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Superhero Bits: The Wolverine, The Dark Knight Rises, Powers, Comic Con When isJames Mangold’sThe Wolverinegoing to start shooting? Why are comic book fans organizing a massive protest atSan Diego Comic Con? Is there real evidence thatThe Dark Knight Risesis going to suck? Will we see a sequel toRed? And what Marvel character could be getting his own world at Disney? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

Teaser Trailer: Faster, Starring Dwayne Johnson CBS Films hasn’t exactly been setting theaters on fire; the company has releasedExtraordinary MeasuresandThe Back-Up Plan. The company is going for a much more action-oriented appeal withFaster, which starsDwayne Johnsonas a guy out for revenge after being released from prison. The first teaser forFasteris out now, but does it offer more than just a straight-up revenge tale with a title screen that looks like it was borrowed fromThe Fast and the Furious?...

The 20 Best Movie Posters Of 2015 A large majority of movie posters are forgettable. Most simply use Photoshop to slap some characters together, combine them with some action setpieces, slap on a title and credits, and print them to be displayed at the movie theater. But every now and then some movie posters actually catch our attention, and some of them are actually worthy of being called art. And we’d like to call attention to some of our favorite movie posters of the year by counting down the 20 Best Movie Posters of 2015....

The Daily Stream: The Women And The Murderer Brings Perspective To True Crime (Welcome toThe Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “The Women and the Murderer” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix (US) The Pitch: As the pages flip along in Barbara Kingsolver’s 1998 novel “The Poisonwood Bible,” the reader is bound to notice, sooner or later, that of all the voices narrating the tale of the missionary Price family are women....

The Encanto Soundtrack Is Now The Biggest Thing In The World Never underestimate the power of a Lin-Manuel Miranda hook or a song that allows people to work out their deep-seated insecurities through song. Now in its sixth week of release, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Disney’s “Encanto” has jumped from the number 7 spot to the top of theBillboard 200chart this week, knocking Adele out of the top spot and making it the first soundtrack to top the charts since “Frozen 2” in 2019....

The Last Season Of 24? Varietyis reporting something we have been speculating for the past month: Fox’s hit television series24will likely end after the conclusion of the current eighth season. The studio and network executives have declined to comment. But is this the end of the show? Apparently the studio is considering shopping the series to other networks, but interest will probably be limited due to the high costs involved.Previously:...

The Most Expensive Thing You Can Buy At ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’ Is $25,000 One of the most surprising things aboutStar Wars: Galaxy’s Edgeis how much it caters to hardcoreStar Warsfans. I’m not suggesting that Disney shouldn’t reward the loyal fanbase, but it’s incredible how much of the exclusive merchandising offerings in Batuu are deeper references that general audiences won’t understand. And that’s very cool. I’m sure unknowing tourists (the same ones who probably enjoyPandora: The World of Avatarwithout having seen James Cameron’s record-breaking film) will probably pick up a Worrt from the Creature Stall shop without even knowing the frog-like alien was inReturn of the Jedi....

The Showdown: Will Grand Theft Auto IV Bite Into Iron Man’s Box Office? Has Tony Stark met his match? With grosses expected to be as high as $360 million in its firstweekalone,Grand Theft Auto IV, the long, long awaited sequel toRock Star Games' classic video game franchise, will no doubt out grossJon Favreau’sIron Man. That is not the showdown alluded to in the headline. These two stunning pop culture goliaths will duke it out for fanboys' dollars and attention spans at the same time, withGTA IVdropping on Xbox and PS3 worldwide onApril 29thandIron ManonMay 2nddomestically, with remaining global territories set both before and after....

The Toronto Film Festival’s Essential 100 Movies It seems like only yesterday that the American Film Institute released their100 Years…100 Movieslist. Actually though, it was over 10 years ago when we first got our look at that “definitive” list of the 100 best American movies. They then did a ten year anniversary of it in 2007 with only minor adjustments and both yearsCitizen Kaneheld the number one place as the best American movie....

Theme Park Bits: DCA Is Reopening (Kind Of), Epcot’s Next Festival, And More In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Every once in a while – it feels like it’s once a week, but maybe it’s less than that – I am once again mentally bowled over by the fact that we’ve been living through the grim effects of a pandemic for roughly eight months. In the grand scheme of things, eight months isn’t that long, but for a business that needs consumer money to thrive, eight months is an eternity....

This ‘Sherlock Gnomes’ Poster Is The Worst Movie Poster Of 2018 A new parody poster forSherlock Gnomeshas arrived and it’s resulted in one pressing question: is this the worst movie poster of 2018? The year may still be relatively young, but it’s hard to believe another film will produce a poster as confounding as this. Below, we investigate thisSherlock Gnomesposter and ponder: why? Look on thisSherlock Gnomesposter, ye Mighty, and despair!...

Why Anthony Hopkins Is So Easy To Work With, According To Olivia Colman There are many great actors in Hollywood. People who, if you are an actor yourself, you probably have on your list of dream people to star in a film with. Having just won his second Oscar for his performance in last year’s Best Picture nominee “The Father,” Anthony Hopkins is definitely one of these people. With a career that spans decades, Hopkins has solidified himself as one of Hollywood’s biggest and best stars....

Why Mushu’s Songs Didn’t End Up In Mulan One of the best things about Disney’s animated “Mulan” is itsphenomenal soundtrack. Whether you’re crooning to the inspiring “Reflection, or belting it out to the empowering (if also slightly insulting) “I’ll Make a Man Out of You,” the songs in “Mulan” have it all. And truly, nothing really brings a room together more than a sing-a-long in which everyone is belting at the top of their lungs, “You must be swift as a coursing river!...