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Watch A Sneak Peek Of Jon Favreau’s ‘The Jungle Book’ Before Trailer Arrives On Monday As you’ve surely noticed, Disney is obsessed with turning their animated classics into new live-action movies. Just this year alone we’ve gotten word ofTim Burton directingDumbo, Alex Ross PerrywritingWinnie the Pooh, and Reese Witherspoonstarring in aTinkerbellmovie, not to mention live-action takes onMulan,Pinocchio,Prince Charmingand now anAladdinprequel calledGenies. And that’s not even all of them. But the next one hitting theaters isThe Jungle BookfromElfandIron MandirectorJon Favreau....

Why ‘Fallen Kingdom’ Is The First ‘Jurassic Park’ Movie Shot In CinemaScope Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdomis going to be big. So big, in fact, that it’s been shot in CinemaScope – a widescreen format that no otherJurassicfilm has been shot in before. During aFallen Kingdomset visit, directorJ.A. Bayonaexplained why this is the firstJurassic Parkmovie filmed in this format. Get ready to seeJurassic World: Fallen Kingdomon the biggest screen possible.Steven Spielbergshot the firstJurassic Parkin a 1....

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Launches New Production Company, Partners With Netflix Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, star of"Candyman"and “Watchmen,” has launched a new production company, and he’s partnered up with the biggest streaming service on the planet for this new venture. Indeed, Netflix has signed a creative partnership deal with the filmmaker’s company, called House Eleven10. The title takes its inspiration from Abdul-Mateen II’s childhood home in Oakland, California. PerVariety, the actor will star in and produce movies for Netflix through House Eleven10....

‘A Christmas Carol’ Musical With Ryan Reynolds And Will Ferrell Is Headed To Apple Unlike Ebeneezer Scrooge before his ghost-inspired transformation, Apple isn’t afraid to spend tons of money. The company has won a bidding war for a new take onA Christmas CarolfromRyan ReynoldsandWill Ferrell. Netflix, Warner Bros., and Paramount were all vying for the movie, but it was Apple who emerged the victor, agreeing to large chunks of change for Reynolds and Ferrell, ensuring that they’ll both have happy holidays....

‘A Quiet Place’ Super Bowl TV Spot: John Krasinski And Emily Blunt Are Being Hunted John Krasinskigets in front of and behind the lens for the taut thrillerA Quiet Place. The eerie horror film stars Krasinski and real-life wifeEmily Bluntas the heads of a family who are besieged my monsters that hunt via sound. After a moody first trailer was released in November, a new TV spot has dropped during today’s Super Bowl, upping the stakes and the suspense....

‘Better Call Saul’ Review: ‘Winner’ Takes It All Welcome to our weekly review-recaps ofBetter Call Saulseason 4. Each week, we’ll delve deep into theBreaking Badprequel series, with spoilers galore. This week we examine episode 10 of season 4, “Winner.” Poor, dumb, dead Werner. I will miss him. The character’s time onBetter Call Saulwas short-lived, but he still made an impact. He was a friendly face in an increasingly hostile world – which was probably a dead-giveaway that he was doomed....

‘Birdman’ Featurette: How Alejandro González Iñárritu And Emmanuel Lubezki Pulled Off The Single-Take Illusion Among other things,Birdmanstood out last year for the way it was shot. Nearly the entire film looks like it was captured in a single take. It wasn’t — you can spot the seams if you’re paying attention — but it’s still a remarkable feat that required a stunning level of coordination. To show you just how much work went into maintaining this illusion, a newBirdmanfeaturette dives behind the scenes with directorAlejandro González Iñárritu, cinematographerEmmanuel Lubezki, and starsMichael KeatonandAmy Ryan....

‘Chicken Run’ Star Julia Sawalha Is Being Replaced In The Sequel Because Her Voice Sounds “Too Old” If you were excited about a sequel toChicken Runafter 20 years, we have some news that is supremely disappointing. British actressJulia Sawalha, who voiced the character Ginger in the original stop-motion animated movie from Aardman Animation, recently revealed that she will not be reprising her role inChicken Run 2for one very stupid reason. Apparently the producers of the movie told Sawalha’s agent that Ginger would be recast with a younger actress because her voice was deemed to sound “too old....

‘Clarice’ Trailer: The Silence Is Over In This ‘Silence Of The Lambs’ Sequel Series A newClaricetrailer dropped during the Super Bowl over the weekend, and it’s a trailer that’s practically screaming, “HEY, REMEMBERSILENCE OF THE LAMBS?!” in all caps. The trailer hasRebecca Breedsas FBI Agent Clarice Starling recounting her traumatic childhood story of trying to save a lamb from slaughter, and even goes ahead and throws in a quick shot recreating theSilence of the Lambsposter, where a moth perches right on Clarice’s lips....

‘Cooper’s Bar’ Is A Breezy Comedy About People Who Try Way Too Hard [SXSW] (The SXSW Film Festival may have been cancelled, but our coverage will go on with reviews of films and TV shows made available to our critics.)Los Angeles is a tough city. It’s filled with dreams and aspiring who-knows-whats all just trying to make their dreams come true. Some hustle hard enough to break through, others get flat out lucky....

‘Dolemite Is My Name’ Featurette Shines A Light On The Real Blaxploitation Icon Throughout his long career,Eddie Murphyhas played quite the assembly of characters, even going so far as to play about a half dozen of them in a single movie. But one role he’s never taken before is that of a real person. That changes with the upcoming comedic true storyDolemite Is My Name, inspired by comedianRudy Ray Mooreand his rise to fame as a Blaxploitation movie star who paved his own way through Hollywood....

‘Fear The Walking Dead’ Producers Talk Water Zombies, “Aggressive” Second Season [PaleyFest] On the red carpet for PaleyFest’s panel forFear the Walking Dead, producersDave EricksonandGale Anne Hurdspoke to reporters about the upcoming second season. The prequel toThe Walking Deadended its six-episode first season last fall, with (spoiler alert!) the survivors in Los Angeles finding a boat to take them away from land and the hordes of infected people the rest of us know as walkers....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Reunion Special Won’t Air On HBO Game of Throneswill come to an end next year, but the series finale won’t be the last time fans will see the show’s sprawling cast together in the same place. AGame of Thronesreunion special has been confirmed with actors from the first season returning to join their old cast mates, but the special won’t be airing on HBO. Find out how to watch it below....