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‘Veronica Mars’ Just Changed The Movie Business In less than twelve hours, Warner Bros.,Rob Thomas,Kristen Bell, and theirVeronica Marsmovie changed the movie business. Yesterday morning, Thomas and his castasked fans to donate two million dollarsto revive the canceled television seriesVeronica Marsas a feature film. Fans have hoped for such a movie for several years. Thomas and Bell had previously been unsuccessful in attempts to persuade Warner Bros. to fund the movie....

65 Must See Movies At The 2007 Toronto Film Festival We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Today I finally found some time to sit down and sift through the 352 official selections of the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. Many hours later, I present to you 65 must see movies at the Toronto International Film Festival. I did the work so that you don’t have to. So why should you care about these films if you’re not making the trip up to Canada in September?...

Amazon’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Casts ‘His Dark Materials’ Actress As Young Galadriel Just a few days afterlosing actor Will Poulter to scheduling conflicts, Amazon’sThe Lord of the Ringsshow has added another member to its cast.Morfydd Clark– who can currently be seen in a supporting role in another fantasy project, HBO’sHis Dark Materials– is reportedly playing a younger version of Galadriel, the character inhabited by Cate Blanchett in Peter Jackson’sLord of the RingsandThe Hobbittrilogies....

Cannes 2020 Lineup Would’ve Included ‘The French Dispatch’, Pixar’s ‘Soul’, And More Cannes is still canceled, but the prestigious festival still decided to announce the films they planned to screen this year. Now, many of the films that played will now be able to use their Cannes selection to their advantage even if they won’t get to screen at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. The Cannes 2020 lineup includes Wes Anderson’sThe French Dispatch, the Pixar filmSoul, theTrain to BusansequelPenninsula, and more....

CBS All Access Is Offering A Free Trial For The Next Month, So Here’s Your Chance To Catch Up On ‘Picard’ In these trying times, more and more content providers are attempting to make the best of a bad situation. Everyone is stuck inside (well, intheory –plenty of jerks are still going out), which means people are streaming programs in higher quantities than ever before. In an attempt to get in on that action, CBS All Access is available for free for the next month....

Cool Stuff: District 9 Full Scale Prop Replicas When I first laid my eyes on the alien weaponry inNeill Blomkamp’sDistrict 9, I thought to myself… I hope Sidehsow, Weta, or someone produces some nice prop replicas, because those things are cool. Today WETA announced that they will be releasing prop replicas of two of the alien weapons fromDistrict 9– the Arc Generator and the Gas Projector. And these weapons are the first in a range of District 9 items from Weta....

Cool Stuff: King Kong Attacks Dodger Stadium And Santa Monica Beach As you probably know by now, Universal has teamed withPeter Jacksonro rebuild a 3D 360-degreeKing Kongattraction at Universal Studios. Universal has been hyping the upcoming ride,King Kong 360 3-D, by staging Kong’s footprints/destruction in real life locations around Los Angeles, including Dodger Stadium and the beach at the Santa Monica Pier. Check out video and photos, after the jump....

Disney’s Cars-Spinoff ‘Planes’ Teaser Trailer Last year, it was revealed that Disney wasdeveloping a filmcalledPlanes, a direct-to-DVD computer animated spin-off fromCars. Its notable that while the trailer mentions the story takes place “from above the world of Cars”, the teaser has no mention of Pixar AT ALL. Even the Disney-Pixar production company logo above the movie title only reads “Disney”. The movie was produced byDisney Toon Studios, the outfit behindmany DVD sequelsfor Disney films....

Disney+ Has Added A Warning Ahead Of Violent Obi-Wan Kenobi Scenes Involving Children In the tragic aftermath of the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, which stole the lives of 21 people, including 19 children, streamers are making the conscientious decision to add content warnings before any of their programs that may depict violence toward children. Just yesterday, Netflix announced there would be a warning before the opening of"Stranger Things" season 4, as it contains graphic, violent imagery involving children, and today Disney+ has elected to follow suit before the opening of the new “Obi-Wan Kenobi” series....

Henry Cavill Won’t Say No To Playing James Bond Henry Cavill has fielded a great many questions about possibly playing James Bond next, but the conversation is a bit different now asDaniel Craigis getting ready to hang up his Walther with the release of “No Time to Die” just around the corner. To that end, when asked about it recently, Cavill explained that he won’t say no to an opportunity to be in the franchise — be it as 007, or in any other capacity....

I Am Number Four Extended Trailer DreamWorks Pictures has released an extended movie trailer forDJ Caruso’s big screen adaptation of the sci-fi action thrillerI Am Number Four. If you’ve missed either of the previous trailers, its worth checking out. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below. I Am Number Four Extended Movie Trailer:Official One Pager: I AM NUMBER FOUR Genre: Action-thriller Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer, Dianna Agron, Kevin Durand, Callan McAuliffe...

I Know Now Why You Shrug: The ‘Terminator Genisys’ Sequel Has Been Seemingly Cancelled And just like that, theTerminatorfranchise may be finally, officially dead. For now. Following poor box office, turgid reviews, and an audience response that amounted to little more than a shrug,Paramounthas pulled the planned sequel toTerminator Genisysoff its calendar. In its place is the upcomingBaywatchmovie, which should allow you fully appreciate just how little faith the studio has in this once-mighty franchise....

In From The Cold Teaser: A Super-Powered Former Russian Spy Fights Back The streaming TV landscape is a wild place: Sometimes new series arrive after months of anticipation, and other times they appear out of thin air. This week in “shows you didn’t know were coming and might need the weekend to binge,” we present “In From The Cold.” If you’ve been aching to fill that “The Americans” void since the FX series ended in 2018, this might just be the fix you’re looking for....