Movies

Terminator: Genisys Still Looks Way Better Than It Has Any Right To

The Super Bowl commercial for Terminator: Genisys has come early, and like the last trailer, it looks way better than any movie that intentionally misspells “Genesis” should. On paper, it sounds so bad, but then I see the footage of the old Arnold vs. young Arnold Terminators, and I just get all giddy. https://gizmodo.com/terminator-genisys-trailer-blows-our-expectations-away-1666814559 I…

Limitless Will Be Turned Into A Police Procedural For TV

Limitless, the movies about Bradley Cooper taking a bunch of drugs and changing his life from a lazy writer to a gigantic success, is getting a TV series. We actually really liked Limitless the movie. It wasn’t a huge cinematic experience, but it had a few good moments in it. Plus the NZT drug itself…

Execs: There’s A Reason We Keep Making Sequels

Variety has a bunch of short essays about the problems in Hollywood, but two executives discuss the commonly-held sentiment that there are just too many sequels coming out of Hollywood. Jim Gianopulos, chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment defends the choice to make more movies in a series, so long as they’re good: If…

Kevin Spacey Will Star In Barry Sonnenfeld’s Next Movie. As a Cat.

Kevin Spacey has signed a deal to star in Barry Sonnenfeld’s Nine Lives as a workaholic businessman who ends up in the body of his family’s cat following an accident. Please let this mean that we get a cat who stares directly into the camera and opines about power and planning. Nine Lives is described…

Aquaman Won’t Be Blond In The Movies, EVERYBODY PANIC

OH GOD OH GOD JASON MOMOA WHO HAS BEEN CAST AS AQUAMAN IN ALL THE DC MOVIES HAS REVEALED THAT HE WILL NOT BE BLOND LIKE THE COMIC BOOK CHARACTER THIS IS THE WORST THING THAT HAS EVER… wait. No it’s not. It’s actually totally fine. Momoa dropped this “bombshell” at an interview at Sundance,…

The Difference Between A Great Twist And A Mediocre Twist

Everybody loves a surprise. Our movies, TV shows, books and other media are constantly pulling rabbits out of hats and revealing that the truth is something other than what we believed. But some twists are better than others — and here’s the crucial difference. These days, we hear a lot about the importance of preserving…

We finally know who is writing the next draft of Gareth Edwards’ standalone film: Chris Weitz, writer-director of The Golden Compass and director of Twilight: New Moon. Weitz, whose writing credits include About a Boy and this year’s live-action Cinderella, will follow Gary Whitta, who left after completing a first draft of the Star Wars…

First Glimpse Of Fantastic Four Costumes Reveals A “Cronenberg-ian” Look

Just how different will the new Fantastic Four movie be from the versions we’ve seen before? Very different, it seems. Collider has a new interview with director Josh Trank. And this first look at this version of the Fantastic Four’s outfits. And, well… it’s bluer when you expand it to full-size and look closely? Trank…

Lo, The Incredible Artwork of Exodus, Revealed In Before And After Pics

What Exodus may have lacked in script and casting, it made up for in spectacle. The plagues and ancient temples were insane. Behold the magic in these before and after wipes. Thanks to the work of Matte Shot Designer and Concept Artist Vincent Jenkins, we were able to compose these amazing visuals in which you…

You’ll Buy a VR Headset For the Movies, Not the Games

Smart people think that movies—not games—will be the first killer app for virtual reality. Maybe that’s why Oculus is poaching Pixar veterans for its very own virtual reality film studio, and showing off its very first film at Sundance this week. We don’t know much about the film itself quite yet, other than these four…

Emma Watson Will Be Belle In Disney’s Live-Action Beauty And The Beast

Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast movie has cast their Belle, and we think it’s pretty perfect. Say “Bonjour” to your new Belle, Emma Watson. The press release was short and brief: Actress Emma Watson has been cast as Belle in Disney’s upcoming live-action interpretation of Beauty and the Beast. The film is directed by…

The Biggest Surprise In Syfy’s 12 Monkeys Is The 12 Monkeys Themselves

How do you turn an existentially comfortless movie about a futile journey from a post-apocalyptic future into the present day into an ongoing TV series? One way is to make the time travel less futile. But another is to create a really scary villain — and with its second episode, 12 Monkeys stars doing just…

It’s Looking Like The Jetsons Movie May Actually Happen

It’s been in development purgatory for ages, but it looks like Warner Bros has finally bit the bullet on turning The Jetsons into an animated feature film. Deadline broke the news last night, reporting that Matt Lieberman – whose writing credits include Dr. Doolittle: Tail to the Chief, an animated Scooby-Doo movie that Warner Bros…

Mr. Peabody & Sherman Failed Because It Was “Too Clever”

DreamWorks Animation is in trouble. It’s laying off 500 people, closing an office, and most of its leadership is leaving. Being blamed for this disaster is a string of big-budget misses, including blaming 2014’s Mr. Peabody & Sherman for being “too clever” for audiences. Deadline reports that DreamWorks Animation will start releasing two films a…

Simon Pegg Will Co-Write the Next Star Trek Movie

The clip above is from Spaced. Seeing Pegg say that odd-numbered Star Trek movies suck is an immutable law of the universe is just a smidge ironic given the news that he’ll be one of the writers on the third reboot movie. Pegg’ll cowrite the script with Doug Jung, creator of TNT’s Dark Blue and…

Watch a Dad’s Special Effects Turn Playtime Into Crazy Action Scenes

The world’s best Dad-who-is-also-pretty-good-with-Adobe-AfterEffects is back with a brand new batch of cutscenes to turn his lucky kid into the most adorable action hero this side of baby Groot. Between blasting UFOs out of the window of a car to starring in a Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robot’s scene that is at least 50 times…

NBC Might Make A Live TV Presentation of The Wiz, We Have Thoughts

After Peter Pan Live! and The Sound of Music Live, NBC is moving onward and upward, picking up the rights to The Wiz. This is a much more complicated musical than Peter Pan, so NBC, if you’re going to do it, do it right. Cast Janelle Monáe. We totally agree with Slate’s earlier suggestion that…

The World War Z Movie Sequel Will Start With A “Clean Slate” 

The World War Z film adaptation of the hit book made a lot of money, but let’s get real, it was nothing like the fantastic source material. Which is why we’re happy that the sequel is going to be a “clean slate”… or maybe we’re just cautiously optimistic. In an interview with Indie Wire, sequel…

Ernie Cline Is Writing Another Ready Player One Novel

We still don’t know when Armada, Ernie Cline’s next book, is coming out. But now we have something else to look forward to — he’s writing a followup to his novel about people in a dark future who are obsessed with 80s video games, Ready Player One. Top image: Ready Player One movie promo artwork…

What Blackhat Gets Right: A Chat With Former Hacker Kevin Poulsen  

Back in Kevin Poulsen’s hacker days, before he became writer and Wired editor, he pulled stunts like taking over the phone lines in a radio contest to win himself a Porsche, or breaking into the FBI’s computer system when he ended up on the agency’s Most Wanted list to change his physical description. He served…