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‘The Big Short’ Wins Big At The 2016 PGA Awards – Can It Take Home The Best Picture Oscar? IfThe Big Shortwins Best Pictureat this year’s Academy Awards, I will laugh and laugh and laugh. No, not because it’s a bad movie. Not at all! In fact, it’s a very good movie (it made /Film’s top 15 of 2015). However, nothing would tickle me more than the knowledge thatAdam McKay, the director ofAnchormanandStep Brothers, made a movie that his peers named the number one accomplishment in cinema of the past year....

‘Venom’ International Marketing Makes Venom A Good Boyfriend And A Worrisome Son The US marketing forVenomhas left a lot to be desired. But theVenominternational marketing iskilling it. Two new pieces of international marketing for the anti-superhero flick embrace silliness and humor, painting Venom as a helpful boyfriend and a troubled son, while all the domestic marketing has played up darkness. The message is clear: let Venom have some fun. Sony Pictures’official Chinese Weibo account(h/t Twitter userDarren Mooney) uploaded the followingsuper cuteart depicting everyone’s favorite slime-monster as a very helpful boyfriend....

/Film Interview: ‘A.C.O.D.’ Director Stu Zicherman Talks Sundance Troubles, Deleted Characters And Steve Martin When a first-time director can bring together a hugely impressive cast, it’s pretty obvious the movie is something special. If it wasn’t, why would actors likeAdam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara, Amy Poehler, Clark Duke, Jessica Alba, Mary Elizabeth WinsteadandJane Lynchall line up to be part of it? The movie isA.C.O.Dand the director isStu Zicherman. “A.C.O.D.” stands for “Adult Children of Divorce “and the film explores the fact that adults of today are part of the first generation to grow up with divorce as the norm....

A Personal Story: Peter Sciretta And The Forbidden Journey The following is a more personal blog that I wanted to share with you readers, some of whom who have followed me over the past nine years. While it involves Harry Potter and theme parks, its not really about either of those things (besides, you’re able to find more about those things elsewhere on the site). The story is not an easy one for me to share, so if you decide to read the following, I ask that you be respectful in your responses....

Ahsoka Has Officially Begun Production, And We Know Who Is Directing The First Episode This month’s unofficial “Star Wars Day” has come and gone, leaving behind a whole group of people in its wake who kept saying things like “May the fourth be with you!” or “Revenge of the fifth!” while also attempting to make it seem normal and cool. Needless to say, this was not a success. But in between these extremely painful and forced (puns!...

American Cinema Editors' 2018 ACE Eddie Award Nominations Include ‘Dunkirk’, ‘Get Out’ & More Even though we’re now officially into 2018, awards season continues in Hollywood. The Golden Globes are coming up this weekend and now the various guilds and organizations that represent the talented people who work behind the scenes of your favorite movies are putting forth the nominations for their own awards. Today, it’s the American Cinema Editors announcing the nominees for their 68th ACE Eddie Awards....

Casting Short List Revealed For Bryan Singer’s ‘Jack The Giant Killer’ Heat Visionhas gotten a hold of the short list of actors (and actresses) being considered for the lead roles in directorBryan Singer’sJack the Giant Killer. he 3D fantasy/adventure project has been billed as an “adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend.” The plot summary is as follows: “When a princess is kidnapped, a long-standing peace between men and giants becomes threatened, and a young farmer is given an opportunity to lead a dangerous expedition to the giant kingdom to rescue her....

Cool Stuff: First Hot Toys Star Wars Figures Of Han Solo And Chewbacca The gold standard in high-end collectible toys is a company calledHot Toys. They have the most desirable licenses, and create work that is absolutely second to none. Some of their recent brilliant work is based onBack to the Future,The Dark KnightandThe Avengers. Back in July, Hot Toysfinally announcedthey had acquired the mother of all licenses:Star Wars. This was a crushing blow to collectors like myself because it meant we’d soon be dead broke as Hot Toys takes all our money with their amazing work....

Danny Boyle’s ‘Trust’ TV Series Has Epic Plans To Span 50 Years Over 5 Seasons Last year, it was announced thatDanny Boylewould be directing and producing a new television series calledTrustfor FX. While none of my all-time favorite films are directed by Boyle, the British filmmaker remains one of my favorite directors to watch and his new television series sounds epic. It’s now been revealed that Boyle has planned a 5 season story arc for the series, which will span 50 years....

David Cronenberg Expects ‘A Lot Of Walkouts’ For His Very Graphic Crimes Of The Future David Cronenberg’s films are often uncomfortable to watch — in a delightfully unhinged way, of course. Cronenberg is no stranger to alienating mainstream audiences with his films, a case in point being his 1996 Cannes premiere of “Crash,” which made some viewers sick to the stomach and prompted a few walkouts. Cronenberg’s upcoming horror sci-fi drama, “Crimes of the Future,” will see his return to the twisted, psychological aspects connected to the human body, which acts as the perfect segue into the director’s masterful grasp over the body horror genre....

Die Hard Characters As Dungeons & Dragons Character Alignments Beyond the storytelling possibilities afforded by its fantastical settings, the key to any “Dungeons & Dragons” campaign is the diverse field of social dynamics that can emerge from just a few different character archetypes — from rangers and barbarians to rogues and sorcerers — and the color-wheel spectrum of character alignments any player can draw from its four compass points of Chaotic, Lawful, Good and Evil....

Filming The Wizard Of Oz Was Actually Very Dangerous. Here’s Why The 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz,” quite possibly the most famous movie of all time, had a notoriously messy production. While the film is based on the book by L. Frank Baum, first published in 1900, the 1939 film version has supplanted it in the popular consciousness with its memorable songs, indelible iconography (and employing the overused phrase “indelible iconography” is apt when talking about “The Wizard of Oz”), cutting-edge special effects, nightmarish images (those monkeys!...

First Reactions To The ‘Aquaman’ Test Screenings Surface Aquamangave a select few audience members permission to come aboard for early test screenings of the Warner Bros. DC Extended Universe film. So what’s the verdict? A little murky, since audience members didn’t share more than a few vague reactions to the comic book movie. But for the most part, it seemed likeAquamanmade quite a splash. According to Collider’s Steven Weintraub, some test screenings forAquamanwere recently held in Los Angeles, including the San Fernando Valley....