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‘Ghostbusters’ Featurette Shows Off The New Ecto-1, Has Snippets Of New Theme Song By Ethan Anderton/June 8, 2016 8:00 am EST It’s Ghostbusters Day! Today marks exactly 32 years since the original Ghostbusters hit theaters in 1984. In addition to the theatrical screenings happening around the country tonight, a new featurette from the reboot has just arrived, giving us a much closer look at the update Ecto-1, which is now a hearse instead of an old ambulance....

‘Gold’ First Look: Stephen Gaghan’s New Film Is Sweaty By Jack Giroux/Oct. 1, 2015 1:30 pm EST Stephen Gaghan (above, center) doesn’t direct as many movies as we’d like to see him make. The Academy Award-winning writer behind Traffic hasn’t directed a movie for the big screen since 2006’s Syriana. Gaghan is known for writing more adult material than your typical studio movie, and because of that, he probably struggles to get his movies made....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 2’: Lee Pace’s Ronan Won’t Return By Angie Han/Jan. 23, 2015 10:00 am EST Lee Pace has gone on record saying he’d “love” to reprise the role of Ronan the Accuser for Guardians of the Galaxy 2. But it doesn’t look like James Gunn will be granting his wish. The director has confirmed that Pace will not be back for the next Guardians of the Galaxy adventure — though he isn’t ruling out the possibility of his returning in a future film....

‘Into The Badlands’ Trailer: AMC’s Western Martial Arts Fantasy Drama Looks Gloriously Batsh*t By Angie Han/July 15, 2015 6:00 am EST Do you prefer Westerns or martial arts actioners? Gritty dramas or medieval fantasies? The antebellum South or steampunk dystopias? Whatever your genre preference, you’ll probably find a bit of it in Into the Badlands, AMC’s completely batshit-looking new drama. Loosely based on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, Into the Badlands stars Daniel Wu as Sunny, a skilled fighter who takes a mysterious young boy (played by the majestically named Aramis Knight) under his wing in a land ruled by feudal barons....

‘Jurassic Park’ Screenwriter Working On ‘Indiana Jones 5’ By Peter Sciretta/March 18, 2016 1:02 pm EST Earlier this week, Disney announced that Steven Spielberg would be returning to direct Harrison Ford in a new Indiana Jones movie, and I am very optimistic — I even listed a bunch of reasons I have hope for the sequel (the two main points being that George Lucas is no longer directly involved and Steven Spielberg probably feels he has something to prove)....

‘Spectre’ Budget Soars To $300 Million As Sony Tries To Cut Costs By Angie Han/Dec. 11, 2014 12:30 pm EST Aston Martin cars and Omega watches don’t come cheap, and neither do James Bond movies. Sony execs are trying hard to bring down the Spectre budget, which is currently hovering in the $300 million range. For example, budgetary concerns are one reason Andrew Scott was cast in the role of C — it turns out he was cheaper than the original first choice, Chiwetel Ejiofor....

‘Star Trek Beyond’ Sailing Toward $48-60 Million Debut By Angie Han/July 1, 2016 3:30 pm EST It’s been a brutal summer at the box office. We’ve seen one high-profile studio release after another open to disappointing figures, if not outright awful ones, prompting concerned conversations about “sequelitis” and “superhero fatigue” and the like. So will this trend extend into the rest of the season? Or could July be the month that Hollywood turns its fortunes around?...

‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Trailer Coming Tomorrow, Watch The First Tease By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2016 3:45 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures has released a tease from Star Wars: Rogue One, to promote the first trailer which will premiere tomorrow. Watch the tease and learn more, after the jump. I think we all anticipated the first Star Wars: Rogue One trailer to hit on May the Fourth and appear in front of Walt Disney Pictures’ Captain America: Civil War....

‘The Jungle Book’ Trailer Mash-Up: Disney’s 1967 Classic Meets The 2016 Remake By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 22, 2015 6:00 am EST Just last week brought the first teaser trailer for Disney’s new live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book, giving a realistic makeover to the 1967 animated musical adaptation, complete with some impressive visual effects bringing the animals to life. And now an inevitable The Jungle Book trailer mash-up has surfaced, taking footage from the original animated movie and cutting it in the style of the recent teaser trailer for the 2016 release....

‘The Mind’s Eye’ Trailer: ’80s-Style Horror Is Back With Head-Exploding Vengeance By Jacob Hall/June 21, 2016 4:00 am EST The makers of The Mind’s Eye love their ’80s genre cinema and they wear that affection as a badge of honor. Like he did with his debut feature, Almost Human, writer/director Joe Begos has made a horror movie that looks like it time-warped straight out of 1982. The synth soundtrack is appropriately icy, the practical make-up effects nasty, and the performances pitched just to the right of hammy....

‘Too Many Cooks’ Destroys And Rebuilds The Concept Of Television By Russ Fischer/Nov. 7, 2014 11:00 am EST It’s amazing to see something as bizarre as Too Many Cooks take the internet by storm. This short played on Adult Swim for a few nights in late October and hit YouTube this week, but it seems like Too Many Cooks has always been with us. It has that effect. This piece of television warps space and time....

‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Poster And The Escalation Of Movie Marketing By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 1, 2016 11:00 am EST In recent years we’ve seen a lot of concept trailers released even before principal photography. Probably the most notable are when Disney used a visual effects test they created when exploring the idea of a Tron sequel and employed it as a surprise announcement for Tron: Legacy during a presentation at 2008 San Diego Comic-Con International....

‘Tumbledown’ Trailer: Turns Out Jason Sudeikis Is Pretty Good At This Whole Romcom Leading Man Thing By Angie Han/Jan. 8, 2016 5:30 am EST Jason Sudeikis got his start on Saturday Night Live, and he still does his fair share of goofy comedies – he’ll be voicing one of the angry birds in Angry Birds, for example. But recently, he’s also started to emerge as a viable romcom leading man. He did excellent work opposite Alison Brie in last year’s Sleeping With Other People, and now he’s following it up with the indie dramedy Tumbledown....

‘X-Men’ Spinoff ‘Hellfire Club’ May Premiere Early 2017; Plus A Minor ‘Rambo’ Update By Fred Topel/Jan. 15, 2016 3:00 pm EST “Unlikely it would be the fall,” Walden said. “Potentially midseason but no immediate plans. We’re still working on Hellfire Club. Obviously those executive producers are very busy with the film franchise and the FX show, so not sure.” There is also a Rambo TV series in development at Fox. While Sylvester Stallone was an on-again, off-again producer, he is currently off again....

Alex Garland’s ‘Annihilation’ Recruits Jennifer Jason Leigh For A Doomed Expedition By Jacob Hall/Feb. 10, 2016 12:00 pm EST Jennifer Jason Leigh has been having one hell of a year. Her voice work in Anomalisa is remarkable and her deranged performance in The Hateful Eight netted her an Oscar nomination. She’s rumored to be heading to the mysterious third season of Twin Peaks. The past twelve months have been a reminder that Leigh is one of the best performers we have and that it’s a shame that it took this long for her to have a full and proper comeback....

DKNG Home Alone Poster Here’s the full DKNG Home Alone poster print from Mondo: Here is what DKNG has to say about the Home Alone print: “When approaching a concept for Home Alone, we knew the interior of the McCallister home and all of Kevin’s tricks to foil the Wet Bandits were likely to be the focus of our design. However, we also wanted to incorporate the exterior of the house and provide a different perspective on some of the movie’s most iconic scenes....

Dan Aykroyd Confirms Cameo In Paul Feig’s ‘Ghostbusters’ By Ethan Anderton/July 14, 2015 5:44 pm EST Since Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters doesn’t have any narrative ties to the original franchise, we won’t be seeing any characters from the iconic films popping up. But that doesn’t mean some of the stars of the 1984 Ghostbusters are out of the running. In fact, Dan Aykroyd has just announced that he was on the set of Ghostbusters today shooting a scene with Kristen Wiig....

Disneyland’s Space Mountain Seen In ‘Tomorrowland’ Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/March 6, 2015 1:00 pm EST This morning, Disney released a new poster for Tomorrowland. Russ grabbed it before I was finished with breakfast, but I noticed something hidden within the image that is noteworthy – hence this post. Ever since it was announced that director Brad Bird and screenwriter/producer Damon Lindelof’s secret 1952 project was to be titled Tomorrowland, Disney fanatics have speculated about what role the Disneyland park and Walt Disney himself might play in the film....

Han Solo And Princess Leia Cast For ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Live Read By Germain Lussier/Dec. 18, 2014 11:30 am EST Thursday night is Jason Reitman’s biggest live read yet. Literally. He and his cast will read Irvin Kershner’s landmark sci-fi sequel, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and the venue has been changed from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to the Ace Hotel Theater in Downtown Los Angeles. Earlier this week, several members of the main cast were revealed....

How Badly Do You Want This ‘Game Of Thrones’ Doorstop Featuring The Loyal Hodor? By Ethan Anderton/June 6, 2016 6:00 am EST The recent Game of Thrones episode “The Door” was simultaneously a gamechanger. Some fans are exciting about the mind-blowing revelation that came from the episode which also gave us an origin story for the character Hodor, who can only speak his own name in different inflections. Others weren’t pleased with what the events of the episode mean for the future....