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Save FilmStruck! Barbra Streisand, Guillermo Del Toro And More Urge Warner Media To Reconsider Warner Media Group made a huge mistake when they decided to pull the plug onFilmStruck, and no one is being shy on calling them out for it. Almost immediately after it was announced that the botique streaming service would be closing its virtual doors later this month, a petition popped up imploring someone to save FilmStruck. The petition has already amassed more than 40,000 signatures, and filmmakers across Twitter are asking more to sign....

Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg To Produce ‘Bubble’, Another Animated Film For Adults In the United States, animation still has the reputation of being largely for children. But an entire medium of artistic expression shouldn’t be relegated to one demographic, andSeth RogenandEvan Goldbergare trying to help make that clear to audiences. The duo, who co-wrote and produced 2016’s outrageous animated featureSausage Party, is getting back into animation by producingBubble, an animated film based on the podcast of the same name....

Simon Beaufoy Was Approached For Wolverine 2, Writing DreamWorks Animation’s Truckers - We Have The Story Details! Earlier this week wereportedthatSlumdog MillionairescreenwriterSimon Beaufoyhad mentioned during an appearance at the Bradford International Film Festival that he had been offered and accepted an offer to write a sequel toX-Men Origins: Wolverine. Hours later our friends atFirstShowingheard back from 20th Century Fox who claimed that “the executives haven’t talked with any writers” for the project....

Simon Kinberg Explains Why X-Men And Fantastic Four Won’t Share A Universe Disney’s Marvel movies are all connected. Sony’s Marvel movies will be connected to one another (but not to Disney’s films). Warner Bros.' DC movies are connected. So it waspretty safe to assumethat Fox, which controls theX-MenandFantastic Four, would be connect those franchises. That won’t be the case, says writer/producerSimon Kinberg. In a new interview, the writer of both the upcomingX-Men: Days of Future PastandFantastic Fourexplains why these two teams won’t share a universe....

Spare Details Emerge About Jodie Foster’s ‘Elysium’ Role District 9directorNeill Blomkampcontinues to do things his way, and more power to him for it. That means that the production of his next film,Elysium, has been kept very much under wraps, with only the barest plot details divulged. In fact, in recent weeks, we couldn’t even really give a synopsis of the film; at best we could point to some pretty broad statements about the film that Mr....

Superhero Bits: Kevin Feige Teases Shang-Chi Credits Scene, Charlie Cox Debunks Spider-Man Theories & More (Superhero Bitsis a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks. In this edition of Superhero Bits: Iron Fist Honest Trailer “Iron Fist” was canceled at Netflix along with the “Jessica Jones,” “Luke Cage,” “Daredevil,” “The Punisher,” and “The Defenders....

Superhero Bits: Man Of Steel, Red 2, Iron Man 3, The Wolverine, Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers Want to see your first look atAnthony HopkinsinRed 2? What car is Tony Stark driving inIron Man 3? Has someone made aDark Knight Risesfan film set in Arkham Asylum? Has a new actress entered theCaptain America: The Winter Soldierrace? Which popular character could show up inArrow? Read about all of this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: Sam Raimi On Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Black Knight’s MCU Future & More (Superhero Bitsis a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks.) In this edition of Superhero Bits: A new “Daredevil” comic is on the way....

Superhero Bits: X-Men Days Of Future Past, Man Of Steel, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Thor The Dark World, Comic-Con When doesHenry Cavillthink we’ll know real info aboutJustice League? IsFelicity Jonesactually inThe Amazing Spider-Man 2? Does Bryan Singer considerX-Men: Days of Future Pasta sequel? How wouldStan Leefix the ending ofBatman Begins? Want to see a bunch of girls kissSpider-Manupside down? IsArrowbetter thanSmallville? And how can you get tickets toSan Diego Comic-ConSaturday? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Nudity And Profanity On TV, Sort Of The latest ruling by the United States Supreme Court says it’s okay to curse or show nudity on network TV…if it happened by accident early last decade. Thursday the nation’s highest court ruled unanimously to throw out fines the Federal Communications Commission levied against broadcast companies for two specific incidents of cursing on awards shows and an instance of brief nudity on ABC’sNYPD Bluein 2002 and 2003....

The 14 Greatest Biopics Of The 21st Century The traditional biopicseemslike it should be pretty easy to make. After all, the subject has already done all the hard work. You just need to pick the best bits of their lives and slap them up on the big screen, right? But that’s where things start to get tricky. Do you recreate a list of chronological events that follow the subject from the cradle to grave, and hope that a classically-trained English actor can elevate the film beyond its fairly uninspired structure?...

The Best ’70s Crime Films You’ve Never Seen (Welcome toThe Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, a series that takes a look at slightly more obscure, under-the-radar, or simply under-appreciated movies. This week, we head back nearly half a century for some great crime films of the 1970s!) Some may attempt to argue otherwise, but most reasonable film lovers with taste will agree that the best decade for movies was the 1970s....

The Daily Stream: Y Tu Mamá También Is The Road Trip Of A Lifetime (Welcome toThe Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie:“Y Tu Mamá También” Where You Can Stream It:The Criterion Channel The Pitch:Freed from their girlfriends from the summer, teenage best friends Julio (Gael García Bernal) and Tenoch (Diego Luna) are looking for adventure....