First Look At Megan Fox As The Newest ‘New Girl’, Temporarily Replacing Zooey Deschanel The new year brought the return ofNew Girl, arriving just in time for fans who were in dire need of quality time with Jess (Zooey Deschanel), Nick (Jake Johnson), Schmidt (Max Greenfield), Winston (Lamorne Morris) and Cece (Hannah Simone) after Fox opted to have the show premiere in the midseason rather than the fall of 2015. But as we reported before, the show is going to get shaken up for a bit withMegan Foxstepping up as the newest new girlwhile Deschanel is away from the show for a little bit after having a child....

Focus Features Releasing ‘Promising Young Woman’ On VOD Starting Next Week Following in the footsteps of other Focus Features theatrical releases from 2020,Promising Young Womanwill soon be getting a VOD release less than a month after the movie arrived in theaters. Focus Features has announcedJanuary 15, 2021as thePromising Young WomanVOD release date. The film is currently playing in theaters across the country, where it opened on Christmas Day. But since Focus Features falls under the Universal Pictures banner, they’re taking advantage of their new strategy of shortened theatrical windows to get the movie to a wider audience on VOD....

Fox Searchlight Signs Deal With Guillermo Del Toro For More Fantasy, Horror And Sci-Fi Films Fox Searchlightis obviously quite pleased with Oscar winner/monster makerGuillermo del Toro. So much so that they’ve signed a deal with the director that covers live action feature film projects to be written, produced and directed by del Toro. Searchlight will also develop a new label that will serve as a home for new horror, sci-fi and fantasy films, including those produced and curated by del Toro....

George R.R. Martin Says The Next ‘A Song Of Ice And Fire’ Book May Be Out This Year It’s been a year sinceGeorge R.R. Martinoffered an update on the sixth novel in hisA Song of Ice and Fireseries, the source material for HBO’sGame of Thrones. Since then, the television adaptation has sprinted past the events of the books, taking fans into unexplored territory far beyond the events ofA Dance With Dragons, which was published back in 2011....

Jon Favreau Doesn’t Rule Out Returning To Marvel Studios As A Director Back in 2008, directorJon Favreaukicked off the first movie in what would become the Marvel cinematic universe withIron Man. It was the first film to reveal to audiences that Marvel Studios was intending to assemble The Avengers on the big screen for the first time ever, and the rest is history. It was Jon Favreau’s direction ofIron Manthat really got audiences interested in a more obscure superhero and started to drum up even more interest in the forthcoming roster of Marvel superheroes....

Judd Apatow And ‘The Simpsons’ Script That Defined Every Movie He’s Made Since Judd Apatow’s movies all have a common thread. A person who acts younger than they should is forced to leave their youthful ways and become a grown up. Exhibits A, B, C and D are Steve Carell inThe 40 Year Old Virgin, Seth Rogen inKnocked Up, Adam Sandler inFunny Peopleand both Pete and Debbie (to a slightly lesser extent) in the upcomingThis is 40....

Kevin Smith Launching A Comic Book Starring His Film Characters ForKevin Smith, it all started with his comic books. After dropping out of film school, the New Jersey native maxed out his credit cards and sold his beloved comic book collection to make his first feature film,“Clerks.“After he found success with Dante, Randall, Jay, and Silent Bob, he purchased a comic book store with money he earned from his breakout movie....

Kino Lorber Will Release ‘Dogtooth’ Director’s New Film, ‘Alps;’ Watch A New Int’l Trailer Since the film debuted at Venice, I’ve been trying to avoid reviews ofAlps, the new film byDogtoothdirectorYorgos Lanthimos. I’ve seen headlines and brief quotes that are generally positive; those, a couple trailers and thebasic synopsisare all I’m willing to see before going into the film. (The synopsis is easy: a small group of people, led by a man who calls himself Mont Blanc, form a service to help people grieve by standing in for their departed loved ones....

M. Night Shyamalan Pitches ‘Unbreakable’ TV Show, Still Defending ‘The Last Airbender’ Say what you will aboutM. Night Shyamalan, but his films do get people talking. Five years after the much-reviledThe Last Airbenderand 15 years after the much-lovedUnbreakable, he’s still fielding questions about both. While on the press tour for his latest endeavor, theactually pretty well-reviewedWayward Pines, Shyamalan offered his latest defense ofThe Last Airbender, and floated the idea of anUnbreakableTV show sequel....

Mads Mikkelsen Had To Write His Own Fantastic Beasts Backstory After a number of complications, “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore” is finally upon us and in theaters. The third in the “Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them” series of “Harry Potter” spin-off films, the movie had been beset by a number of controversies and complications that ultimately saw"Hannibal" star Mads Mikkelsentake on the mantle of series antagonist Gellert Grindelwald from Johnny Depp....

Marketing Up’s Asian-American Lead Character As an Asian-American, I have occasionally lamented the status (or lack thereof) of Asian-Americans in American cinema. Often, Asian-Americans actors are relegated to secondary characters, or worse, see roles ostensiblyintended for thembeingwhitewashedwhen they hit the big screen. That’s why I was surprised to learn that this summer, Disney/Pixar is releasing a film with an Asian-American as one of its lead characters. Even more surprising was that it was a character in a film I had already seen: Russell, the child Wilderness Explorer in Disney/Pixar’s newest filmUp....

Marvel’s ‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ And ‘WandaVision’ Shows Reveal First Official Photos Down at Comic-Con Experience 2019 (CCXP) in Brazil, Marvel Studios bossKevin Feigewas on-hand to get fans excited about the upcoming projects in Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For the first time ever, the new roster of projects include streaming shows from Marvel Studios that directly tie into the events of the movies, and the CCXP panel gave a glimpse at the first official photos from bothFalcon and the Winter SoldierandWandaVision....

Mass Director Fran Kranz Opens Up About Crafting A Different Kind Of School Shooting Drama [Interview] “The Cabin in the Woods” co-star Fran Kranz made his feature directorial debut at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year with a harrowing, gut-wrenching drama called “Mass,” from a script that he also wrote. The film stars Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton, Ann Dowd, and Reed Birney as four parents who have agreed to meet in a small church to hash out the harrowing details of an unspeakable tragedy involving their children....