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‘Wonder Woman 1984’: Patty Jenkins And Cast Surprised By Lynda Carter On Panel Of Mutual Admiration [DC FanDome] Warner Bros.' much-hyped DC FanDome launched with a bang today asWonder Woman 1984directorPatty Jenkinsand starsGal Gadot,Chris Pine,Kristen Wiig, andPedro Pascalappeared to tout their upcoming superhero blockbuster. Here are some of the best moments from their panel discussion. “I really think the movie is so great on the big screen,” Jenkins explained at the start of the panel, partially justifying why the movie hasn’t been dropped on a streaming service yet....

‘Young Rock’: The Rock Shares A Pitch Video For His New NBC Sitcom Dwayne Johnsonhasn’t appeared in a movie since last year’sJumanji: The Next Level. That’s through no fault of his own, of course – the pandemic has pushed back a couple of his projects which, ideally, would have been released by now. But that means that we’ve gone many months without seeing a new Rock vehicle, and diehard fans are probably wondering when they’ll be able to see his next project....

2014 Oscar Winners: ‘12 Years A Slave,’ ‘Gravity’ And ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ Here are your 2014 Oscar Winners from the86th Annual Academy Awards. Ellen DeGenereshosted the big event, which featured one of the tightest Best Picture races in years. In the end12 Years A Slavetook home the big prize, but the rest of the awards were spread betweenGravity(which won 7 Oscars total) andDallas Buyers Club, which took home the two male acting awards....

2020 Directors Guild Awards Nominees: Tarantino, Scorsese, Bong Joon-Ho, And More (But No Greta Gerwig) As awards season presses on, all eyes are turning to the Directors Guild of America, which has officially announced its list of nominees for its annual awards ceremony. Stalwarts likeMartin Scorsese(The Irishman) andQuentin Tarantino(Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) are contending for the top prize alongsideBong Joon-ho(Parasite) and more, but despite earning a nod a couple of years ago for directingLady Bird, Greta Gerwig was not recognized this time for her work onLittle Women....

47% Of Fans Think This Actor Was The Best Spider-Man…And We Have Some Thoughts (Welcome toSurvey Says, a feature where we conduct a movie-related survey for a random group of people and explain why they’re completely right, completely wrong, or somewhere in-between.)Spider-Manhas had the special privilege of being rebooted on the big screen not once, but twice in the recent past. Along with each reboot, we’ve seen a new Peter Parker, giving us three movie versions of Spidey to choose from —Tobey Maguire,Andrew Garfield, andTom Holland....

A24 Books Will Highlight ‘Moonlight’, ‘The Witch’, And ‘Ex Machina’ A24 has quickly risen to be a recognizable name in the film world. From humble beginnings, they’ve sprung up to release Oscar-winning films likeMoonlight. They’re not just a distributor – they’re a brand, and a popular one at that. A24 has already branched out into products: clothing, candles, and so on. Now they’re adding books to the list, too. A new line of A24 books will launch next week, devoted toMoonlight,The Witch, andEx Machina, respectively....

Apple Teams With A24 On ‘Sharper’, A Con Artist Movie Starring Julianne Moore Apple and A24 are uniting forSharper, a new film starringJulianne Moore.Sharperfollows a con artist, which comes from writers Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka. There’s really not a whole lot to go on here – no director, no synopsis, no clue as to what type of film this is going to be. But this is just the latest title in the Apple/A24 partnership – a partnership that also includes Sofia Coppola’sOn The RocksandThe Sky is Everywhere....

Beautiful New Alice In Wonderland Concept Art And Character Stills Disney have declared that we are in a season ofWonderland Wednesdays, an era of mid-week updates on the upcomingTim BurtonAlice in Wonderlandmovie. Each week the studio releasing a new video, some new text copy and a nice, tidy little pile of art work. Wrangling it all into a single post would be quite tricky – not to mention fairly time consuming – but I certainly want to share what I consider to be the best bits....

Ben Stiller Will Confront Past Failures In Mike White’s ‘Brad Status’ It’s been almost a decade since we’ve seenMike Whitedirect a feature film. Of course, the screenwriter behindThe Good GirlandSchool of Rockhas been busy sinceYear of the Dog. Most notably, he created and wrote HBO’sEnlightened, a beautiful, often heartbreaking show that didn’t last long enough. He directed six episodes of the series, but now he has another feature in the works....

CBS' ‘Under The Dome’ Cancelled; NBC’s ‘Coach’ Benched The good news for the residents of Chester’s Mill is that their days under the Dome are almost over. The bad news is, it’s becauseUnder the Domehas been cancelled. CBS has announced the current third season of theStephen King-based series will be its last. Elsewhere, NBC has also decided to ditch one of its projects. The network won’t move ahead withCoach, the planned sequel to the classic sports sitcom....

Cool Stuff: Spoke Art’s Martin Scorsese Art Tribute In New York PutMartin Scorseseup against any filmmaker and the native New Yorker has a fighting shot. Hawkes? Ford? Kubrick? Hitchcock? Spielberg? All legends, but Scorsese is undeniably in the same league. And this weekend marks one of the first full gallery shows specifically dedicated to his films. Spoke Arthas taken over New York’s Bold Hype Gallery forScorsese: An Art Show Tribute,featuring work based on films such asGoodfellas, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Departed, Gangs of New York, Casinoand many more....

David Fincher’s Voir Trailer: Take A Tour Of Film History With A Bunch Of Experts Netflix has become one of the leading platforms in delivering movies and shows to mass audiences, giving a platform to storytellers from underserved backgrounds and providing accessibility on a mass scale. That said, the streaming giant hasn’t been able to escape (very justified) criticisms of how exactly they’ve chosen to do business. Consider how they market their latest productions, burying new titles from up-and-coming talent in favor of whatever popular piece of content — a word I don’t use lightly — is currently raking in the views....

DreamWorks Wants To Make The ‘Halo’ Movie Halo: Reach, the latest game in the hugely successful Microsoft video game franchise, might have done what some of the biggest studios in Hollywood could not: once again breath life into aHalomovie. The game,which made $200 millionin its first day, has rejuvenated interest in a franchise whose insider back story is more interesting and vicious than anything Master Chief has ever encountered. Though it had beenrumored in the past, reportedlyDreamWorksis now “renewing its efforts to obtain the rights and revive the project....