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A New Betty Boop Animated Series Is In The Works, But What Does This Character Even Look Like In 2016? Any character with longevity risks losing their identity. Just look to Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, who used to embark on wild, globetrotting adventures full of comedic mayhem and now spend their days acting as the literal mascots for the Walt Disney Company and little more. Time has turned them into symbols rather than characters, and those with the power to remind audiences of why they were beloved in the first place don’t want to risk tarnishing those symbols....

Apple Faces Lawsuit For Misleading Consumers On Movie And TV Show “Purchases” Many an Apple consumer has had a rude awakening when they’ve discovered that their iTunes movie or TV purchaseshad suddenly disappeared. Owing to licensing issues or regional rights, Apple could delete previous purchases from a user’s library without warning. Naturally, this has earned Apple the ire of people who used their hard-earned money to “buy” these movies or shows, but Apple is insisting that it has not misled consumers on these “purchases....

Awards: AFI Names Best Of 2011; LA And Boston Critic Groups Honor ‘The Descendants’ And ‘The Artist’ We’re getting into the full swing of the awards season for 2011, and this evening four organizations announced their picks for best achievement in film in 2011. The biggest group is the American Film Institute, which released a simple unranked list of ten ‘movies of the year,’ which includesBridesmaids,The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,HugoandThe Tree of Life....

Cool Stuff: Mondo’s ‘Gremlins’ & ‘Gremlins 2’ Prints By Glen Brogan And Matt Ryan Tobin Now that it’s December, there’s no better time to getGremlinsout for a little holiday viewing. It’s not usually a big part of the array of holiday movies that hit TV likeA Christmas Story, Elf, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacationand so on, but it’s an outstanding Christmas movie for those who don’t need all the faux holiday cheer and would rather see little monsters wreak havoc on a small town....

Could The MegaUpload Shutdown Have Actually Hurt Box Office Returns? The argument between movie studios and those who like to download movie content free of change has gone back and forth for years, with the MPAA winning a battle in ealy 2012 when the site MegaUpload was shuttered. MegaUpload hosted a great deal of pirated content, including films, and television, and the ire of the MPAA provided some of the force that helped shut the site down....

Darth Maul Voice Actor Sam Witwer On Returning To The Galaxy With ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ [Interview] Darth Maul has been in the collective conscious for 20 years. His debut was in 1998 with the release of the first trailer forStar Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.That film is aging better than anyone expected, and one of the key ingredients in that mix was this enigmatic villain. From that first image of the doors on Naboo separating to reveal that demon-faced monster unveiling his double-bladed lightsaber, we’ve all been captivated by him, before we even knew his name....

Despite An Appeal To The MPAA, Holocaust Doc ‘A Film Unfinished’ Is Stuck With An R Rating To quote Beastie Boy and Oscilloscope Laboratories founderAdam Yauch, “[the MPAA has] really gone too far this time. It’s bullshit.” That was Yauch’s response earlier this week when the MPAA slapped an R rating on the documentaryA Film Unfinished, which examines a Nazi propaganda film made to supposedly depict the life of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto....

Dimension Films Picks Up Kristoffer Aaron Morgan’s ‘The Home’ I have just heard that Bob Weinstein and Dimension Films have acquiredKristoffer Aaron Morgan’s H.P. Lovecraftian horror filmThe Home. I’m happy to hear that Dimension Films wants to release an original movie again. The Home seems like a film they would have invested in back in the mid-1990’s. It seems like now-a-days, they’re concentrating mostly on sequels, remakes and un-funny parody movies....

First Look: Joseph Kahn’s ‘Detention’ The last time wereportedonDetention,TorquedirectorJoseph Kahn’s high school horror comedy with a sci-fi twist, there really wasn’t much to report. We knew the director, the title, the basic idea, and thatJosh HutchersonandDane Cookwere among the cast. By following Joseph Kahn onTwitter(an entertaining read) we’ve known he’s got the film in the can now and is heading into post-production. Now the first images are out, along with a tiny bit of more substantive information about the film....

First Looks And New Pics: True Grit; On The Road; Let Me In; Buried; And Clint Eastwood’s ‘Hereafter’ TheEntertainment Weeklyfall preview issue is a bonanza of first looks and new images. Scans from the magazine are showing up online, and they have the first official still from theCoen Bros.remake ofTrue Grit, new images fromLet Me InandBuried, and the first look atClint Eastwood’s dramaHereafter. In addition, there’s a spy pic ofKristen Stewarton the set ofOn the Road, which is finally shooting after years of development by various filmmakers....

Get A First Look At Brendan Gleeson As Donald Trump In Showtime’s ‘The Comey Rule’ Limited Series Showtime looks to be the first cable network to dramatically dig into the controversial dealings of the presidential administration of Donald Trump with the new limited seriesThe Comey Rule. Based on former FBI director James Comey’s memoir,A Higher Loyalty, the series chronicles Russia’s manipulation of the United States election process and the investigation into the Trump presidency that followed after evidence pointed to collusion between his campaign higher-ups and Russian operatives....

How A Busy Department Store Inspired Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre Every good slasher villain has their weapon of choice. Michael is very into kitchen knives. Jason loves the machete. Freddy has his extremely unique and oh-so-terrifying glove knives, and Leatherface, the misunderstood murderer ofTobe Hooper’s “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,“has his chainsaw. It’s an iconic chainsaw, yellow and sufficiently greased up, and when you see it on screen, you just know it’s helped carve up a lot of bodies — animalandhuman — in its lifetime....

Interview: VICE’s Jesse Pearson On Where The Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze, And The Future Of VICE Films & VBS.TV Obviously, the staff at /Film collectively viewsSpike Jonze’sWhere the Wild Things Arewith a certain reverence. The film is simply a win all around, tastefully exploring and modernizing the notions of imaginative nostalgia and vice versa that are so often exploited these days in the name of “geekdom” and “hipsterdom.” On a related note, I’ve always found it a bit profound thatAin’t It CoolandVicemagazine were started within two years of one another (‘96 and ‘94, respectively); both went on to make a positive, DIY impact on culture in the aughts unlike anything in new media this side of negative influencers like Matt Drudge and Rupert Murdoch....