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New Alamo Drafthouse Video Store Will Offer Free VHS Rentals Word of an Alamo Drafthouse video store arrived at the end of last year. Now here’s an update: the VHS rentals will befree.Video Vortex, coming to Alamo Drafthouse Raleigh in North Carolina, will offer free rentals, VCR loans and 40+ local draft beers. (Sorry; the beers aren’t free.) RememberVideo Vortex? The Alamo Drafthouse video store we reported on last year? It’s still happening, and the concept just got a whole lot more enticing....

Obi-Wan Kenobi Actor Rory Ross Says All The Right Things Star Wars Fans Want To Hear [Exclusive] “Where should the franchise go now?” is a question that continues to hang over the entirety of “Star Wars” now that the sequel trilogy and the Skywalker Saga have officially come to an end. While themovies continue to experience some turbulence, the television side of Lucasfilm keeps chugging along without much in the way of controversy (well, except when it comes to themanufactured kind, anyway) or divisiveness....

Pixar To Open New Animation Studio In Vancouver Disney has announced that Pixar Animation will build a 20,000 square-foot animation studio in Vancouver, British Columbia. The studio is currently scouting locations in the city for the new facility, which will employ 75 to 100 people. The purpose of the Canada-based studio is to produce computer animated short films, which usually run anywhere from three to six minutes in length, and take 6 to 8 months to produce....

Roland Emmerich’s ‘Moonfall’ Gets A February 2022 Release Date Roland Emmerick’s next sci-fi action flick is heading to theaters next year. Lionsgate has set the release date forMoonfall, Emmerich’s star-studded space epic starringHalle Berry,Patrick Wilson,Michael Peña, and more. Lionsgate announced that it has set theMoonfallrelease date forFebruary 4, 2022. The film, which began shooting in October in Montreal, has a reported budget of $140 million, making it the biggest-budget “independent” movie in years, according to Deadline....

Science Bits: Mythbusters Determine Jack Could’ve Survived ‘Titanic’; Neil deGrasse Tyson Discusses Plausibility Of Bond Gadgets It’s a given that movie science needs to be taken with a big fat grain of salt, but even by those standards, some films seem to push the limits of implausibility more than others. And I’m not just talking about obvious nonsense like superpower-bestowing radioactive spider bites here. So some science-minded folks are fighting back, playfully, by investigating and possibly debunking some of the crazier claims made by Hollywood....

Sequel Bits: ‘Indiana Jones 5’, ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ & ‘8’, ‘Beverly Hills Cop 4’, ‘Scream 5’, And More In this edition of Sequel Bits: It’s still extremely weird to think about an Indiana Jones movie being directed by anyone other thanSteven Spielberg, butJames Mangoldis stepping in to helmIndiana Jones 5, and producer Frank Marshall has a quick update on how development is going. Writing has “just started,” he said in a recent interview withCollider....

Sequel Bits: ‘The Muppets 2’, ‘The Raid 2’, ‘Transformers 4’, ‘Anchorman 2’, ‘Unbreakable’, ‘The Godfather’, ‘Trick ‘R Treat’, ‘A Good Day To Die Hard’ After the jump: Waltz wouldn’t spill too many details, but he talked about working with Miss Piggy. “Yeah, I was looking forward to meeting Miss Piggy, but they told me that dancing with Miss Piggy for example is almost impossible because she’s totally operated by puppeteers and you have to dance with someone where there’s actually a real person inside,” he said....

Sequel Bits: ‘Toy Story 4’, ‘Rush Hour 4’, ‘Hobbs & Shaw’, ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’, ‘Attack The Block 2’, And More In this edition of Sequel Bits: Final line, final session as Woody of Toy Story 4. We rode like the wind, to infinity and beyond. Hanxpic.twitter.com/v87ZYNyzx8 — Tom Hanks (@tomhanks)August 04, 2025 Finished my Buzz for Toy Story 4 today and it got emotional. Wonderful full body story. You are all going to love the work this incredible team at Pixar created....

Sequel Bits: Halloween, Ghostbusters 4, Nacho Libre 2, Spy 2, And More In this edition of Sequel Bits: I’ll go to bat for 2016’sGhostbusters: Answer the Callbeing a funny studio comedy, but there’s no question it didn’t perform nearly as well as Sony hoped. A sequel seems to have been fully abandoned at this point, and on theHappy Sad Confusedpodcast, director Paul Feig confirmed his plans to take the story international if they had gotten the green light to move ahead with it:...

Spiderhead First Look Shows Off Chris Hemsworth And Miles Teller In Netflix’s Sci-Fi Prison Movie With Joseph Kosinski’s long-delayed “Top Gun: Maverick” finally on the verge of hitting theaters (assuming I haven’t just gone and jinxed it), it’s time to start talking about … his next movie. That’s right! Between wrapping production on the “Top Gun” sequel and now, the “TRON: Legacy” and “Oblivion” director went off and made another film in the form of “Spiderhead....

Star Wars Bits: Star Wars Squadrons, The Star Wars Archives, Liam Neeson Praises The Phantom Menace, Babu Frik, And More! We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Star Wars: SquadronsCG short “Hunted” Ushers in New Era of Star Wars StorytellingStar Wars Squadronsarrives October 2 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and VR, promising to bring classicStar Warsdogfights to new interactive heights....

Superhero Bits: Big Hero 6, Fantastic Four, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Avengers Now, Guardians Of The Galaxy Do the credits ofGuardians of the Galaxyreveal some cameos? Want to read , Scarlet WitchandVisioninAvengers: Age of Ultron? What do theBig Hero 6toys look like? Where do the newThor, Iron ManandCaptain Americahang out together in comics? When can you see all of theGuardiansonJimmy Kimmel Live? What do theWarner Bros. Comic Conbags look like? How many things are wrong with the recentFantastic Fourmovie?...

Superhero Bits: Thor: Love And Thunder Broke An Odd MCU Record, A New Morbius Clip & 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: “The Batman” passes some big movies at the box office....