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First Look At Henry Selick’s ‘The Shadow King;’ Voice Cast Includes Brendan Gleeson And Jeffrey Tambor Henry Selick’s stop-motion animationShademakerhit a massive roadblock last year when Disney backed out of the project, but happily it turned out not to be dead so much as stalled. K5 International got things going againthis weekwhen it decided to back the project (now titledThe Shadow King) and bring it to the European Film Market....

Harrison Ford Will Answer The ‘Call Of The Wild’ HarrisonFordhas some free time on his hands now thatIndiana Jones 5has been bumped back to 2021. As a result, the grumpy actor prone to occasionally crashing his private plane has decided to take a role in another film:Call of the Wild. The Jack London adaptation will find Ford playing a grizzled prospector. Rather than sit back and wait for the delayedIndy 5, Harrison Ford is going to get to work answering theCall of the Wild....

Jack Kirby’s Estate Sues To Regain Copyright Control Of Characters Like Iron Man, Thor And The X-Men Hot on the heels of the lawsuit filed by Jerry Seigel’s estate to reclaim ownership of Superman, theJack Kirbyestate is suing many companies — Marvel, Disney, Sony, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and others — to reclaim copyright ownership of characters created and co-created by Kirby. That’s a big roster:the Fantastic Four,Captain America,the X-Men,Iron Man,Thorand many others....

Kenneth Branagh Wants To Adapt Miss Marple And Start The Agatha Christie Cinematic Universe Perhaps I’m jaded on the idea of cinematic universes. I’m not sure why. I do love the MCU and the DCEU to varying degrees. The whole Universal monster thing would probably have delighted me if the films worked better. I’ve certainly loved every comic book crossover I’ve ever read. I’m wondering what soured me on this concept enough that, when I heard Kenneth Branagh (whose work I generally love) talking about a Christie-verse, I cringed hard....

Kevin Feige Cast Chris Evans As Captain America Thanks To Two Pop Culture Icons While at this point it’s impossible to imagine anyone else playing Steve Rogers, there was a time whenChris Evans' MCU casting was actually quite controversial. He had portrayed Johnny Storm, aka the Human Torch, in two less than stellar"Fantastic Four"movies for Fox, and many thought that would be the extent of the actor’s Marvel legacy. In fact, Evans was not even originally in contention for the role because he was so strongly associated with the other character....

Kevin Feige: Phase Four Will Be A “Distinctively Different” Chapter In The Marvel Cinematic Universe In just under three weeks, fans will beginPhase Threeof Marvel’s cinematic universe withCaptain America: Civil War. However, even though this new chapter is just beginning, that’s not keepingKevin Feigefrom addressing what’s to come inPhase Four. With 11 films listed as part of Phase Three, we have a lot of movies to get through before Phase Four is even on the horizon, but it sounds like the next line-up of movies that follows will offer up something completely different for Marvel fans....

Kurt Russell’s Soldier Is Considered A Sequel To Blade Runner – But Is It Really? Shared universes are all the rage now, ever since the domination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe came to pass. But the MCU was hardly the first cinematic venture to willfully connect its disparate characters and franchises — Universal Pictures put their Monsters together as early as 1943’s “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man,” and the movies of filmmakers like John Hughes, Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino all have varying degrees of connective tissue....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies With Strange Connections To ‘Close Encounters Of The Third Kind’ (Welcome toMovie Mixtape, where we find cinematic relatives and seek out interesting connections between new releases and older movies that allow us to rethink and enjoy what’s in our theaters as well as the favorites on our shelf. In this edition: the re-release ofClose Encounters of the Third Kind.) Steven Spielberg’sClose Encounters of the Third Kindcelebrates its 40th anniversary this year, so it’s beingre-released into select theaters this weekend....

New ‘Candyman’ Teaser Puts The Social Commentary Behind This Horror Icon At The Forefront Candymanis coming back. Universal has released a teaser spotlightingNia DaCosta’s new take on the classic horror tale, which is due out in September. The newCandymanteaser re-introduces the Candyman origin story by embedding it in the stories of Black persecution and pain. Watch theCandymanteaser below. Candyman Teaser “Candyman ain’t a he. Candyman is the whole damn hive. A story like that, pain like that last forever,” a man tells Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s artist who is investigating the urban legend....

New ‘Looper’ Poster Features A Chest-Bursting Bruce Willis Marketing a film can be tough but when you’ve got an intriguing, original idea likeRian Johnson’sLooper, it almost sells itself. The film opens September 28, but will play both Toronto andFantastic Festbefore that. It starsJoseph Gordon-Levittas a man who kills people sent back to him from the future. When his future self, played byBruce Willis, is sent back to be murdered, things get a little bit crazy....

New Images From ‘Monsters University’ Plus Comments From Pete Docter College can be a dizzyingmix of highs and lows. There’s that incredible feeling when you first arrive and think the world is your oyster. There’s also the terrible realization that not everyone is nice and you have to choose your friends wisely. Those are the two moments captured in brand new images from Disney/Pixar’sMonsters University, scheduled for release June 21. It’s a prequel toMonsters Inc....

Nobody F––ks With The First Look At John Turturro In That ‘The Big Lebowski’ Spin-Off I probably have to eat a pile of shoes or hats or something because I’m pretty sure I’ve said in public, on more than occasion, thatJohn Turturro’s much-discussedThe Big Lebwoskispin-offwas obviously a pipe dream that was never going to happen. Well, I was apparently wrong. Which article of clothing shall I devour first? The news that Turturro was reprising the role of Jesus Quintana in a new filmbroke just a few days agoand now the first picture from the set has arrived....

Now Stream This: ‘The King Of Comedy’, ‘Creepshow’, ‘Burn After Reading’, ‘The Last Exorcism’, ‘Empire Of Dreams’, And More (Welcome toNow Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.) Here we go again. I get it: you don’t want to leave the house. You just want to veg out on the couch, and watch TV. But what the hell are you going to watch?...