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Cool Stuff: A New Wave Of Delightful ‘WALL-E’ Funko POPs Are Blasting Off And Sharing Sunsets This Fall We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Pixar’s delightfulWALL-Ehas already been given the Funko POP treatment a couple times before. But now the titular garbage robot and his shiny companion EVE will have even more collectible vinyl figures for fans to add to the collectible shelf. Coming this fall, WALL-E and EVE will have some of their most memorable moments recreated in Funko POP form, from their wonderful dance in deep space to their lovely sunset date, which inadvertently makes for a delightful Christmas decoration....

Cool Stuff: LEGO ‘TRON Legacy’ Lightcycles Hit Shelves Next Week The best thing to happen to the world of LEGO is the user-driven websiteLEGO Ideas. Custom creations using the trademark building blocks are voted on by fans, and if one gets enough votes, it has the chance of becoming an official LEGO set. That’s how we got theBack to the FutureDeLorean time machine LEGO setas well as theGhostbustersEcto-1 vehicle LEGO set....

Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Remake Delayed Again, Now Slated For The Week After ‘Tenet’ In August Following in the footsteps of Warner Bros. Pictures’recent decision to push backthe release of Christopher Nolan’sTenetby two weeks, Disney has delayed back the live-action remake ofMulanan entire month into August. But will that be enough time to allow theaters to safely reopen around the United States? The Hollywood Reporterhas news onMulandelayed again, with Disney setting a new release date ofAugust 21, 2020....

First Five Minutes Of Exit Through The Gift Shop - Peter’s Favorite Movie Of Sundance 2010 My favorite movie from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival was a documentary titledExit Through The Gift Shop. While the project was being touted as a feature film by street artistBanksy, the film actually has no credited director. The film starts out as a documentary by a video camera-obsessed Frenchman namedThierry Guetta— With a love for street art, and connections into the scene, Thierry sets out to capture the most elusive street artists Banksy....

Gallery: The DeLorean, The Batmobile, And 5 Other Famous Movie Vehicles As Pixar Characters Cars 2may not have been anyone’sfavorite Pixar flick, but even the critics who were disappointed at its lack of heart had to admit it at leastlookedgorgeous. On a visual level, the characters and their colorful universe were as dazzlingly, distinctly Pixar-ian as any in the studio’s history. Using their signature style — rich colors, clean lines, big friendly eyes — the animators brought a wide variety of vehicles to life....

Hong Kong Disneyland Slated To Begin Reopening On June 18 Even though nearly two dozen stateshave recently seen a risein coronavirus cases in the United States as the country attempts to reopen, countries overseas are having more luck containing the spread of the pandemic. Over the past week, Hong Kong has seen either one or zero cases daily, which is whyHong Kong Disneylandis preparing to reopen later this month onJune 18....

How Stanley Kubrick Solved The Shining’s Psychic Problem It might be over four decades old, but “The Shining” has never stopped being a dazzlingly unfathomable piece of cinema. Like any of Stanley Kubrick’s films, it was not so warmly received when it first premiered and is still famously disliked byStephen Kinghimself. The reason for the author’s contention resulted from the liberties Kubrick took with his novel and the pivotal changes he made to the plot....

Hulu Picks Up ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 2, ‘Marvel’s Runaways,’ And ‘The First’ Huluwill keep its original content flowing, with pick-ups announced for a second season of the harrowing dystopian dramaThe Handmaid’s Taleas well as new series orders forMarvel’s Runawaysfrom the creators of theGossip Girl, andBeau Willimon’s show about the first human mission to Mars, tentatively titledThe First. Hulu announced these series pick-ups at its upfront session in New York, the television industry’s annual gathering in which networks pitch upcoming shows to advertisers and, by proxy, announce them to the rest of the world....

Is ‘Brave’ Co-Director Brenda Chapman Involved In ‘Star Wars Episode VII?’ The news of newStar Warsmovies instantly raised question marks around a bunch of seemingly standard Hollywood departures. First was Matthew Vaughn, who suddenly leftX-Men: Days of Future Pastand soonmentioned as a possible directorforStar Wars Episode VII(though he’smore likely working onSecret Service). NowBrenda Chapman, the co-director ofBravewholeft Pixar to work ona mystery project at LucasFilm, has been brought up as a possible conspirator....

James Cameron Talks His Scrapped Xenogenesis Script And How It Saved Avatar [Exclusive] We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Before “Titanic” and “Avatar” director James Cameron was King of the World, he was an upstart young filmmaker trying to get his first feature off the ground. Created in the wake of the “Star Wars” phenomenon, Cameron and his pal Randall Frakes set out to make an extremely ambitious science-fiction movie titled “Xenogenesis” about a young woman and an artificial man sent on a mission to scour the galaxy for a planet suitable for creating new life....

Michael Winterbottom And Colin Firth May Chronicle Murder; IFC Buys Winterbottom’s ‘The Trip’ It’s been a busy year forMichael Winterbottom. He made it to Sundance withThe Killer Inside Me, which hit theaters earlier this year. He put togetherThe Trip, which reunited him with actorSteve Coogan. That film appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival and was just picked up by IFC. And now Winterbottom may have a project going to dramatize the story of murdered British exchange studentMeredith Kercher, with an offer for one role out toColin Firth....

New Moomin Movie In 3D, With Music From Bjork This is one for fans ofCalvin and Hobbesor Studio Ghibli, and if you foundWhere the Wild Things Are’s sweet melancholy too much to resist, then there’s a good sprinkling of that feeling to be found here too. The Moomins were the creation of Finnish novelist and comic strip authorTove Janssonand, according to legend, she drew the first one to scare her brother....

New Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li Clips Unleash A Hurricane Kick Of Suck To Your Face This morning, an e-mail aboutStreet Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Lihit my inbox: “Please note, STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGUND OF CHUN-LI will not be screening for press.” While this added fuel onto an already considerable fire of bad buzz surrounding this film, I was still willing to hold out a modicum of hope.Neal McDonoughis, after all, one of my favorite actors, and while I’m noSmallvillefan, I’ve heard nothing but good things aboutKristen Kreukfrom my male colleagues....