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Cool Stuff: We’re Finally Getting The LEGO Hoth Playset ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ Deserves There are a slew of incredibleLEGO Star Warssets out there, but for some reasonThe Empire Strikes Backhasn’t really properly been given its due diligence in building brick form. Specifically, with the exception of a Snowspeeder and AT-AT, the playsets recreating scenes from the opening battle on Hoth have been lackluster at best. But that changes this spring with a new Echo Base LEGO set that is nearly everything you ever wanted from aLEGO Hothplayset....

Deadpool 3 Finds Its Director In Free Guy Helmer Shawn Levy Update 29-07-2025:THR has updated their article to reflect that the original writers of “Deadpool” and “Deadpool 2” are returning for “Deadpool 3.” We have reflected that in our article below. At long last, we have some encouraging and potentially exciting news about the long-awaited “Deadpool 3.” It turns out that Ryan Reynolds is looking to reunite with director Shawn Levy for a third time, as the filmmaker is being courted by Disney and Marvel Studios to take the helm of the third entry in the hit franchise....

Episode 8 Bits: Rumored Story Points, Updates From Mark Hamill, And Cool Fan Art In this edition of Episode 8 Bits: BREAKING:Star Wars: Episode 8to feature an elaborate special effects sequence! No other details available! Mark Hamill teases this development (special effects in aStar Warsmovie?!) at the Salt Lake City Comic-Con,where he talked about balancing his return as Luke Skywalker with other projects: But I came home and I realized, ‘oh my gosh, they have an interview for me tomorrow afternoon....

First Look: Jason Clarke In Baltasar Kormákur’s ‘Everest’ Production is now underway on the star-studded mountain climbing drama,Everest. Directed byBaltasar Kormákur(Contraband),EverestfeaturesJason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John HawkesandJake Gyllenhaaltelling the true story of two groups of climbers who attempted to summit the world’s highest mountain in what turned out to be a horrible snowstorm. It’ll be released in IMAX 3D on July 28, 2025. Check out the full first image from the production, and the full press release, below....

Hollywood Interested In Making ‘Moonfall’, Fargo-Like Thriller Set On The Moon [Updated] David Weilwrote a science fiction spec script titledMoonfallwhich has attracted a lot of interest around Hollywood this week.The Wrapis reporting that “several top filmmakers including producerDarren Aronofsky” are interested in makingMoonfall, which has been described as aFargo-like thriller set on the moon. The moon and aFargo-like thriller? I’m in. Find out more about the potentialMoonfallmovie, after the jump....

How ‘Hoosiers’ Helped Alden Ehrenreich Relax After Being Cast As Han Solo In ‘A Star Wars Story’ Star Warsfans are some of the most rabid in pop culture. The most hardcore of them know each and every detail of a lightsaber, they can name dozens of planets in the galaxy, they know the names of the most obscure characters with the smallest amount of screentime, and they’re also the most critical of every single decision made as a movie crawls through development....

If You Want To Prep For Dune, Watch Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind A desert planet. A prophesied messiah. A tyrannical empire. Giant bugs. You may think I’m describing “Dune,” the new sci-fi epic directed by Denis Villeneuve. Or your mind might even go to “Star Wars,” itself a beloved sci-fi saga inspired by the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert. But the above also applies to “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind,” the masterful 1984 animated film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki....

Jonah Hill’s Second Feature Film Will Be A Therapy Documentary For Netflix Writer/producer/actor/directorJonah Hill’s feature directorial debut, the skateboarder coming of age storyMid90s, didn’t make much of a splash when it premiered back in 2018 (althoughour reviewwas very positive). But his next film is tackling a subject that has too often been considered taboo in the United States: therapy. Hill is already in production on his second movie, an untitled documentary which is intended to provide a helpful and non-cheesy look at therapy as framed by Hill’s own therapist....

Keanu Reeves Wants To Play The Villain In His Directorial Debut ‘Man Of Tai Chi’ Last yearKeanu Reevesstarted talking aboutMan of Tai Chi, which would be his first feature project as a director. The martial arts film would be set in the present day, but is intended as an homage to classic kung-fu films. Now Mr. Reeves says he wants to play the villain in the film, which is gathering financing now....

Kimi Ending Explained: Can You Hear Me Now? Steven Soderberghhas, once again, dropped another gripping, terrific film on a streaming service. His seventh film after hisso-called retirement, the paranoid surveillance thriller “Kimi” sees the director/cinematographer/editor once again grabbing ahold of a traditional genre piece and transforming it into a thoughtful, stylish picture, never losing the inherent pulpiness of the material. Soderbergh does this time and time again, going all the way back to 1998’s incredibly sexy crime romance “Out of Sight....

Nicolas Winding Refn On The “Trash To Art” Evolution Of Posters In His Book ‘The Act Of Seeing’ The guy who madeBronsonandDrivewants to take you on a trip to the 42nd Street of ’60s and ’70s New York City. As a guidebook, he offers a collection of lurid and strange movie posters. Of courseNicolas Winding Refn, a writer and director, and a participant inThe American Genre Film Archive, is a wildly knowledgable cinephile....

No Country For Old Men Ending Explained: You Can’t Stop What’s Coming Ethan and Joel Coen tend to oscillate between making films about hapless law-breakers who get in over their heads and movies that cheekily subvert genre conventions (be they those of the gangster flick, screwball comedies, or Golden Age musicals). 2007’s “No Country for Old Men” marked the rare occasion where the brothers directed a film based on a story they didn’t come up with, instead adapting the 2005 neo-western novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy....

Recent ‘Star Wars 7’ Rumors Line Up With Spoiler Post From March One of the first rules of reporting is that if you can’t get a primary source, get corroborating sources. Let’s say you’re trying to figure out what happens inStar Wars Episode VII. J.J. Abrams or Harrison Ford would be a primary source because they are directly involved. Since they can’t or won’t speak on the record about it, the best thing to do is find multiple unrelated people can who give you the same information....