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Hasbro Has The Baby Yoda Toys Every Bounty Hunter Will Be Chasing In Spring 2020 We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Every bounty hunter in the galaxy seems to be in pursuit of Baby Yoda on the live-actionStar WarsseriesThe Mandalorianon Disney+. Next spring, everyone in the real world will be after the same thing when the adorable little Force-sensitive creature will be made available as a few different toys from Hasbro....

Here’s Your Chance To Help Fund A Documentary About ‘The Last Blockbuster’ RememberBlockbuster Video? If you’re younger than I am, there’s a good chance you don’t! But at one point in history, brick and motor stores dotted the land, offering customers an opportunity to rent video tapes (and later, DVDs and Blu-rays). Blockbuster Video was the reigning champion of franchised video stores, but the birth of streaming video all but killed the company off....

How Did This Get Made: Gabriel Hardman, From Mr. Magoo To Mr. Christopher Nolan We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In 1993, at only 19 years old, an aspiring comic book artist namedGabriel Hardmangot what appeared to be a big break: the chance to pencil Marvel’sWar Machine. But not long after completing the assignment, Hardman chose to ditch comics, move to Hollywood and try to make it as a storyboard artist....

Hulu To Exclusively Stream New Bleecker Street Movies Like ‘The Art Of Self-Defense’ And More Though a lot of indie glory goes to studios like A24 and Annapurna Pictures, the indie distributorBleecker Streethas their fair share of gems:Beasts of No Nation, Captain Fantastic, Paterson, Logan Luckyand more. Now their movies will be much more accessible to audiences thanks to an multi-year exclusive streaming deal they’ve just finalized withHulufor their upcoming theatrical releases....

Jared Harris Reportedly Cast As Moriarty In ‘Sherlock Holmes 2’ The cast ofSherlock Holmes 2is starting to come together, and since the first film began production two years ago, the biggest question mark in franchise lineup has been the actor who will play Professor Moriarty, the arch-nemesis of Sherlock Holmes. Brad Pittwas once rumored in the role, after reports surfaced claiming that he had shot a cameo to appear in the first film....

Joker Director Todd Phillips May Work On More DC Comics Projects For Warner Bros. The recent upheaval over at Warner Bros., stemming from the studio’s merger with Discovery thatrecently became official, is finally making its presence felt in their superhero franchise of DC characters. We recently received word that some major change would be coming under new CEO David Zaslav’s leadership, as/Film’s Ryan Scott outlined herewith respect to their theatrical release ambitions....

Lily Collins Is ‘Snow White’ For Tarsem Singh; Will Star Opposite Julia Roberts And Armie Hammer They cast the queen, they cast the prince and now they’ve cast their lead.Lily Collins, daughter of rock star Phil Collins, best-known for her role inThe Blind Side, has been cast as the title character inSnow White, the Relativity Media re-imagining ofthe classic tale directed byTarsem Singh(The Cell,Immortals). She’ll star alongside Oscar-winnerJulia Robertsas the QueenandArmie Hammer(The Social Network)as Prince Andrew Alcott....

Mark Duplass, Dianne Wiest And Sam Shepard Cast In Lawrence Kasdan’s ‘Darling Companion’ Though he’s been announced as attached to a few projects over the past couple years,Lawrence Kasdanhasn’t written or directed a produced film sinceDreamcatcherin 2003. (He has done script work, like the polish on the script for the action version ofParadise Lostthat Alex Proyas justsigned to direct.) But now Kasdan will directDarling Companionfrom a script he wrote withMeg Kasdan, and he’s just addedMark Duplass,Dianne WiestandSam Shepardto the cast....

Marvel Heading To Australia For ‘Thor: Love & Thunder’ And ‘Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings’ Though most Marvel Studios movies have shot in Atlanta, Georgia for the majority of their shooting schedule, two of the titles announced for Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will head down under for production. The New South Wales state government has announced thatThor: Love & ThunderandShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Ringswill both be shooting in Sydney, Australia, following in the footsteps ofThor: Ragnarok, which shot mostly in Gold Coast, Queensland....

Michael Crichton’s ‘Micro’ Still In The Works At Amblin, New Writers Hired AMicromovie, adapted from one of the final novels ofJurassic ParkauthorMichael Crichton, has been in development at Amblin Entertainment since 2015. Now there’s an update on the project:Neil WidenerandGavin Jameshave been hired to take over screenplay duties. The film’s plot appears to be lifted right out ofHoney, I Shrunk the Kids, focusing on a group of people shrunk down to miniature size and forced to navigate the rain forrest....

Movie Poster: Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan Earlier today, Fox Searchlight releasedthe movie trailerforDarren Aronofsky’s next filmBlack Swan. If you haven’t yet watched the trailer,please do so now or we can no longer be friends. Searchlight has since released an official movie poster for the film. Nothing surprising, the one sheet uses the same image ofNatalie Portmanin crazy make-up we’ve seen previously. Hit the jump to see it for yourself. Click the below poster image to enlarge: Official Plot Synopsis: BLACK SWAN follows the story of Nina (Portman), a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance....

Netflix To Offer Streaming-Only Subscription Service In The US You knew this was coming. After a trial offer of streaming-only services in Canada, a third-quarter earnings conference call withNetflixCEo Reed Hastings revealed the company’s plan to offer a lower-cost subscription plan that would offer customers access to films and TV shows via only the company’s streaming service. There’s no price now, but the Canadian service runs $7.99, and theLA Timessays the price is likely to be the same when the option is activated in the US....

Netflix’s Lead In The Streaming Wars Is Shrinking As More Competitors Enter The Fray You know that phenomenon when something becomes so widely used that it becomes the verb for that thing? Oh, let me Google that. Take this Kleenex. Throw that in the dumpster (yes, “Dumpster” used to be a brand).Netflixwas well on its way to becoming that thing for streaming, with the cheeky “Netflix and chill” even becoming a commonly used phrase....