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Star Wars Bits: Finn & Rey Rumors, Beastie Boys, Star Wars Rebels Crossover And More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 5, 2015 1:30 pm EST Impressive. Most impressive. Star Wars Bits has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me. This edition of updates from a galaxy far, far away includes: Rumors on the origin of Finn’s name in The Force Awakens New The Force Awakens alien character may have Beastie Boys origins Global Star Wars Read Day is coming this month Check out a new weekly Star Wars comic available for free Star Wars canon update for September 2015 Find out why Alan Tudyk almost turned down Rogue One Will Star Wars Rebels characters cross over into any movies?...

Superhero Bits: The Avengers, The Wolverine, Amazing Spider-Man, Dark Knight Rises By Germain Lussier/July 27, 2011 12:00 pm EST Want to hear some details on the Hulk’s look in The Avengers? What would happen if Nick Fury showed up in non-Marvel movies? Did Hugh Jackman have nice things to say about The Wolverine director James Mangold? Where can you see The Avengers earlier than the United States? Is there going to be a better way than just normal 3D to see The Amazing Spider-Man?...

Superhero Bits: The Joker Origin Story Might Shoot In May, ‘Black Panther’ Breaks Monday Box Office Record & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 20, 2018 5:30 pm EST Who is going to play Elasti-Girl on DC’s upcoming Titans series? Who is the new vice president of production at DC Films? How is Twitter handling the fake reports of Black Panther theater attacks? When is The Joker origin story starring Joaquin Phoenix supposed to start filming?...

The Alamo Drafthouse Picks The Top 10 Films Of 2012 By Angie Han/Dec. 28, 2012 3:28 pm EST The Alamo Drafthouse brand is beloved among moviegoers for their plush theaters, but it’s revered for their impeccable taste in movies. Whether programming a film festival or picking up indies for distribution, they’ve demonstrated an eye for films that aren’t just good, but unique. With 2012 on its way out, the company has just released its list of their ten favorite movies from the year....

The Author Of ‘Annihilation’ Has Seen (And Liked) Alex Garland’s Film Adaptation By Jacob Hall/May 30, 2017 2:00 pm EST Some of the best news to come out of this year’s CinemaCon is that Alex Garland’s new science fiction movie Annihilation looks excellent. However, it was accompanied by some bad news: the adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s novel has been delayed to an unspecified date in 2018. Still, the next film from the director of Ex Machina will surely be worth the wait, especially since VanderMeer himself has seen a cut of the movie and has some very nice (and very intriguing) things to say about it....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: The Princess And The Frog, Ninja Assassin, Astro Boy, Armored, Breaking Bad (Season 2), And More By Adam Quigley/March 16, 2010 6:05 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Season 2 of Breaking Bad opens with a disturbing but seemingly innocuous shot of a charred stuffed bear floating in a pool, and its relevance is not made clear until the season finale....

Toronto Awards: Precious Scores Audience Award; The Loved Ones Takes New Midnight Madness Audience Award By Russ Fischer/Sept. 21, 2009 8:36 am EST For the first time, a film has won both the audience award at Sundance and Toronto. Precious, by Lee Daniels, took home TIFF’s audience award this weekend. Unlike other festivals, at Toronto the audience award is the top honor, and has previously been won by Hotel Rwanda, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Slumdog Millionaire....

TV Bits: ‘Game Of Thrones,’ ‘Californication,’ ‘The Office,’ ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Smash’ By Germain Lussier/June 26, 2012 5:30 am EST Controversy, casting and consensual exits are all in this edition of TV Bits. After the jump read about the following: See a photo of how the George W. Bush head from Game of Thrones was fixed. Rocker Marilyn Manson joins Showtime’s Californification. Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson will have an arc on the Broadway drama Smash....

Why ‘Logan Lucky’ Is So Much More Than A Redneck ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ By Josh Spiegel/Aug. 18, 2017 9:30 am EST “They’re calling it Ocean’s 7-11,” a character says near the end of the goofy and wonderfully charming new film Logan Lucky, marking a welcome return for filmmaker Steven Soderbergh to the big screen. The winking in-joke, nodding to the 2000s-era trilogy that Soderbergh directed with a slew of massive movie stars making up the eponymous crew, might seem like it’s gilding the lily just a bit....

‘A Tale Of Two Coreys’: Corey Haim And Corey Feldman Are Getting A Lifetime Biopic By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 11, 2017 7:30 am EST Lifetime biopics have become a dime a dozen — especially those saturated in ’80s or ’90s nostalgia. But rarely do they tackle such a heavy topic as that of Corey Haim and Corey Feldman, and with the blessing of Feldman, no less. A Tale of Two Coreys will follow the dark and troubled lives of ’80s child stars and best friends Haim and Feldman, whose struggles with drug addiction and sexual abuse became one of Hollywood’s more ominous cautionary tales....

/Film Interview: Kevin Feige, Producer Of ‘The Avengers’ By Germain Lussier/April 26, 2012 7:00 am EST Many lessons can be learned from Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios and producer of The Avengers. One would be that it is possible to link the worlds of five seperate movies and culminate them in one epic superhero blowout. After all, Feige is the guy who had the vision that will culminate May 4 when Joss Whedon’s The Avengers hits the screen....

‘Finding Dory’ - What Did You Think? By Angie Han/June 17, 2016 3:00 pm EST Pixar’s 17th feature film, Finding Dory, is a sequel to its fifth, Finding Nemo. In the world of the movie, only a few months have passed, but in real life it’s been about 13 years since we last dipped below the ocean with Nemo, Marlin, and Dory. Is the magic still there? If you ask the critics, the answer seems to be “yes”: Finding Dory currently has a 90something rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and our own Peter Sciretta was a big fan....

‘Frozen The Musical’ Early Buzz: Critics Run Hot And Cold On The Disney Stage Adaptation By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 23, 2018 9:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Is Frozen The Musical a Disney stage adaptation that you should let go? Or will you melt with love for it? The consensus seems to be divided in Frozen The Musical early buzz. The musical, which made its Broadway debut on March 22, 2018 after a brief preview run in Denver last year, was one of the most hotly anticipated musicals of the year....

‘Jurassic World Ride’ To Replace ‘Jurassic Park – The Ride’ At Universal Studios Hollywood By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2018 9:36 am EST Universal Studios Hollywood just announced that a Jurassic World ride will be coming in 2019. The new attraction will be replacing Jurassic Park—The Ride, which opened in the park in 1996. Below, learn more about the Jurassic World Ride. Jurassic World Ride Trailer We have not been told much about the new Jurassic World ride attraction, but I’m guessing it’s an updated retheme of the old Jurassic Park—The Ride....

‘Oldboy’ Writer Mark Protosevich Knows You Didn’t Want A Remake; Plus Development And Challenges By Germain Lussier/Nov. 15, 2013 11:00 am EST Though film fans are well-versed in Chan-wook Park’s 2003 film Oldboy, most audiences have no idea what the film is. To 90% of people who go to the movies, it’s nothing more than an ultra-violent, ten-year-old foreign language film with subtitles, if they even know that much about it....

‘Rick And Morty’ Season 3 Had A Surprise Premiere On Adult Swim Last Night (Or Did It?) By Ethan Anderton/April 2, 2017 1:00 pm EST Even though the internet was full of April Fools Day shenanigans yesterday, there was one surprise that wasn’t a stupid joke. The third season of Rick and Morty had a surprise premiere on Adult Swim last night, airing on a loop for a few hours before the channel went back to their regularly scheduled programming....

‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Crew Announced By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 24, 2013 3:58 pm EST As the Disney earnings call approaches, Disney finally decided to announce publicly that screenwriter Michael Arndt was officially off Star Wars Episode VII, and that director J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan are busy working on the current screenplay. (If you havent yet, read more about that here.) But the press release also featured details of the crew that is on board for the upcoming sequel....

‘Suicide Squad’ Trailer Breakdown: Batman, A Creepy Origin Story, And More Batman By Jacob Hall/April 11, 2016 11:00 am EST The trailer opens in a White House briefing room with a government big shot pondering a hypothetical scenario where Superman decides to kidnap the president. It’s a moment that serves a few purposes. First, it instantly establishes that Suicide Squad exists in the same universe as the new Batman and Superman....

Fast And Furious: Supercharged: Here’s What To Expect On Universal’s New Ride By Germain Lussier/June 19, 2015 8:00 am EST Fast and Furious Supercharged, the new attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood, is like a shot of Nos. It lays dormant, you know it’s there, then when it comes up unexpectedly, it’s crazy fast and great but over very quickly. “Nos” is a brand of nitrous oxide used in the Fast and Furious movies to give the cars a boost of speed, which is exactly what Fast and Furious Supercharged does for an already classic ride....

MoviePass Parent Company To Launch MoviePass Films, Will Now Produce Original Movies By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 30, 2018 9:30 am EST MoviePass is now getting into film production. The ticket-buying service continues to expand its baffling business ventures by producing original films through a new distribution and production company MoviePass Films. The new division comes out of a deal brokered with the film production company Emmett Furla Oasis Films. MoviePass’s parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics has acquired the company and its slate of past and current films, which includes titles like Lone Survivor with Mark Wahlberg, Escape Plan with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Martin Scorsese’s Silence....