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Disney Toys Are Returning To McDonald’s Happy Meals For The First Time In A Decade By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 28, 2018 9:30 am EST McDonald’s Happy Meals are about to make kids a little happier. For the first time in 10 years, the fast food corporation is partnering with Disney once again to bring Disney-themed toys and packaging to the kid’s menu. Disney and McDonald’s will be partnering for a cross-promotional campaign starting in June, according to USA Today, when Happy Meals will begin including toys from Incredibles 2 (out June 15, 2018)....

Exclusive: ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Blu-Ray Clip Shows How The VFX Team Built The Indoraptor By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 13, 2018 6:30 am EST Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is already available digitally, but in anticipation of the Jurassic World sequel’s Blu-ray release, we are debuting an exclusive clip highlighting the most dangerous dinosaur the franchise has ever introduced: the Indoraptor. Find out how the VFX team built the Indoraptor in the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Blu-ray clip below....

George Lucas Contributed This Moment In ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ By Ethan Anderton/May 22, 2018 12:30 pm EST This weekend, Solo: A Star Wars Story hits theaters and fans will finally get to see if Ron Howard was able to save the once troubled production that removed directors Phil Lord & Chris Miller from the director’s chair. Most of the movie ended up being reshot by Howard, but there’s one small moment that didn’t come from the filmmaker....

Julia Roberts, Ellie Kemper & More Join ‘The Smurfs: The Lost Village’; Maya Rudolph Is In ‘The Emoji Movie’ By Jack Giroux/Jan. 18, 2017 5:00 pm EST Today, Sony Pictures Animation held a panel promoting some of their future releases, including The Smurfs: The Lost Village, The Emoji Movie, Star, Hotel Transylvania 3, and the Spider-Man movie featuring Miles Morales. At the event, some casting announcements were made. Julia Roberts, Maya Rudolph, Sir Patrick Stewart, Ellie Kemper, and others have joined some of the studio’s upcoming films....

Marvel & Sony’s ‘Spider-Man’ Sequel Lands Jake Gyllenhaal As Mysterio, Michael Keaton Coming Back Too By Ethan Anderton/May 21, 2018 8:17 am EST UPDATE: We’ve got word that Spider-Man: Homecoming villain Michael Keaton will be returning as Vulture. We talk about what that could mean in our story below.Jake Gyllenhaal has come close to entering the superhero genre a couple times in his career. When Tobey Maguire tried to play hardball to negotiate a new contract for Spider-Man 2 and any sequels that might follow, Jake Gyllenhaal was waiting in the wings to take the job....

New ‘Star Wars’ Comic Explains How Rey Has Force Powers…Kinda By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 10, 2018 3:30 pm EST Power and who gets access to that power is the root of the conflict in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. And where does that power lie but in the Force, that all-encompassing, vaguely defined power that only the Jedi and the Sith can wield, and no one else. Until Rey. She may be one of the first “ordinary” people has a natural knack with the Force, but if the events of Last Jedi are anything to go by, she won’t be the last....

Olivia Wilde Gets ‘Booksmart’ For Her Feature Directorial Debut By Ben Pearson/Feb. 22, 2018 5:30 am EST After spending the first portion of her career acting in front of the camera, Olivia Wilde is shifting gears. She was bitten by the producing bug back in 2010, and has since shepherded movies like 2013’s Drinking Buddies (which features one of her best performances to date) and 2015’s Meadowland into existence. Now Wilde is making her feature directorial debut with Booksmart, which will star Kaitlyn Dever (Short Term 12) and Beanie Feldstein (Lady Bird) as a pair of straight-laced high schoolers who decide to party like crazy before they graduate....

Robert Redford Is Going Through With That “Retiring From Acting” Threat By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 6, 2018 12:30 pm EST Robert Redford is going out with a bang. Because what better way to cap off a 58-year career that contains some of the all-time classic roles and movies in cinema history? But it’s a bang that he’s been planning for quite a while now, since he first announced his intention to retire back in 2016....

Ryan Reynolds Explains Why ‘Green Lantern’ Failed Where ‘Deadpool’ Succeeded By Angie Han/Dec. 16, 2016 2:30 pm EST That last film was the one where he finally struck gold. Deadpool fared better than Green Lantern by every metric, earning far stronger reviews and grossing way more at the box office. So what went right? Why did Deadpool soar where Green Lantern had stumbled? Reynolds has some thoughts on that front. Reynolds reflected on the difference between Deadpool and Green Lantern in a chat with Entertainment Weekly:...

Steven Soderbergh Shares A 1984 Rejection Letter From Lucasfilm By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 18, 2017 1:30 pm EST If you’re struggling with job rejection after job rejection in your 20s, don’t worry. Rome wasn’t built in a day, nor was Steven Soderbergh an indie darling director immediately after he joined the film industry. It took work, and rejection by one of the top movie studios of the day. In April 1984, Soderbergh was an aspiring 21-year-old filmmaker scraping by as a game show scorer and a freelance film editor....

Superhero Bits: Celebrate Helaween This Month, Inhumans Ratings, Shazam DCEU Connections & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 2, 2017 5:00 pm EST How are the Inhumans ratings for the series premiere of the show? Which Arrow villain has been confirmed to be part of this year’s Arrowverse crossover? Are you ready to celebrate Helaween in honor of Thor: Ragnarok? Do Shazam audition tapes hint at a direct connection with Batman and Superman?...

The Mystery Screenwriter For Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Logan Lucky’ Might Not Exist By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 27, 2017 1:00 pm EST Logan Lucky is already getting rave reviews as a “high-spirited” and “brilliantly constructed” heist thriller, with first-time screenwriter Rebecca Blunt getting much of the acclaim for penning Steven Soderbergh’s return to cinema. But rumors are swirling that Blunt may not be who she says she is. In fact, she may not exist at all....

This LEGO Death Star Time Lapse Video May Be More Satisfying Than Building The Set By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 2, 2016 5:00 am EST The LEGO Death Star is one of the biggest playsets offered by the Danish building block company. The Star Wars set was actually discontinued last year, only to be re-released this year with some slight modifications that added 200 pieces and three minifigures that weren’t in the original set....

UPDATED: ‘Jurassic World 2’ Budget Hasn’t Been Determined By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 19, 2016 9:05 am EST UPDATE: A reliable source in the Jurassic World camp has revealed to us that J.A. Bayona did not reveal the budget for Jurassic World 2. In fact, development hasn’t even reached a point where a budget can be finalized, though our source said that the budget will not be anywhere near $260 million. Despite the fact that this was a tangible print source, the information about the budget was either misinterpreted or fabricated....

Your iPhone Already Has A Delightful ‘LEGO Batman Movie’ Easter Egg By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 14, 2017 6:00 am EST Now that millions of people have seen The LEGO Batman Movie, there has been plenty of talk about all the villains that appear in the movie (including the ones that didn’t make the cut), and what the future might hold in store for LEGO Batman in the building block cinematic universe that will expand even more later this year with The LEGO Ninjago Movie....

Zack Snyder Reveals ‘Justice League’ Sizzle Reel Packed With Behind-The-Scenes Footage By Jacob Hall/Oct. 7, 2016 10:32 am EST When our own Peter Sciretta visited the set of Justice League a months ago, director Zack Snyder and his team had an obvious mission: they were dead-set on getting the people who didn’t care for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice to get excited for the latest superhero team-up. Between that set visit and the footage screened at Comic-Con, we were seeing glimpses of a less serious-minded, more fun comic book movie, one with things like banter between characters and the occasional smile....

‘Alien: Covenant’ Promos: Messages Of Hope From A Doomed Crew By Jack Giroux/April 17, 2017 2:30 pm EST The crew aboard the Covenant are in for one rude awakening. They’re all hopeful for their colony expedition and ready to start new lives, but what they don’t see coming are Xenomorphs, chest bursters, and your friendly neighborhood homicidal droid, David (Michael Fassbender). Daniels (Katherine Waterson) and friends are mostly doomed, but they don’t know that yet in some new Alien: Covenant promos, which features the film’s heroine and Captain Oram (Billy Crudup) sending messages back home intercut with some found footage of everything going to hell....

‘Detroit’ Second Trailer: John Boyega Gets Falsely Accused In Kathryn Bigelow’s True-Life Drama By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 15, 2017 8:30 am EST “What happened at the motel?” The newest trailer for Kathryn Bigelow’s anticipated drama Detroit reveals more of the story, which is based on true events that took place during the 1967 Detroit race riots. John Boyega’s security guard, seemingly a passive, observing figure in the first trailer, takes the spotlight here, standing accused of a murder he did not commit by detectives hiding the actions of unhinged police officers....

‘How To Talk To Girls At Parties’ Trailer: Elle Fanning’s Alien Wants To Learn About Punk By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 21, 2017 1:00 pm EST Elle Fanning continues her electric career playing precocious teens on the cusp of sexual awakening with her role as the eccentric love interest in How to Talk to Girls at Parties — but with a twist. This time, Fanning is an alien newly indoctrinated into 1970s’ London’s punk rock scene....

‘I’m Dying Up Here’ Season 2 Trailer: Showtime’s Drama About The ’70s Stand-Up Comedy Scene Is Back By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 24, 2018 10:00 am EST Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here taps into all the seedy exploits that come to mind when we think of the 1970s: sex, drugs, and…stand-up comedy. The drama series about the 1970s L.A. comedy scene is back with an I’m Dying Up Here season 2 trailer. And it looks like it’s as dramatic as ever....