‘This Was Our Pact’: Peter Dinklage Will Voice A “Mysterious And Charismatic” Talking Bear In New Animated Movie What the world needs right now is a movie wherePeter Dinklageprovides the voice of a “mysterious and charismatic” cartoon bear. Okay, maybe that isn’t really what the world needs right now, but we’re getting it anyway. Dinklage will produce and star inThis Was Our Pact, an animated feature based on the graphic novel by Ryan Andrews....

ABC’s ‘Time After Time’ Feels Like A Repeat [Comic-Con 2016] Time After Timeis an excellent time travel movie.Nicholas Meyer’s 1979 film follows author H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) as he travels to the future to hunt down his former pal, Jack the Ripper (David Warner). It’s an exciting, funny, and often visually stunning picture – the astonishing opening long take lures you right into the movie – that holds up. Now,Kevin Williamson(The Vampire Diaries) has adapted the film into atelevision seriesthat sticks too closely to the original source....

Actually, Halloween Isn’t A Knock-Off Of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre The first word on “Halloween Kills” is starting to come out and it doesn’t seem to be scoring any points with the big trade critics.The Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooneywasn’t impressed, comparing the film to the lesser “Halloween” sequels of the ’80s and ’90s, andOwen Gleiberman of Varietywent a step further and pretty much said the original film wasn’t any good in the first place....

Box Office: Monsters Vs. Aliens With $16M Friday & Possible $56M Opening Weekend! It is an excellent weekend for Dreamworks Animation. Although the credit crunch prevented financing that would allow exhibitors to undertake the digital conversion of more of its theatres, Monsters vs. Aliens is benefiting spectacularly from the 2,075 or so standard Digital 3-D engagements and the added 143 Digital IMAX runs. The audaciously ambitious animated send-up of 50’s B-movies has used the “bleeding edge” of technology to milk an estimated $16M in opening day ticket sales, which could translate to $56M or so for the 3-day weekend according to competing studio execs....

Bruce Campbell: Next Spidey Shooting In January, Bigger Part For Him The world’s most A-grade B-actor,Bruce Campbell, was stopped at the red carpet premiere ofCloudy With a Chance of Meatballsand pressed for details on the upcomingSpider-Man 4. Seeing as he’s had a role in each of the threeSam RaimiSpidey pictures so far it wasn’t too much of a stretch to assume he’d be on the call sheet for the next go around too....

Cameron Crowe Calls ‘Say Anything 2’ A Pipe Dream Sometimes even the best of us get stuck with our foot in our mouth. That seems to be what happened withCameron Croweearlier this month whenhe told an audiencehe would consider making a sequel toSay Anythingand that he’d spoken toJohn Cusackabout it. Hehasthought about where kickboxer Lloyd Dobler and valedictorian Diane Court might go after the end of the film and hehasspoken to Cusack about it, but it was years ago and at this point, Crowe doesn’t want to ruin that personal film with an unnecessary sequel....

Cool Stuff: Every Inch Of ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ Is Covered By Scott C. In New Mondo Poster Attention,Star Warsfans! Pop culture artistScott C.has delivered the ultimate print for everyone who was blown away byStar Wars: A New Hope. Whether it was all the way back in 1977 when you were thrust into a galaxy far, far away or at a pivotal time in your childhood, Star Wars means something to you....

Cool Stuff: Marvel’s Disney+ LEGO Minifigures Blind Bags Include Loki, Scarlet Witch, And Frog Thor The Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to get animated with a twist on Disney+. The upcoming seriesMarvel’s What If…?will bring back many of the beloved characters from the past decade of Marvel movies, but we’ll see their stories play out in a completely different way, such as T’Challa becoming Star-Lord, Peggy Carter becoming Captain Britain, Spider-Man becoming the Sorcerer Supreme, and more....

Cool Stuff: Tyler Stout’s New ‘The Terminator’ Poster Is Worth Time Traveling For Tyler Stoutis responsible for some of the most coveted pieces in the pop culture art scene. His style is unmistakable, his prints are hard to find, and even when you do, they usually cost and arm and a leg on the secondary market. But every now and then, we’re lucky enough to be on an even playing field when Tyler Stout releases a new poster, and that has happened today with a new print for James Cameron’sThe Terminator....

Dreamworks Animation Now Has Access To ‘Casper,’ ‘Voltron,’ ‘Rocky & Bullwinkle,’ And More This week DreamWorks Animation announces that it has purchased Classic Media, a smaller company that might not mean much to many readers. But the key thing here is the slate of properties to which Classic Media held rights, including the Golden Books library. With this purchase, DreamWorks now has access to the screen rights toCasper the Friendly Ghost,Where’s Waldo?...

Dwayne Johnson Making ‘Teddy Bear’, Based On DeviantArt Drawing No doubt the success of Seth MacFarlane’sTedhas contributed to the continuing climb of R-rated comedies, but it also seems to have kicked off another minor trend: movies about teddy bears. The next film to feature the classic kids' toy will be the tentatively titledTeddy Bear, which hasDwayne Johnsonon board to produce and possibly star. This particular stuffed animal seems to be less of an inappropriate rascal and more of a courageous hero, however....

Early Buzz: Sofia Coppola’s ‘Somewhere’ The first reviews ofSofia Coppola’s new filmSomewhereare starting to come in from Venice, and they’re quite good. Praise forStephen Dorff’s performance is universal so far, as is an appreciation for the quiet tone of Coppola’s storytelling. Let’s kick things off with a blockquote fromVariety’s review, which seems to sum things up pretty well: Sofia Coppola’s “Somewhere” is a quiet heartbreaker. Trading “Lost in Translation’s” Tokyo hotel for Beverly Hills' Chateau Marmont, the ever-perceptive writer-director further hones her gifts for ruefully funny observation and understated melancholy with this low-key portrait of a burned-out screen actor....

How LeVar Burton Feels About Star Trek Conventions If there’s one thing I miss about the world before the pandemic, it’s nerd events. Be it D&D games, midnight movie screenings, or a good old fashioned comic convention, it’s nice to have a place to bask in the joy of fictional worlds with other people for brief time. Some of my favorite memories involve some good friends and the packed lines of San Diego Comic-Con....