Production Begins On ‘The Batman’ As Director Matt Reeves Shares First Photo From The Set UPDATE: Warner Bros. has announced character details for Peter Sarsgaard and Jayme Lawson. You can find them within our original story below. On the evening of July 22, 2025, directorMatt Reevesannounced the start of production onThe Batmanwith the slate for the first day of shooting. That means we’re just a year and a half away from seeing the return of The Dark Knight on the big screen....

Revisiting ‘Bedknobs And Broomsticks’, Disney’s Odd Attempt To Recapture That ‘Mary Poppins’ Magic (Welcome toOut of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)Perhaps the most quintessential film in the Walt Disney Pictures canon isMary Poppins. You know the music, whether you like it or not.Mary Poppinsturned its eponymous lead, Julie Andrews, into a legitimate, out-and-out worldwide star, garnering her a well-deserved Academy Award....

RSVP For The 20 City Transformers 2 Trailer Premiere Event Paramount Pictures has released the official list of RSVP e-mails for the 20 cityTransformers: Revenge of the Fallentrailer premiere which is taking place on April 29th. If you live in one of the 20 cities and would like to attend the event, send an e-mail your your name and information. The trailer is attached to a one-time screening of Michael Bay’s 2007 filmTransformers....

Sam Raimi To Direct ‘Love May Fail’, From ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Author After spending most of the past decade putting out one fantastical big-scale spectacle after another,Sam Raimiis going for something a little more grounded with his next project. He’s now in talks to directLove May Fail, an adaptation of a novel bySilver Linings PlaybookauthorMatthew Quick. Hit the jump for more on the Sam RaimiLove May Failmovie. Love May Failwill be a change of pace for Raimi....

Sequel Bits: ‘Jurassic World 2,’ ‘Deadpool 2,’ ‘Logan,’ ‘Cars 3,’ ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ In this edition of Sequel Bits: Getting ready for the journey.pic.twitter.com/EDgsdUJyXv — JA Bayona (@FilmBayona)August 23, 2025 It’s been rumored that the sequel toJurassic Worldwould begin filming in February and a new tweet from director J.A. Bayona lends some credence to this. As you may see above, he shared a picture of some props, helmets with a very familiar logo, and noted “Getting ready for the journey....

Superhero Bits: Doctor Strange, Ant-Man, Gotham, The Flash, Captain America: Civil War, Suicide Squad Want to see a Fox Marvel family portrait? What doesTilda Swintonhave to say aboutDoctor Strange? DoesPaul Ruddhave stories to share from theAnt-Manshoot? How are things looking forIron Manon theCaptain America: Civil Warset? Does Doom (a.k.a.Toby Kebbell) want to battle the Avengers? Why arePunisherandSpider-Manhanging out? DidAgent Carterjust win the Dubsmash war? WouldM. Night Shyamalanmake anUnbreakablesequel? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

Taika Waititi Is Using The ‘Thor: Love And Thunder’ Delays To Perfect The “Really Good” Script The coronavirus (COVID-10) pandemic has shut down film and TV productions across the world, and Marvel tentpoles likeThor: Love and Thunderare no exception. But director and writerTaika Waititiis taking advantage of the delays by perfecting the script, which he teases is “really, really good.” Taika Waititi is looking on the positive side of the coronavirus delays....

The “Hasbro Cinematic Universe” Adds Brian K. Vaughn, Michael Chabon And More To Its Writers Room Late last year,we first learned about plansfor a “Hasbro Cinematic Universe” that would unite theG.I. Joe,M.A.S.K.,Micronauts, andROMcharacters in a shared on-screen world. At the time, this news filled me with dread. Not because I bear any ill will toward these characters, but because it sounded like a desperate attempt to ape the Marvel studios model....

The ‘Avatar’ Sequels Will Be A Family Saga About Jake, Neytiri And Their Children We have fourAvatarsequels coming over the next seven years, with the first movie hitting theaters in 2017. Writer/DirectorJames Cameronhas revealed new details aboutAvatar 2and the other Avatar sequels. Find out the details, after the jump. In a new interview withVariety,Avatarseries writer/directorJames Cameronreveals that theAvatarsequels will actually be a family saga: “The storyline in the sequels really follows Jake and Neytiri and their children....

The 13 Best Exorcism Horror Movies Exorcism horror movies have bewitched the public consciousness ever since the release of William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist” in 1973. The colloquial Old Scratch remains anenduring horror protagonist, a reach that extends even further on account of his legion of similarly evil foes: Bathsheba in “The Conjuring” and Paimon in “Hereditary,” for instance, both of whom are in league with the Devil … and remain no less determined to create Hell on earth....

The Bizarre Randy Newman Cameo You May Have Missed In Everything Everywhere All At Once Beware: mild spoilers for “Everything Everywhere All At Once” are referenced in this article. The Daniels directing duo of Daniel “Dan” Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are no strangers to making weird yet brilliant films, with “Swiss Army Man” showing audiences that there is beauty to be found in a world where Danielle Radcliffe plays a farting corpse....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe Has A Serious Romance Problem (Welcome toThe Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: after the release ofAvengers: Infinity War, Lindsey Romain takes stock of the MCU’s romance problem.)The Marvel Cinematic Universe is, at best, a series of intricately laced human stories amplified and filtered through the lens of absolute power. At worst, it is a series that never hits the emotional highs and lows of its characters, favoring spectacle and applause over the metrics of human condition....

The Morning Watch: Kingsman Meets Archer, The Graduate With Garden State Soundtrack & 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, we have a meeting of the spies from the world ofKingsman: The Secret Servicewith the animated secret agents from the FX seriesArcher, a presentation of what the classic filmThe Graduatewould be like if it utilized tracks from theGarden Statesoundtrack, and a trip through the multiverse withRick and Morty....