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Major League 4 In The Works Will Wild Thing return to the plate for another at-bat?Bob Ueckerrevealed while chatting up the game at Wrigley stadium last week that he’s recently had contact from the creative team behind the first threeMajor Leaguefilms, and that they’re developing aMajor League 4. For those who might not remember, Uecker played commentator Harry Doyle in the original 1989 film, which was about a loser underdog baseball team which becomes a World Series contender much to the surprise of their manager, who was betting on their failure....

Minor Accident During Production Of ‘The Hobbit’ Injures Two If someone tells youPeter Jackson’sThe Hobbitis blowing up, they might mean it literally. According toThe Sydney Morning Herald, via theNew York Times, an explosion occurred Tuesday in one of the production workshops of the fantasy prequel, resulting in minor injuries to two people. The fire department was on the scene at Stone Street Studios in Wellington, New Zealand,where production is taking place, and the two people were taken to the hospital....

Morbius Review: This Superhero Vampire Movie Sucks Sony so badly wants their own cinematic universe that they’ve wrought “Morbius,” an absolutely dreadful piece of pre-packaged junk that throws a bunch of CGI ghoul faces our way and hopes for the best. A mash-up of vampire movies and ’90s superhero flicks, “Morbius” is officially part of the studio’s clunky, cobbled-together, ever-changing Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, which no one will ever confuse for the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

Movie Critic Award Results Round-Up Most major city regions have a society or association of film critics, who each year join together to vote on the best films and performances of the year. This weekend the winners have been announced for the National Board of Review, Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), the New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO), The Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC), and the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA)....

New ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Sequel Images Feature Hot Dumbledore, Johnny Depp With Bad Hair Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the sequel to theHarry Potterspin-offFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, recently wrapped shooting, and two new photos have arrived to tide fans over until the 2018 release date. The images depictJude Lawas Hot Dumbledore, andJohnny Deppas Villain With Terrible Hair, aka Grindelwald. See theFantastic Beastssequel images below. Are you excited for theFantastic Beasts and Where to Find ThemsequelFantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald?...

Now Scream This: Our Horror Movie New Year’s Resolutions For 2021 (Welcome toNow Scream This, a column where horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato tell you what scary, spooky, and spine-tingling movies are streaming and where you can watch them.)Matt:Happy New Year, I guess? As the calendar turned from 2020 to 2021, we all thought, “How could it possibly get worse?” Then Donald Trump encouraged and incited a coup at Capitol Hill, the day that I’m writing about which horror movies are making my resolution list....

Our 15 Favorite Movie Moments Of The Decade (This article is part of ourBest of the Decadeseries.) The /Film team has been busyranking the 100 best movies of the decade, but one thing became clear as we assembled our lists: there was something missing. Sure, those films were the best of the past ten years, but they didn’t account for many of the individual scenes that have truly stuck with us....

Paramount Ranch, Filming Location For Hundreds Of Movies & TV Shows, Burns In California Wildfire Paramount Ranch, which served as a filming location for nearly 500 films and television shows over the years, is the latest casualty of the wildfires that are currently sweeping across California. The historic “western town” area in the mountains outside of Los Angeles, where projects likeWestworld,Gunsmoke,Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and many others were shot, has burned to the ground....

Pop Culture Imports: ‘Transit,’ ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night,’ ‘An Elephant Sitting Still,’ And More (Welcome toPop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) It’s time to shake off the holiday lethargy and set your 2020 New Year’s resolutions: to watch more foreign films. Or at least, catch up on the 2019 ones to add as last-minute additions to your best of the year lists....

POTD: Rian Johnson Shares ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Set Photo With Updated Stormtroopers Fans are still waiting for their first official look atStar Wars: The Last Jediin the form of stills from the movie or even the first footage. One rumor has said that our first glimpse at theStar Warssequel will arrive at Star Wars Celebration in Orlando while there have been rumblings that the first teaser trailer might hit with Beauty and the Beast....

Pour One Out For Tivik, The Most Important Star Wars Character No One Talks About Let’s give it up for a man named Tivik. Without him, there’s every chance that Alderaan wouldn’t have been the only planet destroyed by the Death Star in “Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope.” Sure, a lot of people can make that claim: Galen Erso, Jyn Erso, Luthen Rael, Cassian Andor, Bodhi Rook. But they all get their place in the spotlight and we talk about them....

Sam Claflin Officially Cast As Finnick Odair In ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ The biggest piece of casting in the sequel toThe Hunger Games,The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, has finally beenofficially confirmed.Sam Claflin, recently seen inSnow White and the Huntsman, will play Finnick Odair, the cocky, famous, good-looking former winner of the Games who not only forms a rocky alliance with Katniss(Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), but quickly grows into a much more important role....

Seeing Double: ‘Deep Impact’ Vs ‘Armageddon’ And The Collision Of 1998’s Dueling Rockbusters (Welcome toSeeing Double, a series where two strangely similar films released around the same time are put head-to-head. This time, we look skyward once again only to see big rocks filling our view, heading our way, and putting a countdown on life as we know it.) We’re currently gizzard deep in the great aught streaming wars, and while it’s too early to declare an ultimate winner yet the odds are it will be one corporation or another....