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Cool Stuff: Super7’s ‘Back To The Future Part II’ ReAction Figures Are Pretty Heavy It’s been years since Funko released aBack to the Futureline of ReAction Figures, taking the basic approach to action figures with the minimal amount of articulation and the most basic of body and face sculpts. Inspired by the classic 3.75-inch action figures that were popular in the 1980s and 1990s, the ReAction Figures line has given us a lot of the movie characters that we wished we had growing up....

Denis Villeneuve And Harrison Ford Address The Mysteries Of ‘Blade Runner 2049’ While the ham-fisted theatrical cut ofBlade Runnerfelt the need to tie everything up with a neat little bow, the infinitely superior director’s cut and the even better “final cut” conclude on a more ambiguous note. WasHarrison Ford’s Rick Deckard, a robot-hunting “blade runner” for the LAPD, a Replicant himself the whole time? Everyone has an opinion and the debate has raged on for years amongst fans and the people who actually made the film....

Director Jon M. Chu Speaks Out On ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Sequel Writer’s Pay Disparity Dispute The immense critical and commercial success ofCrazy Rich Asianslast summer was a watershed moment for Asian representation in a major Hollywood movie. But behind the scenes, things haven’t been quite so rosy. We became aware ofCrazy Rich Asians' crazy rich problems last week when writerAdele Limexited the sequel over a huge pay disparity between Warner Bros....

Early Buzz And Clips From Pedro Almodovar’s ‘The Skin I Live In’ Another of our most-anticipated Cannes premieres was shown to press early today, Cannes time, and reviews are hitting the web.Pedro Almodovar’sThe Skin I Live Inrepresents his first collaboration with actorAntonio Banderasin twenty years, and also marks a break in subject matter for the director. Based onThierry Jonquet’s novelTarantula(akaMygale), the story follows an ambitious plastic surgeon (Banderas) whose wife was burned in an accident, leading him to attempt to synthesize a new, superior form of human skin....

Everything We Know About Grimsburg So Far If you’ve ever felt like there’s simply too much television to keep track of these days, take heart in the fact that you are far from alone! The sheer amount of new can’t-miss shows and buzzy titles coming out on a seemingly everyday basis can quickly become overwhelming, even (or maybe evenespecially) for those who go out of their way to keep up-to-date with pop culture....

Final Wave Of Fantastic Fest Programming Includes ‘Wake In Fright,’ ‘Antiviral,’ And ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ Fantastic Fest has announced its final wave of programming for the 2012 lineup, with the festival set to begin in just over a week. The big inclusions in this wave areBrandon Cronenberg’sAntiviral, which is the feature debut from David Cronenberg’s son;Berberian Sound Studio, which has been getting raves forToby Jones' portrayal of a sound technician who experiences crazy stuff while working on an Italian horror film; andWake in Fright, the Australian thriller that wowed audiences at Cannes in 1971 but never got a proper US release....

First Look: ‘Flying Swords Of Dragon Inn,’ The 3D Film From Tsui Hark And Jet Li Long-time producer and directorTsui Harkdid well last year with hisfilmDetective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, then he jumped right into production on a new film. That’s the 3D wuxia epicFlying Swords of Dragon Inn, withJet Listarring. We’ve got the first pics from the film, as well as some good statements from the director and star, after the break....

George Orwell’s Landmark ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ Being Adapted To Film Once More I’m crediting — or blaming —The Hunger Gamesfor this one. Gary Ross' film adaptation of the Suzanne Collins best-seller has undeniable reflections ofGeorge Orwell’s nightmarish vision of totalitarian information control and thought suppression, and now, just hours before that film is released to the public, we have news of a new film version of his novelNineteen Eighty-Four, often simply called1984....

High Resolution Image: Meet Princess Merida From Pixar’s ‘Brave’ Editor’s Update:I have updated the story with a new super high resolution photo officially released by Disney of Brave’s main protagonist. Hit the jump to see the full image. If you pay to seeCars 2this weekend or in the near future you’ll be treated to a teaser for the Pixar film that is due to be released a year from now:Brave, once calledThe Bear and the Bow....

How L3-37 Makes Us Reinterpret A Classic ‘Star Wars’ Moment It should be no surprise thatPhoebe Waller-Bridge’s droid L3-37 is one of the audience favorite characters inSolo: A Star Wars Story. But you might not realize the legacy that L3-37 has left on classicStar Wars…retconned of course. Spoilers forSolo: A Star Wars Storycoming up… InSolo: A Star Wars Story, L3-37 is a progressive, self-made droid who has upgraded and improved herself with scraps of other droids....

Hulu’s Next NY Times Documentary Is About The Janet Jackson Super Bowl Scandal Back in 2004, the Super Bowl halftime show shocked audiences when Justin Timberlake ripped open half of Janet Jackson’s top to expose the singer’s breast and a large piece of nipple jewelry for 9/16ths of a second. It was a moment that made pop culture history, put the term “wardrobe malfunction” into common vernacular, and sent certain sects of the population into an uproar....

It Looks Like ‘Evil Dead Rise’ Will Buck The Cabin In The Woods Trope Those sneaky so-and-so’s over atSam Raimi’s Ghost House production company have been quietly working on a newEvil Deadfilm and we’re only now getting some intel on what the project is about. Right up front,Bruce Campbellis not appearing in this film and Sam Raimi isn’t directing, but both are producing alongside their longtime collaboratorRob Tapert. Evil Dead Risesserves as a sequel to the 2013 remake, helmed byFede Alvarez....

J.J. Abrams Officially Confirmed To Direct ‘Star Trek’ Sequel You can breathe easy now, Trek fans:J.J. Abramshas, at long last, officially commited to directing the follow-up to his 2009 hitStar Trek. Though it’s long been assumed that Abrams would return for the sequel, the director has been cautious about making any firm statements. As recently as last month, he was still taking care to stress that he wasn’t “officially” signed on to helm....