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How Pixar Changed All The Rules To Make The Good Dinosaur A Stunning Masterpiece

Pixar’s new movie The Good Dinosaur takes place in a bizarre alternate history—what if the dinosaurs weren’t wiped out 65 million years ago? But the process of making this wild, ambitious film required a very different counterfactual: What if the way animators create scenery and characters had been turned on its head? Even for a…

Check Out This Eye-Popping, Comic-Con Exclusive Poster For The Final Girls

October is here, and unlike some of the past years there are going to be lots and lots of horror films hitting theaters. The first comes this weekend with The Final Girls–and the filmmakers have a seriously awesome poster out to celebrate. The below poster was done by gruesome artist Alex Pardee and was specially…

Disney Confirms A Huge Slate of Release Dates, Including Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4

Along with the announcement of all manner of Marvel release dates, we now know when to expect some of Disney’s most anticipated new titles, including the much-longed-for sequels The Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4. Variety has the whole list (and it includes all those Marvel movies mentioned in the post linked above), but here…

The Wasp Will Headline The New Ant-Man Sequel!

Marvel has just dropped a surprising bit of news: the third phase of its cinematic universe is getting even bigger. Not only have three mysterious new movies been added to the schedule, but Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne are teaming up for Ant-Man and The Wasp! Marvel revealed the news today, slotting in Ant-Man…

Rick Moranis Turned Down A Cameo in the New Ghostbusters

Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot has finished shooting and while it’s set in a world where the previous two movies don’t exist, it’s going to pay tribute. Almost every living star of those films has been revealed to have a cameo save for one, Rick Moranis. Moranis, who hasn’t appeared on screen in a film in…

Dammit, Agents of SHIELD! Don’t Toy With My Emotions Like That!

For a moment there on last night’s Agents of SHIELD, I thought I was going to have to throw my TV set out the window and possibly set fire to some stuff. Spoilers ahead… Luckily, everything turned out okay. But this was very nearly a “burn everything down” situation. The big fakeout in “Purpose in…

Daniel Craig Is So Done With James Bond

I cannot imagine a better media campaign for an upcoming film than having the star repeatedly talk about how tired he is, how little he cares about the next film, and how he’ll only do it again for the money. Daniel Craig is the best possible salesman for Spectre. Speaking to Time Out, Craig made…

These Are the Coolest New Art Posters From This Year’s MondoCon

At 4:30am Saturday morning, I walked into the parking lot of the Holiday Inn hotel in Austin, Texas and sat down behind a line of 150 other people. By 10am, triple that amount would be in line. Why the crowd? We were waiting to buy the latest posters from Mondo. This past weekend was the…

Watch the Moment a 14-Year-Old Girl Finds Out She’s the Newest Disney Princess

For many girls, there’s no greater wish than to become a Disney princess. That dream is about to come true for Auli’i Cravalho of Oahu, Hawaii. She was just cast as the voice of Moana, the star of Disney Animation’s upcoming musical folk adventure. What’s cooler than that? Disney released the video of the moment…

The Next Terminator Movie Is Going to Have Its Story Crowdsourced

Despite a box office of $90 million in the United States, Terminator: Genysis has only caused the studio to reevaluate the direction of the franchise. You know, instead of taking the perfectly logical step of stopping the reboot madness. At a conference, Skydance Media Chief Creative Officer Dana Goldberg said of future Terminator projects, “I…

Blame the Fans for Loki Getting Cut Out of Avengers: Age of Ultron

On a list of the best things to come out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Tom Hiddleston’s portray of Loki has to be near the top. Over multiple movies, the adopted brother of Thor has wreaked havoc on Earth and Asgard but was sadly absent from Avengers: Age of Ultron. That wasn’t always the case,…

The Resurrection Thriller Flatliners Is Being Brought Back From The Dead

The main reason Hollywood loves to remake movies is name recognition. If they remake a movie that was already popular, they hope you’ve heard of it and will turn out. But sometimes, they remake movies that aren’t as recognizable. Movies like Flatliners. Variety reports Ellen Page is circling a Flatliners remake at Sony, with original…

The Best Effects in The Martian Are the Ones You Don’t See

When you watch The Martian, obviously you know it’s a big visual effects film. But many of the effects themselves are not as obvious. Director Ridley Scott didn’t shoot on Mars (shocker!) so, to make where he did shoot look like the red planet required the kinds of effects you never really think of. Enter…

This Bizarre Lex Luthor Fortune Profile Teases a Bunch of Back Story For Batman v Superman

I mean, I get all of my superhero blockbuster news out of fake editorials from Fortune. Don’t you? Batman v Superman may be a considerable while off for now, but that doesn’t mean you can’t start your viral marketing machine up already. The faux-profile hosted on Fortune’s website began making the rounds yesterday evening, when…

How Pixar’s Inside Out Avoided Its Greatest Danger: Becoming An “After-School Special”

Inside Out is a complex film about the human psyche, but it has a really simple message: Sadness is an important part of life. You can’t have joy without sadness, and growing up means accepting that memories can be happy and sad. Director Pete Docter told io9 it was hard to avoid making this feel…

Alexander Payne Will Finally Get To Shrink Matt Damon to Doll Size

We’ve been obsessed with Alexander Payne’s movie Downsizing for years. And now that star Matt Damon has just broken the box office with The Martian, it looks like Damon and Payne finally got the go-ahead to make their weird-as-fuck satire. In Downsizing, it’s the near future, and Matt Damon plays a guy who is down…

The Flash Movie Will Be Directed by the Guy Who Wrote Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

This is strange news. It’s not bad, necessarily, that Warner Bros. has decided to let Pride & Prejudice & Zombies book author and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter novelist and screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith to make his directorial debut with The Flash movie… but it does seem strange. As part of WB’s DC Cinematic Universe, The Flash…

The Best Little Porno Movie on the Internet [Very NSFW]

The other night, my friend Fivestar said, “Hey, I’m going to be directing a Star Trek gang bang movie, you want to visit the set?” Just in case you are wondering, the answer to that question should always be yes. Warning: This article is very NSFW. Seriously. There are genitals. You have been warned. Fivestar…

I Watched Netflix In VR and Now Reality Seems Hollow and Pointless

“IT’S FOR GAMES” has been the oft-quoted cry of VR headset makers and gamers when talking about virtual reality, but the opportunity for movies is unquestionably huge. Today, Oculus VR released a Netflix app for the Gear VR (and eventually Oculus’ own headset.) And it makes watching Netflix in real life seem super lame. The…

The Martian has premiered… just not on this planet. The astronauts on the ISS managed to get the first exclusive screening of the upcoming Ridley Scott scifi movie about an astronaut who gets left behind in the vastness of space (Mars, specifically). If you’re wondering, yes, the ISS crew have also screened Gravity, because astronauts…