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‘Watchmen’ Pilot First Reactions Are Vague But Overwhelmingly Positive TheWatchmenpilot has screened at New York Comic-Con, and even though everyone was told tonottweet about it, everyone is tweeting about it anyway. So there are two common threads here: people saying, “I’m not allowed to talk about this!”, followed by those same people saying, “…but, wow!” In other words: the pilot is apparently great, but that’s all you’re going to get out of people for now....

14 Movie Roles Denzel Washington Should Have Turned Down It goes without saying that Denzel Washington is a living legend — a man so inherent to our perception of cinematic talent that his mere presence is considered an improvement to any film. Washington-starring movies become, in their own inevitable way, Washington-esque movies. “Malcolm X,” “Fences,” “Crimson Tide,” and “Training Day” — with just a couple of lines here and a forehead rub there, each one becomes Washington material in the most Denzel-ion sort of way....

All The ‘Little Women’ Movie Adaptations, Ranked Some stories are such universal classics that Hollywood will frequently go back to tell them…again, and again. But we canalways use anotherLittle Womenmovie.Louisa May Alcott’s coming-of-age classic tells the story of the four March sisters growing up in Civil War America as they struggle with poverty, societal pressures, and the pangs of first love. But the four “little women” always manage to find the joy in little things, and forge their own paths as women in a time when life was not easy for the gender....

Anthony Daniels Recalls The “Mistake” Of The ‘Star Wars Holiday Special’ And C-3PO’s Finest Moment [Interview] TheLEGO Star Wars Holiday Specialis out today on Disney+, exactly 42 years after the abysmal originalStar Wars Holiday Specialaired on CBS. Thankfully, the new holiday special set in the building brick version of theStar Warsuniversebrings a lot of holiday fun and time-hopping actionto the table, and will entertain kids and adults alike. And longtime franchise starAnthony Danielscouldn’t have been more pleasantly surprised to finally be part of a goodStar Warsholiday special....

Avatar Tech May Finally Make Way For 3-D Star Wars, Says George Lucas Last we heard about a 3-D version of theStar Warssaga,George Lucasmentioned back in August 2008 that he hadput LucasFilm to workon developing the technology to make it happen. At that point, he said that the technology worked great, but it wasn’t very practical. Now wehave wordthat Lucas was wowed byAvatar’s3-D tech, and that it may be just the push LucasFilm needed to adaptStar Wars....

Check Out The First Stills From Wes Ball’s ‘The Maze Runner’ Thanks to the massive success of theTwilightandHunger Gamesfranchises, young adult novels are the hottest genre in all of Hollywood. Almost every single studio has its flag attached to a series of YA stories, hoping to duplicate those blockbusters. There’sDivergentandThe Mortal Instrumentsin the offing, as well asThe Maze Runner. That final one, based on aNew York Timesbestselling adventure book byJames Dashner,follows a group of kidswho must navigate a deadly maze to escape an alternate dimension....

Curse God And Die: The ‘Tetris’ Movie Is A Trilogy Now When aTetrismoviewas announced a few years ago, the world reacted as you’d expect – with guffaws and the shaking of heads. It sounded like a joke from a goofy comedy set in a wacky version of Hollywood where people are stupid enough to make aTetrismovie. It sounded like the kind of thing that was never going to happen because who the hell would actually fund this thing and who the hell would actually go see it?...

Dan Aykroyd Confirms Cameo In Paul Feig’s ‘Ghostbusters’ SincePaul Feig’s reboot ofGhostbustersdoesn’t have any narrative ties to the original franchise, we won’t be seeing any characters from the iconic films popping up. But that doesn’t mean some of the stars of the 1984 Ghostbusters are out of the running. In fact,Dan Aykroydhas just announced that he was on the set of Ghostbusters today shooting a scene withKristen Wiig. And there are even details as to what kind of character he’s playing in the movie....

DC Universe’s ‘Doom Patrol’ Will Introduce Celsius, Lodestone, Beard Hunter & More [TCA 2019] After releasing themost recent trailer for the series, DC Universe brings their second original program to the fans starting next week.Doom PatrolstarsBrendan Fraseras Cliff Steele/Robotman,Matt Bomeras Larry Trainor/Negative Man,April Bowlbyas Rita Farr/Elasti-Girl,Diane Guerreroas Crazy Jane,Joivan Wadeas Victor Stone/Cyborg andTimothy Daltonas Dr. Niles Caulder. But they’re not the only members ofDoom Patrolwe’ll meet in the first season....

Disney Announces 26 New Release Dates, Including Marvel Films Through 2022 Disney already made waves this afternoon when the studiomoved Marvel’sAvengers: Infinity Warup by a week. But that was just an appetizer compared to today’s main course: the studio has announced more than two dozen new release dates from now until2023, including Marvel release dates all the way through2022. Let’s see if we can figure out what some of these are....

Elijah Wood And Rainn Wilson Fight Zombie Kids In Hilarious, Sloppy ‘Cooties’ [Sundance 2014 Review] If the idea of a bunch of zombie kids disemboweling their teachers sounds like fun,Cootiesis the movie for you.Elijah Woodstars as Clint, a substitute teacher who ends up at the wrong school on the wrong day. He’s joined byAllison Pill, Rainn Wilson, Jack McBrayer, Nasim PedradandLeigh Whannell, all of whom play teachers tasked with trying to stop a quickly spreading virus that turns kids into rabid flesh eaters....

George Clooney To Produce, Possibly Direct ‘Enron’ The defining screen take on the collapse of energy company Enron is currently the documentaryEnron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. But there is a UK stage version of the story, a satirical take called simplyEnron, that has been optioned by producerLaura Ziskin. To the chagrin of the UK company, she has attachedGeorge Clooneyto produce a screen version, which he will possibly direct....

Guillermo Del Toro Producing, Co-Writing A New Version Of The Haunted Mansion Update:We got part of this wrong earlier — del Toro isnotdirecting. He’s only producing and co-writing. Prior to Comic Con he’d said his next directorial project will be announced after the Con, and he repeated that in a statement toLatino Review. Original article follows. At the tail end of theTronpanel today at Comic Con, surprise guestGuillermo del Torotook the stage to announce his next film:The Haunted Mansion....