James Gunn’s ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’ Script Still Being Used By Disney, Even As Gunn Is Courted By Other Studios Despite nearly a month passing since Disney’s firing ofJames Gunn, the status of the immensely popularGuardians of the Galaxyfilms remains a mystery. Marvel Studios has honed itself into a movie-making machine in the past decade, and a month without a director or writer is lost time and money for the company....

Jonás Cuarón’s Futuristic ‘Zorro’ Reboot Casts Gael García Bernal The newZorrohas a new Zorro.Gael García Bernalhas been cast as the legendary swashbuckler inZ, a futuristic reboot to be directed by García Bernal’sDesiertodirectorJonás Cuarón. (Because they don’t have Rs or Os in the future, I guess?) García Bernal was previously attached to an earlier iteration of this project which was in development several years ago. Deadlinebroke the news of the Gael García Bernal Zorro casting....

Leonardo DiCaprio Says Inception “Didn’t Make Sense To Many Of Us When We Were Doing It” IsChristopher Nolan’sInceptiongoing to be a gigantic mindfuck? In a recent interview with theInquirer(not Enquirer), starLeonardo DiCapriotalked about what it was like working on the film, even though he (and the other cast/crew) didn’t always understand what was going on, even while they were filming: The material and its complexity are what I’m attracted to…I’ve been lucky to work with people who want to tell stories that hit on different cylinders simultaneously....

Let’s Speculate About Marvel’s Plans For 2020 We’re still in the early stages of Marvel’s Phase Three — next week’sDoctor Strangeis just the second film out of ten — but since Marvel is famous for mapping out its plans well ahead of time, it’s impossible not to wonder what’s coming in Phase Four. So let’s give into that temptation, and spend a bit of time speculating. Marvel already has three dates nailed down for 2020:May 1,July 10, andNovember 6....

Martin Scorsese And Lars Von Trier’s New ‘Obstructions’ Confirmed; Will ‘Taxi Driver’ Be Their Raw Material? There are many reasons I am glad thatLars Von Trieris out in the world, playing with film, and one is that he actuallyplayswith film. Sometimes that playfulness is also quite perverse — OK, it is often perverse — but that’s still valuable. Dogme was an attempt to set boundaries in which films could be made with an artistic (and consequently a political) freedom from the tropes of Hollywood filmmaking....

Marvel And Disney’s ‘Big Hero 6’ Reveals Character Names And Heartfelt Story The first Marvel/Disney animated feature film is coming in 2014. It’s calledBig Hero 6, directed byDon Hall, and tells the story of a 14-year-old genius name Hiro who lives in a city that’s blend of San Francisco and Tokyo: San Fransokyo. When one of his new technologies, Microbots, is stolen by a super villain, Hiro decides to build a team of superheroes to stop them....

MGM Pushes Jennifer Hudson’s Aretha Franklin Biopic ‘Respect’ For Awards Season Christmas Release Finally, a piece of release date news that’s not a depressing coronavirus-related delay. MGM is pushing the release date of the Aretha Franklin biopicRespect, which starsJennifer Hudsonas the powerful-voiced singer, for Christmas Day, with the intention of propping it up as an awards season contender. The film was originally set to arrive in October. Deadline reports that the “mind-blowing” dailies of Jennifer Hudson’s performance as Aretha Franklin in the upcoming biopicRespecthave inspired MGM to move the film off its October 9 release date for a limited Christmas Day premiere....

Michael Jordan Series ‘The Last Dance’ Is ESPN’s Most Watched Documentary Last weekend, ESPN debuted the first two episodes of the anticipated documentary seriesThe Last Dance, a chronicle of NBA superstarMichael Jordanand theChicago Bullsas they made a run for what would become their final championship season. The premiere was bumped up to April from June since ESPN is desperate for programming due to the lack of sports happening around the world, and it worked out rather well for them since it’s now their most-watched documentary ever....

Monty Python Co-Founder And Comedy Legend Terry Jones Dead At 77 Another comedy legend has passed.Terry Jones, a founding member of theMonty Pythontroupe and a renowned comedian, screenwriter, filmmaker, poet, historian, and author, has died at age 77. Terry Jones died Tuesday evening in his North London home, his agent confirmed to theBBC. The poet and former Python had been suffering from dementia, which had been publicly revealed by his son, Bill, in September 2016, rendering him unable to speak....

Moon Knight Review: Oscar Isaac Singlehandedly Saves This MCU Show If there is one strength Marvel Studios has flexed in the last 15 years, it’s in shrewd casting throughout the majority of its films and shows. Even when the MCU became, at least on the surface, weirder than what a traditional superhero story seemed to offer, it had its stacked and largely charming ensemble to serve as beacons. Over the last year, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been as focused on bringing streaming originals like “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” “Loki,” and “WandaVision” into the fold, as these stories with recognizable characters drive the unending, infinite plot through each of the upcoming phases....

Movie Review And Horror Essay: The House Of The Devil (One Of My Top Five Films Of 2009) Repeat the following name after me three times:Ti West. Ti West.Ti West. Pray that Hollywood doesn’t tuck him into its throbbing succubus and then wring his brilliance out into its rancid, gold spittoon gifted by Dubai. WithThe House of the Devil, one of the most gorgeous, sexy, and vital horror films in recent memory, the 29-year-old writer/director has bowled me over....

New Poster: Mark Romanek’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ I hadn’t seen a proper projection of thetrailerforMark Romanek’s new film,Never Let Me Go, until I sat through the Trailer Park exhibition in Hall H at the San Diego Comic Con. Talk about weird — Romanek’s very quiet movie was sandwiched in between a lot of big-ticket films, and the contrast was pretty striking. (Plus, it was amusing to hear nearly the entire hall whisper ‘that’s the new Spider-Man,’ not whenAndrew Garfield’s face was shown, but when his credit was written on screen....

One Year Later, ‘Fast And Furious’ Still Hasn’t Dealt With #JusticeForHan (Welcome toThe Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: it’s been one year since the release ofThe Fate of the Furiousand the lack of #JusticeForHan still stings.) TheFast & Furiousfranchise is headed for its ninth entry withHobbs & Shaw, the Dwayne Johnson/Jason Statham-led spinofffrom director David Leitch. It marks a departure from the series' new status quo after a decade (and then some) of Vin Diesel-driven family drama....