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LOL: Rian Johnson Dreams Up Star Wars Episode VIII Sequence By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2015 12:30 pm EST When you sign on to work on a Star Wars film, you sign a huge NDA which prevents you from talking about the movie in almost any way possible (for example, see us try to get screenwriter Gary Whitta to talk about Star Wars: Rogue One here). But Star Wars: Episode VIII writer/director Rian Johnson has bet a tiny bit more forthcoming in interviews and on social media (he recently revealed the film format for his upcoming installment on twitter)....

New ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Footage: Introductions To Friends And Enemies, Old And New By Jacob Hall/Nov. 12, 2015 9:55 pm EST It’s been one helluva busy week for Star Wars: The Force Awakens news. With a little over a month to go before J.J. Abram’s heavily anticipated, long-awaited sequel to the most popular movie franchise of all time arrives in theaters, the floodgates have begun to open. The mystery box is no more....

Superhero Bits: Jonah Hex Coming To TV, Agent Carter Ties Into Doctor Strange And More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 12, 2016 5:00 pm EST What is Smallville’s Supergirl doing on CBS’s Supergirl? Which DC Comics superhero show will get a visit from Jonah Hex? Why can’t Stan Lee read comic books anymore? How will Agent Carter tie into Doctor Strange? How does the Supergirl and The Flash crossover seem even more likely now?...

VOTD: How ‘The Blair Witch Project’ Changed Movies Forever; Plus A Personal Account Of The Experience By Germain Lussier/Oct. 15, 2014 7:00 am EST For those of us who were lucky enough to be a part of it, the impact of Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez’s film is a door into our own pasts. For those who may not have been there — who didn’t experience lining up for screenings and the confusion over what was real and what wasn’t — the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has created a short little documentary about how The Blair Witch Project changed movies forever....

VOTD: Watch A Make-Up Artist Transform Into ‘Young Frankenstein’, ‘Rambo’ & More Without Prosthetics By Ethan Anderton/July 6, 2016 5:00 am EST The work of make-up artists doesn’t always get the recognition it should. While some make-up jobs are more obvious when you have tons of prosthetic and face paint work in movies such as X-Men: Apocalypse or Men in Black, others require the creation of more traditional effects such as The Revenant or The Curious Case of Benjamin Button....

Watch: Amazing ‘Star Wars’ Anime Fan Film ‘TIE Fighter’ By Peter Sciretta/March 24, 2015 10:40 am EST Animator Paul Johnson (youtube user name OtaKing77077) spent four years worth of weekends animating this incredible Star Wars anime fan film Star Wars: TIE Fighter. Paul explains: What if there was an Empire-focussed short Star Wars animation, drawn with the crazy detail and shading of classic 80s anime that’s all but vanished from Japan nowadays?...

Watch The Final ‘Annie’ Trailer Starring Jamie Foxx And Quvenzhané Wallis By Angie Han/Nov. 4, 2014 12:00 pm EST Nearly two years after she took Sundance by storm with Beasts of the Southern Wild, Quvenzhané Wallis is back this winter with Annie. The films are pretty different in most respects — one is a scrappy indie drama, the other a big-budget studio musical — but both are about irresistibly plucky young girls, and that’s where Wallis seems to shine....

Which New ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Character Was Originally Supposed To Die? By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 21, 2015 7:30 am EST With Star Wars: The Force Awakens now in theaters, the filmmakers and stars of the movie are starting to open up about the secrets they’ve had to keep for the past couple of years. And one little tidbit that has come out of the woodwork during this time is word that one of the new characters in The Force Awakens was originally supposed to die....

‘Anomalisa’ Trailer: A Stunning Preview For The Best Movie Of 2015 By Jacob Hall/Nov. 2, 2015 10:00 am EST There are still two months remaining in 2015, but I find it hard to believe that I will see a better movie than Anomalisa before the year is out. Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s stop-motion animated drama is an unflinchingly real and achingly human masterpiece. It’s a beautiful recreation of what is feels like to fall in love and a bitter, black-hearted portrait of despair and mundane desperation....

‘Arrival’ Teaser: Amy Adams Makes Alien Contact In Denis Villeneuve’s Sci-Fi Drama By Angie Han/Aug. 9, 2016 9:30 am EST We’ll get to see Denis Villeneuve’s vision of a dystopian future next year in Blade Runner 2, but before we get there he’s serving up a more grounded sort of sci-fi story. Arrival stars Amy Adams as a linguist tasked with communicating with mysterious aliens who’ve landed on Earth. Not some more futuristic, high-tech version of Earth — our Earth, as we currently know it....

‘Assassin’s Creed’ Viral Marketing Teases Some Kind Of Mysterious Something Or Another By Jacob Hall/Dec. 21, 2015 1:30 pm EST And no, none of those questions will be answered today. But we do get a banner, a new official website, a mysterious phone number that takes you to a mysterious message. Let’s dive into the Assassin’s Creed viral marketing and see what it has to offer. Let’s get the boring part out of the way first: this banner, which is little more than the movie’s logo against a black background....

‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Trailer #3 Offers A Glimpse Of Vision By Angie Han/March 4, 2015 10:24 am EST There are two months left until Avengers: Age of Ultron hits theaters, which may seem like a painfully long time but is really nothing compared to the two years and ten months we’ve already been waiting for it. In the meantime, Marvel Studios is happy to tide us over with the occasional tidbit, like the new Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer promised earlier this week....

‘Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice’ Trailer Tease: The Dark Knight Is Unmasked By Jacob Hall/Nov. 30, 2015 6:23 pm EST If you’re one of those poor schmucks who has been consistently watching Gotham out of obligation and/or the desperate desire to have DC characters of any kind in your life, you were thrown a bone tonight. New footage from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice premiered, simultaneously rewarding your admirable commitment to the larger Batman mythos and reminding you that Gotham doesn’t feature Batman at all and making you question why you’ve been enduring it....

‘Birdman’ Posters Put The Film’s Hero In Ten North American Cities By Russ Fischer/Oct. 10, 2014 3:00 pm EST Birdman, the new film from Alejandro González Iñárritu, opens limited on October 17. Then we’ll see Michael Keaton as an actor who fears that his image may be permanently tied to one character, the hero Birdman. As he struggles to mount a new play, all his anxieties play upon his character in dramatic fashion....

‘Free State Of Jones’ Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Leads The Knight Company Against The Confederacy By Jack Giroux/May 23, 2016 6:00 pm EST It’s been four years since director Gary Ross helped launch The Hunger Games franchise. Ross, who was concerned he wouldn’t have enough time to make the sequels, stepped away from the series, leaving the other installments in the hands of director Francis Lawrence. Perhaps using his clout from the success of the first film, the Seabiscuit and Pleasantville director’s follow-up to The Hunger Games is a fairly large-scale period drama set during the Civil War....

‘The Empire Strikes Back’ Returns To The Box Office Top 10 By Germain Lussier/June 10, 2015 9:30 am EST No, we haven’t time-travelled back to 1980 but yes, The Empire Strikes Back is back in the box office top ten in the United Kingdom. The reason? Secret Cinema kicked off their latest event, centered on the classic Star Wars sequel, earlier this week. With a Thursday to Sunday gross of $470,000, the Irvin Kershner-directed film came in #8 at the UK box office....

Chris Pratt Will Be In Non-‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Marvel Films By Angie Han/May 19, 2015 3:30 pm EST Chris Pratt may be shooting down casting rumors left and right, but one thing we know for sure is that he’ll be back for another Guardians of the Galaxy. And, it seems, for another several Marvel movies after that — including multiple non-GOT projects. Read the Chris Pratt Marvel future quotes after the jump....

By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 2, 2016 5:30 am EST Grey Matter Art has teamed with artist Matt Ferguson for a new, officially licensed Escape from New York print that would be the perfect way to honor the film’s 35th anniversary. The artwork features Kurt Russell looking like a badass as Snake Plissken, and the style of the print is very much in the vein of movie posters from the 1980s. Check it out!...

Documentary Filmmaker Albert Maysles Has Died At Age 88 By Germain Lussier/March 6, 2015 9:20 am EST Albert Maysles, the documentary filmmaker who made films such as Gimme Shelter and Grey Gardens, has passed away at the age of 88. Maysles was a master; a true auteur in the documentary form. As a brilliant observer and cinematographer, Maysles not only differentiated his films from the work of other documentarians, he set the standard for what all documentaries could be....

Dreamworks Animation Closes PDI Studio, Cuts 500 Jobs By Russ Fischer/Jan. 23, 2015 9:30 am EST The animation world was rocked this week as Dreamworks Animation closed its PDI Studio in northern California. The closure comes as part of an expected round of Dreamworks Animation layoffs, but the 500 jobs that were cut this week far exceeded expectations, and the closure of the studio had not been predicted at all. Along with these layoffs comes a significant reduction in production, as the company’s planned three film per year output will now back off to only two films: one original per year, and one sequel....