This ‘Blair Witch’ Publicity Stunt Transformed Austin, Texas Into A Very Creepy Place Seventeen years after it first hit theaters,The Blair Witch Projectremains a genuinely creepy, intentionally frustrating, and unforgettable film that sets a high bar for found footage horror movie in general. However, the film’s legacy extends beyond movie screens and into the world of movie marketing, where it had a seismic impact. The film’s advertising campaign used the early days of the internet to its advantage, building an extensive and convincing mythology that could look, at a quick glance, like the real thing....

This Week In Trailers: Insert Coin, Capital In The Twenty-First Century, Bacurau, Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street, Charm City Kings Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Trolls Are Already Targeting ‘Captain Marvel’ On Rotten Tomatoes Well, here we are again – addressing toxic fandom. I’d really like it if we never had to talk about this sort of thing again, but that probably won’t happen anytime soon. The latest bit of toxic trolling is directed towardsCaptain Marvel, a movie that dares to have a woman (gasp!) as its lead character. The latest MCU adventure isn’t even out yet, but sexist trolls are already targetingCaptain Marvelon Rotten Tomatoes, posting negative feedback before they’ve seen the movie....

Universal Drops ‘Tower Heist’ Early VOD Experiment In Response To Theater Boycotts Last week, Universal Picturesrevealedthat it would be releasing theBrett RatnercomedyTower Heiston VOD for $59.99 just three weeks after its November 4 opening in Atlanta and Portland, Oregon. The move immediately sparked outcry from exhibitors across the country — Cinemark, the U.S.’s third-largest theater chain, quicklyannouncedthat it would not be showingTower Heistin any of its 3,800 theaters, and several smaller chains including Galaxy Theatres, Regency Theatres, and Emagine Theatres followed suit this week....

Watch David Fincher, Gillian Flynn And The Cast Talk About Making ‘Gone Girl’ David Fincher, author/screenwriterGillian Flynnand the cast ofGone Girlhave been all over the place in the past couple weeks to promote the film. They did a big panel at the New York Film Festival, and Fincher just did a Film Indepenent event in LA, and they’ve done various television press to get word out for the film. Now they’ve done a session at Cinemax for the “Max Final Cut” and the panel talk offers them the chance to talk seriously about the material and to drop some great anecdotes....

You Are Not My Mother Star Hazel Doupe Celebrates Halloween’s Irish Roots [Interview] Hazel Doupe is in practically every scene in “I Am Not Your Mother.“Kate Dolan’s feature directorial debut is a horror movie, yes, but it’s also a coming of age story centering on a girl named Char dealing with issues at home. There is a lot of weight on Char’s shoulders, and Doupe shows that internal discomfort when she’s on screen, whether she’s wandering the streets of Dublin or wondering what’s happening with her mother (played by Carolyn Bracken)....

‘A.P. Bio’ Isn’t Canceled After All, Will Be Moving To NBCUniversal Streaming Service Back in May, NBC handed down the unfortunate order of cancellation to their midseason comedy seriesA.P. Bio. The show starredIt’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’sGlenn Howertonas a disgraced Harvard philosophy professor-turned-high school A.P. biology teacher, and tracked the lengths he went to in order to avoid teaching biology, opting to use his smart students to get revenge on a rival professor instead....

‘Captain Marvel’ Bits: Rejecting Her “Bathing Suit” Costume, Larson Fought For A More Inclusive Press Tour, And More WithCaptain Marveldebuting soon, we’ve rounded up a few stories related to the upcoming female-fronted Marvel Studios movie. Read on to readKevin Feige’s comments about the comic character’s “bathing suit” costume, howBrie Larsonfought for a more inclusive press tour, get a look at a newCaptain Marvel-inspired line of clothing, and read between the lines of a new interview that could potentially hint at who may be thenextCaptain Marvel after Larson hangs up her suit....

‘Captain Underpants’ Trailer: The Long-Running Book Series Flies To The Big Screen In today’s edition of “Hey, do you want to feel old?”, we bring you the first trailer for DreamWorks Animation’sCaptain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, the big screen adaptation of author and illustratorDav Pilkey’s long-running children’s book series about a mean school principal hypnotized into thinking that he’s a superhero by two mischievous students. While the series began in the late ’90s, it’s a real staple for those who came of age in the ’00s…most of whom are now old enough to drive themselves to the theater for this movie....

‘Chronicle’ Director Josh Trank Unsure About Sequel; Working On Other Original Ideas At Fox Chronicle, the ‘teens with powers’ movie that hit two weeks ago, almost instantly established directorJosh Trankand screenwriterMax Landisas talents to watch. Trank has a deal with Fox, and is in the midst of developing new projects, even as rumors fly that the studio has an eye on him to reboot theFantastic Four. Trank has denied that he knows anything about that, and continues to hold that position, which leads to the obvious question: what’s next?...

‘David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet’ Trailer: A Witness Statement For The Natural World David Attenborough, the English broadcaster and natural historian who has spent his career creating documentaries that serve as comprehensive studies of animal and plant life on Earth, is the subject of the new documentaryDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. Attenborough, who is 93 now, reflects on his life and career while also offering a stark warning that “human beings have overrun the world....

‘Death Wish’ Trailer: Bruce Willis Is A Trigger-Happy Vigilante In The Modern Remake Bruce Williswith a gun is perhaps one of the most familiar images we could see on the big screen. But there is something quietly discomfiting about Willis wielding a gun inEli Roth’s remake of the 1974 Charles Bronson revenge thrillerDeath Wish. Perhaps it’s the remarkably unsubtle way that Roth portrays a man dealing with grief after his wife was killed and his daughter rendered comatose by home invaders, producing a trigger-happy thriller about the glories of vigilantism....

‘Disenchanted’ Casts Maya Rudolph And More As The Disney Sequel’s Villains It’s been nearly 14 years since Disney released the fantasy comedyEnchanted, taking a meta approach to their animated fairytales withAmy Adamsplaying a naive cartoon princess lost in the bustling metropolis of New York as a flesh-and-blood person. The sequelDisenchantedhas been in the works for quite some time, and it’sfinally coming to fruitionwith the original cast returning. But they’ll also be joined by some new faces too, starting with formerSaturday Night LivestarMaya Rudolphplaying the movie’s big bad....