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The Morning Watch: Where Hollywood Gets Vintage Electronics, ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Comparison & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, take a tour of the warehouse where Hollywood gets thevintage electronicsthey need for movies set during different decades....

Theme Park Bits: Shanghai’s ‘Toy Story’ Land Opens, Neil Patrick Harris Pays A Pretty Penny For Props From Disney In this edition of Theme Park Bits: First up this week: Toy Story Land is now open at Shanghai Disneyland. Disney CEO Bob Iger was there for the grand opening and Disney Parks Blog ran acover storyabout it with a neat gallery of photos showcasing the new land and its rides, shops, decorations, and characters....

This Week In Trailers: Sky Sharks, 10,000 Km, Tu Dors Nicole, Fresh Dressed, Craft: The California Craft Beer Documentary Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: The Immortalists, The Joe Show, The Sheik, Misfire, Fight Church, Last Passenger Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we beat the hell out of our neighbor in the name of Jesus, get on a runaway train, try to live forever, take on America’s Toughest Sheriff, watch a studio go under and spend some time with The Sheik....

Turning Red Trailer: Pixar Is Back With One Bear Of A Coming-Of-Age Story With only a few months until the debut of “Turning Red,” Disney has finally released the full trailer for Pixar’s adorable coming-of-age story about a young teenage girl named Mei Lee (Rosalie Chiang) who magically transforms into a giant red panda at the slightest hint of emotional duress. Knowing her daughter is enduring an unique form of puberty, Mei’s overprotective mother Ming (Sandra Oh) is constantly hovering over Mei, much to her annoyed, teenage dismay....

TV Bits: ‘Archer’, ‘Bob’s Burgers’, ‘Community’, ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Sons Of Anarchy’, ‘Boardwalk Empire, ‘Homeland’, ‘The Walking Dead’ ForgetThe Bourne Legacy— the Ludlum-inspired story I’m really eager to see is thisBob’s Burgers/Archercrossover. Also after the jump: It starts off with Archer as Bob, making hamburgers, but he doesn’t know that he’s Archer. He’s at the restaurant and these, like, I think Russian thugs come in, and Bob dispatches them expertly. And then he’s like, What just happened?...

TV Trailer: Jeremy Irons In Neil Jordan’s Showtime Series ‘The Borgias’ Power! Sex! Decadence! That’s the promise of Showtime’s new seriesThe Borgias. The show seems to act as a spiritual successor toThe Tudors, but ups the ante by castingJeremy Ironsas the infamous Cardinal Borgia, who became Pope Alexander IV in 1492. AndNeil Jordanacts as exec producer and directs the first two episodes. See the trailer for what Showtime bills as ‘the original crime family,’ after the break....

Twitter Rumors: Chris Jericho And Val Kilmer In MacGruber? Toy Story 3 And Karate? IsVal Kilmerin the SNL big screen adaptation ofMacGruber? And what doesToy Story 3possibly have to do with karate? We delve into those two questions in today’s speculative news gathered from Twitter report. MTVnoticed that DJ Nu-Mark tweeted that he’ll be joining the cast of the MacGruber movie. And is his Tweet the DJ reveals that he’ll be sharing the screen with Val Kilmer....

VOTD: ‘The Lost World: Jurassic Park’ Honest Trailer Everyone is anticipating the release ofJurassic Worldthis week, and we’re hoping to at least be entertained. There’s no chance the movie will be as good asJurassic Park, but hopefully it’s not terrible. If the buzz from the world premiere wasn’t enough of an impression of the sequel, we’ve got reviews from our ownPeter ScirettaandGermain Lussierto offer insight into the quality of the movie, so check those out....

Watch ‘The Mandalorian’ Q&A Session As The Show Gets Nominated For Best Publicity Campaign The Mandalorianhas beenbuzzed about all weeksince the debut of the first episode on Disney+. While we have to wait until tomorrow to see how the story continues with the second episode, a crowd in Los Angeles was treated to a screening of the first three episodes of the series on the big screen at Disney’s El Capitan theater right in the heart of Hollywood....

What You Missed On ‘Game Of Thrones’: Easter Eggs, Cameos, And Ikea Wear “The Spoils of War,” the fourth episode of Season 7 ofGame of Thrones,may have been one of the HBO fantasy’s best episodes by far. That could be in part due to the seventh season’ssudden narrative urgency, the stunning,climactic battle, or the show’s nuanced hints at anendgame weapon. Or, it could be the numerous easter eggs and cameos that populated “The Spoils of War,” which make each viewing of aGame of Thronesepisode richer than the last....

Why Shawn Levy Left The ‘Minecraft’ Movie Warner Bros.' video game adaptationMinecraftsuffered a big blow this week when directorShawn Levyabruptly left the project, just a couple of months after he originally signed on. Now he’s coming clean about his reasons for dropping out. At the simplest level, it boils down to “creative differences” — what Levy envisioned and whatMinecraftmaker Mojang wanted were two different things. Get the truth behind the Shawn LevyMinecraftmovie exit, and find out what the Shawn LevyMinecraftmovie would have been, after the jump....

Wired Magazine Profiles ‘Batman V Superman’s Lex Luthor: He Just Wants To Make The World A Better Place Based on the reaction to last month’sBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justicetrailer, fans aren’t quite sure what to make ofJesse Eisenberg’s take on Lex Luthor. The character looks bubbly, smarmy, and conniving, and a little different from the Luthor fans know. But I’m all for trying something new with a comic book character, especially one we’ve seen as much as this villain, so I’m looking forward to seeing what directorZack Snyderand the actor have done with Superman’s adversary....