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New Prince Of Persia Featurette Highlights The Sands Of Time Disney’sPrince of Persia: The Sands of Time, based on the UbiSoft reinvention of Jordan Mechner’s classic video game, doesn’t hit until June 04, 2025. But Disney is apparently not so confident that the video game basis will translate to a large audience, so the studio has been pumping out images and footage sincethe first trailer debut last month. There’s a new featurette out now which explains the movie’s subtitle and gives some context for some of the trailer’s swirling, sandy shots....

No, Sony Is Not About To Sell Rights To ‘Spider-Man’ Today you may be seeing rumors that Sony is going to sell off rights toSpider-Man. It’s all based on six degrees of uninformed speculation, which is to say: don’t believe it for a second. The point of the real conversation going on is that the Sony Entertainment division — music and movies, in other words — is the profitable arm of the company, and has been propping up Sony as a whole while the electronics divisions lose money....

POTD: George Lucas Meets Baby Yoda, Probably Asked His Midi-Chlorian Count Production is underway on the second season ofThe Mandalorian, slated to arrive on Disney+ this Fall. Executive producerJon Favreauis hard at work on the show he created for Lucasfilm, and he had a very special visitor recently that he couldn’t help but show fans. Star WarscreatorGeorge Lucasstopped by the set ofThe Mandalorian, and Jon Favreau arranged for a very special introduction with the show’s most beloved character: Baby Yoda....

Richard Gere Joining ‘Arbitrage,’ Replacing Al Pacino When we first heard aboutArbitrage, to be directed byNicholas Jarecki(producer ofTyson, co-writer ofThe Informersand brother of Andrew ‘Capturing the Friedmans’ and Eugene ‘Why We Fight’ Jarecki) there was quite a castlined up:Al Pacino,Susan SarandonandEva Green. But last month we heard that Al Pacino is no longer attached. Now it looks like things have moved forward around somewhat, asRichard Gerehas been announced as the star, and the role for which he’s set would appear to be the one previously set for Al Pacino....

Shrek The Third Screenwriter Adapting Harold And The Purple Crayon? BeforeWhere the Wild Things Are, and even beforeBeing John Malkovich,Spike Jonzewas developing a big screen adaptation of the acclaimed 1955 children’s bookHarold and the Purple Crayon. Harold and the Purple Crayon tells the story of a curious four-year-old boy who draws his reality and lives in the imaginary world he creates. The film famously fell apart a mere two weeks before principal photography (more information about that after the jump) but it now appears that development is alive again at Sony Pictures Animation....

Slashfilm Muxtape: The Bigger, Badder Sequel It’s that special time everyone: the return of theSlashfilm Muxtape! I’ve compiled another well-tested selection of anthems from (or inspired by) choice movies. This time the summer soundtrack theme is: coming in from the pool/beach with wet trunks, quickly checking your email (no Blackberries), enjoying a beer in the shower and watching half a Shane Black flick on the late night. Cheers to the many readers who friended us last go around, we appreciate it....

So ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ Made Your Kid A Horror Fan – What Next? There’s no “right time” to get into the horror genre. Whether you dipped your toes in young, or didn’t dive into the world of the spooky until much later in life, horror is for you. That being said, there’s a certain level of nostalgia that comes into play when you dip your toes in at a younger age....

Southland Tales Movie Trailer Since the now infamous Cannes Film Festival screening which resulted in a wave of bad buzz like never seen before, Richard Kelly has been trying to do damage control on his sophomore effort, a follow-up his hit cult first film Donnie Darko. Southland Tales has been re-cut, enhanced with new special effects (which evident in the trailer are not too impressive), and is said to be a totally different movie....

Streaming Bits: Netflix Says Theater Owners Might Kill Movies, Plus ‘Dexter,’ ‘House Of Cards,’ HBO For Cord-Cutters Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos raised some eyebrows this weekend when he claimed that movie theater owners are the ones threatening to kill the movie business. Their refusal to innovate with day and date releases for big movies in theaters and on digital is stifling the industry. But his company is totally helping, right?...

Superhero Bits: ‘The Boys’ Rumored For Early Season 4 Pick-Up, Zombie Hunter Spider-Man Coming From Hot Toys & 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: Beyond Amazing Will Celebrate Spider-Man’s 60th Anniversary Marvel announced a celebration forSpider-Man’s 60th anniversary, commemorating the wallcrawler’s first appearance inAmazing Fantasy #15in 1962....

Superhero Bits: Spider-Man No Way Home Gets A New Poster, DC’s Got A New Shazam & 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: “Spider-Man: No Way Home” gets a new poster....

SXSW 2021 Unveils Full Feature Film Line-Up, All Available For Online Viewing This year’sSouth by Southwest Film Festivalis going virtual. TheSXSW 2021film festival has unveiled its full line-up, including documentaries on Selma Blair and Demi Lovato, and films likeHere Beforedirected by Stacey Gregg and Kelley Kali’sI’m Fine (Thanks For Asking)competing in the Narrative Feature section. The selection will be available online for viewing to everyone. The full SXSW 2021 line-up has been announced for the 28th edition of the Austin, Texas-based film festiva....

The Channing Tatum ‘Gambit’ Movie Was Supposed To Feature X-Men Villain Mister Sinister Remember theGambitmovie?Channing Tatumwas all set to star as the Cajun mutant (even getting anatrocious haircutfor the role) in a buzzyX-Mensolo spin-off movie that went through numerous directors and writers before falling into oblivion after the Disney-Fox merger. Doug Liman was the last director to be attached to the film before he hammered the last nail in its coffin with an unforgiving, “It’s done....