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Movie News: New 'Jumanji' Title and Plot Details Revealed; 'Justice League' and 'Aquaman' Vr Experiences on Their Way
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle: The upcoming new version of a family favorite revealed its new title along with its surprising premise. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle stars Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Karen Gillan and Kevin Hart; Johnson, it turns out, plays a teen nerd who has been transformed into a muscular character when he begins playing a video game that transports him to a jungle. Another character is a popular girl who is dismayed to find herself transformed into Jack Black. [THR] Justice League Vr: We can look forward to seeing "premium, interactive" virtual reality experiences based on the forthcoming movies Justice League, Aquaman and a third, yet to be announced title. The first experience to be launched by IMAX and Warner Bros. will be Justice...
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- Peter Martin
Today in Movie Culture: 'Justice League' Easter Eggs, Deadpool Parodies 'Ghost in the Shell' and More
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Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture: Easter Eggs of the Day: Mr. Sunday Movies shows us all the Easter eggs and other things we might have missed in the new Justice League trailer: Movie Poster Parody of the Day: Deadpool has hijacked another movie's poster, this time Ghost in the Shell, helped by BossLogic: Continuing the #ThisIsAPosterJacking series #BreakThe4thWall @deadpoolmovie @VancityReynolds @robertliefeld pic.twitter.com/LrbnGw7kWX — BossLogic (@Bosslogic) March 28, 2017 Movie Science of the Day: Speaking of Ghost in the Shell, MatPat of The Film Theorists looks at the science of the movie and how people can live forever: Supercut of the Day: Do you...
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- Christopher Campbell
Animation Buzz: Robert Rodriguez to Direct Uglydoll Movie; See the First 'Ferdinand' Trailer
11 hours ago
Bring out your inner child with this roundup of animation goodies: Robert Rodriguez to Direct Uglydolls Making a return to kid-friendly fare, Spy Kids director Robert Rodriguez is going to turn the Uglydoll toys into an animated feature, according to Deadline. Plans have been in the works for years to bring the plush monsters to the big screen for their own movie, though they're no strangers to the cinema. Since their launch in 2001, Uglydoll toys have appeared as props in Zathura, Enchanted, The Smurfs and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, some of them even coming to life in the last of them. This will still be Stx Entertainment's first foray into family films and is due in theaters on May 10, 2019. Eddie Murphy Returns to...
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- Christopher Campbell
This Deleted Scene From 'Monster Trucks' Shows a Crazy Way to Throw a Car Off a Bridge
13 hours ago
If you like car stunts, you're going to want to watch this deleted scene from the movie Monster Trucks. Now before you start acting like you're too cool for an irreverent kids movie about a tentacled monster that hides inside a pickup truck, this clip will definitely appeal more to a physics-aware adult than you might think. The deleted scene is simple enough. Creech, the monster, is trying to track someone on the road, but gets stuck in traffic. So naturally Creech jumps off a bridge, as we all are wont to do when stuck in traffic. But what's particularly neat here is seeing how the scene was actually done. For a movie that obviously has a bunch of CGI in it, it's cool to see that they kept some things very practical. Like tossing a truck into the air and...
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- Peter Hall
Oscar Nominees 'Hidden Figures' and 'Lion' Come Home; Plus This Week's New Digital HD and VOD Releases
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Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical A Monster Calls – (fantasy-drama; Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Lewis MacDougall, Liam Neeson; rated PG-13) Why Him? (comedy; James Franco, Bryan Cranston, Zoey Deutch; rated R) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (action-fantasy; Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston; available on cable Mod to coincide with release on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD; rated PG-13) Patriots Day (action-drama; Mark Wahlberg, Kevin Bacon, John Goodman; rated R) Silence (Martin Scorsese-directed...
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- Robert B. DeSalvo
Let's Not Wait to Celebrate This Awesome 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' Poster (Exclusive)
17 hours ago
Here's a typical life cycle for a movie that isn't a megabudget blockbuster from a major studio. Everyone talks about it before it comes out, it releases, then radio silence hits. Every now and then something may blip up about it, but for the most part it's quiet until 10, 20 years later when people start rediscovering it and celebrating big anniversaries. It happens to pretty much every movie, no matter how great they are. And that's kind of bogus. That's why we think it's pretty awesome that the UK art house Black Dragon Press isn't waiting 10 or 20 years to celebrate the fantastic Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Taika Waititi's indie adventure comedy turns a year old this week, and so to celebrate it Black Dragon teamed up with artist George...
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- Peter Hall
Pharrell Williams' Life Story Heads to Big Screen as Musical 'Atlantis'
18 hours ago
First known as a singer, songwriter and record producer, Pharrell Williams began composing music for movies with the soundtrack for Despicable Me in 2010. Since then, his movie credits have included Despicable Me 2 -- his original song "Happy" was nominated for an Academy Award -- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Paddington and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. His songs have been heard in nearly 300 movies and television shows.. More recently, he earned another Academy Award nomination as a producer on last year's Hidden Figures. He also shared in composing original songs and music for the movie. Now his life story is heading to the big screen. Titled Atlantis, it will be a musical inspired by Williams' childhood, according to The Hollywood Reporter...
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- Peter Martin
Movie News: O'Shea Jackson Jr. May Join 'Godzilla' Sequel; 'Moonlight' Director's 'The Underground Railroad' Heads to Amazon
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters: O'Shea Jackson Jr., who made his acting debut by portraying his father, Ice Cube, in Straight Outta Compton (above), is in negotiations to join Godzilla: King of the Monsters. If things work out, he would join Millie Bobby Brown, Kyle Chandler and Vera Farmiga in the monster sequel, which is scheduled for theatrical release on March 22, 2019. [Variety] The Underground Railroad: Barry Jenkins (above), who just won an Academy Award for Moonlight, has been busy lately writing a miniseries based on Colson Whitehead's book The Underground Railroad. It revolves around two slaves who escape a plantation in Georgia and head for safety. Now streaming service Amazon has picked up the series for further development. Jenkins is...
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- Peter Martin
Iron Man Is All Over the New 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Trailer
20 hours ago
Here's a sentence we're still surprised we can say: Iron Man is going to be a huge part of Spider-Man: Homecoming. On the big screen, the two characters have spent nearly two decades separated by corporate contracts. But now that Sony and Disney have reached an agreement to bring Spidey into the proper Marvel Cinematic Universe, Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark can be a big influence on Tom Holland's Peter Parker. And based on this new trailer, Tony Stark is apparently also a big influence on Michael Keaton's The Vulture. Basically, imagine what would have happened if Stark had decided to use all his techno wizardry for a life of crime instead. That's kind of The Vulture in a nutshell, and he's about to make life very, very difficult for Parker and...
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- Peter Hall
Today in Movie Culture: Deadpool Reacts to New 'Spider-Man' Poster, The Avengers React to New 'Justice League' Trailer and More
27 March 2017 11:00 PM, PDT
Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture: Movie Poster Parody of the Day: You've seen the new Spider-Man: Homecoming poster, now here's the Deadpool 2 reaction poster, via BossLogic: This is my house :D @TomHolland1996 x @vancityreynolds @deadpoolmovie @SpiderManMovie pic.twitter.com/7WH34Z2blI — BossLogic (@Bosslogic) March 25, 2017 Trailer Reaction of the Day: What would the Avengers think of the Justice League movie? Watch them watch the new trailer and discuss what it means for them (via /Film): Reworked Movie of the Day: What if Marvel movies were like DC movies? Here's The Avengers marketed in the style of the new Justice...
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- Christopher Campbell
'Star Wars' News: 'Sing Street' Bully Joins Han Solo Movie; Take That Singer Cameos in 'The Last Jedi'
27 March 2017 8:00 PM, PDT
Need your Monday afternoon Star Wars fix? Here's the latest from a galaxy far, far away: One More Rogue One Easter Egg Beginning with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which is now available in digital release, director Gareth Edwards has one final Easter egg to reveal, and he shared the bit of trivia in a new interview for Collider. Here's the scoop on how Jedha became a holy place: "If you look at the establishing shot of Jedha from above, the layout of it is this giant, circular rock formation around where Jedha is—the idea was that there was a meteor impact that hit Jedha, and it came at such a force that it was what created the Kyber Crystals at the center of that crate of impact. So Jedha is like this very unique place in the...
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- Christopher Campbell
First Images From 'Tomb Raider' Reveal Alicia Vikander's New Lara Croft
27 March 2017 6:00 PM, PDT
If you only associate the name Lara Croft with the 20+ old, polygonal Playstation version or Angelina Jolie's big screen version, you may not recognize the Lara Croft above. The gaming franchise was rebooted a few years ago, and while she underwent an obvious redesign, the character itself also went through significant changes. Now she's less of a wannabe Indiana Jones and more of a woman thrust into a survival scenario that ultimately puts her on a course with her father's adventurer legacy. This new Lara Croft is the version the new Tomb Raider, from The Wave director Roar Uthaug, is based on. It stars Alicia Vikander, and Vanity Fair just debuted the first official look at Vikander in the reinvented role, which clearly hews close to the digital version...
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- Peter Hall
Sony Reportedly Going R-Rated With 'Venom,' Plus: New 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Teaser
27 March 2017 4:30 PM, PDT
The R rating isn't exactly a new thing for the superhero genre. The Blade trilogy did great business, and earned a lot of fans, by letting the blood flow long before superhero movies were the tent pole business they are today. That said, the R-rated superhero movie is definitely trending again. Fox has had tremendous fortune with Deadpool and Logan, and now Sony is said to be getting in on the game with an R-rated Venom. This rumor comes from Collider, who are also reporting that their new Venom movie will serve as a launching point for Sony's own Marvel universe (including the recently announced Black Cat and Silver Sable movie), which will be totally separate from Disney/Marvel's existing Marvel Cinematic Universe, including Sony's own Spider-Man...
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- Peter Hall
Box Office Report: ‘Power Rangers’ Morph a Surprise But ‘Beast’ Still Reigns Worldwide
27 March 2017 3:00 PM, PDT
Here's your estimated 3-day box office returns (new releases bolded): 1. Beauty and the Beast - $88.3 million ($316.9 million total) 2. Power Rangers - $40.5 million ($40.5 million total) 3. Kong: Skull Island - $14.4 million ($133.0 million total) 4. Life - $12.6 million ($12.6 million total) 5. Logan - $10.1 million ($201.4 million total) 6. Get Out - $8.6 million ($147.4 million total) 7. CHiPs - $7.6 million ($7.6 million total) 8. The Shack - $3.7 million ($49.0 million total) 9. The Lego Batman Movie - $1.9 million ($170.8 million total) 10. The Belko Experiment - $1.8 million ($7.5 million total) The Big Stories Sometimes there is just no calculating precisely what the North American public will spend their money on at the box office. Quiet tracking...
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- Erik Childress
Movie News: Colin Farrell Touted for Disney's 'Dumbo'; Joseph Gordon-Levitt May Direct a Musical Comedy with Channing Tatum
27 March 2017 1:30 PM, PDT
Dumbo: Colin Farrell (Saving Mr. Banks, above) is in negotiations to star in Disney's new version of Dumbo. Tim Burton will direct; if things work out, Farrell will play a widowed father with two children, joining Eva Green as a trapeze artist and Danny DeVito as the owner of a small circus in the live-action movie. [Deadline] Wingmen: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Night Before, above) is in early negotiations to direct a musical comedy. He is already set to star alongside Channing Tatum in the movie, which has been provisionally titled Wingmen and follows two pilots who crash-land in Las Vegas and then sing cover versions of popular songs "with a touch of adult humor." [Variety] Archer & Armstrong: Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, above) will...
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- Peter Martin
Robert Rodriguez to Direct New 'Escape from New York'
27 March 2017 12:00 PM, PDT
On the very first episode of his interview show The Director's Chair, Robert Rodriguez (above) talked with John Carpenter about his influences and how he became a filmmaker. In the in-depth and very informative interview, Rodriguez acknowledged that Carpenter was one of his inspirations. Now Rodriguez will follow directly in Carpenter's footsteps. He is in talks to direct a new version of Escape from New York, according to The Tracking Board. Carpenter's original, released in 1981, starred Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken, a convicted bank robber who was charged with rescuing the president of the United States after he crash-lands in Manhattan, which has been transformed into a lawless maximum security prison. The movie became a cult classic and inspired a sequel...
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- Peter Martin
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