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‘Wild Things’ Is A Blackly Comic Masterpiece; Its Three Sequels Are Also Movies Set In Florida By Rob Hunter/June 21, 2018 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to DTV Descent, a series that explores the weird and wild world of direct-to-video sequels to theatrically released movies. In this edition, I’ve been forced to accept the existence of three – three! – sequels to one of 1998’s best comedies.) You read that headline right....

12 Projects Chosen For June 2009 Sundance Directors And Screenwriters Labs By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2009 8:12 pm EST Sundance has announced the 12 projects they have chosen for the 2009 Directors and Screenwriters lab. Why should you care? Well because the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program has hand picked some of the most original filmmakers of the last 28 years. Here are some of the films that have come out of the program: Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Hard Eight, Kimberly Peirce’s Boy’s Don’t Cry, Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Peter Sollett’s Raising Victor Vargas, Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know, Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson, and most recently Cary Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre and Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer....

A ‘Blair Witch’ TV Series Is Possibly In The Works By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 30, 2017 10:00 am EST The Blair Witch Project was one of the most successful, and most effective, horror movies in film history. The multiple sequels? Well, that’s another story. While follow-ups to Blair Witch haven’t been able to retain the magic of the first film, a return to Burkittsville isn’t out of the question. Original Blair Witch co-creator Eduardo Sanchez recently revealed that a possible Blair Witch TV series is in the works, bringing Elly Kedward and her scary stick figures from the big screen to the small....

Ben Affleck’s Batman Movie Will Shoot Spring 2017, Confirmed For 2018 Release By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 15, 2016 9:00 am EST Just before last weekend, we got word that the Justice League sequel that was long set for release on June 14, 2019 might be pushed back to make room for Ben Affleck’s gestating Batman movie. However, just a couple days ago, Ben Affleck indicated that he wasn’t in a rush to start shooting because the screenplay needed to be just right....

Bill Hader And Alec Berg On How ‘Fargo’ And ‘Boogie Nights’ Influenced ‘Barry’ [Interview] By Fred Topel/March 23, 2018 2:00 pm EST Imagine you’re staring down the barrel of a gun, and the man pulling the trigger is the guy who played Stefon on Saturday Night Live. Of course in the world of Barry, no one knows Bill Hader from TV and he’s playing Barry, a professional hitman. On a job in L....

Brie Larson’s ‘Captain Marvel’ Appears In Marvel Comics, Could Even More MCU Characters Follow? By Ethan Anderton/May 30, 2018 1:30 pm EST Fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are patiently waiting to see what happens next in the interconnected series of comic book movies from Marvel Studios. Following the events of Avengers: Infinity War, there are a lot of questions left to be answered. It doesn’t seem like Ant-Man and the Wasp will provide much reprieve from the cliffhanger ending of Marvel’s most recent movie....

Comic-Con 2015: ‘Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2’ Has A Fond Farewell Panel By Ethan Anderton/July 10, 2015 9:30 am EST After an hour of Bill Murray being a rock star in Hall H at Comic-Con in San Diego, things took a different turn when the Lionsgate panel began featuring The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. Four timpani drums were rolled out on the Hall H stage, and as the players banged the drums, a stream of additional drummers entered the hall through the crowd, hitting their instruments with vigor, getting louder and louder until suddenly it was time for a message from District 13....

Coming To America 2: Is Eddie Murphy Really Writing A Sequel? By Peter Sciretta/March 17, 2017 11:00 am EST Here’s the latest wild rumor to hit the movie news world: Eddie Murphy may be in the early stages of writing a sequel to his 1988 comedy hit Coming to America. Let’s dissect the Coming To America 2 rumor and see if it holds any water. Speculation began when Murphy sent out an ominous tweet on Wednesday night that said “Coming to America sequel?...

Hayden Christensen To Star In David R. Ellis’ The Genesis Code By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2010 5:54 pm EST Hayden Christensen has signed on to star in Snakes of a Plane/Cellular/The Final Destination director David R. Ellis’ big screen adaptation of John Case’s thriller novel The Genesis Code. Kevin Bernhardt, who wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Peaceful Warrior, penned the adaptation. The story follows a former national security expert, played by Christensen, who, while investigating the murder of his only sister and her young son, discovers that a religious sect called The Shadow of the Cross may be involved....

How Will The New ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy End? Lawrence Kasdan Says There’s Ideas, But No Firm Plan By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 23, 2015 12:30 pm EST Yes, we know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens just opened about a week ago, so it might be a little early to already start talking about Star Wars: Episode 8. But at the same time, this new era of Star Wars was done well enough to get most fans excited to see where director Rian Johnson takes the sci-fi saga next....

Lauren Graham Joins Scream 4 By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2010 1:00 pm EST Gillmore Girls star Lauren Graham has been cast in the horror sequel Scream 4. The rumor was first reported on Ghouls on Film on Tuesday. The news was confirmed by Graham on Leno last night. Graham will be playing Kate, the mother of Emma Roberts’ character Jill Kessler.Previously: The first part of a new trilogy written by screenwriter Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven....

Matt Reeves Defends Andy Serkis’ “Digital Make-Up” Comments By Peter Sciretta/July 11, 2014 9:00 am EST You will emerge from viewing Dawn of the Planet of the Apes amazed at the motion capture performance by Andy Serkis. Sure, you’ve seen him do Gollum in Lord of the Rings and even Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but Dawn takes the work to an entirely new level. Recently some people in the computer animation and effects space have gotten angry over comments from Serkis that WETA is just “painting digital makeup onto actors’ performances....

Movie Review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine By Brendon Connelly/April 27, 2009 3:51 pm EST Much as I went into The Fellowship of the Ring caring more about Peter Jackson and Ian McKellen than I ever could about JRR Tolkien, my interest in X-Men Origins: Wolverine stems from the involvement of Gavin Hood and Hugh Jackman, and not from the legacy of X-Men comic books. Having said that, I rather liked Singer’s X-Men, loved X2 and probably thought more of The Last Stand than most people, so I do have a context in which I have invested in Wolverine-slash-Logan before....

New Blu-Ray Releases: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’, ‘First Reformed’, ‘American Animals’ By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 14, 2018 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Not Dead Yet, a feature dedicated to new Blu-ray releases and what special features you should be excited about. Because yes, some of us still like to own physical copies of our movies.) This week’s Blu-ray column features the best movie of the year! And also Avengers: Infinity War. Infinity War is the big title here, so much so that there aren’t many other Blu releases to compete with it....

New Harry Potter Rides Coming To Universal? These Patents May Give Us A Glimpse By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2017 11:30 am EST Universal Studios has been granted a couple of exciting new patents and they look like they could be for new Harry Potter-themed attractions being planned for their theme parks. Rumors continue to circulate that the Dragon Challenge coaster in Universal Islands of Adventure may be replaced with a new ride (or rides) based on the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them....

On Set Interview: Chris Hemsworth Talks ‘Thor: The Dark World’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2013 9:00 am EST On October 24th and 25th, I visited the London set of the Marvel sequel Thor: The Dark World. We’ll have more from that visit at a later time. Right now, the big mouse has given us the go-ahead to publish our on-set roundtable interview with Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth. Read the interview after the jump....

Peter’s Spoiler-Free ‘Jurassic World’ Review: “The Best Jurassic Park Film Since The Original” By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2015 6:30 am EST I got an opportunity to visit Jurassic World last week and lived to tell you about it. After the jump you will find my virtually spoiler-free Jurassic World review, which gives you an idea of what to expect, what was good, and what was not, without spoiling anything that couldn’t otherwise be learned from the marketing....

Remastered In 4K, ‘Phantasm’ Is Still Horror’s Weirdest, Wildest, Silliest Crown Jewel [Fantastic Fest Review] By Jacob Hall/Sept. 25, 2016 3:00 pm EST How does Phantasm exist? That’s an odd rhetorical question to ask of a movie that has such a strong cult following, that has inspired four sequels over 37 years, and has inducted a genuine horror icon into the genre canon in the form of Angus Scrimm’s The Tall Man....

Sequel Bits: ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’, ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5’, ‘Rush Hour 4’, ‘Friday 4’, ‘Drumline 2’, ‘Switch’, ‘Transformers 4’, ‘The Last Exorcism Part II’ By Angie Han/Nov. 15, 2012 1:30 pm EST “Everyone wants to do sequels,” says Chris Tucker. Indeed. After the jump: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes gets a plot summary, will shoot in March Keith Richards may return to the Pirates of the Caribbean series Chris Tucker is interested in Rush Hour 4, not so much Friday 4 Nick Cannon talks up his plans for a Drumline sequel and TV series Isla Fisher signs on for the kinda-sorta Jackie Brown sequel Switch Transformers 4 explores Bangkok as a potential shooting location The Last Exorcism Part II gets picked up by CBS Films; see a new image...

Superhero Bits: S.H.I.E.L.D., Thor: The Dark World, Amazing Spider-Man, Man Of Steel, The Wolverine By Germain Lussier/Nov. 5, 2012 4:00 pm EST Has the filming date of Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D. been confirmed? How does Zachary Levi look on the set of Thor: The Dark World? Want to see more photos from the set of The Wolverine? Does Michael Shannon say the line — you know the one — in Man of Steel?...