By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 4, 2018 12:00 pm EST Star Wars by nature is an amalgam of cinematic inspirations. So it’s no surprise that the franchise’s newest standalone film has some homages of its own. Ron Howard’s Solo inspirations range from crime movie classics to his very own racing movie. The director of Solo: A Star Wars Story revealed the movies that went into making the latest Star Wars anthology film....
Jim Henson’s ‘Fraggle Rock’ Returns To HBO In HD By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2016 10:30 am EST The Jim Henson Company has announced that Jim Henson’s television series Fraggle Rock will be returning to HBO in a digitally remastered HD presentation. HBO was the original home of the series when it premiered in 1983, lasting five seasons and 96 episodes. Hit the jump to learn more about the Fraggle Rock HBO return....
Marvel’s ‘The Defenders’ Announces Sigourney Weaver As Villain By Angie Han/Oct. 8, 2016 4:36 pm EST Netflix’s The Defenders unites four of their key Marvel superheroes: Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter), and Iron Fist (Finn Jones). But who’ll be on the other side battling against them? What Big Bad could be worthy of all these combined powers? Today at New York Comic-Con, Marvel TV started to answer that question, officially announcing that Sigourney Weaver has been cast as the villain of The Defenders....
Maya Rudolph Starring In ‘A Christmas Story’ Live TV Musical From ‘La La Land’ Songwriters And Producer By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 8, 2017 12:25 pm EST There’s no place like TV for the holidays. At least, that’s where FOX wants you to spend your Christmas, according to the announcement of its latest live TV musical. The network announced that Maya Rudolph (Bridesmaids) will be starring in a live performance of A Christmas Story, the 2012 Broadway musical based on the classic movie of the same name....
Michael Fassbender To Star In Feature-Length ‘Kung Fury’ Movie For Some Reason By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 12, 2018 1:30 pm EST Kung Fury, the WTF internet sensation inspired by ’80s action movies, is getting a feature-length remake/sequel, and it’s found the unlikeliest of stars: Michael Fassbender. Fassbender, who will also produce the film, will co-star with David Hasselhoff. We’re not making any of this up. Remember Kung Fury? The funny, weird action-comedy funded by Kickstarter that took the internet by storm?...
New ‘The Incredibles 2’ Image Sees The Parr Family Back In Action By Jacob Hall/Dec. 8, 2017 7:00 am EST The Incredibles came out in 2004, but in a new image from the upcoming sequel, Pixar’s superhero family hasn’t aged a day. Despite the 14-year gap between movies, The Incredibles 2 picks up right where the first movie left off, with Bob, Helen, Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack suited up and looking like their old selves....
The New ‘Overlord’ Poster Is Bloody Fantastic By Jacob Hall/Sept. 12, 2018 10:50 am EST In an age where most official movie posters look like they were cranked out by a harried intern in between coffee runs, we should pause and appreciate whenever a new one-sheet looks like it was crafted with care and style. So hello, new poster for the J.J. Abrams-produced World War II horror movie, Overlord. You are very cool and clever....
Will Deckard Be Confirmed As A Replicant In ‘Blade Runner 2049’? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2016 10:00 am EST Is Rick Deckard, the assassin played by Harrison Ford in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, one of the very androids he sets out to destroy? This is a question at the core of the 1982 science fiction classic. And now that director Denis Villeneuve is making a sequel starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling, many fans are wondering if Blade Runner 2049 will spoil the Deckard-Replicant mystery....
Will Phil Lord And Chris Miller Keep ‘Han Solo’ Credits Or Get Residuals? By Ben Pearson/June 22, 2017 11:30 am EST After a chaotic flurry of news earlier this week, the details are finally starting to come into focus: directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired from directing the Han Solo standalone project because they clashed with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy’s vision for the film, and this morning, they were officially replaced by The Da Vinci Code director Ron Howard....
‘211’ Trailer: Police Officer Nicolas Cage Is Outgunned By Chris Evangelista/April 28, 2018 9:00 am EST Police officer Nicolas Cage gets himself in a heap of trouble in the 211 trailer. The film finds Cage in the middle of “one of the longest and bloodiest bank heists in history.” A Nic Cage heist movie is nothing to sneeze at, but this 211 trailer doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. At times it looks like two different films: one is about grumbling, retiring cop Nicolas Cage, and one is about a team of heavily-armed bank robbers ready to join the cast of Den of Thieves....
‘Captain Marvel’ Lands ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ Star DeWanda Wise In Co-Starring Role By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 5, 2018 7:00 am EST DeWanda Wise has gotta have a part in the Marvel Cinematic Universe In an intriguing piece of casting, the star of Spike Lee’s Netflix series remake She’s Gotta Have It, has been hired for Captain Marvel in a key role. Her role remains unnamed for now, but we can have a little fun with the speculation....
‘Death Wish’ Trailer: Bruce Willis Is Out For Revenge And Blah Blah Blah By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 2017 8:04 am EST You know the old stand-by story about a man losing a loved one thanks to the activities of some ruthless criminals who goes on a wave of revenge to take down the people responsible. It’s a cinematic trope of action movies, and somehow, it’s still done in a fresh way with movies like John Wick....
‘Dope’ Director Rick Famuyiwa Is Developing Disney’s First African Princess Movie, ‘Sade’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 27, 2018 2:30 pm EST Disney is developing its first fairytale film starring an African princess. The House of Mouse has tapped Dope director Rick Famuyiwa to produce Sadé, a live-action fantasy film featuring the studio’s very first African princess. Disney has bought the pitch to Sadé from writers Ola Shokunbi and Lindsey Reed Palmer, according to Variety....
‘Inside The Actors Studio’ Is Losing James Lipton And Leaving Bravo By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 2018 9:30 am EST Inside the Actors Studio has been on the air for nearly 25 years. Taped at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University in New York City, the series features the school’s unique and charismatic dean emeritus James Lipton asking in-depth and personal questions to some of the most famous and talented faces that have graced the big and small screen....
‘Ralph Breaks The Internet’ Teaser Introduces Slaughter Race And Shows Off More Disney Princesses By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 10, 2018 8:22 pm EST Before the weekend started, we got a look at a new character entering the world of Wreck-It Ralph, a tough street racer named Shank voiced by none other than Gal Gadot. Now Disney wants to show off the Wonder Woman’s computer animated alter ego in action with a new Ralph Breaks the Internet teaser that has her racing against none other than the adorably feisty, candy-haired Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman) while Ralph (John C....
‘Sesame Street’ Is Suing The Dirty Puppet Movie ‘The Happytime Murders’ By Chris Evangelista/May 26, 2018 11:00 am EST Dirty, filthy puppet movie The Happytime Murders just got slapped with a lawsuit from the makers of Sesame Street, who aren’t very happy about all this R-rated puppet stuff. Sesame Workshop, the folks who run Sesame Street, are suing the makers of the raunchy puppet movie, claiming the film tarnishes the Sesame Street brand....
‘Silver And Black’ Movie Taken Off Sony’s Release Calendar, ‘Under The Silver Lake’ Delayed Six Months By Ben Pearson/June 1, 2018 10:30 am EST Here’s some bad news for the nascent Sony Marvel Universe: one of its upcoming superhero entries, Silver and Black, no longer has a release date. Meanwhile, A24’s Under the Silver Lake, an indie film starring Andrew Garfield, has been delayed until December. Read more about both below....
‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Casts Three Klingon Warriors By Jacob Hall/Dec. 12, 2016 12:30 pm EST It’s been a bumpy road for Star Trek: Discovery, but at least the latest television iteration of the greatest science fiction series of all time is actually on a road and not totally lost in space. Three new actors have joined CBS’ new series as Klingon warriors, bringing the number of confirmed cast members to six....
‘The Simpsons’ Renewed Through Season 30, Setting A New TV Record By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 4, 2016 10:40 am EST At the end of the 30th season of The Simpsons, the show will have amassed 669 episodes, and it’s hard to imagine any other series coming close to that number ever again. The question is whether that nice round number of seasons for The Simpsons will be the end. Don’t forget that Al Jean hinted at its conclusion sometime soon, saying:...
‘True Detective’ Season 3, ‘The Night Of’ Season 2, And That ‘Deadwood’ Movie Could Happen By Jacob Hall/Jan. 17, 2017 9:00 am EST In short, I like to pay attention to what HBO is doing, so that means that I’m paying attention when their president of original programming talks about more True Detective, The Night Of, and Deadwood. Speaking from the Television Critics Association press tour, HBO’s Casey Bloys tried to answer all of your Game of Thrones questions before moving on to other subjects....
