After Oscars, Senate Calls Off ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Investigation Is the U.S. Senate secretly working for Team Affleck? Certainly not, but they couldn’t have helpedArgomore if they’d tried. Heading into prestige pic season,Kathryn Bigelow’sZero Dark Thirtylooked like a strong contender for several top prizes. Then came the controversies over the film’s inaccuracies and its portrayal of torture, culminating in a formal investigation by the U.S. Senate into the Bigelow and screenwriterMark Boal’s relationship with the CIA....

All Eight ‘Harry Potter’ Movies Will Be Available On Peacock This October TheHarry Pottermovies are an extremely important film franchise for Warner Bros. However, just a few months after the launch of HBO Max, Warner’s new streaming service, all eight originalPottermovies are leaving the service and shuffling over to a service run by one of WB’s biggest rivals: NBCUniversal. While all eight films will be disappearing from HBO Max later this month, you’ll be able to watchHarry Potteron Peacock starting in October – and you won’t have to pay anything (other than your time) to see them....

Asajj Ventress Is The Most Underrated Villain In All Of ‘Star Wars’ They say a hero is only as good as their villain, andStar Warshas plenty of great villains. From the pure relentless force of horror that is Darth Vader, to Darth Sidious' ability to manipulate even the most powerful beings in the galaxy, to Darth Maul’s flair and viciousness, the franchise has no shortage of impressive baddies. That being said, some of them didn’t get the respect they deserve, whether it was their live-action portrayal being a shadow of their animated self (General Grievous), or because they never even made the jump to live-action, like in the case of the badass yet emotionally complex assassin, Asajj Ventress....

Astro Boy In October 2009 Summit Entertainment and Imagi Studios have announced a release date for the computer animatedAstro Boyfeature film. Mark your calendars for October 23rd 2009. The film will hit theaters the same day as Mira Nair’s Amelia Earhart biopic Amelia and the Phillip Noyce-directed adaptation of Dirt Music. Check out the full press release after the jump. Los Angeles, CA (August 21, 2025) – Summit Entertainment will release Astro Boy in North America on Friday, July 15, 2025, it was announced today by Rob Friedman, Co-Chairman and CEO of Summit Entertainment, and Erin Corbett, President of Imagi Studios U....

Bill Burr’s ‘F Is For Family’ Premiere Set For December; Watch The Teaser Netflix has a lot of exciting original content coming out in the next few months. For me, their next must-see show isF is for Family. The animated show, created by comedianBill BurrandMichael Price(writer onThe Simpsons), is loosely based on Burr’s childhood. If you’ve ever seen the comic’s standup, then you know his childhood would make for a hilarious television show....

Casting Bits: Mick Jagger In ‘Tabloid’, Brittany Snow In ‘Pitch Perfect’, Emma Roberts And AnnaSophia Robb In ‘Anything But Ordinary’ Mick Jaggeris set to produce and star inTabloid, an “adult thriller” being penned byA History of ViolencewriterJosh Olsonbased on an idea by Jagger. The film, which has no relation to theErrol Morris documentaryof the same title, will revolve around an international media mogul (Jagger) with questionable ethical standards, and a young journalist who gets sucked into his corrupt world....

Cool Stuff: Mondo’s ‘Predator’ Poster By N.C. Winters Lunges Into Action The Predator may be oneuglymother fu*ker, but he makes for a good looking subject for these new Mondo posters. ArtistN.C. Winterscreated a slick newPredatorposter, which depicts the alien trophy hunter in all his glory. Check out the MondoPredatorposter below. Shane Black’sThe Predatorwill be hitting theaters sometime later this year, but if you’re impatient and want some newPredatorstuff now, you can try to snag these new Mondo posters....

Disney In Talks For ‘Enchanted Tiki Room’-Inspired ‘Tiki’ Movie 24 Frameshas learned that Walt Disney Pictures is in talks to acquireTiki, a screenplay written by musicianAhmet Zappa(yes, son of Frank Zappa) and writing partnerMichael Wilson(Shark Tale, Ice Age, Burn Notice, Monster Witness Relocation Program). While the story is not directly related the the Enchanted Tiki Room attraction at Disneyland, Zappa and Wilson were inspired by the animatronic show and decided to write “an action-adventure that mixes in Polynesian mythology....

Hollywood Legend Doris Day, Star Of ‘Calamity Jane’ And ‘Pillow Talk’, Has Died At 97 One of the biggest box office stars of the mid-20th century is no longer with us. Doris Day, the legendary Hollywood star who went from starring in classic musicals likeCalamity Janeto leading love interest in the likes ofPillow TalkandLover, Come Back, has passed away at age 97. We remember the life of the silver screen icon below....

How Much Money ‘Layover’ Made: The Financial Afterlife Of A Micro-Budget Indie Film Last summerI signed on to producea movie calledLayover, an indie film I saw at the Seattle International Film Festival. I hada number of reasonsfor wanting to work on the film, but one of them was to learn the ins-and-outs of self-distribution, which is something that I felt was (and still is) a possible outcome for my own film,The Primary Instinct....

Is Fox Planning An ‘X-Men’ Soft Reboot Already? 20th Century Fox found great success this year with the critical and audience love ofDeadpool. However, they also took a step back with an underperformingX-Men: Apocalypse,stagnant developmenton aGambitspin-off, and recently,troubling personnel shufflingonDeadpool 2. All that combined with the fact thatLoganwill be the last movie featuringHugh Jackmanas Wolverine, and we might be looking at Fox’s comic book universe stumbling very soon. And the studio is reportedly already trying to recover with a potential soft reboot of theX-Menfranchise....

It Prequel Series Could Be Heading To HBO Max You never really make it out of Derry for good, do you? Andy Muschietti certainly doesn’t; the director who helmed two successful “It” movie adaptations may be returning to the world of one of Stephen King’s most famous novels with a prequel series at HBO Max,Variety reports. Muschietti is reportedly set to executive produce the series alongside Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs....

James Gunn In Talks To Direct Marvel’s ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Marvel is in talks withSlither/SuperJames Gunnto direct their superhero intergalactic space operaGuardians of the Galaxy. Marvel is confident that Gunn will sign on for the project, but if he doesn’t, they have also been talking withPeyton Reed(Bring It On, Yes Man) and the directing duoRyan FleckandAnna Boden(Half Nelson). Heat Vision, who broke the story, claim that Marvel is attracted to Gunn’s sensibility and his ability to mix comedy elements with action and horror....