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‘Unsane,’ Steven Soderbergh’s iPhone Horror Movie, Will Arrive In 2018 Steven Soderberghalready has his next film release lined-up. Always up for experimenting with the medium of film,Logan Luckydirector recently shot the horror movieUnsaneon an iPhone, and now the film is set for a 2018 release date. The film featuresJuno Temple,Claire Foy,Amy Irving,Aimee MullinsandJay Pharoah. After a brief sojourn into the land of retirement, director Steven Soderbergh is back in action. The filmmaker behind theOcean’s 11franchise,Trafficand more, released his ensemble comedyLogan Luckythis year, and he has the experimental TV seriesMosaiccoming up....

‘Veronica Mars’ Season 4 Spoiler Review: Let’s Talk About The Biggest Twists And Revelations It’s kind of fitting that the fourth season ofVeronica Marsgot a surprise week-early release by Hulu. The season was set to arrive, with all eight episodes at once, on Friday, July 26. But during the show’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con, it was revealed by the streaming service thatVeronica Marswould return…that day. Like,immediatelythat day. So diehard fans of the dogged private detective, first introduced as a high school student and now a full-on adult, could catch her latest adventure early....

‘Wrath Of Man’ Takes The Number One Spot At The Weekend Box Office With $25.6 Million Worldwide Wrath of Man, the cinematic reunion between directorGuy Ritchieand actor (and former professional diver)Jason Statham, topped the box office this past weekend with$25.6 millionglobally. That was enough to hold off contenders like the newMortal Kombat,Godzilla vs. Kong,Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, and more who were nipping at the new movie’s heels and gunning for the top spot....

2009 Comic-Con: Sunday Schedule On Friday, San Diego Comic Con International announced updatedWednesday, Thursday and Friday line-upsfor the 2009 convention. On Saturday they unveiled theSaturday schedule. And if you thought the Saturday schedule was television heavy, wait until you see the Sunday line-up. Sunday is the last day of the convention, and is usually at a time when things begin to get depressing, but the line-up for the day is extremely lackluster....

84th Academy Award Nominations: ‘The Artist,’ ‘The Descendants,’ ‘Hugo’ And ‘Moneyball’ Honored In Many Categories This morning the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 84th Academy Awards. Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone,The Hunger Games) read the new Oscar nods, with by Academy President Tom Sherak. The big nominees wereThe Descendants,The Artist, andHugo, all which come as no surprise. ButMoneyballscored four big nominations,Tinker Tailor Soldier Spyalso walked away with a couple big nods, andThe Muppetsis now Oscar-nominated....

Alternate ‘Halloween’ Opening Scene Brought Back Dr. Loomis, Just To Kill Him Donald Pleasence’s tortured Dr. Loomis chased Michael Myers on screen for nearly 20 years in the manyHalloweensequels, but in the newHalloween, things are different. All the sequels following the first movie are rendered null and void here, which asks a big question: what happened to Dr. Loomis after the end of 1978’sHalloween? An early screenplay draft ofDavid Gordon Green’sHalloweenoffered up an answer: he was murdered by Michael Myers....

Apple May Block iPhone Use At Concerts, Could Movie Theaters Be Next? Apple has patented a new technology that blocks the iPhone’s camera feature, which would reportedly allow venues like concert venues to use an infrared beam to disable a mobile phone’s camera, preventing its users from taking videos and photos. According to theTelegraph, Apple’s patent says that the phone would display a “recording disabled” message when users take photographs or videos....

Classic ‘Star Wars’ Is Getting The Manga Treatment With ‘The Legends Of Luke Skywalker’ Star Warshas the power of the Force and anime on its side. The sci-fi franchise has conquered every medium — movies, TV, video games, comic books — so why not add the lucrative globe-spanning medium of manga to that? Manga publishing juggernaut VIZ Media, which has brought popular manga likeNaruto, Bleach,andInuyashato the States, is releasingStar Wars: The Legends of Luke Skywalker: The Mangain collaboration with Lucasfilm....

Cool Stuff: ‘Breaking Bad: The Complete Series’ To Be Released In A Barrel Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced the release ofBreaking Bad: The Complete Seriesin a super duper special edition set which will be housed in a collectible replica money barrel and will feature over 55 hours of special features from all seasons including an exclusive two-hour documentary on the series, a 16 page booklet with letter from Vince Gilligan, a commemorative challenge coin designed by Vince Gilligan and a Los Pollos Hermanos apron....

Damien Chazelle 1920s Hollywood Drama ‘Babylon’ Adds Jean Smart To The Already Stacked Cast Let’s call it the Smart-aissance.Jean Smart, absolute acting queen, has been cast in yet another major project. After winning a Critic’s Choice Award for her turn inWatchmenandher recent Emmy nominationsfor the hilariousHacksand the chillingMare of Easttown, everything is coming up Smart. Now, she’s the latest to join the absolutely stacked cast of Paramount’s 1920’s movie,Babylon. Damien Chazellewrote and is directing the flick, an ode to Hollywood’s golden age that has been described as “The Great Gatsbyon steroids”....

Disney Made A Ridiculous Amount Of Money At The Box Office In 2019 It’s no surprise thatDisneyowned the box office last year, but the extent to which the House of Mouse broke 2019 box office records is staggering. With four studios under their jurisdiction and a monopoly on nostalgia, the Walt Disney Company has had a historic, absurdly lucrative year. In 2019, Disney zoomed past box office milestones, earning 33% of all domestic box office grosses last year and becoming the first studio in history to cross the $10 billion mark globally....

Does Disappointing Summer Box Office Have Studios Considering (Gasp!) Original Material? In answer to the question posed in the headline, all I can manage is “maybe, but I wouldn’t bet anything important that the system will change.” Box office returns are off this summer. Attendance is down 13% from last year, and even with 3D inflation pumping up a few films, overall revenue is off 7.5%. (And those numbers will probably get worse for June, thanks to the World Cup....

First Look: In Luc Besson’s ‘Lucy’ Scarlett Johansson Gets Superpowers Okay, so it’s not quite the solo Black Widow movie we’ve been waiting for. ButScarlett Johanssonis getting her own superhero movie this summer, sort of. The film is directed byLuc Besson, and inLucyScarlett Johansson is a young woman who gains “superhero-level” powers via some drugs. This being a Luc Besson movie, this naturally leads to her using her newfound abilities to kick a lot of ass....