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Director Edgar Wright Pays Tribute To Wes Craven Horror directorWes Craven, the man responsible forA Nightmare on Elm StreetandScream,among many other films, passed away over the weekend, succumbing to a battle with brain cancer. It’s a loss felt by many horror fans and cinephiles, who are taking stock of Craven’s significant influence on the movie landscape. In case you need any more evidence that Wes Craven was a filmmaker who inspired many directors working today,Edgar Wrighthas chimed in on his own personal blog with a fond remembrance of Craven and what his work meant to the director ofShaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s EndandScott Pilgrim vs....

Elizabeth Banks In Talks To Produce And Direct ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Reboot Elizabeth Banksscored a great opening weekend and a tremendous overall success withPitch Perfect 2.Now Banks is moving forward to her next feature directing gig, and it’s a revival of a name that everyone recognizes. Sony’s latest version ofCharlie’s Angelsis about to fall into her hands, and that’s a great thing. Originally, the fluff TV seriesCharlie’s Angelsfeatured Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett-Majors, and Jaclyn Smith as three grads from the LAPD Academy who bail on their unsatisfying cop gigs to work for the enigmatic Charlie, who runs a private detective firm called the Townsend Agency....

First Footage From ‘Larry Crowne’ Starring Tom Hanks And Julia Roberts In a summer filled with superheroes, giant robots, boy wizards and 3D animation, it’ll be interesting to see howTom HanksandJulia Robertsstack up. On July 1, the two mega-starsonce again team upfor the Hanks-directed romantic comedyLarry Crownein an obvious instance of counter-programming. Hanks plays a guy who loses his job and goes back to junior college only to fall in love with his teacher, played by Julia Roberts....

Friday Box Office: Resident Evil $22M 3-Day; Eastern Promises Strong; Into The Wild Huge As expected, RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION will easily win the weekend topping GOOD LUCK CHUCK. David Cronenberg’s EASTERN PROMISES has expanded strongly, and Sean Penn’s INTO THE WILD has opened huge. THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES… had a so-so opening, and THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB is a disappointment. The third and, reportedly, final chapter of the RESIDENT EVIL Trilogy will coast to an easy weekend win....

Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park Movie Trailer A moody trailer forGus Van Sant’sParanoid Parkis now online. With its overcast display of non-actors, sexualized youth, skateboard imagery, and a voyeuristic tone, it bares a similarity to the territory that director Larry Clark, ofKidsandWassup Rockersfame, has mined for years on the indie circuit. The storyline of a “throw away kid” accidentally murdering a security guard even reminds me of Clark’s awesomeAnotherDay in Paradise....

Here’s The Translation For That ‘Loki’ Drinking Song Tom Hiddleston Sings In Episode 3 The latest episode ofLokihad Variants Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) go through a lot. Stuck on the doomed moon Lamentis-1, they had to deal with a planet breaking apart, the collapse of society, and philosophical discussions about love. We alsolearned a lot more about Loki and Sylvie, including — in Loki’s case — one of his Asgardian drinking songs....

J.J. Abrams Doesn’t Have Any Interest In Directing Any Of The DC Projects Bad Robot Is Producing In the fall of 2019,J.J. Abrams(Star Trek,Star Wars: The Force Awakens)closed a $250 million dealto write, produce, and direct projects for WarnerMedia,turning downa staggering $500 million that was offered by Apple at the time. One of the reasons Abrams chose WarnerMedia was because of the deep reservoirs of intellectual property that his Bad Robot production company could mine – IP that includes things likeJustice League Dark,Constantine,Superman, and more from DC Comics....

JJ Abrams To Dose Us With 500 Rads With their now expected levels of secrecy and sneakiness, it seems thatJJ Abramsand Bad Robot are already deep into bringing a mysterious movie called500 Radsto the screen. At least that’s if it will be called500 Radsand this isn’t just some kind of hazy-fantazy codename. The leaked information so far pegs the film at a sweet little $25 million budget and alleges that production will take place in Europe....

Lifetime Beating Hallmark To The Punch With LGBTQ Holiday Movie Happy Holidays! I hope you’re all prepared for a good old fashioned quarantined Christmas, because that’s what’s coming our way. But don’t worry: you’ll always have holiday movies to distract you from the end times. Lots and lots of holiday movies. Every year, both Lifetime and Hallmark pump out holiday originals, and this year, Lifetime is beating Hallmark to the punch with its first-ever LGBTQ holiday movie, calledThe Christmas Set Up....

Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Announces 2017 Award Winners TheLos Angeles Online Film Critics Societyput their heads (and votes) together and announced the winners of their 2017 awards. This is the inaugural year for the LAOFCS (/Film’s own Peter Sciretta is a member), which was formed in late 2016 with the hope of creating a critics group that was “as diverse as the city in which it is based.“Guillermo del Toro’sThe Shape of Waterwon big this year, with other awards going toLady Bird,I, Tonyaand more....

Love, Death And Robots Creators Tim Miller And Jennifer Yuh Nelson On Season 3 And The Future Of Animation [Interview] The Netflix animated anthology series “Love, Death and Robots” is back for athird season, and this time the show is bringing back some old favorites. The upcoming season (or “volume”) features eight all-new shorts, and one of them is a direct sequel to the beloved “Three Robots” entry from season 1, featuring the three hilarious robots who attempt to figure out why humanity went extinct....

Marvel’s ‘Eternals’ Unveils Marvel Legends Action Figures, Funko POPs, And LEGO Sets Now that the final trailer for Marvel’sEternalshas arrived, it’s time for the merchandise onslaught to begin. The first officialEternalsaction figures and collectibles have been unveiled by Hasbro’s Marvel Legends, Funko, and LEGO, and with so many characters in the cosmic ensemble, you’ll need to fork over plenty of dough to collect them all. Marvel Legends Eternals Action Figures First up, we have theEternalsaction figures from Hasbro’s Marvel Legends line (revealed byYahoo)....

Morbius Trailer: Jared Leto Is A Living Vampire In Sony’s Spider-Man Universe Today finally brings a brand new trailer for “Morbius,” the latest Marvel Comics film adaptation from the folks at Sony. As was the case with “Venom,” the studio is going deep on its collection of Spider-Man-adjacent characters to cook up its own big franchises. Though the bulk of Marvel Comics characters are back in the hands of Marvel Studios,Sony owns the movie rightsnot only to Spidey himself but also to Marvel characters who are principally related to the web-slinger — such as Venom, Carnage, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Woman, Spider-Ham and, well, you get the idea....