Mark Romanek In Talks To Direct ‘The Shining’ Prequel ‘Overlook Hotel’ Warner Bros. is moving forward withOverlook Hotel, written as a prequel toThe Shining.The film is scripted by formerWalking DeadshowrunnerGlenn Mazzara; the script is an original story, albeit one based on a deleted prologue written byStephen Kingfor his novelThe Shining. Now the studio has a director:Mark Romanekis in talks to direct the Shining prequel. Varietyhas the news. The trade reports that the script tells “the origin story of the Overlook Hotelthrough the eyes of its first owner, Bob T....

Neil Burger Talks ‘Uncharted’: Back To Basics, New Script, No Casting Decisions Yet The development of a film version of Sony’s treasure-hunting action/adventure game seriesUnchartedhas turned into a surprisingly thorny process. Original directorDavid O. Russelldecided to depart from many story elements as presented in the games, and wanted to castMark Wahlbergas lead character Nathan Drake. Neither of those ideas sat well with a vocal legion of fans. Ultimately they didn’t sit well with Sony, either, and David O....

New ‘Iron Man 3’ Toys Tease A Possible Bridge To ‘The Avengers 2’ Funny story. I’m putting together the return of Superhero Bits when I come upon some new toys forIron Man 3. That seemingly insignificant news is perfect for my daily column so I go to grab an image when I get stopped in my tracks. There’s the Mark 47 suit, which we’ve seen, War Machine, which we’ve seen, and the Iron Patriot, which we’ve seen a lot....

New ‘Valerian’ Poster Seems To Feature An Intriguing ‘Fifth Element’ Reference This summer, directorLuc Bessonreturns to sci-fi in a big way with an adaptation of the French comic Valerian and Laureline in the form of the feature filmValerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The movie came in at#7 on our list of anticipated wide releasescoming to theaters this summer, and it looks like it’s going to be something wild and action-packed....

New Watchmen Featurette Shows Us More Of The Movie We’ll Never See In an attempt to say “Nothing to see here, Lawsuit… what lawsuit? Everything is fine. Look See… Fine!”, Warner Bros has released yet another Watchmen featurette on MySpace. Director Zack Snyder gives an overview of the film and the characters of the world. So watch the video below, and take a look at the film that we probably won’t see if the evil fox corporation has their way (yes, that was a joke… and if you didn’t get it, so was the title of this article)....

Ranking The Films Of Edgar Wright On The 15th Anniversary Of ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ A mashup of zombie horror and romantic comedy, a video-game-style depiction of millennial culture before it was called millennial culture, a post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller seen through the eyes of some Gen-X’ers, and more. These concepts all sprung from the mind of filmmakerEdgar Wright, whose features over the last 15 years have managed to all feel daring and strikingly original even as he wears his references on his metaphorical sleeves....

Sony Made ‘Pixels’ Script Changes To Appease Chinese Censors, Didn’t Make It Better This weekend brings the release of the video game-infused sci-fi action comedyPixels, and with a19% on Rotten Tomatoes, it seems pretty clear thatAdam Sandlerand his Happy Madison production banner have botched an awesome concept with juvenile comedy. Not even supporting cast members like Josh Gad and Peter Dinklage can save the movie. This is even more frustrating when you learn that Sony went out of their way to change the script forPixelsin order to avoid potential problems with authorities in China, but couldn’t be bothered to make sure the rest of the script was better....

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises, Green Lantern, The Avengers, Captain America, Superman Want to see even more set photos fromThe Dark Knight Rises? Curious to the budget ofThe Avengers? How do you really summon Batman? What’s a possible title for theCaptain Americasequel? And do you find cosplayers in awkward positions completely hilarious? Read about all of this and more in today’s Superhero Bits. TheDCU Movie Page(viaComic Book Movie) has stumbled up the UK Blu-ray art forGreen Lantern....

The 25 Best Movie Posters Of 2016 We’re coming down to the end of 2016, and even though we’ve been starting to look forward to the movies of 2017 since as early as this past summer, it’s about time we started to look back at the good stuff this year had to offer. We’ll each be bringing you our personal Top 10 Films of 2016 leading up to a cumulative Top 15 (just like last year), but before that, we’ve got something else to kick off our look back at 2016....

The Bad Guys Ending Explained: Have They Really Gone Straight? Here comes the fuzz, literally.“The Bad Guys"is a family-friendly heist flick that poses an interesting question — what if the bad guys attempt to be good? Introducing Wolf (Sam Rockwell), a suave and sort-of sophisticated wolf with a penchant for crime. (Think George Clooney’s Danny Ocean but a bit furrier.) His crew is notorious, pulling off bank jobs, museum heists, and art thefts that go down in history....

The Cast Of It’s Always Sunny Has A Real Bar In Philadelphia You Can Visit Those who happen to find themselves in Philadelphia have an opportunity to make their lives just a little bit sunnier. Co-stars and married couple Rob McElhenney and Kaitlyn Olsen, a.k.a.Mac and Dee from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,“are also business partners as the proprietors of Mac’s Tavern, a bar found in the middle of the City of Brotherly Love....

The Certifiably Insane Vin Diesel Is Using ‘Fast 8’ And “Oscar” In The Same Sentence While making the promotional rounds forFurious 7back in 2015,Vin Dieselstarted saying some pretty nutty stuffabout how the latest entry in theFast and Furiousseries deserved to get a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards. And while the seventh entry in this increasingly insane action series ended up being a critical success and a box office smash, it was left high and dry during awards season…which surely surprised no oneexceptDiesel....

The Mummy Easter Egg: Tom Cruise’s Blink-And-You’ll-Miss-It Reference To Brendan Fraser’s ‘The Mummy’ Universal’sThe Mummyis out in theaters right now and kicks off the studio’s planned “Dark Universe” of Marvel-style interconnected films, but it looks like it contains an easter egg that doesn’t have anything to do with setting up future movies. This specific shout-out pays tribute to directorStephen Sommers'1999 take onThe Mummythat starredBrendan FraserandRachel Weisz. Read on about where to spotThe Mummyeaster egg if you decide to see the film this weekend....