Hoai-Tran Bui’s Top 10 Movies Of 2018 2018 has come and gone, and we’re 84 years older for it. But enough of my opining about what a terrible year it was (you’ll probably get plenty of that in everyone else’s pieces). I’m here to talk about the things I loved in 2018, and that was movies. I don’t ascribe to the belief that there are “good” or “bad” years for movies, there are just the movies that personally speak to you every year....
How ‘Force Awakens’ Changed During Development: Jedi Killers, Force Ghosts And The Doom Star We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. How didStar Wars: the Force Awakensevolve during the development process? What were some of the early ideas they were playing with that didn’t end up in the final film? The new bookThe Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakensgives us a peek inside the development of Episode 7, from the earliest concepts to post production....
Hugh Jackman Confirmed For ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ In just a few days, we’ll be seeingHugh Jackmantackle one of the stage’s most iconic heroes in Tom Hooper’sLes Misérables. But the role that’s really been his signature for the past decade is X-Men’s Wolverine, and it’s one he’ll be reprising again for the next two summers. Shooting is already complete onThe Wolverine, which hits in July, but the news today is that he’s also confirmed for an appearance in 2014’sX-Men: Days of Future Past....
I Survived ‘This Is Real,’ The Immersive Experience Where You Escape From A Horror Movie How do you like to spend your free time? Do you enjoy solving puzzles? Making new friends? What about hiding out in a fridge full of dead cockroaches, concealing yourself from a masked, hammer-wielding killer that’s hunting you down? If you’ve ever wanted to experience your very own horror movie youcouldgo to a haunted house…or you could check outThis Is Real, a new horror experience from the mastermind behind the legendary Nightmare New York....
IMAX Accounts For 25% Of Tron: Legacy’s $100 Million Box Office With the amount of money Disney spent marketingTRON: Legacyover the past few years, it’s no surprise that the film broke the $100 million mark this week, after twelve days at the domestic box office. What is a surprise, though, is that a quarter of that gross came from IMAX screens. To put that in perspective, the film is playing on almost 3,500 screens total in North America and only 235 of those are IMAX....
In Praise Of The New Batmobile, Which Looks Like It F*cking Rules A new Batman trailer drops and “everyone loses their minds,” as the Joker once said. If you’ve seen thelatest DC FanDome trailerfor"The Batman"(not to be confused with the one from last year), there are any number of things you might be losing your mind over. One of those is undoubtedly the new Batmobile. Director Matt Reeves gave us our first look at thenew Batmobileway back in March of 2020....
Ivan Reitman Will Direct Ghostbusters 3 Since the script forGhostbusters 3is currently being written byLee EisenbergandGene Stupnitsky, writers of theHarold RamisfilmYear One, there has been some speculation that Ramis could come on board to directGhostbusters 3. (Though the relative failure ofYear Oneon both a creative and commercial level didn’t add much weight to the speculation.) Now we know thatIvan Reitman, producer and director of both originalGhostbustersfilms, will direct the third as well....
Josh Brolin And Tim Burton Developing ‘The Hunchback Of Notre Dame’ Tim Burtonhas a few big projects on his plate: he’s about to direct a big-screen version of the supernatural soap operaDark Shadows, and will be directing a feature-length update of his short filmFrankenweenie. He is producingAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and is attached to produce and/or direct several other films. Now he has teamed with a major actor to make a new version ofThe Hunchback of Notre Dame, based on Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel....
Kylo Ren Coming To Disneyland And Disney World Now thatStar Wars: The Force Awakenshas become a global phenomenon, Disney is planning to add more new characters from Episode VII into the parks. The opening ofStar Wars Launch Baysaw First Order Stormtroopers roaming Tomorrowland while Darth Vader and Chewbacca were given dedicated meet-and-greets (with Boba Fett making special appearances). But now it looks likeAdam Driver’s character Kylo Ren will be coming to Disneyland in his quest to find Luke Skywalker....
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘In The Heights’ Is Getting Filmed, But Don’t Hold Your Breath For A ‘Hamilton’ Movie Lin-Manuel Mirandais a genius and this is a case where that word deserves to be taken very literally. In fact, the writer and star of Broadway’sHamiltonmay very well betheentertainer of 2016. If you look beyond his brilliant hip-hop musical about the life of Alexander Hamilton that has been nominated for 16 Tony Awards and has already won a Grammy and the Pulitzer Prize, you’ll note that he also contributed songs and music to Disney’supcoming animated filmMoanaand was recentlycast as the male leadalongside Emily Blunt in the upcomingMary Poppins Returns....
Moon Knight Is A Series About Mental Health Struggles And ‘Baggage’ We’re getting closer to the next Marvel Disney+ show “Moon Knight,” and we’re learning more about Oscar Isaac’s Steven Grant. Executive producer Grant Curtis spoke toUSA Todayabout Grant’s dilemma in the series, saying: “It’s a story about identity and finding one’s true self. The journey that Marc Spector [his alternate identity] is on during our whole show is: Who am I?...
Movie Review: Year One Is A Lifeless, Laughless Throwback In the wickedly underrated David Wain comedyWet Hot American Summer, there is a sequence where Michael Showalter, in character as a stand-up comic geezer, entertains a bunch of kids at camp with awful jokes about the Stone Age. The joke isn’t his routine, but that the kids are laughing at these terrible, stale caveman gags. Thinking along those lines, I’d be happier (though unconvinced) ifHarold Ramisargued that his new movieYear Onewas a full-length meta comedy about terrible jokes, though I know it’s just a bad, ramshackle movie that assumes its audience is comprised primarily of children....
MoviePass Promises They’ve Changed, Announces New Monthly Plans Just when you thoughtMoviePasshad sold its last ticket, the movie ticket subscription service has one last gasp of breath. In an effort to show the millions of customers who have fled the service that they’ve changed and won’t be the shady, policy-changing company that we’ve come to know them as, MoviePass is trying to make amends by offering a new series of tiered monthly plans, each offering different kinds of access to movie tickets....
