Reese Witherspoon To Produce And Star In Sci-Fi Film ‘Pyros’ For the past few years,Reese Witherspoonhas been using her clout to boost rising creatives and develop projects that spotlight women. So her next project will be naturally be a sci-fi movie with…Dark Phoenix’sSimon Kinberg? The writer-director is certainly in need of a boost following the critical and commercial disappointment ofDark Phoenix, but it seems like he doesn’t need to worry much —Pyros,the sci-fi film that he and Witherspoon are producing, which Witherspoon is set to star in, has become the next hot package in Hollywood....

Revenge Ghost Story ‘Tether’ Brings Together Daniel Dae Kim And Amazon Daniel Dae Kimand his 3AD production company are joining forces with Amazon forTether, a ghost story from writersKevin HamedaniandTravis Betz. The series follows the ghost of a woman trying to save her kidnapped son and husband, and that’s certainly a twist on your average ghost story. Kim will executive produce the show, which is currently in development.THRsays that Amazon and Daniel Dae Kim’s production company 3AD are developingTether, a supernatural series from writers Kevin Hamedani and Travis Betz....

Roger Ebert Adds 24-Year-Old Movie Blogger Ignatiy Vishnevetsky To ‘At The Movies’ Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, the brand new incarnation of the originalSiskel & Ebert, premieres on January 21.Originally, the two critics who were going to butt heads on the balcony wereChristy Lemireof theAssociated Pressand Elvis Mitchell, formerly of theNew York Times.Mitchell bowed out, though, and Ebert and his wife Chaz, producers of the show, have been searching for a replacement....

Rumor: Guardians Of The Galaxy Ride Coming To EPCOT? Last month a rumor began to circulate that Disney was planning to redoDisney California Adventure’sTwilight Zone Tower of Terroras aGuardians of the Galaxyride. As ridiculous as that sounded, we had heard the rumblings from enough sources to believe that Disney Imagineering was considering it at the very least. A new rumor claims that Disney is trying to bring the Guardians of the Galaxy to Walt Disney World Resort in EPCOT’s Future World....

Sequel Bits: WB Explains Limited HFR Rollout For ‘The Hobbit’, Plus: ‘Jack Ryan’, ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’, ‘Transformers 4’, ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ As you head into the weekend, we’ve got a few last sequel-related tidbits to chew on. After the jump: Of the 10,000+ screens that’ll be playingThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journeynext month, just a few hundred will be showing them atPeter Jackson’s preferred 48 FPS rate. Some speculated that WB feared negative audience reaction, especially after the negative buzz at CinemaCon....

Seth MacFarlane Is Switching Gears To Develop Epic Drama ‘The Winds Of War’ Seth MacFarlaneis going to be more than the comedy guy. The creator ofFamily GuyandThe Orvilleis shifting gears to develop his first fully dramatic project,The Winds of War. An epic period drama,The Winds of Waris a limited series based on on Herman Wouk’s novel of the same name as well as hisWar and Remembrance, which MacFarlane is set to write and executive produce withThe Alienistexecutive producerSeth Fisher....

Sideshow’s Avengers Assemble Thanos Statue Throws Down The Gauntlet [Exclusive] Our friends atSideshow Collectibleshave provided us with an opportunity to unbox a standout piece in their continuingAvengers Assembleline, and it’s the mack daddy villain of the Marvel Universe: Thanos. At 23 inches tall, this polyresin Mad Titan is looking to collect all the Infinity Stones for his gauntlet, but not if you collect him first. At a retail price of $590 dollars (with payment plan options), this is theModern Version of Thanosand is nearly sold out, so grab him before some other intrepid collector does....

Sony Pictures Classics To Buy/Bury The Wackness?! Please someone tell me this isn’t true.THRis reporting that Sony Pictures Classics has closed a deal for Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness. The deal is said to be in the low seven figures. The Wackness is one of my favorite films of the festival. The buzz around Park City on shuttles and in lines, is that this is THE film of Sundance 2008. I’ve found it very strange that no studio deal has yet been announced....

South Park 25th Anniversary Concert With Trey Parker And Matt Stone Is Coming To Red Rocks “South Park” began its life as a series of crudely animated short film called “The Spirit of Christmas,” which Matt Stone and Trey Parker made while students at the University of Colorado. The first short, made with paper cutouts, featured several small boys witnessing an ultra-violent fight between Jesus Christ and Frosty the Snowman. It was all very amusing....

Superhero Bits: Brandon Routh Says Goodbye To ‘DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow’, Final ‘Arrow’ Episode Teased & More Which rock band dressed asJoaquin Phoenix’sJokerfor a Halloween concert? What is the title of the final episode of the final season ofArrow? How didBrandon Routhsay goodbye toDC’s Legends of Tomorrow? Why does the creator ofBlack LightninghateBatman? How did the “America’s ass” joke inAvengers: Endgamecome together? What’s the working title for theShang-Chimovie? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....

Take A Video Tour Of Jakku, The New Planet From ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ As you probably know by now,Star Wars: The Force Awakenstakes us to new corners of a galaxy far far away. Most of the trailers and marketing focus on the first thirty minutes of the film (they haven’t spoiled much) which is set on Rey’s (Daisy Ridley) home desert planet of Jakku. We know very little about this new planet, but the video game Star Wars Battlefront recently released a new downloadable level set during the Battle of Jakku, which took placer shortly after the events of the Battle of Endor inStar Wars: Return of the Jedi, many years before the setting of the new film (explaining why there are wreckages of Star Destroyers laying in the sand dunes)....

The 16 Most Memorable David Lynch Characters Ever David Lynch is, without a doubt, one of cinema’s most important directors. Over the course of a career that spans more than forty years,Lynch has given us such classic filmsas “The Elephant Man,” “Blue Velvet,” “Mulholland Drive,” and the beloved television series “Twin Peaks.” While most of his films have never been box office hits, he’s nonetheless garnered considerable industry love in the form ofnumerous award distinctions, including four Oscar nominations (as well as receiving an honorary award), nine Emmy Award nominations, and more....

The Fellowship Of The Ring’s Powerful Ending Was Written Very Late In Production When Samwise Gamgee almost drowns at the end of “The Fellowship of the Ring,” so begins a long trend of suffering by a Hobbit who refuses to abandon his friend Frodo Baggins. In both J.R.R. Tolkien’s book and Peter Jackson’s esteemed adaption, it’s a scene that establishes the unshakable bond that exists between the two friends. But despite being such a crucial and stirring scene, it was also one written late into the film’s production — part of the many rewrites that flooded actors Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, and the rest of the cast, but also helped keep the story as close to the books as possible....