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Read The Alternate ‘Zombieland’ Cameo Scene That Would Have Featured Joe Pesci So far we’ve gotten to read several of the alternate cameos that were pitched forZombielandbefore Bill Murray came aboard the project and gave us one of the best cameos in movie history. There was Patrick Swayzein the very first draftof the movie, which unfortunately never got offered to the actor before he was diagnosed with cancer. Then Sylvester Stallone had to pass due to scheduling, and Mark Hamill’s people just flat out said no (read those pages here)....

Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 Really Isn’t That Bad, Honestly My mom ran a daycare out of our home growing up, which meant we became a retirement home for the childhood toys of just about everyone in the neighborhood. Our closet held a gigantic bin of well-loved Barbies, Happy Meal toys, Hot Wheels,Beanie Babies, and an assortment of random superhero figures half the kids never knew the names of. Sometime in the late ’90s, we wound up with a figure wearing a green striped shirt and donning a gigantic beige hammer for a hand....

Scream Directors Didn’t Kill A Character Because They Loved The Actor So Much This post containsmajor spoilersfor the new “Scream.” Surviving a Ghostface attack is no easy feat — just ask the thoroughly traumatized heroine, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell). The franchise final girl never walks away unscathed, but she still has an undeniable talent for living. So what about everyone else? How can one escape the killer’s wrath without Sidney’simprobable survival skills?...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Get Your First Look At Paul Wesley As James T. Kirk Well, “Star Trek” fans, it’s time to brace ourselves for that excited-nervous feeling of meeting a new Captain Kirk yet again. Paramount has officially announced (via Collider) that “The Vampire Diaries” star Paul Wesley will be on board the U.S.S. Enterprise, taking over the role made famous by William Shatner in the new series"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds....

Steven Soderbergh, King, Won’t Direct A Superhero Movie Because ‘There’s No F***ing’ It’s a day that ends in Y, so you can guarantee a journalist is out there asking a filmmaker about superhero movies again. This time it’s “Magic Mike” and “Oceans” trilogy filmmaker Steven Soderbergh. It turns out, the director isn’t chomping at the bit to hop on board a Marvel or DC production — but not for the reasons one might expect....

Sundance 2014 Competition Films Announced: Which Will Be The Big Standouts? We’re in the middle of a conversation about the best films of 2013, with several of those movies yet to go before wide audiences, and now it’s time to start thinking about what some of the best of 2014 might be. The competition films for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, scheduled for January 16-26 2014, have just been announced. There’s a lot to digest here, and a lot of unknown quantities....

Superhero Bits: Patton Oswalt In A Real-Life ‘MODOK’ Suit, Sony Trolls With A ‘Spider-Man’ Trailer & More What isPatton Oswaltdoing in a full-sizeMODOKcostume? What is the newTech-On Avengerscomic series? Which famous Christmas movie house didWandaVisionuse during production? Would you believe that Marvel had no plans for what happened toLokiwhen he escaped inAvengers: Endgame? Who areZack Snyder’s favorite Marvel characters? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits. Superman & Loisis back in action, and The CW has given a quick look at what’s coming in the near future....

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Amazing Spider-Man, Shazam After 10 days of independent cinema stifled our love of superhero movie news, Superhero Bits is finally back and it’s filled news from today as well as some of the bigger stories from the past week. So, for example, want to see photos of high endDark Knight Risesmerchandise? Is there still a chance aShazammovie might take place?...

The AMPTP Has Until October 18 To Make IATSE An Offer They Deserve — Or Else They Strike Last week, the International Association of Theater and Stage Employees (IATSE) voted to authorize a strike if their leadership couldn’t reach a deal on more humane work hours and living wage increases with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). Well, it looks like they just might be heading to the picket lines, and Hollywood is starting to brace for that eventuality....

The Best New Blu-Ray Releases: West Side Story, The Godfather Trilogy 4K, And More Hey, we’re back! It’s time yet again for one of my always-popular, highly-revered, award-winning Blu-ray round-ups! This week features some heavy hitters. We’re talking Spielberg, Coppola, del Toro, Scorsese, and Welles! you may’t beat a line-up like that, especially if you’re one of the few people out there still clinging to physical media the way Kate Winslet clung to that damn door after the Titanic sank....

The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To The Last Airbender, Making The Picard Season 2 Finale & More (The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, watch the Corridor Crew react to the awful VFX work in “The Last Airbender” and praise the fantastic and subtle CGI of “Logan....

The Real Reason ‘Hudson Hawk’ Is So Bonkers It’s no secret I was TeamHudson Hawkfrom day one in 1991. Although the film has achieved cult status among its fans today, it was a box office bomb in the summer of 1991. Some say it was ahead of its time, mixing musical numbers and wacky comedy with action. ProducerJoel Silveronce told me he thought it should have been more likeWayne’s World....

The Streamer’s Guide To Sundance 2019: What Non-Festgoers Can Watch At Home While 2018’s edition of theSundance Film Festivalmight not have launched any major Oscar heavyweights, it turned out a steady stream of modest summer hits from first time directors (Hereditary,Sorry to Bother You,Eight Grade) as well as three non-fiction films that were blockbusters by documentary standards (Three Identical Strangers,RBG, Won’tYou Be My Neighbor?). Plus, countless Sundance selections remained critical favorites that stuck around in the conversation through the end of last year (Wildlife,Minding the Gap,Hale County This Morning, This Evening)....