Concept Art For Abandoned Toy Story Video Game Set In Space For every Disney project we see released, there are tons that never see the light of day. A new example for that list is an abandonedToy Storyvideo game that was going to be set in space. It was being developed by Avalanche Software in the time between releasing theirToy Story 3game and moving onto the current, ultra popularDisney Infinity....
Cool Stuff: The Characters Of ‘Toy Story’ Combine To Form A Pixar ‘Voltron’ There’s plenty of merchandise out there bringing the characters ofToy Storyinto the bedrooms of plenty of children who will play with them until they grow up and get rid of them, making millions of sad littleToy Story 3narratives come to life. But you’ve never seen a piece ofToy Storymerchandise like this. Tamashii Nationshas created a Chogokin combiner that has five different characters fromToy Storycombine to form their ownVoltron....
Director Bits: Jordan Scott Takes Over ‘Gucci;’ ‘Arbitrage’ Helmer Looks Does Eco-Noir In ‘Fuel;’ Tom Harper Takes On ‘The Woman In Black’ Sequel A few people have lined up new films, or are getting their hoped-for projects closer to rolling. After the break, Ridley Scottis a filmmaker who lines up one project after another, but only ever gets to make a fraction of his “to-do” list. He just doesn’t have the speed of someone like Soderbergh, and so things have to fall away....
Disney’s Jungle Cruise Ride Revamps With Woman Of Color As Central Character, More Diverse Ensemble Disney Parks’Jungle Cruiseattractionis getting a major revamp. The classic Disney theme park attraction has long trafficked in somewhat backwards stereotypes about tropical locales — including the “Trader Sam” character, a “dark-skinned man outfitted in straw tribal wear” — but Jungle Cruise is making significant steps to add more diverse characters. The first of which is the centering of the entire ride around a woman of color,Alberta Falls....
Fight Club Finally Screens In China, With A, Uh, Pretty Different Ending If you felt the collective tension rising from every guy in college who ever wrote “I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise” in crude Sharpie on the side of their Chuck Taylors, you’re not alone. The “Fight Club” fanboy Spidey-senses must be tingling as the long-banned film has finally screened in China, albeit with a whopper of an ending change....
Halo TV Show Team On Making ‘Intelligent Sci-Fi,’ Battling Expectations, And More [Interview] There are very few video games of any kind that have managed to establish a global audience and pop culture awareness in the way that “Halo” has since its inception in 2001. The original “Halo: Combat Evolved” helped to turn Microsoft’s Xbox into a huge hit, and almost single-handedly ensured the company’s place in the 21st century console wars....
HBO Picks Up Martin Scorsese And Mick Jagger’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Series Boardwalk Empirecame to a close earlier this year, but HBO’s got moreMartin Scorsese/Terence Wintergoodness coming our way. The premium cable network has just given a series order to an untitled rock ‘n’ roll drama from the pair, with rock ‘n’ roll expertMick Jaggerserving as a producer.Boardwalk EmpirealumBobby Cannavaleleads the series, withOlivia Wilde,Ray Romano, andJuno Templelined up to co-star. More details on the Martin Scorsese HBO drama after the jump....
Human Looney Tune John Cena Joins Coyote Vs. Acme Big matchJohn Cenais on a roll! Fresh off the announcement that James Gunn’s “Peacemaker” has been given thesecond season orderfrom HBO Max, we’ve recently learned that Warner Bros. is doubling down on the face that runs the place by casting him in the upcoming “Looney Tunes” live-action/animated hybrid flick, “Coyote vs. Acme.” The film is being directed by Dave Green (“Earth to Echo,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows”) from a script by Samy Burch (“Crown Prince,” “Bev”), based on Ian Frazier’s 1990 piece for the New Yorker of thesame name....
Kevin Smith’s ‘Hit Somebody’ Update: First Film Scripted, Both Films Titled Kevin Smithtook to TwitterFriday morning to update his fans on his next and final film,Hit Somebody. Smithrecently announcedthat the hockey film would be released in two parts, alaKill Bill, and as of today the first script is done and he’s moved on to part two. He’ll call part oneHit Somebody: Homeand the second partHit Somebody: Awayreferring to the fact that the first film will see the main character Buddy, played byNicholas Braun, growing up and the second will see him playing pro hockey....
Kristen Stewart Says Thanks But No Thanks To Being Fancast As The Joker In just a few weeks, Kristen Stewart returns to the big screen as the star of Pablo Larraín’s emotional drama “Spencer.” Starring as the Princess of Wales, Stewartpaints a haunting portraitof the tragic former royal as she suffers through a miserable Christmas weekend with the royal family. As the premiere date for her intimate performance approaches, we all know that there’s one huge question on everyone’s mind: does Kristen Stewart wanna play The Joker?...
Marvel’s What If…? Mid-Season Trailer Breakdown: The Multiverse Offers Up More Mystery And Remixes This week brings the sixth episode of Marvel’s “What If…?” animated series, and with only nine episodes in the show’s first season, that means we’re past the midpoint of this dive into multiverse. Marvel Studios hasreleased a mid-season trailerto tease what’s to come in the remaining four episodes of the series. Though it’s mostly footage from the episodes that we’ve already seen, there are some glimpses of new episodes that offer some perplexing and enticing sneak peeks at the next round of Marvel Cinematic Universe remixes....
Melissa McBride Just Exited The Daryl And Carol Walking Dead Spin-Off “The Walking Dead"is known for surprising exits. Yes, the long-running AMC drama is based on the equally long-running Image Comics series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard, so many fans could anticipate what was going to happen in the acclaimed live-action series. But it doesn’t make it any less shocking when characters like Glenn Rhee, Beth Greene, and Carl Grimes exit the show in an emotional manner....
New ‘Terminator’ Sequel Release Date Pushed Back To Fall 2019 TheTerminatorwill be back…eventually. The next entry in the ever-changingTerminatorfranchise was set to hit theaters on August 09, 2025, but Paramount has now pushed the film back to fall of 2019. More on the newTerminatorsequel release date below. Tim Milleris working on a newTerminatorfilm, with originalTerminatormastermindJames Cameronproducing. But we’re going to have to wait a little longer to see it.The Hollywood Reporterconfirms that Paramount has shuffled the still-untitledTerminatorsequel back toNovember 22, 2019....
