‘The Devil In The White City’ Gets New Screenwriter; Leonardo DiCaprio Still Attached To Play Serial Killer The last time we wrote about a possible film version ofErik Larson’s bookThe Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America,Leonardo DiCaprio’s company had just optioned the book and attached the actor to star. He hadn’t yet shotJ. Edgar, which has already come and gone, and he wasn’t yet set forThe Great Gatsby, which has wrapped principal photography....

‘The Irishman’ Early Buzz: Martin Scorsese Has Made Another Masterpiece Who bets against a legend likeMartin Scorsese? To be fair,The Irishmanseemed like the master filmmaker behindGoodfellas,CasinoandTaxi Drivemay have been biting off more than he could chew. A 209-minute, Netflix funded crime epic that features extensive visual effects to transform the core cast into younger versions of themselves spanning 50 years? That’s…a lot. But now,The Irishmanhas had its world premiere and the first reactions are rolling in…and they’re almost all thrilled with the film....

‘The Mummy’ Featurette: The Monster Has Big Plans For Tom Cruise We can usually rely onTom Cruiseto save our world in the movies. But inThe Mummy, he helps to bring about its destruction by discovering one pissed off mummy, an ancient princess (Sofia Boutella) to be exact. Once again, the world will call upon Tom Cruise to save us all inAlex Kurtzman’s film (even if it’s his fault this time), which is the first entry in the potentialUniversal Monster Universe....

‘Yakuza Apocalypse’ Trailer: Takashi Miike Makes A Wild, Weird Gangland Story Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War Of The Underworldis one of a few recent films from prolific Japanese directorTakashi Miike.It looks like the sort of thing that will go over well for those who’ve loved Sion Sono’s recent movies likeTokyo TribeandWhy Don’t You Play in Hell. Like the latter film from Sono, this movie is a bizarre gangster tale with what seems to be a heavy dose of comedy, and even a vampire....

Amazon’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Series Has An Official Synopsis And You Can Read It Here Amazon’sThe Lord of the Ringsseries is mapping out an epic saga that will adapt part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy world that has never been on the screen before. At least, that’s what it sounds like based on the very vague (but very impressive-sounding!) synopsis for the upcoming TV series that has arrived online....

Anchorman 2? Not Likely, Says Will Ferrell UPDATE:The quotes in the story below have apparently been around for a while, so if you’re looking for the latestAnchorman 2denial, this isn’t it. I’m leaving the story since obviously they’re new to some of us, but don’t take this as the final word on the film. Original article follows. You more or less had to figure this is the way things were going to end up, but just in case you were really holding out hope for anotherAnchormanmovie, probably best to let it go....

Boomerang Is Finally Making It Easier To Watch Classic Cartoons Like ‘Looney Tunes’ & More When I was growing up in the ’90s, channels like Nickelodeon, The Disney Channel, and Cartoon Network were gaining popularity and figuring out exactly what they wanted to be in the rapidly expanding world of cable television. The result was plenty of experimental cartoons that maybe shouldn’t have been expressly for kids (such asRen & StimpyandJohnny Bravo), but that also meant that there were classic cartoons from decades past that were finding traction with the children of parents who grown up with them a generation before....

Box Office Tracking: Star Trek Could Reach $65M For 4 Days! Easily Biggest Trek Opening Ever! The all-new J.J. Abrams reboot of Star Trek (Paramount) will win the second weekend of the Hollywood Summer Box Office season by at least a couple of light years over Fox’s fast-fading X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but some of the astronomical numbers I’ve seen floating around in the blogosphere are very over-heated. Make no mistake, this movie will open extraordinarily well, but it’s not going to play out as a typical front-loaded blockbuster....

Contrary To Reports, Jackie Chan Is Not Done With Action Movies; Watch The Trailer For His Latest, ‘Chinese Zodiac’ Jackie Chanbrought his 100th film,Chinese Zodiac, to the Cannes Film Festival this year, but he also arrived with some news that has been a few years coming: he’s done with bit death-defying action movie setpieces. But that news got a bit garbled over the weekend, with many thinking that Chan is done with action movies for good....

Cool Stuff: Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘The Devil’s Backbone’ And ‘Cronos’ Posters Mondo has just released the final two posters in theirGuillermo Del ToroDirector’s Series and, big surprise, they’re gorgeous. ArtistsVania ZouravliovandAaron Horkeyhave teamed up to make a poster for Del Toro’s 2001 filmThe Devil’s Backbone, andMartin Ansinhas created a poster for Del Toro’s directorial debut,Cronos.The Devil’s Backbone, available in three different versions, goes on sale Friday andCronoswill be sometime later. Check out the full images of all of them after the break....

Cool Stuff: Poster Posse ‘Tomorrowland’ Artwork Makes The Future Pretty This week finally bringsBrad Bird’s original Disney sci-fi adventureTomorrowlandto theaters. Just yesterday brought some early buzz on the film, andit doesn’t sound overwhelmingly good. Our own Peter Scirettahas seen it a couple times, and was a little disappointed, but has warmed up to it after revisiting. Everyone else can judge for themselves this weekend. In the meantime,Poster Possehas decided to put together a small tribute to the film with a few wonderful pieces of artwork....

Emilio Estevez Officially Joins ‘The Mighty Ducks’ TV Show, See First Images From The Production Gordon Bombay will lace up his skates once again. Emilio Estevezhas officially signed on to appear in the Disney+ TV continuation ofThe Mighty Ducks, reprising his role as the former drunken attorney who cleaned up his act and became a beloved coach of a misfit hockey team. To quote Averman fromD2: The Mighty Ducks, one of our country’s finest and most well-respected poets, “Quack Attack is back, Jack!...

Everything We Know About Disenchanted So Far Life was different in the mid-2000s. Amy Adams was only starting to make a name for herself thanks to her Oscar-nominated turn in 2005’s “Junebug,” and outside of “Shrek” and its sequel, films rarely dared to make fun of Disney’s animated princess fairy tale movies. Then came 2007’s “Enchanted,” a hybrid of live-action and animation featuring a star-making performance from Adams as Giselle, a comically wide-eyed young woman who gets pulled from the fantastical, animated realm of Andalasia into real-world New York City — a place where (as Giselle soon learns) relationships are more complicated and breaking into spontaneous song-and-dance is fairly uncommon....