‘A Futile And Stupid Gesture’ Director David Wain On Telling The Story Of National Lampoon [Sundance Interview] Director and sometime performerDavid Wainhas a long and successful history of directing beloved comedies with large ensemble casts, going back to his earliest days with sketch-comedy team The State and such feature films asWet Hot American Summer,Role Models,Wanderlust, andThey Came Together. But withA Futile and Stupid Gesture, Wain tackles the seemingly impossible task of covering the professional life of comedy writer andNational Lampoonmagazine co-creatorDoug Kenney(played by Will Forte) in about 100 minutes....

‘Ameri-Scares’ Will Be A Family-Friendly Horror Anthology From Margot Robbie, Because Sure, Why Not? Margot Robbieis using her star power for good, rather than evil. The actress-producer is set to developAmeri-Scares, a “family-friendly horror anthology with a road-trip spirit” inspired by the book series by Elizabeth Massie. The TV show is being developed for either a traditional network or a streaming service, with Robbie and her LuckyChap Entertainment teaming with Assemble Media to make it happen....

‘Castle Rock’ Season 2 Trailer Welcomes You Back To Stephen King Country Castle Rockseason 2 just dropped its first ominous trailer, setting up a whole new season ofStephen King-influenced thrills and chills. This year, the series will feature Annie Wilkes, the demented nurse from King’s novelMisery. The trailer below gives us our first look atLizzy Caplanas the character, as well as some shots of some old familiar places – like Jerusalem’s Lot....

‘Chapelwaite’ Images And Teaser Reveal First Look At Stephen King Adaptation Headed To EPIX Chapelwaite, a new EPIX show based on theStephen Kingshort story “Jerusalem’s Lot,” starsAdrien Brodyas a man in the 1850s who relocates his family to his ancestral home in Maine. And as anyone who has ever read a Stephen King story can tell you, scary things happen in Maine. We have our first look at the series via some new images and a quick teaser, both of which you can check out below....

‘Dune’ Director Denis Villeneuve Slams WB’s HBO Max Decision, AMC Needs $750 Million To Survive 2021 “Warner Bros. might have just killed theDunefranchise.” Denis Villeneuve, the filmmaker behind the mega-budgeted movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel, does not mince words in a new editorial published byVariety. After being blindsided by the news that Warner Bros. isreleasing its entire 2021 slate of films(includingDune) in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously, Villeneuve blasted the studio’s parent company in this new editorial, saying, “AT&T has hijacked one of the most respectable and important studios in film history....

‘Earth To Ned’ Teaser Trailer Introduces The Alien-Hosted Talk Show From The Jim Henson Company And Disney+ If there’s one thing that streaming services are lacking, it’s late night talk shows. But Disney+ is about to change that with their unique new half-hour talk show calledEarth to Ned. Instead of having a famous comedian host the show, they’ve got a blue-skined alien named Ned (a puppet from The Jim Henson Company)....

‘False Positive’ Trailer: Ilana Glazer’s Pregnancy Doesn’t Seem Like A Bundle Of Joy A24 has a special delivery for you on Hulu this summer. In what looks like a new spin onRosemary’s Baby,Ilana GlazerandJustin Therouxstar inFalse Positiveas Lucy and Adrian, a couple desperate to get pregnant. After finding what seems like a dream fertility doctor, they finally get their wish. But Lucy doesn’t feel quite right as the pregnancy develops, and she comes to suspect that something sinister might be going on....

‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Moves To Valentine’s Day 2015; See The First Character Pics Charlie Hunnam’s sudden departure fromFifty Shades of Greysparked rumors that the erotic romance might not be able to make its planned summer 2014 release date. And now, it has indeed been pushed back to Valentine’s Day 2015 — but not, Universal insists, because of the casting change. Or not just because of it, anyway. Fortunately for disappointed fans, Universal is taking advantage of that six-month delay to get the hype machine started nice and early....

‘Full House’ Creator Jeff Franklin Buys The Real Tanner Family Home In San Francisco Because some movies actually shoot on location instead of on a sound stage, fans have a chance to visit the real life settings of some of their favorite movies and TV shows. However, this can create some frustration with those in charge of maintaining said locations that are constantly visited by tourists. Case in point, the Tanner family home from the sitcomFull House....

‘I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House’ Trailer: Netflix’s Latest Horror Movie Gets A Creepy Preview If you’re looking for a new horror movie in theaters this Friday, the final Friday before Halloween, you may be out of luck. While last weekend brought us (the surprisingly well-received!)Ouija: Origin of Evil, this weekend isn’t offering much to moviegoers looking for a scare. Unless you consider athirdRobert Langdon thriller to as terrifying as I do....

‘NOS4A2’ Showrunner Confirms AMC Has Canceled The Series Looks like we’ve seen the last ofNOS4A2. AMC’s vampire drama has received a wooden stake through the heart, with showrunnerJami O’Brienexplaining that the network has officially canceled the show after two seasons. Read O’Brien’s response to the cancelation below. NOS4A2 Canceled Based on the book by acclaimed novelist Joe Hill,NOS4A2told the story of Vic McQueen (Ashleigh Cummings), a young woman who discovers she has a supernatural ability to find lost things....

‘Pet Sematary’ Directors Kevin Kölsch And Dennis Widmyer Share Deleted Scenes And Explain Why They Shot Two Very Different Endings [Exclusive] The ending of the newPet Semataryis unapologetically dark – just like the novel of Stephen King’s novel, and the 1989 film adaptation from Mary Lambert. But the ending you now see in theaters wasn’t the original ending that was shot. In a new, exclusive andspoiler-filledinterview,Pet SematarydirectorsKevin KölschandDennis Widmyerbroke down some of the details of thePet Semataryalternate ending....

‘Playground’ Trailer: Luc Besson’s New Web Series Takes Us To Assassin School French filmmakerLuc Bessonmay be best known for directing visually dazzling sci-fi films likeThe Fifth Elementand the upcomingValerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, but he’s also built up quite a career as a writer. He’s written screenplays for a handful of movies he didn’t direct, includingTaken, The Transporter, andColombiana. His latest scripted foray is a web series calledPlayground, and it’s described as a mixture betweenNikitaandKick-Ass....