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35MM Film Will Survive A Bit Longer As Kodak Signs Deals With Major Studios By Germain Lussier/Feb. 5, 2015 11:30 am EST 35mm film continues to fight for its life. Last year, a few high profiled filmmakers vowed to continue to use film stock on their films. Now the last remaining manufacturer of film, Kodak, has just signed deals with Disney, Fox, Paramount, Sony, NBC Universal and Warner Bros. – basically every big studio in Hollywood – to “purchase undisclosed amounts of film over ‘a few’ years that would be enough to extend Kodak’s film manufacturing business....

Check Out Four ‘Fantastic Four’ Character Posters Plus A Banner By Germain Lussier/April 30, 2015 1:00 pm EST Want your best look yet at all the costumes from Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four? Of course you do. They’re here courtesy of four character posters as well as a cumulative banner, featuring stars Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Michael B. Jordan. The film opens August 7, check out the new Fantastic Four posters below....

Check Out The Great ‘Die Hard’ Nakatomi Plaza Blu-Ray Box Set Packaging By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2015 5:30 pm EST This set, which is available for pre-order at Comic Con, will street on October 13, with blu-ray and Digital HD copies of all five films, from the 1988 Die Hard to 2013’s A Good Day to Die Hard, in addition to a full suite of special features, some of which are new to this set....

Exclusive: Tom Whalen’s ‘Back To The Future’ Mondo Poster By Germain Lussier/May 20, 2015 10:00 am EST Friday May 22 is one of those great days to be a pop culture art collector. In Los Angeles, Gallery 1988 has Joshua Budich’s Fictional Food as well as Hero Complex’s Craig Drake Solo Show II. Then in Austin, the Mondo Gallery is opening Pulp Menagerie, a solo exhibit by one of our favorite artists, Tom Whalen....

First Full ‘Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp’ Trailer: Camp Firewood Opens Up Shop By Angie Han/July 2, 2015 7:05 am EST Summer is already well underway, but summer camp is just getting started. Netflix has revealed the first full trailer for Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, the eight-episode prequel that takes you back to two months before the events of the 2001 movie. The video brings back a ton of Camp Firewood favorites, such as Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, and Janeane Garofalo, as well as new characters played by Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Jason Schwartzman, and more....

First Look: Adrianne Palicki As Mockingbird In Marvel’s ‘Agents Of SHIELD’ By Angie Han/Oct. 22, 2014 11:00 am EST (Spoilers for last night’s Agents of SHIELD episode, “A Hen in the Wolf House,” ahead.) Following her casting over the summer, Adrianne Palicki made her first appearance as Bobbi Morse on Agents of SHIELD in last night’s episode. She even got to kick some serious ass in her role, beating up baddies with her signature batons....

First Look: Alamo Drafthouse LA Location Concept Renders By Russ Fischer/Oct. 17, 2014 6:30 am EST We’ve seen a lot of concept art for locations in film, but we don’t highlight too many concepts of real-world spaces. But the planned Los Angeles expansion of the Alamo Drafthouse theater chain is reason to deviate from our typical pattern. We know the theater is planned to feature 9 screens that can house about 800 people in the downtown location off Flower St....

Fox’s ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ TV Remake Asks Laverne Cox To Try On Tim Curry’s Fishnets By Jacob Hall/Oct. 22, 2015 1:00 pm EST Learn more about the new addition to the Rocky Horror remake cast after the jump. The news of Cox’s casting comes to us via The Wrap, who reports that the two-hour special will be filmed in advance. This means we won’t get the hilarious rough edges of NBC’s live The Sound of Music and Peter Pan productions, but who knows?...

Gallery: ‘Jupiter Ascending’ Concept Art Teases Deeper Mythology By Germain Lussier/Feb. 9, 2015 11:00 am EST Jupiter Ascending, the latest sci-fi epic from The Wachowskis, hit theaters this weekend and didn’t do too well. It grossed around $19 million over its opening weekend, which is about what Speed Racer did in 2008. Both film had big budgets and expectations but will ultimately be considered box office failures. That’s unfortunate because both movies are visual marvels....

Page 2: BTTF, David Fincher, Ghostbusters, Incredibles, Predator, Kubrick, Star Wars, District 9, Hunger Games By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 12, 2014 3:00 pm EST Header Photo: DELOREAN SPACE t-shirt 7 Chilling True Stories Coming to the Big ScreenCould Humans Colonize a Planet on the Rim of a Black Hole?David Fincher’s List of 26 Greatest Movies Don’t Be Scared, Your Complete Upcoming Horror Film Calendar Is Here Now 5 Things Right with Season 5 of ‘The Walking Dead’...

Paul Feig’s ‘Ghostbusters’ Reboot Almost Included An Unnecessary Slimer Origin Story By Ethan Anderton/July 13, 2016 12:00 pm EST Over the weekend, the reviews for Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters hit the web, and it turns out the movie is solid. It’s not perfect, not as good as the original, and suffers from adhering to the usual blockbuster formula, but it’s apparently thoroughly entertaining and very funny. Of course, as any conspiracy theorist out there will tell you, the 75% that the film has on Rotten Tomatoes just shows that Sony Pictures spent a lot of money to get 77 positive reviews (of those recognized by the aggregation website) at the time of this writing....

Rumor: ‘Star Trek’ Could Return To TV By Russ Fischer/March 30, 2015 2:30 pm EST Over the weekend, a new rumor cropped up about Star Trek returning to television. We’ve heard similar talk before, with details ranging from a couple possible new series, to a new animated Trek. This time, the report is partially based in the old Star Trek: Federation pitch made a decade ago, which was then in development as a possible CBS series, with Robert Burnett, Bryan Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie as producers and a script from Geoffrey Thorne....

Stephen King And His Son Have Kind Words For Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Crimson Peak’ By Germain Lussier/March 16, 2015 5:00 pm EST When you’re the most famous horror author of all time, you get a bunch of perks. One of which is sometimes you get to see major motion pictures seven months early with a plus one. I’m talking of course of Stephen King, who recently took to Twitter to heap praise on Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, which he apparently had a chance to see in recent days....

Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy, Lego Batman, Agent Carter, Doctor Strange, X-Men By Germain Lussier/Nov. 25, 2014 4:34 pm EST What’s the inside story behind the Batman v Superman logo in I Am Legend? How can you get this disgusting Guardians of the Galaxy sweater? Who would win in a fight between Batman and Darth Vader? Did the Lego Movie producers approach Christopher Nolan to approve Lego Batman? Want to see a new TV spot for Agent Carter?...

By Russ Fischer/April 24, 2015 6:11 pm EST Why does the Suicide Squad joker have his own dialogue tattooed on his body? For weeks we’ve seen director David Ayer and actor Jared Leto teasing the gradual transformation into the clown prince of crime. But as seen in a final image posted by Ayer, this Joker is more like a clown prince of crazy, or, well… just see him below. Here’s Ayer’s tweet....

VOTD: ‘Rick And Morty’ Recreated In ‘Fallout 4’ Is Magical By Ethan Anderton/June 7, 2016 9:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The video game Fallout 4 has become a great tool for fans with a lot of time on their hands who want to recreate movies trailers or other scenes from movies and television using the characters and world of the game. Usually it’s superhero movies getting this treatment, but one dedicated Rick and Morty fan decided to recreate scenes from the Adult Swim animated series in Fallout 4, and it’s just plain awesome....

‘‘71’ Trailer Starring ‘Unbroken’s Jack O’Connell As A British Soldier In Belfast By Angie Han/Dec. 19, 2014 10:00 am EST Next week’s Unbroken is Jack O’Connell’s highest-profile gig yet, but he was doing fine work long before Angelina Jolie came along. Starred Up and ‘71 are two of the roles that marked him as the Next Big Thing. The former opened a while ago, but the latter isn’t coming out for another few months....

‘Fantastic Four’ HERBIE Concept Art Looks Like The Super-Team’s Own BB-8 By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2015 8:30 am EST What if Star Wars hadn’t been the first film of 2015 to create a cute soccer ball-like droid that rolls around with a sphere as its primary body? We thought we’d seen the end of the “this is what could have been” info about Fantastic Four, but now there’s some concept art for the FF’s robot HERBIE....

‘Hunger Games’ Stage Show Coming To London In 2016 By Angie Han/Nov. 7, 2014 8:30 am EST Lionsgate has stretched out the Hunger Games film series about as far as it can go, even breaking up the final installment of Suzanne Collins’ book trilogy into two movies. Even so, it’s set to end next year with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. So what’s a company to do when its billion-dollar movie franchise has run its course?...

‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ Viral Website Reveals Whereabouts Of Will Smith’s Character By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 14, 2015 10:00 am EST But we all know about that. What we don’t know about is what has happened in the 20 years since the alien attacks. Information about the story of Independence Day: Resurgence has revealed that in the wake of these alien attacks, the world united to form Earth Space Defense in 1998, a program designed to prepare for the return of the aliens or any other intergalactic threat....