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Amazon Creates ‘Never Before On DVD’ Store We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A few different studios have experimented with ways to make ‘deep cut’ catalog films available to consumers on a limited basis. The model for such a plan has to be Warner Archive, which creates made-to-order DVDs from an ever-expanding catalog of newly mastered transfers. Amazon has sold Warner Archive discs in the past, and has also been part of MGM’s initiative to offer similar products....

Arnold Schwarzenegger, A Pony, And A Donkey Warn Us About The Coronavirus Arnold Schwarzeneggeris doing his part to spread the word about staying home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. And, ever the entertainer, he’s doing so in a totally unique way: in a dining room, joined by a pony and a donkey. Check it out below. Arnold Schwarzenegger Coronavirus Warning Video Stay at home as much as possible. Listen to the experts, ignore the morons (foreheads)....

Blue Sky Studios Hires First Female Director For Its First Animated Musical It’s no secret that there’s a dearth of women in the animation industry. In Disney’s nearly 100-year history, only one film has been directed by a woman. With the 19 films that Pixar has released since 1995, onlyBravehad a female director — who was fired midway through production. Blue Sky Studios' newest film will do its part to level the playing field....

Chris Evans In Talks To Return To The MCU As Captain America Chris Evansmay be waiting a little longer to hang up his shield. The actor is reportedly in talks to make a return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Captain America, bringing the character back from his supposed retirement inAvengers: Endgame. Deadline broke the news that Chris Evans is closing in on a deal to reprise his role as Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America, in “at least one Marvel property with the door open for a second film....

Comic Con: Teasing Pixar’s Up [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/upteasertrailer.flv 470 236] Disney has released a sneak preview of the teaser trailer for Pixar’sUp. The full teaser will also be included on the upcoming DVD release of WALL-E. Other promotional footage shown at Comic Con touted the film as from the “creators on Monsters Inc, Co-creator of Toy Story, and Co-creator of Wall-E”. Pixar takes us “to a lost world where anything can happen and will happen....

Director Carl Erik Rinsch Describes ‘47 Ronin’ As “Kurosawa On Meth” [On-Set Interview] In June 2011, I traveled to London to visit the set of directorCarl Erik Rinsch’s big screen adaptation of47 Ronin.(You can watch my video blog about the experience here.) While on set, Rinsch gave us a passionate plea to explain why the47 Roninstory was an important one to bring to the big screen, and why and how he was trying to make it look and feel like nothing you had ever seen before....

Eddie Murphy To Play Richard Pryor In Bill Condon’s Biopic Bill Condonhad his biopicRichard Pryor: Is It Something I Said?in development at The Weinstein Company, but they put it into turnaround so now Condon has attachedEddie Murphyas star and gone out to court the studios for a new deal. Condon previously threatened to relaunch Murphy’s acting career (as in actualacting) with his Oscar nominated part inDreamgirls– this was ultimately an idle threat, as it happens, but perhaps they’ll follow through this time....

First Look: Clash Of The Titans Set Photos [No photo] The first set photos fromLouis Leterrier’s remake ofClash of the Titanshave appeared on the Spanish websiteLoque Pasa En Tenerife. These ruins were photographed in Tenerife, Spain. Production began in studios outside of London earlier this week, but will later move on to various locations in Wales and in the Spanish Canary Islands, predominantly on Tenerife, off the coast of Africa. Further aerial work is set to take place in the diverse locales of Ethiopia and Iceland....

Fox CinemaCon 2017 Presentation: ‘War For The Planet Of The Apes,’ ‘Kingsman 2,’ ‘Alien: Covenant’ And More Our ownPeter Scirettahas spent the past week in Las Vegas forCinemaCon 2017, where he has been reporting on trailers, clips, and even full screenings shared by Hollywood’s biggest studios. Today, he attended 20th Century Fox’s presentation, where he saw footage fromWar For the Planet of the Apes,Alien: Covenant,Kingsman: The Golden Circle,Murder on the Orient Express,Red Sparrow,The Greatest Showman, and more....

Gerard Butler’s ‘Geostorm’ In Trouble, ‘Judge Dredd’ Director Brought In For Extensive Reshoots You might have read that headline and thought, “What the hell isGeostorm?” Well, you’re not alone. This was a movie that was slated to arrive back in October, but ended up getting pushed back to January 2017 over the summer, only to be pushed back yet again toOctober 20, 2017. All this comes after the movie shot down in Louisiana in October of 2014....

Here’s When You Can Watch House Of Gucci At Home I’m (trying to be) what you might call a “professional,” which is why I’ll resist the temptation to fill this entire story with nothing but quintessentially Italian “pinched finger” emojis. Filmmaker Ridley Scott’s other 2021 film, “The Last Duel,” received most of the attention (and, in certain corners,controversy) last year but “House of Gucci,” starring Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jeremy Irons, Robert De Niro, and Jared Leto as members of the fabulously wealthy Gucci dynasty, deserved its fair share of the spotlight as well....

James Wan And Jason Blum Reunite For Killer Doll Movie ‘M3GAN’ James Wanis no stranger to movies about creepy dolls. He’s been involved with plenty of movies about them, from the tricycle-riding one inSaw(“do you want to play a game?") toDead Silenceto the one fromAnnabelleandAnnabelle: Creation. But Wan can’t get enough, because he’s reuniting withJason Blumfor yet another movie about an eerie killer doll. The duo will produceM3GAN, a “horror thriller” that has an up-and-coming director attached to it....

Joss Whedon Says ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Will Rewrite Ultron’s Origin [Video] YesterdayJoss Whedonintroduced a short video at San Diego Comic Con that announced the full title for theAvengerssequel.Avengers: Age of Ultronwill be released in 2015, and the name tells us that the malicious adamantium robot Ultron — a longtime Marvel Universe nemesis with many different incarnations — will play a major role. A comic book storyline published earlier this year bears the same name, naturally leading many fans to expect that the movie will be an adaptation of that storyline....