David Yates Had His Doubts About Directing The Fantastic Beasts Franchise It had been many years since the conclusion to the “Harry Potter” film franchise had been released when Warner Bros. began looking for a way to bring viewers back to its magical world. After “Harry Potter” producers David Heyman and Lionel Wigram met with J.K. Rowling to pitch their idea fora faux-documentary style film featuring Newt Scamander, the author responded in kind, sharing a script she had already been working on....

Disney Is Considering A Live Action ‘The Little Mermaid’ Because Who Doesn’t Want A License To Print Money? In news that will only surprise people who have been living under the sea for the past six years or so, Disney is reportedly mulling over the possibility of making a live action take onThe Little Mermaid. This news comes hot on the heels of theteaser trailerfor their live action take onBeauty and the Beastbreaking one-day viewing records, which comes hot of the heels of every other live action adaptation of one of their animated classics making all of the money in the world....

Disney Signs First-Look Deal With Colin Kaepernick, And Is Developing A Docuseries About His Life Activist, producer, and former San Francisco 49ers quarterbackColin Kaepernickis already going to be the narrator ofan upcoming documentary seriesabout his childhood that’s being produced by Ava DuVernay. But now Kaepernick will be the focus of another documentary series focusing on his last five years, during which point he became a household name in the football world and sparked a movement which also turned him into one of the world’s most famous activists....

Everything We Know About The Peaky Blinders Movie So Far Steven Knight’s British drama series “Peaky Blinders” is concluding with season 6. Many fans of the Shelbys, including myself, have awaited the new season with bated breath. Will Tommy survive after his assassination attempt on the notorious Oswald Mosley went horrendously wrong? Will the politician seek retribution from the Shelbys? Will our favorite family of criminals get through the season alive?...

Field Of Dreams Writer/Director Penning Heist Film For J.J. Abrams “I may be a thief and a liar, but I am going to tell you a true story.” Those are the words ofLeonardo Notarbartolo, spoken from prison as he was serving a sentence for taking part in what has been called the heist of the century. Last year, Paramount optioned aWired articlethat tells his tale:The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond HeistbyJoshua Davis....

Final ‘Justice League’ Trailer Gives Us Our First Real Look At The Villainous Steppenwolf The release ofJusticeLeagueis fast approaching, tickets are on sale now, and there’s a final international trailer loaded with new footage, including our first good look at the film’s big bad, Steppenwolf. So come together below and watch the finalJustice Leaguetrailer. It’s hard to believeJustice Leagueis finally about to hit theaters. It feels like we’ve all been talking about this movie for the longest time, and now the big team-up of the DCEU heroes is mere weeks away....

First Look: ‘The Lorax’, Featuring The Voices Of Danny Devito, Ed Helms And Betty White Looking only at live-action films such asThe Cat in the Hat, you’d think the books ofDr. Seussare better left to the page. But Chuck Jones has proved that animation, guided by a careful hand, is a fine way to bring the author’s stories to the screen.Horton Hears a Who, directed by Jimmy Hayward and produced by Chris Meledandri, was a less than spectacular example of Theodor Geisel’s work cranked through a bank of servers to create an animated feature....

For All Mankind Season 3 Teaser Reveals Premiere Date When you talk about NASA and where we go next, you might discuss the International Space Station, the politics of the astronauts forced to live in a relatively small space, and how we keep space travelers healthy in zero gravity with radiation just on the other side of the walls. However, the big question in our current time is about whether or not humans will get to Mars, and what happens if we do....

Fox Atomic To Invade Comic Con Fox Atomic wants everyone to know that just because their big brother (20th Century Fox) has pulled out, doesn’t mean that Fox’s genre division won’t have a presence at this week’s San Diego Comic Con. Check out the press release below. Fox Atomic Announces Presence at San Diego Comic-Con 2007 LOS ANGELES, July 23 — Fox Atomic announced today its plans for the upcoming Comic-Con International Convention in San Diego, CA...

Glenn Close Wants To Play Cruella Again, Maybe On An Adventure In The New York Sewers Cruella de Vil, kidnapper of dogs, queen of the sewers. At least, that’sGlenn Close’s pitch for a101 Dalmatianssequel starring her Cruella, which the Oscar-nominated actress recently said she would be happy to reprise. You know, when we’re done with Emma Stone’scoolpunk-rockCruella. Was there any live-action villain more fabulous than Glenn Close’s Cruella de Vil? Over the top and camp in the best way, Close vamped it up as the101 Dalmatiansvillain in the 1996 live-action remake and 2000 sequel,102 Dalmatians....

Guillermo Del Toro To Helm ‘Beauty And The Beast’ With Emma Watson It’s a tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme.Guillermo Del Torois attached to another project. This time he’s upgradedfrom producer to directorof a new version of the classic fairy taleBeauty and the Beastfor Warner Bros., which will be written byAndrew Davies(Bridget Jones' Diary). Read more after the jump. Varietybroke the news of Del Toro’s decision to board the project as a director, as well as the details about the new screenwriter....

Here’s How Stranger Things 4 Decided To Use Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill As much as “Stranger Things” thrives on mixing and matching elements of nostalgic pop culture for those who grew up on them in the 1980s and ’90s, the Duffer Brothers' series also serves as a gateway for “the youths” to learn about these things for the first time. Thanks to episode 4 of the show’s fourth season, a whole new generation of people has now been introduced to British alt-pop trail-blazer Kate Bush’s classic song “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” four decades after the tune topped the UK singles charts in the mid-’80s....

How ‘Ralph Breaks The Internet’ Transforms The World Wide Web Into A Fully-Realized World Ralph Breaks the Internettakes John C. Reilly’s good-natured video game “bad guy” out of the arcade and drops him into the world wide web. But the filmmakers and animators and designers at Disney Animation faced a challenge: how do you transform the internet into an actual place that can be occupied by characters? How can something abstract become the setting of an animated movie?...