Switzerland Won’t Release Polanski From Prison Given that the Swiss government has more or less turned a blind eye toRoman Polanski’s presence in the country over the past decade (despite an international warrant being out for his arrest since at least 2005) I suppose the filmmaker had reason to believe that he might be able to talk his way out of the Zurich prison that has been his home since September 26....
Sylvester Stallone Has A Pitch For ‘The Expendables 2’, Talks About His Edgar Allen Poe Biopic We’ve heard about possible sequels toSylvester Stallone’sThe Expendablesfor over a year.Last July, producer Avi Lerner said, “We already have got some ideas aboutExpendablesNo. 2, No. 3. Definitely, it’s a franchise movie.” The film is opening this week, and if the rather expensive picture ($80m without factoring in prints and advertising) does well — not a given thanks to the R rating and competition from films likeScott Pilgrim— then Stallone is already developing an idea that would power a sequel....
The Emperor Won’t Appear In ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’, But This New Droid Will I know I speak for manyStar Warsfans when I say I’m excited forRogue One: A Star Wars Storybecauseit pushes familiar faces to the sidelines and focusesalmost exclusively on a batch of brand new characters. I’m more excited to meet Jyn Erso and Orson Krennic and Cassian Andor than I am to seeDarth Vader pop up in a cameo appearance....
The Flash Season 8: Release Date, Cast And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you may watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) The CW’s long-running superhero seriesThe Flashjust wrapped up its seventh season last week, but it won’t be long until season 8 sprints back onto the network. Here’s everything we know so far about the upcoming eighth season....
The It’s Always Sunny Character You May Not Realize Is Based On A Real Person The creators of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” have drawn quite a bit of inspiration from their own lives for the hit FXX comedy series, but perhaps it’s Green Man who has become the biggest sensation to crossover. Green Man is Charlie Kelly’s (Charlie Day) alter-ego, a mascot who wears a green morphsuit and sneakers. Charlie has worn the Green Man suit a few times over the course of the series after it made its debut in “The Gang Gets Invincible,” when Frank (Danny DeVito) laced Charlie’s beer with LSD, and he started dancing with the entire McPoyle clan....
The Last Airbender Movie Trailer #3 Paramount Pictures has released a new full length movie trailer forM. Night Shyamalan’sThe Last Airbender. I was somewhatimpressed by the original teaser trailerwhich accomplished everything in one continuous (yet stitched together) shot.The television spot which aired during the Super Bowlhad me completely sold. To me the spot had all the power ofthe Lord of the Ringstrilogy.The first full movie trailersparked new doubts regarding the young actors/actresses and the film’s dialogue....
The Pay Controversy That Plagues The Japanese Anime Industry Fans ofanimationlikely already know the process: An animation script is written, and the script is visualized on a storyboard of key scenes. Thevoice actorsrecord the spoken parts, and their vocal track is laid over a rudimentary version of the storyboard into a rough draft of the finished film called an animatic. The key poses for each character are animated and cleaned by one team — the key art animators — and then the in-between moments are filled in by a different team called, fittingly enough, in-betweeners....
The Reason Why ‘G.I. Joe 3’ Is Delayed It’s been a long time since we heard anything aboutG.I. Joe 3. The last development on the sequel had up and coming writerAaron Bergbrought on board as a writer, and before thatD.J. Carusowas hired to be at the helmof the movie instead ofG.I. Joe: Retaliationdirector Jon M. Chu. We’re not sure if either of those two talents are still involved with the project, but it doesn’t sound likeG....
The Walking Dead Season 11: Release Date, Cast And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Like one of the decaying carcasses wandering the wasteland,The Walking Deadis not fully dead – not yet, anyway. The hit AMC zombie series is returning for an eleventh and final season that’s being split into three eight-episode airing blocks....
This Week In Trailers: Vaxxed: From Cover-Up To Catastrophe, Who The F*@% Is Frank Zappa?, The Dying Of The Light, Unlocking The Cage, Tale Of Tales 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?...
Tim Burton To Direct Sleeping Beauty Remake Maleficent? It bodes well forAlice in Wonderlandthat Disney are now reportedly lining up another revisionist re-take on one of their cartoon classics forTim Burtonto direct.Maleficentwill be a retelling of theSleeping Beautystory that focuses on the Mistress of all Evil instead of that pretty somnambulist and her slightly creepy Prince Phillip. The studio registered the domain namemaleficentmovie.comsome time last summer, so I’ve been waiting for news a while....
TV Bits: ‘Outlander,’ ‘Let The Right One In,’ ‘Trust,’ Keanu Reeves, And ‘Grace And Frankie, In today’s edition of TV Bits: There are two projects in the works right now about the Getty kidnapping. Ridley Scott isnext directingAll the Money in the World, whileDanny Boylehas an FX limited series, calledTrust, about the event. According toVariety, Donald Sutherland will play billionaire oilman J. Paul Getty in Boyle’s show. When the billionaire’s grandson was famously kidnapped in Rome, he refused to pay the ransom right away....
Venom: Let There Be Carnage Credit Scene Explained: It’s Madness, Eddie “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” has finally arrived in theaters after roughly a year of delays. As with many superhero flicks of the modern era, it also brings with it a post-credits scene. Sometimes these scenes are just having a little bit of fun. Other times they bring with them universe-shattering consequences and reveals. In the case of this particular movie, it’s the latter option....
