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Sequel Bits: ‘Expendables 3’, ‘Sin City 2’, ‘Transformers 4’ , ‘Wet Hot American Summer 2’, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, ‘Hangover 3’, ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’, And More By Angie Han/Dec. 17, 2012 4:01 pm EST Wondering what sequelized delights await us in 2013 and beyond? After the jump: Jackie Chan joins Expendables 3, wants to do Rush Hour 4 Dennis Haysbert talks about replacing Michael Clarke Duncan in Sin City 2 Mark Wahlberg calls Transformers 4 the most important role of his career Michael Bay says that the “leaked” Transformers 4 script is a fake David Wain is definitely still working on Wet Hot American Summer 2 Adam Green is excited to explore Victor Crowley’s story in Hatchet III J....

Sequel Bits: ‘Jason Bourne,’ ‘Top Gun 2,’ ‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child,’ ‘Star Trek Beyond’ By Jacob Hall/April 20, 2016 8:00 am EST In today’s edition of Sequel Bits: Jason Bourne teases tomorrow’s full trailer. Stephen King chats about a sequel to 11.22.63. J.K. Rowling shows off the wands from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Simon Pegg enlisted Star Trek fans to help with Star Trek Beyond. David Yates says a Legend of Tarzan sequel is a possibility....

Star Wars Bits: New ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Footage, ‘Episode 8’ Rewrites, Star Wars: Rebellion Board Game Review, Disneyland Star Wars Land Details By Jacob Hall/Jan. 26, 2016 4:00 pm EST Welcome back to Star Wars Bits, your regular source of Star Wars news in bit-form! In today’s edition: Don’t expect a new live action Star Wars series anytime soon. Do expect some new Star Wars Rebels footage. Yes, Princess Leia is getting a Rebels action figure....

Story Details Revealed: A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas And John Hughes’ Unproduced Screenplay Grisby’s Go Broke By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2010 10:40 pm EST In March, we broke news that Paramount Pictures and Roth Films were developing a movie using John Hughes’ unproduced screenplay Grisby’s Go Broke. Paramount later denied the rumor (which probably means they considered the property, but decided not to), but I’ve been itching to get my hands on Hughes original script to see an unmade Hughes movie that never was....

Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life With Sean Penn Features Dinosaurs. IMAX Release? By Hunter Stephenson/March 2, 2009 9:09 am EST UPDATE: On The Tree of Life and another, separate Malick project here. Today brings a rare update on legendary director Terrence Malick’s forthcoming epic, The Tree of Life, that is quite the internet-tickler. Tacked for release sometime this year, the film stars Sean Penn, with Brad Pitt in a flashback role originally intended for Heath Ledger, and now apparently features meditative scenes with dinosaurs....

What ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Gets Right About Asian-American Identity By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 17, 2018 9:00 am EST When American-born Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) meets her boyfriend Nick’s mother Eleanor Young (Michelle Yeoh) for the first time at their lush Singaporean mansion in Crazy Rich Asians, she enthusiastically lists off her accomplishments: lauded economics professor at NYU, talented, brilliant, probably played piano since elementary school. It’s a check list that any Asian-American parent would beam at, but to which Eleanor only coolly responds, “Pursuing one’s passion…how American....

Why Christopher Nolan Was The Quintessential Filmmaker Of The 2000s By Joshua Meyer/July 28, 2017 10:00 am EST If you held an elimination tournament to determine the movie director who was best representative of the 2000s, there are many names that might make it into the final round. Taste is subjective, of course, but by now there is enough distance between us and the decade that we should be able to look back on it with a degree of clarity....

How About Some Consistency? If we’re going to have The Martian Golden Globes classification as a comedy for having some laughs scattered throughout, then there’s absolutely no reason that Trumbo, a movie with a comparable blend of comedy and drama, should be classified as a drama rather than a comedy. But for some reason, the HFPA accepted Fox’s submission of The Martian as a comedy, but opted to switch Bleecker Street’s Trumbo, which also submitted as a comedy, to the drama category....

‘Better Call Saul’ Season Finale Review: Who Came Out On Top In ‘Lantern’? By Karen Han/June 20, 2017 8:30 am EST (Every week, we’re going to kick off discussion about Better Call Saul season 3 by answering one simple question: who came out on top when the credits rolled?) In its season finale, “Lantern,” the slow burn of Better Call Saul becomes a conflagration. It’s a stunning, bleak episode, with each thread hammering home the problem that’s plagued the characters from the very beginning: It’s not business....

‘Crimson Peak’ Blu-Ray From Arrow Video Gives Guillermo Del Toro’s Gothic Romance The Love It Deserves By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 1, 2018 10:00 am EST Crimson Peak suffered at the box office, primarily because of poor marketing. The gloriously gothic romance was sold as a straight-up horror film, and that’s not exactly what Guillermo del Toro was delivering. A vocal cult following for the film has sprung up since the theatrical release, and now Arrow Video is set to distribute a Crimson Peak Blu-ray that gives the movie the attention it deserves....

‘Frozen’ Stage Production To Replace ‘Aladdin’ At Disney California Adventure By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2015 11:00 am EST Good and bad news for Disneyland fans: We’ll start off with the good news — a new stage production based on the hit Walt Disney Animation Studios film Frozen will be coming to Disney California Adventure in Disneyland Resort. Fans of Frozen have proven they can’t get enough of Anna, Elsa and the whole gang, so Disney is giving fans something bigger and better than the other Frozen park offerings....

‘Rogue One’ VFX Team Explain The Difficulty Of Resurrecting Old Characters By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 18, 2017 9:00 am EST Last week I had the opportunity to jump on the phone with the visual effects team behind Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. After the jump, you can read a transcript of my full interview with Rogue One executive producer / visual effects supervisor / writer John Knoll, animation supervisor Hal Hickel, and special effects supervisor Neil Corbould....

‘Room 104’ Review: ‘My Love’ Closes Out An Uneven First Season By Kristin Hunt/Oct. 16, 2017 7:00 am EST (Each week, we’ll kick off discussion about Room 104 by answering one simple question: what’s the strangest thing in Room 104?)Room 104 finishes its first season with a sentimental love story starring a long-married elderly couple. Charlie and Lorraine have a long history with Room 104, dating back to their wedding night a half century ago....

By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 16, 2016 4:00 pm EST This week marks the 20th anniversary of Space Jam, a movie that brings about all sorts of nostalgic memories for children of the 90s. As someone who enjoyed the film growing up, I can’t say that it has aged well, and despite the superstar status of Michael Jordan, he wasn’t exactly the most charismatic actor to put up alongside Bugs Bunny and some of the most iconic cartoons of all time....

‘The House With A Clock In Its Walls’ Director Eli Roth Discusses Amblin, Steven Spielberg, And More [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Sept. 24, 2018 7:00 am EST While obviously tamer, The House with a Clock in Its Walls has the director’s dark, sometimes slapstick sense of humor as well as sequences that scream horror. Whether with a rotting corpse, evil pumpkins, or a hideous creature in the woods at night, Roth gives younger viewers enough credit to have fun with the scares....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Composer Mark Mothersbaugh Talks About Bringing Something New To The MCU [Interview] By Ben Pearson/Nov. 6, 2017 12:30 pm EST When he was hired to compose the score for Thor: Ragnarok, Mark Mothersbaugh was well aware that Marvel Studios has been hammered with criticism about bland and unoriginal scores for their superhero movies. So when he met with director Taika Waititi, Mothersbaugh put a two-pronged plan in place: to live up to the scores they’d done previously, but also to widen the scope and bring something new to the table that we hadn’t heard in the Marvel Cinematic Universe before....

Diagon Alley Tour Part 3: Florean Fortescue, Ollivanders, Gringotts Bank, Magical Menagerie By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2014 8:00 am EST Today I bring to you part 3 of our 4-part in-depth tour of Universal Orlando’s new Wizarding World of Harry Potter Diagon Alley expansion. I’m sorry its been split over 4 parts, but its taken some time to put all this info and photos together. Part one took a look at the London Waterfront, Diagon Alley Entrance and Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes....

Don Cheadle Talks ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ And Rhodey’s Reluctance To Suit Up As War Machine [Set Visit Interview] By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2018 9:00 am EST Continuing the coverage from our set visit to Avengers: Infinity War, today we bring you our sitdown roundtable interview with Don Cheadle. As you know, Cheadle plays James Rhodes, Tony Stark’s government friend equipped with his own Iron suit. What role will War Machine play in this war against Thanos?...

Exclusive: ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Final Season Won’t Feature ‘Rogue One’s Battle Of Scarif Or Jedha By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2017 11:00 am EST At Star Wars Celebration 2017, I had the opportunity to sit down once again with Star Wars Rebels showrunner Dave Filoni and discuss the upcoming fourth and final season of the series. That full interview will be coming later, but I wanted to share one tidbit from the discussion....

First Look: ‘Larry Crowne’ And ‘The Impossible’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 3, 2010 6:00 pm EST With the American Film Market in full gear, there’s seemingly no end the amount of new material that will be making its way online in the coming hours and days. We’re gonna package up the next two because – while radically different – each is about the best parts of being human. We have our first look at Tom Hanks’ next film Larry Crowne, which he also directed and co-wrote, starring himself, Julia Roberts, Bryan Cranton, Taraji P....