Eight New ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Images Are Here To Help Take The Edge Off Hey, man. I hear you’re looking for some newStar Warsimages? A little birdie told me. You know, through the grapevine and such. Well, let’s just say that I’m the man who can supply you with such things. I know some people will tell you thatStar Wars: The Force Awakensopens in a little over a week and you should just wait, but they don’t understand people like you and me, you know?...

Haunted By Remakes: Platinum Dunes Gets ‘Halloween,’ TV Gets ‘Hellraiser,’ Adam Sandler To Redo ‘Summer School’ The future has been bleak for theHalloweenseries. There was once a plan for The Weinstein Company to follow Rob Zombie’s two movies with a third movie, to be written byPatrick LussierandTodd Farmer, but start dates and release dates for that movie have come and gone, and in general TWC seemed little interested in making a new film....

HBO Hires Intimacy Coordinators To Oversee Sex Scenes In All Of Its Productions Systemic problems in Hollywood can be so widespread that they feel too big to overcome. But sometimes, change can be sparked by just one person speaking up. The DeuceactressEmily Meadehas inspired HBO to hire intimacy coordinators on all of its productions to serve as an intermediary between the actors, directors, producers, and crew during intimate scenes and ensure a safe and protected working environment....

Hear Three New Alan Menken Songs In Video Clips From The Tangled Musical In April, we told you thatDisney would be producing a stage production ofTangledfor their Disney Cruise ships.Tangled: The Musicalpremiered onboard the Disney Magic this month, and now we have video footage of the hour-long musical’s three new songs composed by Beauty and the Beast/Aladdin composerAlan Menken. Hit the jump to hear the three new songs in the footage from the new musical numbers, as well as get a behind the scenes tour of how they brought the animated world to life on the stage....

Here’s What A Disney Theme Park Looks Like In The Snow The recent North American cold wave may have finally dissipated, but just because the blizzard is over in the U.S. and Canada doesn’t mean other parts of the world are safe from disruptive weather. In some places, shirtless and pantsless theme park denizens like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck still find themselves retreating indoors to escape the ravages of cold weather....

Jason Reitman Talks Up In The Air And The Film’s Ending Paramount Pictures has released a new featurette forJason Reitman’sUp in the Airfocusing on the filmmaker’s vision. In the video, Jason explains that he aims for authenticity, not comedy, in the performances and stories of his films… and if he achieves that, the comedy will follow: “Everywhere I look, I see comedy… often where it is inappropriate. For me that’s the best way to talk about things....

Jon Turteltaub Talks Cinematic Inspirations For ‘The Meg’, How He Helped Taika Waititi, And Possible Sequels [Interview] A couple of weeks back, I sat down with filmmakerJon Turteltaubto talk about his new movie,The Meg. In the discussion, we talk about how the filmmaker earned a credit on one ofTaika Waititi’s early films, his ambitions to make a Marvel orStar Warsmovie, transitioning into making a horror movie with jump scares, cinematic inspirations forThe Meg, the existence of the real Megladon, the possibility ofMegsequels, where to draw the line between logic and fun in a big blockbuster, the possibility ofNational Treasure 3, and theIt’s A Small Worldmovie he’s developing....

Mark Hamill Confirms That Crazy ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Alternate Opening About a year and a half beforeStar Wars: The Force Awakenshit theaters, months before the arrival of the first trailer,a pretty wild rumor stampeded across the internet. According to a report, the film would feature an oddly macabre opening shot, with the camera panning away from the table-setting crawl to reveal the severed hand of Luke Skywalker, still clutching the lightsaber he lost in his duel with Darth Vader on Bespin, floating through space....

Netflix Acquires Sundance Film ‘Passing’ With Tessa Thompson And Ruth Negga Netflix has purchasedPassing, the Sundance movie from directorRebecca Hallthat starsTessa ThompsonandRuth Negga. Based on the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, the film follows two Black women living in 1920s New York. One of the women, played by Negga, passes for white and even has a white husband who doesn’t know she’s Black – a decision that her friend, played by Thompson, grapples with....

Netflix Wants More Money, Testing Pricey New ‘Netflix Ultra’ Plan The all-consuming 21st century god that isNetflixdemands a heftier money sacrifice! Dig deep into your coin purses, lowly mortals, and bathe the great god Netflix in your hard-earned cash! With hopes of attracting even more dollars and cents, the streaming service is testing out aNetflix Ultraplan, which asks users to pay extra for Ultra HD content. Would you shell out even more dough for Ultra HD or HDR formatted programs on Netflix?...

New ‘Better Call Saul’ Plot Details: Series Takes Place Six Years Before ‘Breaking Bad’ OK, here we go: real details on whatVince Gilliganis doing with hisBreaking Badspin-off seriesBetter Call Saul. We’ve known some basics, such as thatBob OdenkirkandJonathan Banksare reprising theirBreaking Badroles of Saul Goodman and Mike Ehrmantraut. And we’ve heard a hell of a lot of rumors, speculation, and “maybe” details from Gilligan, Odenkirk, and other participants. Now during a TCA press tour, Gilligan and AMC have offered up two new photos (that’s one above), a cast list, and newBetter Call Saulplot details....

New ‘Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets’ Images Confirm That Yep, This Is Definitely A Luc Besson Movie Luc Bessonhas only directed two movies that can be considered full-on science fiction, but they’re doozies. WhatLucylacks in brains, it more than makes up for in style and total insanity. AndThe Fifth Elementis, of course, one of the wildest exercises in genre imagination to emerge from the ’90s. Besson has made good films and bad films, but there’s a playful silliness and enthusiasm to his work that can’t be denied....

Now Stream This: A Kurosawa Classic, The Best Horror-Comedy Ever Made And A Classy Spy Thriller (Welcome toNow Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.) Summer is over. Good riddance, I say! Bring on chilly weather, heavy jackets and pumpkins as far as the eye can see. I’m talkingthousandsof pumpkins here, people. As the warm weather subsides and the cooler weather prevails, it’s time to once again shun the outdoors, bundle up with your blankets and stream some movies....