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By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2015 4:30 pm EST If you want to know how this happened, one name is likely the key: Ted Hope. The indie producer got his start doing New York indies such as the early films of Hal Hartley, has seen several films go on to Oscar gold, and has won more Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prizes than anyone else. Ted Hope does not have any produced work with Jim Jarmusch or Terry Gilliam, but he d0es acknowledge Jarmusch as part of the lure that brought him to indie film....

Batman To Team Up With The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2015 6:30 am EST One of the big comic book stories we missed while we were stuck in Hall H at San Diego Comic Con International 2015 was an announcement that DC Comics and IDW Publishing would be teaming up to produce a Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book crossover. The Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mini-series will see Krang zapping the Ninja Turtles and Shredder to Gotham City in an effort to get rid of his adversaries....

Benicio Del Toro Returning For ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ By Jack Giroux/Oct. 8, 2015 6:30 am EST This is a great year for Benicio Del Toro. The actor seems poised to earn an Oscar nomination for his intense performance in Sicario, and to sweeten the pot, he recently signed up for a major role in Star Wars: Episode VIII. Last year we saw the actor in James Gunn’s The Guardians of the Galaxy, in a fun bit part as the Collector, and it’s just been confirmed Del Toro will return for the sequel....

Cameron Crowe Has Thought About Making A ‘Say Anything’ Sequel By Angie Han/June 1, 2015 8:17 am EST Cameron Crowe’s career has stumbled a bit as of late, but nothing will take away the fact that he wrote and directed Say Anything…, still one of the best loved movie romances of all time. 26 years later, fans are still curious about the fates of Lloyd Dobler and Diane Court — and it sounds like Crowe is, too....

Cameron Crowe’s Untitled Hawaii Movie Finally Has A Title By Germain Lussier/Feb. 2, 2015 2:00 pm EST Briefly: We’ve been quietly anticipating Cameron Crowe’s latest film for some time. And in that period, the star-studded film has been referred to as the “Untitled Hawaii Project,” as seen above on the film’s camera slate. Now, Crowe has settled on a title for the film. The Cameron Crowe Hawaii movie is now called Aloha....

Clive Barker Producing ‘Weaveworld’ TV Series For The CW By Russ Fischer/Sept. 22, 2015 3:00 pm EST Weaveworld is one of Clive Barker’s earlier novels; it’s a huge, super-weird fantasy story packed with magic, bizarre creatures and some unusual sex. Now there’s going to be a Weaveworld TV series, and Barker is an exec producer. But since the show is in development for The CW, some of the signature elements of Weaveworld, the novel, are probably going to have to go....

Dave Filoni Explains The ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Ezra Lightsaber/Blaster Hybrid By Germain Lussier/April 28, 2015 6:00 am EST Just when everyone was busy talking or bitching about Kylo Ren’s lightsaber in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the Star Wars Rebels team jumped on board with a strange design of their own. They introduced Ezra’s lightsaber, which looks like a staple gun and combines a blaster with a lightsaber. Because it wasn’t in theaters, this unique new Star Wars weapon didn’t creator the fervor of its cross-guarded counterpart, but it was still a radical departure from what Star Wars fans expect from the series’ elegant weapons....

Donald Glover On His ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Experience [TCA 2016] By Fred Topel/Aug. 9, 2016 12:30 pm EST Donald Glover was on a Television Critics Association panel for his new FX series Atlanta, which he created and on which he stars. After the panel, Glover spoke with reporters further, including his work on the upcoming Marvel/Sony collaboration Spider-Man: Homecoming. Of course, he could not say who he plays. “I’m not allowed to say,” Glover said....

First Look At Star Wars’ Newest Ship: The U-Wing From ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2016 1:59 pm EST This week’s edition of The Star Wars Show gives us our first official look at one of the new spaceships in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The above new still is from Gareth Edwards’ upcoming stand alone movie. Learn more about the ship and see more images, after the jump....

Greta Gerwig Writing And Directing ‘Lady Bird’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 8, 2015 10:00 am EST Greta Gerwig, who we just saw in the latest trailer for Mistress America, is prepping to tackle her first solo directorial gig. She previously co-directed Nights and Weekends (with Joe Swanberg, back in 2008) and has co-written films including the Swanberg-directed Hannah Takes the Stairs, Frances Ha, and the aforementioned Mistress America. So we’re excited to see her take the directorial chair on Lady Bird, her own solo film....

Jessica Chastain Joins Jake Gyllenhaal’s Video Game Movie ‘The Division’ By Angie Han/July 27, 2016 6:00 am EST Last month, Jake Gyllenhaal signed on for an adaptation of the Ubisoft video game The Division, despite the fact that his last attempt to bring a video game to the big screen didn’t go very well. But hey, he could have better luck this time. Especially now that he’s got a very capable co-star to help him out....

Latest ‘Better Call Saul’ Trailer Is Filled With All New Footage By Germain Lussier/Dec. 22, 2014 3:00 pm EST Of all the TV shows coming to the small screen in 2015, Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul has to be among the most anticipated. The show premieres February 8 and 9 on AMC and will explore the character of Saul Goodman, played by Bob Odenkirk. In Breaking Bad, it always seemed like Saul had connections to some really, really messed up people and this show – which is set before, during and after Breaking Bad depending on the story – will give us a better idea of how a struggling lawyer named James McGill became the slimy lawyer Saul....

LOL: ‘The Revenant’ Sleeping Bag For Kids By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 29, 2016 11:00 am EST At one time the Tauntaun sleeping bag inspired by The Empire Strikes Back was just an April Fool’s Day joke. But ThinkGeek got such positive response from their gag that they turned it into a real product that you can buy right now. However, we don’t imagine the same thing will happen with The Revenant sleeping bag, as imagined in this advertisement put together by Funny or Die....

LOL: Simon Pegg Returns As Drunk Ron Weasley For Harry Potter’s Birthday By Angie Han/July 29, 2015 10:30 am EST Were Harry Potter a real person, he’d be turning 35 this Friday. To wish him a happy birthday, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon brought on a special guest in last night’s episode: Drunk Ron Weasley, played by Simon Pegg. Unfortunately, Ron pretty quickly gets sidetracked, threatening to show off his “Fifty Shades of Ginger” and weeping over his recent marital woes with Hermione....

Netflix’s ‘Fuller House’ Tried To Get Elizabeth Olsen To Fill In For The Olsen Twins By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 5, 2016 1:30 pm EST We’ve known since last summer that Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen would not be making an appearance on Netflix’s Full House revival series Fuller House. The twins won’t even be making a cameo as the singular child Michelle Tanner, but the character’s absence is said to be explained by the fact that she’s now a fashion mogul in New York City....

Oscar Isaac Reunites With ‘Ex Machina’ Director Alex Garland For ‘Annihilation’ By Angie Han/March 30, 2016 8:30 am EST Poe Dameron may have been Oscar Isaac’s most famous movie role of 2015, but arguably his best role was as tech genius Nathan in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina. The character allowed Isaac to be both mysterious and ordinary, seductive and repulsive, and above all, mesmerizing. No wonder, then, that he’s apparently eager to team up with Garland again, this time for Annihilation....

See A Promotional Poster For Joss Whedon’s ‘Wonder Woman’ Movie By Germain Lussier/Jan. 20, 2015 12:00 pm EST DC almost beat Marvel to the punch. Years ago, DC and Warner Bros. had recruited a then cult writer named Joss Whedon to write a script for a Wonder Woman movie. Unfortunately, the film didn’t get made. Years later, Joss Whedon went on to direct the biggest superhero movie of all time, The Avengers, and Warner Bros....

Sundance Smash ‘Sing Street’ Set For Spring 2016 By Angie Han/Feb. 23, 2016 3:00 pm EST Once a movie takes Sundance by storm, the wait begins for its theatrical release. Sometimes there’s hardly a wait at all; this year’s documentary Jim: The James Foley Story premiered on HBO a mere two weeks after its Sundance bow. And sometimes that wait is so long it actually laps the following Sundance: The Witch, in theaters now, debuted over a year ago at Sundance 2015....

Superhero Bits: Deadpool Vs Gambit, MAD Parodies Batman V Superman, Guardians Of The Galaxy Toys & More By Ethan Anderton/June 17, 2016 4:00 pm EST Will we see more Guardians of the Galaxy toys for female characters? Why are Deadpool and Gambit dressed up like Spider-Man and Daredevil in their first comic book issue? What fun does MAD Magazine have to poke at Batman v Superman? When will all the DC Comics TV shows return to The CW?...

USA Delays ‘Shooter’ Following The Tragedy In Dallas By Jack Giroux/July 12, 2016 5:00 am EST Originally set to premiere next week, USA has decided to postpone the premiere of Shooter, a series based on the 2007 Antoine Fuqua film and Stephen Hunter’s novel. Following the tragic shooting in Dallas, Texas, where a sniper left five police officers dead and eight wounded, the network is delaying the Shooter premiere by a week out of respect for the victims....