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Ridley Scott’s Next Film To Be Sci-Fi! Brave New World? Blood Meridian To Be “NC-17”? By Hunter Stephenson/June 3, 2008 3:42 pm EST Updated 06/04/08: All signs point to Ridley Scott directing the first major Hollywood adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 classic Brave New World, possibly with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead. Scott has been in discussions with the Huxley estate for sometime, as has DiCaprio. This article from the Sunday Times back in March took a look at negotiations....

Stephen King Talks ‘The Dark Tower’ Sequel, TV Prequel Gets A Showrunner, Everyone Is Delusional By Ben Pearson/Aug. 4, 2017 11:30 am EST Following years of development, a bumpy production period, poor test screenings, and a post-production process that was reportedly plagued with conflicting viewpoints from many different players, a film adaptation of Stephen King’s beloved fantasy series The Dark Tower is finally in theaters. But good things don’t always come to those who wait....

The New Blu-Ray Releases You Should Check Out: ‘The Breakfast Club’ Comes To Criterion And More By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 3, 2018 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Not Dead Yet, a feature dedicated to what’s new on Blu-ray and what special features you should be excited about. Because yes, some of us still like to own physical copies of our movies.) Happy New Year! 2018 is just getting started – there’s going to be a whole slew of exciting new Blu-ray titles to hit shelves this year....

Theme Park Bits: Meet BB-8 At Disney World, New Look At ‘Avatar’ Land, And The Refurbished ‘Autopia’ By Jacob Hall/April 12, 2017 4:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Tokyo Disneyland begins construction of three major new rides and lands. Universal Studios installs new equipment for their Harry Potter nighttime shows. A look at Disneyland’s Autopia refurbishment. A series of photos offer a new look at Pandora: The World of Avatar....

Theme Park Bits: Shanghai Disney Land Grand Opening, A Secret Universal Studios Announcement, And A Batch Of Cool Ride Posters By Jacob Hall/June 16, 2016 3:30 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Watch the entire Shanghai Disneyland grand opening gala… …and the slightly less dynamic resort dedication ceremony. Universal Studios Hollywood teases a new announcement. Watch new video of the Tron Lightcycle Power Run ride in action. Shanghai Disneyland attraction posters are here and they look great....

This Week In Trailers: A Night At The Gym, Midnight Return, F(l)ag Football, My Journey Through French Cinema, Killing Ground By Christopher Stipp/June 10, 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: Deathgasm, Road Hard, My Life Directed, Office, GameLoading: Rise Of The Indies By Christopher Stipp/Feb. 21, 2015 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?...

VOTD: LOST Answers Parody Song By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 27, 2010 7:00 pm EST The Fine Bros have created a LOST music video parody for the song Downtown, performed and released in 1964 by Petula Clark. Lost fans should recognize the song as it has appeared multiple times in the series. According to lostpedia: The first instance being the opening scene of “A Tale of Two Cities”, when Juliet played it on her CD player before the book club....

Watchmen Release Date And Movie Poster Revealed By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2007 2:02 pm EST Zack Snyder made an appearance at Comic Con to promote his upcoming big screen adaptation of Watchmen. Snyder is one of those guys who talks in sound-bytes. Everything he says is interesting of relevant and he spits out the information in a rapid fire pace, at times almost like a Machine gun. I really tried to capture what Snyder was saying in an easily readable posting, but found the task to be impossible....

‘All About Nina’ Review: It’s All About Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s Blistering Turn As A Damaged Stand-Up Comic [Tribeca] By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 3, 2018 5:30 am EST Movies about comedians are usually a gamble. Often they’re too self-indulgent, or mawkish, or overly mean-spirited. Rarely do they balance the high drama of comedians’ inherent insecurities and the, you know, comedy. But the few that do succeed because they strike a personal chord — one that mirrors the self-deprecating performance and painfully real revelations of a good stand-up set....

‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Could Be Marvel Studios’ First Romantic Comedy By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 4, 2017 12:30 pm EST “Superhero fatigue” is a term that’s been on the tip of everyone’s tongues for the past decade, but for the most part, Marvel has managed to avoid that condemnation. Why? Because the comic book studio has put a genre twist on their standard formula for nearly every film: Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a political thriller, Guardians of the Galaxy flaunted its trippy space opera inspirations, Spider-Man: Homecoming recalled John Hughes teen comedies....

/Film Visits London To See Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg And Nick Frost In ‘The World’s End’ By Germain Lussier/July 17, 2013 4:00 pm EST Twenty-four hours in the air, 12,000 miles traveled and six years of anticipation is a lot to live up to. This was the bar set as I traveled from Los Angeles to London to attend the world premiere of Edgar Wright’s new film, The World’s End....

‘Heroes Reborn’ Trailer: The Heroes Are Being Hunted By Ethan Anderton/July 13, 2015 8:00 am EST Years after the conclusion of the NBC sci-fi drama series Heroes, the event series Heroes Reborn returns to the world of super powered humans. And this time our heroes face an entirely different threat than each other. Two vigilantes (Zachary Levi and Judith Shekoni) are hunting down evolved humans, referred to as Evos, forcing both new and old faces to unite and try to save the world all over again from some kind of impending doom....

‘Power Rangers’ Casts Bryan Cranston As A Giant Floating Head In A Tube By Jacob Hall/June 21, 2016 5:15 pm EST The past decade has been kind to Bryan Cranston as he has evolved from a scene-stealing character actor into one of the most celebrated performers of his generation, winning accolades (and Emmys) for his work on Breaking Bad before snagging a Tony award and an Oscar nomination. He’s essentially earned himself a lifetime pass, the chance to pursue whatever roles he wants and take on any challenges that excite him....

‘The Hunger Games’ Trailer #2 Shows Sisterly Bonding, Plus: Details On World Premiere Ticket Giveaway And IMAX Screenings By Angie Han/Feb. 2, 2012 11:30 am EST With just 50 days left until Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games hits theaters, Lionsgate has released a thrilling new trailer that delves a little deeper into Katniss’ (Jennifer Lawrence) relationship with her sister Prim (Willow Shields) and, therefore, her reason for competing in the Games....

Disappearing Soldiers and DPs Seduced by Mrs. Robinson chronicles the development, production, release, and legacy of The Graduate – and it suggests that in earlier drafts, the movie’s script was more political. According to Gray, an early version of Henry’s screenplay included a scene between Ben and a former high school acquaintance, who has been drafted to serve in the Vietnam War. The soldier is jealous of Ben’s flashy convertible and angry that he was denied the same opportunities....

Academy Award Nominee To Direct Blade Runner Sequel By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2015 6:07 pm EST Academy Award nominee Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Incendies) is in negotiations to direct the Blade Runner sequel for Alcon Entertainment. Read all the Blade Runner sequel director, cast and crew details after the jump. Here are the main takeaways: Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Incendies) is in negotiations to direct (the production company sent out a press release which probably means this is 99% a done deal) Blade Runner 2 is scheduled to start principle photography in summer 2016....

Box Office Tracking: Monsters Vs. Aliens Is The Widest Non-Summer Release Of All Time By Steve Mason/March 26, 2009 8:55 pm EST Jeffrey Katzenberg has been the film industry’s strongest proponent of 3-D over the past few years, and this weekend his advocacy will start paying dividends for Dreamworks Amimation. Monsters Vs. Aliens will debut with 4,104 playdates. That makes it the 13th-widest release in modern film history, and it becomes the biggest non-summer debut of all-time....

Early Buzz: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Ignites Oscar Talk With Intensity And Accuracy By Germain Lussier/Nov. 26, 2012 10:07 am EST The long Thanksgiving weekend brought major buzz for two potential Oscar contenders: Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables and Kathryn Bigelow’s action procedural Zero Dark Thirty. Both films are from recent Best Director Oscar winners so expectations were predictably high for each. However, while Les Mis is a known property, a dramatization of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden is much more of a mystery, making the buzz out of those screenings even more intriguing....

Exclusive: Dave McKean Taking Varjak Paw To Buf By Brendon Connelly/March 29, 2009 5:28 pm EST S.F Said’s novels Varjak Paw and The Outlaw Varjak Paw are probably the best mystical martial arts tales with a Mesopotamian blue kitten for a protagonist that you are ever going to read, for reasons both bad (there just aren’t enough of them out there) and good (they’re brilliant). Way back in March 2006, it was announced in The Hollywood Reporter that Dave McKean, the illustrator of the books, was going to adapt them into his second feature film....