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‘Hellboy II: The Golden Army’ Turns 10 And It’s More Magical Than Ever By Dalin Rowell/July 13, 2018 9:00 am EST When Hellboy (Ron Perlman) turns to his friend and partner in world-saving, Abe Sapien (Doug Jones) and notices an album collection of popular love songs, he remarks “Abe…you fell for the Princess?” To which the humanoid fish creature answers: “She…she’s like me! A creature from another world…” And in the summer of 2008 (a time in which I was a high school senior and was contemplating my future), I connected more with Abe in that moment than I ever had before....

‘I Am Chris Farley’ Trailer: A Funny And Tearful Look Back At The Comedian’s Life And Legacy By Ethan Anderton/June 29, 2015 12:30 pm EST There are far too many great talents who have left us all too soon. Fame can be hard to tame, and its satisfaction can sometimes only last so long until you’re looking for other outlets, like drugs or alcohol, to keep that emotional and mental high going....

‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Trailer Breakdown: It Was All A Lie By Ben Pearson/April 18, 2018 12:00 pm EST Universal has debuted a new trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and it’s very different from anything we’ve seen in the franchise thus far. Join us for an in-depth trailer breakdown below. Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom Trailer Breakdown The trailer kicks off with Chris Pratt’s Owen Grady and Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire Dearing inside a shipping container with a sleeping Tyrannosaur....

‘Justice League’ Set Visit: Zack Snyder Goes Full Marvel By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2016 6:00 am EST Thunder crashes in the distance as lightning flashes on a gothic-looking rooftop. The iconic Bat Signal shoots a beam of light into the sky as Commissioner Gordon looks out over Gotham City. On the other side of the rooftop, Batman appears, flanked by Wonder Woman and the Flash. “How many of you are there?...

Willfully Weird If Legion’s ratings are any indication, then the show’s willful weirdness may have turned some viewers off early on. Like Hannibal, Season 3, and Twin Peaks: The Return, the show does, at times, seem bent on being as “out there” as it possibly can. Season 2 has only upped the avant-garde quotient, adding female androids with mustaches, a silent admiral who wears a basket over his head, rooms full of people with chattering teeth, and more elaborately choreographed dance numbers....

‘Silicon Valley’ Review: The Most Awkward Moment In ‘Teambuilding Excercise’ By Alex Riviello/May 15, 2017 9:00 am EST (Each week, we’re going to kick off discussion about Silicon Valley season 4 by answering one simple question: what was the most awkward moment?) Richard has another project, but does he have a new team for it? Possibly. “Teambuilding Exercise” picks up immediately after last week’s episode, with Richard creeping into Gavin Belson’s mansion at three in the morning....

‘Star Wars’ Is About Saving What We Love – And We Need To Save ‘Star Wars’ By Lindsey Romain/June 7, 2018 9:00 am EST I love Star Wars. In our current defensive, insular fandom climate, that’s a contentious thing to admit. But I love it still, and I love its fans, and I love the warmth the movies – all of them, even the bad ones – give me, and have always given me, and will continue to give me forevermore....

‘Star Wars VII’ Will Go Easy On Lens Flares: 5 Things We Learned From Stephen Colbert’s Q&A With J.J. Abrams By Angie Han/Nov. 23, 2015 6:00 am EST As you may have heard by now, J.J. Abrams completed the mix of Star Wars: The Force Awakens at 2:38 AM Saturday morning, leaving, according to him, just six small (but important) tasks to be done. But instead of celebrating by, say, downing an entire bottle of champagne and then curling up for a nice, long, well-deserved nap, Abrams hopped on a plane to New Jersey, where he engaged in a “Celebrity Nerd-Off” with Star Wars superfan Stephen Colbert in support of the Montclair Film Festival....

‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ Early Buzz: Critics Are Divided On Netflix’s Latest Cloverfield Sequel By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 5, 2018 8:00 am EST Netflix and the Cloverfield franchise pulled off a huge surprise last night, first dropping the long-awaited trailer for the third film in the series before handing us another shocker: the movie would be available to stream immediately after the Super Bowl. It’s a clever marketing scheme that holds true to the “disruptive” nature of both the Cloverfield franchise and the streaming service....

‘The Exorcist’ And ‘Scream’ TV Shows Make For Pitch-Perfect Halloween Binge-Watching By Jacob Hall/Oct. 24, 2016 8:00 am EST Here’s the thing about the television adaptations of The Exorcist and Scream – they both sound like terrible ideas. They booth reek of desperation, of television networks dragging a popular and familiar name kicking and screaming into another medium, hoping that name recognition alone will attract an audience. In the age of The Walking Dead and American Horror Story, an age where horror on television has actually become popular, these shows feel like they should be the half-assed attempts to cash in on the small screen’s current obsession with things that go bump in the night....

Could Batman Appear On The CW’s ‘Arrow’? By Angie Han/Jan. 6, 2015 2:00 pm EST All manner of superheroic characters have stopped by The CW’s Arrow over the past three seasons — including, most recently, the Flash, in order to launch fellow CW TV show The Flash. Now Marc Guggenheim has his eye on an even bigger name. The executive producer teased the possibility of a Batman appearance on Arrow, though he admits it won’t “be happening anytime soon....

Disney Developing ‘Hovercar 3D’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2010 1:48 am EST Revisiting The Wachowski’s Speed Racer on DVD, I have wondered if the movie was released a couple years later and filmed in 3D, if it would have been a hit. Well it looks like we might find out, and this time without the hokey characters. Walt Disney Pictures is developing Hovercar 3D, based on an online serial which resulted in a popular young-adult book series from the Australian novelist Matthew Reilly....

Dumb, Dumber, Brilliant: The Films Of The Farrelly Brothers Ranked By Germain Lussier/Nov. 14, 2014 8:00 am EST Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly, better known as The Farrelly Brothers, are responsible for some of the biggest and most quotable comedies of the past twenty years. This week, they’re making their first sequel, which also brings them back to the film that made them famous: Dumb and Dumber. Dumb and Dumber To reunites Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels as idiots Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, and in so doing almost brings twenty years of comedy full circle....

Entire ‘Back To The Future’ Trilogy Returning To Theaters In October For 30th Anniversary By Ethan Anderton/July 17, 2015 10:00 am EST Just yesterday, we brought news of a new Blu-Ray release for the Back to the Future trilogy, including a set with the entire animated series from the 90s, for the first film’s 30th anniversary. Appropriately, the new Blu-Ray set arrives October 21st, 2015, the same day Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled to the future in Back to the Future Part II....

Exclusive: Eagle Eye Co-Writers Working On Blade Runner 2 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 29, 2008 12:04 pm EST This weekend I received an e-mail from /Film reader Tanner C. informing me that one of the screenwriters of Eagle Eye was working on a screenplay for Blade Runner 2. I spent the weekend trying to get confirmation, and thanks to my friend Frosty at Collider who was able to get in touch with a second person who was also at the event, I was able to confirm that the following was actually said....

Guardians Of The Galaxy: Mission Breakout Easter Eggs By Peter Sciretta/June 5, 2017 8:00 am EST Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout opened last week at Disneyland Resort’s Disney California Adventure. And as you probably know at this point, Taneleer Tivan (aka The Collector) has a lot of cool things in his collection, which means the attraction queue is filled with easter eggs and references to Marvel movies, comics, television shows and even Disney theme park attractions and characters....

By Jack Giroux/Oct. 21, 2016 8:00 am EST Desierto is Jonás Cuarón’s sophomore effort as a filmmaker. The co-writer of Gravity made his directorial debut in 2007 with Year of the Nail, a movie he wrote, produced, shot, co-edited, and did the art design for. He had slightly fewer jobs to do on his second feature, but that doesn’t mean it was less of a challenge to make, thanks to some brutally hot weather....

Interview: Why Gary Ross Spent A Decade Working On ‘Free State Of Jones’ By Jack Giroux/June 24, 2016 9:00 am EST After helping to launch The Hunger Games franchise with a $700M hit, some would assume writer-director Gary Ross wouldn’t have much trouble making another film. And yet, following that box-office and critical success, Ross still struggled to get a passion project of his made. For a decade, the director behind Seabiscuit and Pleasantville worked on Free State of Jones, which has finally made its way to theaters....

Is ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Hiding The Final Infinity Stone In Plain Sight? By Ethan Anderton/March 8, 2018 6:30 am EST The amount of footage we’ve seen from Avengers: Infinity War has been limited to a teaser trailer and a Super Bowl TV spot. As far as the story is concerned, we know Thanos is tracking down all of the Infinity Stones so he can bring balance to the universe in his own destructive way....

Is Cryptocurrency A Viable Fundraising Option For Hollywood? By Ben Pearson/March 22, 2018 4:00 pm EST Could the next studio blockbuster be funded through Bitcoin? The concept of cryptocurrency has been around for years already, but it looks like Hollywood is starting to take notice. The producers of a planned Atari movie about the founding of the influential video game company are looking to raise as much as $40 million through a new cryptocurrency to secure enough funds to complete the film....