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‘Little Shop Of Horrors’ Original Ending That Test Audiences Hated Is Coming To Theaters Next Month By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2017 6:30 am EST Frank Oz’s 1986 musical cult classic Little Shop of Horrors will be returning to movie theaters for a limited time event, as Fathom Events is hosting Little Shop of Horrors: The Director’s Cut, which includes a 23-minute ending cut from the film due to test audience reactions....

‘Luke Cage’ Early Buzz: Is Netflix’s New Marvel Show The Best One Yet? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 7, 2016 10:00 am EST Luke Cage won’t premiere on Netflix until later this month (Friday, September 30th, 2016) but the first reviews have begun to hit the web. Television press were given access to the first seven episodes (of the 13 episode first season) and the reactions to the first half of the season are overwhelmingly positive....

‘Mission: Impossible’ Scores Another Big Win With ‘Rogue Nation’ By Angie Han/July 31, 2015 8:00 am EST Any franchise could be forgiven for growing a bit stale after twenty years and five installments, but against all odds the Mission: Impossible series is still going strong. While the new entry directed by Chris McQuarrie may not be an all-time high, it’s another solid entry that equals its predecessors in the stunt department, and features the most engaging new character since Simon Pegg and Philip Seymour Hoffman in III....

‘Room 104’ Review: ‘The Missionaries’ Brings A Mormon Meet-Cute To Room 104 By Kristin Hunt/Sept. 11, 2017 11:30 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?)Mormon missionaries aren’t the easiest story subjects. Their work is tedious, their uniforms are square, and they only recently got permission to drink Pepsi. Unless you’ve got showtunes, how do you make their stories compelling?...

Crimes Against Reality: On ‘Zero Dark Thirty’s’ Depictions Of Torture By David Chen/Jan. 15, 2013 10:00 pm EST [The following article contains spoilers for Zero Dark Thirty] In the past month or so, it feels as though two opposing camps have been battling it out over Zero Dark Thirty: the film critics who laud it as one of the best films of the year, and commentators who believe that it in some way endorses torture or depicts it as effective....

Does ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Break The MCU Timeline? By Ben Pearson/July 7, 2017 4:00 pm EST Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige generally runs a tight ship when it comes to continuity and linking multiple movies together in his Marvel Cinematic Universe. But does Spider-Man: Homecoming commit an egregious error when it comes to keeping the order of the MCU? Read on to discover the Spider-Man Homecoming MCU timeline issue. Heads up: extremely light spoilers for Spider-Man: Homecoming ahead....

Interview: ‘Finding Dory’ Director Andrew Stanton On Sea Lions, Sigourney Weaver, Easter Eggs And More By Peter Sciretta/June 20, 2016 8:00 am EST A couple weeks ago, I got a chance to chat with writer/director Andrew Stanton about his new Pixar film Finding Dory. The film hit theaters this past weekend and earned an estimated $136.2 million, breaking the record for the biggest animated opening of all time. (Looks like my Summer Movie Wager pick wasn’t that stupid after all, although we’ll have to see how it does in the second weekend to see if it really has a chance to beat Captain America: Civil War this summer....

Interview: ‘Voltron: Legendary Defender’ Showrunners Joaquim Dos Santos And Lauren Montgomery On Updating A Classic By Fred Topel/June 10, 2016 7:00 am EST Voltron is back. Dreamworks Animation has produced the series Voltron: Legendary Defender for Netflix. In the brand new high definition series, five pilots once again obtain individual lion robots that can combine to form Voltron. We got to speak with Voltron: Legendary Defender producers Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Mongomery at the Dreamworks Offices....

James Cameron Talks About Expanding The ‘Avatar’ Universe By Jacob Hall/Sept. 14, 2016 2:25 pm EST In his legendary book Adventures in the Screen Trade, screenwriter William Goldman wrote of the film industry: “Nobody knows anything. Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what’s going to work. Every time out it’s a guess and if you’re lucky, an educated one.” And he’s right. Making predictions about the movie biz is like trying to predict the weather....

Jurassic World 2: Colin Trevorrow And Frank Marshall Talk Future Of The Franchise By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2015 10:00 am EST Jurassic World dominated the box office this past weekend, raking in over $511 million worldwide making it the #1 global opening of all-time. And over the weekend we told you that Chris Pratt is already signed on for the inevitable Jurassic World sequels. We have a lot of clues as to what Jurassic World 2 might be about and who might be involved, and we know Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow has said that he won’t be back in the director’s chair....

Jurassic World Sequel Announced For 2018 By Peter Sciretta/July 23, 2015 11:54 am EST Jurassic World dominated the box office, becoming the third largest grossing movie of all time and having the #1 global opening of all-time. And now Universal Pictures has announced that a Jurassic World sequel will hit theaters in 2018. Find out more, after the jump.Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow has said that he won’t be back in the director’s chair, but he is returning to write the screenplay for the sequel with his writing partner Derek Connolly....

LOL: U.S. Geological Survey Seismologist Reacts To ‘San Andreas’ By Angie Han/May 28, 2015 7:12 am EST There are certain aspects of San Andreas that ring true. The fault, for example, is real, as is the idea that California is long overdue for “the Big One.” But it probably won’t surprise you to learn that much of the rest of it is Hollywood fantasy. U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones took to Twitter to help separate fact from fiction, pointing out the myriad ways in which this movie makes absolutely no sense — and also highlighting a few instances in which it’s dead on....

Mondo To Sell New, And Old, Posters At Comic-Con: Plus ‘Back To The Future’ And ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Updates [Comic-Con 2012] By Germain Lussier/July 11, 2012 12:00 pm EST Fifteen plus new posters by eleven different artists with up to four different drops a day. Mondo has truly upped their game for San Diego Comic-Con 2012. Last year was the first time the poster boutique of the Alamo Drafthouse ever attended the Super Bowl of pop culture and they were forced to throw everything together in two weeks....

New Blu-Ray Releases: ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’ And ‘Night Of The Living Dead’ From The Criterion Collection By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 13, 2018 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Not Dead Yet, a feature dedicated to new Blu-ray releases and what special features you should be excited about. Because yes, some of us still like to own physical copies of our movies.) What a great week for Blu-rays. The Criterion Collection has two must-have releases this week: Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs and George A....

Eyes Wide Shut Now Streaming on Netflix Stanley Kubrick’s final film is a psycho-sexual dream set (mostly) over the course of one long, weird evening close to Christmas. Eyes Wide Shut may not be a Christmas movie in the conventional sense, but the holiday is ever-present throughout the film, with a Christmas tree in the background of nearly every shot. Tom Cruise gives one his best performances playing a frustrated doctor who storms out on his wife (played by Cruise’s real wife at the time, Nicole Kidman) after she confesses she had a sexual fantasy about another man....

San Diego Comic-Con Scheduling Begins: Wednesday & Thursday Highlights Include ‘Arrow,’ ‘Twilight,’ ‘Oz,’ ‘Expendables’ And More By Germain Lussier/June 28, 2012 11:30 am EST It’s coming. San Diego Comic-Con 2012 is mere days away, kicking off Wednesday night July 11 for preview night and then getting into full gear Thursday July 12. If you can believe it, this year, more than others, is jam packed with goodness, even with studios like Paramount generally bowing out....

See Rian Johnson’s Stunning ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Photos By Jacob Hall/April 14, 2017 9:42 am EST During the Star Wars Celebration panel for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, writer/director Rian Johnson revealed that he kept a camera on his person at all times throughout the shoot, snapping photos whenever he saw a striking image. And since this was a Star Wars set, there were a lot of striking images, all of them captured in beautiful black and white....

Sequel Bits: ‘That’s What I’m Talking About,’ ‘The Terminator,’ ‘Fast & Furious 7’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 16, 2014 2:30 pm EST The art above is the production logo for That’s What I’m Talking About, the new film from Richard Linklater. We’re stretching the definition of “sequel bits” just a little here, but the movie has been called a “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused. Linklater started production on the movie this week, and that image is in celebration of the ongoing production....

Should Inclusion Riders Be A Requirement For Hollywood Production Companies? By Ben Pearson/March 14, 2018 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: should inclusion riders be requirements for all Hollywood production companies?) Frances McDormand’s Oscars speech raised Hollywood’s awareness of inclusion riders – contractual stipulations that basically demand racial and gender diversity for at least fifty percent of a project’s cast and crew....

Superhero Bits: The Amazing Spider-Man, Dark Knight Rises, Avengers, Iron Man, More Spider-Man By Germain Lussier/July 3, 2012 12:00 pm EST With The Amazing Spider-Man opening today, we have lots of Spidey in today’s Superhero Bits. Want to hear an explanation of the film’s complex equation? How much did it make at midnight last night? What’s up with that last scene? Why was it missing a key piece of dialogue and how can dressing like Spidey get you a free burger?...