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‘The Post’ And Beyond: 12 Great Newsroom Movies In honor ofSteven Spielberg’s new newspaper dramaThe Post, we’ve combed through the archives, pounded the pavement, dusted off the typewriter and put together a list of some of the best newsroom movies fit to print. It’s a list comprised of both crusading, truth-seeking journalists and career opportunists willing to bend the truth as long as it makes for a great story. The connective tissue holding these films together is the ever-present newsroom, where typewriters sing and the truth lives or dies when a story goes to the presses....

Academy Awards Delayed Until April 2021, Movies Released Up Until February 2021 Now Eligible For Nominations Well, that didn’t take very long.This morningwe ran a story revealing that the board of governors of theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Scienceswould be meeting today to discuss potentially postponing the date of the 2021 Oscars ceremony. Now, it’s official: the 93rd Oscars ceremony will now be held on July 17, 2025. The awards ceremony was originally scheduled for August 02, 2025, but now films released up to and including that date will be able to qualify for nominations....

Avatar: A Positive Early Review, More Budget Speculation, Creature Design, Two New Featurettes And More With less than two weeks to go beforeJames Cameron’sAvatarhits the big screen worldwide, 20th Century Fox is definitely full throttle into marketing and promotion. After the jump we have a lot of new Avatar news tidbits, including another early review, this time a bit positive, more big claims fromSigourney Weaver, some quotes from creature designerNeville Page(Cloverfield) on the creatures of Pandora, more speculation on the real budget of the film, and two new featurettes (one of which is a really cool scientific nature documentary about Pandora)....

BBC’s ‘War Of The Worlds’ Trailer Brings The Alien Tripods To Edwardian England Steven Spielberg had the aliens from H.G. Wells classic sci-fi invasion storyWar of Worldstear through Boston and the rest of the modern world back in 2005, which feels like a lifetime ago. Now the BBC is giving the story a new adaptation in the form of a miniseries, but as theWar of the Worldstrailer shows, this one throws the invasion back to Edwardian England, bringing the British people of the early 1900s face-to-face with technology the likes of which they’ve never seen before, truly a nightmare from another world....

Cool Stuff: Fan Built Tumbler Working Replica Bob Dullam built a full size working replica of The Tumbler from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. The whole thing was built from scratch without blueprints, using only photo references found online. The total cost is an estimated $50,000-$70,000. He did the project for fun, and does not plan to sell. “You wouldn’t want to sell this if you had one, believe me,” Bob writes...

Cool Stuff: Hot Toys Iron Man 3 Mini Busts Deluxe Set Sideshow Collectiblessent me a sample of Hot Toys’Iron Man 3Mini Busts Deluxe Set. Lets unbox these figures and take a look at whats inside the box. After the jump you will find photos of the Hot Toys Iron Man 3 Mini Busts Deluxe Set, alongside my thoughts on the product. Sideshow/Hot Toys Iron Man 3 Mini Busts Deluxe Set Reviewed The Hot Toys Iron Man 3 Mini Busts Deluxe Set comes with eight Iron Man 3 Sixth Scale Collectible Busts, including: theMark 42, Iron Patriot, War Machine Mark 2, Mark 17 Heartbreaker, Mark 24 Tank, Mark 30 Blue Steel, Mark 33 Silver Centurion, and the Mark 42 Battle Damaged Version....

Dave Filoni On The ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Ending, Who Survives, And The Future Of ‘Star Wars’ Stories TheStar Wars Rebelsfinale raises just as many questions as it answers. I very much enjoyed this final installment of the Disney XD series, but am surprised that the story seems far from concluded. The ending even appears to feature a cliffhanger that teases a new adventure which could be explored in anotherStar Warsanimated series or feature film....

Early Buzz: Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino’sInglourious Basterdshas screened to the international press at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Update: I have updated this story with excerpts from the first official reviews. The Hollywood Reporter’sKirk Honeycutt gives his quick video review, which is ultimately negative (beware of possible spoilers): Total Film’s Sam Ashurst: “Not only did I love every minute, if the French projectionist wanted to cue it up and roll it again from the start, I would have sat through the whole film again, with the biggest grin on my face....

Emilio Delgado, Who Played Luis Rodriguez On Sesame Street, Has Died You saw the headline, and I’m sure that if you, like me, grew up watching “Sesame Street,” your heart is broken right now. Emilio Delgado who played “Sesame Street” resident Luis Rodriguez from 1971 to 2015 has died, according toVariety. Delgado passed away on Thursday, July 16, 2025, after dealing with a blood cancer diagnosis that was given in December of 2020....

Exclusive Interview: Tron Legacy Screenwriters Edward Kitsis And Adam Horowitz On November 19th, I had the opportunity to sit down and interview the screenwriters ofTron Legacy,Adam HorowitzandEdward Kitsis. Because the interview mentions a couple potential spoilers, and delves into future continuations (the Tron animated series, Tron 3) / other future projects, I’ve decided to run the chat the week following release. you’re able to read the whole interview after the jump....

Guillermo Del Toro To Produce 3D Stop-Motion ‘Pinocchio’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Guillermo del Torois a filmmaking force of nature. Seemingly every few weeks, the writer/producer/director announces a new project and the latest will team him up with the Henson Company and Pathe to produce a 3D stop-motion animation version ofPinocchio.Based on a 2002 bookof the classic fairy tale, the film will be aimed at slightly older audiences and be more edgy....

Halo Episode 2 Introduces Soren, But Who Is He? Paramount+ has managed to score a big hit with “Halo,” the big-budget streaming adaptation of the wildly popular video games of the same name. Things are moving right along in the first season with theshow’s second episoderecently hitting the streaming service. It brought a lot to the table, revealing more of Master Chief’s past, in addition to further exploring the universe, as well as setting the stage for more to come in future episodes....

How One Guy’s Flickr Photo Wound Up In The Iron Man Movie Of all the amateur photographers out there, who among us hasn’t dreamed of seeing our photos plastered onscreen during the runtime of a multi-million dollar studio tentpole release/major comic book franchise film? I know this fantasy is what keeps me snapping away at random friends, family, and strangers with my Nikon D50 everyday… Anyway, it turns out one lucky person on Flickr actually had this dream come true....