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Cool Stuff: ‘Ghostbusters’ Kit Lets You Build Your Own Full Scale Proton Pack By Ethan Anderton/May 12, 2016 5:30 am EST This summer, the new Ghostbusters movie will feature all-new gear for the paranormal exterminator team played by Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones. That includes all new proton packs, since one of the reasons Paul Feig and Katie Dippold wanted to start fresh with their film was so their characters could discover ghost capturing technology on their own....

Cool Stuff: The Goonies Pinball Machine Arrives In Time For 30th Anniversary By Ethan Anderton/June 11, 2015 4:00 am EST In case you didn’t know, it’s the 30th anniversary of Richard Donner’s adventure flick The Goonies. While talk keeps swirling about a potential sequel, fans will just have to settle for celebrating the original film. And that’s exactly what one fan has done with a pretty impressive custom creation that you normally don’t see anymore....

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 9, 2015 9:00 am EST Some of the most inspirational filmmaking stories are tales of failure. Not the sort of failure that shuts down a production, but the sort that makes people look at a scene or a problem in a new light. It’s impressive to see a film that works in a near-perfect manner, but more so to realize that it didn’t just happen that way. Making a film like There Will Be Blood may seem impossible, until you realize Paul Thomas Anderson and everyone else involved just built it step by step, dealing with setbacks along the way, and using intuition and imagination to solve problems....

Insert Sad Version Of ‘Rocky’ Theme: Sylvester Stallone Sounds Ready To Retire The Italian Stallion By Jacob Hall/Feb. 10, 2016 12:30 pm EST Rumblings about a sequel to Creed began as soon as the first film became a box office hit and a critical darling. The possibilities for future Adonis Creed stories feel limitless – you just have to ask his mentor Rocky Balboa, who has graced the screen seven times now....

By Angie Han/June 24, 2015 9:30 am EST Magic Mike XXL isn’t exactly what you’d call family-friendly entertainment, what with its gleaming lineup of gyrating male strippers and endless stream of Michael Scott-level innuendos. But last night, Jimmy Fallon figured out a pretty genius way to get kids in on the fun: Let them write their own Magic Mike movie, and make Channing Tatum act them out. Watch the Channing Tatum Jimmy Fallon Magic Mike XXL Kid Theater segment after the jump....

Mel Brooks Teases Fans With Talk Of ‘Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 9, 2015 12:00 pm EST The idea of Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money was a great joke in Mel Brooks’ hilarious 1987 comedy Spaceballs. The line about a hypothetical, self-aware sequel was a commentary on the licensing and popularity of the original Star Wars franchise Brooks was spoofing. Yet, because of that joke, Brooks and his co-stars have been asked about the sequel for the past twenty-five years....

New ‘Ghostbusters’ TV Spots Tease A New Twist On A Familiar Character By Ethan Anderton/July 6, 2016 9:00 am EST We’re a little over a week away from the release of Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters, and that mean the onslaught of TV advertisements is in full force. Since I record my TV shows, I don’t usually watch commercials, but in the process of fast-forwarding, I see a Ghostbusters TV spot at least once during every single show that I watch....

POTD: ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Had Some Pretty Insane Fireworks For The 4th Of July By Ethan Anderton/July 5, 2016 7:36 am EST Yesterday plenty of United States citizens celebrated Independence Day by lighting off some fireworks, because there’s nothing more American than blowing some stuff up after you’ve had every meat known to mankind. However, I’m willing to bet that your fireworks were nothing compared to the kind of explosions that happened on the set of Transformers: The Last Knight....

Robert Downey Jr. Talks ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ And Taking A Huge Avengers Prop By Ethan Anderton/April 14, 2016 2:00 pm EST We’re still a few weeks away from the debut of Captain America: Civil War, but tonight brings screenings for fans in 25 major cities around the United States. That means you should probably start to get a little more leery about spoilers on social media, but the good news is that the early buzz has already indicated that the movie is pretty damn spectacular....

Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse Red Band Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2015 9:30 am EST Paramount Pictures has released a red band (i.e. uncensored or R-rated) trailer for their upcoming Halloween release Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse. Directed by Christopher Landon, the writer of the Paranormal Activity sequels and director of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, comes a modern Amblin-esque story of a bunch of Boy Scouts who go on an overnight adventure on the same night of the zombie apocalypse....

See Henry Rollins Get Violent In A Clip From ‘He Never Died’ By Russ Fischer/March 18, 2015 6:00 am EST In He Never Died, Henry Rollins plays a recluse who almost never interacts with anyone, and rarely even leaves his apartment. He’s also basically immortal. Oh, and a cannibal. With a determined, deadpan performance, Rollins takes the lead for the first time in his occasional acting career, and this first He Never Died clip makes the outcome look like it might be strange and potentially good....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Arrow Death, Gay Batman & Robin, Doctor Strange Picks Civil War Side & More By Ethan Anderton/April 5, 2016 4:00 pm EST Check out some new concept art from Captain America: Civil War. Here’s 12 things that you might not have known about Peter Parker. Kingpin will be getting his own Civil War II comic book in July, focusing on his war profiteering....

Superhero Bits: X-Men Games, The Killing Joke Release Date, Civil War Opening Weekend & More By Ethan Anderton/May 4, 2016 5:00 pm EST What if Gladiator had Iron Man in the lead role instead? What does President Ellis think about The Avengers leading up to Captain America: Civil War? When does Batman: The Killing Joke hit Blu-ray and Digital HD? What are the latest opening weekend numbers for Captain America: Civil War?...

The Alicia Vikander-Led ‘Tomb Raider’ Reboot Hits Theaters In 2018 By Jack Giroux/July 7, 2016 2:30 pm EST Below, learn more about the reboot. Screenwriter Marti Noxon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) once worked on the project, but the last writer hired that we know about is Evan Daugherty (Snow White and the Huntsman). When Daughtery became involved Warner Bros. came aboard to distribute the film, which put the project “on a fast track....

The Best Shows Coming to Hulu in June 2015 Over the Garden Wall (June 7): An oddball animated miniseries about two brothers in a strange forest.The Bridge, Season 2 (June 9): Catch the second and last season of FX’s cross-border drama.The Strain, Season 1 (June 12): Corey Stoll and his terrible wig lead Guillermo del Toro and Carlton Cuse’s horror series.Married, Season 1 (June 16): Starring Judy Greer, Nat Faxon, Jenny Slate, and that naked guy from the Mad Men finale....

The Gas Station From ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ Is Becoming A BBQ Restaurant By Jacob Hall/March 30, 2016 12:00 pm EST A few years ago, I made a pilgrimage to the original locations where Tobe Hooper shot his 1974 horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and wrote about the experience at ScreenCrush. The home of the cannibalistic Sawyer family has been relocated to Kingsland, Texas, where it is now a quaint restaurant....

Why Did ‘Gambit’ Lose Director Rupert Wyatt? By Angie Han/Sept. 30, 2015 3:30 pm EST Nor are Wyatt’s talents as a director in doubt. His Rise of the Planet of the Apes was a critically acclaimed hit, and he’s been in high demand for projects like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Londongrad, and The Equalizer. But as you may have guessed by glancing at that list, he’s starting to earn a reputation for dropping out of projects....

‘Girls’ Season 5 Trailer: Someone Is Getting Married By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 2, 2015 11:30 am EST The new season of Girls is coming next February, and the full trailer has arrived, teasing what’s in store for these New Yorkers with the biggest first world problems you’ve ever seen. The trailer says “Girls grow up and grow apart, but friendship is forever complicated.” Though from the looks of this trailer, I don’t really see any evidence of any of Hannah (Lena Dunham), Marnie (Allison Williams), Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) growing up at all....

‘Human Centipede 3’ Gets A Release Date And A Predictably Disgusting Synopsis By Angie Han/April 8, 2015 8:00 am EST The most gleefully disgusting trilogy of all time is finally coming to an end. IFC has just set a spring release date for The Human Centipede Part 3 (Final Sequence). Dieter Laser (from the first film) and Laurence R. Harvey (from the second) return as all-new characters determined to create a 500-person chain....

‘Paddington 2’ Is Happening: More Marmalade, Please By Jack Giroux/Oct. 27, 2015 2:30 pm EST Read more about the sequel after the jump. Deadline broke the news that Paul King will return to the director’s chair for the followup. Producer David Heyman (Gravity, Harry Potter) and the financier-distributor, StudioCanal, have been wanting to lock King down for the sequel since earlier this year. And why wouldn’t they? The film, which cost a reported $55 million, earned over $259 million worldwide and scored a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes....