Sequel Bits: ‘Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea Of Monsters;’ ‘Crank 3;’ ‘Insidious 2’ And More ‘Twilight’ The sequels never stop, and the first one we want to talk about today isPercy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters, the sequel to the 2010 filmPercy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. We know thatThor Freudenthalwill directthe movie based on the second book inRick Riordan’s YA series, with a script byEd WoodwritersScott AlexanderandLarry Karaszewski....

Space Force Season 2: 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.) General Mark Naird and the rest of the “Space Force” are on their way back to television screens, with season 2 just beyond the wild, blue yonder. The show was renewed in November of 2020, and centers on a decorated pilot who has been re-assigned to lead the newly formed sixth branch of the United States Armed Forces, the Space Force....

Spidey Makes Iron Man’s Guest List In New ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ TV Spot Hot on the heels ofthis morning’s new trailersforSpider-Man: Homecoming(andour subsequent breakdown), Disney and Marvel Studios have released a new TV spot that ties the movie to the NBA Finals. And if there’s one takeaway so far from all of this film’s marketing, it’s that they really,reallywant everyone to know thatRobert Downey Jr.‘sTony Stark is a big part ofHomecoming....

Star Wars Episode 7: Close-Up Set Photos And Did JJ Abrams Order A DroneShield? Over the last week, we’ve seen a bunch of ariel photos of theStar Wars Episode VIIcaptured from Greenham Common set whilst filming the GAMA bunkers. The photos have shown a few X-Wing includinga black-colored model,as well as theMillennium Falconwhich JJ Abrams later releasedan official video of. We’ve also seen photos of some of the actors in costume, includinga possible revealof Adam Driver’s role in the movie....

The Essex Serpent Review: A Beast-Hunt Gives Way To A Gorgeous, Eerie Gothic Romance The Essex Serpent looms over the foggy, water-locked town at the center of the new Apple TV+ series of the same name. Nevermind that the residents of the Victorian-era community rarely if ever see the sea creature: it haunts them like a devil, often seeming to kill or capture their vulnerable residents in the night. Enter Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes), a recent widow struck by a wild hair for adventure, who moves to Essex with her young son to track down the legendary monster....

The In Between Stars Joey King, Kyle Allen, And Celeste O’Connor On Life And Love After Death [Interview] In the new Paramount+ film “The In Between,” high school student Tessa (Joey King) keeps very much to herself after devastating family losses. One day she has a chance encounter with the gorgeous senior from another town, Skylar (Kyle Allen), and finally begins to let someone into her heart. The happiness she finds with him is stolen too soon when an accident takes his life....

The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To ‘TRON’ And ‘TRON Legacy’, All The ‘Cobra Kai’ Easter Eggs & 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, see how VFX artists react to the originalTRONfrom 1982 and the sequelTRON Legacyfrom nearly 30 years later....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘WeWork: Or The Making And Breaking Of A $47 Billion Unicorn’ Is A Fascinating Chronicle Of The WeWork Saga (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie:WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion UnicornWhere You Can Stream It:Hulu, starting April 2.The Pitch:A documentary that chronicles the rise and fall of WeWork, a commercial real estate company that inexplicably became valued at billions of dollars – before everything came crashing down....

This Week In Trailers: Clash, Abortion: Stories Women Tell, Casting JonBenet, Maurizio Cattelan Be Right Back, Rupture Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we talk about a little known topic called abortion, compare notes about what a totalitarian state looks like abroad while looking at ourselves, wonder aloud who did killJonBenet Ramsey, revel in the playfulness of a seriously gifted artist and get moreStormarein my life....

VOTD: Meet ‘Saturday Night Live’ Director Don Roy King Even people who aren’t die hardSaturday Night Livefans like myself know who Lorne Michaels is. When you’re the man responsible for creating one of the biggest, groundbreaking television shows of all time, and you continue to run the show for nearly four decades (there were some years he wasn’t in charge), even casual fans are bound to learn your name. But for the past 10 years, there’s been another man responsible for bringingSNLto your screen....

WETA Developing A Live-Action / Animatronic Wind In The Willows Kenneth Grahame’sThe Wind in the Willows, which follows four anthropomorphized characters in a classic pastoral English countryside, has been adapted to the screen many times. Now there’s a new version on the way, to be directed byRay Griggs, with Peter Jackson’s WETA providing a suite of animatronic effects to bring the animal characters to life.Varietysays the $30m production, which shoots this fall, will be “a live-action and animatronics version” with WETA’sRichard Tayloroverseeing the effects....

‘5 Worlds’ Creator Mark Siegel On Crafting Epic Collaborative Comics Making comics can seem like a complete mystery to those who aren’t actively making them, but the conceit is simple: words and pictures tell a story. However, actually understanding how they move from concept to page can be a massive undertaking. I recently sat down with the brilliant artist and authorMark Siegel(Sailor Twain, or the Mermaid in the Hudson) to talk about his gorgeous fantasy comic series5 Worlds....

‘A Deadly Adoption’ Trailer: Will Ferrell And Kristen Wiig Make A Lifetime Movie [UPDATED] Will FerrellandKristen Wiig’s Lifetime movie is really happening,as confirmed earlier this month, and now we have the first promo to prove it. TitledA Deadly Adoption, it looks at some of the horrible things that can go wrong when you decide to let a pregnant lady into your life and your home. Watch theA Deadly Adoptionteaser trailer after the jump....