‘It’ Is Already Breaking Box Office Records, And Poised For A Big Weekend Warner Bros. and New Line weren’t clowning around withIt. Andy Muschietti’s movie adaptation of Stephen King’s classic horror novel has already broken box office records, making $13.5 million in Thursday night screenings alone. That’s the biggest advance night opening for any R-rated movie, the biggest opening gross for any King adaptation, the biggest preview gross for any outright horror movie, and the best preview gross for any September movie....

‘Lockdown’: Doug Liman To Direct A Pandemic Heist Movie Starring Anne Hathaway It’s happening: we’ve arrived in the era of pandemic-themed movies, and the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is far from over. And I’m not convinced that it will be over by the timeDoug Liman’s pandemic heist movie,Lockdown, is released, whenever that is. But Hollywood is getting ready to mine the pandemic for all its storytelling potential, with Liman set to directLockdown, penned byPeaky BlinderscreatorSteven Knightand set to starAnne Hathaway....

‘Long Shot’ Director Jonathan Levine On The Soundtracks To His Movies And Life [Interview] “Music inspires you to keep making images,” directorJonathan Levinesays. The director ofThe Wackness,50/50, and the newSeth Rogen-Charlize Theronrom-com,Long Shot, constantly finds himself inspired by music. Whether he’s writing or thinking of the mood for a movie, music is on his mind. His love for music was evident from the start of his career withThe Wackness,but his movies that followed have been packed with songs that fit just right....

‘Moana’ Footage Recap: Disney Embarks On A Beautiful, Crazy Voyage Through Ancient Oceania 2016’s been pretty rough in a lot of ways, but one good thing about this year is that we’re getting not one, but two Disney animated features.Zootopia, released in March, continued the studio’s reputation for excellence, and next monthMoanawill try its best to carry on that torch. You’ve surely seen trailers forMoanaalready, featuring newcomerAuli’i Cravalhoas the Polynesian princess andDwayne Johnsonas Maui, the demigod who accompanies her on her quest to save her people....

‘More Than You Imagined: Art Inspired By Premium Cable’ Opens In Brooklyn, NY Even movie fans would agree some of the best entertainment made during the past two decades has been on premium cable. Whether it’s HBO shows likeThe Sopranos, The Wire, Sex and the CityandGame of Thronesor Showtime shows likeDexter, WeedsandHomeland, movies are regularaly getting schooled by TV in terms of character, story and scope. Plus, even if you love a movie, it’s only two hours....

‘Secret Society Of Second-Born Royals’ Trailer: Disney+ Gives Us Royal Teen X-Men So far, Disney+ hasn’t made much of a splash with their original movies. The remake ofLady and the Tramp, the holiday comedyNoelle, the nature adventureTogo,the family comedyTimmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, and the adaptation ofStargirl(not the DC Comics character) all came and went without much pomp and circumstance. Now, it looks like another Disney+ original movie is likely to follow in their footsteps....

‘Spiral: From The Book Of Saw’ Release Date Pushed Up, Will Now Kick Off Summer Movie Season Nothing says summer movie season like severed limbs, andSpiral: From the Book of Sawis going to deliver on that. Lionsgate has moved up the film’s release date, setting the horror reboot to kick off the summer movie season in May. TheSpiral: From the Book of Sawrelease date has been pushed up toMay 14, 2021, a week earlier from its previous May 21 release date....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Coming To CBS This Fall Thanks To A Lack Of New Original Programming Star Trek: Discoverykicked off the new era of the final frontier as the firstTrek-related series on the CBS All Access streaming service back in 2017. Not only is a third season on the way, but there’s theStar Trek: Strange New Worldsspin-offcoming, too. But if you’ve missed out onStar Trek: Discoverybecause you haven’t felt like signing up for CBS All Access, this fall will give you an opportunity to start catching up, because the first season will be airing on CBS as part of the network’s fall schedule....

‘Steve Jobs’ Trailer: Michael Fassbender Brings An American Icon To Life Universal has released a new trailer forSteve Jobs.Michael Fassbenderstars as the iconic tech guru, seen here at three key product launches in his career — the Macintosh in 1984, NeXT in 1988, and the iMac in 1998.Kate Winsletplays his"work wife"Joanna Hoffman,Seth Rogenis Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, andJeff Danielsis former Apple CEO John Sculley. Behold the new Steve Jobs trailer after the jump....

‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8 Trailer: All Out War Is Coming [Comic-Con 2017] Last October, AMC renewed its long-running, highly popular zombie series,The Walking Dead, for season 8. The upcoming season premiere will be the series' 100th episode. There’s still no end in sight for the show, which is based onRobert Kirkman’s comic book series. The brass at AMC don’t even know how the serieswill conclude, but in the meantime, we attended the show’s San Diego Comic-Con panel and learned what they have in store....

‘Wonder Woman’ Director Patty Jenkins Describes “Internal War” Over Character’s Direction In First Film Patty Jenkinsmay not be the most critically acclaimed director in Hollywood right now considering the mixed reaction toWonder Woman 1984, but she worked hard to get here. And the reception to theWonder Womansequel aside, Jenkins couldn’t be more on top of the world:Wonder Woman 3has been greenlit, the filmmaker is set to direct aStar Warsmovie, and she’s essentially got a blank check for her next projects....

‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Teaser Reveals New Footage Of Darkseid No one has been a better hype man forZack Snyder’s Justice LeaguethanZack Snyderhimself, with the filmmaker whipping his fans into a frenzy in the days ahead of the film’s HBO Max release by releasing a series of character trailers forBen Affleck’s Batman,Jason Momoa’s Aquaman,Ezra Miller’s The Flash,Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, andRay Fisher’s Cyborg. Now that he’s given the heroes their time to shine, Snyder is turning the spotlight to the villains of the piece, with a newZack Snyder’s Justice Leagueteaser that gives us a longer glimpse of the League’s ultimate Big Bad, Darkseid....

/Film Interview: ‘Cloud Atlas’ Co-Directors And Writers Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowksi And Tom Tykwer Here’s my full interview with the writers and directors ofCloud Atlas:Andy Wachowski, Lana WachowksiandTom Tykwer. Last week,we broke upthis long interview into four parts to make it both more digestible and to keep in spirit with the film, which comprises six radically different, but related, stories. The film jumps from story to story to story, with the last scene informing and enlightening the first, even though they’re set in totally different time periods and genres....