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Star Wars: Rise Of The Resistance Opening Dates And New Poster Revealed One of the few disappointments regarding the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in California was thatRise of the Resistance, the new expansion’s most advanced ride, would not be ready in time for the land’s grand debut. But now the official opening dates have been revealed for both Disneyland and Disney World, and they’re accompanied by a cool new poster featuring Kylo Ren looming over the action....

Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy, Iron Man 3, Mark Millar, The Avengers, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, Kick-Ass 2 What are the latest rumors surroundingGuardians of the GalaxyandIron Man 3? How haveDC and Marvelmovies stacked up at the box office? Want to see the cover to the finalHit-Girlcomic book? HasMark Millarmade a public comment of his new job overseeing Marvel movies at Fox? DidJoss Whedondrop any cool hints inThe Avengerscommentary?...

The Daily Stream: Amazon’s Val Lets Val Kilmer Tell His Own 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 can stream it.) The Movie: “Val” Where You Can Stream It: Amazon Prime Video The Pitch: Long before video cameras became cheap enough that suburban families could afford them, actor Val Kilmer bought one and started recording his life....

The Hughes Brothers Negotiating Deal To Direct The Live-Action Akira Remake This is unexpected. Evidently Warner Bros. really liked whatAlbert and Allen Hughesdid withThe Book of Eli, because the brothers are reportedly finalizing a deal to direct the long-discussed live-action adaptation ofKatsuhiro Otomo’s mangaAkira.Originally floated in early 2008as a two-part film to be directed by Ruairi Robinson, the films were put off by the WGA strike, then the scripts took forever to crack and the projectwas reported dead....

The NBA Experience Is Closing At Disney Springs Some days, even now that theme parks are back and raring to go, there’s sad news to report from the world of Disney. Hopefully you’ve got a box or two of tissues nearby, because Disney has confirmed that theNBA Experienceis no more atDisney Springs. Now, take a second or two to gnash your teeth, wail in agony, and rend your garments, before we talk about this....

The Weinstein Company Will Take ‘The Artist’ And Other Films To Netflix Streaming Rather Than Cable The Weinstein Company is helping Netflix compete with pay cable channels. Today the two companies announced a deal that “will make foreign language, documentary and certain other movies from The Weinstein Company exclusively available for Netflix members in the U.S. to watch instantly.” Read the press release below. Netflix Inc. and The Weinstein Company (TWC) today announced a new multi-year licensing agreement that will make foreign language, documentary and certain other movies from The Weinstein Company exclusively available for Netflix members in the U....

There Will Be More Chris Hemsworth As Thor After ‘Love And Thunder’ If you were concernedChris Hemsworthwould hang up Mjölnir afterThor: Love and Thunder, here’s some good news: Hemsworth is sticking around. The actor says he has no plans to stop playing the God of Thunder anytime in the future, so whenever they get around to making more Marvel movies, he’s sure to be involved. Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans have both retired from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and while Scarlett Johannsson' Black Widow has her own movie coming out, it’s a prequel and her character is technically dead in the present, so she’s likely to be done with the franchise as well....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Cop Out, The Losers, The Runaways, And More We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s.MOTHER At a certain point, after watching so many movies for so long, you sometimes forget that films can still surprise you....

This Week In Trailers: 20 Feet From Stardom, Thérèse Desqueyroux, The Stoker, Hey Bartender, The Nostalgist 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? This week we getTautou’din France, go on soul patrol, get ourselves a Sidecar from a hipster with a waxed mustache, and throw a dead body in a fire....

This Week In Trailers: Dawn, Curt, He Named Me Malala, The Legend Of Barney Thomson, 45 Years 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? This week we find out what Begbie fromTrainspottingis up to, find out whatRose McGowanhas been doing with her free time after exposingHotel Transylvania 2’sstarMadam Panhandler’scasting directives, get some really bad news late in life, find there’s a therapeutic side to surfing, and realize there are still people in this world who will shoot little girls for funsies....

Warner Bros. Suggested Some Major ‘Gravity’ Changes Having a strong story vision and a strong producer are of paramount importance when trying to guide a film through the studio machine. Without those elements, any given story can fall prey to different visions, or to the fear executives have of working with the unusual or unproven, or (worse) an idea they can’t quite visualize for themselves. When faced with such things, the typical approach is to shoehorn in tried and true elements to make the story in question look more “normal....

Warner Bros. Wants Another DC Movie To Shoot This Year, But Which One Will It Be? As of now,Aquamanis the only DC Comics movie that’s set to go into production for Warner Bros. Pictures this year. However, with a full slate of films announced to be in development, the studio is hoping to get at least one more film in theDC Expanded Universegoing in 2017. SinceThe Batmanis now delayed, there are five other possibilities, but which one will get the green light?...

What Were The Most Pirated Movies Of 2016? By now, you probably have a pretty good idea of which films critics loved most in 2016, and an objectively accurate idea of which films did best at the box office in 2016. And it shouldn’t be much longer before we get a sense of how all the awards races are shaping up. So how about the folks who kind of like watching movies, but not enough to actually pay for them?...