Movies

The Fables Movie Isn’t Dead! A Kick-Ass Writer Comes On Board

Good news. The movie version of the badass, modern day fairytale comics we ALL want to see adapted, Fables, is NOT dead. In fact, the movie just got a pretty exciting screenwriter to take another pass at the script. Honestly, we thought the Fables movie was dead — which was a very big bummer because…

Rare Promo Art For Joss Whedon’s Wonder Woman Movie That Never Was

While we never did get to see Joss Whedon’s movie take on Wonder Woman, at least one piece of artwork was made to promote the film. And now this poster and the original sketch have been put up for auction for a good cause. Several pieces of artwork are up on eBay right now to…

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…

The First Hobbit Fan-Edit Cuts The Trilogy In Half

Well, this was inevitable. A Tolkien fan — less enthused by Peter Jackson’s expansive, three-movie adaptation of The Hobbit than others — has created his own edit of the trilogy, trimming the 9+ hour-long saga into a much trimmer four hours and 21 minutes. Check it out! Created by the quite succinctly named “TolkienEditor” and…

Here’s a cool best picture nominees mashup to get into the Oscars mood

If you didn’t have time to go see this year’s Academy Award nominees for best picture you should watch this neat mashup by University of Nevada student Dustin Martin. It condenses the eight movies in one video and shows just enough to put you in the right mood for The Oscars without spoiling any of…

Amazon is joining the movie-making business: The company has announced that it will produce and acquire 12 movies a year, staring in 2015. These will be theatrical releases that will then be made available on Amazon Prime four to eight weeks after they premiere. The budgets will be indie-level at $5 million to $25 million.…

George Lucas Explains Why He’s Avoiding All The Force Awakens Details

George Lucas wants to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens as much as anybody, it seems, but until it hits theaters, he wants absolutely nothing to do with the newest installment of his beloved franchise. He’s seen no movie footage but the officially released trailer — but his explanation for this is pretty damned good.…

Underdogs Trailer Brings Fooseball Players To Life To Cheat In Soccer

I’m not entirely sure I understand the premise of the animated movie Underdogs. A movie about a bunch of fooseball figures that come to life to help a town cheat at a game of soccer? OK, OK, let me try again: Once upon a time a kid played a bully in fooseball? And now the…

Amazon’s Plan to Make Films and Debut Them on Prime Right After Theaters

Amazon is already killing it with original streaming content. Transparent just won the Golden Globe for best comedy series and The Man in the High Castle is getting good early reviews. But Amazon is not resting on its streaming service laurels. No, Amazon has its eyes on a bigger screen: The company is preparing to…

Thank God, It Sounds Like the Gremlins Reboot Has Been Shelved

When we last got an update on this project, Warner Bros. was going full-steam ahead with it. Now, writer Seth Grahame-Smith says the whole thing has been shoved back once again. Here’s some good news, at least: Grahame-Smith did say that it wasn’t a remake but more of a sequel/reboot: It was a completely different…

Bad News: Frank Darabont’s Off The Huntsman. But Wait, There’s Good News

The massively troubled follow-up to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman has been dealt another blow: It’s lost Frank Darabont as a director. But at least they’ve got plans for a new villain that might inject life into this thing once again. The Huntsman, which takes the place of a sequel that didn’t happen and…

Boo: Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen Won’t Be In X-Men: Apocalypse

This isn’t a huge surprise, since their appearance in Days of Future Past was dependent on that film’s time travel plot, but we now have the word straight from the man himself: Patrick Stewart. Stewart’ll be on Wednesday’s episode of Larry King Now, but an early clip has Stewart addressing the question about whether he’d…

Only A Time Traveler Could’ve Predicted Syfy’s 12 Monkeys Would Be Good

It seemed like a totally preposterous idea: turn Terry Gilliam’s weird, clever movie 12 Monkeys into an ongoing TV show. This seemed clearly doomed to suckitude. But in a totally implausible twist, the Monkeys show is actually surprisingly terrific. Spoilers ahead… So as readers of our interview with showrunner Natalie Chaidez will already know, this…

Akira Kurosawa’s 100 Favorite Films

Few filmmakers have left as indelible a mark on cinema as iconic Japanese director, screenwriter, and producer Akira Kurosawa. The following list reveals which films had a lasting impact on him. “I have learned more from him,” Steven Spielberg has said of Kurosawa, “than from almost any other filmmaker on the face of the earth.”…

Watch The First Trailer For Batman vs Robin

Warner Bros. has just released the first look at Batman vs Robin, the upcoming feature-length direct-to-DVD sequel to last year’s Son of Batman. https://gizmodo.com/damian-lives-in-dcs-next-direct-to-dvd-movie-son-of-ba-1505711607 Here’s the trailer debut, courtesy of IGN: THR has the full voice cast. Some highlights: Jason O’Mara, the Terra Nova star who also plays George Washington on History’s Sons of Liberty,…

What did we do to deserve this? Whatever it is, we’re really, really sorry. We swear we won’t do it again. But our remorse is as naught, for lo — they are making a sequelto the shittastic Ouija movie.

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…

The Most Ingeniously Cheapskate Props And Sets From Classic Movies

Some of the best TV shows were made for a song — but did you know that some of your favorite movies have featured ridiculously cheap scenery and props, as well? We’re not just talking 1950s “B” movies, but more recent stuff. Here are some of the most wonderfully cheap sets and props from classic…

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…

Vice Is The Least Subtle Dystopia Ever, And That’s Saying Something

There’s nothing subtle about Vice, an astonishingly unoriginal thriller that plays off familiar fears that violent video games will turn players into real-world trigger-happy sociopaths. The movie is now viewable on demand; some spoilers ahead. Top-billed Bruce Willis smirks his way through what’s decidedly more of a supporting role, playing Julian Michaels (not to be…