Cool Stuff: Get ‘Incredibles 2’ Prints From Cyclops Print Works Right Now Not too long ago, we hyped up a new art show coming to Gallery Nucleus in conjunction with Cyclops Print Works featuring some fantastic new artwork inspired by the forthcoming Pixar Animation sequelIncredibles 2. Now even more pieces from the show have been unveiled from artists likeEric Tan, Bryan Mon, Stéphane KardosandCraig Drake. And the good news is you’re able to pick them up for display in your own home right now....

Cool Stuff: Mondo’s ‘The Fifth Element’ Vinyl With Artwork By Shan Jiang This year marks the 20th anniversary ofLuc Besson’s outstanding sci-fi action movieThe Fifth Element. The actual anniversary already passed us by on May 9th, but this week is when the film is being celebrated by a return to the big screen. Not only can you see the movie on the big screen again, but Mondo is releasing a special edition vinyl double LP of the film’s soundtrack byEric Serrawith album artwork byShan Jiang....

David Fincher’s Directing Style Made For Some Demanding Days On The Mindhunter Set When you have a show like “Mindhunter,” it seems only natural that filming would often bean intense and emotionally draining experience. I mean, the show’s whole premise is about getting into the heads of famous serial killers, for god’s sake. The on-screen interactions that FBI Agents Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) and Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) have with serial killers like the Son of Sam and Ed Kemper are often difficult to even justwatch,so one can only imagine what it must be like to fully embody those characters and act through those scenes on set....

Despite Promises, Rey Will Be Left Out Of ‘Star Wars’ Monopoly Due To ‘Insufficient Interest’ Just when you thought fan outcry and demands for toys and games of popular female characters had been heard, Hasbro has gone and ignored them yet again. A young fan ofStar Wars: The Force Awakens' Rey had written a letter to Hasbro a year ago after she couldn’t find her favorite character in theStar WarsMonopolygame, and the toy company went into crisis control....

Everything You Need To Know About Sox, The Robot Cat From Lightyear If you’re anything like me, your nostalgia won’t let younotbe excited about the upcoming Pixar film"Lightyear"— but one of the things I’m most looking forward to about the film is a newer element to Buzz’s story as we know it: his extremely cute robot cat, Sox. Director Angus MacLane opened up about the sweet orange sidekick during a recent virtual presentation for the film....

Find Out How Software Called Hyperion Makes Disney’s Computer Animation Look So Real If you’ve watchedWalt Disney Animation’s computer animated films in recent years and wondered how they’re able to make their characters and settings look so realistic, a new video explains the process in very simple terms. Walt Disney Animation has posted a roughly 10-minute video diving into their image rendering engine calledHyperion, explaining how the software uses a technique calledpath tracingto calculate how light will bounce off any given object in a scene....

First Look: ‘Alice Through The Looking Glass’ Posters And Costumes At D23 Expo 2015 Disney has revealed our first look at some of the costumes for theirAlice in WonderlandsequelAlice Through the Looking Glasson the show floor of D23 Expo 2015. Hit the jump to check out images of the firstAlice Through the Looking Glassposters and costumes. Here are some photos from theAlice Through the Looking Glasscostume display. Photos by Kitra Remick:...

Gore Verbinski And Roger Deakins Are Working On Two New Animated Movies Gore Verbinskiand legendary cinematographerRoger Deakinsworked together on the animated filmRango, and now it looks like the two are reuniting for not one but two new animated features. Verbinski revealed the news himself, although he also remained a little tight-lipped about what we can expect. We know two things for sure: neither animated feature will be a Western, likeRango, but one of them is a musical....

Hayao Miyazaki’s New Film Still Has Years Of Animation Left To Complete, Studio Ghibli Boss Toshio Suzuki Says Hayao Miyazakiis a notoriously meticulous director. The formerly retired filmmaker oversees every key frame of his films, and has his hands on every part of the animation process. Naturally, that results in a famously slow production for many of the films of the legendary anime director behind Studio Ghibli classics likeSpirited Away, Princess MononokeandThe Wind Rises....

How The Universal Monsters Movie Universe Will Emulate Marvel Over DC Last year it was revealed thatFast and the FuriousproducerChris Morganwas teaming with screenwriter/directorAlex Kurtzmanto design aUniversal Monsters cinematic universe. The plan was to reboot theUniversal Monstersproperties, including characters such asDracula,The Wolf Man,Frankenstein,The Invisible Man, andCreature from the Black Lagoon, each with their own movies leading to anAvengers-type film that would bring them all together. The trailer for the first film in the series,The Mummystarring Tom Cruise,was released over the weekend, giving us a first look at the Universal Monster movie universe....

How Walt Disney Animation Inadvertently Led To The Land Before Time Although I was raised on a steady diet of Disney films, it was the work of Don Bluth that truly captured my attention as a child. Bluth also made animated features, but they were markedly different from the films of the Mouse House, serving as something of a dark reflection to the Disney movies. Disney’s animation domination may now seem unshakable, but it wasn’t always so....

Hugo Weaving And Ben Whishaw Join The Wachowski/Tykwer Adaptation Of ‘Cloud Atlas;’ We Speculate On Their Roles There’s some major movement onCloud Atlas, the adaptation ofDavid Mitchell’s ambitious novel thatTom TykwerandAndy and Lana Wachowskiare writing and planning to direct together. The project has been crawling forward for some time, and was recently announced as a definite ‘go’ withTom Hanksin one of the key roles. Quite a few other people have been discussed as possible cast members, and the news today confirmsHalle BerryandHugo Weavingand addsBen Whishaw....

Inception Teaser Trailer #2 By now, you may have already readmy incoherent descriptionof the new trailer forChristopher Nolan’sInception, and perhaps seenthe French/International version of it. Those who watchedSherlock Holmesthis past weekend may have caught the real deal. The official trailer has finally surfaced online and it is pretty damn spectacular. Note that it’s essentially the same as the French version, only in English. Head on over toAppleto see the trailer in HD....