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‘Fastball’ Trailer: Don’t Worry, Kevin Costner Is Here To Teach You About Baseball TheFastballtrailer is all about taking a very deep and very specific dive into the history of baseball and it’s all set to the soothing sounds ofKevin Costner’s voice. In other words, it’s one slice of Apple pie and a screeching bald eagle away from being pure, unfiltered Americana. As the title implies, this documentary explores the fastball, the fastest pitch in baseball that can send the ball from the mound to home plate in “less than the blink of an eye....

‘Gremlins 3’ Will Stick With Puppets Instead Of Using CGI (If It Ever Gets Made) Fans ofGremlinshave been asking forGremlins 3for a long time. In fact, it’s been 25 years sinceGremlins 2: The New Batcharrived, and it’s about time those little monsters made a comeback. Though there’san animated series comingto HBO Max, that’s a prequel story, and fans want something new with the same style as the original. The good news is, ifGremlins 3ever gets made, directorChris Columbusfully intends to do it with practical puppets and not computer generated visual effects....

‘Happy Feet Two’ Theatrical Trailer – Elijah Wood Makes A Dancing Escape The first trailer forHappy Feet Twowas the epitome of the word “teaser.” It was little more than a bunch of penguins dancing in unison to Justin Timberlake’sSexy Back. With the film’s release date now just over a month out, Warner Bros. has finally released a full, theatrical trailer that not only gives us an idea of the story also samples the almost mind-blowingly impressive voice cast this time around (Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Hank Azaria, Sofia Vergara, Pink, Hugo Weaving)....

‘Hellboy’ Featurette Spotlights The Practical Effects; Listen To The New Theme Music Lionsgate is making sureHellboyis a movie that will be seared onto your eyeballs, and your eardrums. The studio released a newHellboyfeaturette spotlighting the film’s gruesome practical effects and makeup, crafted by the Academy Award-winning make-up artistJoel Harlow,best known for his work onStar Trek. On top of that, our the first listen of theHellboymusic score composed byBenjamin Wallfischis out on the interwebs, and it is literal fire....

‘Lady And The Tramp’ Trailer: Must Love Dog Romances If you were thrown off by the photorealistic animals of Disney’sThe Lion King, the upcomingLady and the Tramplive-action remake has none of those problems. With real rescue dogs playing the beloved characters,Lady and the Trampis kicking it old school, featuring voice actors narrating over dogs who are trained to share meatballs and chase after dog pound vans. While a little CGI trickery is used to make the dog’s mouths move, it’s all real and good doggos....

‘Marvelous And The Black Hole’ Review: A Sweet But Slight Coming-Of-Age Comedy About Letting A Little Magic Into Your Life [Sundance 2021] 13 is a hard age. No longer a child, not yet an adult, and nowhere to channel that teen angst, which is even rawer for angry delinquent Sammy Ko (Miya Cech), who is struggling to overcome the grief over losing her mother. So Sammy breaks things at her school and tattoos little x’s on her thigh with a makeshift tattoo pen, until her father (Leonardo Nam) gets fed up and threatens her with military camp....

‘Memory: The Origins Of Alien’ Documentary Explains How Ridley Scott’s Sci-Fi Classic Came Together There have been plenty of great feature-length documentaries about filmmaking:American Movie,Lost in La Mancha,Hearts of Darkness,Best Worst Movie,Jodorowsky’s Dune, andBurden of Dreamsimmediately spring to mind. Now a new documentary aims to join those hallowed ranks. It’s calledMemory: The Origins of Alien, and it’s an exploration of Ridley Scott’s seminal 1979 sci-fi horror classic that features never-before-seen materials from the archives of writerDan O’Bannonand designerH....

‘Miral’ Trailer - An Israeli-Palestinian Saga By ‘Diving Bell And The Butterfly’ Director Julian Schnabel The Weinstein Co. has released a trailer forJulian Schnabel’sMiral, starringSlumdog MillionaireactressFreida Pinto. The film covers five decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with Pinto playing a young woman who falls for a political activist (Omar Metwally,Munich) and becomes involved in the Palestine liberation movement. Watch the trailer after the jump. [viaTheMovieBox.Net] Although this new trailer features slightly less violence and improper language, it otherwise looks pretty similar to the French-subtitled one wepostedlast summer — right down to the melancholy Tom Waits song that plays over the very end....

‘Ms. Marvel’: Newcomer Iman Vellani To Star In The Marvel Studios Disney+ Series After a lengthy search, Disney has found itsMs. Marvel. Iman Vellani, an unknown actress with no credits to her name, has been cast as Kamala Khan, a Pakistani-American teenager who has the ability to grow her limbs to huge sizes. Khan was the first Muslim character to get her own regular Marvel Comics title, and she’s become a fan-favorite....

‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ Review: At First It’s Dull, And Then It’s Kind Of Amazing Somewhere around the halfway mark of directorSteven S. DeKnight’sPacific Rim Uprising, my groans of exasperation turned into gasps of delight. I can pinpoint the exact moment in which my opinion of the movie changed, but so as not to spoil what is genuinely one of the strangest scenes in a blockbuster in recent memory, let me just say that oncePacific Rim Uprisingreally starts drinking its own Kool-Aid, it’s an absolute joy....

‘Pokémon’ Movie Hires ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ And ‘Gravity Falls’ Writers Almost a month ago, we learned that Legendary Pictureshad officially acquired the rightstoPokémonfor a live-action adaptation of the popular video game franchise. Recently there has been a lot of chatter surroundingPokémonbecause of the massive popularity ofPokémon Go, so Legendary wants to strike while the iron is hot. However, the studio isn’t using that game as inspiration, but instead the recent Japanese titleGreat Detective Pikachu....

‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’: Jake Johnson Is Your New Peter Parker Jake Johnson(New Girl, Jurassic World) is your new Peter Parker. But unlike all of the other Spider-Man movies we’ve seen thus far, Sony Pictures Animation’s upcomingSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Versewon’t follow Peter as the central character. Instead, it tells the story of Miles Morales, Marvel’s half-black half-Hispanic character who is bitten by a radioactive spider and takes on the superhero mantle....

‘Splash’ Remake Is In The Works From Producer Brian Grazer There comes a point where you stop getting angry about the number of remakes in the Hollywood pipeline and just get a little sad and a little irritated. I’m not particularly perturbed that producerBrian Grazerhas revealed that he’s working on a new version ofSplash, but I did sigh and mutter “of course you are” as I started typing this paragraph after failing to concoct an even somewhat clever headline....