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Did Vin Diesel Axe A ‘Fate Of The Furious’ Credits Scene With Dwayne Johnson And Jason Statham? By Ethan Anderton/April 14, 2017 4:30 pm EST If you head out to see The Fate of the Furious this weekend, there won’t be a credits scene teasing the next installment of the high-speed franchise. However, there were plans in place for for a credits scene that would have featured Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) as a way of hinting that a spin-off might be coming featuring the adversaries forced to be allies....

Disney’s Live-Action ‘Aladdin’ Movie Struggles To Find Stars Of Middle Eastern Or Indian Descent By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 11, 2017 11:00 am EST Disney is in a whole new world of trouble. The live-action adaptation of Aladdin is reportedly struggling to cast its lead roles of Aladdin and Jasmine, the street rat and the Arabian princess who stole each other’s (and our) hearts in the classic 1992 animated film. Disney and director Guy Ritchie are intent on finding an unknown actor and actress of Middle Eastern or Indian descent, as the animated movie takes place in the fictional Middle Eastern city of Agrabah....

Final Wave Of Fantastic Fest Programming Includes ‘Wake In Fright,’ ‘Antiviral,’ And ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 12, 2012 12:29 pm EST Fantastic Fest has announced its final wave of programming for the 2012 lineup, with the festival set to begin in just over a week. The big inclusions in this wave are Brandon Cronenberg’s Antiviral, which is the feature debut from David Cronenberg’s son; Berberian Sound Studio, which has been getting raves for Toby Jones’ portrayal of a sound technician who experiences crazy stuff while working on an Italian horror film; and Wake in Fright, the Australian thriller that wowed audiences at Cannes in 1971 but never got a proper US release....

George Takei Says Gay Sulu Is “Really Unfortunate”; Simon Pegg “Respectfully Disagrees” By Angie Han/July 8, 2016 9:00 am EST Yesterday, John Cho dropped the bombshell that his Hikaru Sulu would be gay in Star Trek Beyond. While the actor said the film would “not make a big thing” out of the reveal, it was a big deal for plenty of fans. Star Trek has been famously progressive since its earliest days, and yet the franchise has had no prominent gay characters to date....

How A DisneyNature Movie Is Written, Filmed And Edited [‘Born In China’ Interview] By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2017 11:00 am EST DisneyNature has been continuing the tradition Walt Disney started many years ago of producing animal documentaries filled with story, excitement, adventure, and fun. Their latest release, Born in China, ventures into the wilds of China to capture intimate moments with a panda and her growing cub, a young golden monkey who feels displaced by his baby sister, and a mother snow leopard struggling to raise her two cubs....

Interview: ‘The Founder’ Director John Lee Hancock Explains Why John Carroll Lynch Is A Stone Cold Pro By Jack Giroux/Jan. 20, 2017 11:00 am EST In one thrilling sequence, Mac explains how McDonald’s got started over dinner. It’s a lengthy, dialogue-heavy scene that communicates history and backstory, helps strengthen Dick and Mac’s loving relationship, and moves along at such a fast pace. This scene, which was written by Robert D. Siegel (The Wrestler), is where we began our recent conversation with Hancock....

Interview: Pierce Brosnan (The Ghost Writer) By David Chen/Feb. 24, 2010 6:05 am EST With all the controversy surrounding director Roman Polanski’s legal troubles, I was quite curious to see his most recent film, The Ghost Writer, which recently premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and opened in limited release in the U.S. last weekend. I found it quite entertaining, a solid thriller with decent performances by leads Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor, and Olivia Williams....

Is The ‘Flight Of The Navigator’ Remake Dead? ‘Jurassic World’ Filmmaker Colin Trevorrow Gives Us An Update By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2015 7:00 am EST In November 2012, it was revealed that director Colin Trevorrow had been hired by Disney to work on a new version of the 1986 film Flight of the Navigator, in which a young boy disappears, only to return home eight years later, without appearing to have aged at all....

John Stamos Leading ‘Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory’ In Concert, With Weird Al And Finn Wolfhard Co-Starring By Ben Pearson/Sept. 19, 2017 8:30 am EST Almost a year ago, we heard that Warner Bros. was developing a new movie based on the early adventures of Willy Wonka, the enigmatic chocolatier immortalized in the pages of Roald Dahl’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and memorably brought to life by the late Gene Wilder in a 1971 movie adaptation....

Kevin Smith And SmodCast Pictures Partner With Distributor Phase 4; They Want To Release Your Indie Movies By Russ Fischer/Jan. 23, 2012 4:00 pm EST Kevin Smith made big waves at Sundance last year when he showed up at the fest with his horror film Red State, the distribution rights to which he said he’d sell at auction. But the auction was mostly an act, and Smith sold the Red State distro rights to himself....

Michael B. Jordan Says ‘Fantastic Four’ Is Changing On The Fly By Germain Lussier/July 18, 2014 9:16 am EST Director Josh Trank and the Fantastic Four have been quietly filming their big Marvel movie in Louisiana for the past few months. I say “quietly” for two reasons. One, we haven’t seen a lot of set photos of the stars in costume or anything. And two, co-star Michael B. Jordan agrees. In a new interview with MTV, the actor talked about filming the movie as being in “our own world....

Movie Playlist: Brad Anderson By Peter Sciretta/July 18, 2008 1:07 am EST Welcome to another edition of Movie Playlist, where we talk to the writers, directors, and stars about their favorite films. I’ve always found the celebrity playlists on iTunes to be interesting. Most everyone in the film business moved to Hollywood after discovering their love of films. And I’ve always love talking to people about their favorite films. So talking to the people who make the movies about their favorite films just seemed like a natural idea....

Paul Thomas Anderson Reportedly Adapting Thomas Pynchon’s Novel ‘Inherent Vice’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 2, 2010 9:30 am EST Not long after reclusive author Thomas Pynchon published his latest novel, Inherent Vice, it was noted that the book rights were being handled by agency CAA. That seemed like a preemptive move to develop the story for film, and now we’re seeing the very unlikely, but potentially wonderful results. Paul Thomas Anderson seeks to adapt the novel into script form....

Rant: Sorry Mario, Video Games Will NEVER Overtake Movies By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2008 12:34 pm EST Something has been bothering me for a while now. It’s this claim that Video Games will overtake Movies as an entertainment industry. Sorry to tell you guys, but it just isn’t going to happen. I understand it’s the more interesting story to claim that the video game industry will be bigger than Hollywood, but it just isn’t going to happen....

See The Amazingly Detailed Inside Of The ‘Ghostbusters’ Firehouse LEGO Set By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 11, 2015 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Update from editor Peter Sciretta: In October LEGO finally announced that they will be making a Ghostbusters Firehouse LEGO Set. They posted photos of the set on twitter along with the text “Get ready to bust some ghosts! First look at set 75827 LEGO @Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters available Jan 2016!...

Sequel Bits: ‘Terminator 5,’ ‘Scary Movie 5,’ ‘The Signal 2,’ ‘Catching Fire,’ ‘The Hobbit,’ ‘Sinister,’ ‘Transformers 4’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 15, 2012 3:45 pm EST If today’s Sequel Bits are to be believed, we’ll see one sequel earlier than expected, never see another and have begun thinking about a hypothetical one. After the jump, read all about the following: Terminator 5 might be dead, and its ambitious story could be why....

Sony Not Supporting Moon For Oscars, Duncan Jones Tweets His Displeasure By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 30, 2009 6:18 pm EST We last reported on the grassroots campaign to earn Sam Rockwell an Oscar nomination for his… er… role in Moon back in October. “Sony Pictures Classics isn’t likely to put money into an awards campaign” said Peter at the time. Today, Duncan Jones has been all of a Twitter about the matter and it seems there’s one big problem in particular with Sony’s plans for the picture....

Star Wars Rogue One Concept Art Looks Like ‘Halo’: Band Of Space Soldiers On A Mission By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2015 6:31 pm EST Thursday, Disney CEO Bob Iger made some pretty big Star Wars announcements during the Disney Shareholder Meeting, including a release date for Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: Episode VIII as well as Felicity Jones casting confirmation and the title of the first Star Wars spin-off. But that wasn’t all, Bob Iger also showed the first piece of concept art for Star Wars: Rogue One, which may surprise you....

Story Details Revealed In Script Review Of Early Draft Of Alfanso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 2, 2010 4:02 am EST It’s almost like someone knew that info would emerge yesterday that Angelina Jolie had declined (again) to star in Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, putting the project in jeopardy. Because in a script review written just prior to that revelation, the idea of Scarlett Johansson or Blake Lively playing the central role is discussed, and roundly dismissed....

Superhero Bits: ‘Spider-Man’ PS4 Fighting Featurette, Marvel Construction Underway At Disneyland & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 7, 2018 6:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. How does Michelle Yeoh feel about the firing of James Gunn from Guardians of the Galaxy? Want to know more about Spider-Man’s fighting mechanics in the new PlayStation 4 video game? Is Anna Paquin interested in playing Rogue again? Is Paul Feig interested in directing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....