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The Quarantine Stream: ‘Anatomy Of A Murder’ Is An Excellent Jimmy Stewart Courtroom Mystery (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie:Anatomy of a MurderWhere You Can Stream It: The Criterion ChannelThe Pitch: A folksy former district attorney takes the case of a U.S. Army lieutenant who admits to killing a man. But was the killing justifiable?...

Vince Vaughn Will Fight A ‘Brawl In Cell 99’ For ‘Bone Tomahawk’ Director S. Craig Zahler Author, musician, and filmmakerS. CraigZahlerimpressed most critics with his directorial debut,Bone Tomahawk. Zahler’s cannibal Western, which starsKurt RussellandRichard Jenkins, may not have done stellar business at the box-office, but the movie has its fans, and perhapsVince Vaughnis one of them. The actor has just signed up to star in theBone Tomahawkdirector’s new movie,Brawl in Cell 99, which Zahler also wrote....

VOTD: Turning Up The Heat In Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ It’s been over 30 years since directorSpike Leereleased the provocative, insightful, and unfortunately prescient racially charged dramaDo the Right Thing. The film follows a pizza delivery man named Mookie (played by Lee himself) as he makes the rounds in a Brooklyn neighborhood on one of the hottest days of the year. Tensions rise with the heat, leading to an explosive confrontation between whites, blacks and the law....

Wes Ball Will Follow ‘The Maze Runner’ Films With Norse Mythology Story ‘Fall Of Gods’ 20th Century Fox hiredWes Ballto directThe Maze Runner, and that film did well, with Ball rolling straight into making the sequel to that film,The Scorch Trials. Fox evidently wants to keep Ball around, and has just set him to directFall of the Gods, an adventure story based in Norse mythology that first had life as an illustrated fantasy book backed by asuccessful Kickstarter campaign....

‘Alien: Covenant’ Reveals New Photo As Birthday Boy Ridley Scott Receives The DGA Lifetime Achievement Award In space, no one can hearRidley Scottcelebrate his birthday, appear in a newAlien: Covenantset photo, and presumably receive phone calls from friends and colleagues congratulating him on being chosen to receive the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award. But this is the internet, so we can hear all of the relevant details in one brisk movie news post....

‘Battlefield’ TV Series Coming From Paramount Michael Sugar, who recently won an Academy Award for producingSpotlight, is attempting to bring EA’sBattlefieldto the small screen. The video game franchise, which is very popular for its highly-addictive online multiplayer mode, was created in 2002, starting withBattlefield 1942. Since then,Battlefieldhas gained a following of 60 million players, and with a fanbase that massive, UTA and Paramount smell an opportunity. Below, learn more about theBattlefieldTV series....

‘Captain Marvel’ Done Filming, ‘Birds Of Prey’ Could Shoot In January As Marvel Studios’Captain Marvelfilming wraps up, Warner Bros.’s next female-led project prepares to take flight asMargot Robbie’sBirds of Preyeyes a production start date. Captain Marvel Filming Ends Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel has landed back on Earth. Marvel Studios' highly anticipated solo female superhero movie wrapped principal photography on July 6, the same day thatAnt-Man and the Wasphit theaters. Larson marked the momentous occasion by posting an image of aCaptain Marvelclapperboard and a calendar with the days of shooting all crossed out....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy: Mission: BREAKOUT!’ Is Getting A Halloween Makeover Even though the new Disneyland attractionGuardians of the Galaxy – Mission: BREAKOUT!just opened in May in the California Adventure Park area, the ride is already getting a makeover to go along with the theme park’s Halloween festivities. Beginning onSeptember 15and lasting through All Hallows' Eve onOctober 31,Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: BREAKOUT!will be transformed intoGuardians of the Galaxy – Monsters After Dark....

‘Jack Ryan’ TV Series Lands At Amazon UPDATE:The Jack Ryan TV series is now in development at Amazon, as reported byTHR. Original story from 06-07-2025 follows.Jack Ryan’s last attempt at a big-screen comebackfizzledafter just onetepidlyreceivedfilm. But he’s a CIA hero, damnit, and that means he’s not about to give up so quickly. The classicTom Clancycharacter will now head to TV, with some help fromCarlton CuseandMichael Bay. Get details on the new Jack Ryan TV series after the jump....

‘Mudbound’ Review: Garett Hedlund & Jason Mitchell Sparkle In Dee Rees' Southern Family Epic [Sundance] Any movie should consider itself lucky to have an ensemble as good as the one anchoringMudbound, which includesJason Mitchell,Garrett Hedlund, and, most unexpectedly,Mary J. Blige. Directed byDee Rees(whose debut featurePariahwas a breakout favorite at Sundance 2011), the drama follows two families — one black, one white — living on the same farm in the Mississippi Delta around the time of World War II....

‘Night Of The Animated Dead’: Release Date, Cast And More We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you may watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Before there wasThe Walking Deador any of its gazillion TV spin-offs, there wasNight of the Living Dead. Soon there will be a new animated version of George Romero’s classic, appropriately titledNight of the Animated Dead, and here’s everything we know about it....

‘Prestige’ Author Thinks Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dark Knight’ Films Are “Boring And Pretentious” For as many fans asChristopher Nolanhas, he has plenty of detractors as well. Who knew some were so closely tied into him, though. In a new interviewChristopher Priest, who wrote the novelThe Prestigewhich Nolan adapted, had lots to say about the director and his movies. First of all, he does likeThe Prestigeas a movie but admits the two only met when Nolan finished the film....

‘Sing’ Sequel Set For 2020; ‘The Secret Life Of Pets 2’ Pushed Back You knew this was coming:Sing, Illumination’s “American Idol, but with animals” movie, is getting a sequel. Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment have just set the follow-up for Christmas 2020, putting it in the same slot that did so well for the firstSing. Meanwhile,The Secret Life of Pets 2is getting pushed back a year to 2018, andMinions 2is moving up just a tiny bit....