Amazon’s ‘Thunderbirds Are Go’ Keeps Puppet Spirit In CGI [Wondercon] Amazon brought their upcoming rebootThunderbirds Are Goto Wondercon. The original 1965 children’s show used marionettes to animate the Tracy family’s sci-fi adventures. The new series uses a combination of computer animation and practical models. Old fans may notice that there is still a hint of the original style, as hovering spacecraft waver as if on strings, though they are entirely CGI....

Amber Heard Swims Toward Jason Momoa’s ‘Aquaman’ Jason Momoa’sAquamanmay have the ability to talk to fishes, but a guy probably gets pretty lonely chatting with nothing but marine life all day. Fortunately, it looks like he’ll have a more humanoid friend to keep him company down in the deep blue sea.Amber Heardis reportedly in talks to join the superhero adventure as Mera, who has some formidable powers of her own.THRbreaks the news that Heard is in negotiations to join Warner Bros....

Authorized Jimi Hendrix Biopic In Development By Hendrix Estate Just as John Ridley’s unauthorizedJimi HendrixbiopicJimi: All Is By My Sideis playing SXSW, the late musician’s estate has moved to develop a new authorized Jimi Hendrix biopic. This isn’t the first time there has been a move to make a film with the blessing of the estate. At one point Legendary founder Thomas Tull nearly had Anthony Mackie set to star and Paul Greengrass to direct on a project that would have featured the full suite of Hendrix songs....

Behind The Scenes Video: The Coen Brothers' True Grit I’m wildly curious aboutTrue Grit, the new version of theCharles Portisnovel currently lensing under the supervision ofJoel and Ethan Coen. For the past couple weeks I’ve resisted posting the many set photos that have hit the internet as the film shoots in New Mexico and Texas. Mostly because they didn’t show much; you could see old west building facades and some period-appropriate costumes, but there wasn’t anything that really suggested what the movie would look like....

Bill Murray Praises ‘Ghostbusters’ Reboot As Old And New Casts Unite On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Yesterday was Ghostbusters Day, and to celebrate the casts of both the 1984 classic and this year’s reboot came together onJimmy Kimmel Live. For some reason, the posting of the videos on YouTube pretend the arrival of the originalGhostbusterscast during an interview with the newGhostbusterscast was some kind of surprise, even though we found out about it in advance....

Cool Stuff: Lego Han Solo In Carbonite Han Solo in Carbonite is my favorite piece of movie memorabilia ever. There, I said it. In the Nineties, a company made a small number of authorized prop replicas of it and I believe they cost $3,000 each. Though I was probably 13 at the time, to this day I regret not buying it. Just think of all the non-at-all-awkward conversations I could have had bringing girls to my place....

Cool Stuff: Limited Edition ‘Pacific Rim’ Posters By Gabz And Odd City; Plus The IMAX Poster The official trailers and posters forGuillermo Del Toro’sPacific Rimhave promised exciting visuals the likes of which we’ve never seen before. Dark, neon hues blasted over the cities of the world as colorful, 25-story robots battle massive alien monsters. The potential iconography is staggering and new poster companyOdd City Entertainmentis capitalizing on it. Odd City Entertainment has secured an official license to create posters forPacific Rimand just revealed the first of five images leading up to the July 12 release....

Dangerous: Release Date, Cast, And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Let’s get dangerous! And by dangerous, I mean let’s become ex-convicts and take a casual trip to a mysterious island to investigate the even more mysterious demise of our (collective) brother. Yup, we’re talking David Hackl’s upcoming film, “Dangerous,” and we have all the details you desire, from the release dates you crave to the cast info that will keep you up at night (I mean, probably not, but I don’t know what you’re into)....

David O. Russell’s ‘Nailed’ Gets Rated By MPAA; Is It Finally Headed For A Theatrical Release? AsAmerican Hustleprepares to take theaters by disco glitter storm, another ofDavid O. Russell’s projects may have taken a small step forward toward release.Nailed, a project Russell abandoned three years ago after financing fell apart, has just received a rating from the MPAA. That doesn’t mean a theatrical opening is imminent, but it does suggest that someone, somewhere, is thinking of finally releasing it....

David Spade Will Try To Follow ‘The Daily Show’ With A Pop Culture Skewering Late Night Show Ever sinceThe Colbert Reportleft Comedy Central in 2014, the cable network has struggled to hold onto a show that can effectively take the timeslot followingThe Daily Show. They tried to replicate the political satirical success of Stephen Colbert’s program with Larry Wilmore’sThe Nightly Showand Jordan Klepper’sThe Opposition, but the only sustainable series to fill the gap was Chris Hardwick’s@midnight,which came to an end in 2017....

Disney Has Decided To Halt All Theatrical Releases In Russia Days after Russia launchedan invasioninto Ukraine, the global entertainment industry is beginning to take a stand. Earlier today,Netflix announcedthey would not be allowing state television channels on their platform in Russia, despite the presence of an impending law regarding Russian media platforms. Now, according toVariety, Disney has become the first major streamer to pull its films from Russian release schedules....

Disney Is Done With Fairytales… Or Is It? There’s been a lot of talk about the relative under-performance ofThe Princess and the Frogand how that led to a film about Rapunzel being renamedTangled. The idea is that audiences now, especially male audiences, aren’t interested in princess stories, and by extension fairytales. (Shh, no one tell the people putting togetherSnow White and the Huntsman.) Even so, cue no small amount of surprise when an article ran this weekend proclaiming that Disney is done with making animated fairy tales for the time being....

Dollhouse Cancelled, Significant Finale Promised As well as the cancellation of two shows I don’t think anybody much cares about –HankandEastwick– today has also seen the axe fall onJoss Whedon’sDollhouse. Inevitable? Maybe. A shame? Of course… but that’s not to say the series hasn’t let us down, time and again. There will have been two seasons of thirteen episodes a piece screened by the time the series goes off air for the final time, which together make up 26 of the show’s chapters, the 27th centre piece chapter being a special, DVD only installment that has perversely managed to be the best of the lot so far....