The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II, The Sound Of Dune & More (The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, listen as the VFX artists from Corridor Crew bring in “Mythubsters” co-host and special effects expert Adam Savage to look at some of the impressive practical effects from “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze” and much more....

The Rock-Afire Explosion Movie Trailer (Accurately Fun/Creepy!) We’ll take this sentence to offer the ongoing meme forShowbiz Pizza’s house band an extended welcome and a thanks for making so many parents' divorces and kids' birthday parties that much more awkward, wacky and bipolar. This forthcoming documentary shines a light on themagicinner workings and fandom ofThe Rock-afire Explosion, the animatronic musical act and variety show that was a loud staple at Showbiz Pizza franchises in the ’80s....

The Surprising Way The Maltese Falcon Influenced World War II We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After you make a film, you never can predict how finished product will be accepted by people. Sure, you hope the average audience member enjoys the picture you have made, but its lasting impact will always be completely unknown until far down the road. George Lucas did not think “Star Wars” would eventually spawn an immersive hotel....

This Movie Got Martin Scorsese Temporarily Banned From China From 1997 until 2012, no Martin Scorsese films were available in China. 2020 was the first year in history wherein the Chinese box office outstripped that of the United States, and 2021 is shaping up to be the same. The highest-grossing films of this year are “The Battle of Lake Chanjing,” which made $900 million, and “Hi, Mom,” which made $850 million and is the highest grossing film ever directed by a woman....

Warner Bros. Considers New Label For Its Darker Comic Book Films As The Direction Of The DC Movies Shifts Again TwoJokermovies? One and a halfHarley Quinnspin-offs? A Ben Affleck-lessBatmanmovie? At this point, we’ve given up trying to make sense of Warner Bros.' DC Films plans. But newly appointed DC Entertainment film production presidentWalter Hamadais doing his best to make them sensible once again. That includes seemingly rebooting much of the DC Extended Universe, and potentially launching a new label to encompass the multiple standalone and off-universe films that Warner Bros....

With Its Second Episode, ‘Krypton’ Is Still Trying To Be ‘Game Of Thrones’ In Space Each week with myKryptonrecaps, I’ve decided to pose this central question:Is the show getting better?Hope that the show will, in fact, find its footing after theuneven first episodeis essentially what these recaps are floating on, after all. So, to the answer about ifKryptonis getting better…I’m not sure if it is? The answer is filled with insecurity because I honestly don’t even know what happened in “House of El....

‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ Casts Jude Law As Young Albus Dumbledore When we first meet Albus Dumbledore, the eccentric headmaster at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in theHarry Potter series, he is a wizened old man with a complex past and a powerful reputation. We’ve known that the upcoming sequel toFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which takes place decades before Harry and his friends went to Hogwarts, would introduce a young Dumbledore....

‘Justice League’ Trailer Breakdown: Let’s Go All In On The DC Comics Superhero Union During Comic-Con, Warner Bros. Pictures brought some superhero action into Hall H with a brand new trailer forJustice League, introducing the world to the villain called Steppenwolf, who both walks tall and carries a big stick, or rather an axe that appears to have the power to lay waste to the world. As the newJustice Leagueposter points out, you can’t save the world alone, and we certainly can’t let the new trailer go by without taking a cue from Aquaman and making a deep dive into what this footage tells us about the first big screen union of these DC Comics superheroes....

‘Man Of Steel’ Likely To Be DC’s Only Film For Three Years; WB Hopes To Announce Slate Soon, ‘Justice League’ To Appear In Video Game The unparalleled success of this summer’s Marvel movieThe Avengers, coupled with the interest in Christopher Nolan’s final Batman film,The Dark Knight Rises, has shined a bright spotlight on DC Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. If Marvel can make billions with second tier superheros like Iron Man and Thor, why hasn’t DC done the same thing?...

‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Clip: Kurt Russell Does Not Dig Brad Pitt The firstOnce Upon a Time in Hollywoodclip just popped up online, featuring a stutteringLeonardo DiCaprio, a too cool for schoolBrad Pitt, and a flusteredKurt Russell. The striking thing here is how relatively low-key this clip is compared to the energetic trailers we’ve seen so far. Perhaps Sony wants to save all the wild stuff for the movie itself....

‘Puppet Master’ Reboot On The Way From ‘Transformers’ Producer And ‘Bone Tomahawk’ Writer In retrospect, in was inevitable. Someone, someday, was going to reboot thePuppet Masterseries. All long-running horror movie franchises follow the same pattern: unlikely early success leads to annualized sequels, annualized sequels lead to diminishing returns, diminishing returns lead to nostalgia-soaked sequels a decade or more after the series seeming died. And then: the Hollywood reboot. In this case, the newPuppet Mastermovie will be produced by Di Bonaventura Pictures, who are best known these days for theTransformersandG....

‘Relic’ Director Natalie Erika James' Next Project Is A Folk Horror Movie About Motherhood The critical acclaim forRelicsignaled the arrival of a promising new horror director withNatalie Erika James, whose debut feature is receiving all kinds of raves for its depiction of the horrors of dementia. And she’s already got several intriguing follow-up projects in the works, all of which will deal with the subgenre of personal horror, with some shades of horror classics likeRosemary’s BabyandThe Wicker Man....

‘Saturday Night Live’ Returning From Hiatus This Weekend With A New Episode Produced From Quarantine Saturday Night Liveis just one of dozens of shows that went on a production hiatus due to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and around the world. Since the show is filmed with a live audience and is produced in the span of a single week with a staff of writers and a full crew, it was believedSNLwould be shut down until the pandemic had passed....