‘The Hail Mary’ Will Take Ryan Gosling Back To Space In New Movie From ‘The Martian’ Novelist Here’s something refreshing: actual movie news. As in, old-fashioned movie news about a new movie, and potential casting, that has nothing to do with coronavirus, or things being shut down. The last few weeks have been filled with seemingly nothing but corona-related stories, so when a traditional bit of film news pops up, we’re all pretty damn ecstatic around here....

‘The Room’ Behind-The-Scenes Book Release Party Will Feature New Documentary And Posters InTommy Wiseau’s comedy of errorsThe Room,he regularly greets his friend with a loud, disingenuous and blandly hilarious line: “Hi Mark!” Next week in Los Angeles, those two words are sure to be on everyone’s lips because Mark himself, actor and authorGreg Sestero, is finally releasingThe Disaster Artist, a book detailing production of the film, one of the worst cult classics of all time....

‘The Texas Killing Fields’ International Trailer Texas Killing Fields(also referred to asThe Fields) has been in development for some time, once with Danny Boyle, who called the script “almost too dark to get made,” set to direct. The script passed into new hands, and the film finally shot under the direction of Michael Mann’s daughterAni Canaan Mann, withSam Worthington,Jeffrey Dean Morgan,Chloe Moretz,Stephen Graham,Jessica ChastainandAnnabeth Gishin the key roles. The film follows a set of real-life killings in Texas and two cops, one a local and the other a New York City transplant, who pursued the killer....

‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Gives Teasers To Batman, Aquaman, The Flash, And Wonder Woman In less than two weeks, hungry fans will finally feed from the trough ofZack Snyder’s Justice League, the long-awaited “Snyder Cut” that will either prove once and for all that Zack Snyder’s preferred version ofJustice Leaguewas superior, or that no version of this film is particularly good. However the film turns out, one thing is certain: Snyder knows exactly how to use social media to his advantage....

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Trailer: Kathryn Bigelow Hunts For Osama Bin Laden A day after Aaron Sorkin presented his take on the death of Osama bin Laden in HBO’s time-delayed dramaThe Newsroom,The Hurt LockerdirectorKathryn Bigelowis getting ready to present hers. Which, as you might expect, looks a bit more action-oriented than his did. StarringJoel Edgerton,Jessica Chastain,Chris Pratt,Kyle Chandler,Mark Strong,Jason Clarke, and many more exciting names,Zero Dark Thirtyfollows the Navy SEAL Team 6 in their ultimately successful hunt for the al Qaeda leader....

21 To Open 2008 SXSW Film Festival Matt Dentler just sent out the first batch of announced titles for the 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival. The MIT/Vegas gambling heist adaptation21will open the fest. Other films includeDreams With Sharp Teeth, a doc about sci-fi author Harlan Ellison, Michael Radford’s (The Post Man)Flawlessstarring Michael Caine and Demi Moore, the David Schwimmer directed Simon Pegg comedyRun Fatboy Runwhich premiered at Toronto,Wild Blue YonderandAt the Death House Door....

Amazon Orders ‘Bosch’ Season 6, Because People Can’t Get Enough Of ‘Bosch’! Amazon has heard you say “Alexa, play another episode ofBosch!” so many times they’ve decided go orderBoschseason 6. This officially makesBoschthe longest-running Prime Original series, ensuringBosch’s place in the TV hall of fame. Season 5 is still in production, but after that, you can rest assured that once again, Detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) will tackle crime while also being haunted by the murder of his mother....

Batman Prequel ‘Pennyworth’ Goes To An Alternate ’60s, Takes A Cue From Christopher Nolan Films [TCA 2019] The creators ofGothamare going even further back into the Batman legend with their Epix seriesPennyworth. We’ve already learned how the origin story of Alfred Pennyworth will show how a young Alfred (Jack Bannon) met Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge) in 1960s London and ends upbattling the descendants of Jack the Ripper. Now we have a few more details....

Billy Bob Thornton Says ‘Bad Santa 2’ Planned For Fall Shoot; Plans To Direct Road Movie ‘And Then We Drove’ Billy Bob Thorntonis in Berlin this week with the latest film he directed,Jayne Mansfield’s Car. Reviews are hitting today and a quick scan suggests the response is middling but more favorable than not. The actor/director is also doing interview rounds, and the subject is ranging to more than his current film....

Coming To America 2: Is Eddie Murphy Really Writing A Sequel? Here’s the latest wild rumor to hit the movie news world:Eddie Murphymay be in the early stages of writing a sequel to his 1988 comedy hitComing to America. Let’s dissect theComing To America 2rumor and see if it holds any water. Speculation began when Murphy sent out an ominous tweet on Wednesday night that said “Coming to America sequel?” with a photo ofVanessa Bell Callowayin character as Imani Izzi....

Cool Stuff: Dubai Building $1 Billion Robotic Jurassic Park The idea ofJurassic Parkhas always intrigued me. After taking the splash on the theme park ride at Universal Studios in Hollywood, I often wondered why a whole theme park couldn’t be created around this idea. And now it is finally happening. A new $1.1 billion Jurassic theme park called Restless Planet, is being built in Dubai. The park will feature 109 animatronic dinosaurs of over 40 different species in a 500,000 square foot (46,000 square metre) space....

Cool Stuff: NECA’s ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Channel 6 News Action Figure Pack Is A Comic-Con Exclusive Since San Diego Comic-Con isn’t happening in-person this summer, NECA is bringing Comic-Con exclusives to their online shop instead. The toy creators are releasing a newTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesanimated series action figure four-pack featuring the Channel 6 news team, including intrepid reporter April O’Neil. NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Channel 6 News Action Figures More specifically, this newTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesfour-pack is inspired by the episodes “The Catwoman from Channel 6” and “Were-Rats from Channel 6....

Cool Stuff: Tom Whalen’s ‘Monsters Inc.’ Kicks Off Mondo Pixar Series Mondohas done a series forStar Wars, they’re still releasing posters forStar Trek, they have several different Director’s Series running andjust yesterday they announcedthey’ll be doing a series forJurassic Park. Not tooutdo themselves, but Thursday they announced yet another ongoing series of posters:Pixarmovies. The first poster,Monsters Inc.bythe greatTom Whalen, goes on sale Friday. Check it out after the jump. Here’sMonsters Inc....