‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Clip: A Spinning Bowl Whisks Mary & Company To An Animated World As we approach the debut of Walt Disney Pictures’Mary Poppins Returns, the studio has released a new clip that featuresEmily Blunt’s magical nanny leading her pal Jack (Lin-Manuel Miranda) and the young Banks children into a brand new animated world. The score swells, the costumes change, the color pops – it’s all very…well, merry. Check it out below....

‘Sleeping With The Enemy’ Remake To Bring The Glory Days Of Trashy ’90s Thrillers Into The 21st Century Only ’90s kids will get this: in 1991, Julia Roberts starred in the trashy thrillerSleeping With the Enemy.It was kind of stupid, but in that highly watchable way. And it also ended up being a big hit. Now, Fox Searchlight has decided to develop aSleeping With the Enemyremake, which will presumably update the film’s ’90s trappings for the 21st century....

‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ Tops The Box Office With Best Opening Weekend Ever For A Video Game Movie Sonic the Hedgehoghas gone from receiving extremely unfavorable reactions from fans to earning the biggest box office opening weekend ever for a video game movie. The Blue Blur had no problem topping the box office, speeding pastBirds of Preywith a $57 million three-day weekend, and a projected $68 million for the Valentine’s Day/Presidents Day holiday weekend....

‘The Color Purple’ Movie Musical To Be Directed By ‘Black Is King’ Helmer Blitz Bazawule After serving as one of the directors of Beyoncé’s dazzling Disney+ visual album movieBlack is King, directorBlitz Bazawulehas landed another big project. The Ghana-born filmmaker has been tapped by Warner Bros. to direct the feature film adaptation ofThe Color Purplemusical, which won the Tony Award for best musical revival in 2016. The Color Purpleis making its way back to the big screenas a movie musical, and it now has one of the most promising rising directors set to helm it....

‘The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance’ Blooper Reel Is A Real Scream I still can’t believe Netflix’sThe Dark Crystal: Age of Resistanceexists. It’s an expensive, puppet-centric series that relies heavily on practical effects and elaborately-crafted physical worlds and goes light on the CGI, which basically amounts to a minor miracle in the 2019 entertainment landscape. We’ve sang the praises of this show on the site many times already, and now Netflix has released a blooper reel which gives us a humorous behind-the-scenes look at what happened when things went wrong on the set....

‘Thor: The Dark World’ Reshoots Give More Screen Time To Loki If that thunderous reception inHall Hwas any indication, Loki, the villain ofThorandThe Avengers, is every bit as popular as any of Marvel’s do-gooders. Unfortunately, since he’s not a hero, there doesn’t seem to be much place for him inThe Avengers: Age of Ultron. Even Tom Hiddleston hasadmittedthat his character has nothing else to “contribute toThe Avengers, narratively.” ButAlan Taylorhas heard the cries for more Loki, and is happy to fill that need inThor: The Dark World....

/Film LA: James Bond Retrospective In June, ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Midnight Screening And Reunion This Week One huge upside to living in Southern California — aside from fantastic weather and plentiful opportunities to stuff your face with In-N-Out burgers– is the thriving film scene that naturally results from being the world capital of moviemaking. Whether you prefer your adventures led by suave British spies or pudgy Italian-American plumbers, the next few weeks have got something for you....

An Accusation Hard To Be Proved: The Last Duel And Survival In A World Built By Men This essay contains detailed analysis of sexual assault scenes andspoilersfor “The Last Duel,” as well as links to some poetry that was NSFW seven and a half centuries ago. In the Late Medieval period, the Catholic Church had an extensive problem with sales of indulgences. A sinner could pay a particular fee to the Church, often to fund the construction of a cathedral or the expenses of a Crusade, in exchange for the promise of salvation from eternal damnation....

Box Office Tracking: Iron Man Targets $102M By Monday Morning I did a personal survey of studio sources today, and they were unanimous in saying that the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, the Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3 video game sensation released on Tuesday, will have absolutely no effect whatsoever on the box office performance of Iron Man (Paramount) this weekend. As I wrote on Monday, this Jon Favreau-directed comic book adaptation is out-tracking last summer’s Dreamworks/Paramount smash Transformers, which is no small feat....

Captain Pike’s Green Uniform Comes Straight From Classic Star Trek This post containsminor spoilersfor “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” episode 5. “Who doesn’t love hijinks?” Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush) asks in the new episode of “Star Trek: Strange New World,” just before a body-swapped Spock (Ethan Peck) attempts to take over for T’Pring (Gia Sandhu) in an important meeting. Clearly, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” loves hijinks, as the show’s latest episode features not only a cheeky Vulcan body swap, but also a rousing game of Enterprise Bingo, plus a possible hint at a future “Trek” romance....

Christopher Nolan Reveals What It Would Take For Him To Direct James Bond The future of theJames Bondfranchise is still up in the air. Not only do we not know where therights for the franchise will end upnow that Sony Pictures and MGM are no longer in control of the secret agent on the big screen, butDaniel Craighasn’t even signed on to return as 007. That has left many fans speculating and wondering what’s in store for James Bond, and that includes thinking about who should get behind the camera for his next mission....

Christopher Nolan Says This Indian Movie Is “One Of The Best Films Ever Made” Every movie lover is constantly trying to widen his or her perspective, find new favorites, and learn more about the art of cinema – and that includes acclaimed director likeChristopher Nolan. The filmmaker behind hits likeInceptionandDunkirkspent his Easter weekend across the world evangelizing in India – not spreading the word about the resurrection of Jesus, but speaking about the importance of preserving celluloid film as an art form....

Contest: Win A ‘Legion’ Mondo Poster And The First Season On Blu-Ray Even as superheroes clash on the big screen on a regular basis, you’ll have to look to the small screen to find one of the best comic-book inspired tales out there. FX’sLegionis a remarkable television show, using the world of the X-Men to explore identity and mental illness while also being a downright bonkers visual trip whilealsobeing one hell of a superhero adventure....