Sony Is Doubling Down On Video Game Adaptations, Teaming Up Its Gaming And Film Divisions Video game movies have a spotty track record in Hollywood. In fact, there’s still chatter about a “video game movie curse,” because the vast majority of films based on a video game are critical bombs, and often box office bombs. But expect dozens more shows and movies based on your favorite games in the future, because Hollywood is doubling down on video game adaptations....

That ‘Avengers: Endgame’ End Credits Sound Symbolizes Both An Ending And A Beginning Marvel has made their end credits scenes events unto themselves. As far as some fans are concerned, if you skip out on these last-minute stingers, you’re doing the movie – and yourself – a disservice. Sometimes the end credits scenes set up what’s to come. Sometimes they serve as a moment of levity. But no matter what happens, they tend to always get undivided attention....

The 355 Review: A Generic Start To 2022 “The 355” is the cinematic equivalent of Hydrox. It’s a bland and generic retread of something that’s well-liked, if not beloved, something that feels vaguely like the real thing. Early January releases are usually a sign of concern, but perhaps the best possible news about “The 355” is that it’s not terrible — it’s far too indistinct to be that aggressively bad. Instead, this has the general feeling of being a movie without actually being a particularly memorable one....

The Batman Ending Explained: Can Gotham Be Saved? It’s time for the Dark Knight to rise yet again as Matt Reeves' “The Batman” arrives in theaters this week, bringing us a new, moody Caped Crusader. Robert Pattinson slips on the cape and cowl to play an emotionally stunted Bruce Wayne who mopes around his cave by day and takes to the streets to fight crime by night. As “The Batman” begins, Batman has been active in Gotham City for two years — but he hasn’t had much of an impact on stopping crime....

The Brand New Cherry Flavor Scene Fans Couldn’t Stomach Since the earliest days of YouTube, blind reaction challenges or the practice of recording your unfiltered response to a video you’ve never seen before, have been some of the most popular forms of interactive meme-ing. Reaction videos cover wide spectrum of subjects, including real-life violence, generational exposure to pop culture, graphic fetish pornography, or even wholesome videos of dogs reuniting with their owners after serving in the military....

The Classic Sci-Fi Movie That Inspired The Hateful Eight Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino loves to pay homage to the films that shaped his own work, but none of his films do this quite as directly as “The Hateful Eight.” The writer/director’s 2015 revisionist western stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Bruce Dern, and more in a nail-biting single-location thriller about a group of criminals and generally bad folks hunkering down together at a cabin during a terrible blizzard....

The Daily Stream: The Voices Stars A Pre-Deadpool Ryan Reynolds In A Hilariously Disturbing Rom-Com/Serial Killer Story (Welcome toThe Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you may stream it.) The Movie: “The Voices” Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: Acclaimed director Marjane Satrapi followed up her Oscar-nominated “Persepolis,” a black and white animated feature about a rebellious young Iranian girl navigating life during the Islamic Revolution, with a pitch-black comedy about a happy-go-lucky guy named Jerry romancing a co-worker....

The Morning Watch: ‘Blade Runner’ Video Essay, FaceTime Horror Short ‘Where Is It’ & More (The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, a new video essay explores howRidley Scottcombined the thematic elements of classic film noir and mixed them into a sci-fi, dystopian future....

This Week In Trailers: Let Us Prey, Love Eternal, The Kill Team, What We Did On Our Holiday, The Referee 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?...

What We Can Learn About Kylo Ren And Rey From Jaina And Jacen Solo Star Warsis steeped in wildly esoteric lore. Though Disney stripped down the expanded world of theStar Warsuniverse when they took control of Lucasfilm, fans of the franchise and its expansive decades-deep landscape still use the framework set up by the books and comics to theorize on what might happen next and who we might see appear in the currentStar Warscanon....

‘Apocalypse Now: Final Cut’ Release Date Revealed For Both Theaters And 4K Blu-Ray Francis Ford Coppola’sApocalypse Nowhas been released (and unreleased) in various forms. But the filmmaker recently put together what he considers to be the final cut, and screened it at the Tribeca Film Festival. If you were unable to attend Tribeca, and still want to witness what Coppola has in store, you’re in luck: anApocalypse Now: Final Cutrelease date has been set for both theaters and Blu-ray the summer....

‘Cloud Atlas’ Concept Art Shows The Corporate-Run Future Version Of Korea We’ve talked a lot aboutCloud Atlas, which seesTom Tykwerteaming up withAndy and Lana Wachowskito head up parallel film units each shooting three tales adapted fromDavid Mitchell’s novel. The cast is great (Tom Hanks,Halle Berry,Hugo Weaving,Ben Whishaw,Susan Sarandon,Jim Broadbent,Hugh GrantandBae Doona) and we’ve gone over and over about how the actors areplaying multiple roles, genders and races. It’s big ambitious stuff, but if you haven’t read the novel it might also be easy to get totally lost in all the explanation....

‘Deadwood’ Movie Might Start Shooting In October Breaking news:Timothy Olyphantis a damn liar. Mere days after Mr. Olyphant broke our hearts and claimed theDeadwoodmovie had no chance of happening, word comes that HBO might start shooting the film as soon as October. We’re onto you, Olyphant. Here’s some good news for a change! TheDeadwoodmovie might start shooting in October!Deadlinereports that theDeadwoodmovie just received a $4.195 million California tax incentive. As Deadline puts reveals, “According to the California Film Commission regulations, a film or a TV series generally has to start principal photography within 180 days of being approved for a tax credit in order to receive it, though exceptions are being made in special circumstances....