First Look: Melissa Benoist In Full ‘Supergirl’ Costume By Germain Lussier/March 6, 2015 1:29 pm EST The pilot for Supergirl is now filming and the first big reveal from the show is here. Warner Bros. has released two images of the heroine herself, Melissa Benoist, in her full Supergirl costume. There’s a full body shot as well as a head shot. In those two pics are plenty of details from the latest DC Comics supersuit for you to dissect....
By Germain Lussier/Oct. 7, 2014 1:30 pm EST Nothing is as good as it was 25 years ago, but The Simpsons comes close. The longest running animated show in history may not have the cultural impact or consistent comedy impact it did in the 1990s, but in the past few years, it has expanded beyond mere television. Mobile games, mobile apps, marathons, concerts, The Simpsons is now more than a TV show....
Hayao Miyazaki Is Making A New Short Film By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2015 11:30 am EST We have good and bad news not he Studio Ghibli front. The good news is that “retired” animation master Hayao Miyazaki is making a new short film, with the primary character being a caterpillar. And, surprisingly, it seems that the short could be the animator’s first all-CG work. There are two bits of bad news, however....
Honest Trailers: 1989’s ‘Batman’ And 1978’s ‘Superman’ Go Head-To-Head By Ethan Anderton/March 25, 2016 7:30 am EST Today Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice hits theaters, leaving you to see the divisive comic book flick for yourself and see what you think of Zack Snyder’s attempt at bringing the greatest gladiator match in the history of the world to the big screen. But if you don’t have tickets yet, or you’re waiting until the hype dies down a bit, then we have a battle between the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight that you can check out right now....
Lee Toland Krieger Might Direct The Final ‘Divergent’ Sequel, ‘Ascendant’ By Jack Giroux/March 1, 2016 6:00 am EST Following the making of The Divergent Series: Insurgent and The Divergent Series: Allegiant, director Robert Schwentke decided against returning for the final installment, The Divergent Series: Ascendant. But the fourth film in the series is still scheduled to open next summer, and the studio may have found a replacement who can meet that date....
Michael Winterbottom In Talks To Make ‘Russ And Roger Go Beyond’ By Russ Fischer/April 21, 2015 4:00 pm EST THR reports that STX Entertainment, “the new financing and distributing entity launched last year,” has joined the project to finance it, and perhaps to distribute. (Permut Presentations and Sobini Film have been developing.) There’s still no one attached to play Ebert, though with Winterbottom on board that’s likely to change quickly....
New Costume For Diggle On ‘Arrow’ Looks Ridiculously Similar To An X-Men Villain By Russ Fischer/Sept. 4, 2015 5:00 am EST Be honest: If you had to come up with an identity-concealing costume, your first try (or ten) might not be so hot. So let’s cut John Diggle some slack. The popular Arrow character was theorized by some at one point to be a possible Green Lantern, but the guy finally got himself a superhero costume for adventures on the show’s fourth season and, well, there’s nothing green about it....
Not Even Paul Haggis Thinks ‘Crash’ Was The Best Film Of 2005 By Angie Han/Aug. 13, 2015 3:30 pm EST The Academy’s choice of Best Picture inspires some grumbling every year, but one of the most controversial upsets in recent memory occurred in 2006, when Crash won over Brokeback Mountain. Ten years later, even director Paul Haggis is willing to concede his film didn’t deserve the top prize. “Was it the best film of the year?...
Philip Ng Will Play Bruce Lee In ‘Birth Of The Dragon’ By Jacob Hall/Nov. 17, 2015 4:00 pm EST Casting someone to play legendary martial artist Bruce Lee isn’t like recasting Captain Kirk or James Bond. This guy isn’t just a cinematic persona that a new actor can try on like a suit – he was a real-deal badass whose cinematic persona was built around the fact that he could take down every last challenger in the room....
Quentin Tarantino Still Says He’ll Retire After His Tenth Movie; Talks 70mm ‘Hateful Eight’ Release Plan By Germain Lussier/Nov. 10, 2014 5:00 pm EST The Hateful Eight will be the eighth film by Quentin Tarantino, and the director is still planning on retiring after his tenth. A few years ago, the director suggested the retirement plan. Now, with his eighth film almost ready to go, he’s more serious than ever:...
Set Photo Teases Patrick Stewart On Set Of ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ By Ethan Anderton/July 25, 2015 11:00 am EST Back in January this year, X-Men franchise star Patrick Stewart thought that neither he nor co-star Ian McKellen were going to be popping up in X-Men Apocalypse, with the focus on the 1983 versions of the mutants that were rebooted in X-Men: First Class and continued into X-Men: Days of Future Past....
Superhero Bits: Batman V Superman, Captain America Civil War, Suicide Squad, Jessica Jones, Age Of Ultron By Germain Lussier/May 12, 2015 5:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In the toy for Black Widow’s big action moment in Avengers: Age of Ultron, she was replaced by Captain America. A great recap of the character arcs in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Extra TV host Mario Lopez is still getting killed by Deadpool....
Video: Imagineers Take Us On A Tour Of The Updated Magical Effects In Disneyland’s Peter Pan’s Flight By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2015 5:00 am EST Disney has been very busy refurbishing some of their older attractions. Last year Disney added new effects to Big Thunder Mountain, Alice in Wonderland and the Indiana Jones Adventure. This year already Disney has revamped a bunch of attractions, adding the Hatbox Ghost to the Haunted Mansion as well as adding new effects and an awesome new animatronic Yeti to Matterhorn (too bad the new vehicles kill your butt)....
Watch An Animated Alternate Ending For Kevin Smith’s ‘Red State’ By Germain Lussier/March 26, 2015 2:45 pm EST Kevin Smith’s career changing movie Red State could have gone in a very different direction. Smith has gone on the record saying that he had a different ending of the film in mind when he first wrote the script. However, he they realized the budget was only $4 million, he scrapped the bigger ending in favor of something smaller and quieter....
Watch The Full ‘Game Of Thrones’ Comic-Con Panel By Angie Han/July 13, 2015 2:00 pm EST For the past four years Game of Thrones has been one of the big attention-getters at San Diego Comic-Con, and this year was no exception. Hosted by Seth Meyers, the Game of Thrones Comic-Con panel featured ten of the show’s stars (including Gwendoline Christie, Natalie Dormer, Maisie Williams, and Sophie Turner), executive producer Carolyn Strauss, and director David Nutter....
‘Miss Meadows’ Trailer: Katie Holmes Is A “Pulp Fiction Mary Poppins” By Angie Han/Oct. 14, 2014 3:00 pm EST Thought billionaire playboys made for unlikely vigilantes? You haven’t met Miss Meadows, the heroine of Karen Leigh Hopkins’ offbeat indie thriller of the same title. Played by Katie Holmes, this prim and proper elementary school looks so sugar-sweet, bluebirds literally follow her around while she tap-dances down the street. But what her community doesn’t know is that when they’re not looking, she moonlights as a pistol-packing avenger....
‘Phoenix’ Trailer: One Of The Year’s Best-Reviewed Films Expands To More Cities Soon By Russ Fischer/July 24, 2015 3:00 pm EST The film Phoenix, a post-WWII thriller set in Berlin immediately after the war, has played festivals and is currently playing only New York City in the US. Even so, it should be it a film everyone knows about and is ready to see when the opportunity arises, as suggested by its standing at 98% on Rotten Tomatoes with more than 40 reviews....
‘Robotech’ Live-Action Movie Franchise Now Planned At Sony By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2015 4:00 am EST Sony has taken over the rights for a Robotech live-action movie from Warner Bros. Variety reports that Sony “hopes to move quickly into production” with Gianni Nunnari and 300/The Immortals’ Mark Canton producing and 300/GI Joe screenwriter Michael Gordon writing the script. This comes only a a month and a half after it was reported that Warner Bros would be adapting the anime to the big screen....
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Adds Hannibal Buress And Three More By Angie Han/June 20, 2016 4:00 pm EST As cameras roll in Atlanta, Spider-Man: Homecoming is making a few last-minute additions. Hannibal Buress has just joined the Marvel / Sony superhero movie, along Isabella Amara (The Boss) and Sundance breakouts J.J. Totah (Other People) and Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (The Land). Tom Holland plays Peter Parker in the movie directed by Jon Watts (Cop Car)....
‘The Gambler’ Trailer: Mark Wahlberg Bets It All By Russ Fischer/Nov. 5, 2014 11:30 am EST Has Mark Wahlberg found one of his defining roles in The Gambler? Working with director Rupert Wyatt to remake the 1974 film in which James Cann played a college professor with a big gambling addiction, Wahlberg looks more dialed-in to a role than he has in quite some time. The first red-band trailer/clip from the film was compelling, as it showed us a tense conversation between Wahlberg’s cash-poor gambler and a loan shark played by John Goodman....
