CBS All Access Beams Up A Star Trek Day Virtual Celebration For September 8

CBS All Access Beams Up A Star Trek Day Virtual Celebration For September 8 Following in the footsteps of the DC FanDome virtual convention, CBS All Access has announced their own 24-hour virtual celebration calledStar Trek Dayfor Tuesday,September 8. But this isn’t just a look forward at whatStar Trek: Discoveryand the other new shows have in store on CBS All Access (though there will be news about them). This is a full-onStar Trekcelebration that will bring fans together to watch exclusive panel programming and initiatives from all of theStar Trekshows that fans have absorbed since 1966 and one that has yet to arrive....

June 8, 2025 · 4 min · 796 words · Andrea Rodriguez

Chris Weitz To Rewrite Disney's Live Action 'Cinderella' For Mark Romanek

Chris Weitz To Rewrite Disney’s Live Action ‘Cinderella’ For Mark Romanek In May 2010, Disneybought a pitchbyThe Devil Wears Prada/We Bought A ZooscribeAline Brosh McKennato remake their classic filmCinderellain live-action. This was a few months after Tim Burton’sAlice in Wonderlandwas a major hit for the studio and fantasy remakes became a go-to genre (seeMirror Mirror, Snow White and the Huntsman, Oz the Great and the Powerfuletc.). A year later, directorMark Romanek(Never Let Me Go)was attached to the projectand soon after that Universalbegan developing a rivalproduction....

June 8, 2025 · 2 min · 310 words · Erin Cabrera

Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar' Adds 'Homeland' And 'Twilight' Actors [Update: Ellen Burstyn And John Lithgow Also Cast]

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ Adds ‘Homeland’ And ‘Twilight’ Actors [Update: Ellen Burstyn And John Lithgow Also Cast] Christopher Nolan’sInterstellaralready includes some of the brightest actors working today, and now it’s added a couple more who could be the hottest young talents of tomorrow.Timothee Chalamet, perhaps best known as Finn Walden onHomeland, andMackenzie Foy, who recently played Edward and Bella’s daughter inThe Twilight Sagaand who also appears inThe Conjuring,have just boarded the growing cast of the sci-fi movie....

June 8, 2025 · 2 min · 283 words · Jessica Sutton

Comedian Garry Shandling Has Died At 66

Comedian Garry Shandling Has Died At 66 Some sad news comes out of nowhere today as influential comedian and writerGarry Shandling, star ofThe Larry Sanders Show, has passed away at 66 years old. The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that Garry Shandling died at a Los Angeles hospital but the exact cause of death has not been revealed at this time, though it is known he had some sort of medical emergency today which led to his death....

June 8, 2025 · 4 min · 692 words · Margaret Walton

Cursed Films Creator Jay Cheel On Going Outside The Box In Season 2 [Interview]

Cursed Films Creator Jay Cheel On Going Outside The Box In Season 2 [Interview] Today marks the premiere of season 2 of Shudder’s streaming docuseries"Cursed Films,“which delves into the urban myths and legacies of movies that are supposedly haunted or bedeviled in some fashion. Far more than just a fact versus fiction investigation, each episode of “Cursed Films” provides useful historical and societal context for the motion pictures it explores. “Cursed Films” season 2 will include looks at"The Wizard of Oz,““Rosemary’s Baby,““The Serpent and the Rainbow,” Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece"Stalker,“and the notorious"Cannibal Holocaust....

June 8, 2025 · 8 min · 1674 words · Kathryn Reed

Examining Five Key Moments In The 'It' Trailer

Examining Five Key Moments In The ‘It’ Trailer I literally just finished readingStephen King’s1986 horror classicItfor the first time last night, and I think it’s very close to a perfect piece of storytelling. Earlier today, Warner Bros.unleashed the first trailerfor the new film adaptation of the movie, and while it remains to be seen ifMamadirectorAndres Muschiettiis going to be able to fully translate the brilliance of the book to the screen, some of the visuals in the trailer indicate that he’s definitely on the right track....

June 8, 2025 · 3 min · 615 words · Hayley Thompson

Exclusive: TCL Chinese Theater IMAX To Install 70mm Projector For Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar'

Exclusive: TCL Chinese Theater IMAX To Install 70mm Projector For Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ Christopher Nolanis such a big draw and an advocate for IMAX, the company is going above and beyond for his latest feature. /Film has exclusively learned IMAX will be specially installing a 15perf/70mm film projection system inside the company’s flagshipTCL Chinese Theater IMAXin Hollywood, CA, just forInterstellar. Normally, the theater uses an IMAX xenon dual digital projection system, but Nolan wantsInterstellarprojected on IMAX film wherever possible....

June 8, 2025 · 2 min · 341 words · Ryan Reid

GeekBomb: Movies About Fanboys

GeekBomb: Movies About Fanboys digg_url = ‘http://www.slashfilm.com/2025-07-16/geekbomb-movies-about-fanboys/'; // –>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary added the word “fanboy” last year, and they list its first usage as 1919. Sadly, they don’t provide any examples for that usage. Curly Lambeau founded the Green Bay Packers that year in Wisconsin, but I don’t think he had throngs of fanboys around him just yet. For the record, Merriam-Webster defines a fanboy as, “A boy who is an enthusiastic devotee (as of comics or movies)....

June 8, 2025 · 12 min · 2509 words · Courtney Hunt

Godzilla 2 Will Be "Bigger" And "Better", Japan's 'Godzilla' Reboot Will Feature Amazing Hybrid Effects

Godzilla 2 Will Be “Bigger” And “Better”, Japan’s ‘Godzilla’ Reboot Will Feature Amazing Hybrid Effects GodzillascribeMax Borenstein, who was brought back to scriptGodzilla 2, is speaking out for the first time giving us an idea of what we might expect from the monster sequel — and he’s throwing around words like “bigger” and “better”. Also we learn the details behind the hybrid visual effects that will make up Toho’sGodzillareboot. We don’t know much about Legendary Pictures' Godzilla sequel....

June 8, 2025 · 3 min · 536 words · Michelle Davidson

Guardians Of The Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind Review: An Adrenaline-Amping Mix Of Marvel, Music, And Imagineering

Guardians Of The Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind Review: An Adrenaline-Amping Mix Of Marvel, Music, And Imagineering Before shuttering its doors in Epcot’s Future World in the summer of 2017, the long-running Universe of Energy attraction featured a number of audio-animatronic dinosaurs, including an Allosaurus and Stegosaurus that looked as though they were going to tear into each other. The attraction’s replacement — the just-opened Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind — doesn’t include battling Jurassic beasts, but it does its predecessor one better with the inclusion of a Celestial, a towering Marvel menace that makes those dinos look like playful puppies....

June 8, 2025 · 6 min · 1209 words · Jason Murphy

HBO Is Spending 'Game Of Thrones' Money On That 'The Last Of Us' TV Series

HBO Is Spending ‘Game Of Thrones’ Money On That ‘The Last Of Us’ TV Series Creating a post-apocalyptic world full of fungus zombies is apparently an expensive endeavor. HBO’sThe Last of Ushas started productionin Alberta, and according to the head of one the unions there,eachof the 10 episodes will cost at least tens of millions of dollars. HBO is clearly hoping thatThe Last of Uswill fill thatGame of Throneshole in the premium channel’s lineup....

June 8, 2025 · 2 min · 404 words · Michael Bryant

Henry Cavill Says 'Batman V Superman' Isn't A 'Man Of Steel' Sequel

Henry Cavill Says ‘Batman V Superman’ Isn’t A ‘Man Of Steel’ Sequel 2013’sMan of Steeldid well enough that aMan of Steel 2seemed like a sure bet. Instead, Warner Bros. zagged by announcing that Superman’s next outing wouldn’t be a Superman sequel, but the superhero team-upBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Which is all well and good, but does that Superman is done flying solo? StarHenry Cavilldoesn’t think so. “There’s plenty of time for individual Superman sequels,” he said....

June 8, 2025 · 2 min · 327 words · Brandon Williams

How Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper' Aims True But Misses The Mark [Movie Review]

How Clint Eastwood’s ‘American Sniper’ Aims True But Misses The Mark [Movie Review] Editor’s Note:This review originally ran on November 12. We’re bumping it up now that American Sniper is in wide release. DirectorClint Eastwoodhas great aspirations forAmerican Sniper. First and foremost, he hopes to make a movie paying tribute to the most deadly sniper in the history of the United States. That’s the late Chris Kyle, played byBradley Cooper. He also hopes to show Kyle not as only a heroic solider, but a complex man confident in his actions and concerned about of their results....

June 8, 2025 · 4 min · 778 words · Kevin Dominguez