Posts

New Images: Kenneth Branagh In ‘Jack Ryan,’ Rosamund Pike In ‘Jack Reacher,’ Plus ‘To The Wonder,’ ‘Broken City,’ And More We’ve got a lot of new images today, and the first two are new looks at characters in Paramount’s pair of upcoming Jack movies —Jack RyanandJack Reacher. (Which tough guy will blink and allow a title change first?) Both images show new looks at supporting characters, but in the case ofJack Ryan, the focus is also on the director, and in the case ofJack Reacher, there’s a look at Reacher’s ultimate creator, too....

Regina King Will Direct ‘Bitter Root,’ A Comic Book Movie About Monster Hunters During The Harlem Renaissance Regina Kinghas found her next project. Fresh off her acclaimed directorial debutOne Night in Miami, King has been tapped as the director forBitter Root, Legendary’s feature adaptation of the Image Comics graphic novel series about on a family of monster hunters living during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Deadline reports that Legendary has tapped Regina King to direct and produce theBitter Rootmovie, based on the acclaimed Image Comics series created by David F....

Sam Rockwell Dances His Way Through The First ‘Saturday Night Live’ Of 2018 The firstSaturday Night Liveof 2018 featured Golden Globe winnerSam Rockwellmaking his hosting debut. Considering how disappointing the Christmas episode with Kevin Hartended up being towards the end of 2017, the pressure was on for the writers and cast of the late night sketch series to come back with a vengeance. Thankfully, the Sam Rockwell hostedSaturday Night Livewas an absolute delight, even if it came with a handful of missteps throughout the night, including one hilarious f-bomb that made it onto live television....

Six ‘Star Wars’ Blu-Ray Promos Try To Remind You That You Still Love These Movies We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. George Lucas’changesto theStar WarsBlu-ray set have drawn some ire as of late, but let’s be real — these things are still gonna sell like hotcakes. While Lucas' alterations really will turn off some of his fans, it’s probably a safe bet that many more will shell out for them anyway, even if they’re grumbling as they do so....

Sony Cancels ‘The Interview’ Release, Has No Plans For VOD/DVD; U.S. Links North Korea To Sony Hacking Tuesday, the hackers that exposed Sony’s internal workings went a step further and issued a big threat, invoking 9/11 in a statement that promised action against theaters showingThe Interview. But the Department of Homeland Security — a group that really doesn’t mess around when it comes to this sort of thing — said there wasno credible informationto indicate an actual threat....

Spy Report: Did Morgan Spurlock Find Osama Bin Laden? Last monthI posted an articleabout the growing buzz behindMorgan Spurlock’sSuper Size Mefollow-upWhere in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, where our faithful documentary filmmaker goes in search for the most wanted man in the world. A comment from the film’s director of photography, Daniel Marricone added fuel to the fire, telling the press that Spurlock “definitely got the holy grail.” Our article took off to all corners of the internet, linked on MSNBC, and eventually making its way into print publications....

The 13 Biggest WTF Moments In ‘Jupiter Ascending’ Jupiter Ascending, fromAndy and Lana Wachowski, has moments of incredible technical brilliance, flashes of good character comedy, and some wild leaps of imagination. It also features more than a few things that left us wondering what the hell was going on with the Wachowskis. Some of these elements (not many, but some) were things we liked. Still, the effect of having them all mashed together was to produce a sensation of being numbed and at times bewildered....

The Book Of Boba Fett TV Spot Reveals New Footage As Boba And Fennec Prepare For War Today brings us yet another new look at “The Book of Boba Fett,” the latest “Star Wars” show making its way to Disney+ in a couple of weeks. Temuera Morrison is back as Boba Fett, providing the beloved bounty hunter with a long-awaited solo story decades after his live-action debut in “The Empire Strikes Back....

The Tender Bar Review: Cool Uncle Ben Affleck Shines In George Clooney’s Lifeless Drama I like George Clooney. He’s a good-looking fellow, he’s a dedicated philanthropist, and he’s a damn fine actor. He seems like he has it all! But there’s one area Clooney continues to fail in, no matter how hard he tries: filmmaking. Clooney has directed some solid flicks — his directorial debut “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is clever and features a killer Sam Rockwell performance, and his ode to journalism “Good Night And Good Luck” is fantastic....

Theme Park Bits: ‘Frozen’ Fireworks, ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ Maze, Legends Of Frontierland, ‘Alice In Wonderland’ Update In today’s edition of Theme Park Bits, I take a look at: Read more about all these things after the jump. One of the new offerings just launched as a part of Frozen Summer Fun at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World Resort is the “FrozenFireworks,” which take place nightly at 9:45 p....

This Week In Trailers: Ten Years, The Seeker, Colin Hay - Waiting For My Real Life, L’Attesa, KISS Rocks Vegas 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?...

Timur Bekmambetov Producing ‘Apollo 18’ For Weinsteins And Possibly A Deep Space Picture For Fox Timur Bekmambetovhas been busy at the American Film Market. While he’splanning to directAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in the next few months, he continues to be a prolific producer. (For better or worse.) Today there is word that he may have not one but two new space-related projects set up with two different companies. One isApollo 18, based on the Apollo 18 moon mission, which was canceled in real life, but in the film’s fiction took place in secret....

TV Bits: ‘Mockingbird Lane’, ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘The Wire’, ‘Dexter’, ‘L.A. Noir’, ‘True Blood’ Among today’s TV-related odds and ends: What gorgeous detail — not that we expected any less from the man who brought us the sumptuous visuals ofPushing Daisies. While you’re able to’t actually go over and hang out at the Munster home, you can catch a peek of the structure from the tram tour of Universal Studios in LA....