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Comic Con 2014 Sunday Schedule Heavy On TV, Plus Batkid, The Lego Movie And Console Wars And that’s that. TheSan Diego Comic Con2014 Sunday schedule is out, completing the programming for the year’s most anticipated pop culture event. Here’s theThursday,FridayandSaturdayschedules. Sunday, as usual, is the wind down. Hall H is all TV withSupernatural, The Following, Sons of AnarchyandGuillermo del ToropresentingThe Strain. Outside of the big room, there are fun panels onLego Batman 3,Batkid, the making ofThe Lego Movie, and the Nintendo/Sega bookConsole Wars, which is being turned into a film bySeth RogenandEvan Goldberg....

Cool Stuff: ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’ Figure Turns Jim Carrey Into A Detailed Sixth Scale Collectible Ace Ventura: Pet Detectiveisn’t exactly the first title that comes to mind when you think of movies that deserve detailed collectible figures. But this year, the eccentric animal private eye played byJim Carreyhas been given several action figures. NECAreleased a 8-inch figurewith real clothing, as well as afigure with a cartoonish design. Now Asmus Toys is delivering the most realisticAce Venture: Pet Detectivefigure yet, complete with a detailed likeness of Jim Carrey himself....

Disney+ Will Release Weekly Episodes Of Its Streaming Shows Instead Of Using The Binge Model Disney+ is positioning itself as a major competitor to Netflix, but one question we’ve had for months is how the new streaming service will make its episodes available for consumption. Will they copy the Netflix model, releasing entire seasons at once for maximum bingeability? Or will they choose a method more akin to something like Hulu, where only one episode of a series is released per week?...

Eli Roth And Co-Writers Have Cracked The Feature Version Of ‘Thanksgiving’ Eli Roth’s fake trailer for a horror film calledThanksgivingwas one of the highlights of both the omnibus featureGrindhouseand Roth’s own career. And for years since the debut ofGrindhouseRoth has discussed making a feature version based on the idea. But we’ve heard of little forward momentum on the project in quite some time. Now Roth says that he and other writers have broken the story idea, and will shortly be cranking out a script....

Exclusive ‘Holmes And Waston’ Clip Presents Bloopers From The Golden Razzie Award-Winning Film RememberHolmes and Watson? There’s a good chance you don’t – the film didn’t screen for critics last year, and the critics who went and saw it on their own weren’t kind. The movie came and went, eventually going on to “win” several Golden Raspberry Awards. And now it’s coming to Blu-ray and digital! I’ve heard from several people that despite its reputation,Holmes and Watsonis actually quite funny – in an extremely silly way....

F. Gary Gray To Direct ‘Hair Of The Dog’ F. Gary Graylast directedLaw Abiding Citizen, a film that ambitiously tried to push how far an audience could get behind a violent, justifiably angry anti-hero. As with several of Gray’s films, the idea was better than the execution, which ended up being silly more often than it was satisfying. Gray has alsobeen partof the revolving door directorial staff of the Bruce Willis/Jamie Foxx videogame adaptationKane & Lynch, but there are reports that he has left that project....

Final Round Of SXSW Films Includes ‘Searching For Sugar Man,’ ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’ And ‘Nature Calls,’ With Patton Oswalt This year’s SXSW Film Festival will open in less than a month, on Friday, June 01, 2025, and run through Saturday, March 17 in Austin, Texas. Theopening night filmis the world premiere ofJoss Whedon&Drew Goddard’sThe Cabin in the Woods, and the rest of the film scheduleincludespictures such asGod Bless America,The Raid, andMidnight entriesJohn Dies at the EndandV/H/S....

Futurama Cast Returning, Fox Pay Dispute Settled Update:Hitfixis reporting that John Dimaggio and Billy West haven’t signed yet, but they’re close. As probably the most iconic of the voices, perhaps they’re trying to work out a slightly better deal? While many of us were prepping to tackle Comic-Con a few weeks ago, news broke that Fox wasplanning to recast the main actorsforFuturama’sreturn to televisionnext year. Unsurprisingly, the issue revolved around the actor’s pay....

Gentleman Jack Gives Into Temptation In ‘I’m Not The Other Woman, She Is’ While it’s certainly painful to watch Anne (Suranne Jones) dive back into her past, unraveling her feelings for Mariana (Lydia Leonard) was always an inevitability. By all accounts (aka the thriving lesbian inner circle they have yet to welcome Miss Walker into), Mariana was the first great love of Anne’s life. They spent years as a couple and for a long time anticipated a life together....

Here’s The Latest Round Of Kevin Feige Giving Perfect Non-Answers To Pressing Marvel Questions There are few people better at giving non-answers about upcoming projects than Marvel President Kevin Feige. (One standout is Dave Filoni, who’s non-answers are so fun and lovely that, once I hear them, I no longer care what we were talking about to begin with.) Feige is a master of giving us all just enough hints without spoiling anything....

Here’s Where You Can Stream Or Buy Every ‘Dragon Ball’ Series (Welcome toWhere to Watch, which provides a clear and simple answer to the question, “Hey, where can I watch this thing?” In this edition: theDragon Ballseries)Dragon Ballhas been around since 1986 but after three decades, the anime franchise is still going strong. In fact, it’s having a pretty big year as we speak, with the upcoming release of a newDragon Ball Supermovie, expected to debut in 2022....

Idris Elba Knuckles Up To Star In ‘Sonic The Hedgehog 2’ Is it too early to proclaimSonic the Hedgehog 2as the heir apparent toThe Avengers? Probably, and we’re not entirely sure why anyone would want to call it that anyway, but the sequel to the popular video game adaptation is happening and it definitely feels like a team is being assembled. Idris Elbadropped his casting in the movie out of nowhere and, folks, it’s a doozy....

Is The Post-Credits Sequence From ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ In The Trailer? The first trailer forMarc Webb’sThe Amazing Spider-Man 2has been out for a few hours now which, in Internet time, means it’s old news. (If you haven’t seen it,click here.) By now, fans have tried to dissect the secrets it holds, and there are plenty. We clearly see Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) as the Green Goblin. We clearly see Peter has to deal with the actions of his deceased father (Campbell Scott)....