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Gallery: Rejected ‘Star Wars’ Merchandising Ideas This is almost too much fun.Jason Geyer, a writer forAction Figure Insider, has posted a huge gallery of rejectedStar Warsmerchandise. How did he come upon these hidden gems? Simple, he helped to create them. In the late Nineties, he and a co-worker were two of the largestStar Warsfans working at a promotional merchandise company who had Pepsi as one of their clients. You’ll probably remember that Pepsi andStar Warshad a massive marketing campaign beginning withStar Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menaceand while only a few products actually got made, the list of ones that didn’t is far more exciting and impressive....

Here Are Even More ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Posters, Collect Them All! If there’s one thingAvenger: Infinity Warneeded, it’s more posters! Marvel’s mega-movie is almost upon us, and before it gets here, we might just end up with posters for all 76 characters in the film. See the newInfinity Warposters below. We’ve already been treated to severalAvengers: Infinity Warposters, but a few more won’t hurt. Marvel is slowly releasing a whole new set of character posters, highlighting seemingly every single character in the film....

How Friday The 13th Part 6’s Original Ending Would’ve Changed The Franchise “Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives” is considered one of the better sequels in the “Friday the 13th” franchise — /Film’s ownJacob Halleven put it at the top of the list when he ranked the entire series. This blatantly ignores Crispin Glover’s sweet moves, the gnarly kills, and the all-around gelling of Jason Voorhees as we know him today in “Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter,” but to each their own....

Hulu Passed On ‘Locke & Key’ TV Show, But It Isn’t Dead Yet It’s beginning to feel as if the TV gods have a personal vendetta againstLocke & Key, the troubled small screen adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s acclaimed horror comic series. The project has been kicking around Hollywood for nearly a decade, and while it was resurrected recently and appeared to be closer than ever to making it across the finish line, the project is searching for a new home once again....

James Cameron’s Next Sci-Fi Project At Fox Is Fantastic Voyage 3D Yesterdaythere was news thatJames Cameronis developing “aShane Salerno-scripted sci-fi action script for Fox, described as an ‘event’ film set in the future.” At the time no one knew anything else about the picture, but Salerno’s involvement led some to speculate that this wasDoomsday Protocol, a script Salerno sold to Fox, announced last year. That isn’t the case, however, based on a red carpet interview given by Cameron last night at the London premiere ofAvatar....

John Lasseter Fields Questions On Sexual Harassment From Concerned Skydance Employees Outcry exploded followingJohn Lasseter’s hiring atSkydance Animationa year after the animation magnate stepped down from his roles at Disney and Pixar in the wake of unspecified sexual harassment allegations. Lasseter stepped into the role of chief at Skydance Animation merely nine days after his contract expired with Disney, which many in the industry saw as too little time for Lasseter to be held accountable for his actions....

Kevin Smith’s Red State Gets A Green Light, Will Shoot Before Hit Somebody Here’s a nice little surprise, if you’ve been hoping to seeKevin Smith’s non-commerical, ‘bleak and dark’ Fred Phelps-inspired horror filmRed State. According to the director’s own Twitter feed, the film has a green light and will shoot before the hockey filmHit Somebody, which he has been working on parallel toRed State. We should’ve seen this coming, as on Feb 17 Smithsaidthat he would be talking aboutRed Statesoon, and that “the only money it’ll require from [fans] will be at the box office....

Kristen Wiig Joins ‘Anchorman: The Legend Continues’ WithWill Ferrell,Paul Rudd,Steve Carell,David Koechner, andChristina Applegatein the lead roles, plus a slew of their famous friends in supporting and cameo parts,Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundycertainly had no shortage of big comic talents. But in typical sequel fashion,Anchorman: The Legend Continuesplans to go even bigger with a veritable “murderer’s row of day players,“accordingto co-writer/directorAdam McKay. Now, he seems to be making good on that promise asKristen Wiigbecomes the cast’s first fresh face....

Kung Fu Panda Screenwriters Hired For Karate Kid Sequel Shortly afterThe Karate Kidwas released in theaters, earning $56 million opening weekend (well surpassing expectations), it wasannouncedthat they were going to begin development on a sequel. Columbia Pictures executives have been meeting with screenwriters to pitch their ideas on a sequel. TonightHeatVisionis reporting that screenwritersCyrus VorisandEthan Reif, who wroteKung Fu Pandafor Dreamworks Animation, have been tapped to pen the follow-up. It seems logical to me....

Mark Wahlberg In Early Talks For John Grisham Adaptation ‘The Partner’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For about ten years from the mid-’90s to the mid-’00s, authorJohn Grishamwas a ubiquitous presence in Hollywood. 1993 saw the releases ofThe FirmandThe Client, both based on bestselling Grisham books, and adaptations likeA Time to Kill,The Rainmaker, andRunaway Jurysoon followed. In recent years, however, his popularity has waned. Aside from the new NBC seriesThe Firm, which debuted in January, it’s been about eight years since we’ve seen any of Grisham’s novels come to life....

Meet The Characters Of How To Train Your Dragon We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. With the revelation of a tie-in book for Dreamworks' next CG toonHow to Train Your Dragoncomes our first real sniff at the film’s human characters. Get a good look at them all after the break, just to reconfirm your Pixar bias. Also note that the book promises “Cool 3D images” and a “3D movie viewer”, which sound intriguing....

Movie Trailer: Joel Schumacher’s Twelve Hannover House has released the first official trailer forJoel Schumacher’sTwelve, which no one seemed to like when it premiered as the Closing Night Film in the 2010 Sundance Film Festival (Watch my video review here). From a filmmaker who has given us such diverse films asThe Lost Boys, The Phantom of the Opera, Flatliners, A Time To Kill, Batman Forever, Phone Boothand8mmcomes a new drama chronicling of the highs and lows of privileged kids on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, in a tale that involves sex, drugs and murder....

MoviePass Posts Huge Quarterly Losses As Shareholders Sue To add onto that, MoviePass is also facing potential lawsuits from its frustrated shareholders, who are accusing the company of fraud and misinformation. Looks like karma is working overtime. MoviePass has officially skipped flying too close to the sun and is now plummeting to its watery death. On the heels of its outrageous move of forcing its customers to enroll in a new subscription plan even as they attempted to cancel, MoviePass finds itself facing its largest quarterly losses yet and potential costly lawsuits....