Director Craig Brewer On His Journey Towards Making ‘Dolemite Is My Name’ [Interview] Netflix’sDolemite is My Nameis writer-directorCraig Brewer’s first movie in eight years. Before this, Brewer, who made his debut withThe Poor & Hungryand broke out withHustler & Flow,last directed the 2011Footlooseremake. Since then, he’s written scripts that never got the green light and directed several episodes of Fox’sEmpire. But after eight years away from a film set, Brewer returned sharper, not rustier, with a true story championing artists like comedian, actor, and filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore (played byEddie Murphy)....

Disney’s 20th Century Studios Will Hardly Release Anything In Theaters, And That’s A Real Shame Disney provided the media world with one of its biggest shake-ups in years when it closed a deal to acquire most of Fox’s media assets back in 2019 formore than $71 billion. It was a gigantic deal poised to provide a seismic shift to the entertainment landscape, which was beginning to push heavily towards streaming, with Disney gearing up to launch Disney+ to compete with Netflix....

Duncan Jones Wants To Release Dueling ‘Warcraft’ Trailers DirectorDuncan Jonesfinished shootingWarcraftalmost a year ago. Productionwrapped in May of 2014but the film is not scheduled for release until June 19, 2025. In the meantime, the director and his team are working hard not only on post-production, which includes a lot of performance capture and computer graphics, but marketing. How do you sell the masses on a super-geeky property based on a popular video game which still remains a niche property as far as the mainstream is concerned?...

Edgar Wright To Direct ‘The Chain’ Movie Based On The Bestselling Book, With Jane Goldman Writing The Script Edgar Wrightis about to tackle some dark material. The filmmaker, who has built his career making frequently comedic genre exercises, is going to direct a film adaptation ofThe Chain, author Adrian McKinty’s bestselling novel about a mother whose daughter is kidnapped.Jane Goldman, whose credits include films likeKick-Ass,X-Men: First Class,Kingsman: The Secret Service, and more, will write the screenplay, making this the first time Wright will direct a film that he isn’t writing....

Elisabeth Moss Will Star In Ruben Östlund’s Follow-Up To The Great ‘Force Majeure’ Since AMC’sMad Mencame to a satisfying conclusion, actressElisabeth Mosshas continued to work with very promising and very talented directors. She was most recently seen in Ben Wheatley’sHigh-Rise, an abrasive and dense piece of filmmaking, and before that she collaborated twice with writer/director Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Phillip,Queen of the Earth). Next, Moss will appear inRuben Östlund’sThe Square....

George R.R. Martin Hasn’t Read The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 Scripts Because He’s Too Busy Trying To Finish Those Damn Books After nearly a decade, HBO’sGame of Thronesis about to come to a dramatic close. ButGeorge R.R. Martin’s watch is not ending…yet. TheA Song of Ice and Fireauthor still has two books to finish in his long-running fantasy series, and impatient readers waiting for the next sprawling novel will be glad to hear that he’s been so busy working onThe Winds of Winterthat he hasn’t even had time to read the scripts for the final season of the HBO adaptation....

Home Sweet Home Alone Ending Explained: Home Is Another Word For Family Since its release over thirty years ago, “Home Alone” has become a traditional holiday watch for families all around the globe. When the Walt Disney Company purchased 20th Century Fox, a new installment of the kid-centered holiday classic was inevitable. Rather than focus on legitimate baddies like Harry (Daniel Stern) and Marv (Joe Pesci), and a precocious Kevin (Macaulay Culkin), we’re given a sympathetic couple down on their luck in the form of Jeff (Rob Delaney) and Pam McKenzie (Ellie Kemper), and a rich sociopath named Max Mercer (Archie Yates of “Jojo Rabbit” fame) in “Home Sweet Home Alone....

LucasFilm Releases ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Chronological Episode Order List We all know thatStar Wars: The Clone Warshas always been chronologically set during the three-year time period between theStar Warsprequel filmsAttack of the ClonesandRevenge of the Sith. To be more specific, 22–19 BBY on the Galactic Standard Calendar (where BBY means Before the Battle of Yavin, and ABY stands for After the Battle of Yavi). But the episodes didn’t take place (ie air) in chronological order....

Margot Kidder, Star Of ‘Superman’, Dead At Age 69 Here’s some sad news for fans of Richard Donner’sSuperman:Margot Kidder, who memorably portrayed spunky reporter Lois Lane in the live-action Superman movies, has died at the age of 69. Deadlinereports that Kidder passed away at the Franzen-Davis Funeral Home in Livingston, Montana on Sunday, but no cause of death was revealed. Kidder was most famous for playingDaily Planetreporter Lois Lane inSuperman(1978),Superman II(1980),Superman III(1983) andSuperman IV(1987), and like most legacy cast members of that franchise, she also appeared in a few brief stints onSmallvillein the mid-2000s....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies To Watch With Tom Cruise’s ‘The Mummy’ (Welcome toMovie Mixtape, where we find cinematic relatives and seek out interesting connections between new releases and older movies that allow us to rethink and enjoy what’s in our theaters as well as the favorites on our shelf. In this edition:The Mummy.) It’s difficult to overstate how popular mummy movies have been over the years. From 1932 to today, every few decades, a new mummy craze would lift its ragged head from the tomb to shock and amaze before slinking back off into the shadows....

Neill Blomkamp’s Latest Short Film Is A Live-Action Prequel To ‘Anthem’, An Upcoming Video Game District 9directorNeill Blomkamphasn’t directed a feature film since 2015’sChappie, but he’s since become a prolific director of short films, helming ten of them in the past four years at his company, Oats Studios. Now he’s teamed up with EA for his latest short calledConviction, which is a live-action prequel to BioWare’s highly-anticipated upcoming video gameAnthem....

New ‘Star Wars Resistance’ Trailer Includes A ‘Force Awakens’ Villain, Series Renewed For Season 2 Star Wars Resistancereturns from its winter break in just a few days, and now Disney Channel has debuted a new trailer showing some highlights of what fans can expect when the animated series makes its big comeback. One of those highlights is a crossover with a key moment inStar Wars: The Force Awakensthat involves one of that film’s major villains....

New Footage From Disney’s The Princess And The Frog Froglesshas uploaded a clip from the television show/special Backlot Buzz which hasJohn Lassetertalking about and showing clips from Disney’s upcoming return to hand drawn animation,The Princess and the Frog. The footage includes a bunch of new never-before seen footage, including our first real look at the film’s villain. At the end of the clip Lasseter says that “To actually see a hand-drawn animation this well done is like seeing something brand-new again....