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Interview: ‘The Shallows’ Director Jaume Collet-Serra On “The Fear That Lasts A Year” By Jack Giroux/June 23, 2016 7:00 am EST Collet-Serra typically relies more on practical effects, so The Shallows was a more CG-heavy experience than he was probably used to. The director was kind enough to take the time to discuss the experience of making The Shallows with us, and why the CG shark proved to be “the fear that lasts a year....

James Cameron Wants To Prove ‘Avatar’ Wasn’t A Fluke By Jack Giroux/Dec. 13, 2015 8:00 am EST After the jump, read the director’s latest comments on the Avatar sequels. Earlier this year Cameron said the writing process has been a part of the reason for the delay of Avatar 2, citing that plotting out three films is far more complicated than writing a standalone feature: Speaking with EW, the director says the Avatar sequels scripts, which he’s developing with a team of writers, aren’t quite finished:...

Netflix Orders Supernatural Drama Series ‘Montauk’ By Russ Fischer/April 3, 2015 3:30 pm EST Netflix is ordering a new genre series. So far the most high-profile original series from Netflix have been comedies, and dramas that edge toward thriller territory. But the company is bringing back the horror series Hemlock Grove for a third and final season, is moving into sci-fi with Sense8 from the Wachowskis, and is now buying another show with a hybrid sci-fi/supernatural bent....

New Star Wars Land Rendering Reveals The Layout Of The Star Wars Experience By Peter Sciretta/April 25, 2016 5:00 am EST A new rendering of Disney’s upcoming Star Wars Land has been released. The concept art by Walt Disney Imagineering’s Greg Pro gives us a better look at the currently under construction theme park world which is expected to be called The Star Wars Experience. Hit the jump to see what we can learn from this new piece of concept art....

Page 2: Muppets, Kora, Star Wars, Sesame Street, Jim Carrey, ET, Sorkin, GoT, Shameless, Tangled, Frozen, Doctor Who By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 14, 2014 3:00 pm EST Header Photo: Raiders of the Lost Parts t-shirt The rational wonders of Christopher NolanWhy Christopher Nolan Is Cinema’s Reigning RationalistLego Statler and Waldorf will heckle all other buildsWired ruins The Hobbit by explaining why no arrow could kill Smaug Just by a Nose: 10 Actors Who Earned Oscar Buzz by Wearing a Prosthetic Schnoz...

Page 2: Star Wars, Bill Murray, Miyazaki, Oscars, Doctor Who, Sesame Street, Interstellar, Poltergeist, Jurassic Park, Gladiator By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 4, 2015 2:30 pm EST Header Photo: Spirits of the Forest t-shirt Visual Effects: The Gender Bias Behind The Screen A Brief History Of Star Wars Canon, Old And New Very cool snow statue @ Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido. @starwars @jp501st pic.twitter.com/7djbhCmbkv — Chris Argyropoulos (@ThatChrisA) February 4, 2015...

Photos: The Muppets Visit The Set Of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 30, 2015 11:00 am EST Since 1977, fans have dreamt of visiting the world of Star Wars, of setting foot on the sands of Tatooine, the snow of Hoth or swamps of Dagobah. 99.9% of fans never get that chance, as production on the movies is so secretive. But a select few get to visit the set during filming....

Star Wars: Season Of The Force Event Coming In 2016; Star Tours Gets ‘Episode VII’ Update [D23 Expo 2015] By Angie Han/Aug. 15, 2015 3:36 pm EST If there’s one downer to the Star Wars Land news announced today, it’s that we’ve still got a while to wait before we can actually go to there, as Star Wars nerd Liz Lemon would put it. Fortunately, Disney’s got a couple other Star Wars-themed treats in store for park visitors in the near future....

Star Wars Bits: Gary Whitta Writing On ‘Rebels,’ Rian Johnson, John Williams And BB-8 By Germain Lussier/May 26, 2015 11:00 am EST Star Wars Bits is back and packed full of interesting stuff. Below, read about the following: Star Wars Anthology writer Gary Whitta is writing for Star Wars Rebels. Rian Johnson wrote Star Wars Episode VIII in Moleskine notebooks. See an image of the works in the Star Wars canon....

Star Wars Bits: Rise Of The Empire, Rogue One Shooting Location, Art Awakens, Mark Englert, Disney World, Celebration Europe Hotels And More By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2015 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. All that and more, in today’s Star Wars Bits! The above Force Awakens print by artist Mark Englert will be available to fans at D23 Expo 2015. The 20 inch by 20 inch metal limited edition print (with the gray colors showing through to the metal) will be available at the Art Awakens booth (#1415)....

Superhero Bits: Black Panther Casting Call, X-Men: Apocalypse Deleted Sequence & More By Ethan Anderton/May 24, 2016 4:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. What villains might we see in the third season of Gotham? Will you take Geoff Johns up on his moneyback offer if you don’t like DC Comics Rebirth #1? Which Black Panther characters might we see in the movie according to a rumored casting call?...

The ‘Preacher’ Opening Scene Is Here, Features Outer Space, Extreme Gore, And A Little Bit Of Willie Nelson By Jacob Hall/May 17, 2016 1:30 pm EST AMC has released the opening scene from the first episode and it’s a doozy, somehow managing to sum up a great deal of what this series is all about in 240 seconds. There’s extreme violence, pitch-black comedy, a not-so-romantic look at Texas life, and the suggestion of a genuinely cosmic scale....

The Back Of Kylo Ren’s Helmet Revealed, But What Does It Tell Us? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2015 12:00 pm EST We’ve seen a lot of images of Star Wars: The Force Awakens villain character Kylo Ren, but never without his hood. During the official StarWars.com live unboxing of the first Star Wars: The Force Awakens toys in advance of “Force Friday” tomorrow, a new Kylo Ren figure was revealed and the hosts even gave us a look at whats under the hood....

Deadpool Rating April Fools Joke So yes, Deadpool will be rated R. Fans can officially begin celebrating. February 12th. There will be blood. Guns. F-bombs. And graphic, expertly lit French Unicorn sex. #deadpoolRatedR @deadpoolmovie #Aprilpools — Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) April 1, 2015 Deadpool, directed by Tim Miller, stars Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein and Gina Carano. It opens February 12, 2016. Here’s the official synopsis: Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool....

VOTD: ‘Suicide Squad’ Confronts The ‘The Dirty Dozen’ Influence In Trailer Mashup By Russ Fischer/Aug. 31, 2015 11:30 am EST The “men on a mission” movie is a concept that goes back decades, and which was honored most prominently in recent years by Quentin Tarantino in Inglourious Basterds. One of the most famous films in that zone is The Dirty Dozen, in which Lee Marvin played an OSS officer tasked with recruiting a bunch of criminals and ne’er-do-wells to undertake a D-Day prep mission that was almost certainly a suicide run....

VOTD: One Kid Asks All The Questions While Watching ‘Star Wars’ For The First Time By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 16, 2015 7:30 am EST There are probably a lot of kids being shown the original Star Wars trilogy, and maybe the prequels as well, before the debut of Star Wars: The Force Awakens this week. There are people who were teens when the prequels came out who now have kids of their own who they want to introduce to the movies....

Watch: ‘Ice Age’ Animated Short ‘Cosmic Scrat-Tastrophe’ Takes The Squirrel To Space By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 9, 2015 2:00 pm EST If you headed out to theaters this weekend to see The Peanuts Movie, then you got to see the latest Ice Age animated short Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe. The prehistoric squirrel Scrat has been chasing that acorn all over the place, but sooner or later he was going to run out of places to go on Earth, and that’s why he’s gone to space to chase his prize this time....

Watch: Mark Hamill Reprises His Role As The Trickster In ‘The Flash’ By Angie Han/March 10, 2015 3:30 pm EST Mark Hamill is crossing over to the dark side. Again. The Star Wars star is reprising his role as DC villain the Trickster for an upcoming episode of The CW’s The Flash — more than 20 years after he first played the character in CBS’ short-lived The Flash series. Get your first look at the Mark Hamill Trickster after the jump....

Which Netflix Shows Are Their Most Binge-Watched? By Jack Giroux/June 9, 2016 5:00 pm EST Netflix doesn’t release its viewership numbers. In fact, even people that work on the streaming service’s shows, like Kevin Spacey, don’t know exactly how many people have watched their work. Since Netflix doesn’t sell advertisements, they don’t feel obligated to release those figures. If they’re happy with the numbers — as they were with their most-watched movie ever, The Ridiculous Six – they don’t feel the need to boast about them....

‘13 Hours’ Trailer: Michael Bay Goes ‘Black Hawk Down’ By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2015 4:30 pm EST Paramount Pictures has released the first trailer for Michael Bay’s Benghazi movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. Based on the Mitchell Zuckoff’s book about the dual 2012 attacks on American compounds in Libya, the story involves the attack which saw the loss of four American lives and created a political firestorm that continues to burn even after official inquiries have been handed down....