Brian De Palma’s Next Film Is Chinese Thriller ‘Lights Out’ Brian De Palmahas been attached to quite a few promising projects over the years. Most exciting of all, the director was goingto reunitewith hisScarfaceandCarlito’s Waystar,Al Pacino, for a film about coach Joe Paterno. Whether De Palma is still involved withHappy Valleyis unknown, and the same can be said forThe Key ManandHeat. But we do know the director is now moving forward withLights Out, a thriller set in China....

Charlize Theron To Star As Megyn Kelly In Movie About Disgraced Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes Less than two years after Fox News chairman and CEORoger Ailesresigned amid reports of sexual harassment and misconduct, Hollywood is already planning a feature film. A Roger Ailes movie is in the works under Annapurna Pictures, withCharlize Theronheadlining the untitled film directed byJay Roach(Trumbo). In a piece of casting that’s probably way better than the film deserves, Charlize Theron is set to play former Fox News anchorMegyn Kellyin the untitled Roger Ailes movie, according toThe Hollywood Reporter....

Clint Mansell To Score Video Game ‘Mass Effect 3’ Clint Mansellis among the best film composers in the business, having recently added yet another masterful score to his name with the cheekily bombastic, disorientingBlack Swan. That was his latest in a long line of contributions to the films of Darren Aronofsky, having previously worked onThe Wrestler,The Fountain,Requiem for a DreamandPi. He also imparted Duncan Jones’Moonwith a haunting ambiance that still sits with me to this day....

Cool Stuff: Vote To Make This Custom Microscale LEGO Disneyland An Official Set We’ve been big fans of all thingsLEGOat /Film for awhile. So whenever a cool custom LEGO set comes along that deserves to be made into an official set, we want to make sure it gets as much support as possible over at LEGO Ideas. And since we also have a love for theme park fun, a certain LEGO set paying tribute toDisneylandis right up our alley....

Disney+ Is Finally Getting A Watch Party Feature In The United States EngadgetandGizmodobrought our attention to the Disney+ watch party feature launching today. GroupWatch, as it’s called, will allow users to watch any movie or TV show in the Disney+ library on desktop, mobile, streaming devices, and smart TVs with up to six other people. That includes Premier Access titles likeMulan, but everyone in the GroupWatch needs to have already purchased access to those movies to enjoy....

Every Main Character In Top Gun: Maverick Ranked Worst To Best “Top Gun: Maverick"comes 36 years after “Top Gun.” Two years of thatdelay were COVID-related. The real story, though, is that a sequel was ready to go until 1991, but the Navy had a massive sexual harassment crisis, theTailhook Scandal. Suddenly, the womanizing and hard-drinking of the original “Top Gun” was cast in a different light. As a result, “Top Gun: Maverick” doesn’t feature any scenes of Tom Cruise and crew standing around in towels and tighty-whities....

Exploring The Many Genres Within The Superhero Genre Mortal, thenew filmfromScary Stories to Tell in the DarkandThe Autopsy of Jane Doefilmmaker André Øvredal, is out now and tells the story of a young man discovering his own set of abnormal powers. You might even call them superpowers. But is it a superhero film?It’s hard to say. There are obvious superhero films out there – all the Marvel movies, for instance – but the presence of a superpowered person can also be a jumping-off point to explore any genre, somethingMortaland the following films make clear....

Is Glenn Howerton Leaving ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’? The FX comedy seriesIt’s Always Sunny in Philadelphiaisn’t much of a serial TV program. Each episode is mostly self-contained, and there is microscopic evidence of any continuity between episodes with the exception of some passing references to past shenanigans and a couple recurring characters who seem to get worse over time (like Rickety Cricket). Plus, the gang doesn’t really learn any real lessons from all of their despicable behavior and just keep doing more awful junk....

Jeremy Renner Hints We’ll Get More Hawkeye In ‘Captain America 3’ After getting close to Black Widow inCaptain America: The Winter Soldier, Cap may be buddying up with another Avenger inCaptain America 3. According toJeremy Renner, there are “rumblings” that expert archer Hawkeye could appear in the upcoming threequel. Hit the jump to see exactly what he said. The fact Renner’s only heard “rumblings” could suggest that Hawkeye isn’t in the movie that much, but on the other hand it could just be indicative of the fact thatCaptain America 3is still a couple of years away....

Joe And Anthony Russo Want ‘The Warriors’ To Come Out And Play On Hulu While everyone tends to turn their noses up at movie remakes, the world seems to be at peace with films journeying to the small screen. Sure, we occasionally have to put up with shows like that ill-fated new take onRush Hour, but that’s a small price to pay for the likes ofFriday Night LightsandFargo, shows that use a familiar name to build something big and beautiful and carefully constructed for serialized storytelling....

Jon Favreau Directing ‘Shannara’ Pilot For MTV Based On Fantasy Novel Series The Sword of Shannara, from authorTerry Brooks, is kind of a cold-war revision of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ideas. The book features all the fantasy trappings of Tolkien’s novels — so much so that critics dinged Brooks for rampant borrowing — but gives it all a nuclear origin, as the novels take place thousands of years after apocalyptic wars mutated mankind into elves and dwarves, and changed the geographic layout of Earth....

Kitty Pryde Movie ‘143’ Still In Development, Writer Brian Michael Bendis Offers An Update It’s been almost a full year sine we heard anything new about143, theX-Men/Kitty Pridemovie from writerBrian Michael BendisandDeadpooldirectorTim Miller. The project has been kicking around for some time, but otherX-Men-related films have moved forward while143remained in the shadows. Now, Bendis has provided a mini-update revealing the movie is still happening – but don’t expect any more details....

Michael Giacchino Shares His Favorite Music: St. Vincent, Paul McCartney, And Much More Michael Giacchinohas a swanky workplace. Due to the pandemic, the Oscar-winning film composer is working from his personal studio, which looks straight out of the 1950s at first glance – it’s filled with instruments, warm colors, and nostalgia. Childhood toys fromSpider-Man,Star Trek,Speed Racer, andPlanet of the Apesare present in his cabinets, which help keep the composer inspired....