Percy Jackson And The Olympians Has Officially Been Given A Series Order At Disney+ Fans of magic, monsters, and mayhem won’t have much longer to wait for the streaming adaptation of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” The fantasy series by author Rick Riordan, which was adapted into two feature films in 2010 and 2013, is getting the live-action treatment once more, this time with the original writer’s stamp of approval. You’ll likely remember thatRiordan could hardly contain his distastefor the original movie, dismissing it as an unsatisfactory attempt at translating his material....

Red Light! Green Light! Mondo Announces ‘Mission: Impossible’ Vinyl Soundtrack Release You mission, should you choose to accept it…I wonder, did you ever choose not to? Well, when it comes to new vinyl soundtrack releases fromMondo, the answer is no, especially when it comes toMission: Impossible. Mondo has announced a vinyl release for the originalMission: Impossiblescore composed byDanny Elfmanfor the 1996 adaptation of the classic television series. Complete with cover art that looks like an old school vinyl album from the 1970s, this is the perfect vinyl release for an incredible soundtrack....

Release Dates: ‘War Horse’ And ‘Tintin’ Changes; ‘Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol’ Opens Early In IMAX; ‘Gangster Squad’ Dated The past few hours saw a whole bunch of release date shuffles as both ofSteven Spielberg’s 2011 releases,The Adventures of TintinandWar Horse, got new US dates,Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocolwill now open five days earlier than planned, but will only play in IMAX for those days, andGangster Squadgets a 2012 release date that positions it for Oscar....

Scream 6 Bringing Back Scream 5 Survivors It’s only been three months since it was officially announced that “Scream” would reach the six movies franchise club, with “Scream 6"getting thegreen light to both scare us and make us laugh yet again. Though the previous film in the franchise, awkwardly titled just “Scream,” didn’t really tease any future plans or ideas, this is “Scream,” and the franchise that needs no other excuse than just some nutjob deciding to try and become famous by killing people to justify another entry....

Sequel Bits: ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, ‘24’ After the jump: I don’t necessarily think that there will be as big a leap between films. I see Casear as a seminal figure in ape history and he’s a mythic character. He’s essentially like their Moses and I think Caesar having to grapple with what it means to engage in this conflict that he doesn’t really want to be a part of and how that cuts at his core is going to be one of the great challenges for the character....

Sequel Bits: ‘Space Jam’, ‘Saw’, ‘Ghostbusters’, ‘Coming 2 America’, ‘Gremlins’, ‘Iron Sky’, ‘The Boy’, ‘Bill And Ted’ In this edition of Sequel Bits: Space Jamis a terrible movie, but people seem to love it. And now it’s getting a sequel, even though for the longest time it seemed like it would never happen. If you’re having trouble believing the sequel is the real deal, you’re not alone. LeBron James, the star of the film, and the person who has been pushing for the sequel all these years, can’t believe it himself:...

Sequel Bits: ‘Trick ‘R Treat 2’, ‘Triplets,’ ‘48 Meters Down’, ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ In this edition ofSequel Bits: It’s almost Halloween, and Michael Dougherty, who helmed the Halloween-themed horror anthologyTrick ‘r Treat, just dropped some news into the metaphorical plastic pumpkin buckets of genre fans. In a new interview with Mick Garris on the podcastPost Mortem(viaDread Central), Dougherty revealed that after he gets done withGodzilla: King of the Monsters, he hopes to direct the sequel to his cult horror hit:...

Shawn Levy Offers ‘Real Steel’ Sequel Update, Wants To Explore Atom’s Origin Real Steelisn’tShawn Levy’s most successful film at the box office, but it is easily the most enjoyable film he’s directed. Before theSteven Spielberg-produced movie even opened in theaters, Levy started talking abouta sequel, which he,HughJackman, andEvangeline Lillywere expected to return for. The father-son fighting robots story performed well overseas, but it wasn’t a big hit in the States. Five years since the movie hit theaters, Levy is still considering a sequel....

Some ‘Star Trek’ Actors Still Haven’t Read The Sequel’s Script After months of speculation and delays, things are finally moving ahead in regards to the sequel to 2009’sStar Trek. Mostly. First of all,J.J. Abramsfinally signedon to direct. AMay 17, 2013 release datewas set, the film will be shot in 3D and new actors such asBenicio Del Toro(or not),Alice EveandPeter Wellerare all joining the cast. Filming is scheduled to startin early 2012but, according to some recent interviews byE Online,many of the primary returning cast members have yet to see the script....

Some Kind Of Robert Rodriguez Cinematic Universe Project Is In The Works Though the Marvel Cinematic Universe is the first film franchise to take multiple film series and bridge them together on such a large scale, it’s not the first time movies have shared the same universe on the big screen outside of traditional sequels. Universal’s classic monster movies all existed in the same world, Kevin Smith built his View Askewniverse that was connected by shared characters such as Jay & Silent Bob, Quentin Taranito’s movies all have little connections to each other, and they even shared some connections with the interconnected films ofGrindhouseco-directorRobert Rodriguez....

Star Wars Bits: Theories On Episode VII X-Wings And Stormtroopers, Star Wars Rebels, C-3PO Some cool, semi-spoileryEpisode VIIspeculation and actual facts are part of this edition of Star Wars Bits. Below, read the following: Note: There will be some minor spoilers below, mostly Episode VII alterations to previous characters/vehicles, but nothing major. For a few months, we’ve been hearing thatStar Wars Episode VIIwon’t just have the normal, white Stormtroopers. There will be a ton of different looks, among them a black-colored trooper that’s being referred to as either a Chrome Trooper or Shadow Trooper....

Starstruck Season 2 Trailer: The Beloved Rom-Com Returns Have you ever fallen in love with a movie star? Sorry, let me rephrase that — have you evermeta movie star, spent a semi-awkward but mostly delightful night together, and then begun an on-again-off-again relationship in which failing to communicate your feelings had disastrous effects until youfinallywised up and put some effort into maintaining the relationship? If the answer is yes, please share details immediately — but if not, then you’ll certainly enjoy watching these chaotic events unfold over the course of two charming and very bingeable seasons of television....

Stay In The Home Alone House With Your Family This Holiday Season, Courtesy Of Airbnb Whether we want to admit it or not, any one of us who grew up watching “Home Alone” would kill to get to spend a cold Christmas night at Kevin’s massive family home. Well, now you can! Located north of downtown Chicago, this Winnetka home was the actual shooting location for the majority of that first “Home Alone” movie....