Star Wars Bits: Pride Month, The Acolyte, Doctor Aphra, Durge, The Bad Batch, And More! In this edition of Star Wars Bits: 8 Star Wars Characters to Celebrate Pride Month StarWars.com is celebrating Pride Month with a list of LGBTQ+Star Warscharacters, including Doctor Aphra and Rae Sloane: “Star Warsis for everyone, and that means the worlds we explore are inclusive and diverse places to visit. Although there’s still work to be done to create more high-profile stories of people of all gender identities and expressions, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and backgrounds in the galaxy far, far away, to celebrate this Pride Month — which spotlights the importance of continued conversation and support of LGBTQ+ rights for dignity, visibility, and equality — we’ve gathered a short list of just a few of our favorite out and proud queerStar Warscharacters....

Star Wars Editor Marcia Lucas Was Furious With Sequel Series, Cried Over The Prequels When you watch enough movies, the dirty little secret that nobody ever really wants to acknowledge starts to emerge. The vast majority of films aren’t terrible or masterpieces — they’re merely okay. Some good stuff, some bad, all combining to make an unspectacular 2.5 out of 5 star film. That’s just the way it is! But when it comes to some diehard fans of blockbuster franchises like, say, “Star Wars,” suddenly all of that conventional wisdom goes out the window and becomes replaced with charged responses that end up on either extreme of the spectrum....

Stephen King’s ‘It’ Early Buzz: A Terrifying Movie With Heart, True To The Spirit Of The Book Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema’s new adaptation of Stephen King’sItwon’t hit theaters untilSeptember 8th. But in an effort to kick off positive word of mouth, some critics have already seen the film from directorAndy Muschietti, and the first reactions have started to hit the web. There aren’t any full reviews available yet, but the embargo on social media reactions has been lifted, and the early buzz is through the roof....

Steve Zaillian Again Working On Moneyball; Has Completed His Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Script How many runs through a script can a studio take?Moneyballis supposed to shoot in a little over a month, after a year of wrangling and being on life support. NowSteve Zaillian, who wrote the draft that got the scrappedSteven Soderberghversion moving in the first place, is back on the picture. For the time being. Deadlinesays that, while Sony is very happy with the work thatAaron Sorkindid after Soderbergh left the picture and took his last draft with him, current directorBennett Millerwants to reinstate three scenes from the Zaillian draft....

Sundance Movie Review: Brooklyn’s Finest This morning I screenedTraining DaydirectorAntoine Fuqua’s new filmBrooklyn’s Finest. The film tells the story of three unconnected Brooklyn cops who struggle with the rules that define how they conduct themselves in and off the job. After a vastly different series of events, the three cops collide in one location in the film’s tragic climax. Richard Gereplays Eddie Dugan, a cop with seven days left before his pension is released and he retires from duty....

Sundance: Zoo Movie Review One of the most talked about and controversial films at Sundance this year also turned out to be one of the biggest disappointments. The description for Zoo had Sundancers talking long before the festival even started. Slated as a documentary about bestiality, the subject of Zoo sounded unique enough for patrons to wait up to five hours in line for tickets. I in fact was one of the curious, showing up to the theater early for my chance to watch men having sex with horses....

Superhero Bits: The Tick Return Date, Solomon Grundy Comes To Gotham & More When isThe Tickreturning to finish out the rest of the first season? How did a real image of a murdered Russian diplomat end up in Telltale’sBatman? When isSpawngoing to start production? Why didn’t theArrowvilliainOnomatopoeiaend up appearing on The CW series? When will theBatmanvillainSolomon Grundymake his debut onGotham? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits. Get a recap of the history ofThorby way of the folks at the Screw Attack team who puts togetherDeath Battle....

That Bathtub Scene In A Quiet Place Was As Brutal As It Looks In an ironic juxtaposition with the whisper-heavy premise of the film, “A Quiet Place” burst onto the scene with much fanfare in 2018 and did what so few original movies could do in recent years — come out of nowhere, rely on strong marketing and the strength of its original premise, and find blockbuster-level success at the box office....

The ‘Toni Erdmann’ Remake Casts Kristen Wiig And Drags Jack Nicholson Out Of Retirement So what does it take to drag the greatJack Nicholsonout of retirement? A remake of a critically acclaimed German-Austrian comedy about a hardworking woman and her practical jokester father, apparently. Paramount is remakingToni Erdmann, which is currently nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, and has cast Nicholson andKristen Wiigin the lead roles....

The 25 Best Manipulated Versions Of Studio Logos Studio logos serve a general purpose for any movie. They can suggest a type of film – people have a basic idea of what a Disney movie entails – or simply a sense of pomp and circumstance. While there’s no shortage of studio or production company logos, there aren’t as many cases of filmmakers playing around with those logos in front of their movies....

The Cast And Crew Of ‘Dead Night’ On Their “True Crime” Demonic Possession Creature Feature [Interview] (Note:this interview was conducted at Fantastic Fest 2017 when the film premiered with its original title,Applecart.) With indie horror releases hitting consumer screens in droves thanks to VOD and streaming platforms, story ideas have to be more outstanding than ever. Anyone can make a slasher movie, so why should we watch YOUR slasher movie? With that mentality in mind, writer/directorBrad Baruhoffers to the masses his true-crime-creature-possession-WTFery flickDead Night –classification be damned....

The Real-Life Moment That Inspired Ghostbusters: Afterlife “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” is in theaters now, but it’s been a long road to get there. Aside from being delayed nearly a year and a half due to the coronavirus pandemic, it’s been over 30 years since the original “Ghostbusters” franchise has been touched. Aside from passing the torch to a new generation of younger Ghostbusters, the sequel also passed the torch from franchise filmmaker Ivan Reitman to his son, “Juno” and “Up in the Air” director Jason Reitman....

There May Be A Lot More Encanto On The Way, Disney CEO Hints Nobody would ever accuse Disney of being hesitant to turn a surprise hit movie into a sprawling franchise, complete with spin-offs, sequels, theme park attractions, Broadway musical adaptations, and a whole lot of merchandise. The House of Mouse is already in the early stages of doing just that with"Encanto"after the animated film musical debuted in theaters in late November 2021, only to explode in popularity upon hitting Disney+ a month later....