Producers Guild Nominates ‘Boyhood’, ‘American Sniper’; Snubs ‘Selma’, ‘Unbroken’ At this point in the awards race each year, support has already crystallized around some of the frontrunners. This year, that group includesBoyhood,Birdman,The Theory of Everything, andThe Imitation Game, and the Producers Guild followed the rest of their industry in nominating those titles for this year’s PGA Awards. It’s more interesting, however, to see which dark horses did and didn’t make the cut....

Reasons For Sabotage In Star Trek? There seems to be more than a few complaints aboutJJ Abrams' use of theBeastie Boys' trackSabotagein the newStar Trekfilm. But it isn’t at all random, and not just inserted twenith centry pop culture. First off, the sequence in question is when 13-year-old James T Kirk steals his step-father’s antique convertable and drives it off a cliff. I must give screenwritersAlex KurtzmanandRoberto Orcicredit on this one....

Redbox And Xbox Live Want Original Programing To Compete With Netflix Streaming services have re-mapped the media landscape. TheNetflixstreaming service grew in just a few years to become one of the dominant means of accessing film and TV content, and its first forays into original content have been a great success.House of Cards, the first show to premiere exclusively on Netflix, has reportedly done very well, though the company hasn’t released official numbers to publicly tally the show’s viewership....

Sequels: No Joseph Gordon-Levitt In ‘GI Joe 2;’ Justin Lin Implies He’ll Direct Sixth ‘The Fast And The Furious’ So there will be a sequel toG.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,possiblysubtitledCobra Strikes. That naturally led to supposition thatJoseph Gordon-Levittmight return as Cobra Commander. Given that most of the characters from the first film are said to beno-showsthis time (Storm Shadow, Snake Eyes and Duke are the returnees) his presence would be welcome....

Star Wars Bits: The Final Ruling On Harrison Ford’s On-Set Injury, New ‘Aftermath’ Details, And Some Jaw-Dropping Cosplay In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Let’s get the serious news out of the way first: a U.K. courthas ruledthat the accident that injuredHarrison Fordon the set ofStar Wars: The Force Awakenswas an act of negligence and that the actor faced “risk of death.” The Disney-owned company Foodles Production, who built the hydraulic door that injured Ford, has officially pled guilty to violating health and safety regulations....

The Squid Game Reference That Made Our Heads Explode “Squid Game,” writer/director Hwang Dong-Hyuk’s devilishly clever smash-hit Netflix series, has been compared to plenty of other projects because of its premise – the most frequent of which are probably “Battle Royale” and “The Hunger Games,” two movies that also use the twisted “cram people together and gamify them killing each other” structure. Interestingly, the show itself does not contain many overt references to other pieces of pop culture....

Tom Ellis Cast As ‘Lucifer’ In Fox Series Fox has a new DC Comics-based series in development, but it’s something very different from the Batman origin storyGotham.Luciferis based, perhaps loosely, upon the vision of the fallen angel originally seen in Neil Gaiman’sSandmanseries, and will follow the Morningstar to Los Angeles, where he helps cops solve crimes. (Seriously.) NowTom Ellis(Rush) is theLuciferseries lead, and will head to LA for the Fox series....

Top Gun: Maverick Early Buzz And Reactions To The Film’s Opening 13 Minutes Don’t look now, but Tom Cruise has suddenly taken over CinemaCon. After other studios had their moment in the sun to generate excitement for their upcoming titles, it’s now Paramount’s turn to take a swing. We just found out about the sheer amount ofpreparation involved in Cruise’s latest death-defying stuntfor the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, and now comes the news that attendees were able to watch the first 13 minutes of “Top Gun: Maverick....

Watch Trailers For NBC’s New 2017-2018 TV Shows: ‘Will & Grace’ Revival, ‘Law & Order True Crime’ & More It’s upfronts week over in Hollywood, which means all the networks are rolling out the red carpet for all the new shows coming to TV for the upcoming 2017-2018 season. First out of the gate was NBC, who has their revival ofWill & Gracecoming this fall, as well asLaw & Order True Crime, yet another spin-off of the network’s classic legal drama....

Weinstein Cuts To ‘Snowpiercer’ Are “Actually Pretty Soft,” Says Bong Joon-Ho Cinephiles were up in arms whenword got outthat The Weinstein Co. was planning a new cut ofBong Joon-ho’sSnowpiercerfor the American audience, lest those Midwestern dimwits get confused by the story of a rebellion moving from one end of the train to another. The decision came across as an unnecessary affront to both the audienceandthe filmmaker, and left a bad taste in our mouths....

Zombieland Set Visit Video Blog Back in March, Columbia Pictures invited /Film and a few select other online sites to the set ofZombieland, short film and commercial directorRuben Fleischer’s feature film debut — a zombie buddy comedy road-trip adventure film. I’ll be completely honest, I wasn’t expecting much going in. I mean, what do you expect from a movie titled Zombieland? But what I saw over the course of being on set for 14-15 hours definitely excited me about the production....

‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Has Slipped Onto Paramount+ And Is Streaming Right Now Did you missA Quiet Place Part IIin theaters? Well, I have some good news for you – provided you have Paramount+.A Quiet Place Part IIhas just dropped onto the streaming service, which pretty much lines up with the previousannouncementthat Paramount theatrical releases would hit Paramount+ about 45 days after releasing on the big screen. Back in February, which feels approximately 10,000 years ago at this point, Paramount made a big announcement that certain theatrical releases would be dropping onto streaming service Paramount+ 45 days after release....

‘Amateur Night’ Trailer: Jason Biggs Drives Around Hookers And Pretends To Be A Pimp Jason Biggsbecame famous for having sex with a pie in the high school sex comedyAmerican Pie. What followed were three sequels, all involving a series of awkward sexual mishaps and just the right amount of nudity to convince horny teens to see each and every one. Even though the actor has tried desperately to shed the image with roles inLoser, Saving Silverman, Wedding DazeandMy Best Friend’s Girl, it appears he can’t escape sexy comedy any longer....