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‘Prince Charming’ Hires Stephen Chbosky To Write And Direct Disney Reimagining By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 15, 2017 1:43 pm EST The Perks of Being a Wallflower writer-director Stephen Chbosky will pen and helm Disney’s upcoming Prince Charming, a live-action reimagining of the Prince Charming trope made popular in Disney flicks like Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and even Enchanted. Prince Charming will be the latest in a string of live-action Disney works that dip into their vault of classic animated tales and reimagine them for a whole new audience....

‘Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Images Reveal The New Black April O’Neil By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 2, 2018 10:00 am EST The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back in a new animated series. The show Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will reboot those pizza-loving mutants everyone knows and loves and offer a refreshing change for the series: the new April O’Neil will be black. Some new Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles images reveal your first official look at the new takes on the old characters....

‘The Greatest Showman’ Soundtrack: Hugh Jackman & Keala Settle Sing Their Heart Out By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 28, 2017 11:00 am EST Now that Hugh Jackman has said farewell to Wolverine and the mutant’s signature mutton chops, he’s got his singing chops back in order with a brand new, original musical. The Greatest Showman is a new film from first-time director Michael Gracey which sees Hugh Jackman playing P.T. Barnum, the man who created the famous Barnum & Bailey Circus....

‘The Witcher’ Is Coming To Netflix As A TV Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 17, 2017 9:30 am EST Film adaptations of popular video games are often ill-advised, with nary a successful video game movie to date. It’s a good thing then, that the fantasy video game trilogy The Witcher is actually based on a series of best-selling novels by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, and that it will be turned into a television series rather than a film....

‘Trick ‘R Treat’ Sequel Update From Director Michael Dougherty By Jack Giroux/Aug. 25, 2016 1:30 pm EST Warner Bros. shelved Michael Dougherty’s (Krampus) Trick ‘r Treat for far too long. As the horror anthology film sat on the shelf, Dougherty believed his dream of releasing a Trick ‘r’ Treat movie every year or two was over. Almost three years ago, however, he announced a Trick ‘r’ Treat sequel. After is directorial debut had found a passionate audience on home video, there was some renewed interest in a sequel, and Dougherty recently told us “Legendary [Pictures] is very committed to making the movie....

‘Wellington Paranormal’ Trailer: The ‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Spin-Off Series You Need Right Now By Chris Evangelista/June 28, 2018 8:30 am EST The clueless cops from What We Do in the Shadows have their own TV series now: Wellington Paranormal. The series hails from Shadows creators and stars Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, and is set to hit New Zealand TV next month. No U.S. home for the show has been announced yet, and I need that to change immediately....

X-Men: Apocalypse Deleted Scene: Cyclops’ Visor The following X-Men: Apocalypse deleted scene debuted online on Yahoo: There isn’t much to this scene, but its hard to understand why it was cut from the film. Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy aka Beast presents Scott with a solution for his uncontrollable powers, but the new student doesn’t seem happy with the bulky look of the visor. Beast explains how the piece of tech is used and Summers seems ready to test it out....

Bill Murray Wept While Seeing The ‘Groundhog Day’ Musical, Continues To Be The Best By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 9, 2017 2:00 pm EST Bill Murray is a brilliant comedian, a film icon, and a seemingly awesome human being. We hear about it every few months, with viral story after viral story about how he crashed a wedding, spontaneously started bartending, or gave life advice to a couple at an airport. But it’s always a treat to relive his eccentricities — and his touchingly candid moments....

Contest: Win A ‘Phantom Thread’ Package Featuring The Soundtrack And More! By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 16, 2018 1:00 pm EST Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread is expanding to theaters everywhere this week, and to honor the occasion, we’re giving away a Phantom Thread prize pack that includes Jonny Greenwood’s fantastic soundtrack and more. Details on the Phantom Thread contest are below! One of 2017’s best films is finally about to expand to theaters everywhere....

Disney Movies Anywhere Adds Other Key Hollywood Studios By Ben Pearson/Oct. 10, 2017 3:00 pm EST Bloomberg reports that Disney has been speaking with rival studios about joining this service since last year, and a deal has finally been struck between many of them, with an official announcement expected to be made as soon as this week. (There’s no word yet about Sony Pictures’ involvement, but Lionsgate is apparently interested and Paramount Pictures may end up joining later if they can agree on financial terms....

Disney World’s ‘Star Wars’ Hotel Location Announced, Will Be Seamlessly Connected To Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge By Ben Pearson/May 31, 2018 12:30 pm EST It’s unusual for Walt Disney World hotels to be directly connected to one of the resort’s theme parks, but Disney is looking to change the game with Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. The company just officially announced the location of their planned Star Wars hotel, which will be seamlessly connected to the park....

Doctor Strange Will Be Coming To Disney World By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 16, 2016 12:30 pm EST It looks like Doctor Strange will be appearing at Walt Disney World Resort later this Fall. While Universal Studios owns the rights to most Marvel characters west of the Mississippi, Marvel is allowed to have particular characters for a limited time in conjunction with movie promotion (this is how they were able to have Gamora and Starlord from Guardians of the Galaxy appear in the Florida parks)....

Four Years Later, Robert Rodriguez Is Being Sued For ‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’ By Ben Pearson/Aug. 24, 2018 6:30 am EST Director Robert Rodriguez is known for his shoot-’em-up action movies like El Mariachi and Desperado, but now the filmmaker finds himself under fire regarding a dispute about a movie he made four years ago. One of the producers of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For has filed a suit against Rodriguez for “causing production delays that led to $20 million in cost overruns” on the visual effects-laden sequel....

Logan - James Mangold Interview 0:00: Was it a relief not to hold back? 0:42: Shooting Hugh Jackman’s last scene as Wolverine. 1:27: Casting X-23 actress Dafne Keen. 2:35: Shooting X-23’s super-violent action scenes. 3:45: What does the Western genre bring to superhero movies? 5:09: Would James Mangold make another X-Men movie? Interview: ‘Logan’ Director James Mangold On Making A Comic Book Movie For Adults By Angie Han/Jan. 20, 2017 9:00 am EST...

Lars Von Trier Sets Matt Dillon As Jack The Ripper In ‘The House That Jack Built’ By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 2, 2016 3:00 pm EST Matt Dillon has been set to play London’s notorious notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper in The House That Jack Built, a film from Nymphomaniac and Antichrist director Lars von Trier following the murderer’s development over 12 years. Deadline announced the casting of Matt Dillon in the Lars von Trier Jack the Ripper movie which has a slew of support from various Swedish and Danish production companies, including the Danish Film Institute and Swedish Film Institute....

By Jacob Hall/Feb. 14, 2017 11:00 am EST The best thing about Disney’s Moana is that it is unabashedly an old-school musical, with its unique setting and fantastical story adding a fresh flavor to an experience that is defined by incredible showstoppers. And like every musical ever conceived since the dawn of the form, not every track written for the film made it into the final cut. Thankfully, we live in an age of home video special features and even more thankfully, we live in an age where those special features arrive online in advance of the actual Blu-ray and DVD release, allowing us to hear a sample from one of those songs that didn’t make the final cut....

New ‘American Gods’ Season 2 Photo Reunites The Cast By Chris Evangelista/April 9, 2018 3:30 pm EST I want only the best for American Gods. The first season was great, and in many ways even improved on Neil Gaiman’s novel. But all has clearly not be well behind-the-scenes. Original showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green departed the show back in November 2017, due to creative differences. When Fuller and Green left the series, reports indicated that they had already worked on most of the scripts for season 2....

New ‘Jurassic World’ Dinosaur Protection Group Video Argues For Dinosaur Preservation By Ethan Anderton/June 11, 2018 6:00 pm EST We’re a couple weeks out from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom hitting theaters in the United States. In order to hold us over without giving away much more footage (since we’ve seen plenty in the most recent trailer for the movie), another viral video from the Dinosaur Protection Group has emerged. Led by Bryce Dallas Howard as former Jurassic World executive Claire Dearing, the organization aims to keep dinosaurs alive and safe, like any other animal on this planet....

New ‘Wonder Woman’ Photos And TV Spot Trace Diana’s Journey From Themyscira To London By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 1, 2017 10:30 am EST Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment released six never-before-seen stills, both in front of and behind the camera, of Gal Gadot’s Diana on Themyscira, Chris Pine’s dashing Steve Trevor, a stern-looking Sameer (Saïd Taghmaoui) and a few behind-the-scenes photos with director Patty Jenkins. Check out the new Wonder Woman photos and TV spot below....

Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ And More Added To Cannes 2018 Lineup By Chris Evangelista/April 21, 2018 12:00 pm EST The Cannes 2018 lineup is growing. A few days following the initial announcement comes word that Terry Gilliam’s long-delayed The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built and more are coming to the prestigious film festival. The Cannes lineup has added some exciting new films (though, sorry, none of them are from Netflix)....