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Sequel Bits: ‘Finding Dory,’ ‘The Haunted Mansion,’ ‘Fast 8,’ ‘Kong: Skull Island,’ ‘Uncle Buck,’ ‘Transformers’ By Jacob Hall/May 2, 2016 6:00 am EST In today’s edition of Sequel Bits: Watch new TV spot for Finding Dory. Fast 8 celebrates the start of production in Cuba. Guillermo del Toro confirms that he’s still writing The Haunted Mansion. Legendary and Warner Bros. face a lawsuit over Kong: Skull Island. A Chinese company is suing Paramount over some Transformers product placement....

Sequel Bits: ‘Tron 3,’ ‘John Wick 2,’ ‘Top Gun 2,’ ‘National Treasure 3,’ ‘Splash,’ ‘Bad Moms 2,’ ‘Enemy Of The State’ By Jacob Hall/Oct. 27, 2016 11:00 am EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is developing a TV sequel to Enemy of the State. Tom Cruise doesn’t have much to say about Top Gun 2. Nicolas Cage has even less to say about National Treasure 3. Several Bad Moms sequels are in the works....

Sequel Bits: ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’, ‘Insidious Chapter 2’, ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’, ‘Jurassic Park 4’, ‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’, ‘A Good Day To Die Hard’, And More By Angie Han/Feb. 13, 2013 4:30 pm EST If Sequel Bits has a mascot, it’s gotta be Bruce Willis. Guy has four sequels due out this year, and in this edition he talks about two of them, A Good Day to Die Hard and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For....

Sony Expands Spider-Man Cinematic Universe With ‘Venom’ And ‘Sinister Six’ Movies By Russ Fischer/Dec. 12, 2013 11:18 pm EST You know that little thing about Sony developing other characters related to Spider-Man? It’s far bigger than you thought. The studio just announced the Venom movie that has been rumored for years, and a Sinister Six film as well. That’s right — unlike some other studio approaches, when it comes to Spider-Man and Sony, the spin-off films are for the bad guys....

Sundance 2012 Out Of Competition Films Announced By Russ Fischer/Dec. 1, 2011 2:30 pm EST Yesterday the Sundance Film Festival announced the core lineup of films that will be spotlit in the Competition slates at the 2012 festival. Now we’ve got a lineup of films that will play out of competition in the Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, NEXT <=> and New Frontier schedules. There are a few films in here with which you might be nominally familiar, like The Raid, Grabbers and Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, not to mention Andrea Arnold’s new version of Wuthering Heights....

Superhero Bits: Thor: Ragnarok Trailer Coming Soon, Cyclops Gets New Eyewear & More By Ethan Anderton/July 14, 2017 5:00 pm EST Is the sixth season of Arrow kind of a reboot for the series? Are we getting a new Thor: Ragnarok trailer at D23 or Comic-Con? What has the faith-based organization upset with Spider-Man: Homecoming? Want to see Cyclops’ new visor he’s wearing in X-Men: Dark Phoenix? What did Christopher Nolan think of Wonder Woman?...

Theme Park Bits: New Jurassic Park Ride, Frozen Musical, Universal Prices, Good Dinosaur Preview By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2015 12:00 pm EST In the latest edition of Theme Park Bits, we take a look at the following: Universal Studios Japan announces new Jurassic Park ride Find out when Star Wars Season of the Force will take place in Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando See a preview of Pixar’s Good Dinosaur in Disneyland and Walt Disney World More information about the Frozen stage production coming to Disney California Adventure Get a first look at the Motiongate theme park coming to Dubai in 2016 Universal Orlando follows Disney’s lead and raises Annual Pass and parking prices Comcast is buying 51% stake in Universal Studios Japan All this and more, hit the jump to get started....

This Week In Trailers: Fake It So Real, Moments Of Fiction, Don 2, Kosha Dillz Is Everywhere, Rise And Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story By Christopher Stipp/July 22, 2011 1:00 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?...

TV Bits: ‘In Treatment’ Not Quite Cancelled, Posters For ‘Falling Skies,’ Nudity Clause For ‘The Playboy Club,’ Kyle Chandler For ‘Powers’? By Angie Han/March 31, 2011 10:15 am EST We’ve got a mixed bag of TV bits for you today, from some pretty sci-fi artwork for TNT to possible envelope-pushing on NBC, so let’s get started. First off, HBO’s treatment of In Treatment: It was widely reported last night that the premium cable network had canceled its ratings-challenged psychiatric drama starring Gabriel Byrne....

What’s The Deal With The John Turturro Foot Condition Subplot In HBO’s ‘The Night Of’? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 1, 2016 7:00 am EST If you haven’t started watching HBO’s The Night Of, you should. The miniseries follows Riz Ahmed (Nightcrawler, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) as a Pakistani-American college student who, after a night of partying with a female stranger, wakes up to find her stabbed to death and gets charged with her murder....

‘A Wrinkle In Time’ Writer Jennifer Lee On Adapting A Beloved Classic Novel [Interview] By Ben Pearson/March 7, 2018 8:00 am EST Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 sci-fi novel A Wrinkle in Time has been a staple for young readers for decades. A made-for-TV adaptation was released in 2003, and when L’Engle was asked if it met her expectations, she responded, “Yes, I expected it to be bad, and it is.” (Harsh!) The author died in 2007, so it’s a shame she wasn’t able to see Ava DuVernay’s new movie, a thematically honest and largely accurate adaptation that cost over $100 million....

‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Interview: Michael Douglas May Have Said Too Much By Ben Pearson/June 18, 2018 2:00 pm EST Last fall, the legendary Michael Douglas enters a conference room in a sound stage a few feet from where he was just filming a scene with his Ant-Man and the Wasp co-star Paul Rudd. Douglas, who plays the brilliant scientist/engineer Hank Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is in a pleasant, upbeat mood, asking myself and the handful of other journalists if we’re enjoying our lunch....

‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ Trailer Breakdown: Exploring The Comic-Con Trailer Frame-By-Frame By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 23, 2018 10:30 am EST Warner Bros. released a new trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald following the film’s highly anticipated panel at San Diego Comic-Con. The second film in the five-movie franchise (out November 16, 2018) dramatically expands the world we came to know and love in Harry Potter. But as the wizarding world gears up for war against the dark wizard Grindelwald (Johnny Depp), the second The Crimes of Grindelwald trailer offers a few Easter eggs and nods to the beloved Harry Potter series....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Footage Recap: Baby Groot, Human Ego & So Much More [Comic-Con 2016] By Angie Han/July 23, 2016 8:30 pm EST At the tail end of a massively busy, massively exciting day in Hall H, Marvel Studios unleashed a ton of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 footage on an adoring crowd. One was a lengthy clip featuring Yondu (Michael Rooker) and Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper) escaping the Ravagers with help from Baby Groot, and the other was the first Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 trailer....

Alice In Wonderland Soundtracks Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 12, 2010 1:12 pm EST Buena Vista Records has announced they will release two albums for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, one is a 16-song compilation featuring the end credit track “Alice (Underground)” written by Avril Lavigne and produced by Butch Walker, and the other is Danny Elfman’s original motion picture score. The compilation includes songs from Franz Ferdinand, The All-American Rejects, Owl City, Mark Hoppus, Pete Wentz, Wolfmother and others....

Ed O’Neill Voices A New ‘Finding Dory’ Character [D23 Expo 2015] By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 14, 2015 6:00 pm EST Andrew Stanton’s Finding Nemo sequel Finding Dory was heavily teased on the D23 Expo show floor, and at Friday’s big animation presentation Stanton revealed some of the thinking behind the film, and offered some new footage to the crowd. Basically, his core questions were about Dory and her family. Could she find her way home if she was lost again?...

Have Disney Canned Their Philip K. Dick Adaptation, King Of The Elves? By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 23, 2009 5:32 pm EST There’s absolutely no official confirmation of this yet, but several rumours and a clear change to an official website suggest that Disney have ditched their long in the works adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s short story, King of the Elves. The film was being directed by Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker....

How The ‘Ghostbusters’ Reboot Universe Can And Should Still Connect To The Original By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 26, 2016 10:00 am EST If you’ve already moved on from the Ghostbusters reboot from this past summer, that’s totally fine. If you didn’t like the movie, I don’t blame you. Paul Feig’s attempt at a new Ghostbusters didn’t live up to what I was hoping to see from the movie. Honestly, I didn’t think it was downright terrible, but I thought it lost itself in the shuffle of trying to be a tentpole blockbuster when it should have stayed more true to the first half of the movie....

Interview: ‘Triple 9’ Director John Hillcoat Strives For Authenticity By Jack Giroux/Feb. 26, 2016 4:00 pm EST John Hillcoat is drawn to extreme worlds. How his characters embrace, reject or accept their brutal environments is a running idea throughout much of the director’s work. The filmmaker’s latest picture, Triple 9, is definitely a John Hillcoat film, filled with pain and violence. He’s never one to shy away from reality. In fact, he fights for it....

James Gunn Promises ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Will “Run Over” The Bechdel Test By Angie Han/Oct. 13, 2016 11:00 am EST The Guardians of the Galaxy may be a mostly male crew, but James Gunn wants you to know he won’t ignore women in their next outing. The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 director has promised his film will “not only pass the Bechdel test, but run over it and back up over it again and again in an eighteen-wheeler truck....