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‘Christopher Robin’ And A Couple Of Spies Couldn’t Stop ‘Mission: Impossible - Fallout’ From Topping The Box Office Again By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 6, 2018 1:30 pm EST After debuting in the top spot last weekend with $61.2 million, two new wide releases couldn’t stop Tom Cruise and his Impossible Mission Force from taking the #1 spot again. Mission: Impossible – Fallout earned an estimated $35 million in its second weekend, enough to stop the family friendly Christopher Robin and even a couple of amateur secret agents in the form of Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon in The Spy Who Dumped Me....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 5 Predictions And Power Rankings: What’s Next For Westeros? By Angie Han/April 10, 2015 2:00 pm EST We helped you brush up on your recent Westerosi history with our general recap of Season 4. Now it’s time to consider where Game of Thrones is headed in Season 5. Season 4 ended with some major shakeups to the status quo, and knowing this show things will only continue to spin out of control for the next ten episodes....

‘John Carter’ Set Interviews: Andrew Stanton, Taylor Kitsch, Willem DaFoe, Lynn Collins And Thomas Hayden Church By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2012 9:30 am EST While on the Utah set of John Carter, a group of journalists (including myself) has the opportunity to interview to the cast and crew. On the following pages, you can read the interviews we conducted on set, transcribed in full: Director Andrew Stanton Taylor Kitsch (John Carter) Willem Dafoe (Tars Tarkas) Thomas Hayden Church (Tal Hajus) Lynn Collins (Dejah Thoris) Interview with Andrew StantonStanton: It’s kind of overcast now....

‘Noah’ And The Inscrutable God By David Chen/March 31, 2014 9:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. [The following contains SPOILERS for Darren Aronofsky’s Noah. You can listen to our podcast review of Noah here.] I once had a conversation with a friend of mine who has a Ph.D in Theology. We were discussing the nature of God, and I remember him saying to me, “I’m not sure if God exists....

‘Rampage’ First Look Is Here, Trailer Coming On Thursday [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Nov. 14, 2017 12:00 pm EST Update: The first poster for Rampage has arrived and we’ve added it to the post below. Looking at a new photo of Dwayne Johnson standing in the rubble of a destroyed city, you’d be forgiven for thinking he’s on the set of San Andreas 2, the planned sequel to his earthquake disaster movie from 2015....

‘Suicide Squad’ Press Conference: Everything We Learned About DC’s Twisted Team-Up By Angie Han/Aug. 1, 2016 9:30 am EST For months now we’ve heard about how tight the cast of Suicide Squad is, and that camaraderie was definitely on display at the film’s New York press conference this weekend. The stars, director David Ayer, and producers Richard Suckle and Charles Roven talked about the pressures of making the film, the lengths they went to in order to research their roles....

A History of Violence According to the Internet Movie Database (which admittedly may not be the most reliable source, but we’re rolling with it), the earliest motion picture to feature a gun is 1894’s Annie Oakley, a documentary short revolving around the real-life sharpshooter from Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, performing some trigger trickery with her own rifle. However, the most famous silent cinema appearance of firearms is arguably 1903’s The Great Train Robbery, which even billed itself as “the first feature picture with a plot....

AFI’s Top 100 Greatest Movies Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2007 2:23 am EST The American Film Institute has released it’s annual list of the top 100 greatest movies of all time. This list, like most other lists, will probably lead to more than a few disagreements. There are placement problems (Titanic places higher than Blade Runner?), there are movies that deserve to be on the list but aren’t (Roger Ebert pointed out Fargo’s absence) and even movies that are on the list but shouldn’t be (Platoon?...

Box Office: Behind The Scenes War Between CG And Mocap By Steve Mason/Nov. 18, 2007 4:27 pm EST The bigger the movie, the more likely the actuals will finish higher than the estimates. For example, Dreamworks execs and Shangri-La’s Steve Bing, who put up 2/3 of the budget for Beowulf, may be vaguely disappointed by the film’s opening weekend. I reported 3 weeks ago that early tracking pointed toward a possible $50M opening....

Chris Columbus Talks ‘Pixels’, Video Game Licenses, Pac-Man Creator, Return To Amblin Era And John Hughes By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2015 11:00 am EST While in Las Vegas for CinemaCon 2015 last week, I got the opportunity to sit down with Chris Columbus, a screenwriter and director who had a dramatic effect on the cinema of my childhood, and yours. Lets do a list: Gremlins, Goonies, Young Sherlock Holmes, Adventures in Babysitting, Home Alone, Mrs....

Confirmed: ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Filmmaker To Direct ‘Furious 8’ By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 8, 2015 11:10 am EST This year’s Furious 7 pulled in over $1.5 billion at the worldwide box office, but Furious 8 has yet to find a director despite a release date set for April 14th, 2017. But a director for the eighth installment of the popular car heist series has been hard to nail down. Earlier this we reported that Universal Pictures had narrowed their Fast and Furious 8 director search to three finalists....

Halloween II Movie Review: Trauma For Characters And Audience Alike By Russ Fischer/Aug. 31, 2009 1:00 pm EST As I was typing up some notes on Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, this CNN headline flitted through my newsreader: ‘Victims of repeated abuse suffer complex trauma.’ It’s a truth that might jokingly apply to fans of the Halloween series, as the years since John Carpenter’s standard-setting original film have seen so many pointless, insipid sequels....

How Did This Get Made: Can’t Stop The Music (A Tribute To Allan Carr) By Blake Harris/April 16, 2016 12:00 pm EST There’s something odd about the trailer for Can’t Stop The Music. Actually, scratch that, there’s a lot that’s odd. But, as a writer, I noticed something odd about how the narrator introduced the film. After proclaiming this to be “the musical extravaganza that launches the 80s,” he then introduces the movie by saying, “It’s Allan Carr’s Can’t Stop The Music....

Who is Jacen Solo? In the now de-canonized Expanded Universe books, Jacen Solo was the son of Han and Leia, and the twin brother of their daughter, Jaina Solo. The pair were first introduced The Last Command, a 1994 novel by Timothy Zahn, and quickly became a huge part of the Expanded Universe. Jacen and Jaina were at the center of the Young Jedi Knights series, a young adult franchise that ran for 13 books and focused on Luke Skywalker training a new generation of Jedi....

Joe Quesada Talks Thor And Iron Man 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2009 11:43 am EST In the latest edition of Joe Quesada’s web column Cup ‘O Joe, the Marvel Editor-in-Chief talks about Thor and Iron Man 2. Here are some highlights: Quesada talks about Thor director Kenneth Branagh’s three-hour Thor Story Pitch: We had one big creative meeting with the Marvel Creative Committee, which now works on all of our movies and I have the honor to be a part of....

Pixar Announces Up, Newt, The Bear And The Bow And Cars 2 By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2008 4:53 pm EST Big news on the Disney/Pixar front, the mouse house has revealed Pixar’s future animation slate: May 29th 2009: From the Academy Award®-nominated team of director Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc.) and co-director Bob Peterson comes Up, a comedic adventure taking off (and lifting spirits). Here is a brand new plot synopsis direct from the studio: Carl Fredricksen (voiced by Ed Asner) spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest....

Pulse: Critics Heart Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3D By Hunter Stephenson/July 6, 2008 12:01 pm EST It’s happening. Across the Web, early reviews for next weekend’s Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D are moderately apologetic and yet thoroughly positive, with a fair number of comparisons to the “Spielbergian wonder of old” popping up in support. Like seductive ooze, it seems that Hollywood’s first live-action tent-pole in the forthcoming theatrical 3D boom (boon?...

San Diego Comic Con 2011 Saturday And Sunday Schedules Feature Few Movie Highlights By Germain Lussier/July 11, 2011 2:00 pm EST Over the weekend, San Diego Comic-Con announced the programming schedule for Saturday and Sunday at this year’s convention. Usually, Saturday is the most impressive day as it’s the weekend and has the biggest amount of people coming into the area while Sunday is usually the most unexciting day as it’s the final day of the event and everything is winding down....

Sequel Bits: ‘Avatar 2,’ ‘John Wick: Chapter 2,’ ‘Jeepers Creepers 3,’ ‘Neighbors 2,’ ‘Trainspotting 2’ By Jacob Hall/April 1, 2016 7:30 am EST In today’s edition of Sequel Bits: James Cameron offers a non-update on Avatar 2. Laurence Fishburne talks about landing a role in John Wick: Chapter 2. Ewan McGregor says nice things about the Trainspotting sequel script. Jeepers Creepers 3 runs into a huge problem. Neighbors 2 reveals a new poster....

Sequel Bits: ‘John Wick 3,’ ‘Mamma Mia 2,’ ‘Deadwood,’ ‘Mission: Impossible 6,’ & More By Jack Giroux/June 13, 2017 3:30 pm EST In today’s edition of sequel bits: Screenwriter Derek Solstad is back for John Wick: Chapter 3. A pivotal character returns to the Mission: Impossible franchise. Ian McShane provides another promising update on the Deadwood movie. A new poster for Transformers: The Last Knight. Jared Leto talks Blade Runner 2049....