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Platinum Dunes Is Done With Remakes, Will Focus On Original Horror Movies By Chris Evangelista/April 9, 2018 2:30 pm EST Horror reboots were prevalent for a while, particularly from production company Platinum Dunes. Now, however, more and more producers are catching on to the fact that original horror can bring in a crowd. As a result, Platinum Dunes has vowed to ditch remakes and reboots entirely and focus on original horror and genre films....

Seth MacFarlane’s ‘The Orville’ Renewed For A Second Season By Ben Pearson/Nov. 2, 2017 12:00 pm EST After the first few episodes received largely negative reviews from critics, I admittedly wrote off this show as something that was sure to be cancelled after one season. But it turns out that’s not the case. MacFarlane took to Twitter to announce that we are definitely going to get The Orville season 2 and to thank the fans for making it happen:...

Stan Lee Makes His First-Ever Cameo In A DC Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 30, 2018 1:30 pm EST Stan Lee’s cameo power is so strong that he’s started to move across the aisle to DC movies. The Marvel Comics legend has become an ubiquitous presence in Marvel movies, appearing in both Marvel Studios and X-Men movies for the past few decades. But Lee does not belong to one cinematic universe, as shown by his most recent cameo in his first DC Comics movie....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Stan Lee Lashes Out At Press, Hawkeye Cropped From Infinity War Promo & More By Ethan Anderton/April 13, 2018 5:00 pm EST Check out a new promo for “The Dragon,” the upcoming 19th episode of the sixth season of Arrow on The CW. In a new Avengers: Infinity War promo featuring footage from previous movies, Hawkeye was cropped out....

The ‘Suspiria’ Remake Draws Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Into Its Web By Jacob Hall/May 10, 2017 2:00 pm EST While the news of a Suspiria remake was greeted with jeers by horror fans, it’s undeniable that something interesting is going on here. Luca Guadagnino, the director of I Am Love and A Bigger Splash, is behind the camera and he’s an inspired choice to take on a movie about a ballet school operated by an evil cult of witches....

The Morning Watch: How ‘Top Gun’ Saved Home Video, ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ Video Essay & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 24, 2017 5:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, a video essay explains how the release of Top Gun on VHS ended up saving the home video industry....

The Morning Watch: Revisiting ‘Super Troopers’, Recap For ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ & More By Ethan Anderton/April 13, 2018 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, take a look back at the indie comedy gem Super Troopers before the long-anticipated sequel hits theaters next week....

This Week In Trailers: And Then I Go, Duck Butter, Closer Than We Think, All Or Nothing: The Dallas Cowboys By Christopher Stipp/March 31, 2018 9:00 am 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: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

‘Avengers 4’ Will Feature The Wasp, Confirms Evangeline Lilly By Angie Han/Oct. 10, 2016 8:00 am EST We know a whole lot of familiar faces will be returning for 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, and the list just keeps growing as more and more actors confirm their involvement. But one you can count out is Hope van Dyne, first introduced in Ant-Man. In an interview, Evangeline Lilly stated that the Wasp will not appear in Avengers: Infinity War....

‘Bumblebee’ Movie Will Take Place In The 1980s By Jack Giroux/June 13, 2017 4:30 pm EST An old rumor is confirmed: the first Transformers spinoff, Bumblebee, will take place when the original animated series was airing, the 1980s. Director Travis Knight’s (Kubo and the Two Strings) prequel won’t be as busy or as large as Michael Bay’s Transformers movies, either. A few new details have come out about the film, which will star Hailee Steinfeld (Edge of Seventeen)....

‘Daria’ Reboot Coming From New MTV Studios By Chris Evangelista/June 21, 2018 3:00 pm EST MTV is going back to the drawing board with a Daria reboot as part of their new MTV Studios. The Daria reboot is one of several revivals MTV has planned, alongside The Real World and Aeon Flux. Everything old is new again! MTV previously announced an Aeon Flux reboot, and now they’re adding a Daria reboot as well....

‘Deadpool 2’ Wants ‘Stranger Things’ Star David Harbour For Cable By Angie Han/March 2, 2017 2:30 pm EST A post-credits scene in Deadpool promised that Cable would be coming in Deadpool 2, and the filmmakers involved have said repeatedly that they’d like to bring the character into the universe. It’s also worth noting that Cable and Deadpool are both associated with X-Force, as is Domino, another character expected to appear in Deadpool 2....

‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ Casts ‘Green Room’ Star As Newt’s Brother By Jacob Hall/April 21, 2017 12:00 pm EST Reactions to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them felt a little muted last year, but that didn’t stop the first Harry Potter spin-off from making $814 million worldwide. The ambitious plans to make four sequels and further bridge the gap between the first movie the rest of the Potter series has continued apace, with J....

By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 9, 2018 10:01 am EST A new report has emerged saying Deadpool director Tim Miller is currently developing a movie that would focus on X-Men teammate Kitty Pryde, also known as Shadowcat, a character with the ability to phase or quantum tunnel herself and others through solid objects. News of the Kitty Pryde movie comes from Collider, who cites multiple unnamed sources for the story. As of now, Miller is only developing the project, but there’s a chance he could end up directing....

‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ Went To Netflix Because Paramount Didn’t Want A Box Office Failure By Ethan Anderton/March 27, 2018 11:30 am EST While it’s usually the commercials that dominate water cooler chatter the day after the Super Bowl, this year, movie lovers had something else to talk about. The Cloverfield Paradox, the third installment in what has become a makeshift sci-fi franchise featuring a series of vaguely connected stories from Bad Robot and Paramount Pictures, surprised everyone by debuting on Netflix immediately after the big game instead of coming to theaters in April as originally planned....

‘The Cured’ Trailer Features Ellen Page And Rehabilitated Zombies By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 24, 2018 2:15 pm EST What would happen if, following a zombie outbreak, someone found a cure for zombieism? How would the former zombies adjust to being reintroduced into society – and would society even want them back? That’s the intriguing premise behind The Cured, a new horror-drama starring Ellen Page. Watch The Cured trailer below. I’m sure people will disagree with this assessment, but I’m pretty sure the zombie genre is played-out....

‘White Men Can’t Jump’ Remake In The Works From ‘Black-Ish’ Creator Kenya Barris By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 17, 2017 12:00 pm EST Since Hollywood is remaking and rebooting everything else that hit the big screen in the 1980s and 1990s, it was only a matter of time before they started digging deeper into sports territory. White Men Can’t Jump is one of the best comedies to come out of the 1990s. Written and directed by Ron Shelton (Bull Durham), the film follows Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes as two hustling street basketball players who are either trying to swindle each other out of money on the court, or working together to swindle other players out of theirs....

Cool Stuff: NECA’s Radical ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Animated Series Figure Box Set By Ethan Anderton/June 2, 2017 5:00 am EST San Diego Comic-Con is just a month and a half away, and as usual, /Film will be there to get all the big news that comes out of the convention. Along with all the big announcements that will be coming about the movies and TV shows on the way over the next couple of years, the next best thing about the convention is all the limited edition exclusives that you have wait in line to get your hands on....

Debbie Reynolds Has Died By Angie Han/Dec. 28, 2016 6:46 pm EST Debbie Reynolds, the film and stage star best known for Singin’ in the Rain and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, has passed away at the age of 84. The tragic news comes just one day after the death of her daughter, Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher. Our thoughts are with her family. Reynolds’ death was confirmed by her son Todd Fisher, who said, “She wanted to be with Carrie....

Dragon Challenge Will Be Replaced With ‘All-New Thrill Ride’ In ‘Wizarding World Of Harry Potter’ Orlando By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 24, 2017 12:30 pm EST A new ride is coming to Hogwarts. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter — Hogsmeade at Universal Orlando will be introducing a new “thrill ride” in 2019, replacing the Dragon Challenge. Details are vague on what the new ride will entail, but it’s exciting news for a theme park that has been rapidly expanding since it first opened, in which only a few motion-based rides were available....