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This Week In Trailers: Let Them Die Like Lovers, Sheikh Jackson, The Crescent, Wicked Girl, Redoubtable By Christopher Stipp/Sept. 2, 2017 9:00 am 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?...

This Week In Trailers: Mammoth, The White Ribbon, Love The Beast, Love, Starsuckers By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 6, 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?...

VIDEO: Bill Hader’s List Of 200 Essential Comedy Movies By Germain Lussier/Aug. 28, 2014 10:15 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A spin around the TV dial is almost guaranteed to turn up at least one appearance by Bill Hader. Whether it be his memorable stint on Saturday Night Live, smaller film roles in Judd Apatow comedies, leading roles in Greg Mottola comedies, adding voices to Edgar Wright movies, writing South Park episodes, or a commercial for his wonderful new drama The Skeleton Twins, Hader seems to be everywhere....

WonderCon: WALL-E - New Footage & Digital Disney 3D Possibilities? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2008 4:03 pm EST It’s no secret that the film I’m most anticipating in 2008 is Pixar’s WALL-E. I fell in love with the movie when I saw the first teaser trailer and have been closely following the film ever since. Andrew Stanton, the Academy Award winning director of Finding Nemo, came across the bridge to San Francisco to premiere five video clips from WALL-E....

‘Black Mirror’ “Nosedive” Ringtones Released, Showrunners Answer Your Season 3 Questions By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 26, 2016 11:00 am EST How great is Black Mirror Season 3 guys? Like many of you, I spent my weekend binge-watching the entire batch of six episode. The three stand-out episodes for me are Joe Wright’s Nosedive with its vicious take on social media, Dan Trachtenberg’s Playtest which is a horrifying look at the future of immersive gaming, and Owen Harris’ San Junipero which may be the most beautiful episode of the entire series....

‘Finding Dory’ Spoiler-Free Review: This Is Why We Should Never Underestimate Pixar By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2016 1:30 pm EST Note: We originally ran Peter’s Finding Dory review on June 10. We’re re-running it now that the film is in theaters.Finding Dory is an example of why we should never underestimate Pixar. Did we need a sequel to Finding Nemo? No. This film is unnecessary… yet somehow Finding Dory is a fun, rewarding emotional journey....

‘Ghost In The Shell’ Gets Clint Mansell Score, Producer Unconcerned About Whitewashing Controversy By Angie Han/Nov. 15, 2016 7:00 am EST Ghost in the Shell has no shortage of stunning visuals, which is no surprise considering it’s directed by Rupert Sanders. (Say what you will about Snow White and the Huntsman — and I’m personally of the opinion that it is not a very good movie — but it at least looks really pretty....

‘Independence Day’ Sequel: Everything You Need To Know About The Cast And Story By Peter Sciretta/May 29, 2015 11:56 am EST There have been a ton of casting announcements over the last month for Roland Emmerich’s upcoming Independence Day sequel, some of which we have missed reporting on. With the news today that William Fichtner is joining the ensemble which is currently filming, I thought now is a good time to do a round up of the Independence Day sequel cast, giving you all of the details on who is involved, returning, not returning, and what roles they may have in the upcoming sequel....

‘The Walking Dead’ Producers On Ezekiel, Shiva, And More New Characters In Season 7 [Comic-Con 2016] By Fred Topel/July 25, 2016 1:15 pm EST The producers of The Walking Dead gave a press conference at San Diego Comic-Con. This included Robert Kirkman, Scott Gimple, Greg Nicotero, Dave Alpert and Gale Anne Hurd. In their panel, The Walking Dead showed a trailer revealing new characters Ezekiel (Khary Payton) and Shiva, a tiger, both of whom fans of the comic book will recognize....

‘Tron: Legacy’ Featurettes: The Story, Light Bike Design And Clu By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 1, 2010 9:00 am EST Walt Disney Pictures has released a few new featurettes for Tron Legacy. The clips include the story, the character Clu, and Light Bike Design with designer Daniel Simon. Watch the clips now embedded after the jump. Clu The Story 1 Story 2 Light Bike Design With Designer Daniel Simon Official One Pager: TRON: LEGACY (In Disney Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D) WALT DISNEY PICTURES Website: Disney....

10 Female-Led Comics You Should Read After Seeing ‘Wonder Woman’ By Vanessa Bogart/June 2, 2017 9:00 am EST It’s official: Wonder Woman has hit theaters, on a scale that rivals her Trinity counterparts Batman and Superman. When I say that Wonder Woman has been a feminist icon that has empowered women since her inception, I don’t think I am telling you anything that you don’t already know or haven’t already heard in the months leading up to this blockbuster event....

Apple Will Adapt ‘Shantaram’ Into A Series By Chris Evangelista/June 8, 2018 6:30 am EST Apple demands more shows! Less than 24 hours after announcing one show, they’ve gone ahead and announced another: an adaptation of Gregory David Roberts’ novel Shantaram. The story is set in the underworld of contemporary Mumbai. As of now, the Apple Streaming service is loaded with unique projects, and that’s exciting. No two projects announced for the streaming service so far sound alike, and whenever this service launches, viewers will have many options....

Box Office: Horton Targets Third Best Easter Weekend Ever By Steve Mason/March 22, 2008 10:42 am EST Despite the fact that Horton is in its 2nd weekend, it will still likely post the all-time 3rd-best Easter weekend in modern box office history. ALL-TIME BEST EASTER WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PERFORMERS Scary Movie – $40.2M Panic Room – $30M Horton Hears a Who – $28.15M (estimate) The Matrix – $27.7M Liar, Liar – $25....

Could An ‘Arrow’ / ‘Constantine’ Crossover Be In The Cards? By Angie Han/May 11, 2015 3:30 pm EST The #SaveConstantine campaign is now in full swing, and one fan who’s definitely willing to do his part is Stephen Amell. The Arrow star has proposed a crossover featuring the two DC Comics characters, promising to guest star on Constantine if a new network picks it up. But making that happen might be easier said than done....

Dave Filoni On The ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Ending, Who Survives, And The Future Of ‘Star Wars’ Stories By Peter Sciretta/March 6, 2018 10:00 am EST The Star Wars Rebels finale raises just as many questions as it answers. I very much enjoyed this final installment of the Disney XD series, but am surprised that the story seems far from concluded. The ending even appears to feature a cliffhanger that teases a new adventure which could be explored in another Star Wars animated series or feature film....

Early Reaction: Disney Screens Pixar’s ‘Monsters University’ And 18 Minutes Of ‘Lone Ranger’ By Peter Sciretta/April 18, 2013 8:00 am EST Sometimes movie studios come to CinemaCon (formerly ShoWest) to screen early cuts of their films. Dreamworks Animation came to Vegas in 2008 with an early cut of Kung Fu Panda with temp score and sequences of storyboards or unfinished rendered animation. A few years back Disney arrived at the convention with an early cut of Toy Story 3, with unfinished animation and lighting....

Edgar Wright Announces Schedule For “The Wright Stuff III: Movies Edgar Has Never Seen” Program At New Beverly Cinema By Angie Han/Nov. 23, 2011 11:30 am EST Last month, we tipped you off to an unusual project by director Edgar Wright. In his third round of programming for the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, California, Wright decided to make the theme “Movies Edgar Has Never Seen” — and enlisted the help of famous filmmaker pals and fans alike to guide him in picking films he’d never seen, but had always wanted to watch on the big screen....

Getting Things Started: 15 Amazing Opening Scenes In Movies By Josh Spiegel/May 3, 2017 9:00 am EST How a film opens says a lot about its style and tone, and can turn people off or make them sit forward in their seats with curiosity. This week’s big new release, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, has a hard act to follow; its 2014 predecessor had a memorable opening in which hero Peter Quill/Star-Lord dances through an alien world, blasting “Come and Get Your Love” on his old Walkman....

How The Lucasfilm Sound Group Ensured ‘Rogue One’ Was Authentic To The ‘Star Wars’ Galaxy By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2017 8:00 am EST Yesterday I posted the first part of my chat with supervising sound editors Matthew Wood and Christopher Scarabosio, talking about some of the fun auditory Easter eggs you might have missed in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Today I bring you part two of that conversation, where they talk about the unofficial Lucasfilm Sound Group which ensures that all the sounds in the upcoming Star Wars movies are true to the Star Wars universe; their use of the Lucasfilm sound library; and the old-school techniques utilized to create some of the sounds for the new vehicles in the first Star Wars standalone film....

Martin Scorsese’s HBO Series Boardwalk Empire Trailer #4: “Countdown To Prohibition” By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2010 7:07 pm EST HBO has released a fourth trailer for the Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese created Prohibition-era gangster television series Boardwalk Empire titled “Countdown to Prohibition”. The new trailer focuses on Steve Buscemi, who plays the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City and town Treasurer, Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, who is described as “a political fixer and backroom dealer who is equal parts politician and gangster and equally comfortable in either role....