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Script Review: Terry Gilliam’s Upcoming Sci-Fi Thriller, The Zero Theorem I’ve just finished readingPat Rushin’s screenplay to the filmThe Zero Theoremwhich is set to start shooting in May, under directorTerry Gilliamand producer Richard Zanuck, and which will starBilly Bob Thornton. To pigeonhole it, because I suspect you want me to at least try, I’ll call it a science-fiction drama that skidded on the turnpike and ended up ditched in a psychogenic fugue....

See How ‘Stranger Things’ Brought The Haunting Demogorgon To Life Now that it’s 2017, new episodes ofStranger Thingsfeel much closer. The first season debuted last summer, and fans are expecting the second season to arrive on Netflix around the same time this year, though no official release date has been set just yet. In the meantime, how about we take a closer look at how the signature monster known as the Demogorgon was brought to life for the show?...

Seeing Double: ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ Vs ‘White House Down’ (Welcome toSeeing Double, a series where two strangely similar films released around the same time are put head-to-head. This time: we get political with two movies about terrorist attacks on the most famous house in America!) These are trying times for the United States, and depending on your own political awareness you either see that the country is slowly bleeding to death beneath the ignorant and greedy whims of those in power, or you’re wrong....

Star Wars Bits: Episode VIII Production Designer, Force Awakens Actress, Rebels Marathon Cool events forThe Force Awakens, Episode VIIInews and much more in this edition of Star Wars Bits. Below, read about the following. An article inVarietymay have jumped the gun on a key member of the production team forRian Johnson’s (seen above on the set ofLooper)Star Wars Episode VIII. It revealed thatRick Heinrichs, the man behind the look of The Big Lebowski, Sleepy Hollow, Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and Captain America: The First Avenger, will work on the film....

The ‘Uncharted’ Movie Defies God And Man By Wrapping Filming TheUnchartedmovie was delayed so many times that we started to think it was never going to get made. Now, after beginning production in March,Unchartedhas wrapped filming, which means we’re one step closer to seeingTom Hollandas baby Nathan Drake andMark Wahlbergas poorly-cast Sully. TheRuben Fleischer-directed flick is meant to serve as a prequel to the popular game series. Sic Parvis Magna. That’s a wrap on#UnchartedMovie....

The Coolest Collectibles We Saw On The Comic-Con 2017 Show Floor When you’re walking the show floor at San Diego Comic-Con International, you are presented with a ton of eye candy: booths for upcoming movies, comic books, and video games. Collectible dealers show off their upcoming statues, figures and prop replicas. Companies sell their very limited Comic-Con exclusives. And there’s the standard merch booths and artist alley. Every year while walking the show floor, I snap photos of the coolest new collectibles I see and post them here for everyone who couldn’t make it to San Diego to enjoy....

The Morning Watch: How Cats Are Trained For Movies, Jake Gyllenhaal Plays With Puppies & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, find out howcatsare trained for movies and TV shows by professional animal wranglers....

Todd McFarlane Says ‘Spawn’ Reboot Will Be “Dark, R-Rated” If It Ever Happens Todd McFarlanehas been talking about rebootingSpawnfor the big screensince as far back as 2009. At one time he was touting the attachment of an Oscar-winning actor who kept bugging him about the script, and eventually it was determined that actor was probablyJamie Foxx. At the time,The Amazing Spider-Man 2star himself said that he was “aggressively pursuing” the lead role in the comic book adaptation, but three more years have gone by and nothing has happened....

Upright Citizens Brigade’s ‘Freak Dance’ Trailer UPDATE:As co-writer/director Matt Besser has explained in the comments below, the trailer went public prematurely and it’s been taken down until a release date has been secured. We’ll update when it’s live again. For all those who have grown weary from the constant surge of spoofs that rely more on topicality than actual jokes, this could be the antidote. From the creators of the Upright Citizens Brigade comesFreak Dance, a self-described “hilarious, in-your-face major motion picture musical about good, evil, dance, saving dance from evil for good, and the greatest love story ever told…about dancers”....

Watch The Sofia Coppola-Directed Miss Dior Cherie TV Commercial Starring Natalie Portman While it’s not that unusual for big-name directors to do commercial work on the side, there seems to be something about fragrance ads in particular that really draws them in. (“Bucketloads of money” is definitely part of it.) A new ad for the Miss Dior Cherie fragrance has premiered online, directed bySofia Coppolaand starring “brand ambassador"Natalie Portman. It looks like typical perfume ad stuff, with Portman lounging around attractively and making out withTetrostarAlden Ehrenreichand generally acting in a manner that only a person in a fragrance commercial would act — but it is pretty....

Zack Snyder Talks Serious Nature Of ‘Man Of Steel,’ Reflects On ‘Watchmen’s’ Legacy WhenZack Snydertalks about taking a comic book property seriously, he obviously has a strong point of reference. His adaptation of Alan Moore’sWatchmenis by far one of the most serious comic to film adaptations of all time, some would say to a fault. On the occasion of yet another version ofWatchmencoming out on Blu-ray, Snyder not only looked back at that film’s legacy, but looked ahead to how his approach toWatchmeninfluenced his upcoming Superman film,Man of Steel....

‘A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night’ Is A Supernatural Vision Of Progress [Sundance 2014 Review] There’s an implied threat in the title of the filmA Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Those words together suggest menace and victimization. An image forms, not of a woman out for an enjoyable stroll, but of one who might not make it home. A reversal of that threat is the core of this vampire film written and directed byAna Lily Amirpour....

‘Akira’ Concept Art Imagines Chris Evans And Joseph Gordon-Levitt In An American Adaptation Hollywood has been getting plenty of flack, and justifiably so, for the whitewashing of roles that should be meant for actors and actresses of different ethnic backgrounds. FromGods of Egyptto most recentlyGhost in the Shell, plenty of minorities, especially the actors within these groups, are upset at the lack of diversity in mainstream Hollywood. Therefore, some might not be happy with the proposed concept art for a live-action adaptation ofAkirathat has been circulating....