Can You Even Handle How Wacky This ‘Peter Rabbit’ Trailer Is? By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 22, 2017 9:30 am EST Oh boy, you’re not ready for this one. No sir, no ma’am. Nothing on earth can prepare you for the pure outrageousness that is this new Peter Rabbit trailer. So you better steel yourself, because you’re going to watch it anyway. You know you are, I know you are, so let’s just stop dancing around this and get with it....
Charlie Sheen Still Trying To Get ‘Major League 3’ Off The Ground By Jack Giroux/May 28, 2017 10:00 am EST Charlie Sheen wants to play Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn again. The actor, who hasn’t starred in a movie since 2012 and probably doesn’t have to make another film again after Two and a Half Men, has been talking about Major League 3 since last year. The original movie’s writer/director, David S....
Cool Stuff: Florey’s ‘The Simpsons’ Screenprints By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 9, 2017 11:00 am EST Bottleneck Gallery is once again teaming with ACME Archives, this time for a new set of screenprints based on the long-running animated series The Simpsons. Florey, whose work we have featured many times previously on the site, has produced three striking prints based on The Simpsons: Cape Feare, Flaming Moes, Kamp Krusty. Find out where and when you can buy these 18x24 screenprints, and see them in full, after the jump....
Cool Stuff: Read ‘Back To The Future’ At Bedtime With This New Children’s Book By Ethan Anderton/May 17, 2018 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. We’ve seen the likes of Home Alone turned into a children’s book, and we’ve also seen Die Hard made to look like a children’s book that is expressly for adults. Now it’s time for another favorite movie of ours to get the children’s book treatment, and this one is totally safe to read to your kids at bedtime....
Don’t Rule Out ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 4 Just Yet By Ben Pearson/June 14, 2018 4:00 am EST That gum you like might be coming back in style…again. In the lead-up to this year’s Emmy Awards, Twin Peaks co-creator David Lynch and star Kyle MacLachlan are making the interview rounds to talk about the incredible achievement of Twin Peaks: The Return, and naturally, talk has turned to the possibility of Twin Peaks season 4....
Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ Cast Keeps Getting Better, Adds Laura Dern By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 14, 2018 3:30 pm EST In her never-ending quest to drive Film Twitter into a frenzy, Greta Gerwig is adding yet another impressive name to her already impressive Little Women cast: Laura Dern. Dern will join a line-up that includes Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, Timothee Chalamet, Emma Stone and Florence Pugh. What’s that? You thought Greta Gerwig was done adding impressive actresses (and actors) to her adaptation of Little Women?...
Han Solo’s ‘Star Wars Story’ Will Show Us At Least One Iconic Piece Of The Smuggler’s History By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 23, 2016 9:00 am EST Just before the weekend, Disney dropped some big news by confirming that Community and Atlanta star Donald Glover had landed the role of a young Lando Calrissian in the forthcoming Star Wars Story that will focus on the earlier career of the famous smuggler Han Solo, played by Alden Ehrenreich....
Hulu Adding Offline Viewing Soon, Strikes Exclusive Deal With DreamWorks Animation By Ethan Anderton/May 3, 2018 3:00 pm EST Yesterday, Hulu announced they now have over 20 million users subscribed to their streaming service. That’s a lot of people clamoring for TV shows and movies (and there are even more joining with the new Spotify combo deal), and now they’ll be able to watch them without needing an internet connection all the time....
By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 2, 2017 11:36 am EST Netflix, in its quest quest for streaming domination with more and more original material, recently announced the purchase of Millarworld, the comics publisher owned by Kingsman and Kick-Ass writer Mark Millar. This deal would take Netflix beyond just original streaming content and move into the world of publishing as well. At the time of the purchase, details about what this would entail were unclear, but in a new interview, Millar opens up about the Millarworld Netflix deal and what we can expect....
Misty Knight Will Return In ‘The Defenders’, Confirms ‘Luke Cage’ Star Simone Missick By Angie Han/Sept. 29, 2016 7:30 am EST We’re just hours away from the premiere of Luke Cage, which not only brings back Mike Colter as the bulletproof hero but introduces a whole raft of new characters to go along with him. One of those is Misty Knight, an NYPD cop played by Simone Missick. And it sounds like Netflix already has more big plans for her....
Mondo Announces Nickelodeon Gallery Show: See ‘Ren And Stimpy,’ ‘Rocko’s Modern Life’ And ‘TMNT’ Posters By Jacob Hall/Dec. 1, 2016 9:00 am EST Mondo has always had a good eye for making pop culture posters that appeal to something primal in a specific fandom – their artists tap into imagery that remind us why we love something in the first place. And now, they’re coming for the ’90s kids. The Austin-based art and collectibles company has officially announced their next gallery show, which will be based around Nickelodeon shows, touching on both the classic and recent entries in the network’s line-up....
New ‘The Cat In The Hat’ Movie Will Mark The First Dr. Seuss Animated Movie At WB By Ben Pearson/Jan. 24, 2018 2:45 pm EST A new report states that Warner Animation Group has signed a deal with Dr. Seuss Enterprises that will allow the company to produce “a series of films” based on the works of the legendary children’s author, and the first one on the docket is a new take on the The Cat in the Hat....
Robert Downey Jr.’s ‘Doctor Dolittle’ Runs Away From ‘Star Wars: Episode 9’ By Jacob Hall/May 1, 2017 2:00 pm EST In news that everyone and their mother could have predicted, Universal’s upcoming Doctor Dolittle movie has vacated its May 24, 2019 release date…mainly because a little movie called Star Wars: Episode 9 decided it wanted that Memorial Day weekend and Star Wars gets what Star Wars wants and a talking veterinarian (even one played by Robert Downey Jr....
See How Steven Spielberg Used Real VR Headsets To Make ‘Ready Player One’ By Ethan Anderton/April 20, 2018 4:30 pm EST A majority of Steven Spielberg’s latest blockbuster Ready Player One takes place in the virtual world of The OASIS. In 2045, people escape the crowded, seemingly mundane real world to explore and play in this virtual world where they can be anyone and do anything. The only way to enter this world is by way of virtual reality headsets, some more complex and sophisticated than others....
Superhero Bits: Doctor Strange Science, X-23’s Claws, Bob Hoskins As Wolverine & More By Ethan Anderton/March 3, 2017 5:00 pm EST Has Trevante Rhodes had talks about potentially playing Green Lantern? Do movie goers want to see more R-rated superhero movies? How much real science went into the recreation of the Doctor Strange multiverse? Who did X-Men comics writer Chris Claremont envision as playing Wolverine in the 1980s? Why are X-23’s claws more deadly than Wolverine’s?...
Superhero Bits: Logan Black And White Trailer, Doctor Strange B-Roll & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 20, 2016 5:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Who is the best villain across any of the Marvel movies we’ve seen so far? Where does Logan fall in the timeline of all the rest of the X-Men movies? Just how hard did Scott Derrickson campaign to get the job directing Doctor Strange?...
Theme Park Bits: Shanghai’s ‘Toy Story’ Land Opens, Neil Patrick Harris Pays A Pretty Penny For Props From Disney By Joshua Meyer/April 30, 2018 5:30 am EST First up this week: Toy Story Land is now open at Shanghai Disneyland. Disney CEO Bob Iger was there for the grand opening and Disney Parks Blog ran a cover story about it with a neat gallery of photos showcasing the new land and its rides, shops, decorations, and characters....
Whatcha Gonna Do When ‘Bad Boys 3’ Gets A New Title And Release Date By Jacob Hall/Aug. 12, 2016 6:00 am EST A third Bad Boys film has been in development since at least 2009 and every year or so has brought a fresh news item about behind-the-scenes conversations and negotiations and ever-shifting release dates. The project took on new life last June when director Joe Carnahan was hired to replace Michael Bay, which was quickly followed by news of Bad Boys 3 and Bad Boys 4 arriving in 2017 and 2019....
‘Alien: Covenant’ Honest Trailer: Save The Android Poetry For ‘Blade Runner’ By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 9, 2017 6:00 am EST This summer brought us Alien: Covenant, but so much time has passed, so many movies have come out since then, and the movie was so subpar that it feels like it could have been years ago. While the movie attempted to get back to the roots of the Alien franchise with a parade of blood and gore brought on by new creatures called neomorphs, which are merely predecessors to xenomorphs, it also went back to the freshman philosophy class roots of Prometheus, making for one confused sci-fi story....
‘Alien: Covenant’ TV Spot Hints At The Fate Of Elizabeth Shaw From ‘Prometheus’ By Ethan Anderton/April 4, 2017 10:00 am EST Yesterday brought the announcement of Alien Day 2017 along with a batch of new TV spots promoting the release of Alien: Covenant this month. One of those TV spots aired during the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournamentj last night and it included the hashtag #emohemekat. If you follow that hashtag on Instagram, it takes you to a viral account with only one post, and that post just so happened to be an extended spot featuring new footage from the movie that hints at the fate of a certain character from Prometheus....
