Jordan Peele To Write And Direct Horror Movie ‘Get Out’ For the past three years,Jordan Peelehas succeeded in making us laugh as one-half of Comedy Central’sKey and Peele. Now he wants to make us scream. Peele is set to write and direct a horror film calledGet Out. While this will be his first attempt at straight-faced horror, it’s not that crazy a leap. His many horror-influenced sketches onKey and Peelehave demonstrated that he his way around the look, feel, and traditions of the genre....

Josh Boone In Early Talks To Write And Direct ‘The Vampire Lestat’ Universal only just put more energy into its efforts to adaptAnne Rice’s vampire novels into films, as the studiorenewed the optionon 13 of Rice’s “Vampire Chronicles” books. The studio isn’t wasting any time getting moving on that option, asThe Fault In Our StarsdirectorJosh Booneis now in early talks to write and direct an adaptation ofThe Vampire Lestat, which was the centerpiece of Rice’s original trilogy of vampire novels....

Kathleen Kennedy Teases More Saw Gerrera In Future ‘Star Wars’ Projects Lucasfilm presidentKathleen Kennedysays that the character of Saw Gerrera, introduced inStar Wars: The Clone Warsbefore making the leap to live action inRogue One: A Star Wars Story, will probably be further explored in futureStar Warsprojects. And since he’s one of the most intriguing recent additions to the canon, this is something I hope they do end up exploring. This piece of news comes from Empire’scomplete history of Rogue One article, where Kathleen Kennedy reveals that Saw’s role in the film is much smaller than originally intended and that they plan to “explore” him further elsewhere:...

Kevin Feige Praises ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’, Disses ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’ Though it’s based on a Marvel Comics story,X-Men: Days of Future Pastisn’t a Marvel Studios movie. But that doesn’t mean the president of Marvel Studios can’t enjoy it all the same.Kevin Feige, who helped produce the originalX-Mentrilogy, praised the latest installment as a “very good” way to kickstart the franchise. Hit the jump to read the Kevin FeigeX-Men: Days of Future Pastcomments....

Laremy’s ‘Cloud Atlas’ Review: Tom Tykwer And The Wachowskis Bring Another Massive Thinker To The Big Screen [TIFF 2012] The themes ofCloud Atlasare legion, and the 160 minutes the film spans are epic. Six or seven plots are considered, depending how you define your storylines, and the time period ranges from 1849 to somewhere 400 years into the distant future. What I’m getting at here is the grandness of the scope, the giantess of the spectacle, the massive overarching ambition of the work....

Larry McMurtry, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ And ‘The Last Picture Show’ Writer, Dead At Age 84 Larry McMurtry, the Oscar-winning co-writer ofBrokeback Mountain, died yesterday at the age of 84. A spokeswoman for her family did not provide a cause of death or information about where he died. Despite his Oscar, McMurtry was better known as a novelist, and he leaves behind a legacy of incredible genre work, specifically in westerns, which included writing the brilliant novelLonesome Dove, which was adapted into a television mini-series in 1989 and stands as one of my all-time favorite westerns....

LeVar Burton Is Actively Campaigning To Be The New Host Of ‘Jeopardy!’ The long-running quiz showJeopardy!bid farewell to longtime hostAlex Trebekwhen he passed away last yearafter battling cancer. In his stead, the show has continued, bringing in guest hosts like former champion Ken Jennings, the show’s executive producer Mike Richards, news anchor Katie Couric, and even Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. But at some point, the show will have to find a new permanent host forJeopardy!...

MacGruber Red-Band Trailer #2 We’ve already seenone red-band trailerforMacGruber, in which directorJorma TacconeandWill Forteexpands theirMacGyver-spoof shorts fromSaturday Night Liveinto an unlikely feature comedy. Now there’s a second red-band clip which emphasizes the action a bit more…or, wait, the comedy? No, definitely the action. See the confusion below. Among other things, this trailer sets upVal Kilmer’s villain Dieter von Cunth better than previous clips have done, and more Kilmer is always OK with me....

Mando’s Meat Factory Fight Featured Designs From A Canceled Boba Fett Video Game So, you may not have noticed this on your recent viewing of “The Book of Boba Fett” Episode 5, but among theEaster eggs sprinkled throughoutthat frankly spectacular episode were references to a “Star Wars” project that never even saw the light of day — at least, according to game designer Grant Parker. Parker worked on a LucasArts video game codenamed “The Star Wars 1313 Project,” which was being developed as basically “Uncharted” but with Boba Fett....

Michael Moore’s Top 20 Movies Of 2009 And Why The Hurt Locker Is “Very Political” Earlier today, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmakerMichael Mooresent an e-mail out to his mailing list (a list I belong to) listing his top 20 films of 2009. In the e-mail, Moore hails the best movie he saw in 2009, a film which wasn’t nominated, and wasn’t even shown in the United States — a film titledTroubled Water....

Neill Blomkamp Teases Photos And Concept Art From ‘Alien’ Project That Never Was Neill Blomkamphas already given us an alien movie, but it seems he could have also given us anAlienmovie. TheDistrict 9director posted some very interesting pictures from an Alien project he was working on at one point but has since left. The trove of images include illustrations of an older Ripley and a scarred-up Hicks, concept art of a Weyland-Yutani building, a photo of a xenomorph model, and much more....

Netflix Is Facing A Lawsuit From A Chess Pro Over The Queen’s Gambit Remember when “The Queen’s Gambit” released on Netflix towards the end of 2020, just when it felt like we all needed some sort of shared pop culture experience to bring us all together again (even if only on the internet) in the midst of the pandemic? The Scott Frank (“Godless,” “Logan,” “Minority Report”) miniseries about the self-destructive chess prodigy hit the spot, immediatelyshooting up to the top of Netflix’s ratings, inspiring all sorts of hilarious memes, and further cementing Anya Taylor-Joy as one of our best young actors....

Now Stream This: ‘Gone Girl’, ‘His House’, ‘Unfriended’, ‘Moneyball’, ‘The Rock’, ‘Crazy, Not Insane’, And More (Welcome toNow Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.) Now Streaming on Hulu Release Date:2014Genre:Mystery-DramaDirector:David FincherCast:Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Carrie Coon, Tyler PerryDavid Fincheris back this year withMank, but the last film he made was 2014’sGone Girl, which is now streaming on Hulu....