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Fallout TV Series For Prime Video Is Still Happening, Jonathan Nolan Set To Direct It’s no secret that “Westworld” showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan are big ol' video game nerds. Their love of button-smashing has even filtered its way into their otherwise dead-serious HBO sci-fi series. As /Film’s Jacob Hallobserved back in 2016, “‘Westworld’ is not a show about video games per se, but it is a show that is well-aware of electronic entertainment, how it’s evolving, and how people engage with it....

Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Honor ‘Hereditary’, ‘Mandy’, And ‘The Haunting Of Hill House’ As the Oscars were Oscar-ing last night, a beloved genre magazine was holding its own awards show:The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. Fangoria readers voted on winners in categories like Best Kill and Best Makeup Effects as well as more traditional categories celebrating aspects of filmmaking like directing and acting, andAri Aster’s arthouse horror filmHereditaryandPanos Cosmatos’s gonzo, one-of-a-kind revenge movieMandyended up winning the top prizes....

Guillermo Del Toro Introduces Japanese ‘Pacific Rim’ Trailer The recent Japanese trailer forGuillermo del Toro’s monster-smashing summer moviePacific Rimdoesn’t have much in the way of new footage. In fact, it’s basically an edit of a trailer released to the US a while ago, with a few differences. If you want pure giant robot spectacle in trailer form, check out therecently released WonderCon footage. Or have a close look at the new banner above, which depicts a showdown in the water near Sydney, Australia....

How Did This Get Made: Perfect (An Oral History) We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. John Travolta + Aerobics – Mechanical Bull =How Did This Get Made?!?! Nobody sets out to make a bad movie. But the truth is, it happens all the time. And every time it does, there’s a fun misadventure and cautionary tale lurking somewhere behind the scenes. This is that story for Jim Bridges' 1985 fitness focused featurePerfect....

Hulu Will No Longer Offer Free Streaming For years now,Huluhas been a boon to cord-cutters. As long as you’re willing to wait a bit for new episodes and then sit through lots of ads when they do, Hulu is the rare place to watch TV online legally and for free. Or at least it was until now. The company has announced it’s moving to an all-subscription model, eliminating ad-supported free streaming altogether....

Is Constantin Film Taking Down Hitler Parodies? Many of us have at one point enjoyed the seeing Hitler scream at some random object or wrath in a re-subtitled scene from Oliver Hirschbiegel’sDer Untergang (Downfall). Eventhe directorhas confirmed that he enjoys the meme, saying that “The point of the film was to kick these terrible people off the throne that made them demons, making them real and their actions into reality…I think it’s only fair if now it’s taken as part of our history, and used for whatever purposes people like....

J.K. Simmons' Commissioner Gordon Will Get More To Do In Batgirl Prior to the theatrical release of “Justice League” in 2017, a professional personal trainer named Aaron Williamson posted Instagram pictures of his client, actor J.K. Simmons, then 61, displaying impressive progress on a recently undertaken weightlifting journey. Simmons' musculature was impressive enough to be featured inmen’s health magazines, and the actor’s fans — knowing he was set to appear in the upcoming superhero movie as the stalwart Batman ally Commissioner Gordon — began to speculate that Simmons might be fighting or performing stunts....

Krang, Bebop, And Rocksteady To Be Featured In ‘Ninja Turtles’? Michael Baysparked some predictable fan outrage a few months ago byrevealingthat his live-actionNinja Turtlesfeature would scrap the “Teenage Mutant” part of the characters' identities altogether. But it sounds like his other plans for the heroes in a half-shell were a bit more familiar. According to an outlet that’s read the script, theJonathan Liebesman-directed film would’ve featured some very recognizable Ninja Turtle figures and locales, like villains Krang, Bebop, and Rocksteady, Krang and Shredder’s Technodrome lair, and their home Dimension X....

MoviePass Card Delivery Delayed 2 To 3 Weeks Due To Unprecedented Demand The buzz around the movie ticket subscription serviceMoviePasswas through the roof a few weeks ago. The service that allows users to pay a flat fee in order to see a movie of their choice in theaters every daywas given a significant price dropand users would only be paying $9.95 each month. The announcement from MoviePass was so big that, for the entire week after the price drop, their website was difficult to access and the app wasn’t working properly due to the high amount of traffic from new users looking to start their subscription....

New ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Episodes Headed To Netflix In October MoreUnsolved Mysteriesepisodes are on the way. The Netflix reboot of the iconic series garnered plenty of buzz when it hit in July, and it came accompanied with the promise of more episodes, and soon. Now we know how soon: October. Not a second season, but rather a second volume, the newUnsolved Mysteriesepisodes will drop onOctober 19. Let’s see how much of a sleuth@UnsolvedMysteries Volume 1 made you…pic....

Precious Star Mo’Nique Reuniting With Director Lee Daniels For Netflix Thriller Demon House Thirteen years after their collaboration on “Precious” wowed audiences and garnered six Oscar nominations, performer Mo’Nique and writer-director Lee Daniels are reuniting for a new project. The news comes viaDeadline, whose reporting notes that the pair were estranged for more than a decade following the release of “Precious.” Mo’Nique, who was paid a mere $50,000 for her role in “Precious,” said thatthe feudcame about because she was “blackballed” for not participating in the movie’s promotional tour, since doing so was not in her contract....

Promo Shot For Angelina Jolie’s Film ‘Unbroken’ Shows The Film’s WWII Veteran Inspiration When is a first look at a film not actually a first look at the movie? In this case, it’s when Universal sends out a shot (above) ofAngelina JoliewithLouis “Louie” Zamperini, who is the subject of her new directorial effort,Unbroken. But in this case it’s a good call, because Zamperini is a war hero, and deserves his place in the spotlight....

Puppets And People, Living Together – Mass Hysteria! A Brief History Of Humans Interacting With Puppets On The Big Screen Puppets have been around as long as people have, and while I have no proof to back up that claim, I think it’s safe to say that our ancestors were playing with puppets from the very first time one of them shoved their hand into a mammoth’s recently slurped duodenum. Even Neanderthals enjoyed a good night out with dinner and a show....