Here’s The First Episode Of Dan Harmon’s Animated ‘Rick And Morty’ AfterDan Harmonwas canned fromCommunitybut before he was re-hired forCommunity, he went to work on an animated series for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Harmon andJustin Roiland(Fish Hooks, and who also voices Morty) createdRick and Morty, a show about the crazed life of “a sociopathic scientist who drags his unintelligent grandson on insanely dangerous adventures across the universe.” All of which sounds, well, pretty great....

How Sony Plans To Handle Its ‘Spider-Man’ Expanded Universe The box office success ofSpider-Man: Homecomingis all the proof we need that Sony Pictures will continue their plans to build out their own new Marvel expanded universe that’s adjacent to Marvel Studios' cinematic universe. But thanks to a new report in Variety, now we know exactly how the studio plans to handle their upcoming superhero projects, including theVenommovie starringTom Hardy. Read on for a breakdown of what they have coming up and get a glimpse into their approach to the material....

Interview: Producer Gale Anne Hurd On How Syfy’s ‘Hunters’ Makes Aliens Scary Again Gale Anne Hurdhas made movies about aliens. In fact, one of the greatest of all time, the sequelAliens. She also produced one of my personal favorites,Alien Nation. So the news that Gale Anne Hurd is back in the alien game should mean a lot. She is producing the new showHunterson Syfy.Huntersis about a race of alien terrorists who have infiltrated humanity, and the FBI agents who pursue them, including a Hunter working for us....

James Gunn Wrote The Biggest Action Scene Of His Career For Margot Robbie In ‘The Suicide Squad’ James Gunn’s filmmaking career is full of memorable action scenes, whether they’re in movies he wrote or in projects he directed as well. The modified truck escape through a zombie horde in 2004’sDawn of the Dead, the climactic battle in the skies of Xandar in the firstGuardians of the Galaxy, the epic alien battle inGuardians Vol....

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘In The Heights’ Movie Set For 2020 Release Date While we all bide our time until the inevitableHamiltonmovie, we can take solace in knowingLin-Manuel Miranda’sotherBroadway musical,In The Heights, is coming to the big screen. And now theIn The Heightsmovie release date has been set: summer 2020. BeforeHamilton, there wasIn The Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical set in Washington Heights, NYC. WhileIn The Heightswasn’t as huge a phenomenon asHamiltonwould become, it won awards and earned its rightful place in musical theatre history....

Louis Leterrier To Direct ‘Fantastic Voyage’ For Producer James Cameron? It was only hours ago that we heardJames CameronhadhiredLaeta Kalogridisto rewriteShane Salerno’s script forFantastic Voyage, the big-budget sci-fi remake he’s planning with Fox. At the time there was no director attached, but now a report says that James Cameron has his eye onLouis Leterrier, who last madeClash of the Titansfor Warner Bros. Deadlinesays Mr. Leterrier is the producer’s choice, and that designers fromAvatar"have done everything but build sets for a film that could be ready to shoot early in 2011....

Marvel’s Not Enough - Disney Also Acquires Stake In Stan Lee’s POW Batman and Super Mario aren’t the only icons to have their own POW! Apparently an acronym for Purveyors of Wonder,Stan Lee’sPOW! Entertainmentare an output for “new characters and franchises” created by The Man in recent years. At the same time as locking up their acquisition ofMarvelthis past Thursday, theDisneyboard also agreed to take on 10% of POW! shares. Seems that they just can’t get enough of that four-colour stuff....

Max Makowski To Direct Voltron Earlier this month wereportedthatRelativityhad scooped up the gestatingVoltronmovie from 20th Century Fox (nice move) with plans to make itwith a “more moderate budget,utilizing the type of cost-effective technology employed in films including300.“Latino Review(hugeVoltronfans) report tonight thatMax Makowski, a general unknown, is set to direct the nostalgic robot actioner. Makowsi is currently attached to direct the revamp ofKung Fu, due in 2009, and he’s best known for the 2005 Sundance assassins flick,One Last Dance, co-starring Harvey Keitel....

Michelle Pfeiffer Proved Al Pacino Wrong With Her Scarface Performance Al Pacino’s boisterous performance as the ambitious, hotheaded, American Dream usurper Tony Montana is undoubtedly the heart of Brian De Palma’s operatic gangster film “Scarface.” But he tends to overshadow Michelle Pfeiffer’s fine performance as Tony’s wife, Elvira Hancock, an equally compelling character despite her limited screen time. Although they had chemistry, Pacino didn’t initially want Pfeiffer to play the role....

More Troll Remake Details Revealed A couple days back,we told youthat Hollywood was planning a big budget remake of John Carl Buechler’s 1986 horror filmTROLL. An official press release has been posted [via:BD]. Buechler has signed on to remake his cult classic film, which they hope will also launch a new animated television series and line of toys. The new film will likely be more family friendly, and done on a much larger scale with digital effects....

Movie Theaters Considering Variable And Dynamic Pricing Models After Success Of Discount Tuesdays Most movie theater chains around the country have adopted a “discount Tuesday” price drop in order to get more butts in the seats on a day that traditionally isn’t very popular with moviegoers. The result has seen an uptick in movie ticket admissions on Tuesdays, and it’s even been quite beneficial for mid-tier films that audiences don’t deem as must-see titles on opening weekend....

Netflix Starts Getting Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm And Pixar Films Exclusively In September Way back in 2012,Disneystruck a dealwithNetflixto make the streaming service the exclusive home to tons of movies from the House of Mouse. That included films fromMarvel, LucasfilmandPixar Animation. However, the deal didn’t begin until 2016. Thankfully, that year is now, which means we’re on the brink of getting a bunch of Disney movies at our disposal. More specifically, Disney’s exclusive Netflix deal begins in September....

New ‘Frozen’ Broadway Musical Images Let It Go Frozenis the latest Disney property to take to the Broadway stage, and Disney has unleashed an avalanche of new images to chill you to your bones (Am I doing this right? Snow!). Check out the new Frozen Broadway musical images below! Broadway’s take onFrozenwill begin performances at the St. James Theatre in February of 2018, but you don’t have to wait until then to get a new glimpse of the human counterparts to Disney’s animated hit as new images have been released....