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The Truth Is Out There, Or Maybe Just In This 21-Minute ‘The X-Files’ Featurette 2015 was one hell of a year for revivals.Mad Max: Fury Roadresurrected a long-dormant franchise with brain-melting style and grace.Creedworked against the odds to open a new and enthralling chapter in theRockysaga.Star Wars: The Force Awakensgave fans a reason to believe in that long ago, far away galaxy once more. This year has set the bar awfully high for “new versions of things we already love....

The Wackness In July 2008?! At Sundance, a bunch of the movie journalists covering the festival and myself wereextremely shocked and disappointed to learnthat one of our favorite films of the festival, Jonathan Levine’sThe Wackness, had been sold to Sony Pictures Classics. We really love this film and want to see it succeed, but Sony Pictures Classics is known as the place where “Good Movies Go to Die”. The only time Sony Pictures Classics is able to make money off a film is when the award buzz handles the publicity for them....

TV Bits: ‘Terra Nova’ Set Video, Comedy Central Orders Series By ‘Tosh.0’ Creator, ‘Will & Grace’ Star Develping Gay Family Sitcom, Fox Commits To New Pilot From ‘Locke & Key’ Scribe By now, everyone knows thatTerra Nova’s premiere has been pushed back multiple times thanks in a large part to its effects. You’ll have to wait til the pilot airsSeptember 26on Fox to decide if the delays were ultimately worth it, but you can get a peek at the show’s overall look right now....

Watch The First 15 Minutes Of ‘Dietland,’ Marti Noxon’s Feminist Revenge Fantasy Series Dietland, which follows an insecure and overweight ghostwriter for a New York fashion magazine who joins a vigilante feminist cabal, is sure to court more than a little controversy. But that’s what showrunnerMarti Noxonis good at. The co-creator of the sharply feministUnRealand the writer behind the polarizing sixth season ofBuffy the Vampire Slayer, Noxon has apparently done it again with the upcoming revenge fantasy perfectly timed to the #MeToo movement....

We Have Two Exclusives From The ‘Late Night’ Soundtrack For Your Listening Pleasure Late Night, the buzzed-about comedy starringEmma ThompsonandMindy Kaling, opens in select theaters this Friday, and we’re celebrating with two exclusive premieres. Below, you can hear cuts from theLate Nightsoundtrack composed by the supremely talentedLesley Barber. Hear them below, and learn more about the upcomingLate Nightsoundtrack. Late Night Soundtrack – Leaving For the Comedy Club Lakeshore Records will releaseLateNight—Original Motion Picture Soundtrackdigitally on June 7....

What David Fincher Had Planned For ‘Spider-Man’s’ Origin Fans of films that might-have-been, but never-will-be, are likely aware ofDavid Fincher’s history withSpider-Man. (And if you readSuperhero Bits Monday, you already know about this update. We’ve simply decided to highlight in detail.) In 1999, Fincher was on a short list to possibly make the film that ended up being Sam Raimi’sSpider-Man(you can read about that here). A decade later he was once again on Sony’s wishlist before Marc Webb appropriately took the job to direct 2012’sThe Amazing Spider-Man....

What’s The Story With The Fake Baby In ‘American Sniper’? The first comments I heard from people aboutClint Eastwood’sAmerican Sniper, after the film’s premiere at AFI Fest in Los Angeles last fall, were about the baby. If you’ve seen the film, you’ve noticed the baby. If you haven’t seen the film you’ve probably still heard people talking about it. During a scene in which Chris Kyle is at home,Bradley Cooperhas to hold a very obviously plastic baby for over a minute....

X Director Ti West Wants You To Like The Victims In His New Slasher Movie [SXSW] Ti West’s “X” is a nasty little horror flick. And boy,it sure is a good time at the movies. The director of “The House of the Devil,” “The Innkeepers,” and “The Sacrament” is back with another slow-burning tale of terror, where the tension builds and builds and builds until everything explodes with a geyser of gore and a trail of bodies....

Zack Snyder Suggests Metropolis Casualties In ‘Man Of Steel’ Enhance A Sense Of Myth If you had questions about the portrayal of Superman as a hero inMan of Steel, you’re going to be interested in the latest comments from directorZack Snyder. The film concludes with a battle in Metropolis, during which Superman and General Zod pummel the hell out of one another, and in so doing destroy massive sections of the city....

‘A Quiet Place’ Writers On Building Tension, How This Could Have Been A ‘Cloverfield’ Film, And More [Interview] Harrowing, suspenseful, and emotional, Paramount’sA Quiet Placeis a terrific piece of horror storytelling that pulls you in from its opening frames and doesn’t loosen its grip for the entire runtime. You probably know the premise by now: a family tries to stay alive in a world overrun by creatures who hunt using sound, which means one stray noise or careless mistake could spell the family’s untimely demise....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’: Thanos In Full Body Armor And Famous Voices For The Black Order Teased Avengers: Infinity Waris finally bringing the Mad Titan known as Thanos into the mix as a true villain. He’s been pulling strings ever sinceThe Avengers, but now he’s strapping on the Infinity Gauntlet and getting things done himself. However,all the footage we’ve seenof the villain (played byJosh Brolin) inInfinity Warso far has him wearing a sleeveless armored shirt and no helmet....

‘Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close’ Trailer Here’s the trailer forStephen Daldry’s adaptation ofJonathan Safran Foer’s novelExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close, based on a script byEric Roth. The movie has been a curiosity for me for months in part because the book is a piece of post-modernism that doesn’t lend itself easily to adaptation, and in part because Daldry chose a non-actor,Thomas Horn, to play the central role of 11-year old Oskar Schell....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 Photos: What Can We Learn From These New Looks? HBO has been ultra-secretive about the final season of its mega-hit fantasy seriesGame of Thrones, so it’s not too surprising that this new batch of photos doesn’t reveal much about what Jon, Dany, Arya, Tyrion, and the rest of the gang are up to. But there may be one little hint about what’s to come that’s hiding in plain sight....