Decades Later, Nothing Has Topped ‘Are You Afraid Of The Dark’ For Kid-Friendly Horror (Welcome toNostalgia Bomb, a series where we take a look back on beloved childhood favorites and discern whether or not they’re actually any good. In this edition: revisiting the classic Nickelodeon seriesAre You Afraid of the Dark.) It’s been 18 years since Nickelodeon’sAre You Afraid of the Darkwent off the air, yet in that time the audience who grew up with the anthology series have never forgotten it....

Director John Landis Says He’s “Bored Shitless” By Marvel Studios Movies Wonder Womanis unquestionably the movie of the moment, but when you take a step back and look at the larger film industry, Marvel Studios is still sitting pretty. They already releasedGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2to great acclaim last month, they haveSpider-Man: Homecoming(which istechnicallya Sony release) coming out soon, and the exciting-lookingThor: Ragnarokis on deck for November. Oh, and don’t forget aboutBlack Panther,Ant-Man and the Wasp, and anotherAvengersmovie next year....

Distro Deals: A Single Man And Valhalla Rising Bought At TIFF; Soderbergh’s Knockout To Lionsgate Analysts have noted that the big festivals inaugurating this fall season have been slow to produce buys for films without distribution.Tom Ford’s filmA Single Man(which has abeautiful trailerI posted yesterday) looked like it could be the first big buy of the Toronto Fest, and that almost turned out to be true. A Single Manunspooled in Toronto last night and the screening set off one of those all-night bidding wars (driven by Ford’s agency, CAA) that every young filmmaker must dream of at least occasionally....

Edgar Wright Turned Down The ‘American Werewolf In London’ Remake [Updated] Update:Max Landis has reached out to us about this story and has clarified a few details about what went down here. We have added the new details at the bottom of our original story. One movie that absolutely doesnotneed a remake isAn American Werewolf in London,John Landis' brilliant horror-comedy featuring mind-blowing special make-up effects. But there are plans for a remake anyway, with Landis' sonMax Landiswriting the script and maybe even directing....

Emperor Palpatine Confirmed To Be A Clone In ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’, Was Considered To Return In ‘The Force Awakens’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The novelization ofStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerwon’t be available everywhereuntil March 17, but Lucasfilm Publishing made copies of the book available early at Chicago’s C2E2 convention this past weekend. That means some of the revelations left out of the movie have started to surface online, and one of them explains a detail about returning villain Emperor Palpatine that would have been best explored on the big screen instead of in a book released after the fact....

Everything We Know About Cyberpunk: Edgerunners So Far Sometimes you want to play a video game and sometimes you want to watch a video game (and sometimes you want to watch a significantly more or less talented person play a video game, but that’s a different content stream). For those of you who don’t want to deal with the glitches of “Cyberpunk 2077” but still want to soak up that sweet William Gibson-esque atmosphere, Netflix and CD PROJEKT RED have heard your cries, and boy do they have the anime for you....

How ‘Interstellar’ Influenced ‘Westworld’, And Read A Deleted Scene I hope you’ve been enjoying our coverage of HBO’sWestworldhalf as much as we’ve been enjoying this show. Earlier today I posted ourweekly Westworld theory article, if you haven’t checked it out yet, please do — it’s packed with interesting ideas, analysis, and tidbits. But for now, we should get to some news bits we were unable to cover inWestworld Bits. Primarily, howChristopher Nolan’sInterstellarinfluenced Westworld, and in particular, a moment in this week’s episode....

Joaquin Phoenix In Talks For Paul Thomas Anderson’s Religious Drama Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, referenced asThe Master, but called justUntitled Religious Dramafor now, has had an arduous path through development.Philip Seymour Hoffmanhas been attached for some time to the role of the founder of a Scientology-like religion.Jeremy Rennerwas attached for some time to play his disciple, but financing fell through and the script was taking some extra work, and Jeremy Renner moved on toMission: Impossible,Hansel and Gretel: Witch HuntersandThe Avengers....

Julie Delpy And Linda Cardellini Are In ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Just when you thought you knew everything you needed to leading intoAvengers: Age of Ultron, a new mystery arises. Disney is getting ready to premiere the film later this month and in a list of cast members attending the red carpet premiere, two names jumped out:Julie DelpyandLinda Cardellini. Neither actress has been in a Marvel movie before but both are well-known, which suggests more than just a fleeting cameo....

MacGruber Trailer: Will Forte Is Back To Rip More Throats, This Time On Peacock Those who were weaned on the likes of resourceful MacGuyvers, spine-ripping “Predators,” and men who “Die Hard” on their TV screens know that these “Over the Top” action films were rarely winking at their audience or trying to be funny, which is part of their lasting appeal. “Saturday Night Live” crafted a love letter to these “Action Jacksons” in the form of uber-patriot and action “Commando” (a former Green Beret, Navy SEAL, and Army Ranger, if anyone’s keeping track) MacGruber....

Marmaduke Trailer: Pete Davidson Is Great, And Also, A Dane In a move that feels like aMandela Effect-type fever dream in the making, Netflix is releasing an animated “Marmaduke” movie featuring the voices of Pete Davidson and J.K. Simmons. The movie follows that big goofy dog from the classic comic strip, only now the Great Dane (and his owners) all have a stick-thin, funkily computer animated look to them. The first “Marmaduke” movie since 2010’s poorly received live-action version (that one also sounds like a fever dream, but itapparentlystarred Owen Wilson, Judy Greer, and Lee Pace), the Netflix version doesn’t particularly look like it’s aiming to bring the once-beloved property back in a big way....

New ‘The Green Knight’ Images Send Dev Patel On An Epic Quest Hey, rememberThe Green Knight? It was a movie we were all pretty damn excited about in 2020. And then the coronavirus happened and pushed theDavid Lowry-directed movie into oblivion. There was a very vocal online push for A24 to release the film digitally, but A24 seemed to have no intention of doing anything like that. Now, at long last, we’re finally going to get to see this thing asThe Green Knightheads to theaters this summer....

New Star Wars Toys Will Be Unveiled In 18-Hour Live Unboxing YouTube Stream Disney Consumer Products has announced that they will unveil products inspired by the upcoming filmStar Wars: The Force Awakensthrough an unprecedented 18-hour long live YouTube stream of unboxing videos. Pretty insane. Watch the video announcement and read the full star wars toys unboxing press release after the jump now. The Force AwakensAround the World:Star WarsFans Invited to Join Epic Global Event on YouTubeToy unboxing phenomenon goes live globally for the first time ahead of ‘ForceFriday’Online event featuring talent from the Maker Studios network gives fans first look at film-inspired toys ahead ofmidnightmadness at retailGlendale, Calif....