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Superhero Bits: Stan Lee’s Final Animated Appearance, Lady Sif Rumored For Disney+ Series & More We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Want to seeStan Lee’s final animated appearance in a Marvel series? IsLady Sifgetting her own series on Disney+? Want to see what happens whenThanosstops byThe Simpsonsopening couch gag? What’s the long range box office tracking forCaptain Marvel? AreGambit, Dr. DoomandX-Forcemovies dead in the water? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....

Taika Waititi Will Play An Imaginary Hitler In ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Taika Waititihas his next role lined up, and it’s a doozy. TheThor: Ragnarokfilmmaker will play an imaginary Adolf Hitler in the filmJojo Rabbit. Waititi also wrote and will direct the satire, which focuses on a young boy and his relationship with his imaginary friend – Hitler – set during the backdrop of World War II. After usheringThor: Ragnarokto blockbuster success, Taika Waititi is moving on to a quirky, strange-sounding indie satire....

The 25 Coolest Panels At Star Wars Celebration 2015 And 5 Biggest Conflicts Note: We first published this piece on March 24. We’re republishing it now with the event starting Thursday.Star Wars Celebration, the world’s only officialStar Warsconvention, comes to Anaheim, CA April 16-19. This is when and when fans expect to learn more information aboutStar Wars: The Force Awakensbut also dive deep into their passion for a galaxy far, far away....

The Best Movies About Vaudeville You Probably Haven’t Seen To quote Martin Short’s SCTV character Irving Cohen, “years ago there was a thing called a-vaude-a-ville.” Vaudeville was theatrical circuit in the late 19th century and early 20th century where, for a few cents, you’d go to see a stream of short plays, musical or comedy acts. Many of the earliest film comedians got their start there, like Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Marx Brothers and, yes, all permutations of The Three Stooges....

The Jody Hill Interview Part 1: Eastbound & Down, Kenny Powers’s Mullet, “Stevie’s Dark Secret,” And Race, Drugs, And Religion In The American South With only two feature films and one TV show to his name, writer/directorJody Hill,is now synonymous with ignoring the boundaries and “genre rules” of modern comedy and creating anti-heroes that laughably burble with nihilistic rage, scary faux pas and hot-air egos. But there is also an internal depth to these macho doofuses played by Hill’s longtime pal and writing partner,Danny McBride, and comedy starSeth Rogen, to surpass the high art of a perfectly-timed and pronounced “fuck....

The New ‘Halloween’ Will See The Return Of Jamie Lee Curtis; Synopsis Released [Updated] Update:A new synopsis forHalloweenhas been released and we’ve added it to the article below. If the upcomingHalloweenreboot wanted to get our attention, this is a great way to do it.Jamie Lee Curtis, who had her big break as the “final girl” inJohn Carpenter’s 1978 horror masterpiece, will return as Laurie Strode in the new movie, which is due out in 2018....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Save Ralph’ Will Make You Read The Fine Print On Your Cosmetics (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie:Save RalphWhere You Can Stream It: YouTubeThe Pitch:Spencer Susser(Hesher) directed this stop-motion short film faux-documentary about a rabbit named Ralph (the voice ofTaika Waititi) who is used by humans for cosmetics testing, and the horrors that creatures like him endure because some companies refuse to update their archaic testing practices....

Watch The First Three Minutes Of Freakonomics Magnolia Pictures has released the first three minutes of the documentary adaptation of the bestselling nonfiction book seriesFreakonomicsonline. Even though the film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April to mixed reviews (60% rotten on Rotten Tomatoes), I’m still interested to see this film based purely on the filmmakers involved. The documentary anthology features segments from the filmmakers behindSuper Size Me, Jesus Camp, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Why We Fight, and The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters....

Watch Tom McCarthy Explain The Construction Of A ‘Spotlight’ Scene Writer-directorTom McCarthyhas had one bizarre year. He wrote and directed one of the year’s finest films,Spotlight, and alsoThe Cobbler– a movie so strange and tonally troubled you must watch it. McCarthy, to my surprise, also had a role in this summer’sPixels. The man keeps busy. ButSpotlightis the movie everyone keeps talking about, and for good reason. It’s an all around excellent film, with an efficient script, taught direction, and quietly riveting performances....

Weinstein’s Developing ‘Finding Neverland,’ ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ And Others For Broadway HasSpider-Man: Turn off the Darktaught us nothing? Sure, the show making money (for now) but one would thinkall of the negative reactionswould make producers wary of adapting popular properties that need extensive wire work for the stage. NotBobandHarvey Weinstein.The New York Observerreports the pair are actively developing musicals based uponFinding Neverland, Chocolat,Cinema ParadisoandCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The furthest along isFinding Neverland, which already has music written byGrey GardensteamScott FrankelandMichael Korieand investors lining up....

Why The Amityville Horror Remake Tried To Ignore The Original’s Influence The year was 2005, and remaking horror movies was becoming the dominant trend of the decade. Up to and including 2005, the decade had already seen remakes of “Willard,” “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” “Boogeyman,” “The Fog,” “Dawn of the Dead,” “Thirteen Ghosts,” “The Ring,” “The Grudge,” and “House of Wax.” All of those were prior to the reboots of “Halloween,” “Friday the 13th” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street....

‘American Gangster’ Prequel Series Being Developed, Will Star Forest Whitaker One would think that if a director as big asRidley Scottmade a movie with actors likeDenzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, andJosh Brolin, it would have had more of a lasting impact on the collective psyche of the moviegoing public. But it’s been 10 years sinceAmerican Gangstercame out, and it’s been just about that long since I’ve seen or heard anyone mention it....

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Sequels To Shoot Back-To-Back Fans of the cultural phenomenonCrazy Rich Asianswill soon be flush with sequels. We already knew that aCrazy Rich Asianssequel, based on authorKevin Kwan’s follow-up novelChina Rich Girlfriend, was in the works, but producersNina JacobsonandBrad Simpsonhave revealed that twoCrazy Rich Asianssequels will be filmed back-to-back, likely in 2020. Crazy Rich Asianswas a watershed moment for Asian-American representation in Hollywood, sparking awave of Asian representationat the movies and in TV, and scoring theJon M....