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‘Short Circuit’ Animators Liza Rhia, Jacob Frey And Ryan Green On Making The Leap To Directing Shorts For Disney+ [Interview] Disney+ just dropped a new season ofShort Circuit, a short film series that lets animators step into the director’s chair and experiment with new ideas. The newest season features five shorts from staff members who’ve been with the studio for years, working behind the scenes on some of their most beloved titles likeFrozen,Moana,and even the upcomingEncanto....

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Refuses To Reckon With The Past Failures Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe (Welcome toRoad to Endgame, where we revisit the movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and ask, “How did we get here?” In this epilogue, we explore howSpider-Man: Far From Homecontinues the MCU following the events ofEndgame.)This post containsmajor spoilersforSpider-Man: Far From Home.In the first few breezy minutes of Marvel’s latest entry, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) and his classmates deal, at least nominally, with the effects of “The Blip” — a more palatable term than"The Decimation"— whichsaw half the world return from dust after a five-year interval....

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’: Jon Favreau’s Happy Hogan Has A New Love Interest [Set Visit Interview] On the set ofSpider-Man: Far From Home, a handful of journalists and I watched a scene being filmed in whichJon Favreau’s Happy Hogan tries to protect Peter Parker’s high school friends from an unseen threat in the Tower of London. Glass cases were smashed, pyrotechnics were being utilized, and the kids – standing in a defensive pose, armed with ancient weapons they seemingly grabbed from exhibits in the Tower, but certain they were facing death in only a few short seconds – all began revealing their regrets and secrets....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Honest Trailer: You Can’t Teach An Old Emperor New Tricks Last year,Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerended the Skywalker saga, not with a bang, but with a whimper. That’s because the final chapter of the Skywalker saga desperately tries to cling to whatever nostalgia is left for the original trilogy rather than delivering a satisfying, cohesive story. However, as theStar Wars: The Rise of SkywalkerHonest Trailerreminds us, unless you were reading one of the supplementary books, paying attention to interviews with co-writerChris Terrioin the weeks following the movie’s release, or playingFortnite, you wouldn’t have heard that whimper....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Sequence Expected To Debut On Disney’s Star Tours Rides Disney occasionally updates itsStar Toursattraction with new locations from upcomingStar Warsfilms, and a fresh rumor claims that another new update is on the way, this time incorporating a sequence inspired byJ.J. Abrams’Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. WDWNTpoints us to the following tweet, which claims that a newThe Rise of SkywalkerStar Tours sequence is coming to Disneyland Paris early next year, timed with the Legends of the Force season:...

‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Editing Process Was A Battle, According To James Cameron Say what you will aboutJames Cameron, he doesn’t sugarcoat things. When he’s not making countlessAvatarsequels, the filmmaker is being brutally honest about, well, everything. Case in point: Cameron recently revealed that theTerminator: Dark Fateediting process was a bit bumpy. So bumpy, in fact, that he hints at a metaphorical bloodbath of sorts – one that had him and directorTim Millerat odds sometimes....

‘The Batman’ Release Date Pushed To October 2021, ‘The Flash’ And ‘Shazam 2’ Also Delayed We’re all going to have to wait a little longer to seeRobert Pattinson’s take on the Caped Crusader.As previously reported, Matt Reeves’The Batmanshut down production due to the coronavirus, and that has now officially impacted the movie’s release date. Originally set to open in the summer of 2021,The Batman’s release date has now been pushed to October of that year instead....

‘The Boondock Saints: Origins’ Prequel TV Series Announced, They Want You To Pay $597.77 For It DCTV is reteaming withThe Boondock SaintscreatorTroy Duffyto reboot the cult classic film franchise for television. They are basically trying to kickstartThe Boondock Saints: Originswith an independent pre-sale campaign with ridiculous pledge options. Find out more and watchThe Boondock Saints: Originstrailer, after the jump. The 1999 film developed a cult following, which helped spawn a sequel,The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Dayand a two-part comic book series....

‘The Larry Sanders Show,’ ‘Men In Black’ Star Rip Torn Dies At 88 Rip Torn, the versatile Emmy-winning actor best known for HBO’sThe Larry Sanders Showand theMen in Blackfranchise, has died at the age of 88. A prolific actor on the stage and the screen, Rip Torn died Tuesday at his home in Lakeville, Connecticut, according to his representatives. Torn’s publicist did not release a cause of death, but said he was at his home surrounded by family in Lakeville....

‘The Mummy’ Featurette: Hey, Did You Know Tom Cruise Does His Own Stunts? RememberTom Cruise, one of the stars ofCocktail? I guess he’s some kind of hotshot action star now, and apparently – get this –he does a lot of his own stunts. How about that? I kid, I kid. If you’ve paid even the slightest amount of attention to mainstream American filmmaking over the past decade, you’ve likely seen tons of stories about Cruise hanging from the wing of an airplane as it took off or being strapped to the outside of the world’s tallest building....

23% Of Fans Said This Is The Best Netflix Original Action Movie. Are They Right? Netflix has beenmaking original content since 2012, and action movies have been a huge part of the equation for some time. This makes sense as action films are a mainstay genre that has put meat in seats for decades, be it in a movie theater or at home watching a direct-to-video offering on cable. The point is, it makes every bit of sense for the largest streaming service in the world to make lots of action flicks, ranging from the biggest of the big, like"Red Notice,“to tinyunderrated gems like “Mosul....

Alec Baldwin Didn’t Pull Trigger In Fatal Rust Incident, Says Assistant Director Less than two months after the weapon discharge on the Santa Fe set of “Rust” that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza, two involved parties have come forward to insist that no one pulled the trigger. On “Good Morning America,” the attorney forDavid Hallsstated on behalf of her client that although Alec Baldwin was holding and rehearsing with the gun ahead of a scene, he did not pull the trigger....

All My Friends Hate Me Writers Tom Palmer And Tom Stourton Are Here To Make You Squirm [Interview] “All My Friends Hate Me” is an anxiety film. Anyone who’s ever felt out of place among a group of strangers — or even worse, a group of friends or family members — will recognize the social anxiety on full display in the low-key horror-comedy. In the film, Pete (Tom Stourton) goes on a weekend getaway with friends from college, but they no longer relate like they used to....