of Kong: 10 Things To Know About Universal’s New Ride By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2016 8:00 am EST Skull Island: Reign of Kong is now open at Universal Studios’ Orlando resort’s Islands of Adventure theme park. Last month I got a chance to preview the new attraction and talk to some of the creative producers behind the new ride. Hit the jump to find out what I learned about this new ride and to get my reaction....

Star Wars Bits: ‘Solo’ Characters Revealed, Mark Hamill’s Improv In ‘The Last Jedi,’ And A Tease For ‘Episode IX’ By Allyson Gronowitz/April 6, 2018 6:30 am EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Mark Hamill shares his preferred Star Wars viewing order Solo press tour begins Therm Scissorpunch makes his (its?) debut Frank Oz opens up about Yoda And much more! #May25. Edit is locked Score done. Right on schedule Hope you check #Solo out and find it fun....

Superhero Bits: Ben Affleck’s Comic-Con Disguise, Final Guardians Easter Egg & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 21, 2017 5:00 pm EST Will Deadpool 2 also feature a younger version of Cable? Want to watch the entire first episode of Marvel’s Spider-Man series on Disney XD? Will the Hellboy reboot be another origin story? What disguise did Ben Affleck wear while appearing at San Diego Comic-Con? Has the final Guardians of the Galaxy Easter egg been found?...

The 10 Best Movies From Bleecker Street, The Exciting Indie Distributor That Should Have Your Attention By Scott Beggs/Aug. 25, 2017 9:30 am EST The dirty secret of culture writers on movie websites is that most of us don’t write lists to irritate people itching for the comments section. We do it to celebrate a big batch of films. I swear. We want to grab our pom poms for these things, especially the underrated work, and “The Underseen Gem” might as well be Bleecker Street’s motto....

The Best & Worst Sketches From Russell Crowe’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/April 10, 2016 10:00 am EST Last night, Oscar winner Russell Crowe took the stage at Studio 8H for his hosting debut on Saturday Night Live. You would have thought Crowe had hosted sometime before, but it didn’t happen. The comfort with which Crowe hosted SNL was surprising to say the least, and the actor proved that broadening his career to include comedy might not be a bad idea....

The Blood List Highlights 13 Great Unproduced Genre Scripts By Russ Fischer/Oct. 31, 2014 3:45 pm EST There are thousands of writers out there pounding away at their scripts, most of which are destined to be read by only a few people. While more movies are getting made now than ever, at the same time that reflects only a small percentage of the work put to page by aspiring writers. Anything that can help draw attention to unproduced scripts is a great thing....

The Purge Will Commence At Halloween Horror Nights 2015 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 17, 2015 12:30 pm EST Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights is beginning to take shape. We’ve already told you about the Crimson Peak, Insidious, Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home and This Is The End mazes. And this morning Universal announced that the annual Purge will commence at Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort as both parks will debut all-new “disturbingly-real experiences” inspired by Universal’s popular horror franchise film series created by writer and director James DeMonaco and produced by Blumhouse Productions and Platinum Dunes....

This Week In Trailers: 36 Stairs, Uncertainty, Humble Pie, Splinterheads, The Horseman By Christopher Stipp/Oct. 30, 2009 12:00 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?...