Monopoly Getting Its Own Big-Screen Origin Story By Angie Han/Oct. 28, 2015 6:30 am EST Hollywood loves toy movies and origin stories, so it was only a matter of time before someone had the genius idea to combine the two. Big Beach’s Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf (Little Miss Sunshine) have put into development a movie about the origins of Monopoly, the smash hit board game that no one actually enjoys playing....
New ‘Daredevil’ Info Explains MCU Connections, Hell’s Kitchen, Kingpin And Bullseye By Germain Lussier/Dec. 30, 2014 8:30 am EST Not only is 2015 going to bring us two new Marvel Studios movies, we get at least two (and maybe more) brand new Marvel TV shows. The first comes upon us pretty quickly, Agent Carter. A few months later, a full season of Daredevil will be available on Netflix. Daredevil, which stars Charlie Cox, Rosario Dawson, Vincent D’Onofrio and others, is the first of four Netflix Marvel shows that will eventually lead to The Defenders....
NYPD Calls For Boycott Of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ By Jack Giroux/Oct. 27, 2015 6:30 am EST Quentin Tarantino (The Hateful Eight) has been accused of glamorizing violence all throughout his career. Time and time again his depiction of violence is misread, almost with every one of his films. Apparently, in this respect, even the NYPD has a problem with the director’s work. Read more after the jump. Over the weekend, Tarantino attended a rally protesting cases of police brutality in New York City....
Rumor: Angelina Jolie Eyed To Direct ‘Captain Marvel’ [Updated] By Angie Han/April 15, 2015 4:00 pm EST Update: Just a few minutes after we ran this post, news broke that Patty Jenkins had been set to helm Wonder Woman. So we can rule Jolie out of the running for that one, at least. Original story follows. Get all the dirt on the Angelina Jolie Captain Marvel rumor after the jump. Collider reports Jolie is “definitely under consideration” for the Captain Marvel job, but that she’s also a possibility for Wonder Woman now that Michelle MacLaren has jumped ship....
Superhero Bits: S.H.I.E.L.D., Constantine, Arkham Knight, Groot, Wasp, The Flash, X-Men: Apocalypse By Angie Han/Aug. 19, 2015 5:00 pm EST What would Evangeline Lilly look like as the Wasp? Does Kevin Smith have an opinion about Ronda Rousey as Captain Marvel? Has the Constantine episode of Arrow started shooting? What big change might be coming for May in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 3? Which new villain shows up in The Flash Season 2 promo?...
VOTD: Five Alternate Movie Endings That Could Have Been By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 17, 2015 5:00 am EST A movie isn’t finished until it’s playing on the big screen in front of you, and sometimes not even then if you’re someone like George Lucas. But leading up to that final cut, a lot of decisions are made, whether it’s in the writing process, during filming or sometime in post-production, that can drastically change a movie from how it was originally conceived....
VOTD: Tour Guillermo Del Toro’s Bleak House With Andy Richter By Angie Han/July 28, 2016 7:00 am EST If you’re even a casual Guillermo del Toro fan, you’ve probably heard of Bleak House, the director’s second home. It looks like any other San Fernando Valley suburban home from the outside, but inside is a treasure trove of weird and wonderful memorabilia including original art, movie props, medical oddities, books and comics, hyper-realistic live-sized mannequins of H....
Watch The ‘Batman V. Superman’ Comic-Con 2015 Panel By Ethan Anderton/July 13, 2015 1:00 pm EST Thankfully, for fans anticipating Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, the footage that was shown to fans in Hall H at Comic-Con was a new trailer that was officially released online immediately after it premiere, and you can watch it right here. But what fans weren’t easily able to see immediately was the panel (hosted by comedian Aisha Tyler) for the film that featured Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Adams, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter and director Zack Snyder....
Watch The First Six Minutes Of Vampire Mock-Doc ‘What We Do In The Shadows’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 28, 2014 3:00 pm EST Written and directed by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, What We Do in the Shadows is a funny mock documentary that exposes the nighttime world of New Zealand’s vampire underworld. Though in fact, the scene is more like a dysfunctional flat than an “underworld,” even though the flatmates are all, technically, monsters....
‘Aquaman’: James Wan Will Bring Some Of His Horror Style To The Deep Sea [Comic-Con 2016] By Ethan Anderton/July 23, 2016 1:46 pm EST As one of the superheroes in the upcoming assembly of Justice League, it’s no surprise that Warner Bros. Pictures wanted to tease a bit of Aquaman after his debut in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Former Game of Thrones star Jason Momoa has been slated to play the aquatic hero for awhile, and director James Wan has been attached for some time as well, and both were briefly on-hand to help tease the movie....
‘Game Of Thrones’ Star Pedro Pascal Joins ‘Ben-Hur’ By Angie Han/Oct. 16, 2014 8:00 am EST Maybe the world doesn’t really need another Ben-Hur, but if it has to have one it may as well feature an intriguing cast. Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, and Morgan Freeman signed on for the Timur Bekmambetov-directed epic last month, and future Wonder Woman Gal Gadot nabbed the female lead yesterday. As of today, the latest addition to the cast is Pedro Pascal, last seen battling the second strongest man in the world on Game of Thrones....
‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Is No Longer The #1 Movie Of 2014 By Germain Lussier/Jan. 23, 2015 12:30 pm EST It was fun while it lasted. But after several months in the top spot, Guardians of the Galaxy is no longer the top grossing movie of 2014. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 overtook the Marvel film Wednesday when it passed the $333.17 million Guardians grossed domestically. Adding more fuel to the fire, Mockingjay Part 1 did this without a bump for 3D ticket prices....
‘How To Build A Time Machine’ Trailer: Two Guys Set Out To Build A You-Know-What By Jacob Hall/April 15, 2016 3:00 pm EST How to Build a Time Machine, the new documentary from director Jay Cheel, looks fascinating, following two men whose lives were forever changed by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. One has spent over a decade building a replica of the time travel device from the 1960 film adaptation....
‘Powerless’ Creator Talks DC Comics Easter Eggs And Superhero Collateral Damage [Comic-Con 2016] By Fred Topel/July 25, 2016 7:30 am EST NBC screened their midseason DC Comics comedy Powerless at Comic-Con. The workplace comedy is set in an insurance company that handles claims for superhero-related destruction. In a roundtable at Comic-Con, series creator Ben Queen told /Film that this was not inspired by the backlash against Man of Steel’s collateral damage....
‘Spectre’ Writer John Logan Tasked With Helping ‘Alien: Paradise Lost’ Make Sense By Jacob Hall/Nov. 11, 2015 12:30 pm EST Prometheus was a thousand and one razor-sharp ideas crammed into a bag made of paper – the whole thing bursts and cuts you deep the moment you start poking it too hard. Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel has ambition in spades and it’s jaw-dropping on a technical level, but its story is a total mess....
‘Spider-Man’ Rumors Hint At His Role In ‘Civil War’ And New Villain For 2017 Movie By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 4, 2015 2:00 pm EST In addition, another rumor has popped up with word on what villain we’ll see taking on Spider-Man when he gets rebooted again with a new franchise beginning in 2017, this time co-produced by Marvel Studios. Get the details on these Spider-Man rumors after the jump! First of all, let’s talk about that appearance Spider-Man will make in Captain America: Civil War....
‘The Last Witch Hunter’ Trailer: Vin Diesel Ain’t Afraid Of No Witches By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 6, 2015 3:00 pm EST While fans are waiting for Vin Diesel to get back behind the wheel for Fast and Furious 8, maybe they wouldn’t mind seeing him take on the supernatural in The Last Witch Hunter this fall. In the Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment production, Diesel plays Kaulder, a witch hunter cursed with immortality who suddenly finds himself as the key to saving the modern-day human race from a legion of creatures attempting to unleash Black Death upon the world....
‘The Peanuts’ Movie Trailer: The Story Of An Underdog And His Dog By Germain Lussier/June 16, 2015 11:00 am EST A brand new Peanuts Movie trailer has been released and it goes for “epic.” The Who’s ‘Baba O’Riley’ plays, every member of the cast is introduced, and Charlie Brown is his usual, lovable, unlucky self on a bigger scale than ever. A new girl has moved in next door and Charlie Brown hopes this is the beginning of a new chapter in his life....
‘Transformers: Age Of Extinction’ Tops 2015 Product Placement Awards By Angie Han/March 4, 2015 4:00 am EST The winner for most brands in a single film shouldn’t be hard to guess (I’ll give you a hint: it’s in the headline) but smaller films like Nightcrawler and The Theory of Everything apparently still found ways to squeeze in a few notable brand mentions. Find out who won the sometimes dubious honors in the 2015 Brandcameo Product Placement Awards after the jump....
Alejandro Jodorowsky Launches Kickstarter To Back New Film Project By Russ Fischer/Feb. 16, 2015 11:30 am EST Alejandro Jodorowsky is planning a new film, Endless Poetry, which will pick up where his last movie, Dance of Reality, left off. He’s raising funds for the project now, and has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to gather some of the financing. He wants to “exchange your money into Poetic Money to make his latest film,” which sounds like a pretty good bargain....
