Fantasy Movie League Is A Weekly Battle For Box Office Domination

Fantasy Movie League Is A Weekly Battle For Box Office Domination You’d be right to think of movies and fantasy sports as two totally separate entities. Each has their fans, their rules, their own niches of the Internet. Plus, the cross section of people who know the same aboutStar WarsandThe Avengersas they do Y.A.C and W.H.I.P is probably tiny. Still, you had to think there was a good medium between the two things, and leave it to one of the most famous fantasy personalities in the world to find it....

July 26, 2025 · 3 min · 622 words · Sean Collins

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Easter Eggs You May Have Missed

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Easter Eggs You May Have Missed In a recent feature for The A.V. Club, writer Matt Schimkowitz highlights the distressing trend of fan service he feels present in “Ghostbusters: Afterlife.” Most prominently: The movie’s surplus of fan surrogates. “Traditional audience surrogates speak to the viewer’s logic and put their point of view on screen,” Schimkowitz explains. “A fan surrogate focuses on a specific viewer who knows everything about the cinematic universe unfolding before them … allowing a movie like Reitman’s ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ to speak the language of the fan community, verbalizing all its desires, interests, and moods....

July 26, 2025 · 14 min · 2942 words · Melissa Mccarthy

Glow In The Dark Pop Art Show Featuring Exclusive Mark Englert 'Bioshock' Reveal

Glow In The Dark Pop Art Show Featuring Exclusive Mark Englert ‘Bioshock’ Reveal Another year,another glow in the dark art showat New York City’sBottleneck Gallery. Last year’s event drew massive crowds, there to admire pop culture art made with glow in the dark inks, and this year should be more of the same. When The Lights Go Out 2opens Saturday March 22 and remains on display through April 9. As is the case with most group shows, a huge number of artists tackled a huge variety of properties....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 334 words · Stuart Kennedy

Guillermo Del Toro Offered 'Pacific Rim,' AKA The Godzilla Reboot? (He Says 'No')

Guillermo Del Toro Offered ‘Pacific Rim,’ AKA The Godzilla Reboot? (He Says ‘No’) UPDATE:Guillermo del Torosayshe has not read or been offered this project. You might remember back in May that Legendary PicturesboughtPacific Rim, a spec treatment byClash of the TitanswriterTravis Beacham. Or you might not; we won’t be offended if the small story slipped by you. But what if we told you thatPacific Rimmight be refitted to power the upcomingGodzillafilm, also by Legendary, and that the film has been offered toGuillermo del Toro?...

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 306 words · Megan Webb

Is Netflix Starting To Produce Proper Special Features?

Is Netflix Starting To Produce Proper Special Features? Nestled in the “Trailers and More” section on theNetflixpage for Orson Welles' long-awaitedThe Other Side of the Wind, is a 40-minute special feature that delves into the making of Welles' lost, incomplete film. TitledA Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making, it’s an intriguing mini-documentary that could have earned a whole Netflix page of its own. But what’s most intriguing about this hidden featurette is its implications for Netflix’s non-existent stance on special features: could we start seeing more Netflix special features soon?...

July 26, 2025 · 3 min · 444 words · Scott Aguilar

Kevin Smith Considering Funding Red State Through Donations, Talks About Cop Out Marketing

Kevin Smith Considering Funding Red State Through Donations, Talks About Cop Out Marketing Kevin Smithhas been talking about the filmRed Statefor a couple of years now, and his description has been enough to keep the project high on fan wishlists. “It’s this weird f***ing dark little seventies horror movie that nobody wants to make,” Smith says. Despite the difficulty in getting funds for the film, Smith is determined to make it, ideally after he knocks out his hockey filmHit Somebody....

July 26, 2025 · 3 min · 490 words · Mrs. Vanessa Freeman

Liam Neeson Once Again Says He's Retiring From Action Movies

Liam Neeson Once Again Says He’s Retiring From Action Movies Liam Neesonhas had a strange career. For the longest time, he was thought of as a serious dramatic performer – the type of actor who starred in titles likeSchindler’s List. Then cameTaken, the 2008 flick that inexplicably turned Neeson into an action hero. Ever sinceTaken,Neeson has stuck with his action star status – a move that sometimes backfired, like when the bleak dramaThe Greywas incorrectly marketed as a movie about Neeson fist-fighting some wolves instead of the harrowing meditation on death that it actually was....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 406 words · Renee Dean

Mark Wahlberg Will Be Back For 'Transformers 5'

Mark Wahlberg Will Be Back For ‘Transformers 5’ If the ending ofTransformers: Age of Extinctiondidn’t promise a sequel, those box office receipts did. Besides dismal reviews all around, and the lowest domestic gross of the franchise,Age of Extinctiongrossed over a billion dollars worldwide.Transformers 5was quickly announced for atentative 2016 release. The problem being, no one knew who was coming back or not, starting right at the top with directorMichael Bay....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 371 words · Martin Gonzales

Michel Hazanavicius In Talks, Natalie Portman Courted For Tom Hanks' Nazi Germany Drama 'In The Garden Of Beasts'

Michel Hazanavicius In Talks, Natalie Portman Courted For Tom Hanks' Nazi Germany Drama ‘In The Garden Of Beasts’ It’s not remotely fair to call a film Oscar bait when it’s not even close to shooting, but when a project combines an Oscar-winning director, two Oscar-winning stars, and a World War II premise, it’s tough not to wonder whether little gold men are in its future. The ArtistdirectorMichel Hazanaviciushas entered talks forIn the Garden of Beasts, based on a book byDevil in the White CityauthorErik Larson....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 281 words · Charlotte Walls

More Alice In Wonderland Casting... I Think...

More Alice In Wonderland Casting… I Think… I’ve been sent some tip-offs casting forTim Burton’sAlice in Wonderland, and I checked some of it with Peter and found out he’s heard tiny whispers himself. My source is really pretty solid, so I’m going to go out on a limb here. Remember – I’m buying into this 99%, but you don’t have to. Take it as a rumour for now. So, the key role here is that of The Cheshire Cat....

July 26, 2025 · 3 min · 500 words · Kevin Fischer

New 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Images Reveal More Action And Tech

New ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Images Reveal More Action And Tech There are officially less than two months untilJ.J. Abrams’Star Trek Into Darknesswarps into theaters. Doesn’t it feel like we’ve been talking about this film forever? That’s because we have. The first article /Film wrote about the film went up a mere month after 2009’sStar Trekwas in theaters.You can read it here. In it, the question about the potential that Khan would be in the movie was discussed....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 235 words · William Kramer

New Moonfall Images Feature Cool Spacesuits, Hot Movie Stars, Moons Falling

New Moonfall Images Feature Cool Spacesuits, Hot Movie Stars, Moons Falling Today brings something fun for fans of disaster movies, as we have new images from director Roland Emmerich’s “Moonfall.” Emmerich, the man behind “Independence Day” and “2012,” is no stranger to such large-scale disaster filmmaking. In this case he appears to have truly outdone himself, bringing the moon on a collision course with Earth, with Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson along for the ride....

July 26, 2025 · 3 min · 534 words · Michelle Bell

Ozark Season 4 First Look: The Byrdes Have Blood On Their Hands (And Everywhere Else)

Ozark Season 4 First Look: The Byrdes Have Blood On Their Hands (And Everywhere Else) Not for the first time in their lives, the Byrdes are covered in blood. A few years ago, this would’ve been unthinkable for the suburban power couple, back when life was all about raising their kids and trying to find joy in their passionless marriage. But “Ozark” is now approaching its fourth season and things have gotten considerably more exciting for Wendy (Laura Linney) and Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman)....

July 26, 2025 · 4 min · 754 words · Carl Griffith