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The Quarantine Stream: ‘13 Going On 30’ May Be Silly, But It’s Irresistibly Charming Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie:13 Going on 30Where You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: It’s 1987 and Jenna Rink is 13, suffocated by her dorky parents and ignored by the hip kids in school. When her birthday party turns out to be a disaster, Jenna makes a wish: If only she could be grown up, she’d have the life she’s always wanted....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Italianamerican’ Invites You To Spend Some Quality Time With The Scorsese Family (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie:ItalianamericanWhere You Can Stream It:The Criterion ChannelThe Pitch:In 1974, Martin Scorsese sat down with his parents, Catherine and Charles, and encouraged them to talk about their experiences as Italian immigrants in New York City....

The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent Is The ‘Scariest Thing’ Nicolas Cage Has Ever Done Nicolas Cage is feeling the unbearable weight of his own massive talent — or maybe that’s just the weight of him playing himself in"The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.“Cage has had his ups and downs over his career, especially in the 21st century as he has grown more prolific in his output and his self-proclaimed “Nouveau Shamanic” acting style has blossomed....

Tommy Kirk, Old Yeller And The Shaggy Dog Star, Has Died At 79 Sad news today for old school Disney fans, as Deadline reports that actor Tommy Kirk has passed on at the age of 79. Baby boomers or children who grew up with The Disney Channel in the ’80s will surely remember Kirk’s face as the star or co-lead in several of Walt Disney Studios' biggest live-action releases of the ’50s and ’60s, including “The Shaggy Dog,” “Swiss Family Robinson,” and “The Absent-Minded Professor....

Two Life-Sized AT-AT’s Constructed Inside A Disneyland ‘Star Wars Land’ Ride Construction onStar Warsland is ongoing at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida and Disneyland in Anaheim, California, but we still haven’t seen much in the way of concept art since theStar Wars-themed theme park lands wereannounced at 2015’s D23 Expo. I’m sure we’ll learn a lot more about Disneyland’sStar WarsExperience(as it is rumored to be called) at D23 Expo in July....

Video: Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ Transforms Toronto Into Tokyo Guillermo Del Torohas been north of the border shooting his massive mech vs. monster sci-fi action filmPacific Rimfor many months now but little to nothing has leaked. Most likely, that’s because Del Toro and company – including starsCharlie Hunnam, Idris ElbaandCharlie Day– have been shooting on soundstages. It seems that’s about to change very soon, though, as the production has begun to outfit some Toronto, Canada streets to look like Tokyo after a massive monster battle and a Canadian News team got to walk around the set....

Video: The Making Of ‘Jurassic World: The Ride’ Universal has published a new video which takes viewers behind the scenes ofJurassic World: The Ride, the sorely-needed new update to the oldJurassic Parkride that opened back in 1996. The video includes new interviews with people like directorSteven Spielberg, writer/directorColin Trevorrow, and producerFrank Marshall, and shows actorsChris Pratt,Bryce Dallas Howard, andBDWongacting in new footage made specifically for the ride. Check out the full behind-the-scenes video below....

Watch The 2009 Comic Con Footage From David Fincher-Produced ‘The Goon’ Good things come to those who wait; sometimes we just have to wait a very long time. Fans ofEric Powell’s supernatural head-busting comic seriesThe Goonmay recall my enthusiasm for theComic Con panelheld for the comic in 2009. That panel was where we learned that Powell was still working withDavid Fincherto make an animated film based on the comic, and thatClancy BrownandPaul Giamattihad agreed to voice the two main characters, the Goon and Franky....

Welcome To The Blumhouse Trailers: Four New Tales Of Terror Coming To Amazon The House of Blum is horror honeycomb, its bees ever-grinding to produce sweet October harvests for the rest of us. Blumhouse, the production company behind “Paranormal Activity” and the “Purge” films, has its fingers in all mediums: they’ve got a publishing imprint (that teases a return of horror movie novelizations), a podcast network, they’ve even collaborated with Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios....

Why Palm Springs Couldn’t Actually Be Shot In Palm Springs Independent filmmaking is a lot like running a household. You might have big ambitions for the month, but you are beholden to your monthly budget. Sometimes you’re forced to scratch together macaroni and cheese with old noodles and some almost-expired cheese squares you find in the back of the fridge, and the kids will still love it. This was the case with the 2020 independent romantic comedy “Palm Springs....

‘Animaniacs’ Reboot Is In The Works, Steven Spielberg Reportedly Involved As a young movie lover who largely grew up in the ’90s, I thought the animated seriesAnimaniacswas one of the best shows on television. It was bursting with pop culture references, memorable characters, terrific music, and humor (some of which went way over my head), but even at the time, I knew I was watching something special. The original series ran 99 episodes from 1993-1998....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Writer Explains Why Thanos Waited So Long To Execute His Plan Six years. That’s how long it took between audiences' first glimpse of Thanos hovering in the shadows during the mid-credits scene ofThe Avengersand the game-changing destruction he rained down in this year’sAvengers: Infinity War. So…what’s with the delay? Why didn’t the eight-foot-tall alien warrior take things into his own hands even sooner? It turns out there’s a good reason for why Thanos waited so long, andInfinity Warco-writerStephen McFeelyexplains it below....

‘Batman Vs. Superman’ Delayed To 2016 The summer of 2015 just got a tiny bit less crowded.Varietyreports that Warner Bros. has just pushed theMan of Steelsequel fromJuly 17, 2015toMay 6, 2016. The new date pits theZack Snyder-helmed film directly againstan as-yet-unnamed Marvel Studios project, though in all likelihood one or the other will move before then. Joe Wright’s Peter Pan origin tale will now move into the August 19, 2025 slot, having previously been slotted forJune 26, 2015....