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This Week In Trailers: Oh My God, Aladin, As Seen Through These Eyes, Love Of Siam By Christopher Stipp/Oct. 16, 2009 5:00 pm 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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Universal To Introduce New DVD/Blu-Ray Flipper Disc By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 1, 2009 1:00 pm EST Universal has announced that they will release the first “Flipper disc” which will feature the Blu-Ray version of a movie on one side, and the DVD version on the other. I’ve always believed that a dual format release media like this is the key to getting consumers to eventually switch to Blu-Ray. The first release will be The Jason Bourne trilogy on January 19th 2010....

What The ‘Rogue One’ Missing Trailer Footage Tell Us About The Reshoots By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2016 1:01 pm EST The shot above is not from the version of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story that you’ll see in theaters. It’s no secret that Rogue One went through an extensive set of reshoots, which very likely led to a better movie. After seeing the film for the first time, I was amazed at how much footage and dialogue in the trailers and marketing wasn’t in the film itself....

Woody Allen’s ‘Cafe Society’ Confirmed To Open Cannes 2016, New Photo Revealed By Ethan Anderton/March 29, 2016 11:30 am EST Rumors had been swirling for awhile that Woody Allen’s next film, titled Cafe Society, would open the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Today an official announcement confirmed those rumors, making this the third time Allen has opened the French film festival. Hollywood Ending and Midnight in Paris had the honor in 2002 and 2011 respectively....

/Film Interview: James Gunn Talks ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Tone, Social Media, Thanos And Nathan Fillion By Germain Lussier/Aug. 1, 2014 9:00 am EST A lot has changed since I spoke to James Gunn roughly two weeks ago. In that time his new film, Guardians of the Galaxy, has become the one of the hottest topics in popular culture. It’s getting so popular, in fact, that Marvel has already greenlit Gunn’s next film, Guardians of the Galaxy 2....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Review: ‘Eastwatch’ Resets The Bloodstained Chessboard By Jacob Hall/Aug. 14, 2017 12:00 pm EST (In our coverage of Game of Thrones season 7, we’ll be examining each episode with one simple question in mind – which character is winning the game of thrones this week?) After last week’s fireworks, Game of Thrones settled down just bit for “Eastwatch,” an hour dedicated to maneuvering all of the vital players into the right positions for another round of fireworks next week....

‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ Trailer Breakdown: Going Through The New Footage Frame-By-Frame By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 9, 2017 1:30 pm EST The Pacific Rim Uprising trailer dropped at New York Comic-Con this weekend to mixed reactions from fans of Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 original. With a brand new cast led by John Boyega, a brand new director in Steven S. DeKnight, and shiny brand new robots to fight a bigger apocalypse than the last time around, it certainly feels somewhat divorced from the original....

‘Silicon Valley’ Review: ‘Terms Of Service’ Delivers One Of The Funniest Scenes In The Series To Date By Alex Riviello/May 1, 2017 12:30 pm EST A hilarious episode of Silicon Valley is a guarantee at this point, but it’s the episodes where everything comes together all at once that are the most satisfying. Once we can catch our breaths from laughing, that is. In “Terms of Service,” we have the first perfect comedic mash-up of the season, a key example of how well the show can fire when all of its absurd and dark humor hits at once and every character is on their A-game....

‘Star Wars: Episode 9’: Rian Johnson Not Involved, Talks The Future Of Luke Skywalker By Ben Pearson/Oct. 20, 2017 3:00 pm EST In the aftermath of Colin Trevorrow leaving the director’s chair of Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Episode 9, there was a lot of speculation about who might take over. Eventually J.J. Abrams, the prodigal son who relaunched the franchise with The Force Awakens in 2015, returned to the fold, but before that was locked in, there was some speculation that The Last Jedi writer/director Rian Johnson may come back to finish off the trilogy....

By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 6, 2016 1:00 pm EST Stranger Things has quickly become a pop-culture phenomenon after being released on Netflix about a month and a half ago. Since then the internet has been full of theories about The Upside Down, its monstrous inhabitant known as the Demogorgon, the telekinetic girl known as Eleven, and the experiments conducted by the company under the guise of the United States Department of Energy....

‘The BFG’ Bombs: The Spielberg Brand Might Be Diluted But Don’t Underestimate The Legendary Filmmaker By Peter Sciretta/July 5, 2016 8:00 am EST Steven Spielberg’s The BFG hit theaters this weekend and landed with a “gigantic” thud. The $140 million Roald Dahl adaptation earned a measly $19.6 million in its opening weekend, which is a huge disappointment anyway you look at it. Is Spielberg, credited for creating the summer blockbuster with 1975’s Jaws, no longer the big box office draw that he once was?...

‘The Incredible Hulk,’ Marvel’s Forgotten Monster Movie, Is A Vital Piece Of The MCU By Siddhant Adlakha/April 3, 2018 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Road to Infinity War, a new series where we revisit the first 18 movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and ask “How did we get here?” In this edition: revisiting the oft-maligned and underrated The Incredible Hulk.) It’s easy to dismiss The Incredible Hulk when revisiting the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

‘Titanic’ Is Returning To Theaters For Its 20th Anniversary By Jacob Hall/Nov. 15, 2017 9:00 am EST It’s been 20 years since James Cameron’s Titanic broke office records, melted hearts, and swept the Academy Awards. To celebrate this milestone, the film is returning to theaters for a limited run next month. And since this is a James Cameron re-release, you know what that means: some fancy technology will be involved to help sell this as a proper event....

12 Things We Learned During ‘The Walking Dead’ Panel [Comic-Con 2012] By Germain Lussier/July 14, 2012 1:00 pm EST With the premiere of its third season, AMC’s The Walking Dead graduated to the head of the Comic-Con class. Previously relegated to the second largest room on the site, this year marked the zombie show’s triumphant debut in the 6,500 seat Hall H and the show’s producers and cast obliged with a panel filled with interesting, info, great clips and awkward moments....

25 2014 Sundance Film Festival Movies That Sound Amazing By Germain Lussier/Jan. 16, 2014 9:00 am EST The 2014 Sundance Film Festival starts today, and with the opening of theater doors, hundreds of brand new movies will be revealed to the world. Some we’ve already heard of and are excited for — The Raid 2 and Life Itself come to mind — but the majority of them are wholly unknown. They’re films most audiences don’t yet know anything about, with massive stars, from famous directors, or featuring exciting premises....

Alex Kurtzman Explains How ‘Bride Of Frankenstein’ Will Redefine The Character By Jacob Hall/June 8, 2017 8:00 am EST While the reviews for The Mummy haven’t been kind so far, Universal has gone all-in on their Dark Universe plans, which will unite all of their classic monsters in a Marvel-style cinematic universe. It remains to be seen if Tom Cruise fighting the Egyptian undead will pack theaters this weekend, but director Alex Kurtzman, one of the franchise’s stewards, is already doing his part to make sure everyone knows that there is more on the way – he’s talking up the upcoming Bride of Frankenstein....

Dory After Dark: Finding Nemo/Dory Double Feature Event Announced By Peter Sciretta/May 31, 2016 1:30 pm EST Disney has announced that they will be celebrating the theatrical release of Finding Dory with a spacial Dory After Dark event in 90 movie theaters which will include a double feature of Finding Nemo and the new sequel, alongside some swag. Hit the jump to find out more about the Dory After Dark events and where you can buy tickets....

Here’s Why The Movie About Russ Meyer & Roger Ebert Starring Will Ferrell & Josh Gad Fell Apart By Chris Evangelista/July 3, 2018 3:30 pm EST Back in 2013, word broke of a film focused on the partnership of filmmaker Russ Meyer and film critic Roger Ebert. That film, Russ & Roger Go Beyond, later attracted Will Ferrell and Josh Gad in the lead roles, with Sing Street filmmaker John Carney hired to direct....

How Did This Get Made: A Conversation With Metrov, Writer Of Solarbabies By Blake Harris/May 2, 2016 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In 1970, an L.A.-born artist who went by the name “Metrov” moved to New York City. He began the decade working as a designer for the famed Push Pin Studios and then eventually made a name for himself as a fine arts painter, working out of a loft studio across the street from Andy Warhol’s Factory....

Joss Whedon, Ron Moore And More On What Makes A Good TV Showrunner [Exclusive Excerpt] By Germain Lussier/Sept. 3, 2014 8:00 am EST Years ago, no one knew who ran a TV show. These days, showrunners are celebrities. The men and women who helm your favorite TV shows are just like film directors, but for movies that are 10 times as long, if not much longer. Running a show is an almost unfathomable task and a new book explores what that actually entails....