Quiet Places And Creepy Families: The Year In Horror So Far With June now behind us, it’s time for a halfway report on the first six months of horror cinema that have set this year’s stage ablaze. A chance to reflect on what’s stunned audiences, charmed critics and defined 2018 thus far in terms of thrills endured. Six months of screams attached by a common thread that’s become substantially prevalent with each passing day....

Richard Donner’s ‘Superman’ Flies Back To Theaters For Its 40th Anniversary It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’sRichard Donner’sSupermanflying back to theaters in honor of its 40th anniversary! The superhero movie that started it all,Supermancelebrates 40 years since it first hit theaters in 1978 with a theatrical re-release this November. No hero has stood the test of time likeChristopher Reeve’s Superman, the earnest hero at the heart of Donner’s 1978 classic....

Rust Shooting Brings To Light Producer Inexperience, Murky Tax Incentives Three producers attached to the film “Rust” are the latest figures to come under intense scrutiny in thedeath of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Prior to their involvement in “Rust,” 36-year-old producer Ryan Smith and 33-year-old executive producer Allen Cheney were both the subject of a dismissed 2017 lawsuit, which described them as “fledgling film producers with virtually no creative or business achievements in the film industry....

Sam Mendes Schedules His ‘Charlie And The Chocolate Factory’ Stage Production For years,Sam Mendeshas talked about making a stage musical based onRoald Dahl’s bookCharlie and the Chocolate Factory. The most recent time the project cropped up was when the director was going through the early stages of working on the new James Bond film,Skyfall. As that project seemed to stall thanks to MGM’s financial situation (since resolved) he considered bouncing to the stage production....

See Gareth Edwards' Notes On The ‘Rogue One’ Poster, Plus: Find Out Which Prop He Stole Working on aStar Warsmovie would be a dream come true for most filmmakers, so whenGareth Edwardshad the chance to helmRogue Onehe made the most of it. We’ve already sharedour chat with Edwards, where he told us about all the big ways he tried to makeRogue Onehis own, but here we’re talking about the little things he did to get the full experience....

See How ‘Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind’ Visual Effects Were Created One of the best films of the new century is undoubtedlyEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It’s an innovative, beautiful, mesmerizing, heartbreaking and simultaneously uplifting romance. TheCharlie Kaufmanscripted,Michel Gondrydirected film is one of my five favorites of all time, and I’ve explored and read about every facet of the film. But there might be some of you out there who haven’t dug as deep....

Sequel Bits: ‘Game Night 2’, ‘Cloverfield’, ‘The Purge’, ‘Wreck-It-Ralph 2’, ‘Frozen 2’, ‘Evil Dead 4’ And More In this edition of Sequel Bits: Game Nighthas been receiving rave reviews (I’m as shocked as you are), and the film has done fairly steady box office. No one has officially said the words “Game Night 2” yet, but if that should happen, the film’s screenwriter is already thinking of the possibilities. Speaking withTHR, writerMark Perezsaid, “It would be great to have sequels....

Star Wars Bits: Episode IX Rumors, Poe Dameron’s X-Wing Secrets Revealed, And The Bigger Luke Theory Returns In this edition of Star Wars Bits: For a long time, one of the biggest questions aboutStar Warshas been the lack of diversity in the humanoid characters that inhabit the galaxy far, far away. Well, last week Donald Glover hostedSaturday Night Live, and in a very pointed and hilarious sketch, he became Lando Calrissian to make an excellent point about the whiteness of theStar Warsuniverse....

Sundance Photo And Trailer Preview: Armless Habib Azardirected his first episode ofAs The World Turnsat age 22, and has since directed over 100 episodes of the drama series, winning him a daytime emmy, as well as helming a handfull of plays and composing the music for a couple of operas. His feature directorial debutArmlesswill premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of the NEXT category, a new section composed of eight American films selected for their innovative and original work in low- and no-budget filmmaking....

SXSW Midnights Lineup Includes ‘The Guest,’ Bigfoot Film ‘Exists,’ And ‘Among The Living’ Film festivals are becoming more accepting of genre films — perhaps it started with TIFF’s excellent Midnight Madness program, which has run for well over a decade, or perhaps it’s simply the more mainstream presence of genre stories and ideas in general, thanks to the popularity of horror and sci-fi on television. Regardless, festivals like Sundance and SXSW are competing with TIFF when it comes to debuting big projects for genre audiences....

Team Behind Spellbound And Rocket Science Assembling Documentary On DC Comics Given the fact that Marvel and DC Comics characters have proved to be the new mainstays for summer moviegoing, I’m surprised that we haven’t seen a new documentary that reaches deep into the history of either company. That might be about to change asJeffrey BlitzandSean Welch(who directed and producedSpellbound,Rocket ScienceandLucky) are producing a doc about DC.Mac Carter, who worked onSpellbound, is directing the film, which we may see at Comic Con....

The ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Team Line-Up Will Evolve Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper), and Groot (Vin Diesel) make for a great team inGuardians of the Galaxy. They work so well together it’s hard to imagine one without the other. We may see them disband at some point, though, and maybe afterGuardians of the Galaxy 3, which Gunn called the other day “the endof this iteration of theGuardians of the Galaxy....

The Beatles: Get Back Is Finally Getting A Blu-Ray Release One of the more frustrating aspects of the streaming era is that often media that debuts on streaming never makes the transition to physical copies. Anyone who wants to check out a movie or series that debuted on streaming has to keep their subscription active for any rewatches, and that’s a bummer, plus anyone who doesn’t have streaming access is out of luck....