Fantastic Fest Review: Fanboys I’ve heard many stories about the behind the scenes problems which pushed the release ofFanboysback again and agin, but having just left a screening of the finished version, a director’s cut byKyle Newman, I can assure you that the problems have been greatly exaggerated. You have a very marketable cast, and a film which seems like an extremely easy sell to the target demographic. I think the problem is that The Weinsteins were hoping for an American Pie type film with mainstream appeal, but they instead have a movie aimed at a very targeted niche....

Finding Double Indemnity’s Leading Man Was A Painful Process A number of the finest actors of Classic Hollywood made their bones in the seedy world of film noir.Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, and so many more took up roles as private detectives, gangsters, and everyday men caught in a bind over the course of their careers. They were steely, tough, no-nonsense types with a vulnerability creeping underneath it all. It made sense why studios would want these guys leading their films....

First Look: ‘Dracula Untold’ Gives Vlad The ‘Batman Begins’ Treatment Luke Evansis one of those actors who constantly seems to be on the verge of breaking out, without quite getting there. He’s appeared in lots of high-profile projects (Clash of the Titans,The Three Musketeers,Immortals,The Raven) and even a couple of pretty good high-profile projects (The Hobbit,Fast & Furious 6), without achieving household name status. But he continues to try, and his next stab at superstardom will be this fall’sDracula Untold....

Here’s How Theaters Hope To Reopen In Time For Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ How are movie theaters planning to bounce-back from the current coronavirus shutdown?John Fithian, CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) just gave an in-depth interview about the steps being taken to get theaters back on their feet. Task forces are being assembled, several options are being weighed, and a commitment to the theatrical experience is holding firm....

Ingrid Goes West Review: Aubrey Plaza’s Hilarious Stalker Dark Comedy Set In The Instagram Era [Sundance] It is only two days into the 2017 Sundance Film Festival butIngrid Goes Westis already my favorite of the seven films I’ve screened thus far. A hilarious dark comedy version ofSingle White Female, it starsAubrey PlazaandElizabeth Olsenand is set in the age of social media idolatry. Aubrey Plazaplays a mentally disturbed woman named Ingrid who becomes obsessed with an Instagram celebrity named Taylor Sloane (played by the wonderfulElizabeth Olsen) who appears to have the perfect life....

Is Ron Howard Directing Stretch Armstrong? A couple weeks agowe told youthat Academy Award winning producerBrian Grazer(A Beautiful Mind, American Gangster) had signed on to produce theSteve Oedekerk-scripted big screen adaptation ofStretch Armstrong. The film is part of Universal’s multi-picture development deal with Hasbro to turn board games and toys into a series of possibly horrible probably pointless movies. For Stretch Armstrong, they even have a release date – August 04, 2025....

Jacob Hall’s Top 10 Movies Of 2019 Here’s the dirty little secret about end-of-the-year lists on movie websites:everyyear is actually a great year for movies if you see enough of them. Still, with that out of the way, 2019 was an exceptionally great year for cinema. The films that didn’t make this list could fill another top 10 and no one would blink! But because honorable mentions are a coward’s way out, I’m only offering you the final list after I scraped away everything I could afford to lose....

Jeopardy! Legend Ken Jennings Will Help Host The Show While They Figure This Whole Mess Out To paraphrasea certain Mad Titan: all that unnecessary drama, all that controversy, and where did it that bring you? Back to the guy everyone assumed would get the “Jeopardy!” hosting gig in the first place, apparently. At this point, the story of the behind-the-scenes headaches that have plagued the long-running and widely-loved game show since the passing of Alex Trebek have cast an inescapable shadow over the actual show itself....

Mastodon Opens Up About The Band’s Score For Jonah Hex Months ago I ran intoBrent Hinds, guitarist forMastodon, who mentioned that he’d just shot a cameo for the newJohn Malkovichmovie, and that the band would be doing some music for it. That had to beJonah Hex, but I wasn’t able to get any more details. Soon enough AICN got wind of Mastodon’s score for the film, but no further info. Now some other enterprising Atlanta boys have talked to the band and got the scoop on what we can expect to hear in the film....

Maybe Daniel Radcliffe Will Be In The ‘Woman In Black’ Sequel After All For various reasons, we figuredThe Woman in Blackwas a one-and-done affair forDaniel Radcliffe. After spending almost the entirety of his film career in one franchise, who would expect him to jump right into another? And so when the sequel,The Woman in Black: Angels of Deathwasannounced, it was no surprise to hear it would take placemany years after the events of the first film, and therefore probably not involve Radcliffe....

MoviePass CEO Says He Was Kidding, Company Is Not Tracking Your Location [Update] Update: In an interview withWired, MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe says he was just joking about the notion of the company tracking its users' locations. “I was just being in a funny mood and just said it sarcastically. We are not tracking people.” But this official statement from the company seems to tell a different story: That reads as if they actuallyweretracking users (beyond a one-time check to confirm you’re in range of a theater when you try to buy a ticket), but they’ve now removed some of that functionality....

New ‘American Reunion’ Poster Calls Back To Old ‘American Pie’ Poster Since so much of the appeal ofAmerican Reunionlies in whatever lingering affection you have for 1999’sAmerican Pie, it’s only natural that the marketing folks would try at every turn to remind you of how much you loved the first movie. That tactic is especially evident in the film’s just-released poster, which recreates the one from the original. Sure, Jim (Jason Biggs) has clothes on, Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) is holding a baby bottle instead of a flute, Oz (Chris Klein) has way less hair, and the gang is apparently eating pies now instead of fucking them — but the overall picture looks very familiar....

New Poster: A Clever Image For Jason Reitman’s Dark Comedy ‘Young Adult’ It’s too bad that Sony, David Fincher andThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoohave alreadylocked downthe ‘feel-bad movie of Christmas’ tagline, because it looks likeJason Reitman’s fourth filmYoung Adultmight be a contender for that title. The movie, scripted byJunowriterDiablo Cody, is a dark comedy about an alcoholic youth-lit author (Charlize Theron) who returns to her hometown to chase her now-married high school flame, played byPatrick Wilson....