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Composer Michael Giacchino Is Working With Paul McCartney On An Animated Movie We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Film composerMichael GiacchinoandSir Paul McCartney, best known for an obscure rock group called The Beatles, have been working on an animated film together. Giacchino, who’s the Oscar-winning composer behindUpandStar Trek, is hopeful we’ll see the film one day. Unless we’re mistaken, the jovial composer is possibly alluding to a McCartney-Netflix projectcalledHigh in the Clouds....

Cool Stuff: NECA’s ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II’ Super Shredder Action Figure Goes Up For Pre-Order August 10 Hot on the heels after offering pre-orders forTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Oozeaction figure two-packwith the mutant villains Tokka and Rahzar, the toy wizards at NECA have another hulking figure from the comic book movie sequel on the way, and you may get it very soon. NECA’s latest collectible toy offering from theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesmovie franchise also comes from the sequel, but this time they’re giving us Super Shredder, the massive mutated version of the the turtles' arch nemesis....

Cool Stuff: Super7 Launching Outstanding Disney Action Figure Line, Starting With The Sorcerer’s Apprentice & More When it come to the classic animated Disney movies, finding quality collectibles paying tribute to them can be rather difficult unless you want to spend a hefty amount of money. That’s especially true when it comes to action figures inspired by the Disney movies of decades ago. But the toy makers at Super7 are about to change that....

Directors Guild Nominates Allen, Fincher, Hazanavicius, Payne & Scorsese; Stiffs Spielberg It’s official: 2012 is the year we all learn to pronounce ‘Hazanavicius.’ That’s because Michel Hazanavicius, director ofThe Artist, is one of the five people nominated for the Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film by the Directors Guild of America (DGA). The DGA award nominees almost always mirror the Oscar ballot for Best Director, so between this and the PGA nominations announced last week we’ve basically got the final Oscar contention list locked down....

Eternals Sex Scene Was Essential To Chloé Zhao’s Vision From The Beginning [Exclusive] For years there has been endless brouhaha over the apparent sexlessness of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In a series filled with gorgeous and ripped super people, many wondered why none of them seemed to have an ounce of horniness among them. Despite some early implied escapades by Tony Stark, he eventually settled down with Pepper and Marvel barely showed them kissing....

Every Peacemaker Episode Will Have A Post-Credits Scene James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad,” which came out in early August of 2021 and is currently available to stream in the United States on HBO Max, was far better received by fans and critics than David Ayer’s 2016 film “Suicide Squad,” a film which takes place in the same continuity and features some of the same actors but was notoriously undone by endless re-edits and studio tinkering....

Four New ‘Real Steel’ Posters And Viral Clip Come Online If you’re into movies about fighting, the currently in-theatersWarrioris well-worth your time and money. But if movies about fighting robots are more your speed, you only have a few more weeks to wait untilReal Steelfinally hits the big screen.Hugh Jackmanstars in theShawn Levy’s action film about a future where human boxers have been replaced by robots. Jackman plays a past-his-prime fighter who gets back into the game when he and his estranged son find and train a new robot for competition....

Get Your First Look At ‘The Addams Family’ Animated Movie And Its Scary Good Voice Cast, Including Charlize Theron, Bette Midler, And More You couldn’t wish for a creepier and kookier cast than the one in MGM’s upcomingThe Addams Familyanimated movie. And they have some altogether ooky character designs. MGM has released a first look at theirThe Addams Familyanimated movie starringOscar Isaac, which we still desperately wish were in live-action. But beggars can’t be choosers, and at least we are blessed with a scary good cast confirmed to includeCharlize Theron(Morticia),Allison Janney(arch nemesis Margaux Needler),Bette Midler(Grandmama),Chloë Grace Moretz(Wednesday),Finn Wolfhard(Pugsley), andNick Kroll(Uncle Fester)....

Guardians Of The Galaxy Video Game Trailer: We Are Groot- Er, Marvel’s Latest Next-Gen Game Today’s PlayStation Showcase did not disappoint. Particularly for Marvel fans. We got a surprise announcement for a “Wolverine” game. Venom is going to be in “Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.” And, oh yes, we got a new look at the upcoming “Guardians of the Galaxy” game from the folks at Eidos-Montréal. The game had been announced at E3 earlier this summerwith a surprise trailer....

Guy Ritchie’s Revolver Movie Trailer Guy Ritchiewas a cult phenomenon. He rocketed onto the scene withLock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and soon after createdSnatch, which is on the top 10 list of most 20-something film fanatics. But the filmmaker’s career took a nose drive shortly after marrying Madonna (coincidence? I think not). Ritchie is back with a new gangster film starring Ray Liotta, Jason Statham, Vincent Pastore, Andre ‘Andre 3000’ Benjamin and Terence Maynard....

Halo Star Pablo Schreiber Explains Why It’s Crucial That Master Chief Remove His Helmet [Exclusive] It’s been 21 years since “Halo: Combat Evolved” introduced the world to Master Chief’s intimidating, stoic and, yes, expressionless visage. We know his name is John and that he’s a Spartan (no relation to Sylvester Stallone in “Demolition Man”). He’s an augmented human who has been trained since early childhood to be a great warrior, but beyond that we, the player, knew precious little about our big green avatar other than he was superhuman and could land a sticky bomb on a Grunt’s face 20 feet away....

Here Are All The Winners From This Year’s Sundance Film Festival Another year at Sundance is drawing to a close. After an exciting week of acquisitions and premieres, this weekend marks the festival’s annual award show, which is entirely virtual this year (like the rest of the fest). Sundance took an inconspicuous approach to its award announcements, sharing the names of the winners via Twitter rather than in a hosted ceremony....

How ‘The Amazing-Spider Man 3’ Would Have Brought Norman Osborn Back To Life Chris Cooper’s throwaway role inThe Amazing Spider-Man 2was going to lead to a more prominent role in the sequel that never got made. DirectorMarc Webbhad planned to bring him back in a big way withThe Amazing Spider-Man 3, which was once scheduled to come out in 2018. Norman Osborn would’ve also led Drew Goddard’s scrappedSinister Sixmovie. Below,The Only Living Boy in New Yorkdirector discusses some of his oldAmazing Spider-Man 3plans....