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The Morning Watch: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ IMAX Featurette, ‘Dumb & Dumber’ Reunion On ‘Conan’ & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, a new IMAX featurette forAvengers: Infinity Warshows the difference between the giant screen and your traditional movie theater....

The New Iron Man Will Be A Young Black Woman The greatest trick that superhero comics ever pulled was convincing the reader that everything they do would actually last. In the comic book realm, death isn’t permanent. Shattered friendships will always be restored. Major revelations will be swept under the rug if necessary. Even if it takes a few years, the status quo always returns at some point. Everything always resets....

The Quarantine Stream: Let ‘The Cable Guy’ Make You A Preferred Customer Again (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:The Cable GuyWhere You Can Stream It:Amazon PrimeThe Pitch: Oddball cable installer Chip Douglas (Jim Carrey) attempts to strike up a friendship with customer Steven Kovacs (Matthew Broderick) by offering him premium channels at no cost....

Theme Park Bits: A Jackie Chan Park, First Look At Disneyland Paris' ‘Ratatouille’ Ride And Cinecitta World A theme park dedicated solely toJackie Chan? It’s in the works. Read about that, and the following, in this edition of Theme Park Bits: Jackie Chanis, inarguably, one of – if not the – biggest action stars in the world. And while fans of his can always pop in his movies to celebrate Chan’s trademark brand of action and comedy, he’s thinking about taking that legacy one step further....

Twilight Producer Wyck Godfrey Confirms “Every Intention To Make Breaking Dawn” Okay, you guys don’t have any time forTwilight, I get it. But what do you know about how utterly bizarre – and seemingly unmarketable – the fourth book in the series,Breaking Dawngets? It’s not your standard mopey emo fare, that’s for sure. There’s been plenty of speculation about when, or even if, Summit could bringBreaking Dawnto the screen. It’s a story that features a surprising amount of sex, even some rather surreal sex, and perhaps some transgressive sexual perversity – some notches beyond the vamp biting stuff from the series overall, which is a “safe” sexual metaphor acceptable for the tween market now, it would seem....

Tyler Bates Returns To Score ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 2’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Guardians of the GalaxycomposerTyler Bateswill return for directorJames Gunn’sGuardians of the GalaxysequelGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. More on the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 composer after the jump.Colliderconfirmed the news today Tyler Bates would return to scoreGuardians of the Galaxy 2which isofficially titledGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Writer/directorJames Gunnhascompleted work on the screenplayfor the sequel....

Year Of The Vampire: In Thirst, Park Chan-Wook Took The Lust For Life To Its Bloodiest Limits (Welcome toYear of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.) In Park Chan-wook’s “Thirst,” the conventional vampire thirst for blood takes on broader meaning as it’s aligned with the hidden desires of a Catholic priest and a woman trapped in an unfulfilling domestic life....

‘A Quiet Place’ Star Millicent Simmonds On Activism For Deaf Actors And Her Favorite Horror Movies [Interview] Utah native and rising young actorMillicent Simmondsfirst garnered a tremendous amount of attention last year, starring as the young deaf girl Rose inTodd Haynes' delicate and melancholyWonderstruck. The film was a big-screen debut for Simmonds, who is deaf in real life and had been acting on stage for many years prior in Utah....

‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’ Lands At Lionsgate Lionsgate has answered the prayers of Judy Blume fans who have been long awaiting a feature film adaptation of Blume’s coming-of-age classicAre You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. The studio has won a multi-studio and streamer auction for the rights to theAre You There God It’s Me Margaretmovie, which will be directed byThe Edge of Seventeen’sKelly Fremon Craig. Deadlinereports that theAre You There, God?...

‘Birds Of Prey’ Director Cathy Yan On Crafting Old-School Action With The ‘John Wick’ Team [Interview] Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)is a movie bursting with personality. It’s poppy and gritty, slapstick-y and visceral, and most striking of all, it doesn’t confine itself to as many boxes or rules as most comic book movies do. It’s a rare comic book movie with an actual sense of freedom and spontaneity....

‘Call Of Duty’ Writer Will Staples To Pen ‘Mission Impossible 5’ Christopher McQuarrieis definitely directingMission: Impossible 5for returning starTom Cruise,but things have taken a slight detour. The production just hiredWill Staplesto re-write the script which was originally written by Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3). Staples has yet to have a screenplay produced, but is a vet in the world of video game writing. His biggest success is the video game equivalent ofAvatar or The Avengers:Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3....

‘Hollywood’, Ryan Murphy’s New Netflix Show, Arrives In May The always-busyRyan Murphyhas a new Netflix series debuting this May. It’s calledHollywood, and it’s set in post-World War II Tinseltown, following a group of aspiring film folk looking for their big break. The series features Darren Criss, Samara Weaving, Patti LuPone, and more. It also includes real-life figures from the era, including Rock Hudson. Get ready to say hooray forHollywood, the first of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series following his huge deal with the streaming service (The Politician, which Murphy co-created, streamed on Netflix but was actually produced by 20th Century Fox TV)....

‘John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum’ Footage Reaction: Yeah, We’re Thinkin' He’s Back…Again [CinemaCon 2019] Even though some moviegoers are anxious to see their favorite Avengers get back in action on the big screen this summer, others are only concerned with one, and his name is John Wick. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellumbrings backKeanu Reevesas the titular assassin who was forced back into action after some jerks killed his dog....