https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1F6r_bRYG4 The first extended look at Zack Snyder's original vision for Super Friends...er, uh, I mean Justice League is finally here. And guess what: it's Zack Snyder on steroids. Whether that's good or bad remains to be seen, but there's no doubt that by what's revealed in the first full-length teaser of Snyder's Cut of Justice [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW2E2Fnh52w Meow. In the latest trailer for a movie that should be premiering on home video right now after a summer blockbuster run (thanks, COVID!), the delayed DC Extended Universe sequel Wonder Woman 1984 saw its new trailer released at the DC FanDome. The Amazonian superhero stars in her second stand alone adventure, now set [...]
Batfleck lives. In a bit of a surprise announcement (although not entirely shocking), filmmaker Andy Muschietti told Vanity Fair that Ben Affleck would be reprising his role as Batman in the new DC Extended Universe stand-alone movie The Flash, which Muschietti (director of the IT films) will helm. Affleck will be joining Michael Keaton who, as previously announced, will be [...]
The DC Fandome is coming, but the teases to hype it are already here. This weekend's online one-day DC event is promising to deliver big peaks at the projects still most shrouded in secrecy: The Batman and Justice League Snyder Cut. For the Bat, writer/director Matt Reeves tweeted out two design images (see below): the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM1U-Whb-P0 Hercule Poirot is back, now navigating steamy Egyptian waters rather than chilly Euro-train transit. Following the global success of 2017's Murder on the Orient Express, actor/director Kenneth Branagh reprises his turn as Agatha Christie's beloved Belgian sleuth (complete with the funky accent and well-endowed 'stache) in Death on the Nile, another classic Poirot mystery that was teased [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4p0vjj_C8s It's a marriage lost in translation. That's the premise of writer/director Sophia Coppola's new arthouse dramedy On The Rocks. Bill Murray, who memorably teamed with Coppola almost twenty years ago for Lost in Translation, stars with and Parks & Rec's Rashida Jones as a father and daughter who reconnect in New York City when he suspects [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yevysSJlRdQ These apples don't fall far from the tree. In the latest 90-second behind-the-scenes featurette for Bill & Ted Face The Music, we get a focused look at the duo's daughters. Thea and Billie are, respectively, the progeny of Wyld Stallyn rockers Bill & Ted, with names that show how their dads honored each other [...]
Talk about burying the lead. According to a source who spoke with CNN media reporter Frank Pallota, Disney failed to mention an extremely significant detail yesterday when they announced that their Disney+ streaming service would be offering the new live-action remake of Mulan exclusively on their streaming platform as a $30 Premium Video on Demand [...]
The fallout for the theatrical landscape in the wake of COVID-19 just keeps getting worse. In a move that no one saw coming, Disney made a surprise announcement that they would forgo a theatrical release for their live action adaptation of Mulan altogether. Instead, it will debut exclusively on their Disney+ streaming platform on September [...]
It was a landmark deal between a major Hollywood studio and North America's biggest theater chain. It was supposed to revolutionize the industry. Not so fast. When AMC Theatres and Universal struck a deal allowing the studio to put its movies on Premium Video on Demand (PVOD) just 17 days after a film's theatrical debut, [...]
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