The Horror Movies We Can’t Wait To See In 2022 As 2022 begins, it’s time to look forward to some seriouslyspooky stuff. We’re talking about horror movies, folks — scary, thrilling, chilling tales of terror that are bound to give us the heebie-jeebies. Every month is a good month for a horror movie, so we’re looking ahead to our most anticipated horror films of 2022. To be clear: this isn’teveryhorror movie on the way this year, and I’m sure additional titles will catch our eye as the days and weeks tick by....

The Morning Watch: Will Smith And Tom Holland Do An Escape Room, Stuntmen React To ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch asWill SmithandTom Hollanddo an escape room as a bit of promotion for their new movieSpies in Disguise....

The New ‘Baby Driver’ Poster Is All Fast Cars, Big Guns, And Earbuds The funny thing about this newBaby Driverposter is that, technically, it represents everything we hate about modern movie poster designs: it’s all giant floating heads hovering over a city skyline. However, there’s one key difference and it meanseverything.This poster is hand-illustrated. Suddenly, the go-to choice for hacky Photoshopped posters looks stunning. This should be a new rule – marketing departments are only allowed to make floating head movie posters if they hire a talented artist to bring it to life....

The Pitch For The Emoji Movie Revealed [CinemaCon 2016] When Sonyannouncedthey had won a bidding war against two other studios to makeThe Emoji Movie, an animated feature based on emojis, we were like [insert WTF face emoji here]. Now we know what the pitch fromEric Siegel(producer on the TBS seriesMen at Work)andAnthony Leondis(director of the animated seriesKung Fu Panda: Series of the Mastersand thedelayed DreamWorks Animation projectB.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations)entailed....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘21 Chump Street’ Is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s One-Act Musical Written Between ‘In The Heights’ And ‘Hamilton’ (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie:21 Chump StreetWhere you’re able to Stream It:YouTubeThe Pitch:In a plot that mirrors the events of21 Jump Street, a Florida police officer goes undercover and poses as a high school student in an attempt to bust the kids who were dealing drugs....

The Weinsten Co. Will Distribute John Woo’s Reign Of Assassins It’s almost a great, hopefully not sad cosmic joke thatBob and Harvey Weinstein, so famous for buying and then either recutting or shelving Hong Kong films, will distributeJohn Woo’s latest made-in-China effort,Reign of Assassins. The Weinstein Company announced today that it has pre-bought North and South American rights to the film, which was produced by John Woo and longtime partnerTerence Chang, and co-directed by Woo andSu Chao-Pin, who also wrote....

Theme Park Bits: ‘Ghostbusters’ Theme Park Ride Coming To Dubai, ‘Skull Island: Reign Of Kong’ Officially Opens, And ‘Kubo And The Two Strings’ Heads To Universal Parks In this edition of Theme Park Bits: The past decade has seen Dubai (and the United Arab Emirates in general) attempt to transform itself into a major tourism destination, with movies that film there depicting it as a desert paradise and new theme parks popping up at a rate that is just plain astonishing....

Tom Hanks Sci-Fi Film ‘Bios’ Release Date Moves From April To August Bios, a new sci-fi film from directorMiguel Sapochnikthat starsTom Hanksas a guy who builds a robot to watch over his dog (yes, really) is moving from April to August. The Universal Amblin Entertainment title was supposed to arrive in theaters on April 16 but will now arrive in August. The release date change is just the latest example of Hollywood studios trying to figure out when and where to release their new movies as the coronavirus pandemic continues to interfere with the traditional theatrical model....

Top Gun: Maverick Writers Christopher McQuarrie And Justin Marks On Flying In The Jets And Bringing Iceman Back [Interview] “Top Gun: Maverick” is a wild ride, and audiences who see this on the big screen are in for a treat — especially if you’re a fan of the first film. Though this movie hits the right notes of nostalgia with a beach scene (thank goodness for that), wild flying, cocky pilots, authority figures who like to play by the rules, and true friendship, it’s not solely a rehash of what we’ve seen before....

Viggo Mortensen In Talks For ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Well, there you go. We were just talking aboutViggo Mortensenwith respect toThe Dark Tower. He and Javier Bardem have been rumored as the top choices for the lead role in that massive project, and the offer just went out to Mr. Bardem to star. But Mr. Mortensen isn’t going home empty handed, as he’s in talks for one of the two title roles in Universal’sSnow White and the Huntsman....

VOTD: 50 Movie Spoilers Of 2012 (Oscar Edition!) There are two times in the year when people typically recap the previous year’s movies: At the beginning of the new calendar, and right around the Oscars. The former makes logical sense but the latter works too. It is, after all, the official end of the year in film. When Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director and more are crowned at the Academy Awards, it’s time to move on to the next thing....

What Happened To Netflix’s Recommendation Engine Improvements? Several years ago,Netflixran a contest that would pay someone $1 million for improving their already solid recommendation engine. The algorithm, called Cinematch, took how you rated movies on Netflix’s five star system and gave you personalized recommendations based on those ratings. The contest winner only needed to improve the system by a small percentage and a team called BellKor Pragmatic Chaos took the prize....

Why Colin Trevorrow Didn’t Direct ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’, According To Kathleen Kennedy J.J. Abramsis at the helm ofStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but things could’ve turned out very differently. At one point,Jurassic WorldfilmmakerColin Trevorrowwas set to direct the final entry in the Skywalker Saga, but Trevorrow ultimately parted ways with the production. We’ve heard several different reasons for Trevorrow’s departure, and now, Lucasfilm PresidentKathleen Kennedy is opening up about what happened behind-the-scenes....