A ‘Hello Kitty’ Movie Is Being Penned By ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ And ‘Chaos Walking’ Writer WithAggretsukotearing up the small screen, Sanrio is set to dominate the big screen too with aHello Kittymovie adaptation. The ubiquitous Sanrio brand is being adapted into a feature film by New Line, which has just tapped theHello Kittymovie writer.Lindsey Beer, whose credits includeTransformers: The LastKnightand the upcoming YA filmChaos Walking, has been set to writeHello Kitty, the movie based on the adorable toy merchandise....

A Nightmare On Elm Street - What Did You Think? Samuel Bayer’sA Nightmare on Elm Streetis finally in theaters everywhere today. Personally, my enthusiasm for the project has waxed and waned over the years. I was wary when I first heard at Comic-Con that the project was under way, but when I had the chance tochat with the directora few weeks ago, I found myself getting more upbeat about the movie’s prospects....

Alex Proyas And Lionsgate Apologize For ‘Gods Of Egypt’ Whitewashing Gods of Egyptjust can’t catch a break. The buzz surrounding the film is currently toxic, following thegarish postersanda trailerthat left people scratching their heads. Then, the film was criticized for its prominently white cast. ConsideringGods of Egyptis, you know, based in Egypt, it’s a puzzling, if not completely surprising, choice that all the major leads —Gerard Butler,Nikola Coster-Waldau, andBrenton Thwaites– are white....

Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’ Pushed To 2013; ‘Gangster Squad’ Coming In September One of themost anticipated filmsof 2012 has officially been delayed.Alfonso Cuaron’sGravity, originally set for release in November, has been moved to a not-yet-specified date in 2013. The film, which starsGeorge ClooneyandSandra Bullock, recentlybegan test screeningand it’s safe to assume Cuaron and the Warner Bros. executives felt it needed a bit more time to reach its full potential. The sci-fi thriller is said to bevery effects heavy....

Anne Hathaway To Play Judy Garland On Stage And Screen The Weinstein Co has announced thatAnne Hathawaywill star asJudy Garlandin the company’s stage and film adaptations ofGerald Clarke’s biographyGet Happy: The Life of Judy Garland. The book charts Garland’s rise to fame and her struggle with alcohol and drugs. The story was first leaked in theCleveland Leader, where sources claimed that, “Anne dearly wants to do a musical and this could be her chance....

Bradley Cooper’s Long-Awaited A Star Is Born Follow-Up, Maestro, Starts Filming In May Four years after “A Star Is Born” took over the Oscars and the airwaves, Bradley Cooper is finally sharing more details about his next directorial project. The film is called “Maestro,” and in an interviewwith Variety, the actor-director spoke about how it felt to have Steven Spielberg pass him the reins. “Maestro” will tell the story of Leonard Bernstein, a conductor and composer who worked on Broadway giants like “West Side Story,” and composed film scores for classics like “On the Waterfront....

Con Updates: ‘The Simpsons’ Go To D23 Expo, Warner Bros TV Announces Comic-Con Line-Up Calling all convention lovers: two big con announcements have just dropped to get you more excited about plunking down some cash and jetting somewhere to stand in line. Now that Disney owns Fox,The Simpsonswill make their first appearance at the D23 Expo (well, not literally; they’re cartoons). Meanwhile,Warner Bros. TVjust announced what they’re bringing to San Diego Comic-Con – a line-up that includes a farewell to the long-running seriesSupernatural....

Confirmed: Antoine Fuqua To Direct Denzel Washington In ‘Magnificent Seven’ Remake [Update] Update from Editor Peter Sciretta:Antoine Fuquais nowconfirmedto directDenzel Washingtonin a remake ofThe Magnificent Seven. More details on the Denzel Washington Magnificent Seven remake, after the jump. The original story by Germain Lussier from June 5th 2014 follows:Antoine FuquaandDenzel Washingtonare hitting a groove. Fuqua directed Washington to an Oscar inTraining Day.Their latest team-up,The Equalizer, is gaining so much buzz work has already begun on a sequel....

Cool Stuff: Indiana Jones Raiders Of The Lost Ark ArtFX Statue Kotobukiya’sRaiders of the Lost ArkArtFX Statue is one of the coolest pieces ofIndiana Jonesmerchandise that I’ve ever seen. A KOTOBUKIYA Japanese import, ARTFX Theatre is an innovative new concept which combines a movie’s key elements into a hyper-detailed, three-dimensional collage. There will be four different Indy Theatres, with one based on each film in the series. The debut release takes us back to the original 1981 film that started it all: Raiders of the Lost Ark....

Cool Stuff: Retro Up Posters Correction:Apparently Eric Tan did not create all these posters, I was wrong in that assumption. He created"Journey into the Wild" (with the dogs), Craig Foster did the SAA South American Air (with the Lama), Erik Evans did the “Paradise Falls” (with the bird), and Paul Conrad did the five remaining posters. To celebrate the November 10th DVD & Blu-ray Combo pack release of Pixar’sUp, Disney has released high resolution copies of Eric Tan’s awesome retro posters which were created during the development of the film for inspiration, and were hung in Pixar Animation Studios during production....

Cool Stuff: These ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Winter Jackets Don’t Smell Bad On The Outside (Or Inside) We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. On the ice planet of Hoth fromStar Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the only way to keep warm when you’re stranded in the middle of nowhere is to cut open your Tauntaun companion and situate yourself within its innards. Thankfully, the folks at Columbia are doing their best to ensure you won’t have to do that when it gets cold this winter....

Dark Glasses Teaser: The Gruesome Return Of A Giallo Giant Dario Argento is back, baby. The Italian “Master of Horror” has a decades-spanningcareerin the horror genre, enjoying especially great notoriety in the 1970s and ’80s with his visually striking and exquisitely violent giallo films. From the Animal Trilogy — “The Bird with the Crystal Plumage” (1970), “The Cat o' Nine Tails” (1971), and “Four Flies on Grey Velvet” (1971) — to his Three Mothers Trilogy, consisting of “Suspiria” (1977), “Inferno” (1980) and “The Mother of Tears” (2007), to once-banned Video Nasties “Deep Red” (1975) and “Tenebrae” (1982), Argento’s work has influenced modern genre filmmakers from Eli Roth toJames Wan....

Dave Filoni Seemingly Confirms Captain Rex In ‘Return Of The Jedi’ Star Wars RebelsshowrunnerDave Filoniseemingly confirmed atStar WarsCelebrationOrlando 2017 that Captain Rex, a character we first met in the animated seriesStar Wars: The Clone Wars, is also around in 1983’sReturn of the Jedi. Let’s take a look at the evidence. During Thursday afternoon’sDave Filoni: Animated Origins and Unexpected Fatespanel, theRebelsandClone Warscreator seemed to confirm a popular fan theory. During the presentation, Filoni showed the above concept art featuring Captain Rex in a camoflage outfit from the upcoming fourth season ofStar Wars Rebels....