/Film Visits Illumination Entertainment And The Editing Room Of Despicable Me Last week, I journeyed to Santa Monica to visit the offices of Illumination Entertainment. Started byChristopher Meledandri, the producer behindOpportunity KnocksandCool Runnings, who helped acquire and overseeBlue Sky Studios, the computer animation studio which produced theIce Ageseries andRobots. Meledandri produced Dr. Seuss’Horton Hears a Who, The Simpsons MovieandThe Fantastic Mr. Foxbefore jumping ship to form a new company, Illumination Entertainment....

5 Actors We’d Love To See Play Aloy In Netflix’s Horizon Series Netflixrecently announcedthat they were in production on a series adaptation of “Horizon Zero Dawn,” the popular open world role-playing action game for PlayStation and Microsoft. The game plot centers on Aloy, a young huntress fighting to survive a world overrun by machines as she attempts to unlock the secrets of her past. Players are able to use ranged weapons, a spear, and stealth to fight against enemies and mechanical creatures while completing side quests and developing new abilities....

Decision To Leave Review: Park Chan-Wook Directs The Hell Out Of A Romantic Mystery [Cannes] Though it features fewer cinematic tricks or surprises than fans of his earlier work might expect, Park Chan-wook finally returns with “Decision to Leave.” His first feature in six years is a misty detective romance that prioritizes mood, aesthetics, and the psychology of its characters rather than multilayered plots meant for a quick surprise. Park Hae-il plays detective Hae-joon, a superstar cop who rose through the ranks at lightning speed, and whose literary hero, fictional Swedish detective Martin Beck, informs his tidy and professional demeanor....

Dwayne Johnson To Lead ‘The Janson Directive’, Based On Book By ‘Bourne’ Author BecauseDwayne Johnsondoesn’t have enough action/adventure franchises already, he could find himself with yet another one on his hands. The actor has confirmed he’ll star inThe Janson Directive, based on the book byBourneauthorRobert Ludlum.Akiva Goldsmanis writing the script. Hit the jump for more on the Dwayne JohnsonJanson Directivecasting. Reports that Johnson could leadThe Janson Directivebegan circulating in July. Then this week, Johnson himself announced the casting on Twitter....

Everything That Went Wrong With Disney+ Day Almost a year after the ordeal that was Disney+ Investor Day 2020, the /Film staff battened down the hatches and braced for the much-touted “Disney+ Day” — an event to celebrate the two-year anniversary of Disney+ and showcase some of the streaming service’s upcoming movies and TV shows. Given that Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, and now the entire20th Century Fox IPcatalog have all been added to the Disney hoard, the company owns a pretty hefty percentage of the modern entertainment landscape as we know it....

Fantastic Fest 2011 Final Wave Includes World Premiere Of ‘The Human Centipede 2’ We’re mere weeks away from the craziest genre films in the world invading Austin, Texas forFantastic Fest 2011. They’ve already announcednot one, buttwo wavesof films that’ll screen at the festival and now the third and final wave has been revealed. It includes the opening night, world premiere ofThe Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence, the closing night U.S. premiere of Morgan Spurlock’s new documentaryComic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, the much anticipatedJuan of the Dead, Sundance darlingTake Shelter, a 30th anniversary screening ofAn American Werewolf in Londonwith Rick Baker in person and poster by Olly Moss and more....

Frozen, The Little Mermaid And More Official Disney Posters On Sale Until ‘Stroke Of Midnight’ The stroke of midnight is pretty important in Disney stories. It’ll soon be pretty important to Disney fans, too. Acme Archives will release twelve new posters beginning Friday June 20, and keep them on sale until the stroke of midnight the second following Monday. The posters run the gamut of Disney properties, fromFrozentoLilo and Stitch, The Muppets, Alice in Wonderland, Malificentand others....

Hawaii May Host Predators Part of the interesting story behindPredatorsis that Fox is reportedly lettingNimrod Antal,Robert Rodriguezand Troublemaker Studios have their way with the project. At Comic Con, Rodriguez said they were just going to hole up in Austin and make the movie their way. But we knew the film wouldn’t entirely be shot there, and one report suggests the film won’t be based entirely in the Texas Hill Country, as the production has been scouting jungles in Hawaii....

Jim Sturgess Joins The Cast Of ‘Cloud Atlas’ The latest addition toCloud AtlasisJim Sturgess, who is currently muddling through the filmOne Dayopposite Anne Hathaway. The film is based on aDavid Mitchellnovel, which is divided into six centuries-spanning tales that embody various genres from nautical adventure to sci-fi and post-apocalyptic rebirth, is quite a piece of work, tying grand stylistic playfulness to genuinely moving ideas about the interconnected nature of all our lives....

John Cho Says Making Harold & Kumar 4 Is Possible, But Complicated Years before John Cho played Hikaru Sulu in the “Star Trek” Kelvin timeline and grew thick locks to bring Spike Spiegel to life in the live-action"Cowboy Bebop"series, the actor made his name getting up to all sorts of drug-fueled shenanigans opposite Kai Penn in the “Harold & Kumar” movies. The stoner buddy comedies were modest box office hits that earned decent reviews, combining raunchy gags and surreal humor with sharp jokes about racism in modern America....

Just In Time For 2015, Lexus Claims To Have Created A Working Hoverboard Since it’s 2015, there’s been plenty of internet chatter about the future that was envisioned for this year in the time travel sequelBack to the Future Part II. While there have been plenty of technological developments that were once just dreams in the 1989 sequel, fans have still be disappointed that we still don’t havehoverboards. We’ve had our desires teased withFunny or Die’s fake hoverboard demonstration video, and there have been more recent, legitimate developmentswith a company called Hendo(though their design requires a copper surface to work)....

LeBron James Is Producing A Documentary About The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre If you watched HBO’sWatchmenseries, you were possibly surprised to learn about the1921 Tulsa Race Massacrethat unfolded in the Oklahoma neighborhood of Greenwood, known at the time as the “Black Wall Street.” Somehow, one of the biggest incidents of racial violence in the history of America was used to kick off the events of a comic book sequel TV series, but it wasn’t featured in most history books in school....

Lucasfilm Still Looking At George Lucas' Live Action Star Wars TV Show And Star Wars 1313 I talked to Lucasfilm headKathleen Kennedyover the weekend at theStar Wars: The Force Awakenspress junket, the full interview will hit the site later in the week. During my chat I learned that the company is still spending a lot of time looking, discussing and developing two of the most notorious left-over projects from theGeorge Lucasera: the live-action Star Wars TV showStar Wars: Underworldand theStar Wars 1313video game....