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Theme Park Bits: Updates On Coronavirus At Disney Resorts, Mickey And Minnie’s Runaway Railway, And More In this edition of Theme Park Bits: By now, you have probably heard just a wee bit about the still-spreading coronavirus. (I certainly hope you’re not using Theme Park Bits to get your world news. Not the best strategy!) Three of the six Disney theme-park resorts are currently closed as a way to ward off further spreading of COVID-19, but there’s been no major impact on Walt Disney World....

This Week In Trailers: Bones Brigade, Hecho En Mexico, High Ground, Stitches, Midnight’s Children Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week I’m going international with stops in India to talk about a story of baby swapping, England to make sense of a killer clown movie that’s supposed to be a comedy, the Himalayas to be inspired by wounded warriors, Mexico to discover what I never knew about our friends south of the border, then back home to California where the birth of professional skateboarding in the 80s took a foothold....

TV Bits: ‘Black Monday’ Season 2, ‘Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens’ Gets A Second Season, ‘Tosh.0’ Gets Four More Seasons, And More In this edition of TV Bits: Homeland– a show I really enjoyed for about two seasons, stuck around with through three or four, and promptly forgot about afterward – is somehow entering its eighth season. That’s an impressive run for any show, and even if the quality never surpassed season one, at least it keptClaire DanesandMandy Patinkinemployed for the better part of a decade....

TV Bits: ‘Game Of Thrones’, ‘Community’, ‘Dexter’, ‘Downton Abbey’, ‘American Horror Story’, ‘Sons Of Anarchy’, ‘Fringe’, Michael J. Fox As August inches to an end, the days of having nothing to watch on TV (well — nothing butBreaking Bad) are about to come to an end. After the jump: That’s Skrein on the left and Jacobson on the right. I gotta say, neither of them look remotely like what I pictured while readingA Storm of Swords....

Why ‘Iron Man 3’ Is A Christmas Movie Going into the junket forIron Man 3, one of the things I wanted to talk to writer/directorShane Blackabout is the film’s Christmas setting. Many of the films Black has been involved with have been set during Christmas:Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, The Long Kiss GoodnightandKiss Kiss Bang Bang. Someone beat me to the punch at the press conference, and as it turns out, setting the movie during Christmas wasn’t even Black’s idea....

Will Smith Has Resigned From The Academy Following The Oscars According toVariety, Will Smith has said he will resign from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. During the Oscars ceremony on March 27, Smithwalked on stage and slapped presenter Chris Rockafter he had made a joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith’s shaved head (the actress has alopecia). Smith was reportedly asked to leave the ceremony, but remained, later accepting his award for Best Actor for his performance in “King Richard....

‘Akira’ Finds New Life With ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Director Taika Waititi In Talks Warner Bros. has been looking to adaptKatsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 filmAkirainto a pair of big budget, live-action feature films for nearly a decade, with the first attempt hoping to star Leonardo DiCaprioback in 2008. If you reading this site any time between then and now, you’ve probably stumbled across tons of articles about the movie as it picked up (and dropped) various talent with producers fighting to get it made....

‘Cobra Kai’ Was Heavily Inspired By The Gruesome HBO Prison Series ‘Oz’ What’s the connection between Ralph Macchio, karate kicks, Ernie Hudson, and prison riots? You’d be surprised. One of the creators of Netflix’sCobra Kaitweeted Tuesday that “there is noCobra KaiwithoutOz.” Yes, the gruesome HBO drama about frequently violent prisoners. Fact: there is no Cobra Kai without Oz. This show has inspired our storytelling as much as any show and continues to– we rewatched the episodes every day after shooting S4....

‘Gods Of Egypt’ Director Alex Proyas Really Hates Film Critics Gods of Egyptopened this past weekend to turgid reviews and worse box office, making only $14 million against a reported budget of $140 million (before marketing costs, of course). The film is aJupiter Ascending-sized flop, and like that film, it’s actually easy to see why it failed to perform:it’s really, really weird. Whether that weirdness works or not is the question, and that answer can only arrive with time....

‘Hardcore Henry’ Trailer: This Looks Like The First True “Video Game Movie” Hardcore Henrylooks like a lot of things, but it sure as hell doesn’t look boring. DirectorIlya Naishullerhas done something genuinely unique – he’s made an action film shot entirely from the first person perspective, essentially adapting the first person shooter genre without actually adapting a video game. Here is a film that speaks the language of video games. As directors who grew up with video games start to make films, this is going to become more commonplace....

‘Independence Day: Resurgence’: Jeff Goldblum Helps David Levinson Debunk A Crazy Conspiracy Theory Any major, world-changing event is going to inspire a few bizarre conspiracy theories, and in a new viral video forIndependence Day: Resurgence, Earth Space Defense head David Levinson takes a few minutes to debunk one of the craziest rumors about the War of 1996. You know, the one that he and actorJeff Goldblumare the same person. Sure, Levinson will admit to a “fleeting” resemblance, and yes, they happen to wear the same glasses....

‘Invader Zim: Enter The Florpus’ Trailer: Zim And Dib Are At It Again Hot on the heels of last weekend’s debut of the Nickelodeon specialRocko’s Modern Life: Static Clingon Netflix (which was one of the best nostalgic revivals I’ve ever seen), this weekend, another Nicktoon gets a revival on Netflix with a special of their own. Invader Zim: Enter the Florpusbrings back the invading alien from the Nickelodeon animated series, but this time Zim has learned the secret of his journey to Earth and finds out no one will be following him to Earth....

‘NOS4A2’ Season 2 Trailer: The Battle Between Charlie Manx And Vic Continues NOS4A2is returning for a brand-new season of Christmasland horrors, with theJoe Hilladaptation jumping forward in time 8 years. Once again, Vic McQueen is up against the immortal villain Charlie Manx, and this time, Vic’s old enemy is going after someone very close to her. After several teasers, a fullNOS4A2season 2 trailer has arrived ahead of next month’s premiere....