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Theme Park Bits - Loads Of Concept Art, Shanghai’s ‘Toy Story’ Land Opening Date, Chris Hemsworth At Disneyland By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 10, 2017 8:00 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: See concept art of new Pixar parade floats and the Disney Skyliner Transportation System. Take a Christmas peek inside the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Hollywood. Shanghai Disneyland has issued the opening date for its Toy Story Land....

Videos From ‘The Simpsons Take The Bowl’ Musical Event By Germain Lussier/Sept. 15, 2014 8:30 am EST Even the creators of The Simpsons know we love the old stuff. Specifically, the first 10 to 12 seasons. That’s the period in which Matt Groening’s iconic yellow family took the world by storm and became a television institution. Since then many fans have fallen off the show, citing a decline in quality, and maybe that decline is a fact....

Why Marvel Can’t Fail: How Marvel Studios Engineered Your Loyalty By Scott Beggs/May 16, 2017 10:30 am EST Guardians of the Galaxy 2 has five mid-credit scenes. If that seems like overkill, you aren’t thinking like Marvel or like most Marvel fans. The post-credits tease has been a clear marketing strategy – disguised perfectly as extra entertainment – ever since Samuel L. Jackson promised to bring Tony Stark (and us) into the Avenger Initiative....

WonderCon: Peter Berg Explains How Stephen Hawking And His Father Inspired ‘Battleship’, Not The Board Game By Peter Sciretta/March 19, 2012 6:00 am EST I’ll be completely up front with you — I really have had no interest in the movie Battleship since it was announced. Even the recent action-packed Michael Bay-lite trailers didn’t win me over. I just didn’t see the point of making a big screen adaptation of the Battleship board game....

Zach Braff’s ‘Wish I Was Here’ Is A Real Crowd Pleaser [Sundance 2014 Review] By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 19, 2014 2:00 pm EST Zach Braff’s Wish I Was Here is now infamous because of the controversy surrounding Braff’s Kickstarter campaign. But let’s not allow that to cloud the real picture –Braff’s fans coughed up $3.1 million for his second feature film because they loved his first movie. Garden State connected with teens and college-aged twenty somethings in a manner that rarely happens, almost in the way that a song or a poem connects, rather than a movie....

‘Arrested Development’ Season 5 Officially Coming To Netflix [Updated] By Ethan Anderton/May 17, 2017 7:45 am EST Update: Netflix has officially announced that Arrested Development is coming back for season 5. We have included the new details below. The original article follows. Can you believe it’s been four years since Netflix brought back the canceled FOX comedy series Arrested Development for a fourth season? A revival of the show had long been discussed, and Netflix swooped in to save it from a seven-year cancellation as one of their earlier original programming endeavors....

‘Avengers 4’ Finishes Chris Hemsworth’s Marvel Contract – Is This The End Of Thor? By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 16, 2018 8:30 am EST Right now, Chris Hemsworth is making the publicity rounds to promote his war drama 12 Strong, in theaters everywhere this weekend. If you’re curious to find out more about the movie, watch the trailer or check out our full report from the set a little while back. But otherwise, Hemsworth has been getting questions about his most famous role and fans might want to prepare themselves for the end of Thor Odinson....

The Halloween Heist Will Still Happen in the Spring Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s midseason time slot means it will air long after Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, all holidays that feature prominently in episodes. Goor said they wouldn’t let the late airing stop them from their Halloween traditions. “I think we had a very good idea for how to do the Halloween Heist and we want to continue doing it,” Goor said. “They’re some of our favorite episodes to watch and also some of the hardest to write because of the twists and turns....

‘Crimson Peak’ Maze Coming To Universal Halloween Horror Nights [Comic-Con 2015] By Angie Han/July 11, 2015 3:59 pm EST Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak features an all-star cast and a twisty plot, but one of its biggest draws is the setting — a huge, creaky, creepy Victorian mansion full of rooms that mustn’t be visited, secrets in every nook and cranny, and spirits that creep up from behind. And this fall, audience will get the chance to visit Crimson Peak for themselves, in the form of a new maze at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights....

‘Love, Simon’ Review: A Fairly Ordinary Teen Movie…and That’s Why It’s Wonderful By Karen Han/March 15, 2018 8:00 am EST It’s difficult not to describe Love, Simon in contradictory terms. To put it as simply as possible: it’s extraordinary for just how ordinary it is. If one were to point out its faults, they would be the same as any other mainstream teen coming-of-age movie. Maybe it’s a little glib, maybe it bucks realism for dramatic effect, maybe it doesn’t really take any risks — isn’t it more important that this movie is so profoundly normal when its star (by Hollywood’s metrics) is so rare?...

‘Maniac’ Early Buzz: Critics Are Universally Crazy About Emma Stone, But Mixed On Netflix’s Sci-Fi Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 14, 2018 9:30 am EST True Detective visionary Cary Fukunaga, Oscar winner Emma Stone, and Oscar nominee Jonah Hill seems like a dream team that could turn any collaboration into a smash success. But unfortunately, it seems that their darkly comic sci-fi series, Maniac, is more of a mixed bag. Based on the Norwegian TV series of the same name, Maniac is a Netflix miniseries directed by Fukunaga and starring Stone and Hill as two strangers who meet an experimental drug trial and end up navigating a slew of vibrant alternate realities in their minds....

‘Queen Of Katwe’ Trailer: Lupita Nyong’o And David Oyelowo Lead Mira Nair’s Uplifting Chess Drama By Angie Han/May 10, 2016 1:30 pm EST It’s not that Lupita Nyong’o hasn’t kept herself busy since her Oscar win for 12 Years a Slave. But we’ve barely seen her, because her two biggest recent roles, in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Jungle Book, have kept her wonderfully expressive face offscreen. Fortunately, that changes this fall with Queen of Katwe....

‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Producer Bryan Burk Says Knowing Secrets Would Ruin The Experience By Germain Lussier/May 16, 2013 2:30 pm EST Several weeks ago, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, the current ruler of the Star Wars universe, said the following in regards to exactly how she and her team will approach secrecy be in regards to Star Wars Episode VII: We talk about that all the time. I think the whole issue of confidentiality is gonna be fascinating as we move into making the movie....

‘The Dark Tower’ Review Round-Up: Can The Movie Really Be This Bad? By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 2017 11:30 am EST The time has come for fans of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower book series to see how the big screen adaptation of the sci-fi western has turned out. If the first reviews are to be believed (following press screenings that happened just 24 hours before the film gets a wide release, which usually isn’t a good sign), this movie is an absolute disaster....

‘The Fly’ Remake: J.D. Dillard Wants To Bring Some Real Emotion To The Blockbuster Re-Do By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2017 1:00 pm EST Last month it was revealed that Sleight director J.D. Dillard was in talks to direct and co-write a remake of David Cronenberg’s classic horror remake The Fly. J.D. is reteaming with his Sleight writing partner Alex Theurer to develop the new remake for 201th Century Fox. This morning I got the chance to ask J....

‘Westworld’ Spoiler Review: 10 Questions From “The Adversary” By Jacob Hall/Nov. 7, 2016 10:00 am EST Last week, Westworld spent the bulk of its time within the park itself (and likely within the show’s past), following Dolores and William as they ventured toward the Maze and had a bloody, empowering Wild West adventure. This week compensated by shifting the focus to park operations (and likely in the show’s present), offering up corporate espionage, horrifying malfunctions, and an overwhelming sense of dread....

15 Years Later, ‘28 Days Later’ Is The Raging Horror Movie For Our Dark Times By Joshua Meyer/June 29, 2018 8:00 am EST On this week in 2003, 28 Days Later entered wide release in the U.S., prepping audiences for The Walking Dead and the zombie craze to come. The world is a lot different now than it was when Danny Boyle’s post-apocalyptic horror film burst onto the scene with its red-eyed, fast-running zombies....

An E-Mail From Michael Moore: “Sicko Is Completed And We’re Off To Cannes!” By Peter Sciretta/May 17, 2007 8:45 pm EST If you’ve watched the news this past week then you’ve probably heard something about the US Investigation into Michael Moore’s trip to Cuba. It’s been a hot topic of conversation, in most part because his new film i question will debut at the Cannes Film Festival this week. The following e-mail was sent from Michael Moore to his mailing list (which I am proudly part of)....

George Romero Can’t Make The Zombie Movies He Wants Because Of ‘The Walking Dead’ And ‘World War Z’ By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 1, 2016 3:00 pm EST For the longest time, George Romero was the king of zombie movies. Thanks to the innovation that was Night of the Living Dead, zombies became all the rage, and the filmmaker has had a niche in the undead horror thriller world for decades now. Following the original film’s release in 1968, Romero made Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, and more recently he’s followed those up with Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead....

Heath Ledger Dead At 28 By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 22, 2008 9:20 pm EST Note: This story will remain on the top of /Film for the next day. Actor Heath Ledger, who plays the Joker in this summer’s The Dark Knight, died today at around 3:30 p.m. EST. Ledger was reportedly found naked in bed in a state of cardiac arrest by a housekeeper who promptly called 911. He was found in a Manhattan apartment, in SoHo; police formerly reported that Mary-Kate Olsen was the owner of the apartment, however this info has been proven incorrect....