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‘Our House’ Is An Ambitious, Spooky And All-Too-Generic Ghost Story [Fantasia Film Festival] By Matt Donato/July 26, 2018 1:00 pm EST Maybe that’s because Burns didn’t write his own screenplay (credit Nathan Parker). Maybe it’s feature-length debut pressures (doubt it). Don’t read this as “Anthony Scott Burns punts his first directorial opportunity.” One just has to ponder how a filmmaker who’s proven himself creatively unshackled ends up channeling formulaic expectations (while still sticking the landing)....

‘Rogue One’ Videos Galore: IMAX TV Spot, Two Movie Clips & Two New Featurettes By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 12, 2016 6:00 am EST It’s almost time for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The early buzz on the movie hit the web over the weekend once the world premiere of the movie in Los Angeles was over, and full reviews will start hitting the web on December 13th. In the meantime, if you’re still soaking up as much Rogue One footage as you can, we have a batch of new videos for you to check out....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’: Bryan Fuller Explains The Meaning Behind The Title By Jack Giroux/Sept. 6, 2016 3:30 pm EST Following Star Trek Beyond’s underperformance at the box-office, we don’t know the exact future of Trek as a film franchise. We do know, however, that Trek is returning to television next year with Star Trek: Discovery, thanks to CBS, showrunner Bryan Fuller (American Gods), and plenty of more talent responsible for the new sci-fi series....

‘The Fate Of The Furious’ Featurette: This Is ‘‘A Whole New Start To The Franchise’’ By Ben Pearson/March 28, 2017 1:30 pm EST Buckle up, fam: the Fast family is about to be torn apart in a big way. Universal has just released a new featurette for The Fate of the Furious, the eighth installment in the long-running franchise which will see Vin Diesel’s family-obsessed patriarch Dominic Toretto face off against his accomplices – including his wife, Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) – and align with the mysterious Cypher (Charlize Theron), who’s described as “the fiercest villain the franchise has ever seen....

Dax Shepard To Co-Direct New Animated ‘Scooby-Doo’ Movie For Warner Bros. By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 11, 2016 12:00 pm EST Over a year ago, we learned that Warner Bros. Pictures was going to reboot the Scooby-Doo film franchise with a new animated take on Mystery Incorporated and their scaredy-dog named Scooby-Doo. At the time, live-action Scooby-Doo producers Charles Roven and Richard Suckle were on board with Tony Cervone of the 2010 animated series Scooby-Doo!...

How George Lucas Helped Create The First Video Game Jump Scare By Alex Riviello/March 31, 2017 8:00 am EST The list of truly effective video game jump scares is a short but powerful one. The dogs bursting through the windows in Resident Evil. The woman with the broken neck in Fatal Frame. Freddy Fazbear in Five Nights at Freddy’s. The aliens in Rescue on Fractalus! Wait…what’s that last one? Yes, it turns out that an 8-bit LucasArts game originally released for the Atari 800 contains what may be the first (and still most effective!...

Learn More Details About The ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Characters And Vehicles By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 17, 2018 12:00 pm EST We’re a little more than a month away from the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story, and we’re still learning about the familiar and new characters that will star in the highly anticipated Star Wars prequel film. Now, Lucasfilm is giving us a little more information than what we’ve already gleaned from the trailers and images....

MoviePass Will No Longer Cover Certain AMC Theatres By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 26, 2018 8:30 am EST MoviePass, are you okay? The very popular subscription-based movie service has been doing really well for itself, raking in the dough while also expanding into acquiring films for distribution. But now there’s a sudden bump in the road: MoviePass is no longer working with certain AMC Theatres, and it appears that this was a decision made by MoviePass, not AMC....

POTD: The Rock Crashes Disney World’s ‘Jungle Cruise’ To Research His Movie By Peter Sciretta/April 10, 2017 2:30 pm EST Last week, we learned that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson would be officially starring in a film adaptation of the classic Disneyland ride Jungle Cruise. Now that the movie is greenlit, The Rock surprised park guests at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom park by taking over the skipper duties of the Jungle Cruise attraction....

Ricky Gervais Confirms Cast For Netflix Comedy Series ‘After Life’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 5, 2018 5:00 pm EST Ricky Gervais’ new Netflix comedy series has revealed its After Life cast. Joining Gervais in the dark comedy series about a man who, after a tragedy, decides to start “saying and doing whatever he likes,” include Downton Abbey’s Penelope Wilton, Game of Thrones’ David Bradley, Extras’ Ashley Jensen, and more. Created, directed, executive produced by, and starring Gervais, After Life begins its production this week, Netflix announced....

See Snoke Without Visual Effects In ‘The Last Jedi’ Behind-The-Scenes Footage By Chris Evangelista/March 6, 2018 4:00 pm EST Star Wars: The Last Jedi hits Blu-ray and digital this month. In anticipation of that release, some new behind-the-scenes footage has arrived revealing Andy Serkis’ Snoke performance before visual effects were applied. The curtain is peeled back to reveal the work Serkis does before computers turn him into a giant old man....

Sequel Bits: Halloween, Ghostbusters 4, Nacho Libre 2, Spy 2, And More By Ben Pearson/Sept. 11, 2018 5:00 pm EST I’ll go to bat for 2016’s Ghostbusters: Answer the Call being a funny studio comedy, but there’s no question it didn’t perform nearly as well as Sony hoped. A sequel seems to have been fully abandoned at this point, and on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, director Paul Feig confirmed his plans to take the story international if they had gotten the green light to move ahead with it:...

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Batman’s Flying Fox, Storm And Wolverine Romance, Avengers 4 Set Photo & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 10, 2017 5:30 pm EST The Warner Bros. Studio Tour in Los Angeles has opened up their Wonder Woman movie exhibit for fans to see. Aquaman director James Wan talks about the difficulty of shooting a movie that takes largely place underwater. She may not have a movie, but Kamala Khan as Ms....

The ‘Creep 2’ Trailer Is Ready To Make You Uncomfortable By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 30, 2017 11:00 am EST Patrick Brice’s funny, unnerving Creep, starring Mark Duplass in a tour de force of weirdness, found clever ways to breathe new life into the “found footage” genre. Now Brice is trying to recreate the very uncomfortable magic again with Creep 2, a sequel that will attempt to go to even greater lengths to make its audience feel uneasy....

The Morning Watch: The Costumes Of ‘Phantom Thread’, ‘Maze Runner’ Auditions & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 19, 2018 5:00 am EST In this edition, get up close and personal with the costumes of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film Phantom Thread. Plus, watch the original audition tapes for the cast of The Maze Runner franchise, and find out some things that you may not have known about the original 1995 adaptation of Jumanji....

VOTD: Moving Pictures 2016 Kicks Off This Year’s Retrospection On Cinema By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 8, 2016 5:00 am EST We’re over a week into the final month of 2016, and that means it’s time to start looking back at the year in cinema. While it might seem like a bummer of a year for a multitude of reasons, especially all those great talents we lost in entertainment this year, it’s important to remember that there were some great movies that hit the big screen this year, and that’s exactly what the first retrospective video for the films of 2016 does....

Watch A Fake Trailer For ‘Hidden Fences,’ The “Movie White People At The Golden Globes Were Talking About” By Jacob Hall/Jan. 10, 2017 9:00 am EST The Golden Globes are generally regarded as the most useless film award ceremony, but the show itself can prove perfectly entertaining. The alcohol flows freely at the Globes, which means everyone is bit looser and ready to be a little sillier, should the proper occasion arise (like Ryan Reynolds and Andrew Garfield inexplicably making out)....

‘Baby Driver’ And ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 2’ Soundtracks Didn’t Overlap Thanks To Careful Planning By Ethan Anderton/July 13, 2017 10:30 am EST This summer, we’ve gotten two movies where the soundtrack is not just another element that adds style to the motion picture but is also an integral piece of the narrative that unfolds. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 followed in the footsteps of its predecessor by having a mixtape soundtrack that fueled the story in the Marvel Studios sequel and the entirety of Baby Driver played out to the rhythm and sound of the music playing in the man character’s iPod earbuds....

‘Bumblebee’ Featurette: Director Travis Knight Touts The Influence Of Spielberg And LAIKA By Ethan Anderton/June 13, 2018 8:30 am EST Last week brought the first teaser trailer for the Transformers spin-off Bumblebee. The film focuses on the vocally-challenged, signature yellow Autobot who has been a cornerstone of the entire franchise right alongside Optimus Prime. Now, Bumblebee finds himself on his own in what is something of an origin story for the character as he goes on an adventure that happens decades before the first installment of the Transformers movies....

‘Deadpool 2’ Dethrones ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ At The Box Office, But Has It Broken Any Records? By Ethan Anderton/May 21, 2018 9:00 am EST Well, Deadpool 2 was easily able to dethrone Avengers: Infinity War from the top of the box office charts after three weeks of domination. However, when it comes to topping the box office records set for R-rated opening weekends, the movie fell short of the original Deadpool in the United States....