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Kevin Smith Among Directors Contributing To Horror Anthology Called ‘Holidays’ The holidays and horror go together like peanut butter and jelly. They seem totally opposite, but end up fitting just right. A day like Halloween makes clear sense but several holidays have been given the horror treatment over the years. Now, all of them will come together in one massive movie. XYZ Films and Distant Corners Entertainment are teaming up to makeHolidays, a horror anthology film that’ll feature segments based on holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, Halloween and Mother’s Day....

Kevin Smith Suggests ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ Batsuit Is Blue And Grey Zack Snyder’s reveal ofBen Affleck’s new Batsuit was international news. Fans everywhere analyzed the photo like it was evidence in a murder trial, dissecting the costume’s texture, the size of specific elements, Affleck’s muscular structure, and more. Snyder specifically released the photo in black and white, leaving the color of the suit up for debate. Photoshoppers everywhere took the hint andcolored-in the imagegiving fans a bunch of options of what the suit might really look like....

Kirsten Dunst Needs To Learn That EVERYONE Is Replaceable It’s a lesson that everyone learns when they enter the job world. They usually learn the lesson at their first retail job, like I did. Everyone is replaceable. Someone else is very capable of doing your job. People refuse to believe this is still true when you get up to the top. But look at what’s going on at Viacom recently. There is always someone waiting in the wing to be promoted....

Michael Showalter Says A ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ Sequel Is “Absolutely” Happening The great, wacky 2001 comedyWet Hot American Summerdidn’t do any respectable box office business, but the deep goofiness of the film has generated a fervent cult following in the decade since its original release. It doesn’t hurt that the film featured a treasure trove of comic talent, some in the early stages of their careers:Janeane Garofalo,David Hyde Pierce,Michael Showalter,Michael Ian Black,Zak Orth,A....

Movie Theater Blames Christopher Nolan For ‘Interstellar’ Sound Issues Over a week after our story about thesound problems in some theatersforChristopher Nolan’sInterstellar, neither Nolan’s camp or anyone from a major theater chain has offered any kind of explanation. It remains a mystery everywhere…except for one theater in upstate New York. They say it’s Christopher Nolan’s fault. A patron of the Cinemark Tinseltown USA and IMAX in Rochester, NY tweeted an image of a sign posted outside theater....

New ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’ Planet Batuu Revealed On Disneyland’s Star Tours Could a new addition to theStar Toursexperience herald a future far, far away from the current Hollywood Studios and Disneyland parks location? Say, in the upcomingStar Warstheme park land,Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge? Possibly, probably, and most likely. Two new planets, Crait and Batuu, have been added to theStar Toursattraction at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. The first planet Crait, which is introduced as a mineral world inStar Wars: The Last Jedi,follows the trend of updates to the ride to promote theStar Warsfilms, but Batuu stands out — not just because it is a brand-new planet, but because it is the main location of the upcomingStar Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, set to open in 2019....

Russell Crowe And ‘Scream’ Writer Kevin Williamson Team Up For Supernatural Thriller Russell Crowehas had his brush with horror with the critical and commercial catastrophe that wasThe Mummy(RIP Dark Universe), and is now teaming up withScreamwriter and producerKevin Williamsonto star in a very meta supernatural thriller. Crowe will star in a new movie as a troubled actor who begins to experience real-life horrors while shooting a horror film — a fun meta twist on the genre that appropriately comes from the screenwriter that created one of the most meta horror franchises ever....

Sequel Bits: ‘Halloween’, ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’, ‘Anchorman 3’, ‘Rambo 5’, Cybertron & More In this edition of Sequel Bits: Even though the recent revival ofHalloweendidn’t exactly leave things open-ended, the success of the movie and chatter behind the scenes has indicated that a sequel might be in the works. But if that’s true,Jamie Lee Curtishas no idea what’s going on in that department. She toldEntertainment Weekly: “I have no idea at this point, today, I have no idea....

Sherlock Holmes Reshoots And Madonna New Moon Music Editors Update:Warner Bros has contacted us and assures us that the reshoots claim is completely “untrue”. The original story can still be read below. A wisp of gossip began circulating yesterday that acclaimed actress and popular movie star Madonna Ciccone was going to appear in theTwilightSequel,New Moon. I imagine what purchase this tall story might have taken upon the internet is seeded in the circumstance of Madonna’s manager Guy Oseary having a role as a producer on the film....

Spider-Man: No Way Home Images Show Spidey On The Run From Doc Ock Today brings us a brand new look at the much-anticipated “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which is set to hit theaters later this year. It will pit Tom Holland’s Peter Parker against a multiversal lineup of Spidey villains from the past, including Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock, who makes his return to the franchise for the first time since 2004’s “Spider-Man 2....

Starz Breaks Off Negotiations With Netflix; Company’s Content Will Be Removed From Streaming Feb 2012 Today the new pricing structure for Netflix went into full effect, but that’s not the biggest blow landed to the company’s PR campaign this afternoon. Starz, the company through which Netflix gets a rather large percentage of its streaming cataloge, has backed out of negotiations to extent its current content deal, and will remove its content from the Netflix Watch Instantly service when the existing contract expires in February 2012....

Steven Spielberg May Have Saved Babu Frik’s Life In ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ In 1977,Steven SpielbergandGeorge Lucasfamously made a bet that the other person’s movie would end up performing better theatrically. SinceStar WarscrushedClose Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg ended up walking away with 2.5% of Lucas’s stake in his space adventure. Now, years after Lucas sold his company to Disney, it seems that Spielberg still has an interest in a galaxy far, far away – and might have even made a suggestion to improveStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerwhich could have ripple effects for years to come....

Superhero Bits: Batman And The Man From UNCLE, Deadpool Comic-Con Promo And More What’s the new rumor about the villain inAquaman? Will there be any R-ratedDC Universemovies? What does the inside ofMarvel’s Phase 2 Blu-Raybox set look like? Is there aGothameaster egg in Supergirl? What’sBatmandoing withThe Man from UNCLE? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits. Header image: Matt Taylor’s Loki piece for Mondo’s Marvel show. See more on the second page....