Toronto International Film Festival Refuses To Postpone, Considering Digital Options In a normal year, the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off in September. But 2020 is not a normal year by any stretch of the imagination, and TIFF is now facing a big decision. Due to the coronavirus, many of this year’s film festivals have already been canceled, or at the very least delayed. With September fast-approaching, the TIFF organizers are holding fast, and refusing to postpone....

TV Bits: ‘Big Bang Theory’ Renewed, ‘Scream’ Rebooted, ‘Midnight, Texas’ Trailer In this edition of TV Bits: The Big Bang Theory, currently on season 10,has been renewedfor seasons 11 and 12. That’s 48 more episodes of a show that the internet seems to hate, but remains one of the biggest shows on television. While I’m not fan of the show (and anything I say here won’t be anything that hasn’t been said before), the interesting news here is that stars Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar agreed to take a pay cut so their underpaid co-stars, Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch, can make more money....

Watch Riz Ahmed’s ‘Rogue One’ Audition And Learn Which Planet Was Cut From The Movie One day, we will run out of news concerning what could have been inRogue One: A Star Wars Story. But that day is not today.Star Warsfans are as interested in the making of these movies as they are in the movies themselves, which makes the production ofRogue Oneso very fascinating – the first of the saga’s spin-off movies was massaged into many different positions during development and the alternate versions make for a great game of “What if?...

Which Netflix Shows Led People To Watch The ‘Defenders’ And Marvel Series? It’s easy for superhero fans to get caught up in the Universes, the Phases, and how it’s #AllConnected. But for the average Netflix viewers, they’re just trying to find something to fill up their Friday nights. So how does the Netflix audience end up watchingThe Defendersif they haven’t been following every series leading up to it starting withDaredevil? Netflix has released some rare streaming data that shows how non-fans — or even fans who aren’t watching in order — make their way through the Marvel-Netflix shows....

WTF: Potential Oscar Spoiler Leaks As Academy Community Protests Security Firm This could be the most coincidental leak of all time, the most perfectly timed viral image of all time, or just a complete misunderstanding. Regardless, on Monday a CNN program briefly showed a supposed glimpse of the plaque that will decorate the Best Actor Oscar at March 2nd’s Academy Awards. Is it real? Probably not, but it’s interesting because this potential spoiler happened on the same day a huge group of people protested the Oscar-nominee luncheon to call for stronger security....

‘After Yang’ Review: Kogonada’s Second Film Is A Quiet Sci-Fi Stunner To Be Savored [Cannes] After Yangbegins inside a tea shop, an austere space with a decidedly Japanese aesthetic. Jake (Colin Farrell) greets a patron who has walked down the stairs, seeking out “tea crystals” for instant pleasure. Explaining that the local supermarket may carry such convenient goods, and that instead he’s got preparations that may require more effort but may be more rewarding, she leaves frustrated, wondering how someone can survive by not giving the customer what they already want....

‘American Gods’ Review: Crispin Glover’s Mr. World Reigns Supreme In ‘Lemon Scented You’ (Each week, we’ll kick off our discussion ofAmerican Godsby answering one simple question: which character do we worship this week?) Last week gave us a taste of mortal malaise, but this week we return to the pantheon.American Godscontinues to give answers at the price of a hundred new questions, as ‘Lemon Scented You’ offers us a seat in the war room for the first negotiations between the Old Gods and the New....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Deleted Scene Joins The Fans In Blaming Star-Lord [Comic-Con 2018] Marvel Studios isn’t having a panel at San Diego Comic-Con International 2018, but they did show up…in the parking lot. They have a pop-up offsite event at The Experience, located next to Petco Park. They’re calling it the “Group Hug,” and the experience is meant to give fans a way to cope from the climactic events ofAvengers: Infinity War....

‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ Review: Netfix’s Choose-Your-Own Adventure Experiment Is Entertaining Enough – At Least The First Time Through Black Mirror: Bandernatchis probably (hopefully) the closest we’ll come to living through aBlack Mirrorepisode — and that’s not as bad as it sounds.Black Mirror: Bandersnatchis a choose-your-own adventure story that makes the viewer culpable for the doomed destiny of its protagonist: a young programmer named Stefan Butler (Dunkirk’sFionn Whitehead) who attempts to adapt a sprawling fantasy novel into a video game in 1984....

‘Blazing Saddles’ & ‘Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory’ Return To Theaters This Weekend Earlier this week we found out the sad news that comedy legendGene Wilderhad passed away at 83 years old due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Fellow actors, comedians, filmmakers and fans have been paying tribute to Gene Wilder all over the web, and now movie theaters are offering the chance to celebrate the man’s life by enjoying two of his most iconic roles on the big screen again....

‘Booksmart’ Team Olivia Wilde And Katie Silberman Reunite For Holiday Comedy Olivia WildeandKatie Silberman, who both worked together on this year’s critically acclaimed and altogether wonderfulBooksmart, are getting together again. The duo will create an untitled holiday comedy for Universal, and while there are absolutelyzerodetails about the project, we’re such fans ofBooksmartaround here that we’re still excited. These talented people don’t need me to tell them how to do their jobs, but if they’re taking suggestions, I recommend making this a sequel with the same cast calledA Very Booksmart Christmas....

‘Child’s Play’ Brings In Mark Hamill As The New Voice Of Chucky With the newChild’s Playthis summer (watch the teaser trailer), we get an all new Chucky. This time the doll is said to turn towards the sinister side thanks to advanced artificial intelligence inside a new doll for a contemporary audience. Since we’re getting a whole new Chucky, it only makes sense that the doll who turns into a murderous force of nature gets a new voice....

‘Cowboy Bebop’ Is Getting A Live-Action TV Series Way back in 2008, Keanu Reeves waspegged to star as Spike Spiegelin a live-action film adaptation of the influential 1998 anime seriesCowboy Bebop. An ambitious script was written by Peter Craig (The Town), but it may have ultimately been a bittooambitious: Reevesspeculated it would cost $500 million to filmit, and the project eventually faded away. ButCowboy Bebopis too popular to ignore, and now a new live-action adaptation is in the works: this time, though, it’s being devised as a television series....