Superhero Bits: Suicide Squad Box Office, Justice Society Of America & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 2016 5:00 pm EST What does one of Harley Quinn’s co-creators think of Margot Robbie’s turn in Suicide Squad? Which superhero’s suit is going up for auction in September? What Batman gadget is TSA telling people to stop bringing in their luggage? How much will Suicide Squad make in its opening weekend at box office?...
Superhero Bits: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dark Knight Rises, Iron Man 3, Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers By Germain Lussier/July 6, 2012 1:00 pm EST Want to find out when the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show will premiere and how to help out a TMNT fan documentary? How does Shane Black look on the set of Iron Man 3? What is the number one fanboy problem with superhero films like The Amazing Spider-Man?...
The Unpopular Opinion: ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Is One Of The Weakest MCU Movies By Anya Crittenton/May 4, 2017 8:00 am EST (Welcome to The Unpopular Opinion, a series where a writer goes to the defense of a much-maligned film or sets their sights on a movie seemingly beloved by all. In this edition: the massively popular Guardians of the Galaxy enters the crosshairs.) Almost without fail, every published ranking of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has the same two movies in the top spots: Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy....
There Are Even More Visual Effects In ‘Rogue One’ Than You Realized By Ethan Anderton/April 6, 2017 10:00 am EST Everyone knows that visual effects are required in order to bring a movie like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to life. They may be more advanced than when George Lucas first took us to a galaxy far, far away, but we wouldn’t have the worlds, spaceships and creatures necessary to bring Star Wars to life without the magic of visual effects....
This Week In Trailers: Winning: Every Secret Thing, The Racing Life Of Paul Newman, Saint Laurent, Aurora, The Seven Five By Christopher Stipp/April 18, 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?...
Warner Bros. And IMAX Team For 30 Films Including ‘Batman V Superman,’ ‘Tarzan,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts’ By Germain Lussier/April 20, 2015 9:00 am EST Not to be outdone by rival Disney, Warner Bros. has renewed their deal with IMAX to release 30 films in the format over the next few years. The news comes two weeks after Disney renewed a similar deal to release films like Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Captain America: Civil War in IMAX....
With Its Second Episode, ‘Krypton’ Is Still Trying To Be ‘Game Of Thrones’ In Space By Monique Jones/March 29, 2018 9:00 am EST Each week with my Krypton recaps, I’ve decided to pose this central question: Is the show getting better? Hope that the show will, in fact, find its footing after the uneven first episode is essentially what these recaps are floating on, after all. So, to the answer about if Krypton is getting better…I’m not sure if it is?...
‘Indiana Jones’ Trilogy To Be Released Individually For The First Time In HD By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 17, 2013 2:30 pm EST Paramount Home Video and Lucasfilm have officially announced the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade individually for the first time ever in High Definition. As you may recall, the original Indiana Jones trilogy films were previously only released as part of the Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures box set, forcing fans to own the much despised fourth installment Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull....
‘John Carter’ Producer Jim Morris Talks Budget, Effects, Directors And More By Germain Lussier/Feb. 27, 2012 10:00 am EST On a movie like John Carter, where so much has been – or can be – made of the budget, the effects and the first time director, the best source of information is the person who handles all that. The producer. One of the the producers on John Carter is Jim Morris, who produced Andrew Stanton’s last film WALL-E ....
‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ - What Did You Think? By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 16, 2016 5:46 pm EST The time has come for another Star Wars movie to hit theaters this weekend. It’s not quite as big of a deal as it was last year when Star Wars: The Force Awakens arrived, mostly since that was a movie that fans had wanted to see for 32 years. Meanwhile, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has been dubbed an experiment to see how fans like a spin-off story that lies outside of the primary Star Wars saga episodes....
‘The Fate Of The Furious’ Zooms To The Biggest Worldwide Opening Of All Time, Passing ‘The Force Awakens’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 17, 2017 2:00 pm EST The Fate of the Furious sped to the top of the box office on its opening weekend, knocking Star Wars: The Force Awakens down as the title-holder of the biggest worldwide box office opening of all time.The Fate of the Furious made $532.5 million in its first weekend, just beating the $529 million record earned in 2015 by Star Wars: The Force Awakens....
‘Westworld’ Review: ‘Journey Into Night’ Welcomes You Back To The Park By Chris Evangelista/April 23, 2018 7:00 am EST Welcome to our weekly recaps of HBO’s Westworld. This Westworld review takes a look at the first episode of season 2, “Journey Into Night.” Be warned: spoilers follow. “What’s It Mean?” Welcome back to Westworld! Everyone’s dead and/or dying! The second season of HBO’s puzzle box show starts things off with a bang, literally, as we watch one carnage-filled scene after another of character being brutally gunned down....
‘Wonder Woman’ Early Buzz: Gal Gadot And Chris Pine Shine In A Terrific Superhero Movie By Jacob Hall/May 19, 2017 7:30 am EST Warner Bros.’ DC Extended Universe has been a thoroughly mixed bag so far, dividing critics and audiences alike. Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Suicide Squad were all financial hits, but the mixed-to-negative reactions suggested that something was amiss. What had to be done to get everyone to rally around one of their films?...
Cinema Con: Disney Previews ‘Cars 2’, ‘The Avengers’, ‘The Muppets’, And ‘Winnie The Pooh’ By Peter Sciretta/March 30, 2011 6:00 am EST Walt Disney Pictures’ presentation at Cinema Con included footage from Cars 2, The Muppets, Winnie The Pooh and a sizzle reel for The Avengers. After the jump you can read my virtually spoiler free reactions. Cars 2: Like many others, Cars is my least favorite Pixar movie. That’s not to say that I don’t like the film — the emotional spine, the Route 66 storyline, is better than anything in most non-Pixar animated films....
Cool Stuff: Check Out These Limited Edition Prints For ‘The Nice Guys,’ ‘The Twilight Zone,’ And ‘Pinocchio’ By Jack Giroux/May 17, 2016 3:00 pm EST Shane Black’s newest film, The Nice Guys, opens in theaters this weekend. Black’s third directorial effort is opening up against Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and Angry Birds, a sequel and an animated feature based on a video game. The Nice Guys is one of the few original studio films coming out this summer, but that’s not the only reason to go out and support Black’s picture....
GeekBomb: Everything You Wanted To Know About John Malkovich By Kevin Kelly/Feb. 17, 2009 8:00 am EST John Malkovich is one of those actors who really seems hard to pin down. He can take a strange role and make it his own, a la Teddy KGB in Rounders, or he can take the role of a villain and make it uber-creepy, like he did in In The Line of Fire. Or, he can also play a part where he’s playing himself, and a version of himself piloted by someone else, and make fun of himself and his image in the process as in Being John Malkovich....
How The ‘Avatar’ Sequels Shoot Underwater Mo-Cap According To James Cameron By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 21, 2017 1:30 pm EST Avatar 2 will finally hit movie theaters in 2020, 11 years after the first Avatar was released in 2009 and three years after the great SNL sketch poking fun at Avatar’s font. The primary reason for the decade-long delay? The technology required to film director James Cameron’s ambitious vision of a world submerged in water didn’t quite exist yet....
Interview: ‘I Am Not A Serial Killer’ Star Christopher Lloyd On Playing Monsters And Leaving A Legacy By Jacob Hall/Aug. 26, 2016 10:00 am EST I saw I Am Not a Serial Killer at the SXSW Film Festival earlier this year and it was one of the most pleasant surprises of the fest. A throwback horror movie that never feels the need to wink or nudge, Billy O’Brien’s film is slick, sick, and deeply interested in the humanity that lurks behind a monster (and vice versa)....
Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies To Watch With ‘Life Of The Party’ By Scott Beggs/May 11, 2018 3:00 pm EST Melissa McCarthy goes back to school this weekend in Life of the Party, which fits squarely into the McCarthy comedy mold that has made her approximately a quadrillion dollars. A genre she’s made her own, becoming one of the few genuinely new movie stars in an era where the intellectual property is the star....
MoviePass Will Finally Offer Unlimited Movies With No 3D/IMAX Restrictions, But It Will Cost You By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2016 11:30 am EST MoviePass is a great idea, a monthly membership (starting at $30) that gives you access to see up to one movie a day in one of its 33,000 qualifying screens nationwide. It has basically been marketed as Netflix for movie theaters, and if it worked that simply it would be amazing....
