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Writers Guild Of America Nominations Announced Along with theProducers Guildand theScreen Actors Guild,theWriters Guild of Americais one of the strongest voting bodies in Hollywood. So, when they announce their nominations for the best of the year, it’s usually a pretty good precursor to the Oscars. Check out their 2010 nominees after the jump. Here’s the official press release: The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen during 2010....

Yes, People Are Buying That $25,000 Droid At Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge When /Film’s Peter Sciretta returned from his first visit toStar Wars: Galaxy’s Edgeand told us that the most expensive thing guests can purchase in the parkcosts $25,000, I was floored. How many diehardStar Warsfans would really drop that much money on a custom droid from a theme park? But in only the first week of Galaxy’s Edge being open to the public, multiple people had already purchased their own full-size droid....

‘American Honey’ Star Sasha Lane On Road Tripping And Finding Hope In Flyover Country [Fantastic Fest Interview] Andrea Arnold’sAmerican Honeyis a remarkable movieand one of the best films of 2016. At the center of this intimate and quietly epic drama is newcomerSasha Laneas Star, a young woman who escapes her abusive home by joining a “mag crew” of equally disaffected youth. We follow this crew as they travel from state-to-state, peddling magazines, having misadventures, and finding hope and pain in every nook and cranny of the the American heartland....

‘Bill & Ted Face The Music’ Is Like A Sci-Fi Twist On ‘A Christmas Carol,’ With Bill And Ted Visiting Alternate Versions Of Themselves [Comic-Con 2020] It took more than a few supernatural forces to bring Bill and Ted back to our screens. Nearly 30 years afterBill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, the thirdBill and Tedfilm will reuniteKeanu ReevesandAlex Winteras everyone’s favorite bodacious dudes. InBill & Ted Face the Music, Winter’s Bill and Reeves' Ted are middle-aged dads who must save reality with the help of their lookalike daughters (Samara WeavingandBrigette Lundy-Paine, respectively)....

‘Boiled Angels: The Trial Of Mike Diana’ Interview: How One Man’s Comic Got Him Convicted For Obscenity [Fantasia Film Festival] You know what they say: one man’s obscenity is another man’s art. In the case of cartoonistMike Diana, it’s both. If you’ve never heard of him, than a new documentary is hoping to change that.In directorFrank Henenlotter’sBoiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana, Diana’s historic 1994 trial is given as much attention as the history of comic book censorship....

‘Call Me By Your Name’ Review: A Story Of First Love Worth Falling Head Over Heels For [Sundance] First love has rarely been depicted as beautifully or as movingly as it is inLuca Guadagnino’sCall Me By Your Name, an adaptation of theAndré Aciman.Timothée Chalamet, probably best known as bratty Finn Walden from season one ofHomeland), has a star-making turn as a teenager exploring his sexual identity. Meanwhile,Armie Hammer, a very good actor who’s been stuck in some not-very-successful movies, is downright mesmerizing as the young man who changes his life forever....

‘Chaos Walking’ Review: Tom Holland And Daisy Ridley Lead Doug Liman’s Shockingly Grim Leftover Of The YA Dystopian Craze Maybe there’s a reason that the YA dystopian genre had been long left behind by Hollywood. Films likeThe Hunger Games, Divergent,andMaze Runnerhad their heyday in the early 2010s, but the premise of beautiful teens and twenty-somethings having to reckon with their share of authoritarian governments/world-ending threats/love triangles had run its course. But there will always be a few stragglers to a Hollywood trend, and the long-delayedChaos Walkingis one of them....

‘Dragon Tattoo’ Sequel/Reboot Eyeing Natalie Portman & Scarlett Johansson For The New Lisbeth Salander Yesterday, Sony stopped beating around the bush andmade it all official: the sequel toThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoowill arrive onOctober 5, 2018, withEvil DeadandDon’t BreathedirectorFede Alvarezstepping in for David Fincher. However, Alvarez wouldn’t be the only newcomer to the series. As expected, original stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig will not be returning, which means that the hunt is on for a new Lisbeth Salander and a new Mikael Blomkvist....

‘Fear Street Part 2: 1978’ Clip Shows What Bullying Camp Kids Do To Witches Fear Streetheads back to the ’70s withFear Street Part 2: 1978, the second entry in Netflix’s pretty damn greatFear Streettrilogy. The sequel drops onto the streaming service this week, continuing the tale of the cursed town of Shadyside, and its unlucky residents trying to stay alive while battling against supernatural forces and masked killers. Before you take a trip to the summer of ‘78 this weekend, check out a newFear Street Part 2clip below featuringStranger ThingsstarSadie Sinkdealing with some unhappy campers....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ IMAX 3D Shows Will Feature Shifting Aspect Ratios We occasionally see IMAX film presentations in which the film’s aspect ratio changes from scene to scene. Typically this is due to a shift between footage shot on digital or 35mm film and native IMAX footage. So we’ve seen the ratio shift in films likeMission: Impossible – Ghost ProtocolandThe Dark Knight Rises. Outside the IMAX space, we’ve also seen the aspect ratio shift used for purely artistic purposes, as in recent filmsThe Grand Budapest HotelandX-Men: Days of Future Past....

‘Monte Carlo’ Trailer It goes without saying thatTransformers: Dark of the Moonwill win the box office over the fourth of July weekend. But, being as the audience for that film is primarily young men, Hollywood is wisely counter-programming. For adults, they’ve got Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts inLarry Crowneand for young girls, there’sMonte Carlo. Monte Carlostars Disney teen-sensationSelena Gomez,Leighton MeesterandKatie Cassidy(the last two both fromGossip Girl) as three American friends who go to Paris only to have Gomez mistaken for a wealthy British party girl....

‘Sense8’ Finale Trailer: One Last Mission Netflix has made good on their word to give the cancelledSense8a proper send-off with aseries finale film. You can now watch theSense8finale trailer below. Sense8 Finale Trailer There was a time when Netflix almost never cancelled their original programming. So when the streaming service pulled the plug onSense8, created byThe WachowskisandJ. Michael Straczynski, it was a bit of a shock. The series may not have been the giant hit Netflix had hopped for, but it had a devoted following that wholly embraced the show’s message....

‘Splash’ At 35: This Tom Hanks Sex Comedy Was A Huge Turning Point For Disney (Welcome toThe Disney Discourse, a recurring feature where Josh Spiegel discusses the latest in Disney news. He goes deep on everything from the animated classics to the theme parks to live-action franchises.)1984 was a transitional period for Hollywood. You don’t have to be deep in the weeds of film history to know this is the year when the MPAA introduced the PG-13 rating, a response to frustrated parents who felt that the PG-rated filmsGremlinsandIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doomwere far too inappropriate for their children....